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Men Of God, Where Are You? Promises Not Kept. Commitments Walked Away From. Courage Not Shown. Deception Followed. Loyalty Not Seen. Strength Not Expressed. Boldness Exchanged For Truth Expunged. Fight Not Fought. Abandonment Of Responsibility. Where are the strong, courageous, committed, loyal, truthful, promise keepers who once fought for their families, guarded the innocence of children? Where are the watchmen of the family? Where are the Patriarchs who would never exchange truth for a lie? Where are the tender warriors? Men, where are you? What has happened to our servant leaders, our men? What happened to our prayer warriors who protected the home first on their knees before God? Men where are you? The only way UP men is DOWN, bowed down before God in wholly-holy surrender. Rise up men out of your sloppy, careless living, out of your comfort zone, take your place in a time such as this, as God’s Servant Warrior, strong, courageous, bold, wise and fighters for families, fighters for God’s way, truth and life for your family. Men, we need you. Step up, bow down before God. Men, you have dropped the ball and children are suffering. Change It Up. Be Godly Men. The only way UP is Down. Have you bowed? Bow before God.

Seed It! There are so many ways we can be used in our everyday living, and in our churches where God has planted us. Like a garden, there is cultivating the ground, preparing for seed, planting-sowing the seed, tending the seedlings, caring for the plants, protecting the harvest, harvesting the yield. All these things are simultaneously happening all around us as God is on the move, planting, growing and harvesting, purposefully so in all of us. We will at one time or another be asked by God to do one of these things. He equips us to tend His garden of people. Sometimes, whispers spontaneously in our ear, this is the way, walk in it and He might ask us to spontaneously seed into a garden that has been cultivated and prepared for seed. Whatever it is that God asks you to do, do it and do it unto Him. Being a harvester is so exciting, yes and we all hope to be put in that position. Yet preparing the soil, cultivating it, tilling it, it may seem like a mundane thing, but without it, there is no harvest. So, Wherever God has you and whatever He has asked you to do, do it with all your heart, do it excellently because simply-significantly, in the long run of things, it matters. I am a prayer warrior mostly, what I call an intercessor, called by God to pray, I cultivate the ground. There are times when I am tilling the ground, weeding around the young seedlings, times when I am tending and caring for plants before they bloom. I love the times God gives me the privilege to sow seed. I know that is a blessing because as you are serving with your time, energy and talents, it is a double blessing when you get to seed into this in a sacrificial way, because this makes way for a future harvest. God takes our sacrificial offerings that He has asked for, and He uses them to grow people in His way, truth and life. We may never see the result of a sacrificial seeding, but we can know without a doubt, when the harvest comes in, God will say: “Well Done Good And Faithful Servant.” A servant warrior for God, a servant leader, is always giving more than they have, because they trust in the well-known truth that you can’t outgive God. I like to say: “I am living way above my pay grade”! That is God’s economy! Whatever you sow, you will reap. No doubt about it. You might not reap it in the same way you sowed it, because God is so creative, and He will surprise you with just what you need, when you need it and how you need it, and that still small voice will say: You have reaped what you have sown. How sweet is that! Sowing and Reaping, let’s all be about God’s business and keep on being found in His Garden, cultivating, tilling, sowing seed, tending the seedlings, caring for the plants, protecting the harvest, and harvesting. Wherever He positions you, listen up, stay in followship of Him and as Mary said: Do as He says. God bless ya. Dig Deeper:

Heart To Heart Listen Up And Change It Up: Fear leads to a dead end. Facts matter and truth is a firm foundation. There is so much false evidence being spewed out with evil intentions pressing it forward. We need to be discerning people, connected heart to heart with God and being navigated by His Holy Spirit. This is a season of life where deception is everywhere in every form. Assumption, Rationalization, Speculations, Presupposition, all being spoken by the voice of mediatic false frenzy. False Evidence Appearing Real is a trap. Appearing, something that appears a certain way does not make it truth. Seek Truth. We are better than this living off of assumption and speculation. Dig deeper, seek the reality of truth and shatter the fake reality that permeates our society, shatter this darkness with the light of God’s truth. How? By being a person of truth, by not associating any form of falsity with our lives. If it is an assumption, we do not accept it as valid, we say no. We patiently endure until God reveals truth and exposes and expunges the deception and the deceiver. Let’s finish well on a foundation of truth as we patiently endure these chaotic cultural times where deception is the loudest roar of our nations, let’s work to trump it with truth. Be active and activated in truth, speaking truly, living truly, loving truth with Christ in us, our hope of glory. Truth wins. Fear dead ends! Truth stands the tests of time, fear-lies fizzle out. Remember this… Walk in God’s truth and be wholly-holy truthful by not speaking anything out of your mouth that “you think you know” but speaking the reality of truth only. Speak the truth you know and shatter the darkness of false evidence appearing real with the Light of God’s truth. STOP! Don’t contribute to the culture of deception that is rapidly growing. Don’t say another word. Don’t speak out of your mouth what you “think you know”… speak TRUTH. No more Fear- F.A.L.S.E. evidence appearing real. Do not accept it, do not repeat it, do not live out of the fear of mediatic false frenzy, live out of God’s truth, being wholly-holy-His. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/the-freedom-of-truth/

