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Out of the mouth of babes comes such light, truth, hope and encouragement. Are you willing to learn from the sweet, honest, genuine faith of a child? I am. Sometimes we are way to serious, way to dutiful to the point of stressful living. I call this adulting religiosity, and the enemy smiles when we fall into this trap because it steals our joy. Religion is stressful, relationship is sweet. Why would God make “joy” as the strength of our inner soul if He did not want us to experience it? Make it personal with God, grow through in your relationship with God to joy and awe of God. God is amazing, wondrous and incredible and we should be awe-struck with reverence for our God. This is what I see in children, that child-like faith and unconditional love, this is what I can learn from them. Seriously, make your relationship with God, personal, heart to heart. Be found with God, not doing exhausting performances for God. In this world of human doing, we are unaccustomed to opening our hearts wide to God, being genuine in that simply-significantly honest kind of way with God. In our “doing” our true heart and motives are not revealed and joy is lost in our theatrical production of all things us. Are you exhausted from trying so hard to “do”, doing rather than just “being” with God? Change it up. The challenge for us on this day is to start with God first, in the all of our everything, choosing from moment to choice, to begin with God, make it personal with God. Practice being Awe-Struck, following the AWE and pursuing the wonder of God, developing our Awe of God in that all of our everything, start with God. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/awe/

A butterfly with wet wings can’t fly. Have you ever felt like this? We can’t fix things permanently in our lives, only God can. Got a mess in your life? Start with God, take it to God first, He is the only One Who can fix it and make our mess into a really good message so others can learn from our mistakes. A butterfly with wet wings is not going to fly until they dry. Are your wings wet? You are safe with God until they dry. God will position y ou in a place where you will be safe until your wings dry and you can freely fly again. God is a safe place of refuge for all of us at all times. Are things in your life really messy? Look to God first and realize that God has us and we are okay right now, right where we are because God’s got us. You can trust God, He if faithful, trustworthy and true. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/no-lack/

I admit it, I can be moody at times. When a life situation suddenly changes way outside your comfort zone, do you get moody? The tides, they change everything up on the beach, and they are in a constant flux, coming in and going out. Some people like the high tides better and some people like the low tides and all the title pools that it creates. If this is our lives, where situations change, where our plans sometimes get wreaked, can we lean in towards the positive first, instead of rolling right into the negative? Does change make you moody when the change is way outside of your comfort zone? Change does not have to have negative connotations; we can look at it like a new God Adventure. Just because we are not comfortable with a change, doesn’t necessarily make it a bad thing, it could be a good thing if we just play it out in followship of God. God has not left us because things have changed up, in fact, He is our ONE constant in this life. God never changes, He is steady and a sure foundation for our lives. If things are changing up in our lives, let’s try not to be a prickly rose, but instead let’s be a refreshing tidal pool where our attitudes add value to the situation, instead of letting our emotions be ruled by something we know nothing about, something we are assuming. How can we truly know the motive and purpose of God, the why of our life changes? Probably the best thing to do is to “grow through” one day at a time, let go and let God. Think on that! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/unchangeable/

Loneliness! All of us or some of us deal with loneliness at one time or another. It is a difficult feeling; it is very soul pervasive and carries a strong temptation for self-pity. We can dig a self-pity pit that is hard to climb out of. Stay away from that trap. Don’t let self-pity ever rule your soul. Dealing with loneliness is easy and hard. The hard part is the feelings that overwhelm us, the easy part is learning to redirect those feelings. I believe that Gratefulness does that. Finding something to be grateful for and redirecting the thoughts and feelings of loneliness to thoughts and feelings of thankfulness. I truly do believe that the enemy’s desire is to strip us of a grateful heart, it may not truly be about the loneliness, it may be about stealing our joy. The joy of the Lord is our strength, and without joy, we can be susceptible to self-pity, which is a sappy mess of despondency. Gratefulness is the loneliness “feeling buster” and the path we cab take to restoring our joy, and the strength of our inner spiritual core. So, kick loneliness to the curb, guarding your heart from self-pity, by being grateful, finding things in our lives we can be thankful for, like even our next breath, and redirect the focus off of self-pity, to a soul full of thanks to God for all He has done, for His faithfulness, for His Presence and for all the fitting God purposes in play in the unseen for our good. God is never not working for our good, His Providential care is always in play for us, so we should never let loneliness deter us from finding our way to a thankful heart. God bless ya. Dig Deeper:https://thebridegroomscafe.com/joy/

