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Do you take everything said at face value without finding the facts? Sometimes we see things on social media from people we don’t even know, and we buy into them instantly as if they are true. How can we know someone is telling the truth when we don’t even know them? How do we know the person we are believing is not deceiving us with a twisted up fake reality? When you are not “doing life” with someone, then you probably should not take what they say as reality of truth until you know it is factual by proving it out through sought after facts. Deception is out of control in this chaotic cultural season where Mediatic False Frenzy is at an all-time high and the “Cancel Culture” is in full swing. Fear Not! Assumptions and Speculations are not truth, and wild opinions flung everywhere may not be based on even a little snippet of truth. How do you know someone’s opinion is true? We need in crazy, cra-cra cultural times such as these to be navigated by God. Listening to these false narratives, taking them in one after the other, it can stir up a lot of fear. F.E.A.R. = False Evidence Appearing Real. Falsity adds no value to our lives, truth does and this is why facts matter. Sometimes we need to take all the unclear assumptions, speculations, false narratives and toss them out. Don’t entertain anything but truth in our mind. We need to be better at discerning truth from deception, and this takes a strong vital-vertical relationship with God. Don’t take everything someone says at face value because they are emotional about it. Seek Truth. Find Facts. Stand on the strong foundation of truth, this foundation will hold through the storms of life. Too many false narratives lead to a fake reality, which blinds to the reality of truth. Be careful with your mind, guard it from deception. Seek God. Listen Up To God First. Be Navigated By The Spirit Of Truth! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/missionary-prayer-journey-5/

Don’t you wish everything was so perfectly clear and you knew exactly what to do!? If only life was like that! Life is so up and down and sometimes so very hard to navigate in these uncharted waters of our time. Our culture now-a-days seems so crazy-cra-cra in that upside down kind of way. We never know what will come our way, and suddenly everything can feel like it is running fast, downhill without brakes. There are times it is so foggy, that we just can’t see ahead. Oh my gosh, we need to stay so alert to God’s Presence in times such as these. We need to stay so close to Him, in a tight followship of His discernment, way, truth and light. The cool thing is, God sees us. Yes, GOD SEES US! He is a God Who sees in the dark, sees in the fog, and nothing is ever unclear to Him. God Knows All! Our God is a Light that no darkness can extinguish. We, with His help, and navigation, can clearly know the way He is setting our feet too, as He lights the path one step at a time. Sometimes, we just can’t see the way ahead at all, as life can get so fogged in, and when it is like that, we need to ask God to be our navigator. He can. He will. So many times, I have not been able to see ahead, the confusion was so thick, but I kept going, kept doing the very last thing God asked me to do. This is a really wise thing to do, keep going in the direction God gave you, with the vision He has already imparted to you. If we remain in steady trust and keep asking God for direction, there is no doubt about it, God will interrupt the confusion with a new clarity. The enemy will throw as much fog our way as possible, and it will be so hard to navigate clearly, but we still will have clarity from God, miraculously so. God will make a way for us, even when we are not sure we will make it safely through the maneuvering of the difficult times we face, moments where the crooked paths of cultural chaos intertwine and try to dead end us. Our Way-Maker God will never leave us or forsake us. Stuck in a dark dead end? Don’t fret, the clarity will come, and God will make a way out where there seems to be no way. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/yet-in-darkness/

Oh, the beauty and peace of silence. The sounds of silence that most of us absolutely love differ for each of us. Mine is a creek. I love that sound of silence. We don’t have much quiet in our roaring culture. Everyone has something to say and we are all saying it louder and louder so we can be heard. Speculation, opinions, assumptions are so loud as people try to push to the forefront their way, their fiction and their fake reality. LOUD! Chaotic and peaceless, this is our cultural synopsis of these times. This is why times of silence and peaceful heart to heart moments with our God, are so priceless and valuable to us in times such as these. These quiet moments feed our soul with strength and nourish our spirit with the fortitude it needs to fight the good fight of faith. There is nothing beautiful about a chaotic culture, and that is why silence can be such a beautiful thing for our soul to behold. The roar of our culture has unhinged people’s lives, and we are encircled by frazzled emotions. There is nothing quite like the quiet of God, where we silently sit in His Presence and He speaks peace into our soul. This is why we need to take some moments of silence, still our soul, and listen up for God’s Holy Spirit, as He speaks peace to us and soul saturates us with hope, so much so that we know it is well with our soul. Oh, the beautiful sounds of silence! “I waited patiently for the Lord to help me, and he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along. He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see what he has done and be amazed. They will put their trust in the Lord.” Psalms 40:1-3 Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/silently-submit/

