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A jumbled-up mess of unclear chaos, with a lot of angry, disturbed and unsettled human voices all in a roar. We could call this the twilight zone, but for today, I call it the “grey zone”. Nothing is black or white, it is all grey. A time where right is wrong and wrong is right. We don’t know how to navigate these times. Many of us absolutely know we can’t do this on our own, so we look up, we listen up and we wait for our Way-Maker God to show us how to live and thrive in the grey zone where everything is hard to wrap our minds around and common sense is lifeless. #DigDeeper https://thebridegroomscafe.com/walking-against-the-current/

Do you discipline your mind or do you just let it run wild with all kinds of thoughts? Do you believe that as we think, so goes our lives? I do. I am thinking we need to be careful with our thoughts. Thinking on good things, noble things and true things does guard our heart. Thoughts travel far and can really affect our heart, and out of our heart flows our life issues. This makes thoughts important, because they can shape our heart attitudes. Just a thought. Think good thoughts today. God bless you and yours. #DigDeeper https://thebridegroomscafe.com/good-thoughts-emotions/

Got Peace? What do you think of when you hear the word: Peace? Sometimes we have a “tug of war” going on in our soul. One side is what we wish we were experiencing and how we would like it to be so, and the other side is what is actually happening that we can’t wrap our mind around. We have to stop the “tug of war”! It is exhausting for our mind as we try to figure out what God is doing. Sometimes we just need to let be, be still and know God has a good endgame in mind. I struggle with my mind trying to figure out everything and it steals my peace and distracts my mind as the “tug of war” is never ending! Have you been there and had a “tug of war” mind battle? I have found the best way out of this “tug of war” in our mind is to acknowledge God is at the other end of the rope, we can’t beat Him, so it might be a good thing to drop the rope and walk away from the war in our mind. How? Trust God. Knowing, Acknowledging God (Proverbs 3:5-6) is a great finisher. God is trustworthy. We need to flip the switch and shut off our mind with its warring thoughts and listen up to God to activate our faith. I am right there with ya. This is a battle I struggle with. God bless you and yours. #DigDeeper https://thebridegroomscafe.com/revive-faith/

No evil weapon formed against us will prosper. God said it. He will accomplish it. I believe God will prevail over this prevalent evil of our time. I believe in God, I believe God. The reality of truth is this: Over all of time, God has never allowed evil, which has formed against His people to flourish. The fires of evil weaponry may burn hot, but they flame out and do not destroy. The inner damage intended by evil, never makes it to the core of our being, we remain in Christ Jesus, He is our hope, He is our peace, He is our forever allegiance of our faith. The status of our inner spiritual core is strong, protected, guarded by Gods’ Word. We walk by faith, knowing that in these days, even with all the weaponry of the illegitimate authority of human foolishness, pointed toward us, we hold the line of faith. Linking our shields of faith with each other, we know this evil will not prevail against us as we together march forward in prayer, belief, trust and hope in God. God will not forsake us to the wiles of our enemy. Our God, famous in war time strategy and always victorious against the enemy, He will prevail. This battle of evil in this generation, it is God’s battle. Hope in Him. Let be, be still and know He is God. #DigDeeper https://thebridegroomscafe.com/focus/

I was reading Psalm 73 and David the psalmist was talking about how is it that evil people seem to have it so good. Don’t we all feel that way in times such as these, that evil people, who have frauded us, cheated us, lied, stolen from us, never have to pay the consequences. Ridiculously so, in topsy turvey times such as these, those who have done horrific things are being rewarded with peace prizes, those who have lied and aired false narratives have received journalism awards. This makes our heart feel sick. But as I read on in Psalm 73, I realized that they will reap what they have sown. God has seen everything they have done and His Justice will prevail. We need to trust God in times such as these. He will not be mocked. He will shine a bright light of truth on the hidden dark secrets of evil. He will bring forth His Justice in His ways. God is our very present help in trouble. He hopes for us to believe in Him and to believe Him. He has not changed. What He says, it will be. #DigDeeper https://thebridegroomscafe.com/justice/

