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Sometimes in life we don’t have the clarity that we really, really need to make our next choice. We end up at a crossroad and we are totally not sure if we are supposed to go left, straight or right. There are so many choices in this life, and an impulsive decision could crash and burn us. What happens when we don’t have time to make a good informed decision? There are times in our lives that our next decision from the moment we are in really purposefully matters. We can find ourselves in a very challenging situation with an imminent decision and no real clarity. Confusion comes from the enemy and no doubt about it, when you find yourself in a transitional time, the enemy likes to play the same hand. Confusion, anxiety and fear, three of a kind. BUT, don’t underestimate God. Always, always when you find yourself in this kind of a situation, transition happening, not sure of your next move, one thing hasn’t changed, God is with you. Ask God. God knows the way and in the midst of this great life challenge you find yourself in, God’s purposes are in play and they are greater than the challenge you face. The Providential Care of God is in play, one purpose of good for you, one purpose of glory for God. During transitional times, transformation is happening, from old to new and Who ushered in the greatest transformation known to mankind, Jesus did. Jesus has already been there and done that with an endgame that changed all of our lives forever. So, Ask God, and sit back and watch God work in that way only He can. He’s got this and His endgame is good, and you will make the next right choice, because He never leaves us nor forsakes us. God bless ya. Ask God! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/look-to-god/

I know exactly what God has said and I know that what He says He means. God’s spoken world across all of our human generations is a truth that comes into being. No Doubt About It. What God Speaks Is Completed! He is a finisher. Doubt derails me from this amazing connection that I have with truth and opens the door for the enemy to wreak havoc in my soul. Why God Why? This is question dripping in a doubt that ushers in disillusionment, discouragement and despair. Doubt has that way of tripping us up and causing us to stumble into a pit the enemy has dug just for us. Doubt is a formidable enemy, don’t underestimate the power of our enemy to use doubt to ensnare us in his traps. Do you find yourself being tripped up by doubt lately, over and over again? Remember this: What God has said, the Truth He has spoken, it will come into being, it has been this way throughout all the days of life on this earth and before. The Word of God, the Truth of God has been, and will be forever, nothing extinguishes it. So, if your soul is covered up in doubt, recall the truth. What is it that you know? What is the truth that you and I know? Rehearse the truth that you know. What does that mean practically? Well, let’s do it together right now, rehearse the universal truth that we know about God, the common denominator of our lives. Rehearse The Truth: God is with us. God is for us. God is mighty in us. God never leaves us, never forsakes us to the will of our enemy. God is kind. God is just. God is merciful. God forgives us. God has given us a future and a hope. God’s word will never be extinguished. God equips us for every day. God finishes what He starts. God’s purpose in our challenge is mighier than the challenge itself. God is great. God is a deliverer. God is a way-maker. Need I go on? Because I could go on and on and on, that is how great our God is. Doubt can’t possibly stand in the face of the Truth of Who our God is. When doubts assail you, recall the Truth of God, remember Who God is and speak it into the space of your soul doubt is trying to fill. Truth causes the doubt to flee and the confidence of truth, the assurance, the security of truth, not only chases doubt out, but replaces it with courage that can stand the tests and trials of your next moment into your next choice. Choose Truth. Think on these things, God’s way, truth and life. If we are soul saturated with God’s truth, doubt will have no space, no place in our lives. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/doubt/

Reverence Of God – Awe – Respect – Honor, these are things which are becoming nonexistent in times such as these. How can we replenish our soul with the AWE of God? How can we restore reverence to our lives? I have a “bright idea” or maybe to say it in a different way, I have a challenge for you, Heart To Heart Rumble Channel. How about this? 7 Day Bow Encounter! What would happen if our first step out into our new day was to bow before God, in reverence, respect, awe and honor? I challenge us to do this for 7 days and then report back in the comment section how this new “spiritual habit” changes things up for you in your relationship with God. No doubt about it, this 7 day bow, our first step out, being bowed down before God, making that heart to heart connection with God, will definitely change things up for us. So, I highly encourage you to take the “7 Day Bow Encounter” and bow before God, connect heart to heart. Be So! Soul saturated, guarded with God’s truth and say to second-guessing, assumption, speculation, rationalization: “Not Today”! Be So! Bow before God, your first step out and go therefore, into your life, your sphere of influence, pure in heart, fragrant with God’s anointing, refreshed by His Spirit, replenished by His Truth and be a breath of fresh kingdom air, the reality of God’s Powerful Presence breathed in and breathed out. In times such as these, be so, the purity of God’s righteousness, be a mirror image of God truth in this dirty-deceived and corrupted-contaminated human culture. It only takes a second to Bow! Just Breathe In God’s Awe. Respect, Honor, Reverence God. Bow! Have You Bowed Your Heart On This Day? Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/deeply-know-god/