Nothing is impossible for God to do. You may “feel” like this is not true, especially if you are stuck in a marsh like a cattail going nowhere and left to dry up in the parchment of the heat of situation you are positioned in. That is a mouthful! But aren’t our feelings like that? Very BIG, overextended, overwhelming, and explosive at times! Don’t define your actions by your feelings! God can make a way for us to bloom in the middle of a marsh. No doubt about it. With God in us, and our lives connected to Him heart to heart, we can bloom, even if it is the worst place to be positioned, we can flourish. Our life situations should not define us. Our past should not define us. We belong to and are loved, navigated and helped by a spectacularly amazing God; this should define us. Sooner than later, God will make a way for us where there seems to be no way. In the middle of our weeds, stuck in a marsh, it feels like there is not a way. We can’t be defined or directed by our feelings, they are so wishy-washy and unstable, or our attitudes which are very susceptible to the enemy of our soul and his depressive influences. But, God’s Truth is not, it is strong, steady and sure. Our reality of truth, we will be able to stand on it, because God’s truth can endure the tests and trials of time, and help us grow through until God delivers us in that famous way of His. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/attitude-check/

LoveOfGod.Mov God’s love! How incredible it is. Wave, after wave after wave, God’s love rolls in, washing over us. All we have to do is receive it. The love of God, there is nothing that compares to it, it is soul saturating and always present with us. Do everything possible to position your life under the rulership of God’s love. God’s love is the best thing to be soul saturated with. Open your heart wide to God and receive His love. We can ride out our lives on the waves of God’s love that comes in wave after wave, splashing over our lives. It is so worth it to learn as much as you can about God’s love and to experience the love of God in all of His fullness. Dig Deeper With This: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/the-bridegroom-speaks-about-love/ Know God, KNOW His Love. I can’t encourage you enough… God’s Love, His Character, His Way, His Truth and His Life, let it permeate the all of your everything. Give God Everything, Let Him Be Your Everything! Let Jesus be your future and your hope. God bless ya.

Let Freedom Ring Independence, Freedom, Liberty, and Justice For All. What does freedom mean to you? How does liberty work out in your life situations? Are you free? Do you know the sacrifices made for your freedom? Do you use your freedom well? Freedom has been diminished by us taking it for granted, not treasuring it, not valuing it and not using it to promote a good civility. What is a good civility? Civility, is respect for justice that is seeded in making the next right choice. It is honorable selflessness, seeded into patriotic liberty that yields a strong freedom. Therefore, National Liberty is as strong as the pride of its people is weak, as freedom is served through humility and self-sacrifice. Let Freedom Ring! The strength of freedom at the core of it, is the selflessness of those who serve it, the wisdom of those who use it well, and the enduring passion to preserve it. Is our freedom eroding because we have been serving no power higher than self? What is the state of our liberty? Are we even aware of how close we are to losing it? From nation to nation, illegitimate, corrupt authority has taken supremacy hostage to the deplorable human condition. We decided that we do not need God, the One Who created us, the one Who gifted us with free will. We have taken captive the Supremacy of God and our human condition can’t handle it, we have absolutely corrupted it. The liberty we know, is the freedom Jesus Christ bought for us on the cross at calvary. Our God Of True Justice! He Came Here! God in the flesh, not clinging to His rights, but, giving up His rights, dying our death, so we could know His life. It is time for us to return to the basics of our inner core strength that is found in subjective surrender, through a personal relationship with our God. Get back to the basics from nation to nation and know the true meaning of Independence Day, and the evoking of true liberty, which is found in the freedom of Christ. Christ in us, the hope of glory; this is the truth, a freedom that truly sets us free. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/back-to-the-basics/

We can get so burdened with so many things that we don’t fly in the freedom we have been given by God. God designed us, shaped us to be free in Him. We can fly in the freedom we know, in Christ Jesus. We have the choice. We can fly in God by the power of His Holy Spirit, we can freely make our mark in this world. We were created to be free, to freely live, move and have our being in our Creator. Freedom, do you know it, do you know the joy of living in personal relationship with God and making the next right choice with the free will He has granted you? On this day, know independence from fleshly bondages. Shake off everything that keeps you bound up and experience the liberty God created you, designed you, and shaped you for. Will you fly with God today? Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/celebrate-freedom/

