HeartTOHeart

We are all created so differently, shaped so uniquely by God. Yet, we all were created to need soul rest. This will look different for each of us because we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Rest your soul. What do you need to have soul rest? God worked, creating the universe for six days, rested on the 7th day taking a Sabbath break. (Genesis 2:2) What is it for you that replenishes your soul, refreshes your soul? Life can be busy, but truly life is what we make it. We set our schedules; we make our plans. Does our planning for this week include some soul rest? Most likely no. We need to change this up. Do you have a hobby? Do you have something you enjoy doing, something that rests your soul? I like walking the beach, playing golf or reading a good novel. What rests your soul? We push ourselves too hard and sometimes don’t take any kind of rest until we crash and burn emotionally. This life season is very much a “hustle-bustle” and we can get so caught up in it, that before we know it, we are soul fatigued and not good for anything or anyone. Soul exhaustion is the enemy’s playground for confusion. We see more clearly when we have rested, it brings out in us a gratitude, an acknowledgement of God, seeing clearly His Sovereignty in our lives, and the things He has accomplished in us and through us. We get that sweet “heavenly hindsight” clarity when we take “time out” from life’s goings and comings. Rest your soul, replenish your soul, take time out with God, and do something that “floats your boat”, something you love doing, something that rests your soul. Maybe even do nothing, wouldn’t that be a change? We were created to need soul rest, to just breathe into our soul some God harmony. Step away, apart from the chaos, deeply breathe in the peace of God. When is the last time you did this? Take a Sabbath, a soul rest away from all the stress and chaos of life, just You and God? Try it. Wholly-Holy align your soul with God and listen up to Him without any distraction. It will rest your soul, it will make you a better, stronger person who walks with clarity in followship of God. God bless ya. Get some soul rest. Just breathe in God! Peace to you! Live life with clarity, confidently and courageously because it is well with your soul. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/beauty-tagged-by-peace/ “I leave the gift of peace with you—my peace. Not the kind of fragile peace given by the world, but my perfect peace. Don’t yield to fear or be troubled in your hearts—instead, be courageous!” John 14:27

Good Day To You! Or depending upon where you live, Good Evening To You! What does day and night have in common? Light, shattering the darkness. Light is transforming, whether it is the morning sunlight shattering the darkness of night, or the evening moon rising, glistening as the glimmer of hope in a dark night. Good morning, good evening, whichever one you are in right now, I pray the Light of God is with you. The Christmas Star was rejoiced over with great acclaim, a light that brought great joy. (Matthew 2:9-11) The Light of the world was born to usher in the greatest transformation ever known to mankind. Death-Darkness to Everlasting Life-Light. Yes it was a good day. Morning and Evening have in common, Light that fragments the darkness. Light is transforming. The light of hope is a Is a magical, wonderful, miraculous thing. God’s Light Will Never Be Extinguished. There is always hope that lights up our darkness and shatters a dark night. We have many times where we have dark storms in our lives, yet the Light of Hope, shines, breaks through the darkness. Jesus is the hope giver, may His Light be with us all. God bless ya. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/light-2/

Happy Thanksgiving, Heart To Heart! I want to thank each of you for subscribing to my Heart To Heart Chanel and the 1 Minute Encouragement videos, and tell you how thankful I am for you. God Bless You! I hope you and yours have a wonderful Thanksgiving day! I am visiting the family farm this week, as you can see in the video today. Growing season is over, so it is a great season of thanksgiving and rest for them. I love the mountains; I always feel so close to God when I visit here. When it comes to God’s Presence, I think Charles Spurgeon said it the best: “God is with us and His Power is all around us.” The best gift all of mankind has ever been blessed with is: “The Presence Of God”! We are a blessed people with an amazing future and we also have so much to be grateful for on this side of heaven. I am thinking right now of our future and hope in Jesus, for that I am so grateful. Think on what you are grateful for today and make sure you express it to God. I know God loves our praise and I know He loves, loves a grateful heart. I hope you have a wonderful day with your family and friends today and remember… be thankful… let your heart attitude be stirred up in the AWE of God and be God-grateful. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/thanksgiving-awe/ Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice! Tell all the nations, “The Lord reigns!” Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! His faithful love endures forever. Search for the Lord and for His strength; continually seek Him. He is the Lord our God. His justice is seen throughout the land. 1 Chronicles 16

