HeartTOHeart

Is your nation in cultural chaos? This happens when wrong is lifted up as right, and right is lifted up as wrong. This leads to a society who is not free. Why? Because right is written on our hearts as a human race by our God. The soul of our nation is in conflict with the deplorable human condition of our will as we press forward foolishly with illegitimate authority. We use our God given free will to do horrendous things to each other as we fight for the higher ground, by cheating, stealing and destroying each other to gain illegitimate supremacy over one another. A nation without morality in play, is a chaotic nation where everything is relative, and there is no right and wrong boundaries for human behavior. These free will choices of deplorable nature, creates havoc throughout this world. This is where we are living with a sick lawlessness within the confines of deception, like no other time before. There is very little truth spoken from us human beings, and the place where there should be truthful reporting, our national media, truth is not spoken, instead we have mediatic false frenzy in play. The scoop is now poop, that has the stank of political rot. As a human race, created in God’s image, we are not using our free will choice well. We choose to ignore the storm clouds on the horizon of our nations, that will come ashore one day, and quickly sweep away our freedoms. We will one day wake up to a society where we have no right to speak, no right to do anything freely, and where we are being lorded over by barbaric people with tyrannical ways. We need to wake up and begin standing on the side of truth, justice and liberty for all. We should make the good choice of shutting out the voices of deception, and seek God’s Truth, listening up to Him first. It would be so smart of us to ask God to help us navigate these crazy times with His wisdom, within the confines of His divine power. I hope we cherish our freedom, liberty and civility, being aware of its value and grateful for it. I hope we choose to protect our freedom and preserve our liberty by making good choices with our God given free will, choices that will add to freedom, not dimmish liberty and justice for all. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/devoured-freedom/

Change. So much is changing so quickly. Change is naturally chaotic as we try to adapt. Myriads of things we grew up with are changing quickly, a lot of things changing, it makes us feel lost. Do you feel lost in all the cultural changes going on? The best thing to do is look to God. God is with us every single movement to ever single choice. Change does not scare God. The heart of the Gospel is change. When we are in a state of flux at a cross road in our lives, the best thing to do, is look up, listen up and do the next right thing. God always has a next right thing for us to do. God is always prepared for us in our next choices, He has gone before us. God knows. We should not fear change, because God is in the change and already knows the outcome He has purposefully planned. During times of change, where God transition is in play in our lives, the enemy comes in as a source of confusion trying to drift us off course with dastardly distractions. How do we not lose our focus during a transition? What has God asked us to do? Go back to the last thing God asked us to do, real align our course and stay the course until God charts a new course, navigating us by His wisdom and revelation. God never leaves us in times of change, He is right there with us. We do not fear change. We let go of the past and let God usher in the new. God has a plan, an endgame that is magnificent and He will work it out in His way, His timing and His purpose in play will not be denied a good finish. God finishes what He starts and He finishes well. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/divine-power/

God Said: I will make life out of desolate places. I will make rivers in the wastelands. God said He would be our Living Water. God said He would lead us as a Navigator. Streams in the wilderness. Can He? Yes, He can. He absolutely can! God spoke the world into being and has maintained it every single day since then. His faithfulness to us is like no other. God is trustworthy. His Word is absolute truth. His Supremacy is pure, without even a hint of corruption. His love is abundant and flows unconditionally without a speck of prejudice. Everything God said will not be returned void. Believe it! In times such as these where our soul is parched, and we live in a worldly wilderness, without compassion, common sense, or civility, Our Awe GOD, He is an Oasis for our soul, heart to heart. When we are wandering around lost, alone without directional wisdom in this cancel God culture, we need the clarity of God’s revelation. In these times, where right is wrong and wrong is right, where wounded people are wounding people, it is clear, yes, we know exactly how much we need God. We are one human race and we have the same human condition. We, human race, we can’t make it through until the end, without Him. As people whose human authority has corrupted absolutely, as people scratch and claw their way to the top of the power chain, trying to possess illegitimate supremacy over others, these deplorable human beings leave behind death, pain, horrific sorrow and grief that consumes the human race as our soul laments. There is no doubt about it. We need God. And there is no doubt about it, He is mighty, righteous, trustworthy and has been faithful throughout all time as our Deliverer, Savior, Redeemer, Navigator and Provider. God said He is a God of justice. If God said this, then we wait for it…patiently endure, believe, trust and stretch our faith, knowing He will finish what He started and finish it well. God Said! Therefore, we Hope in God. God bless ya. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/godly-wisdom/