God cares for us! Providentially so. We all have needs, that is a given and we all have wants. I am sure we can think of things right now that we really, really want. We have things we want, and strive for that we don’t need. This is so true. We want so much. This is a part of our human condition, to want more than we need. I do it so often. The cool thing is that our God, He has provided us with everything we need on this day. It is our wants that make us feel like we lack, but the truth is we don’t lack, we have what we need today. God works like that, day to day, God is taking care of our needs. Today, you have exactly what you need. God is an amazing Creator and He maintains what He creates. For our good and for His glory, these are the two purposes in play in the Providential Care of God. God uses all things at His disposal very creatively, for the good of our lives and for the glory of His Kingdom. I love this about God! This is a very majestic attribute of God, His Providential Care, the blessing of being His, the benefits He showers us with in our lives. We experience this care of God every single day. God’s purposes are always in play in our lives, creating good lives for us and glory for His Kingdom. The goodness of God is just like we see in these majestic mountain views, it is incredible, in its abundance and beautiful in its purpose. God bless you much! Enjoy your day and thank God for His provision and care. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/missionary-prayer-journey-3/

Sunrise and Sunset! Isn’t time flying! As the sun rises we are thankful for a new day, for the beauty of God in each day. As the sunsets we are so thankful for Him being with us, for His amazing miraculous flow in our lives. I can’t believe how quick the days go by. It is so important to use our time wisely! Do you struggle with this? Sometimes I get so distracted. I really need God’s wisdom to be navigated in and through my days. God never leaves us, and that is such a sweet thing about Him and He can navigate us into each day, grow us through every day. We are loved so well by our faithful God. There is not a time we can look back on our lives and say He did not finish what He started. God is an amazing finisher. He never leaves us, never forsakes us and He finishes well. Sometimes we might feel we are walking through things that are “way above our paygrade” yet, He is still there no matter how we “feel”, He is a God who sees us. He is with us in love, grace, mercy, peace and power, and we are a blessed people. I hope each of us talk it up with God today, keep our vital-vertical relationship with Him alive, personal and well, so we can be navigated by Him from every moment to every choice, and use our time today so wisely investing value in others. God bless ya. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/adding-value/

Are you carrying a heavy emotional load on your shoulders? God wants to carry it for you. We have so many expectations as a human being, but most of them get dashed because when you put your expectations in people, who have a human condition, very rarely will you be happy with the outcome. It is a good day when we finally realize that putting our expectations in God’s Hands, yielding them to Him is so very healthy for our soul. We trudge forward with so many burdensome expectations and dashed hopes, we trek all over with this heavy load on our soul. Why would we work so hard to chase after worldly expectations and not even be willing to trek in with God and spend time with Him, the only ONE Who can and will shoulder all your burdens. Trek in with God, do whatever it takes to spend some time alone with Him and hand Him all your expectations, letting go and letting Him work in that way only He can. Get alone with God, talk with Him, yield your life burdens to Him, you will be amazed at what He can do with them and what a relief it will be for your soul. I have done it. I was carrying way too much and I was so burdened by the untimely death of a family member and that seemed to make everything feel so overwhelming. I needed some alone time with God, so I went to the beach and walked about two miles so I could be away from everyone. God met me there and our time together was so sweet. I gave Him everything. I Shed a lot of tears knowing that God was with me in my pain and weeps with me, knowing He understood how I was feeling and wanted to shoulder my burdens. Life does take unexpected turns, but God is right there with us, navigating us and back packing all of our troubles on His broad shoulders. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/shoulders/

Life is always better when God is in the lead and us in followship of Him, together. Growing through life together, me and you and Jesus, all of us together. Together is so much better. We human beings have that human condition tendency to just go it alone. We have to stop giving into the fake reality where we “think we can” do it all by ourself, we can’t. There is no joy in enjoy when we are alone, we need God, we need each other. Yes, life is always much better lived together with God at the center of our lives. The tugging of the world will not quit, the storms of life will roll in, but we know, our anchor, secured by a tree strand cord, (Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God) it will hold. We together need Christ in us, and no weapon formed against us will prosper as He navigates our lives in His purposeful goodness. We should do everything we can to stand in Christ and fight the good fight of faith. God is the all of our everything, in our individual vital-vertical relationship, He overflows His anointing through us to each other, then together, we step out into our world in faith, splashing His light all over our pathways as we live, laugh and love! This is our great God Adventure together. Our hearts are tied together with an unbreakable three strand cord. The Father, Son, And Holy Spirit. Yes, together with God, we are much better than we could ever be and we point the way to Jesus to our world. “Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. Likewise, two people lying close together can keep each other warm. But how can one be warm alone? A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.” Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/christ-in-me/