Dry, dusty, parched… this life season can feel that like this in so many, many ways. The human condition is way out of control, very deplorable. The heat is on in our cultural chaotic world. People hurting people with a corrupted, illegitimate supremacy that they handle so wrongly. Only God can live correctly out of Supremacy, and being supreme over others, we human beings, not so much. I am grateful for the supremacy of God. So, what do we do when a corrupted illegitimate authority has caused such hard times on us that just ordinary living feels overwhelmingly burdensome and the dryness in our soul can be described as dehydrated? Got a parched soul? Have you ever heard of “Living Water”? I am so thankful for it. The meaning of it is, simply-significant Awe-GOD replenishment. Living Water for the parched in soul, it is very refreshing. I am so grateful! So here goes… What is living water? It is this: Jesus, came to us, He came to pay a sin-debt we owed, which we could never pay. Jesus came to defeat death, which wanted to swallow us up forever. He came to die our death, so we could live His life. He left with us here, His Holy Spirit. This is our reality of truth. I am so grateful for this. God With Us! The world can be a dry, dusty, parched place for our soul, yet, miraculously so, it can be well with our soul. How? When we accept Jesus Christ as God’s Son, and give our life wholly-holy to Him, coming to faith in Him, becoming all in with Him, the Holy Spirit of God comes to live inside of us, like a purifying, holy spring of life, a living water. I am so grateful for this! The greatest blessing of our God is His Presence. God with us, always! That is why we can live in a dry, parched environment and be completely soul nourished and strong in our inner spiritual core. This is what living in Christ means… living water in our soul. I am so grateful! The heat is on in our generation, way too high and there is a lot of lawlessness, cheating, disrespect, disunity, hate, no boundaries, no freedom, no privacy, deception, corruption, illegitimate supremacy, no choices and lots of people running around thinking they the god over you, mandating to you what they think is right for you. Living Water, drink it in and be so, positioned underneath the rulership of God’s love. I am so grateful to God. Replenish your soul. God carrying your burdens. Living Water. Yoked To God, your burden is light. Refreshed by God! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/be-replenished/

We are so blessed by God. The greatest blessing from God is His Presence. God is with us. Let that just sink into your reality of truth. God is with us. I am so grateful for this. Sometimes life is so good, sweet and joyful, but then there are those life seasons that are just so hard. I am in one of those life seasons where my faith is being stretched beyond what I think I can bear. Yet, the one thing that helps me the most is flipping my discontentment and grumbling to praise and gratefulness. I have found there is always something to be grateful for, that is how God rolls. There is always light in the darkness, the evil in this world can never extinguish the light of God’s hope. Because God is with me, I choose contentment, I choose happiness, I choose gratefulness. It is so sweet to walk with God, He is so good, so holy, so right and it is precious that He chose to be with us, a gift like no other. We can be heart to heart with God and even in the tough life seasons, growing through with God, we can be thankful. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/praise-faith/

Experience everything you can, when you can, by being present. Don’t let distraction steal from you. Life is short and the best way to live it is being present with those you are with. The first focus that is really good to have is, God, knowing He is always with you throughout your day is practicing His Presence, being alert to Him in the all of your everything. The sweetest way to live is uncompartmentalized, giving God total access to your life. Asking God to navigate you through your day. God Adventure is fantastic and when He leads you through your day, it will be an incredible day, full of new things, full of escapades you could not even begin to imagine or hope for, miraculously so. So, why not, why not take a risk today, open your heart wide to God, experience a new God consciousness and let Him lead you into a closer relationship, past acquaintance to friendship. What do you have to lose? Why not experience the newness and freshness of God, He is simply-significantly amazing. Got a minute? Stop where you are, clear the slate of your mind. That in itself feels great! Now, sit with God and reflect, think on the beauty, the majesty, the amazing awe of all things Him. How was that? When is the last time you took time to just experience new things with God? Listening up to Him, talking and walking through His Word with Him. Letting Him be in the all of Your everything each day. He is with us, all the time, and that is His greatest blessing to us, so we really should take full advantage of that. God makes things personal. With God, is not about religion, it is all about relationship. We were created to know Him, and to worship Him, heart to heart. I hope you had a great God Adventure in His peace today. God bless ya. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/deeply-know-god/