Our DNA, the way God designed us, we have this incredible giving nature where we love to encourage, add value and care for one another. We were created in God’s Image, this is something we can’t escape having, it is in us, this ability to love others well. We have a “kindred” spirit with one another and that was seeded deep within our inner spiritual core by our loving God’s character. We love being close to one another, we love having an ally, our hearts are full when we are associated with others closely. Kindred is finding togetherness in a way that brings out a similarity of thought, actions and emotions. Besties, best friends, heart to heart friendship. We were created to be in “kindred” friendship with God and each other, and without that, it makes life feel dull, without purpose and very lonely. When we get in a life-rut where we don’t feel we have any purpose, it is usually because we have isolated our hearts from others. God is amazing at making “kindred” friendships for us. Usually, when we are openhearted to God, He will lead us to friendships with people that are so fulfilling. So, a good friendship that you enjoy, a “kindred friendship” is such a wonderful thing. We need to work hard in this cultural chaos, a society where we have so much distraction, and it deters us from investing ourselves in the friendships God has given us. When we have friends, the greatest gift we can give them is time, and when we are with them, actually being “present” with them, not distracted by our life and just “doing a duty”, but genuinely investing in their lives, being interested in them and loving them well in that heart-to-heart God way. It is so sweet, this life, when we take those special moments and spend time together with people and love them well. It is so easy to get caught up in so much “good busyness” that we forget about maintaining our relationship with God and others. In a world with so much frenzy and harried activity, and being part of a soul parched society, we need God, and we need people to stay encouraged and refreshed in our soul. Heart to Heart, make sure we don’t drift away in the cultural tide of busy, isolated and surface living. Let’s be deep hearted friends. Let’s be people who are genuinely interested in other people, who are opening up our lives and sharing our hearts with them, and caring for people outside of our comfort zone. This is living in Christ Jesus. Be So. Heart To Heart. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/fantastic-friendship/

Get Back To The Basics. Love God. Love Others. Kindness. Compassion. Mercy. We were created in God’s Image, for God, for each other. We were created to love God, love each other. We need God, we need each other. REMEMBER: Compassion is a God thing. We have become “heart complacent” towards God and each other. We have to change this up! We are isolating our hearts from God and each other. Our human condition is roaring over our Christ Image. “I don’t need God. I don’t need you.” These are the prevalent voices in our cultural chaos, the lies from our enemy. We do need God, without Him, we are not good in our human condition. We do need each other; we are better human beings when we work together in harmony and peace. The Grace of God should be our rhythm of our heart beat of our life walk. We have gotten to a really bad place as a society, isolated in heart, selfish, and cold hearted. How did we get here? How can we change it? From heart to heart remember why we are here, and the grace, forbearance, forgiveness of God’s Grace. We have been given much; much is required. Awaken the God compassion and let it trump the human condition with God’s love. Stop the hate. Choose Love. Stop the offense over majoring in the minor things. Be Wise. Be interested in other people. Speak to one another kindly, serve one another selflessly and truly care for one another sacrificially, heart to heart. If you hear God speak to you today, don’t harden your heart, this is our God mission to get back to God, being wholly-holy HIS and tasked by Him to be compassionate, caring, selfless human beings. Change it up, step out of our comfort zones and love unconditionally, person to person, share the unrestricted kindness, mercy and compassion of God. Be So. Encouraging, adding value to each other and caring for each other, heart to heart. Step out today in the rhythm of God’s Grace. Be Kind. God bless ya.

Are you hurt by a relationship that has suddenly turned sour? Have you been hurt by other people who have stabbed you in the back with their words and actions? REMEMBER: Jesus! I was thinking about Jesus today, and how He loved us even though He had been hurt by us. Jesus loved like He had never been hurt, went to the cross and died for us, and that is why we can make the choice to: LOVE WELL when we have been hurt. Everyone has a human condition that flares up, especially in tense situations. Relationships sometimes get overwhelmed with the stank of assumption. Assumptions are the worst weapons when they are used against us in the form of a false accusation. Jesus even had compassion and forbearance for those kinds of things, those false accusations that pierce your heart as they are shared disrespectfully. Even in the face of angry false accusations, Jesus showed mercy. Mercy is a beautiful thing and we should learn to reflect the mercy God showed us, instead of deflecting relational pain with offense of heart. None of us deserved the forgiveness Jesus bought for us with His life. He loved us with His life, even though we had hurt Him with ours. People wound people, sometimes it is not even intentional, it just happens. Life is crazy at times and we get hurt, we get hurt by something that is not even real, not even reality. People speak what they “think they know” and they speak it like it is a reality of truth. How can they know your heart, your motive, your thoughts, when sometimes they don’t know you at all, yet they speak like they do? This hurts more than anything, to be falsely accused by something that is a fake reality. Even in this, we can love unconditionally, we can forbear, we can show mercy when others don’t deserve it. The mercy Jesus showed us, what a beautiful thing that was! Mercy is a beautiful thing. Express Mercy. Experience the joy of mercy, by entrusting God with your heart wound and with those who hurt you, and love others, even if they don’t deserve it. Love well. There is no peace like the peace that comes after mercy is shown. Mercy Is A Beautiful Thing! God bless ya.

