Ahava Love Letter - "They Are Loved Also" (Steve Martin)

“They Are Loved Also”    “…who desires all men to be saved and to come  to the knowledge of the truth.” (1 Timothy 2:4, NAS)

Dear family of friends,

On my regular, early morning drive to my 7 am - 4 pm accounting job on Monday, Aug. 26, 2013, I was listening as usual to a Paul Wilbur CD. His latest is entitled “Your Great Name”, and the song “Who Can Compare” was coming almost full volume out of the auto speakers. I am so grateful to Paul and his Messianic music shared over these past decades. (Our Ahava Love Band really enjoys playing his music.) What a gift from the Lord he is to so many!

When I turned onto the College Street exit in uptown Charlotte, the Lord spoke to me to drive on Tryon Street, the site of the weekend’s LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite) festival. According to the Charlotte Observer’s news story on Aug. 24, 2013, at least 55,000 were expected. It had been 19 years since something like this took place in Charlotte. Honestly, my heart’s cry was that it would not have been at all.

For that Saturday night I had bought two tickets in May for the Lion King play uptown, as a Mother’s Day gift for my good wife Laurie, not knowing at the time that this event was scheduled to go on then also.

With an hour to kill before the play, after our Irish restaurant dinner, I walked her around the blocks that I normally do during lunch, showing her the sights of the beautiful city. I pointed out the new ballpark under construction, the church park where I found Little Orphan Chuckie a few days earlier (see my Ahava Love Letter  “Little Orphan Chuckie”) and some of my prayer locations along the way – the fountains, the eating establishments, the gathering places of people.

When the need for a bathroom came up, I tried to determine the best way around the festival, which was a few blocks away from our walk location. But the nearest one was right through the activity. “OK Lord, this should be interesting” was my thought.

As a married couple now for 36 years, we still on occasion hold hands as we walk. So we did thus on this little adventure also. We weren’t the only ones holding hands.

My heart was silently praying for these whom the Lord Jesus Christ loves too, and died for also. As I see it, we have to go where they are, because they aren’t coming to our nice, comfortable church pews. Isn’t that what our Savior and Messiah Yeshua did, our Prime Example of expressing the Father’s love? To go where the people are? Yes it is.

As Steve Green sang, “People Need The Love.” Yes they do. All shapes, kinds, and genders. They need the Lord as much as we do in our daily lives. Who will share His love with them, if not those who already know Him? As so we walked amongst them.

Charlotte, NC skyline (Photo by Steve Martin)

When I drove that next Monday morning, I purposely turned then onto Tryon Street, heading north on the same blocks where the pride of ungodliness had occurred just a day earlier. I put down the windows and played really loud Paul Wilbur’s song, “Who Is Like You O Lord.” The lyrics “All creation declares, none can compare to the greatness of our God” holds true for those who know Him now, and for those who will, if we just have the love and courage the Holy Spirit, Ruach HaKodesh, puts in our hearts. I wanted to declare His love and rulership into the air that morning, where other spirits have tried to rule. We can take that authority as believers in the King of kings and Lord of lords.

It still holds true today, as the Jewish believer Johanan (the Apostle John) wrote, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, centuries before,

“This is how much God loved the world: He gave His Son, His one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in Him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending His Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in Him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust Him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to Him.” (John 3:16-18 The Message Bible)

They need to hear this, in a loving way, even as we were presented the Gospel, when we lived in sin. My prayer is that some of us will be brave enough to share His love, so that they come to know Him too, and not remain in their lifestyle. There is certainly a life worth living, but it is found only in Him.

Ahava (love in Hebrew) to my family of friends,

Steve Martin

Founder/President

Love For His People, Inc. is a charitable, not-for-profit USA organization. Fed. ID#27-1633858.

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Ahava Love Letter #72   “They Are Loved Also”  ©2013 Steve Martin 

Date: In the year of our Lord 2013 (08/26/13 Monday at 7:35 am in Charlotte, NC)

All previous editions of Ahava Love Letter can be found on this Blog:

 http://loveforhispeople.blogspot.com   

Here are the last few:

Oskars Needed Again? (#71)

Little Orphan Chuckie (#70)

Demons & Fire Trucks (#69)

I Like Mike (#68)

Disappointed with Small Beginnings? (#67)

Rise Again (#66)

The Cities (#65)

How can You Mend A Broken Heart (#64)

Anxious (#63)

Hidden (#62)

Get Back in the Boat (#61)

Need Money? (#60)

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Ahava Love Letter - "Rise Again" (Steve Martin)

"Rise Again"

“"Thus says the Lord God to these bones, 'Behold, I will cause breath
to enter you that you may come to life. 'I will put sinews 
on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin and 
put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will 
know that I am the Lord.'" (Ezekiel 37:5-6 NAS)

Dear family of friends,

Listening to singer/song writer Paul Wilbur’s “Song of Ezekiel” sure does excite my spirit. I have his latest project, “Your Great Name” (2013) in my car, and turn it up on the way during the early drive to work (full video below).