We are dealt from the hand of God many good things in this life and have a lot to be grateful for. Friendship is God ordained and divinely set up. God is the perfect one to put people together, He knows us best. Our spouses are a good example of that. God knows what He is doing and when we follow after God, we find ourselves in very deep, fulfilling relationships. Heart To Heart. Have you ever experienced the loss of a spouse, family member, loved one or friend? I have. The deeper the love runs, the more painful the loss is. Love hurts, but in the long run, it is so worth investing ourselves in. Whenever I have dealt with loss, at first it hurts so badly, I have to tell myself to just breathe, but then I start to think gratefully about all the years I did have the person I lost, in my life, and that cuts the rawness out of my grief. When your heart is broken in this way, separated, left on this side of heaven, when your loved one has gone home, people will tell you that you will get over it in time. I don’t believe that. A strong love life is where you give your friend a piece of your heart, your fully invested in them, and you will never get that back when they die. Loss of a precious, highly valued heart friendship, is soul crushing. You don’t just get over it. Death of a loved one, it will hurt and it will feel like a piece of you is always missing, a piece you can’t get back. Grief is not hopeless, because Jesus, our Healer walks beside us every single day. We face each day with Him. We grow on only because of God, because of His strong undergirding, His mighty right hand of comfort, and incredible inner core strength, He provides. God is the “bearable” in our grief, so we are not totally overwhelmed by it. God understands how we are feeling, more than anyone else. Jesus, so preciously weeps with us; He sits with us in our grief and sadness and never leaves our side. Our Father God is the one that empowers us with courage, which helps us to move forward, step by step, without the one we have loved so well. It is in the strength of the Holy Spirit, that we have the help and guidance we need to pioneer the new life season we were suddenly thrust into. Hope in Christ, grows us through grief, day by day. Our God, He is the Way-Maker God as we cling to Him, dig our life roots deeply in Him, on this day. When grief presses in my soul, I am grateful that our God won’t leave me, forsake me, or let me down. God is with us in our losses. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/i-dont-understand/

Happy Birthday United States Marine Corps from a Marine Mom who loves you all and will always be proud of your excellence in courage, strength, honor and in the way you have preserved our freedom and maintained our liberty for 246 years. I have many titles, but one title I am most proud of is “Marine Mom”! I loved and supported my USMarine and his unit for many, many years, through numerous deployments to Iraq, and Afghanistan, until his last battle injury caused a medical retirement. He fought for his country overseas for many deployments, valiantly and with great honor, courage, wisdom and strength. I could not be prouder of him and all of our United States Marines. My Marine Mom’s heart will forever be connected with the US Marines, in prayer, hope and encouragement, as there is a piece of my heart they will always have. Of all my memories, the ones that are so vivid are the times we family members said goodbye on the tarmac, not knowing if it was our last goodbye, if they would return from war. I looked around and saw children hugging dads and mom’s saying goodbye, family members crying and it was always heartbreaking for me. Then the flipside was the waiting for them to return, waiting on the tarmac with all the families, sometimes we waited for hours, once from 10am in the morning till 1am the next morning, but we all waited with joy knowing our soldier had come home and when the buses came and the soldiers came off, it was a sea of humanity, everyone looking for their soldier. I will never forget that. The one memory that is so vivid and unforgettable is when I waited for my soldier to come home on the medical transport and I watched them unload soldier after soldier on medial cots and wheel chairs, waiting for a glimpse of my wounded soldier while being overcome with emotion for everyone else too, knowing that all of our lives had changed forever and a season of recovery was upon us. My heart goes out to all the military family members who know the experience of watching the buses load up and drive off taking soldiers to war, and the sight of all the family members not moving until the buses were completely out of sight. I can’t tell you what that felt like, knowing that many of them, even your own soldier, may not be back. After the buses were completely out of sight, I put my hand on my cheek where my son had kissed me and remembered his voice: I love you mom, he said. Then I wept, saying a prayer to the only one who could comfort me, our God, Who held his future. I remember all the times we watched the news and we heard of the battles and then there were the times when news came in about our unit with our losses and the pain of the consequences of war realized. The letters from our soldiers came once in a while, and it was like receiving gold in the mail, the whole family sitting around and listening as we read them, and the short phone calls at 2am our time, which were impossible to hear them, yet we relished because we had another day to say a short “I love you”, and encouraging them the best we could. I will never forget getting the dreaded call that my soldier was wounded… alive but broken in heart, body and spirit. Oh… the heart of a Marine Mom, it grows strong through the many ups and downs of military life, and it is bowed many, many times in anguished prayer and stretched faith, yet thankfully was always undergirded by the mighty right hand of God. There is a special place in my heart for military families. God bless them. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/liberty/