Surrender! We in our human condition struggle with this word. It goes against our human nature, to surrender. What is your feeling about the word, surrender? Surrender, we say it, it comes off our tongue with a bitter taste because it is hard to “surrender” to let go and let God. We can get so self-assured about the way our life is going, and then we get so restless, we know in our heart God wants to change things up, yet we are resisting. To get rid of the restlessness that plagues our soul, we have to yield to God. Surrender! God wants to take us places we don’t want to go, because God Adventure can be scary to us, we don’t like change, we like to stay put in our comfort zone. Followship! Are we willing to go and follow God to places we do not know? Are we willing to follow after God? Surrender is a good choice and then Followship is even better and comes naturally, as we become willing to be dependent on God first. Having a will “bucked up” in dependence on ourselves really messes with surrender and followship of God. We need to be willess in order to be able to surrender and follow after God. Willessness is our choice to lay down what we want for what God is wanting to do in us that is new and different to what we are used to. God’s ways are not always our ways, but one thing is for sure, no doubt about it, life experience always shows that God’s way, has an endgame that is so good for us, probably better than we could ever hope for or imagine. So, I say, give it a try, surrender and followship! First step, bow your heart before God in humble, reverence and bend your will into God’s Sovereign Sway, lean into God, surrendering what you want, and then go, go in followship of God and enjoy the God Adventure. God bless ya! MUCH!

Injustice, it can be so painful, but not for long. Yes, we grow through some very tough injustices, yet God never leaves us, nor forsakes us. God is with us in the all of our everything, working in the unseen to balance the scales of justice (Ecclesiastes 3:16-17) by His Sovereign Sway. Justice will prevail. I have no doubt about this.(Deuteronomy 32:4) Don’t be distracted by injustice. Even though injustice mocks us, we should not overthink it,(Romans 9:14) we will lose our focus on Jesus. Put everything in God’s Hands, He knows what He is doing. We want to make things right, but we are not the fixer, Jesus is the Fixer. (Ephesians 2:14-18) God will shine His light in the darkness of the injustice of our time, wait for it. Injustice is so aggravating, the illegitimate supremacy of human beings trying to dominate other human beings through injustices. We must turn away from the strife of injustice, and surrender it to the peace of God. God is the Way-Maker through all injustice and He has promised to make things right. (Isaiah 10:1) So, in light of this great truth, we watch God, we wait on His next move and we will see deliverance from the darkness of injustice. (Zephaniah 3:5-9) Gotten stung by the injustice of these dark days? Not For Long! God rights every wrong, He will right our keel. (Isaiah 61:7) Trust wholly-holy in God, put all your expectations in Him, He will make the crooked path of injustice straight. Pray it up to Almighty God in front of the mountain of injustice that blocks your way, ask God to move the mountain. (Mark 11:22-24) He can. He will. God is a just God, an Advocate of True Justice. (Romans 1)When we can’t wrap our minds around the injustices of our time, we look to God, we position ourselves underneath His Rulership of Love, and we trust in His perfect, purposeful timing to right the wrong of injustice. (Amos 5) Got Injustice? Look Up! Not For Long! God’s Justice Will Prevail. (Isaiah 30:15-18) Awe-GOD! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/look-to-god/

It is obvious that the wisdom of the wise has been confounded by God, and that there are no real facts that stand up to the tests of this time, we are a befuddled human race in times such as these. Everyone has an emotional opinion, but there seems to be no wisdom that is not confounded. God is the confounder of the wise. It is HIM that has jumbled up our world with useless mediatic false frenzy, false narrative after false narrative that eventually creates a stunning fake reality which blocks out all common sense. God has allowed this really difficult time of deception, hoping we will be so confused it drives up back to Him, heart to heart, spirit to spirit in undivided relationship. For the reality of truth, we listen up to Him, we are navigated by the purity of His righteousness. Are you confused? Take some time away, shake off and listen up to the only ONE Who knows, the wisest of us all, Jesus Christ, Spirit and Truth. All knowledge begins with God and continues forever as we link up our hearts with Him, in followship of Him. God is our Navigator into the next right choice and He is with us daily with Kingdom perspective that leads us into Godly and wise decisions. God is with us daily with Kingdom perspective that leads us into Godly and wise decisions. It is time to make a decision to not listen to human beings first, and look up higher and listen to God first. God is still speaking and He speaks through this kind of beauty, He speaks that He is the creator and maintainer of all things, of all of us and it is wise on our part to yield our lives to Him, to give Him total access to our mind, soul, will and spirit. God wants us to be in a love relationship with Him and to stay in followship of Him. There is no better way to grow through these times than heart to heart with our God. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/godly-wisdom/

