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#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.

#1MinuteEncouragement When we do the wrong thing, it will not only boomerang back on us, but on all those we are in relationship with. Sin has consequence. The deception of sin is how the enemy tricks us to believe this is our choice and only our consequence that we risk. Yet, the reality of truth is, we don’t sin alone, the consequences of sin are so far reaching. Everyone feels the consequences of one person’s sin. Our enemy is not really for us, he uses us to do his bidding, and then tosses us away. Torment happens when you make a pact with the devil, disobey God and sin, completely underestimating the enemies’ power. The enemy of your soul, is never going to be your advocate, it is against his edict to steal, kill and destroy. When a government corrupts, we all suffer from the sin of our leadership, we feel the sting of this backbite throughout the nation.

#1MinuteEncouragement It makes no sense because it isn’t going to make sense. God is doing things His Way. Are your prayers not answered? Do you think it is over? It is NOT. God is working in the unseen. Let be, Be Still and Let God work. In His Way God is able to bring about a miraculous endgame that will leave you speechless. Let go, let God Work.

#1MinuteEncouragement Things not going your way? Are you patiently enduring with no understanding at all? We don’t always have to understand what God is doing. We have to trust Him in what He is doing, He is never not at work for us, our Advocate God. There are times we are not meant to understand, but have faith in our Way-Maker God. It is a slow go sometimes, purposefully, as God works in the unseen for our good and His Glory. God does not always do things right away or our way, but His Way. You gotta love our 29-59 slow go God, Who does faithfully come through for us at the last minute, with His incredible endgame. Simply-Significantly, God Is At Work In The Unseen For Our Good And His Glory. I Believe.

People can “black out” communication so you can’t hear what you want to hear, and control what you can hear, to be only what they want you to hear. But they can’t black out God’s Voice and this is the only Voice we need. Lately my communication with God has been discernment that is stretching my faith. The Holy Spirit is our Advocate, and He will prepare us for the things to come. In times such as these there are many people who have been corrupted by power that is no higher than self. Don’t give these people with their mediatic false frenzy, permission to speak into your life. God still speaks and what we truly need is to listen up to God and black out all the human voices, so we can be spiritually prepared for the days ahead. We serve a Way-Maker God, Who can and will navigate us through the dark chaos ahead with His Light of Truth.

#1MinuteEncouragement No Doubt About It Change Is On The Horizon. We won’t be able to navigate these times by our own. We need the wisdom and navigation of God and all we have to do is ask. Our God is a trustworthy Advocate and a great Navigator for times such as these. Ask God for what you need. God is the Light in this present darkness and He will be our simply-significantly enough in the storms approaching our horizon.

Bucking our will up against God just doesn’t work out for the best. It is exhausting. God’s ways are not our ways and sometimes they are very hard to swallow, but it sure does go down easier with His Love. The Sovereign Will Of God And Infinite Love Of God Go Hand In Hand. This is why we can patiently endure the hardships of our lives, and put our complete hope in God. God’s love strengthens us in the all of our everything. This life can be so very hard at times, but we are never separated from God’s love. So, when bad things happen and seem to stick around for a long time, slip your hand into God’s Hand of Love and say: “It is what it is”.

#1MinuteEncouragement Look Up. Listen Up. No doubt about it. We have a Navigator. We are not left alone; we are not on our own. This new year, we will be navigated through by God’s Holy Spirit. God is faithful and trustworthy, and will shine a light on our pathway this year. We will know where to go, how to go and will be able to grow through the great God Adventure ahead for us. We have an Advocate, Who through our past, has prepared us, equipped us, and grown us through with God purpose for our future. We are primed by God to be the overflow of His Living Water on all those He has divinely placed around us. As we watch in prayer, wait on God, and move in followship of His lead, there is no doubt we will see His Glory in the God Adventure ahead for us. God bless you and yours this year.

Be a peacemaker. How humility? We should start our New Year off in one of the best ways for us. How? By making peace in those relationships where there has been strife. Are you cold shouldering someone over a strife of the past? Make peace. The calm in your soul benefits you so much because you can hear clearly with God when there is no soul chaos. Being navigated by God’s Holy Spirit is so vital in times such as these. This is why we should do what it takes to make peace in all of our relationships. Do your part to make peace and then leave the rest up to God. God is so amazing at making crooked places of relational strife, straight. So, go and make peace. Humble yourself.

