HeartTOHeart

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We may feel isolated, alone and forgotten, but we are not. Look up to the hills and the mountains from where our hope comes from.(Psalm 121:1-8) I woke up this morning early with a lot of emotions swirling around my soul. It was a tornado that I was not going to step into. I opened up the WORD of GOD. Deuteronomy 31:6 is my strong anchor today. My anchor holds as I stand in the strength of this Word: So be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid and do not panic before them. For the Lord your God will personally go ahead of you. He will neither fail you nor abandon you. From the mountains we break forth in praise knowing no matter what we are growing through, we bow down before God and passionately tell Him we love Him. Perseverance is a testimony of our love for God. We stay the course no matter what, because we trust Him. Jesus is our enough, the ALL of our everything. We will go out with joy and be led forth in peace, the mountains and the hills will break forth in praise.(Isaiah 55:11-13) Praise stabilizes our soul as we look up to God, knowing He is Supreme, knowing we are positioned under His Rulership of Love. There is no greater love, a love that anchors your spirit, a love that will never forget your, never forsake you, a strong reliable, patient enduring love. This is the love God has for us and it is a lie from the pit of hell if you think we have been forgotten by God. You have not. God is right here, right now and will never leave us nor forsake us. Jesus sacrificed everything for us so we might have a future and a hope. No, we are not forgotten, we are not abandoned. The God of Justice will prevail and He will not fail us. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/firm-secure/

It is a good day when we feel secure in this world. There are not many days in times such as these where our security is anchored. Lots of crazy cultural storms going on. Not much that anchored our security is what it used to be. Do you have anxiety? Do you feel insecure? So many times, I do. Our cultural life situations in these difficult times, do not promote security? Peace in our doings is short lived. When we kindle our own fire of peace, our security will flame out and we will anxiously sit in the dark. How do you define security? I feel secure, because I am secure when I am anchored in Jesus. Jesus is the Prince of Peace, the kind of peace that surpasses all the crazy cultural nonsense going on. Jesus is my light that navigates me through all the darkness of mediatic false frenzy. Jesus is “Present” with us and the more we are positioned, heart to heart in Him, the less anxiety we will have. Our security can be anchored securely upon the Rock of Jesus’s life. What makes you feel secure, the most secure in your life? When do you have the least anxiety? Think about it. I believe the common denominator of our peace and security is Jesus Christ. The name of Jesus, it ushers in peace in the midst of our chaos. Just say Jesus. Do you want security? Do you want peace? Then we do what it takes to be securely anchored in Christ, our identity, wholly-holy in Him, being aligned with His way, truth and life. Nothing shakes up our security when we are situated in Christ Jesus, in a vital-vertical personal relationship with God. Christ, alive in us, the hope that expunges fear, anxiety, worry and despair. Decide to follow Jesus and you will be secure, no anxiety on this day as you trust Him leaning into His Sovereign sway from every moment into every choice. I hope for us, Jesus, I hope for us His peace that secures our soul in faith and stability. No Anxiety. How wonderful is that!?! God bless you and yours. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/no-anxiety/

We have hurt and killed each other from nation to nation over the power grab for supremacy over one another. We were created by God with natural, inherent, inalienable freedom. Now we all claw and climb to try to ascend to the highest authority over one another and as we do, we step on the head of the freedom we once knew and enjoyed and we damage it. We were not created to handle supremacy and we, serving no power higher than self gain have corrupted supremacy, created an illegitimate authority over one another. Only God can handle Supremacy and for humanity this power grab of God’s authority will not end well. We need to change it up and humble bow before our Lord, the only Supremacy that is pure, right and wise. We need to stop bowing to our human idols and sacrificing our common sense, our decency, our civility, our human compassion and bow our lives before the One True Supremacy Jesus Christ, Who laid down His kingly rights, sacrificed His life for us that we might have a future and hope with Him. Jesus is a servant leader, a fierce warrior for justice, with a tender heart of mercy. Who do we resemble? Jesus or the enemy of our soul who wants to kill steal and destroy us? Supremacy was not made for the human condition to be able to yield it and this is what we have done, we have yielded it like a sword of war against one another and if we don’t change it up, we will destroy each other. It is time, human race, to turn back to our God, the One we were created in the Image of and surrender our worldly ambitions becoming warriors for God’s Kingdom, tender hearted, servant warriors, just like Jesus. Dig Deeper: http://thebridegroomscafe.com/reflecting/

