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According to the Tree of Life Version (TLV), Micah 6:8 states: "He has told you, humanity, what is good, and what Adonai is seeking from you: Only to practice justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God." This verse summarizes God's requirement for active, righteous living over empty. Bible
To the brave Christians who stand with Israel - you may not be popular, but you are noticed. God is always looking down and asking, “Who is standing in the gap for My people?” And then He notices you.
All my life I have not been popular - neither with my family after I became a believer, nor with the Jew-hating world when I insisted that I am still a Jew and that God is not finished with His nation.
Remember - many people who call themselves “Christians” do so simply because they are religious, yet they remain very worldly. To be born from above is an amazing thing. It allows you to see through the lens of the Holy Spirit who now dwells in you - through Christ who is in you. And He would never cause you to hate or turn against even the least of His brethren.
The same God of Israel who promised through His prophet that the nations of the world would one day be judged by how they treated Israel (Joel 3:1–2) is the One who will say to the religious yet hateful “Christians,” “Truly I tell you, I don’t know you!” (Matthew 25:12).
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Disappointment
and Timing
“He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, without the possibility that mankind will find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.” Ecclesiastes 3:1 NASB
We each have disappointments. Some are deeper than others. So, what do you do? My first reaction, as I have learned over the decades of trying to get it right, is to say, “Lord, my times are in Your hands.” And then my spirit and soul settle down.
And so, I have to share this as a testimony. I have to testify! (Church people know what that is.)
Our flight to Israel was cancelled at 3:00 am on Friday, a day before David Lauka and I were to leave. It had already been cancelled and rebooked a few days earlier, and we had all our bags packed, ready to jet out.
I worked the phone. Sent out the emails. Updated those who needed to know. Disappointed again but understanding the situation with the ongoing war against Iran, involving Israel and the USA's great military forces.
After all considerations, changes, credits, and more were done…David Lauka and I will be in Israel, April 13-May 21. No charge for change. And then, with our home group going to Israel May 12-21, I was able to cancel that May flight and get a $1,500 airline credit.
The Lord directs our steps as we serve His purposes. Thank You, Lord Jesus (Yeshua).
Trust Him with your life. Daily. He is the Big God to whom no one can compare. And His timing is always perfect. Just consider our Lord Jesus’ (Yeshua) walk while here on earth. Perfect timing and not disappointing.
Ahava and Shalom,
Steve Martin, Love For His People Ministry
We stand strong with all our Jewish friends, here in the USA and Israel.
March 13, 2026
Charlotte, North Carolina
I just have to testify (church people know this.)
My flight to Israel was cancelled at 3:00 am this morning. After all considerations…David Lauka and I are now leaving April 13-May 21. No charge for change.
And then, with our home group going May 12-21 to Israel, I was able to cancel that May flight and get a $1500 airlines credit.
The Lord directs our steps as we serve His purposes. Thank You, Lord Jesus (Yeshua).
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin
A nationwide billboard campaign is drawing attention for its bold declaration of gratitude to President Trump. The signs, placed along major highways and central intersections in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, read: “Thank You, God & Donald Trump!”
God is Love
Love, what an ever-embracing word, and something every human being looks for at some stage in their lives. This I know from someone who was abandoned as a baby after my birth at the hospital, and only taken home by my mother after the hospital staff forced her to collect me. Fostered out at a very young age to a woman who treated me as an object, not a person.
| Published: March 12, 2026
Spain announced on Wednesday that it has withdrawn its ambassador to Israel, Ana MarÃa Salomón Pérez, amid a deepening diplomatic crisis between Madrid and Jerusalem.
The decision, made Tuesday by Spain’s Council of Ministers, was signed by King Felipe VI and Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares.
Pérez had already been called home for consultations in September, after Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar accused the Spanish government of spreading “antisemitism” due to its hostility toward the Jewish state.
Relations between the two countries have sharply deteriorated following the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The Spanish left-wing government, led by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, has become one of the most vocal critics of Israel’s self-defense operations against the Iranian ayatollah regime and its terrorist proxies – Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen.
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For God’s people, relationships have long been pivotal, despite fissures, divides and justified barriers. In most
instances, it is a reflection of blending into the surrounding cultures. Yet the toxicity of the spiritual atmosphere and the pressures and uncertainties of the season give pause in reaching for something more. It bears on the focus given to community maturity as we navigate the challenges and face the strongholds.
