HeartTOHeart

We all have hopes and dreams and are probably waiting on God for things we have ask Him to make a way for. Faith, it is the substance of things hoped for, but not seen. So, in that, we must know that we can’t focus on the negative circumstances, because where our focus in, there our soul goes. It is true it takes consistent faith, a constancy of holding up the shield of faith to fight off the deception of our time. Lies prevail in their trickery that leads us to the endgame of the enemy of our soul, to kill, steal our freedom and destroy our relationship with God. Active Faith, how do we keep it freely moving in our lives? Look at the Lord’s Prayer. Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Active Faith is honoring, respecting and reverencing God and knows with great AWE the power of His name and uses His name in faith declarations and prayer. Give us this day our daily bread. Faith Asks God and believes that He will give us daily what we need, that He will equip us. Faith prays a prayer with an engaged heart that knows, no doubt about it, God will answer me. What increases our faith? Knowing God better, yielding our lives to Him. Thy Kingdom Come, They Will Be Done On Earth As It Is In Heaven. This is a sweet surrender. God, You know what is best for me, You know me like no other knows me, so what You bring to my life is what is best for me. Faith has a focus and that is Jesus Christ, that is why when we pray deliver us from temptation and evil, we know He can as we yield our lives to Him, listen up and surrender to His navigation, as we stop feeding our flesh most and feed our soul and spirit with His daily bread. Give us our daily bread for our soul, Jesus, feed us with Your wisdom, peace, strength, hope, grace, love and truth. So today, Heart To Heart, I pray knowing Jesus, making it personal with Him, less of religion, more of relationship will increase our faith. God bless ya. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/courage/ https://rumble.com/vfogkn-got-bad-news.html https://rumble.com/v1758jf-activate-courage.html

This world can be very, very chaotic in times such as these. Peaceless! What is the way to peace? How is it defined? Being navigated by God to peace, is this a hard way to find and follow? No, the road is narrow to finding peace, it is found in the yielding of our lives to God, that place of total surrender to God. What a sweet place of heart, that total surrender of our lives, positioned before God in wholly-holy trust. Of course, it needs to be a surrendered trust to find peace. We should work towards giving God total access to our lives, because this is the way to peace. Chaos seeps into our soul when our heart is compartmentalized, giving priority to so many things other than God’s way, truth and life. The best thing we can do for our soul is to work towards having an undivided heart, being all in with God. When we yield to God, when we surrender to God, we find peace. How does this happen? Well, surrender is the way we activate our faith. We go from trust to activated faith, to peace. That wonderful Peace of Jesus, that surpasses all understanding. That beautiful “Shalom” which disrupts all the chaos in our lives. The peace of Christ, it is found as we bend our knee before God and position our hearts in humble trust of Him, making that heart-to-heart connection with God. Believing God wholeheartedly, this is a great way to activate our faith and will definitely lean us into the peace of God. Peace. I hope it for you, and me and for all who we love, as we navigate this cancel God culture, a society full out in the chaos of the lawlessness. From every moment into every choice, make the right choice to trust God, believe God, yield to God, and lean into His Sovereign Sway as you dig your life roots deeply in Him and His Kingdom. Resist the enemy’s chaos by doing good, and staying in close followship of God. God bless ya. Peace To You! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/peace-to-you/ https://rumble.com/v1n0zsw-everyday-security.html

What an incredible God we have! He is trustworthy! What a fantastic steady Presence of peace, strength, hope and courage we have in Jesus. We are so blessed to have God Present with us in times such as these. Our first step to peace is embracing God, and trusting Him. Trust leans us into faith and faith increased leaves us with peace. I know this world is just a wee bit cra-cra right now. Nothing is as it was. There is the threat of war, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and our corrupted culture of chaos has turned our world upside down right where we live. Our border is wide open, so there is no security, it hardly feels like we are a nation at all. There are no solutions to the many problems our nation faces. It is a time of great deception, where you can’t believe anything anyone says, and there is a void in strong, honest leadership. The civil servants, are serving themselves, no power higher than self. Yet, our God is still here, and He has not left us, this amazing Advocate that we have. He is our steady sureness as everything stable seems to be shaking. Jesus is our peace and this peace surpasses all of our understanding, that seems to easily overwhelm us in times such as these. Yet, Jesus is our Rock, and we are so blessed to have His unfailing strength, security, and peace in times such as these. Nothing happening in our now really matters, we have a future and a hope in God, and He is with us, right at the center of all the cultural chaos, He reigns in truth and love. Truth can be so refreshing in times of great deceit, and Jesus is our Truth, a light that can’t be extinguished by the darkness. We are so grateful to be His. #DigDeeper https://thebridegroomscafe.com/gods-love/ https://rumble.com/v1apye8-tug-of-war.html

Life is full of opportunities. Some opportunities matter in that temporary kind of way and some truly matter in that forever kind of way. God sets us up with divine appointments with people who need encouragement and care. Jesus ministered to the masses a lot, but He also cared for “the one” and did it in such an excellent way. Compassion was constantly flowing from Jesus. In your day today, God will set you up with “the one” that one person that He wants to encourage with truth and love. Be aware how God is moving all around you, be aware of His Presence and His desire to encourage people. God has something for us to do every single day, even if it is a kind smile to a stranger, who probably needed just that. Be aware of the people around you, don’t be so busy that you don’t even notice people at all. One person, one person put in your life path on this day, a set-up of a “Divine Appointment” by God. God knows the needs of everyone, He knows the people He has equipped for the specific person that needs a blessing of kindness, compassion, truth or caring? Be the one for the one that God sets you up with today. God is so good at setting up relationships, bringing friendship into your life, He is also good at making a Divine Appointment, connecting a person with a need with a person He has equipped to meet that need. Be the one today for the one! We offer nothing less than all to Jesus, we give Him total access to our life, so we can be the one who meets all the Divine Appointments He has for us on this day. God bless ya. Dig Deeper: https://rumble.com/v12mcq4-my-one.html https://thebridegroomscafe.com/what-can-i-do/ So brothers, since God has shown us great mercy, I beg you to offer your lives as a living sacrifice to him. Your offering must be only for God and pleasing to him. This is the spiritual way for you to worship. Do not be shaped by this world. Instead be changed within by a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to decide what God wants for you. And you will be able to know what is good and pleasing to God and what is perfect. Romans 12:1-2

