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Golf for me is one of those lingering leisure times with God. I love God, I love Golf, put the two together and it is sweet peace for my soul. I linger, stroll Sometimes we just need to LINGER with Jesus. His Presence, being consciously aware of it, the incredible peace of Him. Jesus is more relational than we think He is. Sometimes I think we get way too caught up in religiosity. Remember, Jesus died to free us from the bondages that traditional law put upon us. Do you linger with Jesus? Hang with Jesus in an idle or leisurely manner,?Do you stroll with Jesus? Is Jesus a part of all of your day or just a little bit of it? How would that look like for you if you did, “linger” with Jesus? For me, when I LINGER with Jesus, it is such an atmosphere of unconditional love and acceptance, it replenishes my soul. Because in this world of cultural chaos, there is so much junk flying around, hitting us, keeping us ducking and off balance. Kind of like in a horrific wind storm, where things are flying around that could really hurt you… that is what this cultural chaos feels like. We need Jesus, we need to LINGER with Him, we need to replenish our soul with love, truth, and the assurance of our salvation. Our circumstantial ease is up and down, I would rather have stillness of my soul, than strive after circumstantial ease where the change of the wind of our culture speeds from still to blustery in a second. This is not a perfect or stable peace. This is why we LINGER with Jesus. He is peace, stillness of soul. Circumstantial Ease is something we hope for and at times wait for a very long time, yet peace is what we are led by, it is a tranquility that stays in place even in the midst of trials and life’s difficult times. The stillness of our soul is not determined by the stillness of our circumstances, this comes from Jesus, we get peace like this from Jesus, when we linger with Him, our Prince of peace, our gift of 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 How many of you enjoy the game of golf? I know I do. When I play golf, I linger with God. I am totally aware of His Presence and very thankful for it. God is everywhere, He is with us even on the golf course. God wants to be a part of our golf game. I Linger with God when I golf. I play golf to rest my soul, it is a needed time off for me from a busy week. It is good to invite God into the things we love, like golf. Linger with Him, be conscious of His Presence with you and thankful and love on God, acknowledge Him, in the game of golf. We swing with precision, energy and health, and every swing I take, I am grateful that God maintains my strength, my health, my life, my provision. Lingering with God during my golf game is always a good time for me, being in His Presence and being grateful for all He has provided. God bless ya. Dig Deeper: https://rumble.com/vpell6-a-grateful-heart.html “God is not some lesser employee, as many try to make Him out to be: rather He is the ultimate Treasure. He works in a man; He works on a man; He works through a man; He works around a man. Know that He does far more than simply work for a man. And yet, even as He Himself needs no one else, everyone else is ever in need of Him.” ― Criss Jami “Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign will of God as He works in the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives for our good and His glory.” ― Jerry Bridges https://thebridegroomscafe.com/faithful-god/ Your life is a journey you must travel with a deep consciousness of God. It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in. He paid with Christ’s sacred blood, you know. He died like an unblemished, sacrificial lamb. And this was no afterthought. Even though it has only lately—at the end of the ages—become public knowledge, God always knew he was going to do this for you. 1 Peter 1:18-21 MSG

Stop It! Why so much noisy, chaotic bickering in our family, schools, churches, community, states, nations??? Hmmmmm think about it… Have you ever lived in such a time where so many people have such a short temper? Noisy-Noisy backbiting people. Stop the noise. How? It begins getting back to our roots… remember this: By the seventh day, God had completed creating his masterpiece, so on the seventh day, he rested from all his work. So God blessed the seventh day and made it sacred, because on it, he paused to rest from all his work of creation. Genesis 2:2-3 ( https://www.bible.com/bible/1849/GEN.2.2-3 ) We were created to have downtime! Resting our soul is a need that is wired into our DNA. We become noisy-noisy, strife filled people when our soul is exhausted, it is a part of our human condition that is truly out of control… noisy-noisy soul snapping going on in families and in all people to people contact throughout our day in our cultural chaos. When the noisy-noisy strife continues, it just piles on our aggravated soul. Then comes the opinions, lots of opinions, every one has them our media is full, absolutely full of scripted assumption, speculation, presupposition, opinionated lies, lies, lies, opinions flying making everything so noisy and there is no soul rest… from the deception of the enemy of our soul and people are aggravated and opinionated and wildly weary soul and that creates a loud cultural chaos that eats away at