Civil Servants, those who sacrifice so much for the safety of our society. These amazing people don’t run away from danger, but they run towards it to protect, defend and rescue others. Civil servants are selfless, putting others first above themselves. Give honor to whom honor is due, those who serve among us, who enforce the laws, protecting us and keeping us all safe. Police, firemen, detectives, first responders, civil defense directors, I knew so many of them in my young life and they shaped me, teaching me the value of civility, the importance of adding value to your community, and the best choice of serving others over yourself. I called the civil servants that I grew to know, “Servant Warriors” because they were fierce in defending and rescuing others, and tender in heart towards people, always caring, always looking out for what was best for them. Courage, Compassion, Civility, this was the three-strand cord of civil servants that made them bold and strong in their response to the bad situations of life where they needed to intervene and save lives. My life has been changed in such a good way by hanging around these great men and women who serve our community, these Civil Servants. God bless our Civil Servants and their families. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/missionary-prayer-journey-6/

We celebrate the living legacy of those who are no longer on this side of heaven by having a memorial celebration of their life. We recently had a loss in our family. My cousin, Tony. He will be missed. We grieve and are very sad about the loss this family will have to endure, and the adjustment of living life here on this side of heaven, without him, a husband, father, brother, cousin and friend. When a person lives as large as my cousin did, being a strong patriarch of his family, a faithful civil servant for many years in his community, then the loss is huge to all of us, yet the living legacy is great. I know many of you have lost people in your families this year, and we all grieve, but we don’t grieve without hope. Jesus Christ has made a way for us to our forever future in heaven, therefore, when separation wears on us heavily and we suffer forward with hearts laden with sorrow, missing our loved one so much, we also cling to God’s hope and this helps us to grow through gracefully, day by day. Sometimes though, we do ask why? Why now? How could this timing be purposeful? I don’t understand. I can’t wrap my mind around this. Maybe we are not supposed to understand. God’s ways are not our ways. I remind myself~ this is not my home and life here IS temporary. If I need help growing through the grief of this life season, I know all I have to do is ask God, and He will help navigate me by the power of His Holy Spirit. We may have many trials, hurts and sorrows in this life, but we don’t have to grow through them alone. God is with us. God is our comfort in this present sorrow, our strength in enduring this loss, and our courage to face a new tomorrow. I honor my cousin Tony, as his living legacy is memorialized and celebrated today. What an incredible husband, father, family member and civil servant to his community with a huge living legacy from living, loving, and sacrificially serving others well. If there is someone you have lost, someone you are missing, tell us about their living legacy in the comment section of this video and we will honor them too. Always remember, Heart To Heart video audience, we care about you, we care about what you are growing through. In light of my cousin’s untimely death, I think on this: Life is short and every choice matters, because it builds the foundation of your living legacy, which you will bless others with when you leave this earth. Live selflessly and excellently living well from every moment to every choice. A good life is lived with JOY: Jesus-Others-You. God bless you, MUCH. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/stretched-faith-2/

There is no better place to be in this life than confident in God. We all were raised so differently and because of that there are certain things that we feel confident in that other people may not feel confident in. Everyone has a back story. So, instead of being critical of how others react to certain situations, maybe we should listen more to them, get to know them better. Like I said, we all are so different. Even so, the things we have experienced that have given us life-wisdom and made us confident in certain things, they are not enough. If we want to be confident in this life and not fall into the traps of fear, where our enemy sets us up to be upset, then we need to have a personal relationship with God. Heart to Heart with God, we will be confident in the all of our everything. No doubt about it. We can be certain, self-assured as we step out each day into life and not be afraid of new experiences when we know we are being navigated by God. There is no greater confidence than to be found wholly-holy aligned with God’s way, truth and life. Believe it! Be confident today. God is with us. God is for us. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/the-bridegroom-speaks-about-hope/

Heart To Heart! May God give you the desires of your heart today. Today is my birthday and I am spoiling myself with all of my favorite things. My favorite person is away on a work trip, so that makes me a bit sad, my husband, the love of my life. But, I choose joy today, because my GOD is with me and for me, always. Today, will be a slathering of my favorite things. I watched the Sonrise at the beach, I had my favorite breakfast a cinnamon bun, I will be going to lunch with a sweet friend, doing some shopping, hitting some golf balls, later a walk on my favorite bridge, pizza for dinner, and Häagen-Dazs ice cream for dessert, (chocolate of course, no birthday is complete without chocolate). These are all temporary things that bring me happiness, but my all-time joy, it comes from loving and serving God, being full of all things Him, and overflowing His encouragement out to all of you. I love loving you all with the video encouragement God gifts me with, 1 Minute Encouragement videos. On This Birthday, I will be loved, spoiled by God, with my heart’s desire, which is Him, and He always abundantly, extra spoils me with His love, by His joy. He is my best birthday gift and you all a close second! I am thankful to Rumble for letting me have this channel, Heart To Heart and to God, most of all for gifting me with such great videos to bless you all with His short and powerful encouragement. It is a pleasure to get to know you all and serve you all with these God inspirations and with God’s great love. Have a wonderful, joy filled day. God bless ya. Kimberly Mac. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/joy/

