Wednesday, January 4, 2023

The Lord will use compassionate hearts. Steve Martin, Love For His People Ministry

 

The Lord will use compassionate hearts. Steve Martin, Love For His People Ministry

Jan. 3, 2023 Charlotte, North Carolina

Greetings to my family and friends of Love For His People Ministry.

For the last couple of days, I sensed the Lord speaking to me on justice, and how in the end His justice will prevail, with wickedness, evil, and the hard-heartedness of men and women ceasing.

But when I sat down to write it, I felt the Holy Spirit steer me more to share the message of a heart of compassion. He brought back to my memory a time when His heart used mine to show His love to those who needed a friend.

With a new year ahead of us, having more days to share His compassion in a world that desperately needs it, I encourage you to read my message “A Heart of Compassion”.

Ahava and shalom,



Steve Martin
Founder, Love For His People Ministry
Heart of Compassion  

“Seeing the people, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a shepherd.” Matthew 9:36-37, NASU  

Many of us still remember our years in high school. For some, it was a good time, experiencing those growing and transforming years when we thought we knew everything there was to know and were ready to conquer the world. (Maybe this year I will be able to go to my 50th graduation anniversary.) 

For others, we may have wanted to just get those days over so we could get out of there. There may have been too many times that the other students did as is so commonly done in every generation – teasing, belittling, rejection, and more. 

There were two boys in my senior class who always seemed to get the brunt of the jokes, the ones others picked on. Neither Gene nor Bernie had the handsome looks, wore the latest in clothes in fashion, or received good grades in any of the classes that I knew of. In fact, there were some who were just plain mean to them. 

Gene’s face was covered with pimples, as acne was an obvious problem. Most days he needed a good shampoo too, as his jet-black hair was slick, and not with the stuff intended to be used. As he walked the halls to each class, he would slump down, not looking up except to confirm his whereabouts. When he did talk his words were quiet and his speech slurred. It was believed that Gene’s dad was a lawyer, but that status didn’t do Gene any good. 

Bernie was sadly called the “Hunchback of Notre Dame”. He had a large body with a deformed hump on his back. Generally, his clothes were from a second-hand store, obviously costly little to purchase. He was ridiculed and scorned for something he could not change on his own. It didn’t matter that he was enrolled in this Catholic high school, Columbus High in Waterloo, Iowa.

Every kid in that school needed to be saved and know salvation through Jesus. Just because you could call yourself a Catholic didn’t make you a Christian. There were not many students there that I knew who were born again, sad to say. 

It was the Lord who gave me a heart of compassion for Gene and Bernie. As much as I could be their friend, I was. I stood with them. I communicated with them. I walked the halls with them. Because of the Lord’s heart that He had for each, He had allowed me to befriend them as no one else would. 

The Chosen TV series does a great portrayal of the Savior’s heart for His creation. As Yeshua walked this earth as God in the flesh, He showed the love of His Father and taught the disciples to do the same. Often as more than words can say, His actions spoke forth what He continues to long for each of us to communicate to those He places around us. 

As St. Francis is known for saying, “Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.

O, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; it is in dying that we are born again to eternal life.” 

In reading again the verse I started out with above, understand the one verse that follows it, with Yeshua speaking of the harvest. Many people and nations experience suffering and the need for the Lord’s love. It is His Body that is able and must share it. 

“Seeing the people, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, ” The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. “Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.” Matthew 9:36-38, NASU 

Each of us knew, or know, a Gene or a Bernie. Or maybe you were that one in high school who got the brunt of the jokes and the ridicule. Know that Jesus was there and felt your hurt and pain, and above all, it is His compassion that can and will heal you, and those others who know the same.

May His heart of compassion be growing in your heart, as you too express love to those who know so little of it and need what you have to share. Let us each have a heart of compassion. 

Ahava and shalom, 

Steve Martin
Founder, Love For His People 

Message #132 in this series – in the year of our Lord 01.02.22 – “Heart of Compassion”  Monday 5:45 pm in Charlotte, North Carolina



David Peterman and I recently recorded three “Ahava Moments With You” messages in his home in South Carolina (now totaling over 84 recordings over the last year.)

