HeartTOHeart

It is definitely, no doubt about it, easier to focus on the negative right now. Why? Because there is so much of it! Deception is rampant and as people listen up to false narratives time and time again, it becomes a fake reality, a bondage of deception. People are anxious, angry, bitter, mean spirited and it is easy to focus on this kind of thing more than we do the positive that is also happening all around us. God is still at work, creating and maintaining is His thing. There is so much around us that is miraculous, the amazing things of the Lord, the things He is doing. Yes, our world is changing and some of the morality changes make us sick to our stomach. But, we can’t become “Negative Nellies”! God is still here and He is still working on our behalf. There is so much in our world that is still so very beautiful because God is still in control and He has not abdicated His authority to evil. Beauty exists and it exists in Jesus, in His way, truth and life. As we tap into God’s miraculous flow of personal relationship and we listen up to His Word, hearing His Promises, our mood can quickly change from negative to positively great as we recognize the goodness of our God, focusing on His faithfulness and trustworthiness. God is still for us, we have not lost His loyalty and devotion. He loves us! This is our enough, our positive that trumps the negative the enemy of our soul is dishing out. Yes, there is a lot of negative, but their is also positive and we can choose to look past the negative and let our focus rest on God and believe Him that He is working in the unseen for our good. Praise God! He is here, He is in control and our future is in Him. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/false-indictment/ https://rumble.com/vfm7in-gods-promises.html

Our human understanding is not enough. It is full of the deceptors of assumptions, speculations, rationalizations, feelings and opinions not based on the reality of truth, but on what we “think we know”! God knows everything, from knowledge, to experience, to feelings, to motives, to secreted things. God knows it all. If you need understanding, He is the one to go to first. Our ways are not His ways, that is for sure and there are times we can’t even begin to wrap our mind around the things that are occurring in our corrupted cultures. There is just no understanding of it all. Why would God do that? Why would God allow that? There is no understanding of it. When we run off doing our own thing because we can’t understand what God is doing, this is when human mess happens. What we see, feel, hear can be interpreted so wrong when all we have is a worldly viewpoint. God’ understanding is so needed, we should seek after it. God’s understanding is a beautiful thing, it brings us the gift of faith activated by Himself. We need to begin to acknowledge that God is in all of our ways, that He is doing something in the unseen and we don’t have to know the endgame because we know God is faithful, God is for us, God is an amazing finisher, Who finishes well. God is a winner! This is why we can trust God to lead us and navigate us through times such as these, from moment to choice. Faith says we don’t need to know the outcome, we can trust step by step because God is good and He hasn’t changed. God finishes well. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/finisher/ Trust in the Lord completely, and do not rely on your own opinions. With all your heart rely on him to guide you, and he will lead you in every decision you make. Become intimate with him in whatever you do, and he will lead you wherever you go. Don’t think for a moment that you know it all, for wisdom comes when you adore him with undivided devotion and avoid everything that’s wrong. Then you will find the healing refreshment your body and spirit long for. Proverbs 3:5-8

What an incredible blessing. We woke up to another day and God is with us, God is for us in this gift of another day. What will you do with this gift? Well, I am thinking that the best thing we can do with this gift of a new day, where God’s mercy is new for us is to receive it, the mercy of God, the love of God, the provision of God. How? Well, probably, for me, it will be, hopefully, that my first step out into this day will be down, bowed in reverence, awe, gratefulness before God. Yes, I am thankful for this new day with all of its God goodness ahead, those great God Adventures of divine appointments that He has for us. But then, there is the other side of the coin, evil intentions of the enemy of our soul, and I don’t underestimate the wiles of the enemy to try to mess up my day with his stupidness. So, while I am down there, in my first step down, in Awe of God, I realize this is a vital-vertical connection I am making with the heart and power of Almighty God. Simply-Significantly, I take this so seriously. This time in my relationship with God is critical and I ask for what I need from God, I asked to be equipped for the day ahead. I usually wake up optimistically, on the good side of the bed as people sometimes ask the opposite: Did you wake up on the bad side of the bed?? But I usually do get up happy and looking forward to time with God. I deeply realize, God has gifted me with much, just in the waking up to a new day, but I know He has immeasurably more for me than I could hope for, imagine or expect. With joyful expectation, and activated faith, I ask to be protected from evil, to be kept from temptation, to make the right choice the first time from every moment to choice I will have in this day gifted me. I ask My Father God to equip me with the wisdom, discernment and knowledge I need to succeed in this day ahead. I ask God to not let me drift away from truth because I live in a life season which is saturated with deception. I pray to make this gifted day all about the Gifter, Jesus Christ, the One Who has given me the ultimate gift of eternal life. This great God adventure today, I want to live it out focused on Jesus, all in with His mission. I hope for it not to be about me, but all about Him and His Kingdom. If I do stumble here and there because of a lengthly focus on my worldly viewpoint, I ask the Holy Spirit to always be there for me, to pick me up, wholly-holy align me with truth and set me apart and on His way, navigated by Him. Because I am flesh, I know the value of this heavenly gift of a new day, I know my days are short in this flesh and I want to do the most I can do with my human condition, in its weakness, so I always ask for the Holy Spirit to infuse my weakness with His strength, and my day seems to be at its peak best when I am saying no to my flesh and yes to God. So I hope for us, that we take this wonderful gift of a day, given to us by God and use it for His glory. God bless ya. Enjoy! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/old-to-new/ https://rumble.com/val4t7-it-is-a-new-day.html