I end 2021 with a mixture of emotions as I anticipate the New Year rolling quickly in. I feel sad for humanity as we have displayed the worst of the human condition this year of 2021 with an illegitimate power grab, trying to control each other with a supremacy that belongs only to God. This has not ended well for us as our focus has been on the temporary and not the eternal. We have drifted away from the Image of God, which we were created in. The pursuit of power has sickened our human condition to lust for power, position, authority and control over one another. Human beings can’t handle this kind of supremacy, it was made for God alone. Human beings have displayed horrific deplorable behavior, hurting one another, taking away each other’s God given freedom’s. We were created to love God, know God and love each other well. Out of this selfless love, we put each other first, serve each other, being interested in the well-being of all humanity. It is obvious that our power grab for supremacy over one another has failed, the authority of human beings corrupted beyond belief. We need God, we need His Rulership of Love, we need Him to be in control of our human condition. I anticipate 2022 with joy because I know there is not anyone who can’t see the failure of human beings to rule over one another, God has paraded it before us in 2021 and clearly shown us our need to be positioned underneath God’s Rulership of Love. No doubt about it, this God reveal that we need Him in our lives, is apparent, so much so in our corrupted cultures. We need God, we need to COME to God and let go and let God lead us, navigating us in 2022 to be all we were created to be. Coming to God in 2022 we will learn to give more than we take, to encourage more than we discourage, and He will teach us how to add value to the human race and not devalue it. Let’s do this in 2022, let go of and reject illegitimate authority, and COME to God, submitting ourselves wholly-holy to Him, and help each other thrive underneath the Supremacy of God, within the boundaries God set up. We were given a free will by God and equipped with the truth to be able to use it well. We have the liberty of our God given inalienable rights to make our own choices over our body, soul and spirit and we should preserve this in the all of our everything, stand for it. Bring it on Lord God, 2022, the thwarting of illegitimate authority and the joy of God’s Supremacy over the human race. COME to Jesus. Know Him more, love Him most and listen up to Him first. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/new-reality/

I can’t think of better encouragement to end a year and begin a new year than this 1 Minute Encouragement video which encourages us to be interested in each other, and add value to each other’s lives. We are all special, we are all uniquely and wonderfully made, and we all are in way different life seasons from each other. Acknowledge that difference, isn’t bad, it is good. We should respect the life season other people are in, and let them grow through, give them room to gain their God given life wisdom through what they are personally experiencing. Someone shared this with me and it really hit home: “Allow God To Be As Creative With Others As He Has Been With You.” Let people grow, nurture them with unconditional love, accept them where they are, praying for them and letting God grow them. We should be open to God, to let God use us to add value to their life season by our unrestricted love. We all are in different places in life, our life seasons are different. Yet, Everyone Matters. Every life season matters to God. Contentment helps us love unconditionally. We should work at developing self-contentment. Be content in our life season, where God has us now, and invest in our life season through a vital-vertical relationship with God. The goodness of God is a treasure worth more than we could even begin to imagine. God’s life alive in us, His goodness or should I say, His “Godness”, (Psalm 145) flowing in us and through us is incredibly valuable. We can add value to this day, to every person we interact with. We can add value because we are abundantly equipped with it by God. One thing we can count on, because God is so creative, individually and uniquely with all of us, we all will be in different life seasons, we all will be uniquely different, yet we all can still add value to each other’s lives by sharing the goodness of God and His unconditional love with everyone we meet today. Be interested in others, in the life season they are in. We ass have divine appointments on this day and we are equipped with value, thus and therefore, we unconditionally, add value to this day by paying forward to all who cross our life path, the goodness of God. You are valuable to God, He adds value to you daily through your vital-vertical relationship with Him, so much value that it overflows out of your life and splashes out all over others. So, this is why we interact with others, being aware of other’s all around us, no matter what life season they are in, or how uniquely different they are from us, we add value to their life season. God bless you, MUCH! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/adding-value/

Merry Christmas And An Incredible 2022 Hoped For You And Yours! We Pray 🙏 For A 2022, Where We Know, Without A Doubt We Are “SEEN”! El ro’i The God Who Sees Us. We Don’t See Clearly In This Dark Chaotic Culture In Times Such As These, But God, El ro'i Does. God See’s In The Dark, God Sees Us! We “Come” To God And He Navigates Us! Praise El ro’i! In 2022 “Come” To God, Seek The God Who Sees Us. Miraculously Merrily So! Jesus, He made a HUGE gesture to humanity, to show His love ❤️ for us was an “ALL IN devotion”! God has not been a “little bit faithful”, He has been “every moment to every choice” we make, extremely faithful” to us and for us. We are becoming wholly-holy His and this is a great God Adventure like no other! This is Christmas! Jesus came to us and became God in the flesh! He chose us, He deeply desired to be the Savior of the world, no matter what it cost Him. On Christmas Eve, this unwrapped Christmas gift of salvation received by us is uniquely fresh and new. Jesus, our Salvation is our gift, and this Christmas Gift from God is continuously working on our behalf, it is “never not working” for our good. It never gets old or discarded, because this Christmas gift retains its exciting miraculous edge in our lives. Opening the Christmas gift of Jesus, and in Awe-God gratefulness receiving Him into our hearts in awe and reverence of such an amazing gift, we partake in the miraculously-merrily-so of the true meaning of Christmas, God’s forever love unto us and for us. The Christmas gift of Jesus, God’s Son, ushered in the greatest transformation ever to be known by mankind. The state of our soul went from death to forever life. What an incredible Christmas 🎁 gift. It is a gift that will never disappoint us, forever giving us joy! On this Christmas Eve, we anticipate the opening of gifts. On Christmas Day we can open the gift of Jesus, receive it with great hope and anticipation of how God will work out His precious gift in our lives. Jesus is the only Christmas gift that doesn’t devalue in time, staying a shining light in us and through us. Miraculously-Merrily-So! He came, we become, enjoy the gift 💝 of becoming one in Christ, the Christmas gift that keeps on giving. Merry Christmas Heart To Heart! God bless you and Yours! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/twas-the-night/