Why are we so afraid? Fear NOT! Who are we listening to? Are we listening to the ONE, Lord God, Jesus Christ, Who has given us a future and a hope? Peace! OR Madness! Which do we choose? Are we running around like chickens with our heads cut off screaming that the sky is falling? Or are we turning to God, the ONE Who does know, the ONE Who can navigate us wisely, protect us and provide for us abundantly and safely during these times. The best decision we can make is to shut off the access of mediatic false frenzy and listen up to God. In the spirit of God’s love tell the false narrative, fear mongering people in your life to “peace out” and share with them how God is now Your Sovereign, and You are wholly-holy His, mind, soul, spirit, and will submitted to His love and truth first. The wisdom of the wise has been confounded by God, purposefully so. He is drawing us back to Him, the ONE WHO KNOWS. Human beings trying to handle supremacy, but having no power higher than self, this is corruption of human wisdom at its best. People who don’t know what they “think they know” telling you what to do and how to do it, all the while radically changing their opinions with the sway of cultural say so. NO! Not For Us! We choose to lean into the Sovereign Sway of God, listening up to God and staying in followship of Him. Say NO to this corrupted human power and illegitimate supremacy, this confounded wisdom of human beings that has no common sense, and is corrupted by a deplorable human condition. SAY YES, to Almighty God, turn to God, listen up to God’s Holy Spirit first and follow after Him. Peace Out World, I Am Looking To God For A Kingdom Perspective. No Fear! Peace Out!

We meet a lot of people in our lives. Some people are amazing and they are instant friends, kindred spirits. But, some people you meet are like are crusty barnacles. Oh, this is so hard, when you meet people, people who can be so much like crusty barnacles! Opinionated, mean spirited, grouchy people, ugly in personality, doing everything possible to push you away from them. Oh, how we would love to do that, not engage with crusty barnacles and do everything we can to avoid them, staying as far away from them as possible, so we don’t get scraped up by them. But, sometimes God puts “crusty barnacles” in our life path. Then what? We could love them unconditionally, we could be willing to try to be friends with them, even if it means we get scraped up a bit as we try to get to know them. Even old crusty barnacles will one day see the light from the love of God we share and they will change, and even could become a really good friendship for us. Why knew?? A Crusty Barnacle could be a divine appointment from God to make a good friend! It is like this, wounded people, wound people, but if no one ever tries to love them like Jesus did, as He loved us like He had not even been hurt by us, then no one would be healed or made whole. Love people with the love of God, patiently endure with them, forbear and keep showing them love. It matters. God bless ya! Dig Deeper

Am I one who quits or gives up in the face of difficulties; one who has not the courage or determination to finish what I started? Life happens. Wave after wave, life flows into our experience. Our reality is not always perfect, but it is God purposeful. Wouldn’t you love to edit your life story? I would! But, would it really matter if I got everything I wanted, exactly how I wanted it? No. Because nothing is permanent or perfect here. Don’t Quit! Stop waiting for perfection and permanence! God is on the move, follow Him. Everything here is God purposeful, and this purpose leads us to a permanence of God character, as He changes us up. Maybe we need to wake up to the truth that no human being can make us happy. People are not enough; they can’t meet our needs. We were designed to need God, and we were shaped by God not to be quitters, but to grow through, to press forward, and keep trying to finish what we start. Not A Quitter! Like God’s character, we are wired to finish what we start, to continue growing and learning in Christ Jesus. It is not a good idea to seek permanence here on earth, it is just not possible. God is constantly remixing our lives with experiential challenges which have God purposes in play in them. In every challenge we face, the God purpose in it, is greater than the challenge itself. Don’t Quit! God is on the move finishing what He started in us. Thus and therefore, we don’t seek perfection here on earth, we pursue God. If we are looking for perfection here, we will not find it. Change it up to a Kingdom Permanence. We have a future and hope with Jesus, a permanence in perfection impassioned by God’s purposes. Joy is found in Jesus, He is simply-significantly our enough. Followship of Jesus, this is such a good decision, from every moment to every choice, we can choose to grow through with joy. I am not a quitter! I Shine Joy! https://thebridegroomscafe.com/shine-joy/