When we have had a storm come in and the waves have been crashing into the shores of the beach, one thing you notice is that there are a lot of broken shells. Makes sense, the power of an angry wave breaks shells. It is like that in our culture, a lot of chaos crashing in on the shores of our nations. We can’t help but be affected by the storm that is upon our nations where morality has taken a nose dive and children are paying the high price of the bad choices of adults. There are a lot of broken people and broken people break people. Brokenness reproduces itself as broken people lash out against the world and the people all around them. We should not despair about the state of our nations, because God is still here, reaching for us. God has not abdicated His power to evil, He is working all things out for the good of His people. Living life in vital-vertical relationship with God is where our wholeness is restored and beautified. There is wholeness for our soul when we live in a relationship with God. God makes broken vessels beautiful. Are you broken? Connect with God today and begin your journey with Him towards wholeness. God makes beautiful broken vessels of light that pierce the night with the power and glory of His life. God, we pray You would revive your people once again, make us whole again as we connect with You, Heart To Heart. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/broken-people-break-people/

It feels like the whole world is a “teeter-totter” right now… Up and down… nothing is stable, everything is shaking. Nothing is as it should be and the “normal” we all used to know… long gone!! It seems like the victory comes, but the enemy is stripping it, reversing it. I guess the Lord is teaching us how to deal with discouragement and how to have a faith that patiently endures? Has that ever happened to you? You won a battle and then it got reversed?? The coolest thought is that the Lord is already the winner. He has won all of it. Jesus won the thing. God will reverse what the enemy has stolen. There is nothing irreversible with God. Nothing! Sometimes our lives get calm, then all of a sudden a big wave comes in and knocks us off of our feet. At that point we need to get up and stand on the Promises of God, pray His Word, and believe that He can and He will reverse what the enemy has done. God loves to do this and He loves to do it in such an abundant way. God always gives us back what has been stolen 100 fold. God’s endgame for us is always good. He finishes so well and usually the enemy of our soul underestimates God and plays their hand way too quick and definitely over plays their hand. That is why we need to patiently endure and wait in belief and trust of God, knowing He’s got the best plan ever for us and He will usher it in when the timing is perfect. He is so good at doing that. So today, if you feel discouraged, if you have felt the enemies backlash on your victory, look up and connect heart to heart with God. God’s gotcha covered! God wins! Dig Deeper: https://rumble.com/v1oknw2-increase-your-faith.html https://thebridegroomscafe.com/change-is-coming/