every possible unity between us, keeping us noisy-noisy strife filled and unhappy and very soul fractionated people and cultural chaos grows. Soul rest, sabbath rest, just rest at all, is missing, from our society along with God’s ways God’s way, truth and life. We are soul exhausted people. The truth is, without God, we are not good, we have no compassion, no grace, no mercy, no forgiveness, just a bunch of noisy-noisy strife filled, self centered people, serving no power higher than self, pointing away all of their self inadequacies by blaming other people and leaving our homes, communities, nations and societies. Lame. Be-LAME. (https://www.bible.com/bible/1849/PSA.31.19-21) We need God, we need time with Him, alone. He is our soul rest, the quiet to our noisy-noisy strife. We need soul rest, it is written in our DNA and we can’t ignore this need any longer. I dare you to try it, soul rest. Step outside of the noisy-noisy for a moment. Try it, even if you have to get a bit radical to get some soul peace. Shut yourself in your closet, sit on the ground and lift your soul to God, make that heart to heart connection with God, and rest in His peace even if it is for a couple of seconds, you will feel His peace,(https://www.bible.com/bible/1849/PHP.4.4-9) it will rest your soul. I am telling you… that once you try it, you will crave it, soul rest, which kicks the noisy-noisy out of your soul and leaves you with a peaceful soul. Heart to heart with God, spirit to Spirit with God, is like a shout of His voice, Peace Be Still! (https://www.bible.com/bible/116/MRK.4.37-39) Do not underestimate the value of this vital-vertical God connection in times such as these. We take some time apart from the noisy-noisy, where people factions of strife and disunity are fractioning our soul into pieces. We give permission for no one to speak into our heart by God, for that moment, He says: Peace Be Still. Our Soul Knows Rest. The chaos of noisy-noisy cultural combat between fractions is silenced as unity between God and us prevails. Awwwww that precious soul rest in a noisy-noisy culture is like better than anything we could ever hope for or imagine. In our noisy-noisy culture, we can fix our strife saturated soul, by that moment of heart to heart connection with God, that strong vital-vertical relationship starts to develop and our DNA roars with joy as the stillness we were created to need in our soul, disrupts the chaos of confusion with the voice of God that is strong in truth and God’s joy strengthens our inner spiritual soul. Do you realize that all the deception that we take in all day long through opinionated people who think they know what they don’t know and are shoving it down our throats, this aggravation of our soul, is instantly repealed by one moment alone with God and His truth. Alone with God, heart to Heart with God, He speaks peace be still, (https://www.bible.com/bible/116/MRK.4.37-39 ) SILENCE… He quiets the enemy of our soul with His peace. So yes, we can stop being a part of the fractionated, strife-filled cultural chaos by just taking those moments we were created for, those heart to heart connections with our God and His way, truth and life. Noisy-Noisy no longer affects us as we guard our hearts with God’s peace and truth. We become less and less a part of the fractionated opinions as we walk in peace and truth, one person at a time… back to their roots, back to what we were created to be God’s wholly-holy His, led by His peace. Say NO to a noisy-noisy, fractionated, self-driven, strife filled soul… say YES to giving God some heart to heart time in your life, some down time filled with God time, this is what we were created for, it is in our DNA and we need to get back to it… stop the noisy-noisy soul strife and know His peace. 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The Dunamis of God is marvelously-mightily-miraculous. Everyday God maintains our strength with His Dunamis power. This strength of God is found in the inner spiritual core of every single believer of Jesus Christ, this inherent power that resides in God as a part of His nature. It is pretty obvious to those of us who know Jesus Christ personally, as our Lord, that we do not live being a person of integrity with our own strength, or by our own will power, it is not by our might, nor by our power but by the Holy Spirit of God’s might within us. Dunamis Integrity! With our culture in the chaos it is in, our soul can be drained so easily, we need to guard our hearts with all diligence, there is strength in the living Word of God. Being Word Strong is so easy, it is just our choice to be so. Why easy? Because the Word of God is available to us in so many ways could be songs, psalms, teachings, our bible, podcasts, videos, movies, studies and so on… But then the best part is that we can open our lives and hearts wide to that vital-vertical relationship with the Living Word of God, Jesus Christ. We are not alone, we are not without the renewing strength of God. God is masterful at His Advocacy of care and equipping us with every thing we need to succeed in this life. The Word “Dunamis” was just dropped into my spirit as my new point of growth. I am studying and learning about the strength of God in me and how to consistently walk in His strength and not mine. I find that when I kindle my own fire and walk by