It is the day after Christmas! How you all feeling? Did you have a good Christmas? I kind of felt like God sprinkled a lot of powdered sugar all over us this year. It was a really sweet Christmas! I felt the peace of God, so strong and joy, unspeakable joy. What an incredibly hard year 2021 was. Do you all agree with that?! A very chaotic cultural mess this 2021, our nation has really changed and things are so different. But, going into 2022, we have joy, we have confidence. Why? Because we have been through it last year, so many storms, and our anchor held. Our faith was stretched beyond what we thought we could endure, but we grew threw and Jesus was enough. I hope you have a very Happy New Year celebration to end 2021 and step confidently into 2022 with God, knowing He is in control and He’s got us. God bless you and yours. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/2020-awe-god/

Merry Christmas Eve! On Christmas Eve, heaven prepared for the opening of the Christmas gift from God, as our world would be receiving Jesus. With Jesus coming to us here in our space, there would immediately be an overcoming revelatory Light from this gift of heaven. (When they saw the star they rejoiced with great joy - Luke 2) Jesus, a light which would never be extinguished, which would always point us to our future and be our very present hope and navigational help! Hope is an amazing Christmas gift. Hope is heaven's light, it is new forever, and keeps its promises, and endures the tests of time. As we receive Jesus in our hearts, this Christmas gift 💝 is like no other, it is a gift that continues to give and give and we become a shiny reflection of the hope of our received gift. God came to us, so we could become wholly-holy His. It is a Christmas gift that renews, as it is new every morning, and constantly generating transforming wisdom, peace, joy, goodness, strength, courage into our lives as we connect with God heart to heart and put all of our hope and expectations in Him. We are faithfully navigated, provided for and cherished by our trustworthy, AweGod! Miraculously-Merry-So! We can hope in God from this Christmas Eve day forward from here to there unto forever. Jesus, our Proven One is trustworthy. Hope in Jesus, is confident patience which pays forward into our lives an excited anticipation of Jesus’ return and of our incredible forever future with Him. Christmas Hope helps us endure the stretching of our faith peaceably, joyfully, with a steady perseverance. Hope is our anchor and our anchor holds!! Everyday is Christmas, as we are becoming wholly-holy His and this is a great God Adventure like no other! As our faith increases, our character is strengthened and our inner spiritual core is shaped by God’s goodness and we become all He hoped for and designed us to be. This is the Merry in Christmas, Miraculously-Merrily So. Have a wonderful Christmas Eve Day Heart TO Heart. God bless you and yours. Thank you for supporting our Heart TO Heart Video Channel At Rumble. We are grateful for our audience and thankful to encourage you daily with 1 Minute Encouragement Videos. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/gods-heart-reveal/

Joy! That first Christmas Day there was exceeding, great JOY! Jesus came to us, sacrificed His kingly rights in a crazy, wonderful way! Mary and Joseph, sacrificed so much, changed up their lives radically to bring Jesus into this world. The wiseman made huge sacrifices to bring gifts to the Christmas Savior. The Shepherds, people who worked so hard, daily sacrificed much to care for their sheep, were led from their fields to Jesus by the beautiful glorious angels and the heavenly star. Do you notice how self-sacrifice was so connected to JOY? We all seek purpose, joy, peace, friendship and sadly the pursuit of these things over God, tend to twist up our human nature, and some of us, we sometimes stress out so much to get them, kindling our own fires, walking by the light of a man-made fire, that it leaves us with a temporary happiness that fades out into total darkness. Happiness is fleeting externally, where JOY lasts and comes from deep within our inner spiritual core. The Christmas Story models true JOY and the way to it is by serving others and serving with others. Isn’t that an ironic oxymoron? The way to JOY and peace is through serving! The way to purpose is by giving. The way to lasting friendships is by servant leading together. My best friend in this world came from a season of us serving people together. When you serve with others, you develop the deepest friendships. Isn’t that amazing how God does that?! A common goal, a vision worked towards, and deep friendships are made though sacrifices of serving. The Christmas Story was intermingled with sacrificial service to people. People serving people. Jesus serving us all. Out of this serving came the blessing of life, friendship, purpose, joy, peace and everything people had waited for. It is the same today, the more you serve others, with others, the better life is. Serving brings JOY deep within your inner spiritual core, it brings purpose, which we all are seeking, it brings amazing friendships, as we serve together. The best gift of serving is the inner peace being a person who gives receives, it is more than you could hope for or imagine. Giving, self-sacrificing, is the way to JOY, purpose, friendship and peace. The very things we seek in life are found in giving away our life to others, just like we see in the Christmas Story. The way to a Merry Christmas, is a miraculous-merrily-so oxymoron. The more you give of yourself, the more joy you have. JOY= Jesus-Others-You. Got JOY? Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/missionary-prayer-journey-7/