John, who really grasped what Jesus was imparting, explained the prime focus as love. While this message does not depart from that focus, the love-focus suggests subtle underpinnings that meld into the God-force that triggers change. At the core of those underpinnings is trust.
On one level, trust is one of those “beyond-self” dynamics that manifests with His presence. Both prayer and worship is our response to His presence. At its root, it simultaneously connects believers to God while establishing the basis for relating to one another. Solomon captured its essence with: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.” Prov 3:5, 6
The profoundness of this wisdom taps relationships at both the individual level as well as within the community of faith. It is the basis of the prime target emerging in the cross-hairs in the confrontations with evil in Iran: the unity spoken of by Paul in Ephesians 4.
Trust is what encompasses and connects all the God-elements relationally. It’s a trigger. Unity is the framework enabling trust.
Trusting in the Lord has to be a comprehensive response, with ALL your heart. It doesn’t work on a partial or “sometime” or a “blended” basis. It involves complete surrender that begins to unveil direction despite not having all the elements in understanding it. It’s like being a Marine. Either you’re ALL-IN or you find you’re not cutting it.
In acknowledging God’s authority and control, it triggers what is needed to empower the way forward. It embraces that insight so foundational to a faith-walk that Paul explained to the Romans: it reprocesses reality to the extent that our natural perceptions penetrate the spiritual realm as: “we view and call that which is not as though it were.”
Yet, on the community level, it is the catalyst that releases even more. We gain a glimmer of the extent of this community-factor of trust from a renowned social economist Francis Fukuyama. Despite his focus not including faith communities, his findings uncover the insight that higher-level trust societies are more inclined to be prosperous. It’s the gleaning from the life of Abraham: the principle that blessing others attracts blessing back our way.
It borders NOT on the clamor so evidenced through social media, but on the reality posed to God’s people in Deuteronomy 30: “SEE, I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing ….therefore choose Life.”
The Impact of Trust Societies
Trust is a Reality that gives birth to Life and blessing. It was this reality that a generation faced in Vietnam after the 1975 regime change, when the bottom dropped out of freedom for those in the South.
It was the brutal cost paid by spiritual leaders embracing the Power, who birthed and led prayer movements, trans-generational prayer movements that triggered significant spiritual change across the entirety of Vietnam at the highest levels.
It represents the model needed for God’s movement of restoration needed to follow the dust-settling from what many have discerned to be a parallel to the demise of the biblical anti-Semite Haman in modern-day Iran. And the response-parallel doesn’t stop with Haman, but as the trust and unity gain traction, it will result in casualties among the misguided Shebnas (Isa 22) of this day.
Dr. Fukuyama’s insights into trust societies are pertinent for the believing community. In his examination of economies and cultures in “Trust: Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity,” he contends that social capital may be as important as physical capital.
It’s what Solomon imparted centuries ago. The common ground paved with the social capital of trust. Only societies with a high degree of social trust will create the foundations needed for the enduring cultural prosperity of today’s global economy. The keyword being enduring.
Social Capital and Darkness
Missing in Dr. Fukuyama’s analysis is the amazing track record reflected by the Startup Nation, Israel; a success not unrelated to its Jewish cultural roots, historically known by the moniker of being “the people of business.”
It reflects foundations of Jewish culture with trust, creativity and innovation consistently at its core. A people, who when their trust in God and with one another adhered to the standard, have prospered far beyond the levels seen in other nations and cultures.
Sadly, but uniquely, despite the propensity of being blessed to be a blessing in their influence on surrounding
cultures, it is this success that is the very dynamic that tends to draw the most severe manifestations of persecution and anti-Semitism. Yet, these subtle realities involve distracting trivia that cloud the narratives comprising intercultural perceptions and dynamics ….not unlike the blinding seduction that took place at the fall.
In concert with that blindness and enticements to distorted narratives is even more subtle minimizations of clarity, not only spiritually in communities of faith but in high-level business planning. It is the fine-line that exists between the emphasis given to goals versus that given to the strategies to accomplish those goals.