the light of a man-made fire that it flames out. God’s light is not like that. It is never extinguished by anything. Dunamis strength helps us to make strong moral choices in times when morality is at an all time low. We can make great moral choices even in the midst of our cultural confusion and chaos. The choices I make are not my own, the strength to be a person of integrity comes from God’s Will and power in me, helping me to be a person of integrity. We can be people of integrity through the strength of our God. Integrity opens up our relationship with one another to a purity of righteousness with Jesus at the center of all of our relationships. The Gospel, God’s Word is transformative for all relationships. God’s Dunamis power is transforming and strengthening us daily, creating in us a passionate desire to be people of integrity. We are loved by a God Who maintains our strength. Dunamis Integrity happens when we cling to God and dig our life roots deeply in God and He empowers our self control, navigating us in a godly direction. We no longer live in that area of mediocrity where we are reacting emotionally, fleshing out by way of our human condition. No, we can respond in a self-controlled way, that is strong, moral, and right, and walk in mighty strength and wonderful works of godliness. Yes, Dunamis Integrity is the power of God within us, which is activated by the Living Word of God as it is effecting our decisions, where we are able to live, and move, and have our being in Christ Jesus’ way, truth and life. When the Dunamis power of God is working in our lives it will produce the integrity of the holiness of God. Even if we are weakened by our situations, the Dunamis Integrity of God can strengthen us and we can make good choices, the first time. There is no reason why we can’t stay heart to heart with God and all of us be people of integrity. God is always with us. His power always available to us. Jesus alive in us, in that right living kind of way is a sweet result of Dunamis Integrity. A person of integrity and a relationship based on integrity, and good moral choices is a beautiful thing. God shows us His way of walking in integrity, it is doing what is just, being kind and merciful and acting with self-controlled humility: He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, and to love kindness and mercy, and to humble yourself and walk humbly with your God? [Deut. 10:12, 13.] Micah 6:8 God is able to empower us to be people of integrity: Ephesians 3:20–21: “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.” Our self-controlled integrity is not mediocre in fleshout emotional reaction, we respond in the power of God. We are empowered by God, and it is in this Dunamis Integrity, that the mediocre reaction of the flesh is purposefully outlawed by the power of Christ in us, Dunamis Power, doing immeasurably more than we could have hope for or imagined, this Dunamis power of God at work within us, from every moment into every choice, for our good and for bringing Him glory. We can be Empowered by God to be people of Dunamis Integrity within the spiritual renewal that takes place in our daily, vital vertical relationship with God. Let be and let God Empower you today with HIs Dumamis Integrity. E. verything M. ediocre P. urposefully O. utlawed W. ith E. verlasting R. enewal Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/deeply-rooted/ https://thebridegroomscafe.com/god-gripped/ https://rumble.com/v2r8e3i-god-wins.html https://rumble.com/vhaug9-empowered-people.html

🙏These are crazy unpredictable times and we as adults have trouble wrapping our minds around the depravity of people and how far the human condition is falling. But we know, with out DOUBT, that our children are in danger body, soul and spirit. We ask our Lord God to stand in front of them so no enemy can get to them, we ask for His Personal protection as their body guard, mind guard and soul guard. We pray no weapon formed against our children and young adults will prosper in Jesus name. Amen. 🙏Father God, we love our children that You have given us. We pray for Your Hand of protection over them as they go to school, all the children, ours, our grandchildren and all children over the world. Thwart every evil intention over our children. Send Your warring angels to stand in front of them and behind them and protect them from the enemy. Let no weapon formed against them prosper. 🙏Protect our children from the schemes of the enemy and plan of the enemy to place confusion in them about their gender. Thwart every evil goal the enemy has and is using to bring confusion about the God given gender of our children. Thwart every evil plan that the enemy is using against our children to cause them to be confused. Protect our children from this deceit that is from the pit of hell. STOP the voice of the enemy in our schools and let truth be heard. Make way for truth to be heard in every school around the world and completely cut off the voice of evil deceit. 🙏Give children discernment, help them not to favor or follow after deceit, but favor and follow after the truth. Jesus we call upon You to protect our children this school year, we ask that you would STOP the Voice of those who are hell bent to destroy our children, mess with our children, with confusing deceit. STOP the voice of the enemy to our children and young adults and exchange it for the truth of Your Word in Jesus name. Jesus name above ALL names! Deliver our children from evil and cause them to follow after You, Jesus to desire to know You, to be saved by You. Amen! #HerVoiceMVMT Prayer Hubs Prayer: “Jesus, we ask for your protection and we bind the spirits of destruction and death over our schools. We bind the spirit of confusion, fear, pride, and deception over our education systems as a whole. According to Isaiah 54:14, our enemies stay far away from our students and administration . They live each day in peace. Terror does not come near them. #DontMessWithOurKids