There isn’t one of us on the face of this earth that wasn’t created in the image of God. We all were created in God’s Image. We were created to be free. God gave us a free will to make our choices. We were created to love and be loved, because God is love. We were created to thrive, to have everything we need. We are equipped by God to grow through this life. We can thrive in this life with a soul that is well. God did not spare anything when He created us and equipped us, giving us everything we need to succeed. The background noise of our life wants to steal our focus, but if we remain undistracted and stay focused on God, wholly-holy aligned with Him, living in fellowship with Him and in followship of Him, we will thrive, we will sail through the windy times and rough seas of our lives being hugely successful in this life, steady, faithful and true to God and others. #DigDeeper https://thebridegroomscafe.com/grow-through/

How do we fight for our freedom? We humbly pray it up to our God. Our freedom is so fragile right now, more so than it has ever been in our life time. Seeking Truth is simply-significantly important for us, since there are so many forces of deception at play in our sphere of influence. Don’t give anyone permission to speak into your life, that doesn’t listen up to God’s way, truth and life. Listen up first to God. We can’t fix the state of our union, but He can and He will. Put your hope in God. (Ephesians 6:10-18) Our lives should be wholly-holy positioned in the reality of God’s truth; we can do this. God will speak what is true, as He shatters the darkness of deceit and exposes the deceivers, expunging their fake reality. We must in times such as these, stay in followship of God, stand with Him and not be moved. This is how we can fight for our fragile freedom, by letting be, being still and knowing He is God, knowing this battle is His. We know and believe He will navigate us as we grow through these unique times where our liberty is in jeopardy of being erased. God has a purposeful plan, we trust Him, we anchor to His truth, we watch in prayer, we wait in hope, and we will see His Glory.

What A Freaking Jungle Out There! How do we navigate these cra-cra crazy times? Pillars of our leadership are falling everywhere. God is exposing and expunging illegitimate corrupted authority. Who do we believe? The news media are no longer journalists, they are political propogandists. Shut Of Main Stream Media! No more fake reality and false narrative. I guess that is a good thing. It is turning us all back to the voice of Truth, to God’s Voice. We can’t navigate through the jungle of this age without Him and we should have been listening to Him all along. We need His discernment. We need to hear His reality of truth first. Definitely a JUNGLE out there, dense with deception. Listen up to God: Isaiah 30:21 When you turn to the right or turn to the left, you will hear his voice behind you to guide you, saying, “This is the right path; follow it.” Isaiah 30:21 There is never a time where we are not navigated by God. He has not left us here alone to make our own way, He is our Way-Maker God. Listen Up! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/whispers/

We thought we could handle it. No. It did not quite work out that way. There is one stop gap that we continuously fall into, our human condition. We human beings are not very good at supremacy. Why? Because it is not ours. Supremacy belongs to the Supreme King of the Universe, Jesus Christ. We don’t do supremacy well, because our human condition, it has this tendency to serve no power higher than self and this corrupt way of illegitimate authoritative behavior, it absolutely corrupts us. Yes, after all kinds of mucky water goes under the bridge as we destroy each other to get ahead, we go into the weeds and the flow of our deplorable actions creates a current of hate that crush the life out of common sense, compassion and civility from nation to nation. Yeah. Real good are we human beings. Not! Only God can handle Supremacy well and we need to shake off all illegitimate supremacy from our lives, turn our lives back to God and position ourselves underneath His Rulership of love. This is when life is good. #DigDeeper https://thebridegroomscafe.com/civility/

God’s Love Is Authentic And Is Certified By The Many Promises He Made To Us And Has Kept For Us. Have you received His Love? When God looks into our soul what does He see? Does He see panic or hope? Does He see belief or anxiety? When He looks into the eyes of our spirit does He see love. To rise above the panic of these sullied days, we need to do an about face from this world and fully face God. God loves us so much and truly desires for us to abide in His Love, loving Him as intimately as He loves us. Heart To Heart with God, we can give him the helm of our life and He can navigate us in these uncharted waters. This is a great way to expunge the anxiety from our lives. Let go and let God! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/a-perfect-love/