Oh, the hustle and bustle of this season… simply exhausting! We human beings put way too much on our plates~ Then we crash and burn emotionally! YES for sure… exhausted people are “stressy and messy”… and conflict happens a lot more during seasons of “hustle and bustle”! People are emotionally edgy when they are stressed and relationships can get messy really, really quickly. Tempers flare, things are said which should never have been said as self-control can’t hold a “stressy-messy” tongue back. Strife happens and you got a beginning of a friendship feud, which the enemy of our soul just loves. At times such as these, our mouths work overtime with exaggeration, speculations, assumptions, presuppositions, all the enemies delights of deceit, which we partake in when we are tired and our self-control is pressed hard by our human condition. How do we avoid these “stressy-messy” conflicts? Sometimes, they are unavoidable and sometimes, oh yes, sometimes, God puts us right in the middle of the relational whirlwinds. Really! Would God do that? Yes, and can’t you see Him smile right about now? God has a sense of humor, especially when He is trying to stretch our faith, so we grow in His character through “stressy-messy” experiences. Grinch like groaning and growing. How can that be? Well, in the middle of a “stressy-messy” situation, we usually look at everyone else in the situation, very rarely are we the problem. God says: “I will use this conflict to teach you to “eat the meat and spit out the bones!” We think the enemy is at the center of all the mess, well, He is in it, but so is God. God is in the “stressy messy” situation to teach us something good. God turns our enemies evil intention to good character growth. So, in the midst of the “stressy-messy” situation, He wants us to eat the meat of truth we find in the situation, about ourselves. What can I learn from this situation about me? How can I change to better my character? Eat the meat! Spit out the bones of assumption, speculation, about others and focus on God and Your personal growth. This makes stress less messy, as we ask ourselves, how can I grow through this with God? Then, it becomes less “stressy-messy” and more miraculously-merrily-so. Eat the meat, spit out the bones! Make “stressy-messy” less about fixing others and more about growing through with God. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/narrow-way/

Are you comfortable? God’s faithful love ❤️ is redeeming in the all of my everything, I trust Him with my life, even in the uncomfortable things that come my way, I know He is in the midst of them with His Redeeming Power at work in me. In the Light of the reality of truth about the Christmas Child, our Redeemer, I know I am becoming wholly-holy His. I don’t need to be comfortable as much as I need to be connected ❤️ heart to heart ❤️ with Jesus and others. Jesus made it personal, He came here! Sometimes we seek comfort more than we do Christ~ Have you been there? I have. Creature comfort distracts us from the Christmas reality of Jesus setting aside His comfort to come here to us. It wasn’t about Him, His comfort, it was all about us, and our Redemption. I find that God works on me a lot in this area my Comfort Zone… it is a place God likes to shake me up and out of, because I miss so much of His doing and my becoming when I never step out of my personal comfort. Usually, He pushes me out and (way above my pay grade) and I courageously so, in Followship of Him and with Great God Adventure tap into His navigational rhythms and His strengths, and I GO! Especially this time of year, I stretch my faith to experience that “miraculously merrily so” God moment in each advent day, YES, when we embrace the compassion of God’s heart, step outside of our comfort zone and use the gifts God has given us, then our families, friends, neighbors greatly benefit. God has a corporate compassion for all of the human race this is the plurality of His love for us. Definitely a victory for God occurs when we step outside of our comfort zone and become interested in each other, come along side in support of all people, celebrating the uniqueness of the human race in such a way that comparison and prejudice find no place in us. This is Christmas outside of our comfort zone. It is wholesome unity! An absolute knowing of the plurality of God’s love for us. Be so. Heart TO Heart! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/christmas-compassion/

I don’t know about you, but I need encouragement from others. Where do you find the best encouragement? Do you have a special relationship that you gravitate to that you know will always add value to your day? I do and first and foremost that is Jesus Christ, a vital-vertical relationship I have that strengthens me daily. Also, there are sweet friendships that God has connected me to, I call them “Kindred Friends”, those close to my heart who always add value to my life. Do you have a “Kindred Friend” you can go to and be encouraged by. I pray God sends you them. God is the best kind of friend, who has proven His allegiance to us. He came to us. This is something about Christmas, which I love remembering, which I will never forget. He came to us. He sought us out. How cool is that? I do love Christmas, but what makes it so special is my “Kindred Friendship” with God and others. How about you? What do you love about Christmas? What is your special “Kindred Friendship” which enlightens and enlivens this amazing season with joy? I hope that for us during this Christmas Season, Heart To Heart, that God will bless us, gift us with Kindred Friendship, friends who encourage us, strengthen our soul and lift up our tired heart. Christmas brings out many different emotions in people. Some good, some bad, but this Christmas Season, may we step out from underneath emotions that are fickle and may we know the strength of God’s Joy in the reality of truth that Jesus came to us. We are valuable to Him. Our lives have purpose, we are not meaningless, we have a future and a hope. God’s love for us is unchangeable. When everything else in this world rocks back and forth between love and hate, the love of God remains the same, for us. This Christmas Season, position yourself under the Rulership of the Love of God, an unchangeable, strong and powerful place where we are always welcome, we always belong, we will become, miraculously, merrily wholly-holy His. Jesus chose to come and we choose to become all because of an unchangeable devotion to us and for us. We live in the light of living hope, strengthened by the very joy that was not given by the world, but gifted to us by Jesus, through an unchangeable love, a love that chose us, came to us. Merry Christmas, enjoy the season. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/living-hope/