It is never enough to just go through a day, without slipping our hand into the greatest love ever given to mankind. Heart to Heart with God on this day, Jesus is our enough, without Him there is only a rush of discontentment and dissatisfaction that floods our souls. The wanting of more, and more and more, is such a trap. Watch out for it, discontentment, guard your heart from it. Decision by decision, made out of discontentment leads us to choices we will regret. Be content with what God has given you, don’t compare yourself to others, and don’t want something that was never meant to be yours. Greed, the wanting of more and more it leads us to places we never wanted to go, making bad choice after bad choice until we have irrevocably damaged our lives. God has made us wiser than this, we were created to be better, to not chase after things, positions, titles, fame and temporary pleasure, we were created to love God and be loved abundantly by Him. If you want to chase after satisfaction, chase after God, He meets every need we have, there is no one or nothing on this earth that can satisfy our soul like Him. Make the right choice to chase after God, to know Him more and more and more. Be a living legacy for those who are looking up to you, adult well, be content with what God is doing in you and through you. Say NO to discontentment, watch out, guard your heart and be gratefully content. Ephesians 5:15-17 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/never-enough/

LIFE IS SHORT, BUT CAN BE LIVED POWERFULLY. Surrender, quite a LARGE word, because it means you can’t serve yourself first, or look out for your interests before others. It means selflessness on the behalf of others, a life where your reality of truth is you saying no to self and surrendering to a God-first kind of life style. So Yes, surrender of all things you first, is living large. It might be said that surrender is not about serving no power higher than yourself. We can kindle our own fire, but it will flame out. So, who would you rather serve? Yourself or God? Our Awe GOD, He is inestimable, infallible, incredible, immeasurable, inexhaustible, incalculable, innumerable, invaluable, indescribable, inconceivable, indistinguishable, this is the love of God. Why would you not want to surrender your life to God and live out of the power of His love, strength and truth?! Surrender is immensely idyllic as a God Adventurous life, living large and experiencing life miraculously so. Apart from God, what can you truly do for yourself? Can you cheat death? Will you have a future after death? No, all of us will die, YES, our future and hope is in Jesus Christ. Surrender to God, live this short life powerfully. SURRENDER IS POWERFUL As we walk through life, our human condition does not naturally want to let go and let God, as God is so very good at changing things up. Surrender is letting God lead our life, giving Him total access to our life, and being willing follow God anywhere He says to go, because we believe in Him and believe what He says in such complete heart to heart trust, that we are willing to abandon our will, way and life to Him. There is no greater love, no greater sacrifice, than a life of surrender, a life purposefully set apart and serving God’s Kingdom. We are challenged on this day to be bold and courageous, set apart with God purpose and living for God. Surrender is a good choice, and the question is, will we lay our lives out on His harvest field, so others can know Him, and become a part of His Forever Kingdom. This is what true surrender is, and it is a powerful way to live this short life on this side of heaven. JESUS CAME TO US Short and powerful, humble and lifesaving, that was Jesus’ life here when He came to us and ushered in the greatest transformation this world would ever know, death to life, through the meekness of power under the control of purposeful surrender. If you don’t know Jesus, then do what it takes to get to know Him. No doubt about it. A God Surrendered life is powerful, because it leads to followship of Jesus, our Proven, and there is no more powerful way to live this life than yielded to the Father God, our Proof, and led by The Holy Spirit of God, our Prover. Surrender Is Powerful! Jesus Christ in you, the hope of glory, a hope that does not disappoint. Surrender To God! Let go and let God take you places way out in the deep, places you would never have gone, experiencing God Adventure you could not even begin to imagine or hope for. I Hope We Choose To Take Our Short Lives Here And Live Large~ Live Powerfully In Christ Jesus. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/missionary-prayer-journey-7/