So, 2020 really stunk at times! How about you? Was it challenging for you? I learned how to be intentional in my relationship with God, listening up, and being navigated by Him through difficult and impossible situations. God made all things possible. I am thinking 2021 will be a great adventure for all of us, and God will stretch us, we will grow up in ways we can’t even begin to imagine. 2020 did not disappoint in its chaotic nature, but neither did God, He truly showed up in miraculous ways. As I step into 2021, I know God is completely trustworthy, my heavenly hindsight says so. This will be an interesting year, I am thinking our faith will stretch, our trust increase. Are you up for it? Connect with God, Heart To Heart, focus up, think up, look up and listen up. The challenge may get to be great in 2021, but the purpose of God in our challenges will be greater and work for our good and His glory. Here we go… 2021. My Word In 2021 Is “Stretch”!

#1MinuteEncouragement God said that He would and He has. He created and He has maintained. We are a blessed people. We remember the provision of strength, encouragement, guidance, peace and love as we step into 2021 knowing that our God changes not. He is with us. He is for us. 2021 will be a great God Adventure in Him and through the victory of His life, we step out into 2021. God bless you and yours. Look Up. Stretch your focus from here to Him. Believe.

#1MinuteEncouragement As we close out this year our souls feel very “war torn”. But, if we look up and stretch our focus past our worldly viewpoint, we see with heavenly hindsight, the Kingdom perspective, of how much our God has miraculously done, and how He has not forsaken those He loves. Look to God as you step out of this year and your AWE of Him will overpower and disseminate all the disappointing-discouraging times we have grown through this year. God has shown Himself as a “Strong, Very Present Advocate” of love, light, power and truth this year. God has never left our side, was never not working for our good and His Glory, as His purposes have been in play in the unseen. I step into this new year with trust, increased faith and AWE of my God. I love you, Lord God. I believe in You, I believe You. I Believe.

#1MinuteEncouragement Stumbling? Got darkness all around you? Feeling down in your soul? Depressed? Hopeless? Look up! Jesus is a LIGHT of Hope that no darkness can extinguish. God’s light of TRUTH can’t be extinguished. No man, no evil, nothing can put out the truth of God and His light that shatters the darkness of deceit. God is purposefully working in the unseen. We have an Advocate, with us and completely for us. Thus and Therefore, we can patiently endure these times we are growing through. God is never underwhelming ~ He still can ~ He still will. Never underestimate God. Shake off doubt. Cling to God, dig your life roots deeply in Him. Be encouraged and hope in the dark. God bless you and yours.

#1MinuteEncouragement In a time, such as this, we do not have the luxury of human reaction. It is easy to fall into the trap of the enemy who baits us with the deception flavor of the day. Every day we face temptation twisted by deception. Our enemy entices us to flesh out, reacting first out of our emotions, discarding common sense, civility and compassion as we try to defend what we are not meant to and try to become a fixer that we can’t be. God is the only Fixer. Only God can take the crooked paths of our times such as this, which our sins have twisted up, and navigate us by His Holy Spirit, making a way for us to respond in humble submission to Him.

A Sweet Day #1MinuteEncouragement Who can count the grains of sand? Only God knows. That is a sweet thought, that we serve this kind of God, who knows the count of every grain of sand on the beach. His incredibleness makes it easy to trust in His Ways and this kind of trust in God, ushers in peace to our soul and makes for a sweet, joyful, careless, stressless day. God bless you and yours with a sweet day in Christ Jesus, our hope of glory. Roll your burdens on God, He is able to carry them and it makes for such a sweet day. Know Jesus, Know His Peace And Have A Sweet Day.