1 Minute Encouragement: Sometimes, nothing works out the way we plan it. We can’t wrap our minds around this life season we are in, there is no real clarity. It is overwhelming at times, the changes that are happening so fast in our culture. God has a plan, His purposes are still in play in our everyday. Maybe we won’t be able to understand His Way right now, but we can trust His heart. Surrender your thoughts, opinions, expectations and wants to God. God is on the move, we need to stay in complete followship of Him, even if we can’t wrap our minds around His directives, we just need to obey, right now and follow Him. We are talking about our GOD, Who created the universe, the same One, Who breathed life into each of us. I am thinking He is very, very trustworthy. It will be our best day when we let go and let God lead us. We don’t have to figure out the whole plan, it may not make sense to us, it might not “feel” perfect to us, but we can still step out with what we know, step out of our comfort zone and make the next right choice. God is working, we need to let be, be still and let God work. God is so miraculous, so incredibly unique, and magnificently creative, so let Him Work, yield to Him. Give God, this amazing AWE God, Who is able to bring forth a miraculous endgame, we need to give Him total access to our lives and experience the perfect endgame that He has had in mind all along. God is brilliant, and incredible in all of His Ways. No man can bring about what God can do. God is able. God will bring about an endgame that no one could ever believe would happen. Never underestimate God’s ability to equip us and use us in ways we could never even begin to imagine. In times such as these, we need to open our hearts wide to God and let Him fill them. Let God Work. Let be, be still and know He is Supreme. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/god-causes-it/ Everyone look! Come and see the breathtaking wonders of our God. For he brings both ruin and revival . He’s the one who makes conflicts end throughout the earth, breaking and burning every weapon of war. Everyone look! Come and see the breathtaking wonders of our God. For he brings both ruin and revival . He’s the one who makes conflicts end throughout the earth, breaking and burning every weapon of war. Surrender your anxiety. Be still and realize that I am God. I am God above all the nations, and I am exalted throughout the whole earth. Here he stands! The Commander! The mighty Lord of Angel Armies is on our side! The God of Jacob fights for us! Pause in his presence. Psalms 46:8-11 TPT

God loves us. Love! It is such a sweet thing. God is love and love is God. I have actually experienced this about God, how incredibly well He loves. We were created in God’s Image and we have His loving character. The truest sense of the word “love”, this is what God is. God loves us lavishly, He loves us well, so incredibly well! This is how we should be. We should love others well. We were created with hearts of love, in God’s image and character of loving, caring and sharing. Why do we look for love in all the wrong places? A human being can’t meet all of our needs to be loved. Human beings let other human beings down. We get hurt when our expectations are dashed by others. What happens when we get hurt by human love? What happens when people we are in relationship let us down and we feel hurt by love? Sometimes it tends to make us withhold ourselves from others, isolate ourselves from friendship and keep our heart from sharing love with others. God showed us a selfless love through Jesus Christ, and we saw the King of heaven come to us and be so interested in our lives, loving us sacrificially. When we look for love in Jesus Christ, we will find an enduring, perfect, trustworthy and faithful love and when we find this love, we will radiate it. In Christ Jesus, we will be loved well and we will love others well. God’s love, it is a perfect love. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/a-perfect-love/

Fog! Disappointment, Discouragement, Disillusionment! These clouds can drift casually in and cover over our soul. Our feelings become very clouded over, fogged in with despair, and we feel the lack of light within the confines of the evil intentions of our enemy. The enemy of our soul spreads his thick clouds of discouragement, and disillusionment can quickly cloud up your soul with confusion so you can’t find your way out of the soul despair. We are children of the day, not of the night and the enemy can’t change that. We never lose the Presence of God in the fog, He remains, faithful, steady and true. The enemy loves to disgrace us, to get us to doubt, fear and stumble around in the fog of anxiety. You can be fogged in, so much so that nothing is clear, and you are not even able to discern your next step, yet you can hear the voice of God: This is the way, walk in it. Got a soul that is fogged in? The fog will lift. Wait on God. Trust God. He is with you. God See’s You. Jesus remains in the fog, through the fog, and after the fog has burned off, He is still here, with us, for us. The intention of the enemy is for us to detour away from God, right into the pit of despair he dug for us. Let’s be smarter than that. Been there done that, won’t trap me again. If the enemy offers you one of his detours out of the fog, say no! Hope, is the better detour, hope is an anchor that holds us steady in whatever fog we find ourselves in. We are loved by a Way-Maker God, never forget that. If our soul gets fogged in, God is not fogged out. God sees us. God sees us in the cloud. God knows exactly where we are. God is purposefully working a way out of the fog and it will be a good way. So, if you are clouded in, if you are fogged in your soul so much so the light does not get through, the best choice you can make is to hope in the dark. We never stop hoping, we never stop waiting on God to navigate us out of the traps of our enemy, in that way only God can. Hope in God. God Sees Us. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/hope-is/