Its impact has extended not only from short-term planning to long-term responses ….to such vital matters as reducing the power of God to doctrinal precepts and Movements of God to institutions. Such reductions of pivotal spiritual power bleeds down into the thinking and planning that produces comparatively anemic results from the reality of the power from on high.
Undermining the Potential
For example, the Westernized church that has long been institutionalized embraces this thinking and practices of reaching people for God through evangelistic meetings. Who would quibble with that focus?
Indeed, it is the very thing when God’s people who know better have fallen into rebellious, moral decay. Yet, when that moral decay is the product of the influence of non-believers, it factors differently in the equation of restoration. Likewise, when there is but a remnant who are fully-committed, as the tz’dakim, the righteous, it bears on the balance of power.
Both Isaiah and Jeremiah foresaw a time when darkness and oppression would encroach ….and cultures and nations whose spiritual foundations were wobbly at best, would cry out:
O LORD, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit. Can man make for himself gods? Such are not gods!” “Therefore, behold, I will make them know, this once I will make them know my power and my might, and they shall know that my name is the LORD.” Jer 16:19-21
The result is the dynamic of revival of the persecuted, when liturgy fails and the prayer-veil into the Power is penetrated. The history of persecution-related turnings-to-God suggests a subtle difference in moral decay response-revival: as the roots of what is birthed becomes a movement, one that changes the course of the culture or nation in its path.
Historically, with the overwhelming darkness that engulfed Vietnam following 1975, people began coming together, crying out to God in desperation-prayer. In response, entire villages began encountering the reality of Jesus and the power of God ….and the conscious joy of His presence. It was contagious and drew others, not unlike what was described in Acts 4.
Thinking Like God
Years ago, a man I knew and respected as a significant spiritual influence in our generation, Peter Wagner, made a statement that astounded me. That statement in essence was that the chief factor defining the Jewish people was that they tended to “think like God.”
For generation after generation Jewish culture, for Jews practicing and those not practicing their faith, a foundation
of values and societal practices given by Moses have shaped their culture. For the most part, Christian culture that ignores its Jewish roots has tended to last to the third generation, if it makes it to the second.
The trust thing and the related unity is a key chink in the Gentile armor, so prevelant in Jews, where largely it has became the natural order of things, in practices, morality and thinking, rather than it being a goal to be achieved or simply a doctrine embraced.
Not to be confused with conformity, but rather a response to the reality of His presence, those in desperation following 1975 in Vietnam, a gateway into this unseen dimension was opened …..and it spread like wildfire. The overflow began penetrating significant cultural strongholds across the North, as well as within the South, AND the thinking, practices and priorities began aligning in such a way as to be described as “thinking like God.”
Whereas disproportionate business success tends to be the greatest trigger of Jewish hatred for the anti-Semites, for Gentile believers, it is instead Paul’s description of the demonstration of the Spirit in power. It being the very complement, rather than replacement to the vital Jewish foundations.
One of the most graphic examples of this dynamic is that the penalty for proselytizing for early Vietnamese evangelicals was two days in jail. However, for the Pentecostals, those wielding miracles, it was two years. Even the agents of darkness recognized the difference ….the difference that would manifest when the faith of trusting in the Lord was demonstrated with a whole heart.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.” Prov 3:5, 6
The Seedbed of Trust
A South Vietnamese pastor I’ve worked with once commented, in referring to the impact of the Post-1975 persecution, that “everyone has a story.”
One of my closest Vietnamese associates moved over 40 times in just two years to stay ahead of authorities seeking to jail him. He held miracle meetings in open fields at midnight with 500 to 1000 who came to be touched by the healing power of God. Another of those I’ve collaborated with spent two years and seven months in a hard-labor prison, finally being put in a sweltering connex box by authorities’ attempting to break his faith. Knowing he would die, he resisted their offer of freedom in exchange for renouncing his faith ….yet miraculously was released before that happened.
John the Revelator heralded this trustworthiness describing those who during severe persecution overcame the assaults of Satan against believers as being by “the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony, loving their lives not unto death.”
Faith and trust are not the same. Trust is the consequence of abiding in faith. Trustworthiness is the reliability in believing, regardless of the circumstances in the seen realm.
Betrayal is the opposite of trustworthiness. It is not unrelated to the initial murmuring at the Red Sea crossing, Korah’s rebellion, the clamor that amassed when the Israelites faced the uncertainty from the time Moses was spending on the mountain.