Listen up! Always, God is speaking. Just Saying! Are we listening up to The Bridegroom’s Voice? Jesus is our Bridegroom; we are His Church is His Bride. Are we listening up to the passionate voice of our Bridegroom? He loves us and has proven the length and depth He is willing to go so we can be together, heart to heart. The message of the cross portrays a picture of true inestimable love.(1 John 4:7-14) This kind of God devotion does not travel down an easy, broad path, it is a sacrificial love. We are loved well. God’s Infinite love dared to care for us, to run the race of this life on a difficult, narrow road, all in for us. Just Saying: The love of our Bridegroom, Jesus is a genuine, enduring passion, that courageously and willingly forfeited all for us.(Romans 5:8) When everything in our world is changing, leaving us insecure and unstable, God’s love does not change, it remains steady, true and patiently enduring in us, sweetly and completely for us. God is all in with us, with an undivided heart of love for us, an immense multifaceted love lavished on us. Just Saying: God is our true love, He is our enough in a changing world where sickness, lawlessness, injustice and corrupted people make us feel insecure, isolated and forgotten. Just Saying: God has not forgotten us,(Deuteronomy 31:6)He is with us through the storms of this life, working out His purposes. If we anchor our heart in the harbor of God’s Love, our anchor will hold through the storms that are rapidly approaching humanity.(Revelation 3:8-14) God bless you heart to heart. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/the-bridegroom-speaks-about-love/

Having a “pity party” with discouragement, despair, depression, disillusionment, doubt? What fun! The enemy of our soul likes to throw pity parties and invite all kinds of deplorable guests. Are you gonna stay in the pity party or get out quick?! So, there is not too much in our cultures to celebrate right now! Our cultures are chaotic with injustice, lawlessness, corrupted human nature, and hopelessness; and if we keep focusing on these things, in comes the doldrums! Shake off all the devil’s “d” words! As we look around us and in our first glimpse is all the negative things happening, there are so many of them right now, that our worldly viewpoint will overwhelm us. Maybe we need to change up our “first glimpse” to be Jesus, His character, His life, His ways, His truth, the all of Him in the all of our everything. Maybe our first glimpse doesn’t need to be this world. We are better off with a Kingdom perspective as our first glimpse, it tends to hold our attention a lot better than a worldly viewpoint, and it keeps us from falling into a self-pity pit. When our first glimpse is a Kingdom Perspective of God Adventure, we actually can have a lot of great anticipation, confidence and hope in our future. Listen up! Focus up! Get out of that pit! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/i-listen-up/

Is God stalking your comfort zone? Life feels like a maze of density and very unclear at times. We can feel stuck in the “cattails of life” and very alone and isolated without any real clarity or fresh revelation. Nothing new under the sun. We tend to self-isolate because we are afraid of the new and what it will cost us, afraid of leaving our comfort zone. Are you not sure what the next life season will look like, yet you are very sure that it is going to change? Do you feel restless before God changes things up? I do. I don’t like change; I tend to resist change. This is a part of the human condition, the way we are shaped, in our natural, we sometimes are not open to change, yet the super force of God, pushes us up to the crossroad (https://rumble.com/vascnn-are-you-at-a-crossroad.html) of the transformation that we need. The choice is ours; God never breaches our will; He wants us to have the free choice He gifted us with. But He will not give up, He will keep asking. God wants to do something new in our lives, so we grow through, spiritually mature and don’t stay stagnant. He wants to navigate us lovingly into new life seasons, yet we resist Him, we stay focused on what we can see, and our lack of faith traps us in the same old same old. Isn’t it time to shake off the old and step out into the SONshine of a new God adventure? Be strong and courageous and go with God, as He is doing something new and, no doubt about it, this change, He is the common denominator in it. Purposefully so, God has a transition for us, into the new that He has for us. Will we know it? (Read Isaiah 43 https://my.bible.com/bible/97/ISA.43.MSG) Will we let go and let God lead us into the new thing He has for us? The amazing thing is how God has pursued us and is asking us to step out of our comfort zone and move into the deep with Him. Thus and Therefore, We don’t step out alone, God has gone before us, He is right in front of us, clearing the path, and all we have to do is look up and follow after Him. Follow the Son. Easy-Peasy! God bless you! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/i-dont-understand/