Does your nation know the blessing of freedom? Are you free? Are You One Nation Under God With Liberty And Justice For All? Freedom! Human Beings… what a fragile freedom we have because people, with no power higher than self want to steal it. But we STILL have it, our liberty...we were born to be free with the liberty of choice. God choose His Servant Warriors to fight for our God given freedom, because of the sacrifices of those who defended it and still fight for us to be free, we still have freedoms. People, Patriots, Whose Passion It Is To Preserve Freedom, We Are Grateful And Honor Them. And Those Who Died Doing So, We Memorialize Them, Never Taking For Granted These Amazing People And What They Sacrificed For Us. In these times, even having the strongest leaders or military in the world, even this is under attack. There are evil people and leaders trying to usurp the rulership of God and what has ensued is a corrupted system of justice and cultural chaos because they can’t handle supremacy that was meant only for God. God speaks Shalom=disrupting chaos and He speaks Truth=Freedom for all. We have peace and we are free people because of those God has enlisted and called, soldiers of God, who serviced our liberty with the giving of their lives to defend it. The memories of these Godly warriors are the memorial of our freedom, their courageous and strong actions always remembered, and treasured as our freedom, they purchased with their lives, is used in a respectful, honorable, righteous, and civl ways. We have been given more than we can repay and this precious freedom should never be taken for granted. I think about Jesus Christ and all He did for us, so we could live forever free. Jesus, the Son of God, He came here, the King of heaven, took on flesh. (Incarnate) God in the flesh, came to us to defend our freedom of choice with the truth He came to share. We owed a death-debt we could not pay, He paid it with His life. He died so we might forever, freely live. He purchased our freedom from death. We have the freedom to have an opinion, the freedom to fly our countries flag which is the symbol of our liberty, the freedom to go to work, the freedom to learn and grow, the freedom to travel with our family, the freedom to attend church and worship God, the freedom to choose what we do and want to be, the freedom to raise our children, the freedom to make choices for our medical health, and the liberty to live, move, love, serve and be a part of all the things of our community that we choose. We are free. We are free because it is an inalienable God given liberty to all mankind. God gave us a free will. He gave us the freedom of choice. Liberty for all, this is a God given freedom of choice that He does not interfere with. As we connect with God, heart to heart, we know Him, we experience Him and we realize the truth of God, which sets us completely free. Because we got to know God, experience His love and power, we freely choose Him. He gave us that right of choice, hoping, desiring for us to choose the best of life, which is Him, His way, and truth. He never pushed anything on our will, He let us choose. He is alive, He is with us, He is for us, there is no greater God than Him. No man can steal our God given freedom, our liberty of heart which He gives us daily. In Christ, we are free indeed. Our flag flies freely, for now, but we have a fragile freedom because our culture is corrupting as we are attacked from within our nations from those who want to steal our freedom, subjugate, and hurt our children, stealing their innocence and isolating children from their family and parents. These corrupted, power hungry, soul sick people want to create a tyrannical society where we serve them as they serve no power higher than self. There has never been a time in history where absolute human power has not corrupted absolutely. Socialism and tyrannical dictators leave behind a legacy of suffering and death. We must say YES to GOD and NO to these power hungry, soul sick, evil people. Our lives are in the hands of our God, He has not relinquished His authority to evil. We look to God as this deplorable enemy, which we do not underestimate, pushes deception into our societies creating a chaos that disrupts our peace. We look to Almighty God and we pray for Him to protect our liberty against the attack of these evil forces who serve no power higher than self. God is here, with us, and He wants to be a part of our lives, so we look to Him. We have to stop looking to human beings, whose hearts are wickedly evil, whose absolute power has corrupted absolutely. We must return our hearts to the Rulership of our God, this is where we will experience incorruptible power and abundant love and provision. Human beings, created by God, created in His Image, uniquely shaped in our mother’s womb as male or female, with individual design and purpose, we must return to God, and wholly-holy align ourself with God, this is our reasonable service in times such as these. Our relationship with God, being His nation, being underneath His Sovereign will, this wholly-holy authority of God, is what will balance our teetering nations, right our spiritual keel, heal our nations and cause us to return to a freedom that is not overtaken by the evil designs of socialism, and a one world government, where even our children do not belong to us and our freedom is stolen. We are One Nation Under God, indivisible with freedom, liberty and justice for all. Let this be so. Let us return to a rulership of God, underneath the authority of God’s Love, our Creator, Who knows and wants what is best for us. Our Resurrected Jesus, is the Only True Supremacy, the spilt blood of Jesus is the power that wins. God won. Our surest liberty, truest justice, and most secure freedom is found in God’s way, truth and life. Let’s be so, wholly-holy-His! Would you, Father God not revive us again with our first love of Jesus Christ? This is when we are truly powerful and wholly-holy free. God Wins! We must make sure we are standing with, on the side of the winner, Jesus Christ, on the side of His truth. Be So! Open your heart right now to the revival of God’s Holy Spirit. Almighty God Is Our Proof, Jesus Christ Is Our Proven, And God’s Holy Spirit Is Our Prover! Therefore, With This Three In One, Powerful And Loving God, We Stand Undivided And Free In Liberty And Justice For All. Wholly-Holy-Align Your Life With God And Powerfully Fight The Good Fight Of Faith In Times Such As These… God Wins! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/devoured-freedom/