This one is entitled, “Being A Light in the World” which can add further to my message above on Heart of Compassion,

Listen to the other ones also. Click on each title: 1. The Chosen and Discipleship 2. First Century Church in a Modern World.

 
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THE PROMISE – JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME

In 2004 I wrote an autobiography, sharing 40 years of life
with ministries and the search for the Lord’s purposes.
In January 2023, 19 years later, I added 114 photos.

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The Promise – Journey of a Lifetime – Hardcover $19.95 Paperback $12.95

The Promise – Journey of a Lifetime
(2023 Edited Version with 114 photos added!!)
by Steve Martin (published Jan. 2023)

Throughout our lives, God keeps His hand on our shoulders and nudges us on to more than what we could ever realize. I am excited to share how He did it this with me, and am confident mine will be a story you’ll be able to relate to.

As I unveil my story, think back to those times when you knew there was something more but you just couldn’t put your finger on it. You knew deep down that life wasn’t what the TV sitcoms portrayed it to be. In our souls, there is the hope, the cry for more, that someday questions will be answered and promises fulfilled if we just kept plugging away at what we know to do.

In The Promise, I share my first 40 years of journey with you and show you that dreams do come true. Though Peter Pan isn’t real, the Lord, the One Who created us, indeed is, and He has a plan in place for each one of us. When you are done reading this story, I pray that you too will know more of that good plan and His purpose for you.

This edited version of the 2004 edition, written 19 years ago, now includes 114 photos!


To purchase on Amazon: The Promise – Journey of a Lifetime – Hardcover $19.95 Paperback $12.95


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Love For His People Ministry. is a charitable, USA humanitarian ministry started in 2010 to share the love of the Father in the nations, especially to and within Israel.
 
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Steve Martin

STEVE & LAURIE MARTIN - LOVE FOR HIS PEOPLE FOUNDERS My good wife Laurie and I (married 45 years), founded Love For His People Ministry in 2010. This work gives love and support to our friends in Israel and other nations with friendship and humanitarian aid. Through social media, Steve's messages, and our Ahava Adventures trips to Israel, it is a growing, effective organization. Steve has also authored and published 36 books. We live in the Charlotte, NC area and have four adult children, spouses, and eight grandkids. Ahava and shalom with blessings on ye head!

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Derek Prince – Why Is it So Difficult to Obey God? – Laying The Foundation, Part 4, Faith and Works

 

Derek Prince – Why Is it So Difficult to Obey God? – Laying The Foundation, Part 4, Faith and Works

Dec. 28, 2022 Derek Prince 678K subscribers

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Steve Martin

STEVE & LAURIE MARTIN - LOVE FOR HIS PEOPLE FOUNDERS My good wife Laurie and I (married 45 years), founded Love For His People Ministry in 2010. This work gives love and support to our friends in Israel and other nations with friendship and humanitarian aid. Through social media, Steve's messages, and our Ahava Adventures trips to Israel, it is a growing, effective organization. Steve has also authored and published 36 books. We live in the Charlotte, NC area and have four adult children, spouses, and eight grandkids. Ahava and shalom with blessings on ye head!

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Prophets and Patriots – Episode 45 with Steve Shultz, Juan O’Savin, Loy Brunson, and Johnny Enlow

 

Prophets and Patriots – Episode 45 with Steve Shultz, Juan O’Savin, Loy Brunson, and Johnny Enlow

Dec. 14, 2022 Elijah Streams Published December 12, 2022 

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Steve Martin

STEVE & LAURIE MARTIN - LOVE FOR HIS PEOPLE FOUNDERS My good wife Laurie and I (married 45 years), founded Love For His People Ministry in 2010. This work gives love and support to our friends in Israel and other nations with friendship and humanitarian aid. Through social media, Steve's messages, and our Ahava Adventures trips to Israel, it is a growing, effective organization. Steve has also authored and published 36 books. We live in the Charlotte, NC area and have four adult children, spouses, and eight grandkids. Ahava and shalom with blessings on ye head!