Angry, Mad? Sometimes things change suddenly and we don’t like it, so we buck up our will against God, we get mad and we hold up our hand. No! No! We hold up our hand in that “talk to the hand” mean spirited way. We don’t want to hear from God! Our will is bucked up so high that nothing can get in. We will not move. God suddenly does something new and it doesn’t feel so good. So how does bucking up our will against God help us? It doesn’t! It makes things worse. Things were going so great and suddenly you feel like a piece of beached driftwood, cooking in the heat. Why? Lord Why? Why are you doing this? It makes no sense. This is extreme and I will not go through this. Been there and felt that, where suddenly things change and there is no way out of the heat. Surrender is the last thing we want to do, we want understanding, we want God to change it up, to get us out. But, many times God leaves us right in the middle of the roaring heat and He asks us to grow through with Him. When a suddenly uncomfortable life season comes upon us, and God does not change it up, and there is no understanding, then surrender is the way to peace. Isn’t that an oxymoron kind of like, cruel kindness? No doubt about it, surrender is the way to growing through with peace. Been there and done it and known God’s peace that surpasses all understanding. Also know that some of the hardest things God has asked me to grow through, have been, in heavenly hindsight, the most valuable times of spiritual growth for me. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/live-responsible/

We got us a “ruckus” our nations are in a bad state of affairs and many people are in an uproar, upset and angry. From nation to nation there is a ruckus. The cultural tides of good and evil are banging together in the middle. What is right is being pushed forward as wrong, what is wrong is being pushed forward as right. This makes for a cross-cultural tide and makes for a very dangerous life season for all nations. Jesus is the only One who can calm this cross-cultural ruckus. Are you stuck in this riptide? Jesus is the answer, He is powerful, He is the only Supremacy we should bow to. Jesus is in control, working things out for our good. So stop trying so hard to swim against a riptide. Call on the name of Jesus. Look up. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/inundated/

When you experience Awe and wonder in a person, thing or experience, you will naturally express it in emotions, words or actions. We experience the talents and gifts of others more than we realize and we express awe and wonder in them or the things they have made. Many times, we see art, we see movies, plays, sports competitions, ballet, opera, and we see creation of things that people have made, like cars, houses or rockets. Or we or hear songs, they have written and played and we are just in awe of them and of the outpouring of their giftedness and talents. So, we express it, the way we are so impressed with them, we express awe and wonder. But do we express it upward to the ONE Who designed, shaped and created us all, and all of creation? Do we stand in Awe of God when we experience the way He has gifted people, when we experience the Creation, He has made? The Wonder of it all, everything we experience that causes us to express Awe, it begins with God, and every day we experience the wonder of His Creation, be it a person, or a thing, it all came from Him. God is the One we should stand in Awe of and we should recognize with wonder how He created each of us, uniquely talented and shaped and how He maintains our creative nature with bright ideas and new things. Awe-GOD! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/gods-sovereignty/

Sometimes we find ourselves in a harsh place in life. We doubt whether we can grow through it. We can. We have an “Omnipresent God”! What does that mean? It means God is continuously with us and for us. We have a great Advocate in this life. We can grow through anything. Do not doubt. We can. It is easy to position ourselves underneath the Rulership of God’s Love. His Infinite Love and Sovereign Will go hand in hand. One is not without the other. Yes, our cultural chaos in this life season is harsh and the attitudes we encounter from day to day are not civil. This is a crazy life season, a lot of lawlessness, a lot of injustice, a lot of Poo-Poo-Politics, a lot of cultural chaos, therefore, from every moment to every choice, we should decide to make the next right choice. No matter how loud our feelings are screaming to react, we respond to God first, opening our soul wide to Him and He soul saturates us with His Peace, which surpasses everything we think we know. God never leaves our side. God has a plan in play for us even in this cultural chaos, we will grow. How? Why? Because we are equipped by God, we have everything we need and it is His plan that we stand tall and strong in the SONlight of His love. This is why we dig our life roots deeply in God and His Kingdom, He loves us so much! God has an endgame to this harsh reality of truth we are growing through and it is good. Trust God. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/firm-secure/