Do you take everything said at face value without finding the facts? Sometimes we see things on social media from people we don’t even know, and we buy into them instantly as if they are true. How can we know someone is telling the truth when we don’t even know them? How do we know the person we are believing is not deceiving us with a twisted up fake reality? When you are not “doing life” with someone, then you probably should not take what they say as reality of truth until you know it is factual by proving it out through sought after facts. Deception is out of control in this chaotic cultural season where Mediatic False Frenzy is at an all-time high and the “Cancel Culture” is in full swing. Fear Not! Assumptions and Speculations are not truth, and wild opinions flung everywhere may not be based on even a little snippet of truth. How do you know someone’s opinion is true? We need in crazy, cra-cra cultural times such as these to be navigated by God. Listening to these false narratives, taking them in one after the other, it can stir up a lot of fear. F.E.A.R. = False Evidence Appearing Real. Falsity adds no value to our lives, truth does and this is why facts matter. Sometimes we need to take all the unclear assumptions, speculations, false narratives and toss them out. Don’t entertain anything but truth in our mind. We need to be better at discerning truth from deception, and this takes a strong vital-vertical relationship with God. Don’t take everything someone says at face value because they are emotional about it. Seek Truth. Find Facts. Stand on the strong foundation of truth, this foundation will hold through the storms of life. Too many false narratives lead to a fake reality, which blinds to the reality of truth. Be careful with your mind, guard it from deception. Seek God. Listen Up To God First. Be Navigated By The Spirit Of Truth! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/missionary-prayer-journey-5/

Don’t you wish everything was so perfectly clear and you knew exactly what to do!? If only life was like that! Life is so up and down and sometimes so very hard to navigate in these uncharted waters of our time. Our culture now-a-days seems so crazy-cra-cra in that upside down kind of way. We never know what will come our way, and suddenly everything can feel like it is running fast, downhill without brakes. There are times it is so foggy, that we just can’t see ahead. Oh my gosh, we need to stay so alert to God’s Presence in times such as these. We need to stay so close to Him, in a tight followship of His discernment, way, truth and light. The cool thing is, God sees us. Yes, GOD SEES US! He is a God Who sees in the dark, sees in the fog, and nothing is ever unclear to Him. God Knows All! Our God is a Light that no darkness can extinguish. We, with His help, and navigation, can clearly know the way He is setting our feet too, as He lights the path one step at a time. Sometimes, we just can’t see the way ahead at all, as life can get so fogged in, and when it is like that, we need to ask God to be our navigator. He can. He will. So many times, I have not been able to see ahead, the confusion was so thick, but I kept going, kept doing the very last thing God asked me to do. This is a really wise thing to do, keep going in the direction God gave you, with the vision He has already imparted to you. If we remain in steady trust and keep asking God for direction, there is no doubt about it, God will interrupt the confusion with a new clarity. The enemy will throw as much fog our way as possible, and it will be so hard to navigate clearly, but we still will have clarity from God, miraculously so. God will make a way for us, even when we are not sure we will make it safely through the maneuvering of the difficult times we face, moments where the crooked paths of cultural chaos intertwine and try to dead end us. Our Way-Maker God will never leave us or forsake us. Stuck in a dark dead end? Don’t fret, the clarity will come, and God will make a way out where there seems to be no way. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/yet-in-darkness/

Oh, the beauty and peace of silence. The sounds of silence that most of us absolutely love differ for each of us. Mine is a creek. I love that sound of silence. We don’t have much quiet in our roaring culture. Everyone has something to say and we are all saying it louder and louder so we can be heard. Speculation, opinions, assumptions are so loud as people try to push to the forefront their way, their fiction and their fake reality. LOUD! Chaotic and peaceless, this is our cultural synopsis of these times. This is why times of silence and peaceful heart to heart moments with our God, are so priceless and valuable to us in times such as these. These quiet moments feed our soul with strength and nourish our spirit with the fortitude it needs to fight the good fight of faith. There is nothing beautiful about a chaotic culture, and that is why silence can be such a beautiful thing for our soul to behold. The roar of our culture has unhinged people’s lives, and we are encircled by frazzled emotions. There is nothing quite like the quiet of God, where we silently sit in His Presence and He speaks peace into our soul. This is why we need to take some moments of silence, still our soul, and listen up for God’s Holy Spirit, as He speaks peace to us and soul saturates us with hope, so much so that we know it is well with our soul. Oh, the beautiful sounds of silence! “I waited patiently for the Lord to help me, and he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along. He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see what he has done and be amazed. They will put their trust in the Lord.” Psalms 40:1-3 Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/silently-submit/

God cares for us! Providentially so. We all have needs, that is a given and we all have wants. I am sure we can think of things right now that we really, really want. We have things we want, and strive for that we don’t need. This is so true. We want so much. This is a part of our human condition, to want more than we need. I do it so often. The cool thing is that our God, He has provided us with everything we need on this day. It is our wants that make us feel like we lack, but the truth is we don’t lack, we have what we need today. God works like that, day to day, God is taking care of our needs. Today, you have exactly what you need. God is an amazing Creator and He maintains what He creates. For our good and for His glory, these are the two purposes in play in the Providential Care of God. God uses all things at His disposal very creatively, for the good of our lives and for the glory of His Kingdom. I love this about God! This is a very majestic attribute of God, His Providential Care, the blessing of being His, the benefits He showers us with in our lives. We experience this care of God every single day. God’s purposes are always in play in our lives, creating good lives for us and glory for His Kingdom. The goodness of God is just like we see in these majestic mountain views, it is incredible, in its abundance and beautiful in its purpose. God bless you much! Enjoy your day and thank God for His provision and care. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/missionary-prayer-journey-3/