#1MinuteEncouragement Do you need strength to handle your worldly viewpoint? Is it ugly, scary and undesirable? Is your faith being battered by doubt and fear? Do you have despair and hopelessness knocking on the door of your heart? Do you know Jesus? He knocks on the door of our heart today. We must let Him in. He is the beauty in life that is so very worth knowing. Is the ugliness of the human condition and the stank of human actions filling your soul with unbearable living? There is hope for your hopelessness. Beauty exists and it exists in the person of Jesus Christ. Today, we collectively, breathe in Jesus, into our hearts, into our souls, receiving Him and the renewing strength of His hope, the reviving light of His joy. Today we choose to focus on the forever ending we have been promised by our Finisher, Jesus, Who will finish what He started and finish well for us, for our good and for His glory. Breathe, Just Breathe In The Presence Of God Today.

Our God is a Way-Maker. His love is evidenced throughout our universe from every moment to every choice of transformation. There is no greater love and He demonstrated this. He sent His Son, Jesus to us and Jesus ushered in the greatest transformation ever known to mankind. Death to life, hopelessness to a forever hope. We, have never been loved better or more abundantly than we have on this day as God is with us, God still loves us, God still speaks, God still cares, God is still with us and for us and God Sovereignly rules over the all of our everything in His Miraculous-Merrily-So way. Let be, be still and know He is God, receive the all of His everything in your life today. #1MinuteEncouragement will continue sharing with you God’s Voice of encouragement as we step out of 2020 into 2021 still listening up to God and we hope you will be blessed by Him. Have a great day.

JOY Hoped For You And Yours Merry Christmas Eve To You And Yours From 1 Minute Encouragement. I started these videos to be used by God to deeply encourage others in one minute and God has proven to be quite able to do so. I am so grateful for all of you who have subscribed and I will continue in 2021 to do the 1 Minute Encouragement Videos for you, to bless and encourage you. I wrote a poem 5 years ago, a special rendition of “Twas The Night Before Christmas” I reread it recently and can’t believe how incredibly relevant it is for THIS season of our time. But, God is always like that, so relevant. His Word, His Truth, His Way has never lost relevancy. It is so amazing. Enjoy: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/twas-the-night/

It is crowded, there is no room in the inn. The hustle bustle of our world is off the scale. With great busyness comes soul exhaustion and we can begin to “feel” lost, in our crowded life and we can eventually push God out to the point where there is no room for Jesus in our heart. This is not a good position to be in because we have an enemy who likes to deceive us, so we “feel” alone, excluded, isolated, invisible and insignificant. Simply-Significantly the truth is, we are not. This is a lie. God is significant, therefore we, who belong to Him are too. I am not alone, I am not invisible, God sees me, and with my identity wholly-holy in Him, I am significant, miraculously-merrily so.

The Christmas Story is full of possibility as we see so many miraculous things happen. In the Living Word, God powerfully promises us incredible things. Everything we see with our eyes was created by His spoken Word, miraculously, merrily so. God's promises stomp out our hopelessness. God Incarnate, our Christmas Savior, can flip our impossibility to possible. We know without a doubt, God's YES is on the table with us. We watch in hope, we wait in prayer and we see His Glory in our lives. Miraculously-Merrily-So. God is with us. Merry Christmas to you and yours.

As the sun sets on this year, hopelessness sits on our joy like a ton of bricks and steals the freedom in our soul. Have you noticed or experienced the hopelessness in our culture in times such as these? I sure have. Yet, no matter what we see or feel, we must call to remembrance that we do have a forever hope that lights up the Christmas story, our bright hope in our Savior, Jesus Christ. Have you put your hope in situations, places, locations, people, family, friends, dreams, or experiences just to get them dashed and stomped on? The best place to put your hope and expectations is Jesus Christ. Let it be so this Christmas. Hope in Jesus.

In a time of seasonal celebration, we find ourselves distracted by our culture chaos and need to stretch our faith past what we feel, to what we know. We are surrounded with the stank of the human condition, it is a dark time where humanity has flip-flopped right for wrong and wrong for right. It may seem like all good has lost, yet we can’t underestimate the purposes of God which are powerfully in play in the unseen. Our God is a strong finisher and He will finish well, what He has started. This is the truth we know. We must stretch our faith past what we see to the truth we know. This is a season to grow through with strong faith and complete trust in God. Let’s be so, standing on the side of truth, active in faith, strong in hope, seasoned by joy.