Jesus as we connect with You, heart to heart, You break our hearts for what breaks Yours. Lord, we grieve and humble ourselves before You, asking for forgiveness for the depravity of our human choices has reached new lows and continues to plumet day after day. (A Horrific Display Of A Depraved Humanity, Which You, Lord God Have Exposed: https://www.lifenews.com/2021/08/06/university-may-be-subject-of-investigation-after-its-caught-using-body-parts-of-babies-born-alive/ ) Forgive us Lord God, as we pursue what is wrong, hurting the innocent, stealing life, destroying others, so we can gain the “temporary” of riches, and gain position in a depraved culture, as we stand on the side of evil to get ahead in this world, we were not destined to stay in. We all will leave here in death, and we will take nothing we have sold our soul to get, with us. Father God, we grieve with You, over how far humanity has fallen, chasing after the temporary and we pray for Your intervention to expose and expunge evil from our human condition and turn us back to You. Change it up in us Lord God and turn us away from evil deception to the reality of Your Truth; away from serving no power higher than self, to loving You and serving You, Almighty God, out of our vital-vertical relationship with You. Purify our hearts, Jesus, and teach us how to guard them from the enticement of evil, from the killing, stealing and destroying deception of our enemy. Jesus, we are so grieved for the depravity of our human condition and pray that You would change it up. How have we fallen this far? The depravity of people harvesting the organs of children while they are still alive, this is beyond soul sickening. Please help us Lord, turn the tide of humanity away from evil to good, help us to resist evil by doing good. Holy Spirit lead us away from seeking all the temporary things of this world, to seeking first the Kingdom of God, our future and permanent home with You. Forgive us, Lord God. Expose and expunge the evil of our human condition, break our hearts, change us so our reflection is You, Your purity of righteousness. Amen. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/thebridge/

Got fear and anxiety? The chaos in our culture is so very loud. Injustice is roaring and lawlessness is yelling and it is such a loud chaotic sound that disturbs our soul and disquiets our spirit. How do we turn down the volume and find soul peace? We first need to listen up to God and turn off the tv media, social media and all the false narratives and fake reality of people clamoring to get position and power through deceptive means. Don’t get trapped in the whirlwinds of mediatic false frenzy. This incredible fear tactic of Poo-Poo-Politics is never about you, it is all about deceptive motives, a false front of caring, with a reality of truth of hidden deceptive schemes that are not for your good, but their procuring of power, money, position and title. Jesus Christ, He is all in with You and for You, an Advocate working for your good. Listen up to Him first. Get in the Bible, the Word of God, it is powerful in hope, peace, truth and wisdom. Truth is freedom, fear based on fake reality is bondage? Which do you choose? Who do you listen to? (Matthew 8:23-27P Jesus is saying: Peace be still! Let Him soul saturate you with (Philippians 4:6-8) His peace that surpasses everything you think you know and leads you to the stability and freedom of God’s Truth. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/the-bridegroom-speaks-about-peace/

What, Heart To Heart, is God not in? God’s In That! God is Present in the all of our everything and when we tune in, connect with Him, heart to heart, we recognize His Rulership of Love, this banner of Devotion that flies over us continually. We are His, He is in the wind, the sunshine, the rain, the good times and the bad times. He is Present, with us in all of our ways. There is no escaping God, if we flee from Him, He is where we go. He is everywhere we are. Do you see a bird in flight? God is in that. Do you see a beautiful flower blooming so wondrously? God is in that. Do you see a farm with rows of vegetables growing? God is in that. Do you see the majestic ocean? God is in that. Do you see chaos and violence? God is in that. God’s Providential Care is on the move in the good things we are experiencing and in the bad things we are experiencing. God is in that. God is at the center of our living, breathing and having our being. God said He would never leave us. He meant it. Unconditionally so. God is in that. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/we-must/ Psalm 139 7 Where could I go from your Spirit? Where could I run and hide from your face? 8 If I go up to heaven, you’re there! If I go down to the realm of the dead, you’re there too! 9 If I fly with wings into the shining dawn, you’re there! If I fly into the radiant sunset, you’re there waiting! 10 Wherever I go, your hand will guide me; your strength will empower me. 11 It’s impossible to disappear from you or to ask the darkness to hide me, for your presence is everywhere, bringing light into my night. TPT