Sunrise and Sunset! Isn’t time flying! As the sun rises we are thankful for a new day, for the beauty of God in each day. As the sunsets we are so thankful for Him being with us, for His amazing miraculous flow in our lives. I can’t believe how quick the days go by. It is so important to use our time wisely! Do you struggle with this? Sometimes I get so distracted. I really need God’s wisdom to be navigated in and through my days. God never leaves us, and that is such a sweet thing about Him and He can navigate us into each day, grow us through every day. We are loved so well by our faithful God. There is not a time we can look back on our lives and say He did not finish what He started. God is an amazing finisher. He never leaves us, never forsakes us and He finishes well. Sometimes we might feel we are walking through things that are “way above our paygrade” yet, He is still there no matter how we “feel”, He is a God who sees us. He is with us in love, grace, mercy, peace and power, and we are a blessed people. I hope each of us talk it up with God today, keep our vital-vertical relationship with Him alive, personal and well, so we can be navigated by Him from every moment to every choice, and use our time today so wisely investing value in others. God bless ya. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/adding-value/

Are you carrying a heavy emotional load on your shoulders? God wants to carry it for you. We have so many expectations as a human being, but most of them get dashed because when you put your expectations in people, who have a human condition, very rarely will you be happy with the outcome. It is a good day when we finally realize that putting our expectations in God’s Hands, yielding them to Him is so very healthy for our soul. We trudge forward with so many burdensome expectations and dashed hopes, we trek all over with this heavy load on our soul. Why would we work so hard to chase after worldly expectations and not even be willing to trek in with God and spend time with Him, the only ONE Who can and will shoulder all your burdens. Trek in with God, do whatever it takes to spend some time alone with Him and hand Him all your expectations, letting go and letting Him work in that way only He can. Get alone with God, talk with Him, yield your life burdens to Him, you will be amazed at what He can do with them and what a relief it will be for your soul. I have done it. I was carrying way too much and I was so burdened by the untimely death of a family member and that seemed to make everything feel so overwhelming. I needed some alone time with God, so I went to the beach and walked about two miles so I could be away from everyone. God met me there and our time together was so sweet. I gave Him everything. I Shed a lot of tears knowing that God was with me in my pain and weeps with me, knowing He understood how I was feeling and wanted to shoulder my burdens. Life does take unexpected turns, but God is right there with us, navigating us and back packing all of our troubles on His broad shoulders. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/shoulders/

Life is always better when God is in the lead and us in followship of Him, together. Growing through life together, me and you and Jesus, all of us together. Together is so much better. We human beings have that human condition tendency to just go it alone. We have to stop giving into the fake reality where we “think we can” do it all by ourself, we can’t. There is no joy in enjoy when we are alone, we need God, we need each other. Yes, life is always much better lived together with God at the center of our lives. The tugging of the world will not quit, the storms of life will roll in, but we know, our anchor, secured by a tree strand cord, (Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God) it will hold. We together need Christ in us, and no weapon formed against us will prosper as He navigates our lives in His purposeful goodness. We should do everything we can to stand in Christ and fight the good fight of faith. God is the all of our everything, in our individual vital-vertical relationship, He overflows His anointing through us to each other, then together, we step out into our world in faith, splashing His light all over our pathways as we live, laugh and love! This is our great God Adventure together. Our hearts are tied together with an unbreakable three strand cord. The Father, Son, And Holy Spirit. Yes, together with God, we are much better than we could ever be and we point the way to Jesus to our world. “Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. Likewise, two people lying close together can keep each other warm. But how can one be warm alone? A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.” Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/christ-in-me/

I end 2021 with a mixture of emotions as I anticipate the New Year rolling quickly in. I feel sad for humanity as we have displayed the worst of the human condition this year of 2021 with an illegitimate power grab, trying to control each other with a supremacy that belongs only to God. This has not ended well for us as our focus has been on the temporary and not the eternal. We have drifted away from the Image of God, which we were created in. The pursuit of power has sickened our human condition to lust for power, position, authority and control over one another. Human beings can’t handle this kind of supremacy, it was made for God alone. Human beings have displayed horrific deplorable behavior, hurting one another, taking away each other’s God given freedom’s. We were created to love God, know God and love each other well. Out of this selfless love, we put each other first, serve each other, being interested in the well-being of all humanity. It is obvious that our power grab for supremacy over one another has failed, the authority of human beings corrupted beyond belief. We need God, we need His Rulership of Love, we need Him to be in control of our human condition. I anticipate 2022 with joy because I know there is not anyone who can’t see the failure of human beings to rule over one another, God has paraded it before us in 2021 and clearly shown us our need to be positioned underneath God’s Rulership of Love. No doubt about it, this God reveal that we need Him in our lives, is apparent, so much so in our corrupted cultures. We need God, we need to COME to God and let go and let God lead us, navigating us in 2022 to be all we were created to be. Coming to God in 2022 we will learn to give more than we take, to encourage more than we discourage, and He will teach us how to add value to the human race and not devalue it. Let’s do this in 2022, let go of and reject illegitimate authority, and COME to God, submitting ourselves wholly-holy to Him, and help each other thrive underneath the Supremacy of God, within the boundaries God set up. We were given a free will by God and equipped with the truth to be able to use it well. We have the liberty of our God given inalienable rights to make our own choices over our body, soul and spirit and we should preserve this in the all of our everything, stand for it. Bring it on Lord God, 2022, the thwarting of illegitimate authority and the joy of God’s Supremacy over the human race. COME to Jesus. Know Him more, love Him most and listen up to Him first. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/new-reality/