Are you so busy that you are just not present with those you are with? Is your life plate so full that you can’t even give an ounce more of yourself to others? Who gets the short end of the stick when you are overburdened? It is usually those who have invested much in your life, they get overlooked when your life plate is too full. Time is short. To use our time on what matters most today, we truly need to be navigated by God’s Holy Spirit. God is with us. God wants to be a part of our lives. If we give God the first minutes of our day, sit before Him, yield our lives to Him, our next 12 hours to Him, He will make them matter. Because life is so short, we need to make a priority to invest the time we have been given in a way that matters. Think About It! There is someone who has invested much in your life, but you are so busy with everything that you have put on your life-plate, that you keep putting off talking with them. I will do it tomorrow. Famous last words. Those who invest much in you, they are the people that matter, the ones who have given you much. Use your time wisely, start with God first, He has given you much, yet you do not have time to spend with Him. Really, I am not meddling in your personal life, I am just giving you the best wisdom ever. Clear the things off your plate and let God put back the ones that matter. Take a deep breathe, listen up and be navigated by God, make your time matter. Be present in the lives of those that matter, don’t lose that opportunity to be and encourager to those who have invested much in you. Take a moment to contact them, be present in their lives, make them feel visible, valuable and viable to you. Don’t be so busy that you fly in and fly out of people’s lives barely noticing them, missing those divine appointments that God has for you in that moment. Make your time matter, because life is short, and you don’t want to miss the opportunity to be present in the lives of those who have blessed your life so much, especially the Lord God. Give God your best time, be present with Him, make it personal with Him, not just a duty devotional time, but a deeply related, vital-vertical relationship with God. Being so busy, that you are not aware of God, not present with God, not listening up to God, not connecting heart to heart with God, means time spent, time flying by without mattering eternally so. Don’t be that busy, busy person, be Present with God, be present with others, make your time matter. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/kindred-friendship/ https://rumble.com/vsroyn-time-is-flying.html https://rumble.com/vb7u75-a-ripple-effect.html

Vital-Vertical relationship with God! What does that mean? It means my relationship with God is personal. I don’t have religion, I have relationship. I say NO to religiosity. I make it personal with God. Genuine, Real, Passionate relationship with God is always personal and vertical. We pray it up to God. We are loyal to God first, and that creates a relationship where there is no distractions of the enemy that can disrupt the vertical relationship with God through the chaos our enemy loves to throw at us. We are not disturbed or disquieted by the enemy. In a vital-vertical relationship with God, where we are making it personal with God, He becomes our chaos disrupter by His famous Peace that surpasses all understanding. We are tight, God and us, we have a vital-vertical relationship and we are strong in Him. God always has something to say. Listen up to God first. Don’t give people the permission to speak into your life, unless you know God is speaking into their lives. God needs to be the first One speaking into our lives. God has never lied! God is a God of wholly-holy truth. Our world is slammed packed with lie after lie over the air waves. We consume so many false narratives daily, that it is no wonder so many of us live with a fake reality. Assumptions, speculations, presuppositions, rationalizations are lies. People speaking lies straight from the pit of hell, knowing that what they are saying isn’t true, but out of an evil motive, they speak false narrative. Only God speaks the fullness of truth and it is to Him that we should listen up to first. Be careful who you let speak into your life, guard your heart from deception. Out of your heart flows the issues of your life, so be intentional with listening up to God first. Take time to listen up to God first. Make it personal with God. If you have a strong vital-vertical relationship with God, then your horizontal relationships with others is held up by God’s way, truth and life. Our lives should be the picture of a cross. In vertical relationship with God and horizontal relationship with others. If you have no vertical, your horizontal is down on the ground and there is no way you can hold it up for long, you can try, but it will fall. We need that vital-vertical relationship with God, absolutely so. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/crosses/ https://rumble.com/vbnbel-step-out-go-grow.html

We are fearfully and wonderfully made. We human beings are the same in some ways, but uniquely different in others. We all have a body, soul and spirit. And we have a Common Denominator of our lives, and that is our Creator God. The enemy of our soul knows that our soul is our personality. We do life out of our soul, our feelings, our shape, our design, that makes us a unique person, all the issues of our lives are lived from our soul. The enemy loves it when He can disrupt our soul, and bring confusion and chaos into our lives. Disrupting our lives with chaos, makes us feel terrible, unstable in all of our ways, and we have trouble with our personality when we feel confusion that wraps our mind in anxiety. Cultural Chaos is rampant right now in times such as these, and it is easy to feel out of sorts because everything we have known as stability, is in a state of flux. It makes it so hard on our soul. Chaos is a difficult thing to handle, but GOD is an amazing disrupter of soul chaos. Even at the mention of His name, chaos is disrupted. The Word of God is living and alive in our hearts, and when we have a life-atmosphere where truth is prevalent, chaos is not allowed to function. We should not give the enemy of our soul permission to speak chaos into our lives and this happens as we truth in God’s Word into our mind. Shalom is the disruption of chaos and at the mention of the name of Jesus, peace is ushered into our soul. It is so amazing to experience chaos disintegrating at the mention of the name of Jesus. The enemy comes in like a flood of chaos at times, but God raises up a standard of truth against the enemy, and stops chaos immediately as peace soul saturates us. No weapon formed against us with prosper, because the name of Jesus, the name above all names is powerful, and able to disrupt the plans of the enemy and cease all chaos in our soul. Awe God. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/hold-me-jesus/ https://rumble.com/vxvtk5-stuck-in-chaos.html