Happy Day to you! Simply-Significantly we have so much beauty around us. We are such a blessed people. STOP! Right now. Do something incredibly spontaneous. LOOK UP connect heart to heart with God, tell Him you love Him, unconditionally, love Him and desire a personal relationship with Him. I love you Lord; I appreciate all things You in my life and living through my life. The best things in this world center around You, Creator God, the One Who Maintains all things with utmost love and care. You, created us in Your Image and You, Father God are the best in us. Because of You, Jesus, we have a future and a hope. We so appreciate that, a future so amazing and more than we could ever imagine or hope for. Your sacrifice of love, giving us a future with You, it trumps our present reality with joyful anticipation like no other. Holy Spirit, You teach us, navigate us through some really difficult life situations, You, precious Advocate, never leave our side and Your value to us, in our here and now, can’t even begin to be estimated. Your love Triune God, it soul saturates us, and it is more than appreciated, it is received humbly and the overflow of it, expressed in the fullness of our joy. We are grateful and appreciate that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, we are shaped and designed uniquely, each one of us with our own set of fingerprints. How cool is that? We are thankful for and appreciate having our own personally shaped and purposefully premeditated, inner spiritual core, with a personality exclusive to us, which springs out of our heart and affects the lives of others, leaving a mark on this earth that could only be made by us. We appreciate You Creator God and see Your Handiwork in the people all around us, who are gifted, talented and uniquely shaped by Your Hand of providence, a providential care which is unending and continues to finish what You started in each one of us. To say You, Lord God are appreciated, is an underestimate of words, we can’t even begin to express the fullness of our heart of gratitude to You, our loving, faithful, trustworthy, all powerful God. Thank you. We hope to be finished well by You and finish well, just as you did here on this earth making a way for our future and hope. You are so appreciated and loved, Lord God Almighty. Dig Deeper: http://thebridegroomscafe.com/home-god/ Psalm 139:10-18 Wherever I go, Your hand will guide me; Your strength will empower me. 11 It’s impossible to disappear from You or to ask the darkness to hide me, for your presence is everywhere, bringing light into my night. 12 There is no such thing as darkness with You. The night, to You, is as bright as the day; there’s no difference between the two. 13 You formed my innermost being, shaping my delicate inside and my intricate outside, and wove them all together in my mother’s womb. 14 I thank You, God, for making me so mysteriously complex! Everything You do is marvelously breathtaking. It simply amazes me to think about it! How thoroughly You know me, Lord! 15 You even formed every bone in my body when You created me in the secret place; carefully, skillfully You shaped me from nothing to something. 16 You saw who You created me to be before I became me! Before I’d ever seen the light of day the number of days You planned for me were already recorded in your book. 17–18 Every single moment You are thinking of me! How precious and wonderful to consider that You cherish me constantly in Your every thought! O God, Your desires toward me are more than the grains of sand on every shore! When I awake each morning, you’re still with me. The Passion Translation Bible

Do you have a divided heart? Are you wholly-holy God’s? Sometimes we have places in our heart that have dried up, where we have other places that are full of the living water of God. This happens when we tuck away hurts and it creates a dry spot in our heart, a parched place that creates a division between us and the living water of God. It is a good day when we give God total access to our lives, even those places where we won’t let anyone in. God wants to fill us full of Himself to overflowing and He wants us to have a heart that has no compartment that He is not allowed in. There is no better time than now to open our hearts wide to God and decompartmentalize, so we can have an undivided heart. Psalm 86:11 is a good prayer to begin the growing process towards an undivided heart. I am in that process; I pray you will join me. Praying for an undivided heart, giving God total access to my life, letting Him tear down the walls, the compartments of my heart so He can wholly-holy own my life, all of me, all in, total access! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/wholly-holy-2/