On this day we have an Advocate Who is with us. This life season is in crazy flux, creating a maze for us to have to navigate through. Obstacles are thrown up left and right and we are still navigated by the power of God’s Holy Spirit How cool is this?!! This is the beauty of having God with us and being a part of the family of God. Suddenly, when things change and clarity is not there, it does not rock your world, because you are linked up with God and God’s family. Our God is a simply-significantly an amazing way-maker. God with us always and there is no doubt about this. And the icing on the cake is that God’s big family is also with us, and we walk together, enduring and growing through the social changes in this life season that has erupted in unbelievable and very soul crushing cultural chaos. The family of God is beautiful, and it is such a sweet thing to link up heart to heart with God and all people He calls His! Life is always good as we grow through connected to God, heart to heart in followship of Him and in fellowship with His family. Dig Deeper https://thebridegroomscafe.com/stretch-your-faith/

JOY! Jesus – Others – You! Do we live this way? Connecting Heart To Heart with God in an incredible, personal relationship with God, so wonderful! Serving God first, serving others second, being about the business of God, makes for a really pleasant life. Joy is the way God brings strength into our inner spiritual core. It is so sweet to enjoy life, to enjoy day by day and when we put God first and others second, everything else in our lives falls together in such a good way. I wonder why that is, that selflessness brings such joy? I kind of think because this is the way we were made, in the image of God Who has always put us first. So, today, go, and love, care, share with others, being navigated by God, loving Him first, serving Him first and be about His way, truth and life. Sweet Living Is Found In Being A Giver As You Put Others First. God bless you, much! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/joy/

Sand dunes take a lot of beating from the violent storms that bring in strong waves that crash into them, yet they still stand. Sometimes when I see a beautiful sand dune, I think of how resilient we are in Christ Jesus. I am still here; I am still serving and loving God. No weaponed formed against me prospered. Many are the trials of those who love and serve God, yet He deliver’s us out of them all. This is the joy of our heavenly hindsight, we see Jesus in our life story, we see how He worked out everything for our good. What a fantastic Savior Jesus is. He is an incredible way-maker and is so very good at plowing through the road blocks the enemy puts up for us. He is a mighty deliverer from the forces of evil, which want to kill, steal and destroy our purpose. He says NO! Not this one, not this time. God directs the all of our lives in that unbelievable way of His, He navigates us through uncharted waters as we give Him total access to our lives, He charts our way, and He stays at the Helm of our boat, never leaving us. We are loved well by God and He has made a way for us, a forever future and given us hope in Him. There is no darkness He can’t light up, no evil secreted plan He can’t expose and thwart. There is no greater God than Him, He knows everything about us, every hair on our head, He knows us best and loves us most. God’s purposes are always in play in the unseen for our good. We know the goodness of God every single day because He is on the move, providentially caring for us. God is writing our life-story with His pen and we weave in out of all kinds of life issues, yet the endgame is always, so good. We are a blessed people and Jesus is all we need; He is our enough and our future is settled in Him. God bless ya heart to heart. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/flourish/

Some of us have some emotional pain in our yesterday and if we let it carry to our today, the enemy wins the day. Yesterday is truly a thing we should leave in our past, in God hands of justice and reconciliation, then it does not carry forward into our today defining our emotions and quite possibly, darkening them. Jesus is our reconciler, He, Jesus is the light of our today, stand in the light that always shines in our day. On this day be free of your yesterday, and don’t let the enemy steal from this day, He already stole from your yesterday, so say “enough... not today”. Not Today! Devil you may have created all kinds of evil havoc in our yesterday, but I am not bringing it into this day. This day is new, so get lost enemy of my soul, you will not bring your soul havoc into this day. Enough is enough of your stupid soul tormenting, I choose life on this day, I choose happiness, I choose joy, I choose to leave yesterday behind. God is doing something new and I am going to know it, to experience it. God is in this day, with me, my reconciler of all things and today, God and I will make a new memory of His goodness, grace and mercy and I will experience this new day free of the havoc of my yesterdays. Not Today – No Soul Torment Received! I am new, today is new, and God loves me unconditionally, there is no condemnation in Him. I choose God. I choose to have a new day in Him. I win, you lose enemy of my soul. Today, I walk in the victory God has already won for me. I choose joy. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/soul-saturated/