Amazing God! I don’t think I will ever get over how incredibly amazing God is. I love the way He Advocates for us in the all of our everything. Life is not always going to work out the way we plan it, but God’s endgame is never what we thought it would be when we start out on the God Adventure with Him. God always finishes so well. Me, no so much. Apart from God, I struggle through and sometimes leave a mess on my life path. I have learned how much I need God to be a part of my life. I tore down all the compartments in my heart and I welcomed God in, hoping to live life with Him, wholly-holy His. I love this kind of living. It is amazing. I am not really good at anything, kind of normal, but in Christ, I am doing things I never thought possible for me to do. He has stretched my borders in ways I could never have begun to imagine my life to look like. I am so grateful to be His. His Infinite Love and Sovereign Will go hand in hand, so when His Will for me is so very hard to swallow, it goes down well with His Infinite Love, that surrounds my life and helps me grow through the tough days. God finishes what He starts. I never did until I met Him and He taught me in that miraculous way of His to cling to Him, dig my life roots deeply in Him. Have I had trouble in my life since I accepted Jesus in my heart… YES I have. Has He been with me and helped transform, deliver and teach me through the trials of my life, YES He Has. Awe Lord God! I love my vital-vertical relationship with Him. I love that I can look back on my life and see the heavenly hindsight of Providential Care of God, His purposes in play in my life, for my God. I worship Him. I love Him. I love His Truth. I love His Kingdom perspective that keeps my life focused off the bad and on the good. He is so merciful, I don’t deserve anything He has done for me, the changing of my life into His Image has been the sweetest grace in action I have ever experienced. God has done more for me than I could have ever hoped for or imagined and that is why I can confidently say to you all, put God first, and hook up with Him in a vital-vertical relationship, making it personal with God. You will not regret this choice. I promise. I have been loved, navigated, taught and changed and ready to step forward in God’s wisdom, strength and courage from every moment into every choice of my day. I am one thankful daughter of God. God bless you and yours. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/firstee/ https://rumble.com/vbnbel-step-out-go-grow.html

Have you lost your Awe of God? AWE is that overwhelming feeling of respect, honor and reverence when we experience things that miraculously overwhelm our senses. AWE is also thinking on God, all the majesty of His power, presence, perfection, purpose and providence. It is incredible how the increasing of our Awe of God, also boomerangs back on our trust of Him and as that trust stays consistent, our faith stabilizes and makes for a firm foundation for our soul in crazy times such as these. It all begins with Awe, just reverently bowing our hearts in appreciation of all He has done, all He has created, all He is. Awe is not a difficult thing to increase because God is so alive in the all of our everything. Sometimes, you can just pick up the Bible and read of God and the Awe that rises up, it soul saturates us with peace. I have loved developing my Awe of God and I highly suggest that we all become more aware of God in our lives and stand in Awe of Him, reverently honoring Him, respectfully yielding to Him and with abundance of praise and thanksgiving restoring our Awe of Him. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/awe/ https://rumble.com/vav28t-i-stand-in-awe.html

Got a decision to make? At a crossroad in your life? Are you wracking your brain and over thinking things? I have been there and done that. A lot of times I am so unsure what to do when I am at a life crossroad, and I know I need to make a decision, and I think. Overthinking is so exhausting and it increase our anxiety over the situation, which really fogs things up more and we struggle to find our way. Those are such peaceless times. We can work ourselves up to a frenzy trying to decide what to do. You know what we forget? We forget God is with us and we underestimate His power to guide us. The best thing to do is wait on God. God is not in fret or anxiety; God waits until we yield all things us, so we are no longer pushing forward with no power higher than ourself. God directs us by peace. God will guide us, no doubt about it, He will navigate us at that crossroad we find ourselves at. We should wait on God, pray, seek counsel, get in the Word and wait for God’s peace to guide us. When we don’t know the next step to take, we ask God, we wait on His peace, He will guide us. We are not alone; God is with us and He will guide us. While we are waiting, we have an active faith, and we continue doing what we already know God has told us to do. So, Heart To Heart, we continue doing what we know, and wait on God as long as it takes. God is faithful, His direction will come, we will have His peace. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/go-to-grow/