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Old City Jerusalem Businesses Offer Holy Land Gifts to Those Who Can’t Travel to Israel During the Holiday Season

 

Old City Jerusalem Businesses Offer Holy Land Gifts to Those Who Can’t Travel to Israel During the Holiday Season

12-08-2022 CBN News Jerusalem

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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – Tourists have been returning to Israel after the two-year COVID pandemic. Israel’s Ministry of Tourism says the number of people visiting Israel is near pre-COVID levels. For many people, though, a trip to the Holy Land is still a dream. 

That’s where one business in Jerusalem’s Old City comes in. Zak Mishriky runs “Zak’s Jerusalem Gifts,” a shop in the Old City. Zak also has a website where customers from all over the world can shop from home.

“Zak’s gifts is a Jerusalemite Christian site,” Zak told us. “Now after the two years of COVID, it has been the largest website in Jerusalem that provides Christian items – items that bring the Bible to life.” 
 
Zak’s store is a third-generation gift shop that offers a range of gifts from olive wood nativity sets to ancient coins, oil lamps, and much more. 
 
“I want to communicate the Biblical truth, or the Biblical stories, and the things that were found in our Bible,” he said.

One example he showed us is a coin from the time of Jesus, which illustrates the biblical story of the widow’s mite.

“You see I made this, two replicas of the widow’s mite and on the top of it, I wrote, ‘it’s your heart that matters, not your money.’ It’s a Biblical truth. God cares for our heart, He doesn’t need any money,” Zak said.
 
Workers here do, however, so while providing gifts with meaning, Zak also supports struggling Christian brothers and sisters. 
 
“We need people who love Christ to be here. It’s important when pilgrims come to Jerusalem, this is not only stone or churches but they can see real people who have experienced God and who testify that His tomb is still empty,” he said. “My business allows people to work, to be productive, to have food on the table and stay here.”

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That’s where Artza Box also plays a role. It’s a Jewish company designed to bring the Holy Land to Christians in North America.  
 
“The main goal of Artza is to connect. Connect people in Israel to people in America. It’s to connect people to the Bible, to the words, the stories of the Bible. It’s also to connect people to modern-day Israel, to the people that live here, to the small businesses, to daily life here as well. It’s kind of connecting this mixture of ancient and Biblical but also modern between Israel and America and combining the whole together,” said Artza’s founder, Itai Schimmel. 
 
An Artza Box subscription provides locally made gifts four times throughout the year. This month’s box focuses on towns connected with the life of Jesus. 
 
“Because it’s Christmas and we celebrate the birth of Jesus,” Schimmel said. “We have products from Bethlehem, from Jerusalem, from Nazareth, and from the Galilee. Every box has two products from that place and it takes on this immersive journey from all of these regions. And they’re really beautiful, they’re completely unique and we’re incredibly excited for people to receive it.” 
 
Like Zak, Artza provides local businesses and charities with much needed work.

“We’ve had countless businesses and charities cry on the phone to us when we place the order and when we work with them telling us that directly because of Artza and our subscribers they’ve managed to stay in business for another five months or been able to keep their employees.” 
 
He also said the gift boxes bring the Holy Land to life for the recipients.

“They get very emotional when they open them. They open them up with family and friends and you’ve got kids opening them up with their grandparents. You have grandparents opening them up with their grandkids, you’ve got husbands and wives. It’s been very heartwarming,” Schimmel said. 
 
Artza Box and Zak’s Jerusalem Gifts aim to bring the Christmas season to life and regardless of COVID, the message remains the same. 


 
“The last two years the message was, do not worry God is good. You know, now after COVID is over and life came back to normal, I still assure you that God’s still good,” Zak said. “God is good and that His mercy shall follow you to the end of days with COVID or without COVID. He is good.”

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