I can’t think of better encouragement to end a year and begin a new year than this 1 Minute Encouragement video which encourages us to be interested in each other, and add value to each other’s lives. We are all special, we are all uniquely and wonderfully made, and we all are in way different life seasons from each other. Acknowledge that difference, isn’t bad, it is good. We should respect the life season other people are in, and let them grow through, give them room to gain their God given life wisdom through what they are personally experiencing. Someone shared this with me and it really hit home: “Allow God To Be As Creative With Others As He Has Been With You.” Let people grow, nurture them with unconditional love, accept them where they are, praying for them and letting God grow them. We should be open to God, to let God use us to add value to their life season by our unrestricted love. We all are in different places in life, our life seasons are different. Yet, Everyone Matters. Every life season matters to God. Contentment helps us love unconditionally. We should work at developing self-contentment. Be content in our life season, where God has us now, and invest in our life season through a vital-vertical relationship with God. The goodness of God is a treasure worth more than we could even begin to imagine. God’s life alive in us, His goodness or should I say, His “Godness”, (Psalm 145) flowing in us and through us is incredibly valuable. We can add value to this day, to every person we interact with. We can add value because we are abundantly equipped with it by God. One thing we can count on, because God is so creative, individually and uniquely with all of us, we all will be in different life seasons, we all will be uniquely different, yet we all can still add value to each other’s lives by sharing the goodness of God and His unconditional love with everyone we meet today. Be interested in others, in the life season they are in. We ass have divine appointments on this day and we are equipped with value, thus and therefore, we unconditionally, add value to this day by paying forward to all who cross our life path, the goodness of God. You are valuable to God, He adds value to you daily through your vital-vertical relationship with Him, so much value that it overflows out of your life and splashes out all over others. So, this is why we interact with others, being aware of other’s all around us, no matter what life season they are in, or how uniquely different they are from us, we add value to their life season. God bless you, MUCH! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/adding-value/

Merry Christmas And An Incredible 2022 Hoped For You And Yours! We Pray 🙏 For A 2022, Where We Know, Without A Doubt We Are “SEEN”! El ro’i The God Who Sees Us. We Don’t See Clearly In This Dark Chaotic Culture In Times Such As These, But God, El ro'i Does. God See’s In The Dark, God Sees Us! We “Come” To God And He Navigates Us! Praise El ro’i! In 2022 “Come” To God, Seek The God Who Sees Us. Miraculously Merrily So! Jesus, He made a HUGE gesture to humanity, to show His love ❤️ for us was an “ALL IN devotion”! God has not been a “little bit faithful”, He has been “every moment to every choice” we make, extremely faithful” to us and for us. We are becoming wholly-holy His and this is a great God Adventure like no other! This is Christmas! Jesus came to us and became God in the flesh! He chose us, He deeply desired to be the Savior of the world, no matter what it cost Him. On Christmas Eve, this unwrapped Christmas gift of salvation received by us is uniquely fresh and new. Jesus, our Salvation is our gift, and this Christmas Gift from God is continuously working on our behalf, it is “never not working” for our good. It never gets old or discarded, because this Christmas gift retains its exciting miraculous edge in our lives. Opening the Christmas gift of Jesus, and in Awe-God gratefulness receiving Him into our hearts in awe and reverence of such an amazing gift, we partake in the miraculously-merrily-so of the true meaning of Christmas, God’s forever love unto us and for us. The Christmas gift of Jesus, God’s Son, ushered in the greatest transformation ever to be known by mankind. The state of our soul went from death to forever life. What an incredible Christmas 🎁 gift. It is a gift that will never disappoint us, forever giving us joy! On this Christmas Eve, we anticipate the opening of gifts. On Christmas Day we can open the gift of Jesus, receive it with great hope and anticipation of how God will work out His precious gift in our lives. Jesus is the only Christmas gift that doesn’t devalue in time, staying a shining light in us and through us. Miraculously-Merrily-So! He came, we become, enjoy the gift 💝 of becoming one in Christ, the Christmas gift that keeps on giving. Merry Christmas Heart To Heart! God bless you and Yours! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/twas-the-night/