There is a lot of people who love fishing, and I notice they don’t catch much off the ocean, but they love doing it. What are you using your time to fish for? What bait are you using? Do you have a durable fishing pole? Lots of things to consider, especially if you are fishing for men? Say what? LOL! Yes, I am using my time to fish for God and hoping to catch someone that He can release into the Kingdom of God, through the acceptance of His Son, The Way, Truth and Life, Jesus Christ. We do all love our lives here, but this is a temporary life, one day we will die, this is why I use my time wisely, loving and encouraging people on this side of heaven. I hope to leave a living legacy. I do love people, but, I wouldn’t truly love them enough if I did not introduce them to my Savior, Jesus Christ. Yes, I guess you could say I am on-mission and fishing for God’s Kingdom. I want people to know the ONE Who can assure them of life after death, Jesus, The Life Giver. He is a Life-Giver, let Him pour His life on you, as you accept Him and deeply know Him. I have never had a friend more loyal than Him, and no one has loved me more or most than Him. So, I fish… and all I have to do is be the fishing pole, cast out God’s character, love and truth as my bait and wait and see if I catch a fish. I don’t have to be this incredible flashy fisherman, I just have to be me, full of Him, the me God created, designed and shaped to make my unique mark on this world. Every day in my vital-vertical, personal relationship with God, He fills me to overflowing and it is that overflow which anoints people with the breath of God’s fragrance and catches them up in Jesus. It is not about me, it is all about Him. God is the best fisherman, and when He catches a fish, He unhooks it from death and throws it out into the deep, into His Kingdom to live abundant life. I love being the fishing pole in God’s hand. Just Fishing… everyday with Jesus. God bless you, Heart To Heart, MUCH! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/s-h-a-r-e/

Disappointed? In God or in a human being? Either way, our soul enemy uses disappointment to trap our soul in disillusionment, a path that leads us to depression and despair. Guard your heart diligently from the disappointments of life, for out of our heart flows the issues of our life.(Proverbs 4:20-23)The bubble of our expectations is often burst by the actions of the human condition and disappointment settles into our soul, a disillusionment our enemy hoped for because it will lead us to disenchantment with God. Bitterness is an evil root in our soul, and it is seeded by disappointment that we have reacted to through our human condition, instead of responding to out of the God truth written on our hearts. Bitterness is never about another person, it is always about our reaction to disappointing human beings, who can never meet our needs, and it disenchants us to the One Who can, keeping us in disillusionment from the truth which can set us free. The more we lean into our own understanding, we lean out of God’s Sovereign Sway, and we do not acknowledge Him, in all our ways. Disillusionment keeps us out of wholly-holy alignment with God’s way, truth and life, we give the fame to our feelings, our faith takes a back seat and life becomes an assumption about what we think we know. Disappointed? Turn and fully face God, hand Him your wounded soul feelings, your dashed expectations, and let Him return to you to His reality of truth, which will, no doubt about it, set you free from the schemes of the enemy’s craftily planned disillusionment, disenchantment and all things d-devilish. Acknowledge GOD in ALL your ways and He will direct your path far away from disillusionment, to the joy of His hope, which does not disappoint. God bless you heart to heart, hope in Jesus. Read Psalm 118. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/hand-of-mercy/

Yes, it is possible! It feels so impossible, but we know that in Christ, all things are possible. Possibility!? Where does it come from? It is seeded in our faith by the truth of God’s Word. Why do we squander so many situations by dreading, fearing, afraid to believe and being covered over in doubt? Why don’t we even ask God for what is possible? Instead, we face impossible situations cowering in fear. We need to change it up! Think bigger, be bold, be courageous, be word strong and pray bigger, because we serve a God of the impossible, making things possible. Just think about it, we see the evidence of this God making the impossible, possible, all throughout the Word of God. So, we learn to stretch our faith past our doubt, fear and unbelieving thoughts, because what we do know is our God is a God of the impossible, and He loves flipping impossible situations to possible miracles. Are you staring at an impossible situation, over-thinking, just wishing and wishing it was different? Well-wishing doesn’t get us anywhere, but hope does, hope in Jesus, the ONE Who is Lord over possibility. From every moment to every choice, let’s go from faith to faith. Pray Big! Ask God. Trump dread, fear, unbelief and doubt with bold prayers of faith. Don’t act like it is not possible, act like it is possible. On this day, pray it up and then stand strong in your faith, if you don’t see it yet, believe it, think good thoughts and stretch your faith. It is possible, Jesus said so. Believe God. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/what-faith-can-do/

