Thursday, August 10, 2023

Provision Comes - Steve Martin, Love For His People Ministry

 Provision Comes

 


 

"In vain do you get up early and put off going to bed, working hard to earn a living; for he provides for his beloved, even when they sleep.” Psalm 127:2, Complete Jewish Bible

 

When I clearly heard the Lord back in mid-2009 to give my usual six-month notice that I was leaving my position at that time as the USA Director of an international ministry, I was sincerely seeking the Lord for what would be the provision going forward. He had finally given me the go-ahead to start our new ministry after years of wanting to do so, and my faith was founded on Him and the funds to make it happen.

 

Assuming that money would “just come” to cover the ministry costs, and our own personal expenses, being I was obediently following His leading, I was not overly concerned. After all, I was doing as He said, and it was often heard, “Where the Lord guides, He provides.” I believed it.

 

But after a few months, things got a bit uncertain. And we didn’t have a savings account or dollars stuffed under the bed to cover the mortgage, car payments (2), and regular monthly bills that still came. With my income dropping from $70,000 per year to just over $11,000 (I still have all my accurate tax returns for those years and following so as not to “exaggerate”), my good wife was greatly encouraging me to do something. Even if it meant for me getting a job at McDonalds if I had to.

 

Thankfully, her part-time job as a child caretaker provided food and some other needed income for the home.

 

In my heart, I knew the Lord was going to provide. I waited for His clear direction. In the meantime, He did lead me to seek a part-time accounting job, which I did.

 

And then He spoke. “Use what I have already given you.”

 

“What?” I asked.

 

He responded further. “Your home. The extra bedroom.”

 

Being our four kids had moved out, we had two extra bedrooms in our home, basically unused. That was 13 years ago, and we have had a renter ever since, providing income for the ministry and more.

 

In addition to that, with the accounting contract services jobs He has provided over those 13 years, it covered all ministry expenses for frequent Israel trips, and gave us additional monthly support for our Messianic Jewish friends living in the Land.

 

With that being said, we had decided to no longer have a renter, to take a “break” from it. This August 2023 was to be the end of it. And I thought, “There goes my Israel ministry trip funds” as I had known. I even began to think that there would be no trips to Israel in 2024. And so, I again put it in the hands of the Lord to see where His next means of provision were to come from, for He hadn’t removed the calling and ministry that He had first given 13 years ago.

 

And then on Aug. 7, 2023, I got a voice message from someone responding to a “room rental ad” I had placed in January of this year (2023) but had placed the ad on “pause” in February. How did that happen - that it was seen?

 

When I mentioned the call to Laurie, she responded rather positively, surprisingly to me, after I had already told the person we no longer were renting the room.

 

And then Laurie had the person come over that same night…and now we are going to be back having a renter here near the end of the year, after giving it a few months break. And the rent income will be double what we were getting from the last one! Ministry income!

 

The Lord does provide. He is always faithful to enable us to fulfill what He has called us to do. Each one of us, if we but keep our eyes fixed on Him.

 

As He promises to each of us in faith, “…and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith…” Hebrews 12:1-2, NASU

 

What He has called you to do, continue doing it. Even when it looks like it may be “done and over”, He will still make a way, until it is really done and over, and we have reached our eternal reward in heaven.

 

Ahava and shalom,

 


Steve Martin

Founder, Love For His People

 

Message #146 in this series – in the year of our Lord 08.08.23 – “Provision Comes” Tuesday, 12:40 pm in Charlotte, North Carolina

 

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.

 

If these letters minister to you, please consider sending a charitable gift of $5-$25 today, and maybe each month, to help us bless known families in Israel, whom we consistently help through our humanitarian ministry. 

 

Go here for safe donations using major credit cards with PayPal.

 

Contribution checks can be sent to: 

 

Love For His People Ministry  12120 Woodside Falls Rd.   Pineville, NC 28134

Todah rabah! (Hebrew – Thank you very much.)

Friday, August 4, 2023

Being Faithful to the End - new book by Steve Martin

Standing in support of Israel, Jews, and believers in all the nations, in the Name of Jesus (Yeshua) Our regular communication to share the Love For His People with our friends. Blessings on ye head! 


 Aug. 4, 2023 Charlotte, North Carolina 

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

I am grateful to the Lord that He continues to give me words of encouragement and inspiration to share with you. And then once I have accumulated a good many I like to publish in a book, making it easier to read as a morning devotional or to pick up anytime and hear what He may be saying again. 

That said, I have now published my 37th book, Being Faithful to the End

Being faithful to the end is what each of us has been called to do, by the One Who created us and gives us all we need to complete the tasks set before us. As it is written in Hebrews 3:14-15: “For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ.” 