I love end of the day as the sun is setting on the day. I like to think about the happenings of the day and seeing all that God did in the day. He definitely treks through with us, and when you really look back on your day, you can see His Hand in your day. Sometimes we get so busy and then we are exhausted at the end of a day and we miss out on all those little miraculous things God did throughout the day. Then there are those stormy tumultuous days were everything that could go wrong goes wrong and sometimes you can’t even begin to reconcile some of the things that happened and your soul is in an uproar emotionally at the end of the day. It is those times, that we need to hand over to God all the unreconciled things. Lord, here you go, I can’t fix that, can you hold on to it, can you make a way for that crooked path to be straightened out, because I sure can’t. At the end of the day if you want to lay down in peace and sleep, this is a necessary thing. Hand it over, everything that is still not finished that is not looking like it will end well, give it to God, that is the safest, best place for it. If you don’t, believe me, not much sleep will be had. Whenever you get ready to retire for the evening the best thing to do is think of good things. Whatever things are good, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are peaceful and pure, think on these things. Gratefulness really promotes a peaceful atmosphere in your soul and makes it easier to sleep at night. So, think on some things you can be grateful for, and let that peace that surpasses all understanding soul saturate you and sleep well. Sweet Dreams Heart To Heart. Dig Deeper: Attitude Check https://thebridegroomscafe.com/attitude-check/ https://rumble.com/van3wd-busy-stop-be-thankful.html

It used to be that “Justice” was clearly defined, and now it is absolutely not, it is polluted by Political agendas, by people who serve no power higher than self-advancement. You never like to step into murky waters, because you don’t know what is in them. It is always great to step into water where you can see the bottom, it is clear, clean and not polluted. It is just not so with the Justice Department, with anything legal, you never know what the outcome will be when you step into a court of law, but you do know it won’t be the purity of righteousness in the justice you receive, it will be polluted. Many say in a time such as this that True Justice is dead. How sad is that? How did we fall so far? Where we have no confidence in our Federal Government? A jury says not guilty, and we can’t believe in it anymore, the verdicts are so tainted by political rot. Justice is not even lopsided anymore; it is totally leaning into the politically correct left. God is a God of Justice and all those used by the enemy for injustice will reap what they have sown. Evil may have its way right now, but there will come a day when God, Who is on the move and working on our behalf in the unseen says: “ENOUGH” and in that season, His justice will prevail and unclear injustice will clear up like a beautiful blue sky. Do you have injustice in your life? Don’t react, turn to God, Your Advocate, because He will soon make things right and He will guide you into the right response to your injustice. Our God of Justice has a way of straightening out crooked paths. Watch and wait in prayer, God’s Justice will prevail, soon and very soon, the injustices will boomerang right back on those who dealt them out. God’s Justice Will Prevail. Wait For It! Pray It Up! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/broken-people-break-people/ https://rumble.com/vaz91p-an-enemy-we-cant-fight.html

Darker and darker the human condition is on a downward spiral. Deceit, lawlessness, hate, anger all accompany the illegitimate grab of power. These times do stretch our faith, they are dark times, and the state of humanity is not good, yet we are never without Jesus, The Light of The World. We have to focus on whatever light we have, because there is always light, God’s light can’t be extinguished. Stay focused on the people who are good, stay wholly-holy aligned with the God of all goodness. Listen up to God’s Truth. This may be a dark night in the history of human kind, but joy comes in the morning. A downward spiral can be stopped and redirected by an upward light of God’s glory. Every day it gets worse and worse here in this world. We have fallen so far away from You, Jesus, and we don’t deserve anything less than Your wrath, Father God. You are a merciful God, but I am not even sure we deserve Your mercy. I know You are a God of Justice, so I pray You make things just for all, that every evil deed will be exposed and expunged by You, that Your Justice will prevail. I feel in my spirit that things are going to get worse. Lord God, help us to patiently endure, help us to go out with joy, each day in Your strength, peace, and courage. Help us to take the time to be soul saturated with Your Truth, Jesus, so we can step out and from every moment to every choice, from faith to faith, make the next right choice. Help us Holy Spirit, equip our belief, trust and may we always obey You as You navigate us through these times. Father God, we pray You keep our enemy at bay, protect us and thank you so much for your amazing Advocacy over us. Goodness still illuminates in the dark. To resist the enemy, we do good, we make the next right choice. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/a-mighty-fortress/

Rejection Stinks! How can we not feel the pain of rejection, or not struggle with the thoughts of rejection when we have a human condition? The enemy likes to throw out so many thoughts into our mind about not being good enough, about feeling left behind, about being rejected, about not being chosen, about being left out. Our enemy hates it when we feel accepted by God and others, it does not work with his wicked schemes and crafty plans for us to feel rejection that leads to disillusionment and destroys our confidence and faith in God and others. When we pick up the offense of rejection, laid down by the enemy, who delights in setting us up to emotionally fail, then we are immediately entrapped in his snare and isolated, which is where he wants us. Is the feeling of rejection real? What does that mean? Well? Is it in our reality of truth or is it just an assumption of rejection? Sometimes we think we are giving God our all, being all in with Him, so we won’t feel rejected, and our expectations don’t include not be chosen or not to be a priority to others. We have given and given, but have we given with open hands? What is our motive for giving? Who are we giving too? Is it God, or is it others? Do we do what we do unto God, because He has asked us to do it? Or are we serving no power higher than self? Because if we give looking to receive something back, then the enemy of our soul will jump in that open door to our soul, and make us feel rejected and disillusionment, so we don’t want to be a giver anymore. Jesus was actually rejected and He said we would be rejected because of him. Sometimes we chase after people who do not want to be caught, and we feel rejection and we cry out to God and He gives us the wisdom that helps heal our soul. Life is such. There is human condition in all of us and sometimes the feelings of rejection overwhelm us, and we say: I am done. I am done caring. And God says: “That is good. Glad you are finally done. That is a good place to be, done. Stop chasing after people, that is My job. I am the one Who is the chaser, I am the One Who changes hearts. Not You. If you chase after ME, my child, I will be caught by You, and I am the only One you truly need and the ONLY One Who will never reject you. Be found in Me, live, laugh and love unconditionally, and let go and let Me work with people. This kind of living, attached to Me first, will assure that you will no longer be tripped up by the enemy when it comes to “feeling rejected”, those are his lies. Seek Me, seek My truth, and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free from rejection lies of the enemy that are meant to keep you constantly discouraged. Truly, rejection is a feeling that comes to you with lies that the enemy feeds you.” Therefore, the God Truth will keep us free from the feelings and sting of rejection. Truly, there will be victory over rejection when we lay down our rights, when we bow, yielding to God in the all of our everything, our soul smoothly sails from strength to strength through trials, relationship strife, rejection, and hard times. The key to fighting off the wiles of the enemies “head talk” about rejection, is to bow our lives to God, yield our rights to God every morning, and be empowered and equipped by God, more of His character in us, less of our human condition in play. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/7-day-bow-encounter/