Jesus makes friendships through setting up for us divine appointments with people. Have you ever thought about your close friendships, and how you met and how special they are now to you? Jesus connects people. When our heart is wide open to God, Jesus will fashion friendships in our lives and some of these friendships defy human nature. Believe me I know. I have really good friends that I would not naturally have been drawn too, they were so different from me. It is true, there are people we would not choose to be friends with. We, in our human condition can be standoffish people and we like to stay within what we think we know we want, keeping our perfect conditions in place when we seek friendship. Because of this, we miss out on friendships that are like diamonds in the ruff. When we are in followship of God, He leads us to divine friendship appointments, taking us out of our comfort zone, and stretching us past what we would think of as a possible friendship for us. God is so amazing at connecting His people, we need to step outside of our coziness, and experience the wonder of what God can do. If we stay within our easy breezy comfort zone and don’t venture out with God, we could miss deep friendship that He is waiting to create for us, friendship that is unfathomable to us, yet ends up being very fulfilling. If we give God total access to our lives and live in a followship relationship with Him, being open to whatever He has for us, God will create amazing friendships through His creative way of connecting people. Try it, this challenge to all of us to step outside of our comfort zone and go with God into living out of God’s Great Adventure and let Him write our life story, let Him create fantastic friendships for us! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/friendship/

In a culture where our lives are spinning round and round in deception and all the chaos this deception creates in our lives, we so need to tap into the reality of God’s Truth. God’s Truth is our stabilizer in these chaotic times where right is lifted up as wrong and wrong is lifted up as right. God’s truth is what anchors us to reality. There is so much fake reality that is just busting loose into our lives, sometimes even knocking at our own doors with the faces of family and friends. We can’t escape it, the false narratives, the fake news, the deceived people. Deception is so prevalent in our present cancel God culture, permeating falsity into the whole of our societies. We so need the Spirit of Truth, Jesus, to be alive in us, to be at the center of our spiritual core, deep inside of us. We need to diligently guard our hearts with God’s truth in times like these. Heart TO Heart, I highly encourage you as we grow through the dark times ahead, to stay anchored in God’s truth. Make sure you do not drift away on the current of deceiving cultural trends. God changes not, He has not changed His mind about what is sin and what is not sin. So, don’t be deceived by the say-so of this incredibly lawless culture who are serving no power higher than self, through a distressed morality of “whatever feels right, than do it”. We need to wholly-holy align ourselves with God and His Truth, digging our life roots deeply in His Kingdom. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/anchor/

One nation under God was good for us as a culture of people. This power grab of illegitimate human supremacy is bad for us and has dehumanized us creating a culture of lawlessness, compassionless people with a deadened common sense and a destroyed civility. Wow, our culture has darkened as the corruption of our human condition unravels and destroys human decency. Yet, as the darkness outside prevails, as we connect with God, heart to heart and spirit to spirit, deep within our inner spiritual core there is a God light ignited, which can’t be extinguished. In Christ we experience and deeply know a stable peace and our faith is activated and strong, unbreakable. Darkness prevails on the outside as our cancel God culture is in an uproar and chaos is loud, but on the inside, there is a God peace, it stills our soul and can’t be disturbed. As we walk in this dark night season of prevalent evil, God’s truth anchors us, and our hope is fueled by the light of the world, Jesus, our Spirit of truth, WHO illuminates our darkness with His light that no evil can ever extinguish. Stay heart to heart with God, positioned underneath His rulership of Love and daily bask in the light of God’s truth and He will strengthen your inner spiritual core more than you could ever hope for or imagine. He will! Yes! Personal relationship with God is amazing! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/my-way/

We are one human race, created by God and belonging to God. Yet in our human condition, we create silos and we segregate from each other. Have you ever been left out? Looking from the outside of a picked group, wishing you were good enough to be on the inside, good enough to be wanted as part of that group of people? It hurts. This is one of those things that can create hurt that navigates us towards isolation and disunity. Guard your heart with God’s truth. We are one human race, created in the image of God, and uniquely shaped by God, and individually designed, not created to fit in, but to stand out. We are irreplaceable people, purposefully, fearfully and wonderfully shaped by God, so the enemy does not want us unified together, because together with all of our individual and uniqueness we would be so powerful in talent, ability and personal giftedness. God created us as one human race and we need to act like we are one race and embrace the unique giftedness of each other that God has shaped in us. God will make a way for us, a way of unconditional love. If we are left out, because of our distinctive design, not picked, shunned, ignored, rejected by others, outside of a group, looking in, we should not stay there in our hurt. We should turn away and fully face God, forgive those who refuse to accept our uniquely designed personage, and be determined to be better, to be inclusive, to do everything we can do to embrace everyone in the special way God has shaped them, and never leave people feeling shunned and hurt. We are the change we desire. Live, laugh and love like you have never been hurt and love unconditionally, sacrificially like Jesus did. This kind of unconditional love Jesus showed us, and it ends well. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/thebridge/