“You will be established in righteousness. Oppression—be far from you! Fear—be far from you! Yes, terror will not come near you, nor will you be afraid.” Isaiah 54:13-14 Dig Deeper: https://rumble.com/v5cig2j-a-million-women-part-2-give-him-15-daily-prayer-with-dutch-august-27-2024.html https://thebridegroomscafe.com/change-it-up-2/ https://www.hervoicemvmt.com/about https://rumble.com/v4biyzr-my-prayer.html https://rumble.com/v2lze90-national-prayer.html

You can be moving forward in life and things are going well and then all of a sudden… wow… where did that come from??? I like the game of golf, it relaxes me, it gives me a “time out” from life’s stress ruts! What is a stress rut? Well, it is all about me, creating a rut out of a stressful situation by overthinking it, by trying to fix it until I am completely exhausted, and by not trusting God! Golf and life are similar! Life can be like a game of golf. Sometimes we have those perfect shots and we are happy and celebrating and then we get to the next hole and we send one right into the lake. We think: Where did that bad drive come from? I was doing so well! Stroke Lost! Ball Lost! Aggravated Attitude Picked Up! We can be doing things so perfectly and then all of a sudden “bam” that is ugly. Where did that come from? We have these stressful times and we start focusing on them exercising our mind by running bad thoughts over and over in them, until we are exhausted and stressed out. We have created a stress rut in our mind. This is the time to shake things up. Do something different, take your mind off of the situation. We can’t fix it. We are not the Fixer, God is the Fixer. Do you want to have a good shot at life? Let go and let God. Let go of the stress, all those things you are trying to fix. We can’t live life perfectly all the time. Ask any golfer if they have ever had a bad chip or a bad putt, or a bad drive! They all have. Life is not always perfect, and neither is our golf drive and we know that when we hear that “kerplunk” as we hit the ball right into the water. That ball is gone! It is okay, we will get another try to make it better, and before you are done playing, you probably will find another ball somewhere that was lost by someone else. This hole may have ended with too many strokes above par, but the next hole could be a bogey. Life is like that. 1 God, 1 Purpose, 1 Day At A Time! Don’t get yourself in a stress rut because you made a bad iron shot and created a divot and the ball went no where. Take a deep breath, let God calm you down before you take that next shot and do the same thing again. Shake Things Up! Let go and let God. Relax Your Grip! Time Out! Attitude Check! Breathe in God, breathe out bad attitudes and may your next golf drive be perfect. God bless you. PS… Remember we are imperfectly-perfect, yet always loved by a perfect God. Are You A Fixer: https://rumble.com/vavamh-are-you-a-fixer.html https://thebridegroomscafe.com/human-doer/ https://thebridegroomscafe.com/are-you-connected/

We can be so moved by the beauty of God’s creation as our God given common sense comes alive in us and we know that there is a God. I found the most beautiful shell the other day and I was in Awe of the way it was created with such intricate design, and as I held that big beautiful shell, I was in Awe of the Creator God. Yes, there are things we see and experience that definitely point us to the reality of truth that there is a God. So, we are halfway there to the place where God wants us to be. We believe in God, but do we believe Him? I am thinking God desires for both of those two decisions which would make for a wholly-holy belief in Him. The first one is easy, there is so much that we can’t look away from, so much that says there is a God who has created and who is maintaining our world day by day. The second one, not so much as easy as the first. The second one is do we “believe Him” We can believe God, but do we believe Him. Do we trust what God says to be true? God’s Word is powerful, nothing has stopped it. The famous scripture of course is John 3:16: “For here is the way God loved the world—he gave his only, unique Son as a gift. So now everyone who believes in him will never perish but experience everlasting life.” What about that next step? Have you taken it? Do you say, Yes, Lord, I believe, and Yes Lord I believe You, what You have said. I believe that what You have said will come to pass. I believe You, Jesus, I believe You and I trust everything you say, I wholly-holy love You and I believe you. It seems like when we take one step towards God and in belief embrace Him and then we take that second step, out into the deep and we say, I believe you God, I believe every word You have spoken and I believe You still speak today. When we have taken both those steps and wholly-holy believe in God, our lives are so amazingly navigated by God’s Holy Spirit, there is great peace in our soul that is not dependent upon our circumstances but resting upon our faith and our belief. We believe God is F.I.T. to sit on the throne of our lives because we know and trust that He is: Faithful, Infinite and Trustworthy. God bless you and may you find your way to that wholly-holy belief in God. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/believe-god/ https://thebridegroomscafe.com/gods-not-done/ https://rumble.com/v5atpzp-god-is-not-done.html