It is so nice to have someone listen to you all day long. That is our God, He does that for us and we are so grateful that He is with us and for us. Praise God! God is as close as the mention of His name, and being in a vital-vertical relationship with Him, heart to heart, is the best and sweetest part of our day. God still speaks, and as we listen up, we will hear Him and He will navigate us from every moment into every right choice. He has kept us all day today, our strength, wisdom, love and peace came from Him. Praise God! We humbly acknowledge His amazing Presence, and are so grateful for it. As the sun goes down upon our cities, God is with us in Spirit and Truth, just as He was all day. God’s effervescent light never dims, it is illuminating in us always and forever. Nothing and no one can extinguish the light of God. Isn’t that way too cool?!! It is so humbling how much He loves us, and gives so much to us, day by day. We are so undeserving, yet God abundantly showers us with His abundant love. That is why as the sunsets today, and we look with heavenly hindsight on our day, seeing God throughout our day, remembering all things He has made possible for us, we humbly Praise Him. As we get ready to rest for the night, we know we can lay down in peace and sleep in harmony with God, knowing God’s got us. Tonight, as we sleep, He will be painting our soul with His light of hope, and easing the burdens off of our mind, speaking His Truth to our spirit. God speaks to us continually, and always. We are so blessed to be His. Thank you, God for all you have done for us in on this day, we praise You. Heart To Heart, I hope for us all a wonderful evening and a night of sweet dreams, dreams full of the future and hope we have in Christ Jesus. God bless ya! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/praise-faith/

Wow, that was a sharp U-Turn! Do you feel at a loss? Can’t wrap your mind around a sudden U-Turn in your life path? God was doing something miraculously amazing and you were celebrating and suddenly things changed. Does this U-Turn not make sense to you at all? Feel lost and confused? Can’t understand, the reason for the U-Turn or the new direction you are now taking? Absolutely rocked in your soul and not able to grasp the reason for this U-Turn? Lots of unanswered questions is definitely a stretch of our faith when we have been deviated from a plan we thought was working, as we joyfully were following after the way we were going, the expectations we had were high, only to U-Turn to dashed expectations and disillusionment. These God U-Turns where He sharply changes things up in our lives is very hard on our faith. But, as we stay deeply anchored in God, heart to heart in vital-vertical relationship with Him, our anchor will hold. Our faith endures the God U-Turns that happen so sharply we leave our stomach behind in the crook of the road. Our soul is so uneasy-queasy as we move forward in the new direction after a sharp U-Turn. It is a new path, but God is still charting it. This truth matters. I love God so much, He loves me more, and He wants the best for me, therefore I trust Him in this U-Turn. When I can’t wrap my mind around what God is doing, I can trust His Heart. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/missionary-prayer-journey-3/

God Adventure Is: Definitely leaning out of our experiential wisdom and leaning into God’s way, truth and life. I call it: Leaning Into God’s Sovereign Sway. We naturally want to know “the plan” but sometimes God asks us to step out into our “spontaneous faith” and this is great God Adventure like no other. It is exciting and scary at the same time. To step out on a strong “spontaneous faith” we need a strong foundation of God’s Promises in our heart, this makes a great atmosphere for our soul. When “It Is Well” with our soul, it makes God Adventures sweeter, better and best. We believe in God, but can we “believe God” when we experience a sudden spontaneous situation, which turns into a full-blown God Adventure. More of us, less of Him, this makes a strong spontaneous faith where we can step out courageously, boldly and confidently on a path we have never traveled, a way where we can’t see past the crooked places to see where we are headed. Got a God Adventure happening, well our first step out is activating our faith in our Father God, “The Proof”. Our second step out is wholly-holy trust in Jesus, “The Proven”. Our third step is belief in the Promises of The Holy Spirit, “The Prover”. Taking these three initial steps into a Great God Adventure, and staying in followship of our Navigator God, assures us a really, really great endgame. Enjoy your God Adventure today Heart To Heart. God bless ya. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/christ-in-me/

Peace be still. We all have anxieties in this harried, hurried and very busy culture we live in. Anxiety can truly be a sleep robber. Have you ever spent a sleepless night, so frustrated and restless that you wanted to jump out of your skin? I sure have. Anxiety, restlessness and frustration is a circle of stress which builds on itself creating more and more anxiety in your soul and this is not a good subscription for sleep. Been there and felt that lack of sleep. Sleepless in anxiety. Not fun. In fact, anxiety street, don’t take that road, it is a dead end. Sleeplessness, what causes it? Worry, overthinking things, changes. We can step into a new life. Path where we can’t see ahead and we feel, feel, feel so overwhelmed. Our soul becomes like a window with foggy dew that diminishes your view of what’s ahead. So what now, anxiety ridden ones? Well, we can step out on our feet of faith, where we put our trust in action and willessly activate our faith by God’s power in us. This kind of faith pushes past what we think we know. We believe in God, but do we believe Him. These seasons of trepidation that we step into, these are times we activate our faith with feet of trust and we move forward in followship of God. Anxiety, responds to movement, it lessens as we move forward in faith, and clinging to the Promises of God, this expels the darkness of fear, expunging anxiety and replacing it with the positive followship of the peace of God, trust is activated and anxiety is stomped out. Today is the day God is in, what is behind You, He’s got that, the responsibility we have on this day is the believe He has our back, He has gone before us, He is our Way-Maker God and our rear guard. So let’s be so, Heart To Heart, be a reflection of God’s peace in our harried, hurried, busy culture, we will let go, let peace reign and lay down and sleep in peace, (Psalm 14:4-8) getting up refreshed, strong and go forth in God’s joy. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/no-anxiety/