Hearing him proclaim that Israel, and I believe the Church as well, will rise again in these last days, to complete the task that was set in place from the beginning of eternity. The Lord God of Israel and the nations has a plan. Check this out.

Ezekiel 37:1-28 (NAS)

“The hand of the Lord was upon me, and He brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.  He caused me to pass among them round about, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley; and lo, they were very dry.  He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?"

And I answered, "O Lord God, You know."  Again He said to me, "Prophesy over these bones and say to them, 'O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.'  "Thus says the Lord God to these bones, 'Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life. 'I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will know that I am the Lord.'"

So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone. And I looked, and behold, sinews were on them, and flesh grew and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them.  

Then He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, 'Thus says the Lord God, "Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they come to life."'" So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.

Then He said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up and our hope has perished. We are completely cut off.' "Therefore prophesy and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, My people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.

 "Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people. "I will put My Spirit within you and you will come to life, and I will place you on your own land. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken and done it," declares the Lord.'"

 The word of the Lord came again to me saying,  "And you, son of man, take for yourself one stick and write on it, 'For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions'; then take another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.' "Then join them for yourself one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

 "When the sons of your people speak to you saying, 'Will you not declare to us what you mean by these?'  say to them, 'Thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand."'

 "The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.  "Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations and no longer be divided into two kingdoms.

"They will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them.

And they will be My people, and I will be their God. "My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them.  "They will live on the land that I gave to Jacob My servant, in which your fathers lived; and they will live on it, they, and their sons and their sons' sons, forever; and David My servant will be their prince forever.

 "I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever. "My dwelling place also will be with them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people.

"And the nations will know that I am the Lord  who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forever."'"

That day has come. In the natural, the Jewish people have, and continue to, return to the Promised Land, where they will abide for eternity. No one or nothing will stop the King of Israel from completing His plan. Not the USA White House, not the Kremlin, not the Beijing government. Not even the devil himself, try as he will.

And as the natural is being restored, so is the spiritual. The Church will be empowered to take the Gospel to the nations, in power and with a revelation of Yeshua’s (Jesus’) love for His nations. We will rise again!

Do not lose hope. Do not grow weary with despair or continue in a depressive spirit. As Bob Mumford used to say, “We have read the end of the Book, and we win!”

Ahava (love in Hebrew) to my family of friends,

Steve Martin

Founder/President

Love For His People, Inc. is a charitable, not-for-profit USA organization. Fed. ID#27-1633858. 

Please consider sending a charitable gift of $5-$25 today, and maybe each month, to help us bless Israel with our humanitarian ministry. Tax deductible contributions receive a receipt for each donation.

Go here for safe ONLINE GIFT GIVING THROUGH  OUR WEBSITE using major credit cards: www.loveforhispeople.org/support If you don't have a PayPal account you can also use your credit card or bank account (where available). 

Contribution checks can be sent to: 

Love For His People, Inc.  P.O. Box 414   Pineville, NC 28134

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

Paul Wilbur - Song of Ezekiel video

 Please share this Ahava Love Letter with your friends.

E-mail: loveforhispeople@gmail.com   martinlighthouse@gmail.com

Facebook pages: Steve Martin  and  Love For His People   
   

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Blog: http://loveforhispeople.blogspot.com 
       

Full website: www.loveforhispeople.org

YouTube: Steve Martin (loveforhispeopleinc)

Ahava Love Letter #66   “Rise Again”  ©2013 Steve Martin 

Date: In the year of our Lord 2013 (08/08/13 Thursday at 8 pm in Charlotte, NC)

All previous editions of Ahava Love Letter can be found on this Blog:

 http://loveforhispeople.blogspot.com   
     

Here are the last few:

The Cities (#65)

How can You Mend A Broken Heart (#64)

Anxious (#63)

Hidden (#62)

Get Back in the Boat (#61)

Need Money? (#60)

Rejected? (#59)

In Your Building – Guard Against Distractions (#58)

Connections (#57)

Your Name (#56)

Lost, But Not Forgotten Friends (#55)

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Paul Wilbur - Kadosh (Holy) - Lyrics and Translation

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Who Can Compare - Paul Wilbur (Your Great Name CD 2013)

Paul Wilbur and his wife

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Ted Pearce in Concert - full video of Messianic music

Ted Pearce shares Messianic music

Ted Pearce is a singer/songwriter/guitarist who has been a worship leader since coming to faith while driving south on a stormy Dallas night in January 1990. He has a testimony of salvation by grace through faith with a sound that borrows heavily from artists like Joel Chernoff & Lamb, Paul Wilbur & Israel's Hope, Kol Simcha, Marty Goetz, Karen Davis, Jonathan Settel, Barry & Batya Segal, Liberated Wailing Wall and others who began creating a unique song of Jewish praise to Yeshua in America during the 1970s.