We have a lot of goings and comings in this life season we are in. We never lack. God is an amazing provider and He does this through His Providential Care of us. Provider, Provision and Providential Care, we are so blessed, this human race, loved well by our God. There is nothing He did not plan for. He knows us, He knows our human condition and He is constantly working to better us, purposefully so. The best gift God gave us was His Son, Jesus, Who came here, to us, died our death, so we could live His forever life. God finishes what He starts and He will finish well on this side of heaven for us, His people. There is no doubt about this. God is on the move, with us, for us and is working His excellence into our character. There is never a moment when He is not with us or for us, wanting the best for our lives. Heart To Heart, I pray God blesses us in the all and the everything of our lives, I pray His blessing will be upon us, you and yours, being blessed by this amazing Awe God, Who created us purposefully so and will carry out His Sovereign Will for our good. The human race, with its human ways is loved unconditionally, and cared for perfectly by its Creator God. He does not leave us, He does not forsake us and no weapon formed against us will prosper. He does not do things in the way we are accustomed to; He does things His ways, which sometimes are not the way we would do it, but all the time, end very well. We experience this care every single day we are on this side of heaven, we are a blessed people and we should never underestimate God’s ability to take care of us. He blesses immensely in that way only He can. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/reciprocal-love/

There are many challenges in our lives, this is our reality of truth!! The Christmas season seems to be one where our expectations in others and God may get dashed. It is a challenge to not be discouraged or disappointed during this season of high hopes, and grossly enlarged expectations. The way to navigate this life season, and all life seasons, is to put our expectations in God’s Hands. We desire, hope and want, this is part of our human condition. There are times when our expectations are way out of line, and really ridiculous, and they ride us right into a huge disappointment, that we foolishly set ourselves up for. Why not rise up to the challenge of letting God determine the outcome of our expectations. The reality of truth is just that, it is our expectations that God has purposefully set forth into our lives as experiences in gaining wisdom. The things we experience in life, they become our life wisdom and this is more valuable than all the treasure in the world. God will stretch our faith in that way where we turn to Him and we realize the strength of His life in our weaknesses. Trials come, but God teaches us many things and purposefully uses them to shape His goodness into our character. God never leaves us in our challenges to rot, in fact, He never leaves us at all, He promised He would deliver us out of every trial, and He does. Sometimes we don’t like the means and ways that He uses, to save us from ourselves, but the end game always leaves us in Awe of Him, and is more than we could ever hope for or imagine.

Unto us, came Jesus, the Prince of Peace. He is our peace as we live in this world, but are not of it. The cultural chaos will not govern us, the peace of God will. The wickedness of humanity, giving into its human condition is a stealer of our peace, yet in Christ, peace remains. There is no place where God’s peace can’t go. As we open our hearts wide to God, He fills us with His peace. No matter what we are growing through, God has not left us without His peace which stabilizes our soul. There is no life storm that God’s peace can’t still and this miraculous, merrily so of harmony of soul in Christ Jesus, our Prince of Peace, is a soul anchor that holds. Fairness and justice are two things that are scarce in our times, yet, even so, in the midst of this season of governmental overreach, God still reigns and His peace still rules in the truth of our future and hope, which is not here in this place where the supremacy of human beings utterly fails us. The Prince of Peace, will rule us all with fairness and justice like no other, for all eternity. So, if your peace is being rocked by the foolishness of humanity, listen up to God, let His Voice peaceable lead you in times such as these, where truth is so hard to find, peace is readily available as Jesus, rests the government of our lives on His shoulders, there is peace that surpasses all of our understanding. Peace e To You, And Yours, God bless you, Much! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/prince-of-peace-3/ Isaiah 9:6 Hope of all hopes, dream of our dreams, a child is born, sweet-breathed; a son is given to us: a living gift. And even now, with tiny features and dewy hair, He is great. The power of leadership, and the weight of authority, will rest on His shoulders. His name? His name we’ll know in many ways—He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Dear Father everlasting, ever-present never-failing, Master of Wholeness, Prince of Peace. The Voice