With the current of our culture, we can drift away from God without even noticing it. The mediatic false frenzy of our messages being repeated over and over again, can create a fake reality, a deception that we can easily drift into. It is easy to drift and not stay wholly-holy aligned with God, His way, truth and life. We have to be aware and alert in times such as these to what is true, to what is false. This is why we have a Navigator, the Holy Spirit of God, Who keeps us underneath the Rulership of His Love, keeps us drifting off into deception. We should do what it takes to let God navigate us, give Him the helm of our life-boat and let Him chart our course. It is really a great way to go, being led by God. God, at the helm of our lives is not negative, it is actually a positively sweet way to go. God navigates us, taking us places that we could never dream of going, and makes things possible we could never even imagine being conceivable. It is really amazing, this life of being led by God, navigated by His Holy Spirit. I have done things I never even thought of doing, or thought I could actually accomplish. God is amazing at equipping us for every transformation, every trip, every adventure this life has in store for us. I highly suggest, letting go and letting God be Your Navigator! With God at the helm of the boat, the best is yet to come. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/shut-up/

I really like mystery novels. I especially enjoy them when the plot takes a different course from what I thought the endgame would be. Mystery is really cool, especially when we think we have it all figured out and BOOM, the plot twists and the confusion thickens! Our lives are a mystery book being written by God. Mysterious! The Lord is a great mystery writer. At times, my heart skips a beat at the sudden way He changes things up and I hear myself say: “You have got to be kidding me?!!” Many times, I have not been at all sure where God was taking me, and every bump in the road made me nauseously anxious. LOL! We don’t really know how to figure out God at times, and we definitely struggle, trying to wrap our minds around the mystery He is writing in our lives. Sometimes, nothing makes sense, we don’t know what He is doing, or where He is taking us, but we know we can trust Him. God is leading us, and thankfully every step we take in this life is God ordained, bringing us closer to God’s endgame, our true destiny. I know if I had the pen and was writing my own life story, that I definitely would have done things differently. If I could order my own way, I am thinking, well… I know, I would have taken the easy way, the way of least resistance, because I don’t like change and I hate conflict! I probably would not do anything that stretched me past what I was comfortable with. If you could write your own life story, would you stay in your comfort zone? God has definitely NOT kept me in a comfort zone and I don’t like it at times, but I am grateful that He does care enough about me as a person to equip my character and stretch my faith. Without some mystery in our lives, our faith would never be stretched and we definitely would not grow up or grow at all, because without challenge, we stay the same monotonous, boring life. God is an incredible mystery Himself, so when our lives are penned by the mystery writer, the God adventure is great. Give God the pen, let Him write Your mystery and enjoy the God Adventure. Miraculously, Mysteriously So! God bless ya. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/need-direction/