Am I willing to be dependent on God? Sometimes I just want to go the places I want to go and do the things I want to do. I think my way is better. Free will lets me do so, do what I think I know, and not rely on God. The problem with this is that the human condition, never truly knows what it thinks it knows. Independence from God, may not be so good for me, as my life experience triggers a wisdom that helps me remember that this never ends well. Surrender can be a really sweet thing because it leads to followship of God and that always leans into a really great God Adventure. Even if our followship of God starts out on a rocky path, it always leads to an amazing and miraculous endgame. God is an incredible finisher and purposefully so, He leads us on the strenuous uphill treks. We miss so many incredible things in our life when we are not willing to yield our lives to God. We foolishly think we know better than the One Who actually shaped us in our mother’s womb and Who has designed our lives for a time such as this. Sometimes human beings can be not the brightest light on the planet, but thankfully God never gives up on us and He finishes what He started in us, He finishes well. Surrender, let go and let God lead, as difficult as this is, the benefits for us are amazing. God wants to take us places way out of our comfort zone and it can be scary when God suddenly changes things up, so be willing to trust and miraculously so, you will have the time of your life. Let God lead, learn the joy of followship, when He says go, just do it, you will be so glad you did. Surrender and know the joy of followship, be willing to be dependent on God and live a life of great God adventure. Have a great day! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/followship-necessary/

I am brave enough to pray bold prayers! You can pray bold, audacious prayers, stretching your faith courageously and still be humble, reverent and yielded to God’s will and way. I love praying bold prayers. Why? Because I believe in Jesus, and I believe Him. I believe His Promises. If you are going to ask, might as well ask BIG, right!??!!! God loves our faith and He loves to stretch our faith with challenges, so we actually a times, just really need to pray bold prayers. God loves it when we have high expectation of Him, yet we are willing to put our expectations in His Hands, and let Him work them out for our best. This stretches our faith. Sometimes you just need a miracle, you have an impossible situation, there is no way you can fix it, or change it, in fact you can’t even wrap your mind around the magnitude of it, so I say, pray bold prayers. If the enemy has come in like a flood, then flood the gates of heaven with your prayers. Boldly Ask God. God is such an amazing Father God; He loves us so much. There have been so many times my kids or grandkids have come to me for a need, and there is not anything I would not do to meet that need. I would give them my last dollar if they needed it. God is so much like that as a Father God, He wants to give the best to His kids. He knows when to give right away and when not to give and makes us wait, knowing the benefit of waiting would be so good for us. Ever been in God’s waiting room. I have. It is a sweet place if we wait in trust, belief and faith. God is so trustworthy and so worthy of our faith in Him. God knows us perfectly, and so well, that He answers our prayers in the best possible way of His, with the best possible timing. God is so creative at answering our prayers, and He does things His way, which has many God purposes in play, with an incredible endgame. God is so good, that is why I pray bold prayers and that is why I am His bold, brave and courageous servant prayer warrior. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/no-lack/

How sweet it is when you can hear clearly without distraction! It seems like lately the wisdom of the wise has been confounded. There Are No Facts, Just Myriads Of Dysfunctional Emotions In Our Face! Emotions don’t stand up to the tests of time, they crumble and fail us. Emotional opinions are way too LOUD in times such as these, and don’t you feel like saying to the world: SHUT UP!! People are living off the power of emotions, which flame out so easily, and leave them and us in a tormented dark place. Shake off the deception and look up to God. Where is the light of truth? God’s Truth, it is our lighthouse as we come into the dark harbor, and dangerously try to navigate the rocky, emotional backbite, of stormy strife fleshing out in our cultural chaos. Jesus is our Life Preserver, of Truth and Light, which is found in abundance in our personal relationship with Him. God wants us to be wholly-holy His, spirit to spirit, heart to heart, in a vital-vertical relationship with Him. God is the only one WHO Knows the reality of truth; therefore, we need to link up our hearts with His heart. Listen up to God, find a quiet place, a silent moment to be still and listen up. God is our incredible navigator, Who knows from the moment we are in, what our next best choice is. God is still speaking, and it is really wise on our part to listen up to God first, yield our lives completely to Him, and love Him first in all of our ways. Followship of God is our best choice to grow through these times we find ourselves in, where even the wisdom of the wise is confounded by this age of deplorable deception. God is our all-knowing navigator, Who knows us best and loves us most. God can, and will lead us and grow us through these days where the deception of fake reality is all around us, distracting us like no other from the reality of truth. To be led by God’s Way, Truth and Life, is to be wholly-holy yielded to God, in a personal relationship, heart to heart with Him as a best friend, where we genuinely give our friend, our Father God, total access to our lives. Let it be so. Heart TO Heart! With God. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/wholehearted/