A Grateful Heart! Speak it, your God gratefulness, your praise for Jesus. People Must Know. I have so much to be thankful for. Jesus Came To Us! I will never get over this. How about you? What are your expectations for this time, for this season, for now? On this day, what are your Christmas Thoughts? As we develop a thankful heart, thinking on the amazing, miraculously, merrily so birth of Jesus, our Savior, we are more thankful than we can express. So Grateful! In my heavenly hindsight, I think about where I came from to where God has brought me. I think about how much I have changed for the better knowing Jesus, walking with God, living by His amazing Word, and being directed by His Holy Spirit. This time of year, I can’t help thinking about Jesus, coming here, to us. I am so grateful for that choice, Jesus ushered in, that Christmas morning, at His birth, the greatest transformation ever to be known by mankind. He came to die our death, so we could live His life. From death to life, this miraculous-merrily so, state of our soul, was ushered in by Jesus. How can we even begin to thank God for Christmas? As I think on Jesus, what He has done for our humanity, I am in Awe and so very grateful. Think on Christmas, miraculously muse on the Word of God, and as you do, ask the Holy Spirit to give you insight into what Christmas truly means and develop a thankful heart. There are no adequate Words for us to speak, just Awe, just incredible Awe and reverence, when we think of what our God did for us. (John 3:16) Our Creator, came to us, so we could live with Him forever. Nothing was perfect, we definitely were not perfect and we owed a debt, we could not pay. Yet, Jesus, He still came to us, and we undeservedly, were given the gift of God’s Son, to pay the sin debt we owed. Jesus, the King of heaven, came here among us, born humbly, and with meekness, His power under the control of the Will of God, became God in the flesh, so we could be forgiven and be forever free, with a future hope of life with God. There is no greater gift, the gift of mercy which keeps on giving from generation to generation as we accept this Christmas Child into our heart, are forgiven of our sins and given a forever life. Be so. Be the one Who accepts the gift of Jesus, that gives life forever. Jesus, Christmas Savior. Thank you. We are so grateful. Miraculously-Merrily-So. (Luke 19:37-40) If we don’t praise Him, thank Him, even the rocks will cry out in praise to Him. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/we-are-the-reason/

Compassion was a huge part of the Christmas Story. So many miracles happened because Jesus came to us, all of us. Jesus did not hold back His compassion until we were perfect, He embraced everyone in a grip of unconditional love. People, we have the same human condition as each other, yet we conditionally share compassion, we withhold kindness because we “turn up our nose” at people who are labeled with specific sin, or people who are labeled with different religions, or people who do not look the same as us. TRULY, we all were made in the Image of God, all of us created by the hand of the Almighty God. TRULY, we all are sinners. We are the human race, not black or white, brown or red, but human. A human race, who belongs to God, this is who we are, and as His Created people, compassion is in our spiritual DNA. This Christmas, we must let go of all our preconceived ideas about the people around us and let God open our eyes to His reality of truth. People must know the compassion of the Christmas Savior, so we choose to take the journey of unrestricted love with God, and experience the God Adventure of compassion. Our culture is in chaos, so add unconditional compassion to the situations you find yourself in this Christmas Season. Why not add civility to the culture where God has placed you in? Why not love unconditionally, with fully expressed, unobstructed compassion, given to all. Mercy, acted out compassionately, this is what God did when He sent His Son Jesus to us that first Christmas morning. We did not deserve this act of sacrificial love, yet it was freely given to us all. Christmas Compassion! Give like God gave us. People must know. We are God’s Messengers, our life must be God’s show and tell about Jesus, His Christmas Compassion. By God’s unconditional love over flowing in us, through compassion for all people, dare to care this Christmas by loving the unlovely, being kind to the kindless, and by giving compassion where it is not earned. Mercy is kind and compassionate, we have received it, not to keep to ourselves, but to give it away to others. God is at work in our world, and in heavenly hindsight, compassion was meekly birthed into our universe as Jesus, The King of Heaven, Our Savior, was born in a humble stable and meekly His power was under control of God’s Sovereign will purposefully in play for us. Live heart to heart with this Christmas Savior, let Him fill you with the compassion of His soul. On this day, choose compassion, be kind, be loving, be unconditionally caring to all those God puts in your path, miraculously merrily so. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/s-h-a-r-e/

We are all created so differently, shaped so uniquely by God. Yet, we all were created to need soul rest. This will look different for each of us because we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Rest your soul. What do you need to have soul rest? God worked, creating the universe for six days, rested on the 7th day taking a Sabbath break. (Genesis 2:2) What is it for you that replenishes your soul, refreshes your soul? Life can be busy, but truly life is what we make it. We set our schedules; we make our plans. Does our planning for this week include some soul rest? Most likely no. We need to change this up. Do you have a hobby? Do you have something you enjoy doing, something that rests your soul? I like walking the beach, playing golf or reading a good novel. What rests your soul? We push ourselves too hard and sometimes don’t take any kind of rest until we crash and burn emotionally. This life season is very much a “hustle-bustle” and we can get so caught up in it, that before we know it, we are soul fatigued and not good for anything or anyone. Soul exhaustion is the enemy’s playground for confusion. We see more clearly when we have rested, it brings out in us a gratitude, an acknowledgement of God, seeing clearly His Sovereignty in our lives, and the things He has accomplished in us and through us. We get that sweet “heavenly hindsight” clarity when we take “time out” from life’s goings and comings. Rest your soul, replenish your soul, take time out with God, and do something that “floats your boat”, something you love doing, something that rests your soul. Maybe even do nothing, wouldn’t that be a change? We were created to need soul rest, to just breathe into our soul some God harmony. Step away, apart from the chaos, deeply breathe in the peace of God. When is the last time you did this? Take a Sabbath, a soul rest away from all the stress and chaos of life, just You and God? Try it. Wholly-Holy align your soul with God and listen up to Him without any distraction. It will rest your soul, it will make you a better, stronger person who walks with clarity in followship of God. God bless ya. Get some soul rest. Just breathe in God! Peace to you! Live life with clarity, confidently and courageously because it is well with your soul. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/beauty-tagged-by-peace/ “I leave the gift of peace with you—my peace. Not the kind of fragile peace given by the world, but my perfect peace. Don’t yield to fear or be troubled in your hearts—instead, be courageous!” John 14:27