Is there a place for me? Is there a place where I fit? (John 14:2-3) Sometimes we just feel displaced. The best thing for us is to be the “who” we have been designed and shaped by God to be. (Psalm 139:13-16) Exactly who we are is enough. So, we don’t fit in. Maybe we were born not to fit in, but to stand out. (Ephesians 2:10) Say It And Believe It: “I am not displaced. I belong. There is a place for me.” It is more than we could dream, hope for, or imagine this place God has prepared for us. To shake off the feelings of being displaced, we need to change our focus off of ourself and what we think we need to feel like we belong, to feel like we fit in here. Focus on Jesus, and be about the business of His Kingdom and everything else here, on this side of heaven falls into place as we wait to be in the place we truly belong, with Jesus, the One we whole heartedly belong to. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/displaced/

We have a Way-Maker God, so why do we try to go through life in our own strength? Are we struggling through life situations without asking for God’s help? What I love about the Lord, one of my favorite things is that He is a Way-Maker God. We should ask for God’s help, instead of leaning on our own human ingenuity. When we use our own smarts, leaning into our own ways, we are not in sync with God’s purposes. There is such power being aligned with the purposes of God in play, and we don’t want to step out of this purposeful flow of God. God is not in the casual doings of things, where we are just doing what we think will work, instead of waiting on God to finish what He started. That is called “grasping at straws” and it is our impulsive, impatient nature at its worst. God is doing new and different things, and we miss out on it many times by doing old traditional things that worked for us before. We don’t want to step out of our comfort zone, especially if it means waiting on God, so we just go with what worked before. Bad choice on our part! God’s purposes flow in perfect sync and timing, not casual doings. God works things out purposefully for our good and His glory. It is so cool to watch God work. We miss so much when we get impulsive and impatient waiting on God to finish what He started, and we interrupt the flow of His timely purpose by stepping in with our “bright idea” and really messing things up. Sometimes our bright ideas are not so bright, and we end up sitting in the dark in a man-made mess that we created, groping in the dark and trying to find a way out of it. Definitely, we should ask God for help, but sometimes we buck up our will. God would be so willing to do so, to step in our mess and finish what He got started, before we impulsively went off on our own. He is a Way-Maker God and can absolutely finish what He started, even if we messed up. I love that about Him. He is so willing to help us willful human beings, because He whole-heartedly wants what is best for us. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/gods-sovereignty/

We don’t sin alone. So many people can be adversely affected by one person’s sin. So many bad choices happening now a days and so many bad consequences blooming all around us. It is so true that we reap what we sow. What goes around comes around as our bad actions seed into bad reactions. Yet, the past is the past. So, what does that mean? Well, it means that we can bloom in the midst of consequences that we have reaped, consequences that are not fun to bear. We can bloom by sharing love and encouragement in the place we have been planted, even if that place is full of the weeds of bad consequences from seeding bad choices. Even in the midst of bad consequences from the past, we can bloom in the present. We do bad things and the consequences of our badness, everyone around us feels. So, it can feel like we are stuck in the weeds of others choices. Yes, so true, because for bad things done by one person, bad consequences ensue for many people, and we feel stuck in the middle of someone else’s bad consequences for something we did not do. It feels so unjust, so unfair! Definitely not fun! Yet, we can choose to bloom in joy, even in the midst of suffering from the bad choices of others. If we choose to be, we can be the beautiful bloom among the weeds, that gives hope to others that this too shall pass. What say you? Will you bloom in the weeds? Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/bloom-in-joy/