Is your soul affected by gloomy days? Does your attitude need sunshine to be able to smile? I have been there and done this! Had a soul atmosphere of gloom if the weather was bad, or if something didn’t go the way I planned. I have been a “Gloomy Gus” so many times until I realized that my happiness was a choice for joy and joy was found in my connection with God. God Joy is a strength like no other! I love this joy because no matter what external was happening, internally I was good, it was well with my soul! God’s joy doesn’t need sunshine, it is a choice to choose joy, to be happy because of Him, because of our future in Him. It is so incredible, our future that Jesus bought for us by His life, and no day that has no sunshine in it, that is gloomy and hard, where things are happening that we can’t even wrap our mind around, no day like this, and nothing eternal can steal our joy. Yes, we have an enemy, and yes He wants to steal our joy because he knows this is our strength. Our future is secure from everything and every one and especially the enemy of our soul. God won that battle already! This is our joy, our unspeakable joy, our abundant joy. We can choose to be gloomy in soul because the weather of the day is gloomy or we can choose Jesus Joy. Choosing to be gloomy based on external things like weather and bad situations, I call this being a “gloomy gus”! Have you ever been a “gloomy gus”? I sure have and it is not fun! It makes a gloomy day even worse! Our soul attitudes reflecting the weather or the situations of our life is not a good choice for us and doesn’t end well, in fact it dead ends us in depressive ways. Honestly, we have so much to be grateful for and we should reflect the joy of Jesus, our future and our hope is in Him. Gratefulness is our path to peace. So today, choose life, choose joy, and shake off that gloominess in your soul. It is a good day when we say say no to gloomy gus, not even letting the gloom enter our soul, and mess with our heart attitudes. We say “YES” to the joy of Jesus! We yield our day with all its God methods and purposes in play, to the Sovereign Will of our God, Who knows best for us and is working all the gloom and doom out for our good. What an amazing AWE-GOD He is! Dig Deeper: “You, O God, sent the reviving rain upon your weary inheritance, showers of blessing to refresh it.”Psalms 68:9 TPT https://thebridegroomscafe.com/unleash-your-joy/ Constant Joy: https://rumble.com/v26gfhs-constant-joy.html

The cultural storms are rolling in quickly and they are strong enough to capsize us in our soul! In times such as these, we can’t be distracted by these storms, we need to keep our eyes on Jesus. We don’t want to end up beached! We can’t look to people, they can’t help us. People can’t fix what is happening in times such as these. Jesus is the Fixer! Jesus knows about these storms and He knows how to right our keel, He knows how to save us. Jesus can bring our boat upright and cause us to be able to navigate the rough waters of our culture in times such as these where there is so much cultural chaos as the storms roll in, one after the other, pounding everything we are used to and making our lives abnormal. Change is happening in our society. There isn’t one thing that hasn’t gone up in price, everything costs more and you get less. More for less! Except God’s economy is the opposite, He gives us more and increases our provision too. There is nothing that deters God in taking care of us. He is a good Shepherd. Today, we will have everything we need. There isn’t much that isn’t shaking in our society, everything that can shake is being uprooted and there is nothing really that is secure as change is rapidly taking place. It is hard to even recognize our nations, the enemy of our soul is devastating our culture. What now? We stay anchored to Jesus, Who is a strong anchor and He changes not. Our future in Christ Jesus is secure, unshakeable, and guaranteed. Jesus and His Word should be our focus as we ride out these cultural storms. Remember, God is in the storm, there is no one who has usurped His authority and He has not released His authority over us to anyone. God is in control. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/yield-to-god/