Life can be busy, busy, busy… do you want to have a winning life in a chaotic culture? It is kind of hard to do when we find ourselves in a frenzy of life happenings and realize we have put way too much on our life plate. I am thinking, we can juggle well if we start well and end well. It is that old powerful saying: I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me. That sounds good, but what about practically applying it, what about our reality of truth? The reality of truth for me plays out with a really good start to my day. We can imagine that so many of us have so many opinions on how this shakes out, but I think only ONE truly holds the power to having a day where you are faithfully successful. Drum roll please… and that is the GOD of the Universe. What?!! Yes, you heard that right. The best start, the best way to begin your day well, is all contained in a bow. Who do you bow too? To begin each day well, we bow our lives to God. Our first step out, is down, bowing our hearts, our lives before God. It is good to bow before God and pray: “God, increase in me, and all things human nature, decrease”. Yielding our lives to God first thing every day, acknowledging Him, Who He is, and honoring, respecting and reverencing our Awe GOD, starts our day well. We have just made a heart to heart connection with the most powerful, wonderful, loving God in this entire universe! Now we can step out and go forward in the strength and love of Jesus Christ. Yes, anything is possible when you begin well! Oh, yes, I forgot the second part, ending well. Did you know that gratitude is the pathway to peace? We all love to lay our heads down and sleep in peace. Does that always happen. No. Not if we don’t set it up for peace to flow unencumbered by the situations of our day. The best way to end our day well is by taking a knee before God and bowing our hearts in gratefulness, recounting all the things He did for us in our day, thanking Him and giving Him the glory for all He has done. Then there are those pesky things that are still very unsettled, unreconciled, as we head to bed at night. The best thing to do with them is put them in God’s hands, and all the expectations tied to them, in the palm of His hand, let be, be still and know He is God and rest peacefully. You have just had the reality of truth experience in how to begin your day well and end your day well. Happy Life! God bless ya. Dig Deeper: https://rumble.com/vo4cx5-7-days.html https://rumble.com/van3wd-busy-stop-be-thankful.html https://thebridegroomscafe.com/7-day-bow-encounter/ https://thebridegroomscafe.com/thankfulness-2/

What do you think you know!? Do you think we know what we “think we know”! Assumptions really stink, they reek of deception and deceiving. Do we actually believe that an assumption is true. Do you really know it? You speak like you know, but do you truly know? What do you know? Think on it! That is a simple question. Now add this: What do you “absolutely” know, that makes it more detailed. What are you stepping out on? Is it something you know? Or is it something you “think you know”! Stepping out on something that you think you know is a dangerous way to walk on a narrow path. What is it you “think you know”? Think about it!! It could be like stepping out on slippery mud and sinking in. Do you think you can know another person’s motive? I don’t! I think so many assumptions are made about other people’s motives and the motive of another person is something we can’t truly, absolutely know. A lot of people judge people and condemn people on what they think they know. When you “think you know” someone else’s motive, you really can’t know that. Only God can. Assuming what another person’s motive is, this is the enemies playground and he loves stirring up strife between people by using this scheming tactic of telling us what their motive is. The enemy can’t know that, we can’t know that, only God can know a person’s motive. God is the source of all knowledge and we human beings do not know what we think we know. The more we get this godly wisdom in our hearts, the less we will wrongly judge other people, and the less we will condemn people on assumptions, making an ASS out of you and me as we falsely accuse another person based on what we can’t truly know. We don’t know what we truly think we know. God knows. So let’s make a point of walking out of this godly wisdom and less and less will we condemning others for things they have not done. Yes, we don’t know what we think we know, but God knows. God is our best source of knowledge, discernment and truth. Turn To God! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/he-knows/ https://rumble.com/vaum5x-been-devalued.html