Sunshine! How we need it. When we have a lot of rainy days in a row, we get soul moody. Why is that? Well, I believe we need sunshine. Our soul is dependent upon the SONshine of Jesus. We were created to need Sonshine. Our relationship with God is so important, this is where the SONshine of our soul comes in and strengthens our inner spiritual core with joy, peace, wisdom and truth. God’s Word and His Holy Spirit, they light up our soul with all the things that we need, especially future hope. There is so much cultural chaos from nation to nation, and it is stirring up our soul in negative ways, and this is why we need to connect with God, make it personal, be in a vital-vertical relationship with Him and get soul saturated in the SONshine of God. God bless you and yours, MUCH! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/in-your-arms/

Wow! Us human beings, in times such as these, we are not communicating well. We flesh out negative emotions, with words that mirror our feelings, and do not reflect fact. In our generation, communication rolls in devaluing, hurtful, and sometimes a very volatile ways, where feelings are pushed forward as facts. Bad assumptions, speculations and theories spoken by the enemy of our soul, breed deceptive thoughts and soured, embittered soul emotions. People in our times, are impulsively communicating feelings arising from assumptive and speculative false narratives, creating a fake reality, and dysfunctional emotions of displeasure, disappointment, disillusionment and anger. In our nations, civility is being swept away in a chaotic cultural rip tide of deception. A corrupted cultural current has come in, these waves of evil-motivated, deceptional words are crashing into our communities with misleading narratives. Wave after wave of mediatic false frenzy, crappy communication of words, are flowing out of a flawed human condition, words which are spawning dark emotions being conversed through incredibly, deplorable, violent, lawless ways. This is a dark night season, where the worst of our human condition, being realized by us all, is being experienced through us deceived human beings, who are justifying the way we “feel” through bad behavior. It is a double jeopardy of the enemy, using people to speak crappy communications, which are deceptively, an evil directive of destroying, killing, and stealing our civility, freedom, liberty, and justice for all. Beware, guard your heart with the light of God’s truth in times such as these, because our enemy is using crappy communication, through crafty words, which incite deceived people to hurt innocent people, while making hero’s out of those who have wronged others. It is time to change it up, from nation to nation, community to community, and person to person, saying no to listening to false narratives and to acting upon crappy emotions, founded on a shaky foundation of deception. This is our time to say YES, yes to God’s way, truth and life, founded upon the Rock of our Salvation, Jesus, our Spirit of Truth. Step out on this firm foundation and make the next wise choice of words, speaking out value, civility, peace and wisdom. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/crappy-communication/

#1MinuteEncouragement Hi Heart TO Heart! Did you have a good day today? Well, it was either good or bad, yet I am sure either way it went, we can find something to be grateful for in it. There is always something to be grateful for, that is what I love about our God, we never have more than what we can handle and we always have something to be thankful for, this is how He maintains our spirit. Our days end with sunsets and darkness fading out the sunlight a little bit at a time, until it is totally a dark night. One thing we can be grateful for, is we know that the sun will rise again tomorrow morning, shattering the dark with God’s light. Awe God Faithfulness! Sometimes a sunset can be so beautiful, and it brings out incredible Awe in our hearts, awe of God. These sunsets, like the one I captured in this video are so Awe inspiring. Awe of God is such a good thing to develop because it always moves into reverence and gives us a healthy respect for God. Reverence is something we have gotten away from in this generation. Awe for God always settles our soul no matter what we are growing through. A grateful heart is a settled, peaceful heart, because the focus is off of us and on God. What are you grateful for today? Tell God, share with Him how grateful you are and develop and Awe of God, lean into a reverence that is higher than self, a respect which is humble and blossoms into Awe of God. Sweet Dreams! God bless you. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/2020-awe-god/

#1MinuteEncouragement Refreshing Rain. There is so much “heat” in our cultural chaos from nation to nation. We have a real need for soul refreshment, like a hot summer day when the rain showers come and refresh the dry grass with nourishment all the way down to the roots. Oh, so refreshing. We hope for this, for God to refresh and revive our souls during this difficult season of cultural clashes. God is amazing at refreshing, encouraging and renewing our soul. Feeling the stress of strife and chaos? Open your heart wide to God. This is a good choice for us during this super-hot season of cultural clashes, where contention and incivility of the human condition are so totally out of control as human beings press towards illegitimate supremacy and know no power higher than self. Stuck in the heat wave of human dysfunction? What now? Well, the best choice is to dig your life roots deeply in God, and be refreshed by His peace, joy, strength, hope and love. Summer rain showers on a hot day are so reviving to all, so we hope for this in this renewal of our soul in this oh, so very hot season for our clashing cultures. From nation to nations, we hope in God to refresh us with His living water, reviving our soul with His refreshment. God, we look to You, revive us once again. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/living-hope/