Followship is being directed by God from every moment to every choice, it is going to grow through our lives, by His way, truth and life. This is a great thing for us as human beings with crazy emotions. Why? Well, we have some crazy emotions that stir up. Our human emotions are something we can’t escape from; we have to handle them, and sometimes we do it in a good way that is not so good a way and it doesn’t end very well. We need God’s help with our emotions, truly, He is the only One who knows us best, so common sense says, He is the best one to talk to. A lot of times we choose to stuff our emotions, so we have that BOOM moment where they all come out in that KABOOM kind of way, and sadly we throw them up all over the people who happen to be around us. What a mess, a stanky mess, because we have held our emotions in for a long time, not wanting to deal with them and that powder keg of emotions, sparked by the next thing… KABOOM, they come up! This is exactly what we don’t want to do. We need to change it up so we don’t have those emotional boom-kaboom moments. Been there and done that and hate it when it happens, because I know it could have been avoided if I daily stayed in a vital-vertical relationship with Jesus, sharing my whole life with Him. Okay, so let’s handle our emotions better by taking them to God, talking it up with God. No more stuffing! Tell God what you are feeling, believe me, He can handle it. Moment by choice, let’s learn to take our feelings to God, share them with God and let Him shape them by His Truth. Go to grow, is simply-significantly not having a life where we compartmentalize things. Well, I can share this with God, but I don’t want to talk to Him about this. God wants us to be Wholly-Holy-His and share with God everything. He is with us all day long, He takes no breaks, so we talk with God about the emotions as they occur, and ask for help, letting God help navigate us by His Word. Give God Total Access To Our Lives. Wouldn’t it be sweet to flip-flop the negative human reaction into a Godly response? That is called self-control. We definitely can’t “do” self-control in our own strength, it takes God’s strength in us. I hope to see us all “grow through” the tough situations we find ourselves in where our emotions are strong and sometimes very rank. I hope we choose the right way of no stuffing, and not the wrong way of I will deal with this later, because the later will not be very pretty, it will be a flesh out of emotions, a Kaboom. Boom! Kaboom! Have you ever fleshed out in ways you could never have imagined doing and then you want to bury your head in the sand. Have you ever thrown up emotionally all over everyone! How embarrassing that is! Make the better choice to “go to grow”, and grow through your negative emotions by talking to God about them, He loves it when we do that, when we allow Him total access to our lives, because He has a great endgame to our hard situations. No Stuffing Emotions! Talk it up with God, the result is so much better. Go To Grow With God. Have a wonderful day. #DigDeeper https://thebridegroomscafe.com/sudden-changes/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/veg2qz-disruptive-emotions.html #HeartToHeart https://rumble.com/vaxw1t-it-is-noisy-so-noisy.html

Sometimes it is hard to wrap our mind around the ways of God. Bad people make bad choices, do things unjustly, falsely accuse people, lie about people and they seem to get away with it. Then we have those who are good, who are falsely accused and get no justice. These things bother me until I chose to remember truth, that God’s point of view, His kingdom perspective is long and my worldly viewpoint is short, and that is why I need to activate my faith, which is the believing in the substance of things not seen. This is when I decide that I must trust in what I know. Well, what do I know? I know God is fair. I know God is just. I know God is working out everything for our good, for our best, so He can get amazing glory from His end game. I know God is faithful. I know God finishes well and that He is a trustworthy Advocate. We think we have to balance the scales of injustice, that everything needs to turn out fair. This is not life. Sometimes an outcome is just not fair. These are the times we remember that God is a God of justice and His justice will prevail. Wait on it, patiently endure and see how God’s ways may not be our ways, but the endgame is so amazing and turns out to be for our best and for His glory. The worst injustice to deal with is when a person is actually doing what is bad and then they deny they are doing it and accuse someone innocent of doing it. Deny-Accuse, a tactic of the enemy that is so frustrating and really makes me angry. When an injustice has occurred and the situation seems so unfair, remember that we have God’s strength inside of us, we have the strength to be self-controlled and patiently wait while God is at work in the unseen. We can patiently endure in Christ, by the power of God’s Holy Spirit. Our strength is in the Lord. Awe-God! Happy are the people whose strength is in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage. As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a source of spring water; even the autumn rain will cover it with blessings. They go from strength to strength; each appears before God in Zion. Psalms 84:5-7 Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/activate-courage/ Rumble: Tripped up? Get up. Don Not Quit: https://rumble.com/vb05lx-tripped-up-get-up.-do-not-quit..html