Oh, what a crooked path we weave. Yet, God’s True Love is always with us and for us. This is the Love of God. Even when the way is long, winding and a very crooked path which is hard to follow, we have an Advocate, Who stays with us, navigating us. God walks beside us in all of our life situations and is the only One Who is purely and truly for us, in motive, thought, and action. Jesus is present, in our life journey, and He always has a good endgame in mind. This is why we can trust Him, because His Love is all in with us and He has already proven to us the magnitude of sacrifice He was willing to pay, to be connected heart to heart with us. That is why we know we can keep walking toward the destination He points us too, walking by faith, believing in the things not yet seen. We know our God always finishes well, so we trust Him and hope in Him, as we experience this Great God Adventure, we call life. Never fear, our Advocate is near and He is purposefully working in the unseen for our good and His glory. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/advocate/

Love, Love, Love… All you need is love. Oh, that is not completely 100 percent true. We think love, that feeling of gushy love, where your heart is pounding and your palms are sweating is such a great feeling. We step into love and think it is perfect, but unfortunately human love is never perfect, and never quite enough to meet our needs. We were created to need God and there is not even one human being on the face of the earth that could meet all of our need to be loved. We are loved so well by God. He is so good to us. His love, is so abundant, so incredible in so many ways that we, human beings can’t even begin to wrap our minds around it. Everything we need now and even unto forever will be met in the love of God. God bless you! Enjoy the love of God. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/enduring-love-2/

Can you imagine that we ask “Why GOD? Why?” to the ONE Who spoke the world into being? We question the ONE Who breathed life into every human being, the ONE Who maintains His whole creation? As I watch the tides faithfully come in and go out, the moon come up and go down, how can I ask “Why God? Why?” about my life situation. Me, a needle in the haystack of this world, questioning the methods of the Maker of it all. The very God Who knows exactly where I am every second of my life, I am interrogating Him about His processes as He maintains the Universe. Yes, it does sound a bit ridiculous that I am questioning God about how He is doing things. Yet, in His compassionate love and out of His mercy, He listens, He hears, He answers. This incredible God is with me and cares about my every thought, my every feeling, my every action. Awe-GOD. #DigDeeper https://thebridegroomscafe.com/god-with-us/

The tide of the Cancel God culture is coming in strong, fast and hard into our life path. It is distressing us all and we can easily be deceived and get swept up in it. It is difficult to manage this cultural current as it pressing into our lives with false narrative and fake reality. Walking alone against the current is exhausting. We need to depend on God. God is the ONE Who directs all the tides and all the currents that flow into our lives, our neighborhoods, cities, states and nations, He is Supreme in this way. This cultural battle belongs to the Lord and the rip tide deception in the midst of it is very tricky and strong. Listen Up! We need God’s discernment, protection, wisdom, strength and knowledge. He’s got this. He has gone before us and He has a plan. So, we stay in followship of Jesus, wholly-holy aligned with His way, truth and life. Stepping out with Him, we can navigate safely. Let Be, Be Still And Know He Is God. #DigDeeper https://thebridegroomscafe.com/silently-submit/

#1MinuteEncouragement God is with us, no doubt about it. Are you feeling lonely? You are not alone, never have been. God is with us. Yes, at times, this life season “feels” more than what we can bear? God is our Advocate; He has never not been working for our good. We feel peaceless, we feel alone, we feel forsaken, but our feelings they deceive us, because the truth is, we are none of these things, and never have been. God has never forsaken us; He has been faithful to us over all the ages of time, even when we were faithless and disloyal to Him. God has never left us alone, He is Present, here, now with us and for us. God is never not at work for our good. Constant-Consistent this is God’s reputation. Look past your feelings to the truth. There has never been a minute God does not think of us first and put us first. We have never been alone. We have never been forsaken. We have been loved well. Embrace Your God. #DigDeeper https://thebridegroomscafe.com/the-solution/