We were created out of the goodness of God’s heart, to be wholly-holy Gods, to be in a heart to heart, personal, intimate relationship with Him and mirror His amazing character. Have we drifted away from God? Basic Faith is God and us walking together in love, trust, peace and belief. When we are in holy alignment with God, positioned underneath His rulership of love, we are good people and we love each other well, with compassion, we walk in civility and we have an activated common sense. Drifting away from God, we dehumanize others as we live out of a self-induced, illegitimate supremacy. People lording over others, serving no power higher than self. God’s Supremacy is good. Human supremacy is bad and the consequences are horrific. This is dangerous living, because our human condition, not connected to God’s goodness, is easily sullied by evil. Corrupted human decency wounds our soul and then wounded people wound people, it is a nasty circle of the deterioration of goodness. Only God can break this circle of human depravation, only His goodness and truth can break this stronghold on our nations, this present darkness of lawlessness, incivility and a huge lack of compassion and common sense. We have drifted away from God, and right now, oh, how we need to wholly-holy align ourselves with God’s way, truth and life. Let’s do it, heart to heart.

There is a hell, there is a heaven. There is a choice. We can descend into the deepest, darkest, murkiest place on this planet. We can go deep, deep into the darkness, yet our God, Jesus, Christ, the Spirit of Truth, He will still shine there. You cannot put out the light of God, it is not extinguishable by men, it isn’t! You can’t put it out no matter how far you go into the deepest of the mire in the pit of darkness, He will reach you there. You are not too far away from His reach; He will save you from the clutches of evil. God’s light is always shining upon You. His light shines brightly in the darkness. He is always with us. He never forsakes those He has created. He has the farthest reach, this King, this light of glory. Never underestimate the passion Jesus has for the lost, it reaches farther than you could ever imagine or hope for. Jesus died for us, descended into hell for us and defeated death for us. There is no doubt about it, He will reach those who are lost and bring them to Himself and we will see it and bring Him glory, the glory He deserves, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. No pit is deep enough, no darkness dark enough to keep God from you. He is famous for the miracles of His reconciliation, redemption, renewal, revival of us, bringing us heart to heart with Him. Our God is all in with us in our everything, always and forever. God bless you, Heart To Heart. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/light-2/

I have a blind spot. I really thought I was putting Jesus first. I was not. I was putting others first. My vertical relationship with God was coming second to my horizontal relationship with people. I love to bless people, I love the anointing of writing something and sharing it, to encourage others, to inspire them. This anointing comes from being full of God, it comes from no other place but abundance in Him. The blessing of God that flows from me to others is an overflow of my relationship with Him. My blind spot was the flip-flop of ministry and personal relationship. The priority was the sharing and caring of people, not the intimate relationship with God. He was second. How crazy is that? I lost my first love and I did not even see it. I had drifted away from personal and was all works. It is good, right? Working for Jesus?! Good, but not the best, Jesus is the best. He was in all of the caring, we connected then, there was worship in all of that, there was love in all of that, there was connection in all of that, there was dependence in all of that, but it was through caring for others. My worship, my heart-to-heart worship, my everyday loving of God first, that was sacrificed to caring. I am not the savior; I am the saved. I am not the deliverer; I am the delivered. I am not the fixer, God is. Somewhere along the path of getting busy for God, I lost that heart of worship, reverence and awe of God, I was busy being the savior, deliverer and fixer, none of which I could do without Him. Before anything else, even good things, God must be first. Stay heart to heart with God, make it personal, intimate and be still and know He is God. Bow in awe of Him and express your reverence. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/firstee/

This world is a dry and weary land for our soul. We are soul parched, like grass looks when it hasn’t rained for weeks. When our soul is in need of God’s living water, we feel uncomfortable with our lives, and very restless. These are times we are tempted to chase after the temporary things of this world, thinking they will quench our souls. What a deception this is from the father of lies, the enemy of our soul who so wants to steal, kill and destroy us. “I will destroy you” is the nasty words and plan of our enemy. But GOD, the Living Water of our soul, He speaks His words of deliverance, He is our Liberator. He has come to give us abundant life and joy, which is our strength. Of everything we think we need to feel comfortable with our life, Jesus is the only thing we truly need. Our lives, Heart To Heart, need to revolve around God, His way, truth and life and not around what our culture tells us we need. It is time to step outside of our man-made comfort zone and embrace God in an unbreakable faith grip, anchored by our vital-vertical, personal relationship with Him. It is a good thing when we open our hearts wide to God and He pours into our soul His Living Water, which refreshes our spirit in ways we can’t even begin to hope for or imagine. The reality of truth is, Jesus is all we need and all we will truly ever need. Open your heart wide to Him, He will fill you to overflowing with His Living Water and God anointing, will splash out of our lives all over those around us who are parched, reviving their thirsty soul. Living Water, it is a good thing, a God thing, a huge refreshment in times such as these. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/flourish/