Redeem The Time Time is a precious gift. Time! It goes by so fast. What do you do with your time? Do you find a lot of it is wasted on petty distractions that the enemy has set us up to be upset? Have you ever heard the saying that “time is flying”. How do we redeem the time, making the most out of every day. For me, I find that if my first step out is down, and I bow down to the Sovereignty of God’s plan for me in the day, then it seems like my day goes better. It is so important to do things that matter. We can redeem our time today in a way that matters with kindness, gentleness, love, and truth. These are the things that matter, that stay around forming a living legacy out of our time here. In times such as these there are mean spirited, angry, grouchy people all over the place and we never know what will trigger their flesh out reaction. Where deception is so prevalent, we can so easily, unintentionally trigger people by the truth we share. So how do we respond to someone negative and angry? The correct use of this time matters. We can make an eternal impact by not reacting out of our flesh, by not fleshing out in reaction to someone who is fleshing out at us. Take that deep breath and breathe in God’s Holy Spirit and exhale your reaction and respond out of God’s of the power of God’s Holy Spirit. Give up your right to be right to the ONE Who is right, The Holy Spirit of God. Only God can give us the power to be self-controlled when someone else is not and they are in our face with their anger, bitterness and hatred. Not reacting and responding in a gentle, godly way, sharing the truth in love with them, and allowing the Holy Spirit to do His job of conviction and convincing is our best course of action. We don’t have to do that job, that part where the Holy Spirit convinces them, the part where He is the prover. We don’t have to prove anything, we don’t have to make them see we are right, that is the Holy Spirit’s job. We should stick to doing our part, speaking the truth in love and let the Holy Spirit be the Prover. We can redeem the precious time we have been given on this day by being gentle, kind, truthful, and loving. Speak the truth, speak it once with firm, bold confidence, and let God prove it. What happens if you don’t agree? Trying to be right often leads into a heated argument, where we end up not redeeming the time, we end up fleshing out. Choice by choice we can redeem the time by being God’s agent of truth and love, letting the battle be His, letting go and letting His Holy Spirit Work. God is the Proof, Jesus is the Proven and The Holy Spirit is the Prover. When we yield to the Triune God, we redeem the time in the power of His life, by His characteristics alive in our response. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/flesh-out/ Other Rumble Videos: https://rumble.com/vcdjqz-stretchmake-peace.html; https://rumble.com/vaw2fb-stupid-petty-arguments.html

God is a giver. We were created in His Image, that is why we also are givers. I love giving to others. I love encouraging others. This is because God’s Image in me reflects out of me. God gives to us continually, do we acknowledge it? The wonderful Giver, our God? There are those times when God uses shock and awe, giving to us abundantly and suddenly. Usually when that happens to me, it humbles me so incredibly. One thing is for sure, we will never outgive God! Miracles happen every single day in so many ways God is on the move in our lives, providing, protecting and purposefully leading us. This is nothing short of miraculous, that our GOD is with us from every moment to every choice of our lives, giving us what we need to grow through this life and become more like Him. Miracles happen every day, but we very rarely stop to take notice of them, we have gotten used to having God in our lives, making our way. Can you even begin to imagine what the world would be like completely void of God? I don’t even want to go there. The Awe of God, the reverence of Him, the respect of Him has diminished much in our world. We have taken the Presence of God with us and for us, for granted. Sometimes God does these shockingly HUGE things to gain attention from us and once He does that in your life, that something you could never hope for or imagine happens and it shocks you back to reality and full focus of God. God is a giver and when He gives in a huge way, it does bring you back to the amazing truth, to the seeing of the everyday miracles, it brings you back to gratitude, awe, thankfulness in the all of your everything. We so need to get back to the basics of just plain AWE of God. We take so much for granted, yet He still works in the unseen these every day miracles for us. His giving is unstoppable. The sun rises. The tides change. The dew forms on the grass. There are so many, you can add your own in the comment section. We can start this moment with a new God consciousness, a commitment to be aware of what He is doing and begin to sharpen our senses and awaken our grateful heart towards Him. Let’s begin giving honor to whom honor is due, our Almighty God, Who created us in His image, Who faithfully maintains His creation moment to moment, miraculously so. AweGOD! Thankyou Father God for the miraculous touch of Your Presence, Protection, Provision and Purpose in our lives, faithfully at all times. We are so grateful for You. AweGOD! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/completely-satisfied/

Wow, the wind is whipping in our cultural chaos. Change is swirling up some incredible emotional tornados. It used to be that we could keep safe from the storms, but now they are so violent, that they are interrupting out lives in ways we could not have even begun to imagine. Times are changing, but God is not. God remains steadfast and faithfully working on our behalf for our good and His glory. This is what the Providential Care of God looks like, these two purposes our good and His glory, intermingled in an Advocacy on our behalf for His Kingdom. The most miraculous way to live is with a kingdom perspective, shedding ourselves of a worldly viewpoint and doing life with Jesus, giving the Holy Spirit of God total access to our lives. It is a great God Adventure these cultural storms. God is doing new things that He has never done before. Seek God, find Him in the storm, He is in the midst of it. Storm Watch is not letting the storms off the horizon of our life, frighten us, but instead, clinging tighter to God, digging our life roots deeply in His Kingdom. Don’t react to the whirlwind, respond to God first. Walk in followship with God, knowing that the truth of our Salvation is that we are never alone, never unequipped for the Storm Watch. The storms may be whipping up some nasty stuff in our culture and it may feel like an overwhelming chaos around us, but it can be well with our soul. God is with us. He will never not be with us, our faithful God. There is nothing He can’t do, there is no one who is more powerful than Him. The Sword He has yielded is a Truth that stands the tests of time. As you find yourself in a storm watch, pick up the Bible and let God speak His truth into your soul. Peace, be still, let be, be still and know I AM God. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/purposeful-permanence/