Yes, God can. There are times we feel that we are “underneath it all” but we are not. God is more than able to finish what He started in us. No Doubt About It! If life has given you a hard time and you feel stuck in a difficult situation, don’t fret, just ask God for help. It seems like a simple answer, “ask God” but it is a powerful solution. God can do anything and He can do it better and give us a result that is more than we could have imagined or hoped for. God is our more than enough. I bought this almost dead little yellow rose bush that I really did not think would make it, I bought it to try to save it because I love yellow roses. I didn’t have much hope for it. I nurtured it daily with water, fertilizer and kept at it, not giving up, and that scrawny, half dead rose bush just took off and became the most beautiful yellow rose bush I have ever seen. I think about my life, there were times I felt like I was that scrawny rose bush, and there was no way I could bloom in this life, I had way too much against me. I was wrong. God is more than enough for us. I have been through many things in my life time, but one thing I have not been is forsaken by God. Many are our trials at times, but God grows us through them all, and we eventually will bloom as we trust Him, leaning into Him, finding our sustenance in our vital-vertical relationship with Him. There is no situation that we find ourselves in where we are without hope. When we ask God for navigation and help, He is right there, activating His purposes for our lives. God is more than enough and He can do things for us that we can’t even begin to imagine He could do. I know, I have seen it in my life where He took me from situations where I was at the bottom of life and brought me up to the top. I know He can, I know He is more than enough. God is faithful and trustworthy. Trust Him today, ask God for help and watch Him work things out in that way only He can. God can take your scrawny, half dead rose and make a magnificent rose bush out of it and you will bloom and it will be beautiful. God bless ya. Dig Deeper: https://rumble.com/vaofit-growing-or-stumbling-through.html https://thebridegroomscafe.com/bloom-2/

We stand and we stand firmly when we have a foundation of God's Word and gratefulness. Why? Gratefulness has a strong object, an unbreakable foundation. I am grateful. One thing I know God is with me and for me. I am so grateful for this. I am thankful that no matter what we are growing through on this side of heaven, we have a bright promise for a forever without sickness, pain, disappointment, injustice, our future is going to be amazing and as we think on this, our Awe-God gratefulness becomes our focus. Evil is parading itself on the streets of our world as lawlessness and injustice are two prevalent things in our lives. It looks as if evil is winning, but this is not so, the truth is God wins. If we stay focused on all the amazing things God is doing, and we stir up our heart with gratefulness, we see less and less of the bad and more and more of the good. Gratefulness seems to fine tune our God discernment which activates our faith on what is not seen but believed for. It is not that we don’t “see” the bad, it is there, it just doesn’t capture our attention like God does. Gratefulness helps us because it takes our soul captive with the belief that God is at work in the unseen for our good and being thankful, it helps us let go and let God work. Today, we focus on Jesus, and we are grateful that He has grounded us in the strength of His Word. We are thankful for God’s Presence, and grateful that His Word holds us fast in the times where the world is battering us with cultural chaos. The waves of our crazy culture crash into our pilings and they hold because the foundation is strong, the Word of God is a fantastic foundation, it holds like an anchor. We are grateful for the Shalom of God which speaks peace into our chaos, disrupting it in that way only God can. Have you ever had a stormy life season where the waves just come crashing in one after another? It is easy to focus on the waves and become so very fearful about our future. We overthink whether our lives can stand through these crazy cultural storms upon us. As we refocus, simply-significantly being grateful for God’s Presence, always with us, the waves don’t seem as threatening, and it is well with our soul even when the storms are whipping all around us. The object of our gratefulness is Jesus, so when our heart is steeped in thanksgiving, He is what we see, we are no longer focused on the storm. What are you grateful for today? Speak it out to Jesus and focus your soul on all things God, His strong Word, His faithfulness, His trustworthiness, His power, His goodness, His plan, His peace, His character, and the future and hope Jesus bought for us with His life. Dig Deeper: Matthew 14:26-33 https://my.bible.com/bible/1849/MAT.14.26-33 https://rumble.com/vbp2en-topsy-turvy-life-season.html

I don't like it. It is way outside my comfort zone! No! Not doing it that way! We don’t like God’s method’s. We don’t like God’s ways. We don’t like God’s timing. We don’t like God’s plan. When we swirl all this negative, stinking thinking around in our mind, before we know it, we are in full fledged rebellion against God. I can do this myself! I can do it better! Rebellion and foolish impulsivity pretty much go hand in hand. When we are impulsive, pride is always in the mixture and the one thing about pride that is always going to come through in our lives, is that pride goes before a fall. Whenever I have bucked up my will against God, it hasn’t ended so well. God, I don’t understand Your ways and sometimes I can’t even wrap my mind around why You do things the way You do. Ever said this to God? Truly, who are we to question God? To think we can do, speak and be without God, without His strength and favor? Who are we to think we don’t need God? This kind of choice, independence from God has a crash and burn endgame. The only place we will end up is flat on our face. Well, this might be a good thing, being flat on our face before God, it is very humbling and probably will bring us back into wholly-holy alignment with God. We do need God, there is no doubt about that. So, I hope for all of us to side step the deceptive traps of the enemy and walk with God in joy, strength, peace and wisdom. Lord, keep us dependent upon You in that heart to heart relationship with You. We are better people when we are in followship of You, Your ways, truth, life. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/god-causes-it/ https://rumble.com/vceupv-what-it-is-it-is.html