What you say, is it good? Is what you say impactful? Is what you do good? Don’t you want what you do to be something that impacts the lives of others with goodness? Of course, we do. But nothing is truly impactful with a permanence if it is not done out of the power of followship of God. Are we following after God? Or are we just doing what we think is good enough? Are we watching what God is doing and joining in with Him? Or are we doing good things and asking God to join us? Of course, we naturally want to help people change things up in their lives for the better. Why? Because we have the compassion of God’s heart engrained in us. Is this enough? Are we enough? God is the only enough! In order to live a life which is impactful, it starts with God. What does that mean? I decide what I am going to do and say, but this is not impactful, the way to be impactful is to connect personally, heart to heart with God, surrender to what God wants us to do or say. Lord, what do you want me to say or do today? Followship is impactful, it is meaningful because we are following after what God wants us to do or say. Being impactful is not about what “we think we know”! Impactful is what God knows. Lasting change starts with Jesus, heart to heart with Jesus. To be God’s impactful agent of change, we have to be connected to the power source of God. The resurrection of Jesus, was the greatest transformation mankind would ever know. It was impactful. Salvation, giving our hearts to Jesus, this is impactful. To be an impactful human being, we must be connected to Jesus, heart to heart, our lives surrendered to the followship of Him. Do we know the heart compassion of God? Do we breathe, live and move in the Sovereign sway of God? God is on the move, He has a redemptive plan, He has a kingdom endgame, and it is not the way we think it is. God’s ways are not our ways. When will we learn this?! Have we let go of our will and way, surrendered to God all the compartments of our hearts, giving Him total access to our lives, being willing to be wholly-holy His agents of change? Are we willing to set aside our personal comfort, personal gain, personal lives, to add value to the Kingdom of God? Do we serve no power higher than self? Think on it. Are we impactful? Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/with-us/

The Sonshine rises upon our new day and as God’s light envelops us, His love stirs our hearts and His compassion soul saturates us, and we are ready to overflow with His abundant love today. On this day, our opportunities to add value to other people will be plenteous. God has many divine appointments for us to make. As we connect with God first thing today and keep our vital-vertical connection with God strong all day, we stay filled with His abundant love. There is no doubt about it, we are equipped by God with all we need to truly bless people today in word, action and deeds. We can show kindness if we choose to do so, and I hope we do. We can show compassion to all those around us and be merciful. Instead of ignoring or being unaware of those around us, we can acknowledge other people with a smile, and add value to their day with a good word of encouragement. With Christ in us, the hope of glory, there is no reason why everyone who crosses into our sphere of influence, does not leave us blessed and encouraged by God. Let’s be so. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/reciprocal-love/

What does it mean to have a servant’s heart, to have the heart of a servant? Could it mean that you are consistently selfless? Could it mean you are self-sacrificing for the good of others like Jesus did? Saying is not the same as doing. A servant does something about His Words and serves others. Growing forward with an active faith, constantly working for God’s good, and putting other’s interest above yourself, you do become a Servant Warrior, someone actively working toward the good of others. Jesus was a Servant Warrior, He fought in prayer, action, and words to add value to other people’s lives. A servant has a true heart, a heart with pure, selfless motives that energize their actions with deeds of goodness, which deny self, elevating the interests of others higher than their self-interests. The ultimate sacrifice of a servant warrior of God is dying to self wants, so others can have value added to their lives. The “me first mentality” is prevalent in our cultures in times such as these. How do we change it up? It begins with us, one person at a time laying down their right to get, right to win, right to have, right to be right and preferring others over ourselves, serving others with a genuine heart motive, where self-gain is crucified and unconditional love is magnified. A servant warrior of God fights to die to self, to serve a power higher than self, to love God first before self and to live for gain not of this world, but for the Kingdom of God. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/cservant-warrior/