Good Day To You! Or depending upon where you live, Good Evening To You! What does day and night have in common? Light, shattering the darkness. Light is transforming, whether it is the morning sunlight shattering the darkness of night, or the evening moon rising, glistening as the glimmer of hope in a dark night. Good morning, good evening, whichever one you are in right now, I pray the Light of God is with you. The Christmas Star was rejoiced over with great acclaim, a light that brought great joy. (Matthew 2:9-11) The Light of the world was born to usher in the greatest transformation ever known to mankind. Death-Darkness to Everlasting Life-Light. Yes it was a good day. Morning and Evening have in common, Light that fragments the darkness. Light is transforming. The light of hope is a Is a magical, wonderful, miraculous thing. God’s Light Will Never Be Extinguished. There is always hope that lights up our darkness and shatters a dark night. We have many times where we have dark storms in our lives, yet the Light of Hope, shines, breaks through the darkness. Jesus is the hope giver, may His Light be with us all. God bless ya. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/light-2/

Happy Thanksgiving, Heart To Heart! I want to thank each of you for subscribing to my Heart To Heart Chanel and the 1 Minute Encouragement videos, and tell you how thankful I am for you. God Bless You! I hope you and yours have a wonderful Thanksgiving day! I am visiting the family farm this week, as you can see in the video today. Growing season is over, so it is a great season of thanksgiving and rest for them. I love the mountains; I always feel so close to God when I visit here. When it comes to God’s Presence, I think Charles Spurgeon said it the best: “God is with us and His Power is all around us.” The best gift all of mankind has ever been blessed with is: “The Presence Of God”! We are a blessed people with an amazing future and we also have so much to be grateful for on this side of heaven. I am thinking right now of our future and hope in Jesus, for that I am so grateful. Think on what you are grateful for today and make sure you express it to God. I know God loves our praise and I know He loves, loves a grateful heart. I hope you have a wonderful day with your family and friends today and remember… be thankful… let your heart attitude be stirred up in the AWE of God and be God-grateful. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/thanksgiving-awe/ Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice! Tell all the nations, “The Lord reigns!” Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! His faithful love endures forever. Search for the Lord and for His strength; continually seek Him. He is the Lord our God. His justice is seen throughout the land. 1 Chronicles 16

Dry, dusty, parched… this life season can feel that like this in so many, many ways. The human condition is way out of control, very deplorable. The heat is on in our cultural chaotic world. People hurting people with a corrupted, illegitimate supremacy that they handle so wrongly. Only God can live correctly out of Supremacy, and being supreme over others, we human beings, not so much. I am grateful for the supremacy of God. So, what do we do when a corrupted illegitimate authority has caused such hard times on us that just ordinary living feels overwhelmingly burdensome and the dryness in our soul can be described as dehydrated? Got a parched soul? Have you ever heard of “Living Water”? I am so thankful for it. The meaning of it is, simply-significant Awe-GOD replenishment. Living Water for the parched in soul, it is very refreshing. I am so grateful! So here goes… What is living water? It is this: Jesus, came to us, He came to pay a sin-debt we owed, which we could never pay. Jesus came to defeat death, which wanted to swallow us up forever. He came to die our death, so we could live His life. He left with us here, His Holy Spirit. This is our reality of truth. I am so grateful for this. God With Us! The world can be a dry, dusty, parched place for our soul, yet, miraculously so, it can be well with our soul. How? When we accept Jesus Christ as God’s Son, and give our life wholly-holy to Him, coming to faith in Him, becoming all in with Him, the Holy Spirit of God comes to live inside of us, like a purifying, holy spring of life, a living water. I am so grateful for this! The greatest blessing of our God is His Presence. God with us, always! That is why we can live in a dry, parched environment and be completely soul nourished and strong in our inner spiritual core. This is what living in Christ means… living water in our soul. I am so grateful! The heat is on in our generation, way too high and there is a lot of lawlessness, cheating, disrespect, disunity, hate, no boundaries, no freedom, no privacy, deception, corruption, illegitimate supremacy, no choices and lots of people running around thinking they the god over you, mandating to you what they think is right for you. Living Water, drink it in and be so, positioned underneath the rulership of God’s love. I am so grateful to God. Replenish your soul. God carrying your burdens. Living Water. Yoked To God, your burden is light. Refreshed by God! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/be-replenished/