Sometimes when it rains, it pours. Been there and felt that. It is super hard when we have those seasons of life where things go way wrong, like an enemy coming in like a flood. You find yourself consciously dreading in that “what’s next” kind of way. It will be alright! It doesn’t “feel” that way when every area of your life is a mess, and you can’t find a way out. One thing is for sure, when we have a big mess in our life story, we can’t fix it. We need help from above. Things can get very messy, still, it will be alright! How? We are a part of a huge family of God. God knows us, God knows our name, He knows every hair on our head. We have help. Gods got us. The God Who created and maintains the world, He is the Fixer, the one who can make an amazing message out of our mess. It will be alright. Lean out of the worldly viewpoint and lean into God’s Kingdom perspective. God’s holding You, He will keep you, He will make a way where there seems to be no way. Lean out of the situations and lean into God. Let God Work, He Has A Good Endgame In Mind. We are not the fixer, God is. He can, He will and He has a good endgame. So, we should let be, be still and know He is God. Watch- Wait – See and patiently endure as He works all things together for our good. It will be alright. Trust God! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/god-still-can/

Everyone has an “opinion” their own viewpoint or perspective. Like today someone censored one of my posts, deleted it from their group because they felt and were very opiniated about the author of my post saying that the author of my post was ungodly and of the devil. LOL! How could that be? This author has godly fruit. ME! This author led me to Christ and a lot of the fruit in my life is from being discipled by her. People don’t know what they “think they know”. We can’t judge others; we don’t do it well. Only God is the “true judge”! I stand here in the mountains and I look around and breathe in the beauty of it. Yet, as I share my love for this mountain scene, someone will have a negative comment, their own personal “opinion” about it. Opinions! Blah, Blah, Blah, someone will inevitably say to you, this is good for you, this is bad for you, and you need to listen to me. Everyone these days seems to have an emotional opinion, usually not based on facts, but a say-so that they feel I should follow after. It gets worse, these opinions that people shove down our throats, as some people, corrupted by their illegal supremacy are actually trying to mandate their opinions on us all. Censorship! This is so frustrating. It is like they think we can’t see, learn, think and decide on our own what is good for us. So how do I handle it when someone wants to man handle me with their opinions? I say thanks, I appreciate your warning, but I have checked it out with God, the One Who does lead me by truth, the only One Who knows my heart. God’s “say so” matters to me so much more than opinions of others. I don’t listen to others first; I listen to God. “They” always have opinions which come in and go out with the cultural tides, but God’s leading, His Truth remains. “They” say if we don’t listen to them, we are dangerous and living dangerously, but I say God’s truth is not dangerous, because the Holy Spirit does not navigate me into danger. What is dangerous is following after the human condition with all its deception and mediatic false frenzy. People are so deceived and that is why I stay in a vital-vertical relationship with God, so I can side step all the human crap and not step into it, but step out within the confines of the Rulership of God’s love and the direction of His Holy Spirit. It doesn’t matter how “strong” a person’s opinion is emotionally ranted, what matters to me first is followship of God. I do not live to appease men, I live to love God, honor God and serve God 1st. I do not judge others, because I don’t know what I “think I know”, only God knows the heart, motive, thoughts and full life of another. Opinions! Blah, Blah, Blah… GOD’s SaySo… I listen up to. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/finger-pointing/

WOW~ our culture is cray-cray right now! Hard times are here where what is right is wrong and what is wrong is right. We need to anchor ourselves; this is going to be a rough ride. DECEPTION is everywhere, kind of like a weapon against truth and it is ushering in so much havoc. God’s Truth will stand the test of time and I find that His Promises stir up amazing courage in me in times such as these. BUT GOD, He will deliver us out of all the trials of our time and no weapon of the enemy will prosper against us. We are never alone or forsaken, God is with us and incredibly so, He is with us in Spirit and Truth. In Christ, we have strength like no other and we can endure, persevere patiently in these days where the mediatic false frenzy is at a high roar. Jesus is our anchor in the storms at this time and His anchor will hold us firmly to our moorings of faith. With God all things are possible and He is able to do anything, this AweGOD is with us from every moment into every choice. Incredible God We Serve. He loves us like no other. We are never not forsaken by this precious, incredible Way-Maker God. Temporary is the aggravation of our enemy, permanent is our future and hope in God. Listen up to this 1 Minute Encouragement video and breathe in God’s hope. God bless you and yours. Patiently Endure, this cray-cray culture is not forever, we have a forever future and hope in Jesus. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/anchor/