Let Be - Be Still And Know He Is God. He Is Our Peace. Is it well with your soul? Do you have peace in these chaotic cultural times? Jesus, just the mention of His name and there is peace. Jesus is our Prince of Peace; He is the quiet for the anxiety in our soul. There was a time when He said: Peace Be Still and the storm stopped. We believe in Him, the Savior of our soul, the Way-Maker of our future, our hope in the darkness of these times. Heart To Heart, I do hope for us peace as we let the truth of God’s Word soul saturate us, as we know that this is not all there is, as we realize the reality of truth that we have an incredible future where there is no deception, there is no hate, there is no sin and there is no deceiver. Jesus Christ is the way to that future, and we seek to know Him, we accept Him in our heart. Salvation is here with us, for us as an Advocate of peace in times where civility is allusive. The best thing about salvation in Jesus Christ, is that we step out in our lives with Him, with His peace, and every moment to every choice, He is with us, He is equipping us with everything we need. Jesus, He is for us. We are never alone, we are never forsaken, we always have an Advocate. This is our peace, this truth that never changes. Whatever comes our way today, we open our heart wide to God, and He will fill it with His peace and it will be well with our soul. God bless you and yours with His peace. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/salvation-is-here/

We grow to be more like Jesus as we grow through the tests of this time. God never said that it would be easy here. In fact, Jesus actually said we would have many trials, that life might get hard for us, but that He would be with us. When we accepted Jesus in our hearts, did we mistakenly believe that everything would smell like roses from then on? The greatest gift of accepting Jesus in our hearts was a future, which is not here and God’s Presence with us here. We are not alone. Our salvation guarantees that. We are never alone, we face nothing alone, we always have the strength, courage, grace, wisdom and peace of God. God with us, the fragrance of God in this stanky world is always with us. This is why it makes no sense when we quit on God and we quit living life. We have the most amazing strength in us and Jesus has given us courage to face this day, a time such as this. If we are afraid, we face life afraid with a bold courage, we press through the fear with courage, because God is with us. God has gone before us to make a way and we know God has already won. Courage is stepping out into the fear of the unknown and doing what God has asked us to do. When the stank of this world overcomes us, we don’t quit on God because we have been filled with the fragrance of God, equipped by Him to be strong and courageous in Him in times such as these. Yes life can get super hard, very stanky, but we don’t quit. God never quits on us, not one of us. We should never quit on God and other people. Tap into the strength of God. No, it is not easy, Yes, we are growing to be more like God as we face the trials of this season of life. Our character grows as we press through hard times in the strength and joy of God. Be bold, be strong, be courageous in Christ. No more excuses for not trying, never give up, stand strong in God, on the side of God’s Truth and wait patiently, pressing on in Christ, waiting for Him to come through, because He will, He will do things in His way and it will turn out great, more than we could ever have hoped for or imagined. So be bold, be strong and courageous and don’t quit, God is with us, God is for us. God bless ya. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/activate-courage/

Of course, we know as Christians, our identity is wholly-holy in God. Our reputation is truly the sign of just how much our lives are wholly aligned with God’s life. Who are you in the eyes of others? What is your reputation? If someone hears your name in a conversation, what do you think pops into their mind about you? What words come up that are synonymous to who you are? Nice person? Mean person? Kind? Hateful? Do you realize that we were created in the Image of God? All of us were. When we are connected with God, heart to heart, His characteristics seem to be mirrored in our lives, so our reputation seems to be a lot like Him. Without God navigating our lives, that means we are altering our reputation by our human condition which is very fickle and self-centered. With God, we are selfless and we have all the attributes that go with that kind of living. Without God we are self-centered and we reek of a bad reputation. Our reputation can be bad or good and it can truly be measured by how much or how less we have surrendered our lives to the accountability, guidance, and navigation of God’s way, truth and life. If you are wholly-holy surrendered to God and in complete followship of Him, you will have a very godly reputation. This is just the reality of truth. When you are doing your own things outside of God, looking out for the number one, YOU, you will have a bad reputation because you will be feeding your flesh and won’t have much self-control as you flesh out all the nasty things that independence from God brings about. The best way to develop a good reputation is by leaning into a personal relationship with God and mirroring all things Him. There is no reputation better than Gods, so why not emulate it in your life? Choose to walk, talk and be like God. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/he-knows/

There is a tug of war between truth and lies and it affects us all. Deception is so prevalent in our times, it is overwhelming the evil that is being exposed and expunged by God. It shakes us our inner spiritual core, trembles with anxiety at times, especially because there is no break from the cultural chaos continually roaring as we are daily confronted by the father of lies. The Holy Spirit of God is our Advocate and He, being with us at all times will navigate us through this time of deception. We can breathe in the Truth of God daily, as we study and mediate with our Bible, our anchor of truth that will hold. We can stand on the side of truth when everyone else around us is chaotically roaring in deception. (Look At Elijah: 1 Kings 18:17-39 Read It) Our anchor of truth will hold us, no doubt about it. We are highly encouraged to trust in the power of God’s Word, as it can and will stand the test of time, it will endure the pounding of deception in times such as these. We can step out and stand on the side of truth, even though the world violently tugs on us with thugs and mob violence, erratically and irrationally pushing forth a fake reality with fear, attacking us with physical threats, and financial ruin. Yet, we stand, we stand in unity with God and His Truth, we depend upon the Holy Spirit of God to make a way for us when our worldly viewpoint shows no way of truth. Together, we are so good, so we make the choice to learn and live with a Kingdom perspective, a reliance upon God, giving God total access to our lives. We say no to living by emotion and feelings, and yes to living by fact and truth. God is greater and more powerful than our enemy who attacks our reputation, finances, future, and hope with false narratives and outright lies about who we are and what we do. We give those stuck in a fake reality no permission to speak into our lives, and we hold the line of truth, we position ourselves under the Rulership of God’s Love. In this tug of war, we will feel exhaustion, but as we dig our life roots deeper in God’s Kingdom. And in the yielding to God, the letting God lead, we will know a strength like no other, a courage like no other, a boldness like no other and we will be able to share truth and love with our enemy is a way we never could imagine doing. On this day of incredible controversy for the truth of God, we breathe in the power of the Holy Spirit, and we exhale, anxiety, fear, and weakness as we choose God and His Kingdom perspective, over this world and its corruptive illegitimate authority. We hold the line of truth and our anchor will hold. Breathe in God in all of His glory and exhale, doubt, worry, and depression. We are anchored in Jesus Christ and our anchor will hold and joyfully, we will go about God’s business, and we will grow through the times such as these, and we will finish well. Stand! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/stand-for-you/