Ted first released a couple of Christian rock albums in the late 90s featuring bluesy Texas rock'n'roll in his bands the Nomadic Farmers & Big Methuselah. Then, reflecting the shift in his passion for a decidedly Jewish Messiah, Ted traveled to Israel in May 2001 to release a 12" vinyl record of "Kineti/Zealous Over Zion" at the Underground Club in Jerusalem. These dance singles were included in a CD entitled "Letter to the Hebrews" during Shavuot. A year later those songs were remixed and new ones produced by the legendary Jerry Marcellino and Bill Cuomo as Ted began working with Galilee of the Nations Records. 

His discography includes:
Ted Pearce Project • Zealous Over Zion • Oct 2002 The music originally released during Shavuot 2001 in dance clubs in Israel

Various Artists • Road to Jerusalem • July 2005 Co-wrote theme song for Coach Bill McCartney's & Pastor Raleigh Washington's "Road to Jerusalem" ministry

Lamb • The Sacrifice • Oct 2005 A duo with the legendary Joel Chernoff of Lamb

Various Artists • For Zion’s Sake I Will Not Be Silent • April 2007
The release of "The Forgotten People" DVD at Dachau on Yom HaShoah

Ted Pearce with Beersheva • Hallelu Et Adonai • April 2008 19 new original acoustic praise & worship songs

Ted Pearce • Battle For Zion • October 2009 Released in Ariel, Israel with Beersheva from Tubingen, Germany

Paul Wilbur • Desert Rain • 2010 Integrity Records recording artist Paul Wilbur features a couple of Ted's songs

Sue & Brian Samuel • Promises • May 2011
Ted was honored to be asked to produce Sue Samuel's third album, Promises, and he contributed to this album's studio arrangements

Ted Pearce• emergency • November 2011
Ted's first studio release from Moshav Records

All of these projects are currently being distributed internationally through Provident/Integrity/Sony and are available on iTunes.

But we hope you will consider purchasing these projects in our webstore.

It's easier than you think to book an event with Ted Pearce.
Call 214.693.6464 or email us.

Since 2006, Ted has been working closely with TOS Ministries, Intl. and Pastor Jobst Bittner from Tubingen, Germany on a series of reconciliation prayer walks known as the March of Life in various nations of Europe and the March of Remembrance, a Holocaust Memorial prayer walk in the United States of America.

For more information about this international prayer movement checkout the websites at:MarchOfLife.org and MarchofRemembrance.org

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Your Great Name Album 2013 - Paul Wilbur (playlist)

Paul Wilbur - Messianic worship leader

Paul Wilbur Ministries website

PAUL WILBUR Founder

Paul Wilbur is an Integrity Music recording artist and the founder of Wilbur Ministries.

Paul and his team travel throughout the United States and the world sharing the love of God through Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah.
In 1990 Paul recorded his first release with Integrity entitled “Up To Zion.” Since then he has recorded five more solo albums including three performed live in Jerusalem: “Shalom Jerusalem,” “Jerusalem Arise,” and “Lion Of Judah.” “Holy Fire” (1997) and “The Watchman” (2006) were recorded in Houston and San Antonio respectively. Two more special release collections entitled “Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem” and “Praise Adonai” were released in 2007 and 2008 to honor the 60th birthday of Israel and the 40th anniversary of the re-unification of Jerusalem.

Paul has also recorded seven projects in Spanish and two in Portuguese. These award-winning discs enable the team to minister to more than one third of the world’s population in their own language!

Wilbur Ministries is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, where Paul makes his home with his wife Luanne. Their two sons Nathan, his wife Malki and Joel, and his wife Sharon Chernoff Wilbur also live in the area and play important roles in the life of the ministry.

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Your Great Name (OFFICIAL VIDEO) from Paul Wilbur

Paul Wilbur

Published on Feb 14, 2013

Find Paul Wilbur's "Your Great Name" album now on iTuneshttp://bit.ly/15o6QkB
Words and Music by Krissy Nordhoff & Michael Neale

Lyrics:

Verse 1

Lost are saved find their way
At the sound of Your great Name
All condemned feel no shame
At the sound of Your great Name
Ev'ry fear has no place
At the sound of Your great Name
The enemy he has to leave
At the sound of Your great Name

Chorus 1

Jesus (Yeshua) worthy is the Lamb that was slain for us
The Son of God and man
You are high and lifted up
And all the world will praise
Your great Name

Verse 2

All the weak find their strength
At the sound of Your great Name
Hungry souls receive grace
At the sound of Your great Name
The fatherless find their rest
At the sound of Your great Name
The sick are healed the dead are raised
At the sound of Your great Name
Misc 1

(BRIDGE 1)
Redeemer my Healer Lord Almighty
Defender my Savior You are my King
(REPEAT)
Misc 2

(BRIDGE 2)
Sing the Name of Jesus
We worship the Name of Jesus
We bow before Jesus
There is no other Name but Jesus

CCLI Song # 5393329 Krissy Nordhoff | Michael Neale © 2008 Integrity's Praise! Music (Admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing) TwoNords Music (Admin. by Music Services, Inc.)