When the sound of heaven is overshadowed by loose, misguided tongues of God’s people, giving voice to the suggestions of the spirit of the Garden-serpent concerning matters of God’s power, then Order is replaced by chaos ….and God’s people are encountering the pain and facing the fight for restoration.
Jesus taught His followers to pray for those who persecuted them, yet if possible, to flee it. His admonishment was to beware of those, sometimes from among our closest family and friends, who would yield to loose, misguided tongues and become betrayers.
Praying for our persecutors diffuses their intent. Yet, as we maintain our trust in God, when betrayal comes, according to Jesus, it can yield opportunity …. at times in the wisdom of our response; in other times in triggering the power of God.
Confronting the Stronghold
Probably one of the more subtle deceptions among Western believers in terms of what John got right is in approaching the “love” message as a feeling, an emotion. It may develop in that way, but love is an action. Love is something you do.
From days of old, one of the more serious challenges individually and within the community has been in the
unbridled tongue. The simple murmuring that began at the Red Sea crossing as the Israelites spied Pharaoh and his hordes closing the gap to their location. Yet, in preparation for the astounding event about to take place, the word of the Lord was simply “you have only to keep silent.” So it is today, amidst the clamor, are ones whose greatest challenge is simply in maintaining their silence.
After the completion of the generational judgment that resulted from the murmuring prompted by the spies’ bad report, when Moses turned the mantle over to Joshua, the fear of God gripped the community in unity as they crossed the Jordan.
It set the stage for the amazing battle when Joshua commanded the sun and the moon to stand still in the sky. And so, in grasping the intent of God’s heart for restoration that took place at this incredible event; perhaps also recognizing the beyond-the-ordinary changes that ensued from darkness after 1975 in Vietnam at the hands of simple people-of-faith; today, we face the opportunity to put our trust in God and those at the forefront of this battle ….and for some, with a single mandate of simply “staying silent.”
Trust is the risk we take in extending or “doing” love. It starts with the simple things. Praying for someone. Being an encourager. Bearing one another’s burdens. Sharing a meal. Giving a gift. Extending a helping hand or opportunity.
In a toxic world that seems to overflow with lies, betrayals, distortions, deceptions and subtle beguilements, trust is the interceptor, the building stone, the healing salve needed in both the receiving and the giving.
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Morris Ruddick has been a forerunner of the Joseph-calling and God’s economy message, being an international voice for the higher dimensions of spiritual game-changers and intercessors since the mid-90s. As founder of Global Initiatives Foundation, the Strategic Intercession Global Network [SIGN] and designer of the God’s Economy Entrepreneurial Equippers Program and the Jewish Business Secrets YouTube series, Mr. Ruddick’s messages equip leaders and economic community builders with strategy where God’s light is dim in diverse regions around the globe.
He is author of “The Joseph-Daniel Calling;” “Gods Economy, Israel and the Nations;” “The Heart of a King;” “Something More;” “Righteous Power in a Corrupt World;” “Leadership by Anointing;” and “Mantle of Fire,” which address the mobilization of business and governmental leaders with destinies to impact their communities. They are available in print and e-versions from www.Amazon.com, www.apple.com/ibooks and www.BarnesandNoble.com.
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On March 8, 2026 at Antioch International Church in Fort Mill, South Carolina, Pastors Peter and Joy Wyns, and Jesse and Elizabeth Enns called David Lauka and me up to the front stage for prayer. We were leaving for Jerusalem the coming Saturday, March 14, 2026.
After the service I went for prayer to Tom Fahey, a friend for over 28 years beginning at All Nations Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.
As he prayed for me, he spoke these simple words which immediately caught my attention. I believe it was the Holy Spirit speaking through him.
“You are a communicator.”
A day later, as I considered what had been spoken, I felt no was to start another website and call it, “Steve Martin, the Communicator.”
We shall see what the Lord does with it.
Steve Martin
March 10, 2026 4:38 am Tuesday
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In the Tree of Life Version (TLV), Isaiah 48:17 declares: "Thus says Adonai, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: 'I am Adonai your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go'".
This verse emphasizes God as a loving guide who instructs His people for their benefit and directs them toward a righteous, fulfilling life.