As you read the chapters I have written over a period of several months, I pray you will continue to take the next steps necessary to hear the Lord daily, understand His Word, and obey Him as He leads you into new and amazing ways. 

Whether you are a new believer or one who has known the Lord since your youth, as I have, may His ongoing love and encouragement guide you in all things, as you continue to be faithful to the end of your life. 

The messages in this book: 

1. Keep On Keeping On 
2. When All Else Fails 
3. When No Becomes Know 
4. Pioneers 
5. Giving Life
6. Heart of Compassion 
7. When You Have Nothing 
8. Enough 
9. Oppressed 
10. How I Learned To Give 
11. Justice – It Will Come 
12. Carry Them On Your Shoulders 
13. Remember the Markers 
14. In the Heart of God 
15. Next Step 1
16. The King and His Bride 
17. Searchin’ 
18. Trust and Forgiveness 
19. Through It All 
20. Messiah 
21. Final Word 

For the next 5 days, beginning tonight, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023 at 12 am PDT, the Kindle version will be free for download (normally $2.99). This will end on Aug. 9 at 12 am midnight PDT. You don't have to have a Kindle iPad to download. You can get it on your mobile phone or laptop. 

My new book is also available in hardcover ($17.95) and paperback ($7.95) To purchase on Amazon: Being Faithful to the End - Hard cover $17.95 Paperback $7.95 Kindle $2.99 (Note again - the free download of Kindle begins Saturday, Aug. 5, at 12 am PDT).

Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin Founder, Love For His People Ministry

 
Being Faithful to the End by Steve Martin (published 2023) 

Being faithful to the end is what each of us has been called to do, by the One Who created us and gives us all we need to complete the tasks set before us. As it is written in Hebrews 3:14-15: “For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ.” 

As you read the following chapters I have written over several months, I pray you will continue to take the next steps necessary to hear the Lord daily, understand His Word, and obey Him as He leads you into new and amazing ways. 

Whether you are a new believer or have known the Lord since your youth, as I have, may His ongoing love and encouragement guide you in all things, as you continue to be faithful to the end of your life. 

Blessings on ye head. 
Steve Martin, Founder Love For His People Ministry  

To purchase on Amazon: Being Faithful to the End - Hard cover $17.95 Paperback $7.95 Kindle $2.99 (Note again - the free download of Kindle begins Saturday, Aug. 5, at 12 am PDT).

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. If these letters minister to you, please consider sending a charitable gift of $5-$25 today, and maybe each month, to help us bless known families in Israel, whom we consistently help through our humanitarian ministry. 

Contribution checks can be sent to: Love For His People Ministry 12120 Woodside Falls Rd. Pineville, NC 28134 Todah rabah! (Hebrew – Thank you very much.) 

Please share this encouraging message with your friends. 

Email: loveforhispeople@gmail.com martinlighthouse@gmail.com 

YouTube: Steve Martin/Love For His People 

Love For His People Ministry 12120 Woodside Falls Rd. Pineville, NC 28134 USA 

Thursday, July 20, 2023

Through It All - message by Steve Martin, Love For His People Ministry

 

Standing in support of Israel, Jews, and believers in all the nations, in the Name of Jesus (Yeshua)
Our regular communication to share the Love For His People with our friends.
July 20, 2023
Charlotte, North Carolina

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

I enjoy sitting on our front porch, early in the morning before the sun gets too hot, and praying, reading the Word, and watching the Lord's creation move about me.

This morning as I rocked in the chair, I noticed a huge tree, across the road behind the neighbor's house, with its large leaves swaying in the wind. I couldn't feel the breeze, nor were any other trees blowing in the wind. Just this one, with its very large leaves, as if they were individuals, moving and speaking.

My thought was, "They remind me of the crowd of witnesses, looking down from heaven and cheering us on." I thanked the Lord for the reminder, as He speaks to us in many ways so often. We just need to stop and see Him. Even His creation cries out.

Please take the time to read my new message, "Through It All" below. May it encourage you too! (And then let me know how you are doing as you walk on...)

Ahava and shalom,

Steve Martin
Founder, Love For His People Ministry

P.S. The above photo was one I took in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City in September 2022. I was walking in the narrow street on my way to the Jewish Western Wall. Sometimes I like to take the "not so beaten" path.
Through It All
 
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.” 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, NASU
  
Many of us are familiar with the story of the person walking the beach and seeing two footprints in the sand. And then one set stops and only one is seen. The person seems to complain to the Lord that they believed the Lord had left them. But it wasn’t as one would think.
 
Many of us walk with afflictions, torments, physical sickness or conflicts all around us in family, neighbors, on the job, or even in church. It wears us down and the weariness in the battle can set us “on the sideline” after a while. We may even wonder where the Lord is through it all.
 