It is the day after Christmas! How you all feeling? Did you have a good Christmas? I kind of felt like God sprinkled a lot of powdered sugar all over us this year. It was a really sweet Christmas! I felt the peace of God, so strong and joy, unspeakable joy. What an incredibly hard year 2021 was. Do you all agree with that?! A very chaotic cultural mess this 2021, our nation has really changed and things are so different. But, going into 2022, we have joy, we have confidence. Why? Because we have been through it last year, so many storms, and our anchor held. Our faith was stretched beyond what we thought we could endure, but we grew threw and Jesus was enough. I hope you have a very Happy New Year celebration to end 2021 and step confidently into 2022 with God, knowing He is in control and He’s got us. God bless you and yours. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/2020-awe-god/

Merry Christmas Eve! On Christmas Eve, heaven prepared for the opening of the Christmas gift from God, as our world would be receiving Jesus. With Jesus coming to us here in our space, there would immediately be an overcoming revelatory Light from this gift of heaven. (When they saw the star they rejoiced with great joy - Luke 2) Jesus, a light which would never be extinguished, which would always point us to our future and be our very present hope and navigational help! Hope is an amazing Christmas gift. Hope is heaven's light, it is new forever, and keeps its promises, and endures the tests of time. As we receive Jesus in our hearts, this Christmas gift 💝 is like no other, it is a gift that continues to give and give and we become a shiny reflection of the hope of our received gift. God came to us, so we could become wholly-holy His. It is a Christmas gift that renews, as it is new every morning, and constantly generating transforming wisdom, peace, joy, goodness, strength, courage into our lives as we connect with God heart to heart and put all of our hope and expectations in Him. We are faithfully navigated, provided for and cherished by our trustworthy, AweGod! Miraculously-Merry-So! We can hope in God from this Christmas Eve day forward from here to there unto forever. Jesus, our Proven One is trustworthy. Hope in Jesus, is confident patience which pays forward into our lives an excited anticipation of Jesus’ return and of our incredible forever future with Him. Christmas Hope helps us endure the stretching of our faith peaceably, joyfully, with a steady perseverance. Hope is our anchor and our anchor holds!! Everyday is Christmas, as we are becoming wholly-holy His and this is a great God Adventure like no other! As our faith increases, our character is strengthened and our inner spiritual core is shaped by God’s goodness and we become all He hoped for and designed us to be. This is the Merry in Christmas, Miraculously-Merrily So. Have a wonderful Christmas Eve Day Heart TO Heart. God bless you and yours. Thank you for supporting our Heart TO Heart Video Channel At Rumble. We are grateful for our audience and thankful to encourage you daily with 1 Minute Encouragement Videos. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/gods-heart-reveal/

Joy! That first Christmas Day there was exceeding, great JOY! Jesus came to us, sacrificed His kingly rights in a crazy, wonderful way! Mary and Joseph, sacrificed so much, changed up their lives radically to bring Jesus into this world. The wiseman made huge sacrifices to bring gifts to the Christmas Savior. The Shepherds, people who worked so hard, daily sacrificed much to care for their sheep, were led from their fields to Jesus by the beautiful glorious angels and the heavenly star. Do you notice how self-sacrifice was so connected to JOY? We all seek purpose, joy, peace, friendship and sadly the pursuit of these things over God, tend to twist up our human nature, and some of us, we sometimes stress out so much to get them, kindling our own fires, walking by the light of a man-made fire, that it leaves us with a temporary happiness that fades out into total darkness. Happiness is fleeting externally, where JOY lasts and comes from deep within our inner spiritual core. The Christmas Story models true JOY and the way to it is by serving others and serving with others. Isn’t that an ironic oxymoron? The way to JOY and peace is through serving! The way to purpose is by giving. The way to lasting friendships is by servant leading together. My best friend in this world came from a season of us serving people together. When you serve with others, you develop the deepest friendships. Isn’t that amazing how God does that?! A common goal, a vision worked towards, and deep friendships are made though sacrifices of serving. The Christmas Story was intermingled with sacrificial service to people. People serving people. Jesus serving us all. Out of this serving came the blessing of life, friendship, purpose, joy, peace and everything people had waited for. It is the same today, the more you serve others, with others, the better life is. Serving brings JOY deep within your inner spiritual core, it brings purpose, which we all are seeking, it brings amazing friendships, as we serve together. The best gift of serving is the inner peace being a person who gives receives, it is more than you could hope for or imagine. Giving, self-sacrificing, is the way to JOY, purpose, friendship and peace. The very things we seek in life are found in giving away our life to others, just like we see in the Christmas Story. The way to a Merry Christmas, is a miraculous-merrily-so oxymoron. The more you give of yourself, the more joy you have. JOY= Jesus-Others-You. Got JOY? Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/missionary-prayer-journey-7/