I love so much that each of us are fearfully and wonderfully made. We are all created in God’s image. God takes the time to shape us and design us in our mother’s womb for our own destiny. We are a part of the human race, but we are all made differently and the first clue to that is having been given our own fingerprint, unlike anyone else. I know Who I am, my identity is in Christ Jesus, therefore I also know Whose I am, I belong to God. I love living out of this confidence. God knows every day I will live on this earth and every plan He has for me. This assures me that all is well as I walk out each day in the Presence of God, being navigated by His Holy Spirit. This brings me great joy, knowing I belong to God and I am so happy that I surrendered my life to Jesus as my Lord and Savior, it has been the best God adventure every, this life, this time, this season and I am thankful for His life, light, wisdom, that makes my life here, on this side of heaven so amazing. I stand in Awe of God. I hope for you this same confidence, joy, hope and peace I have found in Christ Jesus. God bless ya. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/grow-through/

Did you have a good day? Did you have a good week? Were you consistent? Were you faithful? Were you consistently faithful to God? I wish I could say that I was. I wish I was more consistent and faithful to God. I am working on it, but I am not there yet. I struggle with being consistent. I know that God will finish what He started in me. I believe that. There is no doubt about it. We are so blessed in that way, God is faithful to us, unconditionally so. God’s faithfulness is astounding. The things we take for granted; God maintains all of it, life and creation, and He does so excellently and faithfully. He created and He maintains. He is so amazingly trustworthy. There is no one more faithful to us than Him. He is faithful and trustworthy in the all of our everything. God is currently at work, caring, maintaining and finishing what He started in that spectacular way of His. I love the beach and I love watching the tides go in, and the tides go out, so faithfully, every day, because I know it is God, faithfully at work in His Creation. I hope for my life to be more consistent like this amazingly trustworthy God. The stretching of our faith by the situations we find ourselves God purposefully in, and daily facing, are God’s way of creating a more consistent faith in us as we grow through with Him. When we love God with all of our heart, we do develop a servant’s heart. God serves us faithfully and consistently and we should do the same. As we develop our consistent faithfulness, doing everything we do unto God, out of love, we grow a beautiful, amazingly trustworthy servant’s heart, which resembles His. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/firm-faith/

The fall season is so beautiful this year, and the weather has turned colder. When it is colder, I eat more, I am hungrier. It is really true that what you eat, you are! If I eat a lot of sugar and junk than I become sluggish and very tired. Sugar Rush! This happens when I have eaten way too much sugar and I am high on sugar and then I crash, and yes, so do my soul emotions! If I eat bad fatty and fried foods for a long period of time than I become fat, I weigh more! If I eat well, then I feel good. It is the same spiritually! If we take in all the communiques of our worldly viewpoint, we become a “Debbi Downer” a complaining soul fat on grumbling! I struggle the most when I am not feeding my soul with the Promises of God, but am taking in too many depressing and false narratives of the world. If we are exercising our faith, through the promises of God then we are more content, much more grateful and we have a sweet fragrance of thanksgiving in our soul! When we have a consistent intake of all the goodness of God, through His Presence, His truth, His love, His People, then we don’t have that sugar rush soul crash, we have a steady faith and consistently good soul attitudes. Grumble or Gratitude this is the choice of our day, and sometimes the result of this character display, it all depends on what we are taking into our soul! Nourishing our soul with goodness matters. God had gifted us with so much, including the ability to have a grateful heart and a soul overflowing with an attitude of gratitude! The choice is ours; it begins with the spiritual feeding of our soul. Eat well to have a soul that is well! God bless ya. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/attitude-check/