Our lives are constantly splashing up on others. What are you splashing? Is it kindness? Is it caring? Is it friendship? Is it truth and love? When we are connected with God, heart to heart, He fills us with all things Him, full to overflowing and we splash out of our lives all things of His character. He loves us, it is His desire that we live with Him forever, so He has an incredible passion for the lost as we should. As we stay in vital-vertical relationship with God, we mirror Him and our lives have compassion, civility and common sense that does splash out and change things up all around us for good. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/contagious-love/

Truth be told, humanity is a mess, and we have become a message of the enemy of our soul, who is replicating his evil, as we influence others through our deplorable spoken words and actions. Deception is the new “Human Hegemony”, where truth is secreted and we live by trickery, which deploys its false narrative, rationalization, speculation, assumption and fake reality in the soul of our nations. We bow to idols created by fake supremacy and we sacrifice our national civility, common sense, compassion and conscious to an illegitimate authority that has no foundation in God’s way, truth or life. None! Have you had enough of this incredible foolishness that rips at the foundation of our liberty? We are awful people when we step outside of God’s Holy Spirit navigation of our lives. The best thing we can do personally to change things up, one person at a time, is for us, personally, to turn from every idol and bow humbly before God. The state of our union in our nations is horrible, as the illegitimate authority of human supremacy tries to duplicate God’s Supremacy. It doesn’t work that way, it never will and until we learn this, we all suffer the consequence of this stupid irrationality, this lie from the pit of hell. Truth be told, God is “The Fixer” of our human mess and He says this: “Fully face Me, wholly-holy realign yourself underneath My Rulership of Love and reestablish Me as your first desire.” Dig Deeper https://thebridegroomscafe.com/truth-be-told/

Why is it when we have trouble that we run in the other direction, away from God and not toward God? Why is it we sit in the darkness when we can get up and move to the light of God? Why do we give up so easily, before we even move our feet and exercise our faith? It really doesn’t make any sense, but this is how our human condition reacts sometimes when we feel suddenly overwhelmed. We should have a faith that is in constant movement towards the light of God’s way, truth and love. Faith is the exercising of hope, trust and belief. God is encouraging us today to run, run, run by faith, to run our life race by faith. Our God is at work in the unseen for our good. This is the reality of truth, and the coolest truth is that God’s truth and light will never be extinguished by anyone or anything. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/a-season-for-strong-faith/

God is present in our lives and He is always on the move, looking for ways to purposefully encourage us. God loves us well. I had a really tough month last month and God knew I needed encouragement. So, He used a beautiful yellow rose bush to miraculously encourage me. In two weeks, that little yellow rose bush, that only bloomed a couple roses last year, doubled in size and was full of yellow roses! God knows us well, better than anyone else and He knows exactly what we need when we need it. What has God done to encourage you? I am sure it is a lot. I was so very grateful for the encouragement and my response was gratitude. It is pretty cool to go from being totally underneath all my troubles to praising God. That is what encouragement does. We should mirror God and be encouragers, so many people you run into each day need encouragement and who knows, they may be Your divine appointment for God to use you to be His encouragement to them. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/i-look-up/

Who doesn’t have life issues? We all have them. Some are little, so are big and some are paralyzing. One of the common denominators of a “life issue” is it is very distracting. Life here is temporary and short and we need to be about God’s business, not all about ourselves and our life issues. We truly should make Jesus our “Life Issue”! The Bible promises (Matthew 6:30-33) us if we seek first God’s Kingdom and His righteousness, then everything else falls into place by His Providential Care. When we are chasing after fulfillment of our life issues or we are paralyzed by our life issues, then we are not chasing after God. The best way to live life is not being a person all about ourselves, but being all in with God. God is able to care for our life issues and we live better when we are focused on God and not distracted by life issues. That is why it makes perfect common sense to make God our only “Life Issue”, to be about all things Him and let Him purposefully work out our life issues. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/abide-with-me/