Remember the song by Andre Crouch Through It All, written and sung in 1971? “Though it all, I learned to trust in Jesus, I learned to trust in God.” It became a very popular expression of seeking and relying on the One Who could and would take us daily through that which we face.
 
Even more so do we need to rely on the Lord’s promises today, as we walk through this life, facing temptations, trials, and the many cares of this world. As the story goes, we need to realize that the Lord is carrying us, and we “walk in His shoes” even as He carries us. There is no other way to do it.
 
When I have others share their burdens with me, sometimes I can relate to them and am able to share my experience in getting through it, for I too have walked through similar episodes of life. But at other times I am not quite able, for I have not walked in their shoes. I have not experienced that which their life’s journey has taken them on and can’t yet fully understand all the pressures put on them.
 
My part may just be to encourage them to stand strong, to keep looking up, to let their faith be solid in the Lord, Who knows all and sees all. It may be my role to comfort them with what I have in the past been comforted with, as much as possible. And if I haven’t had their experience (yet), then I need to be in prayer for them, not in any way be judgmental, and allow the Holy Spirit to move on their behalf as only He can.
 
The full lyrics of the song, Through It All:
 
I've had many tears and sorrow
I've had questions for tomorrow
There've been times I didn't know right from wrong
But in every situation
God gave me blessed consolation
That my trials come to only make me strong

I've been a lot of places
And I've seen millions of of faces
But there were times that I felt so all alone
But in my lonely hour
Yet those precious lonely hours
Jesus lets me know that I was His own
That's the reason I say that

Through it all
Through it all
Oh, I've learned to trust in Jesus
I've learned to trust in God
Let me tell ya that
Through it all
Oh, through it all
I've learned to depend upon His word

So I thank God for the mountains
And I thank Him for the valleys
And I thank Him for the storms He's brought me through
For if I'd never had a problem
I'd never know God could solve them
I'd never know what faith in His word could do
That's the reason I say that

Through it all
Oh, through it all
Oh, I've learned to trust in Jesus
I've learned to trust in God
Oh let me tell you
Through it all
Oh, through it all
Oh, I've learned to depend upon His word
Oh, let me tell you right now that
Through it all
Sometimes through the fire
Through it all
My, my, my Lord
Oh, I've learned to trust in Jesus (oh, I've learned)
I've learned to trust in God (and I can trust in God)
That through it all
Let me tell you that
Through it all
Oh, Lord, Lord

I've learned to depend upon His word
Oh, through my sickness and pain
I've learned to depend upon His word
Oh, through sorrow and shame
I've learned to depend upon His word

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Andrae Edward Crouch
Through It All lyrics © Capitol CMG Publishing

You can listen to Andre sing it here: Through It All
 
I trust you have those around you who you can turn to, that can bring you comfort and support in your trials and tribulations. But even more so I pray that you will find comfort in the Lord Jesus, Who knows all, is all, and is always there to bring you through it all.
 
 
Ahava and shalom,
 
Steve Martin
Founder, Love For His People
 
Message #145 in this series – in the year of our Lord 07.20.23 – “Through It All”  Thursday, 9:15 am in Charlotte, North Carolina
The Promise - Journey of a Lifetime

In 2004 I wrote an autobiography, sharing 40 years of life
with ministries, the search for the Lord's purposes,and how I got connected to Israel and His People.

In January 2023, 19 years later, I added 114 photos.

Click here:
Why We Do What We Do
by Steve Martin (published 2022)

This book contains five months of messages I shared with subscribers to my email, and then posted on our website www.loveforhispeople.com and other social media platforms.

For each of us to accomplish the Lord’s will, plans and purposes for our individual life we must know what we are to do, and do it. We will then understand the “why we do what we do” question, as we walk out His ways.

Be inspired and encouraged as you read, either as a daily discipline or as a book with examples as to how to walk the Christian faith in your own life.

And as you know the “why”, your courage, boldness, and firmer commitment to live for Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach, will be evident to many. You may not even have to say a word.

I have also included the six messages I wrote from Jerusalem, between Oct. 24-Nov. 11, 2022 when I was there on my 26th journey to the Land. Since 2010 I have called them “Ahava Adventures”. “Ahava” is love in Hebrew.

Blessings on ye head.

Steve Martin, Founder
Love For His People Ministry

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.
 
If these letters minister to you, please consider sending a charitable gift of $5-$25 today, and maybe each month, to help us bless known families in Israel, whom we consistently help through our humanitarian ministry. 
 
Go here for safe giving using major credit cards through PayPal.
 
Contribution checks can be sent to: 
 
Love For His People Ministry 12120 Woodside Falls Rd.  Pineville, NC 28134
Todah rabah! (Hebrew – Thank you very much.)
 
Please share this encouraging message with your friends.
 
 
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