These are times where there is absolutely no clarity, and we are fogged in by the confusion and deception of our cultural say-so. This is the perfect time to take a personal sabbatical alone with God, apart from all things puzzling us, making our minds tired as we try to wrap human understanding around what God is doing. God is working in the unseen exposing and expunging evil, and He is not giving us understanding of His ways. God is asking for us to trust Him in the confusion the enemy is stirring up deceptively in our world. There are those times when we absolutely need to get away with God, leaving all distractions behind, hoping that we see things with clarity, these new life experiences, these changes in our culture that are totally blowing our mind. Hmmmm… maybe we even find out that God was in the confusion, actually was the Author of it. Truth Is: The Lord said: These people approach me with their speeches to honor me with lip-service, yet their hearts are far from me, and human rules direct their worship of me. Therefore, I will again confound these people with wonder after wonder. The wisdom of their wise will vanish, and the perception of their perceptive will be hidden. Isaiah 29:13-14 Take some time away and breathe in the fresh revelation of God. Listen up and let God speak His clarity. God has confounded the wisdom of the wise in times such as these. No facts are standing out, only emotional opinions are heard loudly and then crashing into chaos. There seems to be no real wisdom that is not confounded in times such as these. We are a befuddled human race, enveloped by our corrupt cultural chaos that has taken over as we serve no power higher than self. Our world is jumbled up with mediatic false frenzy that has led to many living in a fake reality. Deception has overwhelmed us. This is so true: 1 Corinthians 1:27 God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. Confused, we seek truth and God is using this lack of clarity to bring us back to Him, heart to heart with Him, being navigated by His purity of righteousness, to stand upon His strong foundation of truth. It is hard to find our way in times such as these, but it is not impossible, as we come back to God, and yield to His way, truth and life, becoming wholly-holy His. So, what now? Well, do it… shake off all the distractions, give God total access to our lives, and look up to God, listening up to Him first. God is the only ONE Who knows, the wisest of us all, Jesus Christ, Spirit of Truth. All knowledge starts and ends with God, our Navigator of our next step into our next right choice. It is a time to stop listening to any human being, but look up to God and listen up to Him, first. It is wise on our part to surrender our lives to God, the Creator of all things, the Creator of all people, and the ONE Who maintains all things for us. God knows us most, and God knows us best. God wants to be in a love relationship with us and desires for us to stay in followship of Him, in times such as these. There is no better way to grow through these times of unclarity than with God’s Spirit of Truth, Jesus. Stop listening to men and look up Higher and listen to God first. This is where the clarity is, Christ in us. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/christ-in-me/

Have you ever been in a time of transition where all hell broke loose? Transitions are hard, it is not an easy time because you feel caught between old and new. It is a time in your life where you will feel strong confusion and unsteadiness. If you are in the old life season, stepping toward a new life season, you want to focus on the old and finish well. Let God lead you into the new life season, don’t be impulsive and push forward to quickly, let God’s Holy Spirit Navigate you in His timing. God’s timing is purposefully the best and it brings about the best you. When you step into the new life season, you want to be the best you, that you can bring into that new life season. Common Sense tells us that if we are stepping into the new out of the old, that the enemy will pour out all kind of strife, adversity and confusion. Transition is a narrow place; we are winding down from the broad comfort of an old life season into the newness of a situation that we sometimes don’t know anything about, so our viewpoint is narrow. Transition is a time of change, so we do need to change. Change is hard to face as it is, but stepping out of an old life season into a new life season makes change even harder. We can end well in our old life season even though it is challenging during times of transitions, and we will find the need for self-control high. Within every great challenge, the God purpose contained in the challenge is greater than the challenge itself. This is how God rolls, He purposefully shapes us, equips us with what we need for the new life season and this can be very challenging as we are growing through a transition from old to new. We need God’s help. Everything is changing, and so must we, and God is the right One to help us do that effectively and excellently. Yes, transitions are hard, but God is truly up to the challenge of bringing forth the best you that can step into this next life season gracefully, in the rhythm of His Sovereign Will. When you are transitioning from one life season to the next, just lean into God’s Sovereign sway, don’t resist the change, follow after God and don’t be unwilling to be led. Let be, let go, be still and watch God work something new in You, making You the best you that you could ever be to step into the new great God Adventure He has for you. Guard your heart with all diligence, work at the change with all your heart leaning into God’s Will and be the best you connected heart to heart with the best of Him. Happy Transition and God bless your new life season. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/divine-power/