Breathing in this beautiful mountain air is so refreshing in stanky times such as these. For the lack of a better word, there is so much crap being flung in our faces, we are living with the stank of the choices of deceptive people, who really thought they could handle supremacy over others well, but have failed. It just gets worse and worse the deplorable choices coming out of corrupted authority as they affect affect all of us so adversely. Look Out! Crap Is Flying Everywhere! Devious Deception! Every day I get up and smell the stank of the new crap that the deceivers have flung, I can hardly wait to see what they will crap next… NOT! Actually, the reality of truth is, I can hardly wait until Jesus, the Fragrance of God comes back and we ALL will bow, everyone of us, ALL, bowing to the true Supremacy, the Highest Authority, which will never be corrupted by this human race! At the name of Jesus, all will bow. Humanity could not handle supremacy, we know no power higher than self-ambition, it is our human nature to take on absolute power that corrupts absolutely. So, we find ourselves here and now in a mess, from nation to nation, sitting in the stank of our darkened human condition. We are stanky, but thankfully so, not without hope for change. Jesus will deliver, restore, refresh, renew and revive us in latter rain. (https://rumble.com/vf2xr5-latter-rain.html) Watch, Wait, See. So, let’s make the next right choice, and that would be to surrender our will, soul, spirit and mind to Jesus Christ, giving Him total access to our lives. It is the right thing to be heart to heart with God, wholly-holy aligned with Him, undivided in love, loyalty, and service to God and His Kingdom. Step into the fragrance of God and out of the stank of this world. Let’s be all in with God, leaving behind our worldly ambition and serving His Kingdom. The crap of this world will continue to be flung by the absolutely corrupted power of human beings, but GOD, the fragrance of His love and truth will supersede it with a strong fragrance of hope in our promised eternal life. It is time for us to wash ourselves clean from the stank of this world and give our heart wholly-holy to God. There is no doubt about it that God can and He will maintain a beautiful fragrance of His life in us and through us. God bless ya. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/latter-rain/

It is so loud right now… lawlessness, injustice and cultural chaos. Right costumed as wrong and wrong costumed as right. Jumbled up righteousness where right is wrong and wrong is right. This creates its own kind of chaos! Sometimes we just have to listen up, tune in with ears wanting desperately to hear that still small voice of peace above the ROAR of this life. Peace Be Still! This is what Jesus shouted into the ROAR of the storm and everything stilled. Awe God! The chaos of the evil one, the one who wants to steal, kill and destroy our peace in God, it is rising and we can’t hear past the ROAR of evil if we are fixating on it with anxiety, fear and worry. Listen up closely, shut out all distraction of the enemy ROARING in your face and you will hear God, You will hear His Voice. No doubt about it, God is still speaking peace to us. We wrongly think that because the ROAR of the enemy in times such as these, is so loud, that it extinguishes God’s Voice. Not SO! Never, will God’s voice be extinguished, absolutely NOT. We just have to zoom in more closely, and we will hear the voice of God clearly above the ROAR of the enemy. We will hear Jesus say: Peace Be Still. So today, listen up and know God’s peace. God bless you. Heart To Heart. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/i-listen-up/

Have you ever felt “beached before” where the water goes out quickly and you find yourself on a sand bar with no way out? Beached in a “hotspot”! Rapidly things can come up in our lives and we can find ourself in an emotional “hotspot” and oh, can we human beings react so very badly! Oh no… I just backed myself in a corner and find myself in a “hotspot”. Been there and done that recently. Impulsive reaction! Hotspot + Impulsivity = Combustion! This is not what we want, it is not good. We get these moments in life where something adverse hits us smack in the face and we end up in a “hotspot” where our anger flares and we have a next choice to either use our self-control or throw up our emotions all over someone. Has that ever happened to you? Did you make the next right choice? If you are in a situation where someone has “pushed that button” and you find yourself in a relational “hot spot”, don’t try to navigate it alone. Wait before you react. Breathe in God, breathe out your anger, don’t flesh out, do the next right thing with God’s help and navigation. Even our sudden situations where tempers flare, God wants to be a part of, bring Him into it, trust Him and He can help us not react badly, but respond godly. God is always Present in our lives as close as the mention of His name. Just say Jesus. He is there for us even in our “hotspots” of this life, ready and willing to navigate us out of it safely. The next time you get in a “hotspot” don’t get yourself beached by anger. Look to God, let Him navigate you around the sandbar of shallow emotional reaction, out into the deep of Godly response. Got a “hotspot”, just breathe, look up to God, listen up, trust God to chart your course so you can respond godly. Make the next right choice, it matters. Explosive angry reaction fixes nothing, just makes the issue at hand worse. Reaction is from a worldly viewpoint, where response is from a Kingdom perspective. It truly is much better for us to live out of a kingdom perspective, less human mess. God bless us, MUCH… we need it in times such as these where tempers seem to flare so quickly. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/crappy-communication/

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/