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Galilee of the Nations - YouTube Mix (playlist) - Ted Pearce, Karen Davis, Marty Goetz, Joel Chernoff, Barry & Batya Segal and more.

Interviews and music clips with some of the best 
Messianic Jewish artists.


Ted Pearce

Marty Goetz

Barry & Batya Segal

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Paul Wilbur - Shalom Jerusalem (full CD) - Messianic (Hosanna! Music)

Paul Wilbur - Messianic praise and worship music (Full CD)

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Paul Wilbur - Holy Fire (full CD) - Hosanna! Music

Paul Wilbur - Messianic Praise & Worship Music

01 Holy Fire
02 Jesus Christ Is Lord
03 The Walls Will Come Down
04 The Heavens Must Roll Back
05 The Walls Will Come Down (reprise)
06 Say To The Mountain
07 Now Is The Time
08 Arise O Lord
09 He Shall Reign
10 Let Your Fire Fall
11 Draw Me Lord
12 He Binds The Broken Hearted
13 In Your Presence
14 He Binds The Broken Hearted (reprise)
15 The Fire Of Your Love
16 Burn In Me

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Paul Wilbur - Aaronic Blessing

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Paul Wilbur - Praise Adonai

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Paul Wilbur - "Holy Fire" CD - Hosanna! Music

Paul Wilbur is an Integrity Music recording artist and the founder of Wilbur Ministries. Paul and his team travel throughout the United States and the world sharing the love of God through Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah. 

In 1990 Paul recorded his first release with Integrity entitled "Up To Zion." Since then he has recorded five more solo albums including three performed live in Jerusalem: "Shalom Jerusalem," "Jerusalem Arise," and "Lion Of Judah." "Holy Fire" (1997) and "The Watchman" (2006) were recorded in Houston and San Antonio respectively. 

Two more special release collections entitled "Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem" and "Praise Adonai" were released in 2007 and 2008 to honor the 60th birthday of Israel and the 40th anniversary of the re-unification of Jerusalem. 

Paul has also recorded seven projects in Spanish and two in Portuguese. These award-winning discs enable the team to minister to more than one third of the world's population in their own language! 

Wilbur Ministries is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, where Paul makes his home with his wife Luanne, their two sons Nathan and Joel, and their daughter-in-law Sharon Chernoff Wilbur. 

Wilbur Ministries is an international music ministry that focuses in 5 areas: 1. Practicing the presence of God in times of personal and corporate praise and worship 2. Preaching the Gospel through music and the spoken word to all peoples 3. Training and instructing in the Word of God to bring believers into a better understanding of who they serve 4. Demonstrating the prophetic fulfilling of the "One New Man" principle 5. Bringing the revelation of Israel, its people, and its roots in the believer's life as a primary foundation to his/her identity.

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Paul Wilbur speaks at El Shaddai Ministries

Paul Wilbur is an Integrity Music recording artist and the founder of Wilbur Ministries. Paul and his team travel throughout the United States and the world sharing the love of God through Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah. 

In 1990 Paul recorded his first release with Integrity entitled "Up To Zion." Since then he has recorded five more solo albums including three performed live in Jerusalem: "Shalom Jerusalem," "Jerusalem Arise," and "Lion Of Judah." "Holy Fire" (1997) and "The Watchman" (2006) were recorded in Houston and San Antonio respectively. 

Two more special release collections entitled "Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem" and "Praise Adonai" were released in 2007 and 2008 to honor the 60th birthday of Israel and the 40th anniversary of the re-unification of Jerusalem. 

His latest is "Desert Rain" in 2012.

Paul has also recorded seven projects in Spanish and two in Portuguese. These award-winning discs enable the team to minister to more than one third of the world's population in their own language! 

Wilbur Ministries is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, where Paul makes his home with his wife Luanne, their two sons Nathan and Joel, and their daughter-in-law Sharon Chernoff Wilbur. 

Wilbur Ministries is an international music ministry that focuses in 5 areas: 1. Practicing the presence of God in times of personal and corporate praise and worship 2. Preaching the Gospel through music and the spoken word to all peoples 3. Training and instructing in the Word of God to bring believers into a better understanding of who they serve 4. Demonstrating the prophetic fulfilling of the "One New Man" principle 5. 

Bringing the revelation of Israel, its people, and its roots in the believer's life as a primary foundation to his/her identity. 

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