#1MinuteEncouragement Feeling Hopeless? We can’t bloom hope out of a culture of doom and gloom. It is not going to happen that way. Do you want to bloom in hope as you sit in these dark times of chaos and injustice? Listen up. We can bloom in hope! Even in the drudgery of winter storms, we can bloom in hope. God shows us this through nature. There are beautiful flowers that bloom in the harsh winter elements. How? It depends on your root system. Are you deeply rooted in God and His Kingdom? This is how you will bloom, in and out of the victory Jesus has already given you, deeply rooted in Him, focused on God and all of His Perfection and being in His Living Word. If your theology is based upon cultural say-so, you are doomed not to bloom. If your theology is living and active in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, you are destined to bloom and it will be beautiful. God bless you Much! Bloom! #HeartTOHeart Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/bloom/

#1MinuteEncouragement Oh, can human beings make big man-made messes! What a stanky swamp the human condition is. Fraud, deception, trickery, false narrative, injustice, cheating, defamation, deceiving what an incredible culture of national leadership we have. I call it Poo-Poo-Politics where those in authority know no power higher than self and serve their politics over the people they represent. It is a horrific time in our nations all over our world because we have cancelled God out of culture and taken authority that does not belong to us, absolute power which has corrupted absolutely, and everyone suffers because of it. The stank of our human culture is unbearable, shameful, embarrassing and humbling. We need to turn our hearts back to God. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/look-to-god/

Thinking about God today, all He is, was and will be, and my Awe of Him rises and I want to shout out AWE-GOD! I am so impressed with how God’s Infinite love and Sovereign Will go hand in hand, we are never without them both. His divine purposes are always in play in our lives. We are such a blessed people. We have no challenge that we face now or in the future that does not have the purpose of God in play in the challenge. God’s purposes in play in our great challenges are greater than the challenge itself. How about that! Isn’t that amazing!? God’s purposes in play will always miraculously birth new things, great things in our lives. God always finishes well. It is kind of cool to know that our “heavenly hindsight” will be awesome. What we see right now might not be the best viewpoint, but God’s mercy and redemption will work its way out in our lives and we will know the Kingdom perspective of victory. Jesus is our victory and we can live with and from God’s victory right now. #DigDeeper https://thebridegroomscafe.com/stretch-be-navigated/

#1MinuteEncouragement So grateful today for the Supremacy of Jesus Christ, unshakeable, unremovable, present with us. Jesus, Who was, is and is to come. It is a day to be thankful for God’s Rulership of Love, a powerful love, no one and nothing can separate us from. God, our Father Who art in heaven hallowed be Your name, our Advocate, Who will never forsake us or betray us, our Keeper, Whose Kingdom is ours, and is our hope of glory. Kingdom of God come, Will of God be done in us, Your people. The storm is upon us and the battle belongs to the Lord. “I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal"; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! His Truth is marching on.” Julia Ward Howe. Christ in us #HeartTOHeart our hope of glory. God bless you and yours. We walk today in and out of the victory Jesus has already provided us. It is a new day for liberty, justice and freedom in Christ Jesus. God’s blessings! #HeartTOHeart Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/declare-and-decree/

Did you walk by the light of a man-made fire? Did it flame out? Left in the dust of dead dreams? Been there and felt the horror of mocking buzzards as they flew in a death circle in my soul. Get up and shake off the dust. Shew away the mocking buzzards with the truth of God! Everything may look dead, but one thing has not changed, the ONE Thing that matters changes not. Jesus is Supreme, His Supremacy stands even in the face of our human ridiculousness. God’s Rulership of Love is just, right and good and His righteousness never fails. He is still the same God of justice, still working in the unseen for our good. Look up! Praise God with the AWE of Who He is. Reverence God! Things will start looking better in your soul as You remember God and Who He loves and His mission to deliver us from evil and usher in His Kingdom. Hope in God. Dig Deeper: Tenacious Faith ~ https://thebridegroomscafe.com/tenacious-faith/