Oh, the hustle and bustle of this season… simply exhausting! We human beings put way too much on our plates~ Then we crash and burn emotionally! YES for sure… exhausted people are “stressy and messy”… and conflict happens a lot more during seasons of “hustle and bustle”! People are emotionally edgy when they are stressed and relationships can get messy really, really quickly. Tempers flare, things are said which should never have been said as self-control can’t hold a “stressy-messy” tongue back. Strife happens and you got a beginning of a friendship feud, which the enemy of our soul just loves. At times such as these, our mouths work overtime with exaggeration, speculations, assumptions, presuppositions, all the enemies delights of deceit, which we partake in when we are tired and our self-control is pressed hard by our human condition. How do we avoid these “stressy-messy” conflicts? Sometimes, they are unavoidable and sometimes, oh yes, sometimes, God puts us right in the middle of the relational whirlwinds. Really! Would God do that? Yes, and can’t you see Him smile right about now? God has a sense of humor, especially when He is trying to stretch our faith, so we grow in His character through “stressy-messy” experiences. Grinch like groaning and growing. How can that be? Well, in the middle of a “stressy-messy” situation, we usually look at everyone else in the situation, very rarely are we the problem. God says: “I will use this conflict to teach you to “eat the meat and spit out the bones!” We think the enemy is at the center of all the mess, well, He is in it, but so is God. God is in the “stressy messy” situation to teach us something good. God turns our enemies evil intention to good character growth. So, in the midst of the “stressy-messy” situation, He wants us to eat the meat of truth we find in the situation, about ourselves. What can I learn from this situation about me? How can I change to better my character? Eat the meat! Spit out the bones of assumption, speculation, about others and focus on God and Your personal growth. This makes stress less messy, as we ask ourselves, how can I grow through this with God? Then, it becomes less “stressy-messy” and more miraculously-merrily-so. Eat the meat, spit out the bones! Make “stressy-messy” less about fixing others and more about growing through with God. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/narrow-way/

Are you comfortable? God’s faithful love ❤️ is redeeming in the all of my everything, I trust Him with my life, even in the uncomfortable things that come my way, I know He is in the midst of them with His Redeeming Power at work in me. In the Light of the reality of truth about the Christmas Child, our Redeemer, I know I am becoming wholly-holy His. I don’t need to be comfortable as much as I need to be connected ❤️ heart to heart ❤️ with Jesus and others. Jesus made it personal, He came here! Sometimes we seek comfort more than we do Christ~ Have you been there? I have. Creature comfort distracts us from the Christmas reality of Jesus setting aside His comfort to come here to us. It wasn’t about Him, His comfort, it was all about us, and our Redemption. I find that God works on me a lot in this area my Comfort Zone… it is a place God likes to shake me up and out of, because I miss so much of His doing and my becoming when I never step out of my personal comfort. Usually, He pushes me out and (way above my pay grade) and I courageously so, in Followship of Him and with Great God Adventure tap into His navigational rhythms and His strengths, and I GO! Especially this time of year, I stretch my faith to experience that “miraculously merrily so” God moment in each advent day, YES, when we embrace the compassion of God’s heart, step outside of our comfort zone and use the gifts God has given us, then our families, friends, neighbors greatly benefit. God has a corporate compassion for all of the human race this is the plurality of His love for us. Definitely a victory for God occurs when we step outside of our comfort zone and become interested in each other, come along side in support of all people, celebrating the uniqueness of the human race in such a way that comparison and prejudice find no place in us. This is Christmas outside of our comfort zone. It is wholesome unity! An absolute knowing of the plurality of God’s love for us. Be so. Heart TO Heart! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/christmas-compassion/

I don’t know about you, but I need encouragement from others. Where do you find the best encouragement? Do you have a special relationship that you gravitate to that you know will always add value to your day? I do and first and foremost that is Jesus Christ, a vital-vertical relationship I have that strengthens me daily. Also, there are sweet friendships that God has connected me to, I call them “Kindred Friends”, those close to my heart who always add value to my life. Do you have a “Kindred Friend” you can go to and be encouraged by. I pray God sends you them. God is the best kind of friend, who has proven His allegiance to us. He came to us. This is something about Christmas, which I love remembering, which I will never forget. He came to us. He sought us out. How cool is that? I do love Christmas, but what makes it so special is my “Kindred Friendship” with God and others. How about you? What do you love about Christmas? What is your special “Kindred Friendship” which enlightens and enlivens this amazing season with joy? I hope that for us during this Christmas Season, Heart To Heart, that God will bless us, gift us with Kindred Friendship, friends who encourage us, strengthen our soul and lift up our tired heart. Christmas brings out many different emotions in people. Some good, some bad, but this Christmas Season, may we step out from underneath emotions that are fickle and may we know the strength of God’s Joy in the reality of truth that Jesus came to us. We are valuable to Him. Our lives have purpose, we are not meaningless, we have a future and a hope. God’s love for us is unchangeable. When everything else in this world rocks back and forth between love and hate, the love of God remains the same, for us. This Christmas Season, position yourself under the Rulership of the Love of God, an unchangeable, strong and powerful place where we are always welcome, we always belong, we will become, miraculously, merrily wholly-holy His. Jesus chose to come and we choose to become all because of an unchangeable devotion to us and for us. We live in the light of living hope, strengthened by the very joy that was not given by the world, but gifted to us by Jesus, through an unchangeable love, a love that chose us, came to us. Merry Christmas, enjoy the season. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/living-hope/