It is always a good day to chase after God. God is always on the move, continually being for us and doing, active things for our good. A good challenge for us is to stay in followship of God, letting Him lead us. A Great God adventure kind of day is when we let Him lead and we are chasing after Him. Sometimes we do absolutely what we want to do, leaving God out of it and when we end up dead ended, we then call God into the middle of our mess. It is probably better for us if we start with God first, not what we want, but what God is already doing and join in with Him, chase after God and stay in followship of Him. Life is good that way! It is so funny that we think we can actually say: “Come with me God, I will lead, and You come along.” This never ends well. It is a good thing to run the race with God, from start to finish! Start with God, because He always finishes what He starts, and He finishes well. It is totally fun though, to try to keep up with God, letting Him lead, chasing after Him through all the many detours and forks in the road. It is never dull serving a very creative God and trying to keep up with all He is doing. Have a great day! God bless you, MUCH! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/champions-in-christ/

#1MinuteEncouragement Beach Devotionals! They are so much fun. Summer has been great this year. Today, at the Heart TO Heart Rumble channel, I am talking about accomplishment and success. Accomplishment is probably one of our number one, human being common denominators. We all get up with the hope of accomplishing something in our day, some of us have real plans for accomplishment that will hopefully lead to success for us. God views success and accomplishment so differently from us, His motives are definitely different. He moves us towards forever, where we sometimes are stuck with the motives of right here, right now success. Sometimes the human viewpoint and the kingdom perspective clash. God has kingdom purpose at play in what He is wanting to accomplish, for success for His Kingdom and eternal plans to be realized for us. Whereas we human beings we set our motives on ourselves, it is all about us and what we can accomplish that leans into our success. Do we seek after success more than we do God? Interesting question! Self-gain or Kingdom gain? God has so much purpose behind what He is working out in our lives, wanting for us kingdom gain, not earthly gain. Success to God is us being consistently faithful to Him and growing, becoming like Him, day to day, adding value to His Kingdom. Is our view of accomplishment or success different? Many times, it is. We need to change it up from a worldly viewpoint to a kingdom perspective and work towards our accomplishments and success as we lean first into God’s Sovereign sway. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/what-matters/

Heart To Heart, It is a good day to add value to someone’s life. The Son rises on our day and shatters the darkness of night adding great value to our day. This happens every day, showing the faithful love of our God, Who lovingly maintains our world, this beautiful place He spoke into being. We experience the kindness, providential care and nurturing love from our God faithfully every single day. We can show reciprocal love, because we have been given so much from our God, so much that it naturally overflows from us if we are not distracted with self-interested selfishness, knowing no love expression higher than self. Heart To Heart, we are loved well, therefore, we are also challenged, encouraged by God, to express reciprocal love. On This Day, we should take the time to be alert to those around us. In this compassionless world where civility is hard to find and people are invisible and isolated from each other, I do hope we all notice the people around us today, and intentionally be kind, be loving, and add value to all those we meet today with respect, compassion, civility and forbearance. Reciprocal Love, acknowledges other people, letting the Sonshine break through our lives in tenderhearted kindness and unconditional love towards others. Just as when we acknowledge God’s ever-present Presence, basking in our love relationship with Him, being valued by Him, we should do so for others. Our Awe God, He is always, continually adding value to our lives, and thus and therefore, we are challenged to be so for others. Reciprocal love, it is not duty as much as it is an overflow from being loved abundantly, it never stops giving. Let God’s love flow freely from your life to others. On this day, Dare to care, be bold in love, leaving all those you relationally collide with, in that divine God appointment kind of way, smiling, loved and better. God bless your day. Shine in God’s love. Be reciprocal and love well. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/s-h-a-r-e/