#1MinuteEncouragement We do what it makes no sense to do in these times of incivility, fear, hopelessness, we praise God. How opposite is that reaction!? It is a sacrifice of praise. Everything is topsy-turvy in our lives right now and our comfort zone is upside down and inside out. A sacrifice of praise, having an attitude of gratitude, when our worldly viewpoint has a collapsing civility all around us, is an opposite day reaction. Our thankfulness supersedes our crazy worldly viewpoints, as our faith stretches past what we see, hoping in the unseen, and birthing a new trust for our trustworthy God. I call this: Hope In The Dark. The cool thing is, the joy that flows out of gratefulness is so soul strengthening, that it anchors our hope and during the storm that is upon us, we remain strongly anchored to God, steady in faith! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/choose-worship/

#1MinuteEncouragement Life can get stormy when you least expect it. Storms can come upon us so suddenly, violent life storms that we know we can’t navigate through. These stormy kind of days, we learn to trust in God with all of our heart and we lean on Him, knowing He will direct our path, He will navigate us. How will we get through these cultural storms? Only With God, In Followship Of Him. Do Not Fear. Without a doubt, God will take care of us, His Holy Spirit will lead us by His truth, and our Father God, He will protect us with His Mighty Right Hand. God is trustworthy do not doubt Him, lean into Him and find shelter in the storm under the refuge of His Presence. God bless you and yours. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/god-with-us/

Such a human mess we have made through our deplorable human condition fleshing out all over this world. Do you think we can fix it? I don’t. It is time to stretch our viewpoint past the world to God, to His Kingdom. We must look up, because this is where our help comes from, this is the reality of truth. We human beings can strive with every bit of knowledge that we think we know and we still can’t fix this mess we are in. We see it every day, people trying so hard and their hearts are right, but they are trusting in themselves. It is time for all of us to know a power, wisdom and strength higher than self. We must stretch ourselves past what we think we know or what we think we can do, stretch our lives up to God. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/stretch-be-navigated/

Light! How we could use some light right now in these dark times. God’s light of truth shatters darkness. God’s truth is a light that evil can never extinguish. God’s goodness breaks through as a light in the dark. We can hope in the dark because God’s Truth remains, always, His truth has endured the tests of trials of time. Unbelief does not alter truth; the reality of truth is not even affected by someone not believing in it. Truth remains truth even if you don’t believe it. People try to change things up by the cultural tides rolling in which say good is bad and bad is good. This is temporary, because every dark night ushered in by the bad trends of cultural tides, are always shattered by the Light of God’s Truth. Hope in the dark, watch, wait and see the Glory of God.

The challenge of our today is to shut out the clamor of evil voices, of loud, irrational, high-pitched chaos which are stirring up the dust of deception all over this world. Black out the voices and listen up to the One True Voice of God, the voice that matters most. #PrayItUP The say so of evil is roaring in full out “Cancel God” warfare and we feel we desperately need to react to this disinformation with our information, our truth. We don’t know what we “think we know”. Only God Knows; therefore our best reaction is to respond to Him, to listen up to Him. I choose not to become a part of the roar in the darkness, but a part of the hushed minority who is silently submitting to God in prayer, servant prayer warriors, praying and listening up to God. The Storm is upon us, and it is loud, silencing our voices by manipulated, crafty devices of evil. Silently submitting and listening up to the only Voice that speaks the reality of truth, in all of its fullness, looking up to the ONE Who created all of us, all of this, and has faithfully and purposefully maintained it, does not feel logical or have any common sense for a time such as this in our history. Yet, when has God trumped our way with His way, we yield the all of our everything to Him. He has done it throughout our history as human beings, as our very future and hope began with a silent night and a beautiful star in the east. Silence in the midst of roaring chaos, not the way I would have chosen, but I humbly submit to God and look up, listen up to Him, The Voice of my future and hope. #HeartTOHeart, there is a Storm upon us, watch in prayer, wait in hope and we will see the Glory of God. Silently submit your life to God. Out of the darkness of this night season, the Morning Star will rise and God’s light will overcome evil in His miraculously glorious way. Fully Face God and be silent, submit to God, shut out the clamor of worldly say so, ask God to stretch your faith as you shut out the voices of this world and listen up to Jesus, our Bridegroom’s Voice, the soon and coming King. #1MinuteEncouragement Silenced For 7 Days, But Not Out, Not Over. #HeartTOHeart With God.