🙏✝️🇺🇸 Confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins) and pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and restored [to a spiritual tone of mind and heart]. The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working]. James 5:16 🙏 We drifted away from you, our nation and every nation and we tried to do what we thought was best. The problem with that is our human condition is very corruptible and when it goes downhill, it goes down fast and hard. Bring us out of the fog of deceit that has blanketed our nations. Open our eyes and awaken us to You, Jesus! 🙏 We have as Isaiah 50:10-11 says… we kindle our own fire and we walked by the light of a man made fire and now we lay down in torment. Exactly as we were warned that apart from God, we are not good. We were created to need God. So, we do confess our faults, thinking we know best, pride. Walking in our own strength, self-righteousness. Making our own way as we went along, tossing out what was right and embracing the easy, broad path of sin. We were deceived, You, Lord God are what is good for us. 🙏 We have been self-centered people, looking out for our own interests, pushing our opinions like they were truth and creating an atmosphere for deception to rule us. We, we are a mess, a big human mess, so we turn from the inside-out to our God, we acknowledge our sin, we confess, we ask to be restored in relationship with God. Jesus, You are the Light that no one, and nothing can extinguish, embrace us in Your Light of Truth. 🙏 We ask God to restore our spiritual soul, mind and heart, we pray and we seek God, changing our position to being underneath the Rulership of His Love. God created us, God knows what is best for us, so we yield to His way, His methods, His truth and His life. We pray for the power of God to transform us, to work through us to revive our world in the goodness of God. Dig Deeper: https://rumble.com/vd85zl-the-fixer.html Who is among you who [reverently] fears the Lord, who obeys the voice of His Servant, yet who walks in darkness and deep trouble and has no shining splendor [in his heart]? Let him rely on, trust in, and be confident in the name of the Lord, and let him lean upon and be supported by his God. Behold, all you [enemies of your own selves] who attempt to kindle your own fires [and work out your own plans of salvation], who surround and gird yourselves with momentary sparks, darts, and firebrands that you set aflame!–walk by the light of your self-made fire and of the sparks that you have kindled [for yourself, if you will]! But this shall you have from My hand: you shall lie down in grief and in torment. [Isa. 66:24.] Isaiah 50:10-11 We Fear Not! We look to GOD! He does not forsake the work of His Hands. #NationalDayOfPrayer https://rumble.com/vdy9xb-we-fear-not.html

As you can see in this video, it is definitely stormy and windy and it is hard to hold on to anything, so that is why we need to be anchored to a strong foundation in times such as these. Hope is that way, it is slippery in times such as these where the storm is upon our culture. What are you hoping in? Many times we use the word hope, so what does that word mean to us? Hope to me is something on my heart that I want to see happen, it usually is tied to God’s heart’s desires, but sometimes it is just about me, what I want. Hope… is it tied to expectations that we have? Once someone shared with my some really good wisdom about expectations. Because of the human nature, our expectations can get dashed and we can be hurt or disillusioned, or very disappointed. The wisdom about expectations is to flip them to hope by giving them a strong foundation that doesn’t need a human being to carry them out. What I mean by that is we should put our expectations in the hands of Jesus and this is when they become hope. Also, this makes the object of our hope not a imperfect human being, but a perfect God. This world is so crazy right now in that real cra-cra way where nothing is really secure or stable. So what is the foundation that is strong for our hope? It is Jesus! There is no stronger foundation than Jesus as we put our hope in Jesus, and the wind is whipping up and chaos is in our culture, we know that our hope is in a safe place, we know God can do anything and we know that what we hope in, He is already working on to fulfill that hope in the most perfect timing ever. God finishes well, so putting our hope in Him is a great choice. Truly it does help you to hope BIG. I always hope Big because the foundation of my hope is Jesus Christ and there is no stronger foundation. Jesus is the object of my hope and I find myself not being disappointed or my hopes dashed, but I find myself believing, trusting and waiting on God with an active faith. When my hope is in Jesus, I am more stable in my emotions, I have more joy and I have more strength to endure. There is definitely a change in me when I hope in God, it becomes less of me and more of Him and that is a good change! God bless ya! Put your hope in God. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/believe-god/ https://rumble.com/veiwyp-powerful-hope.html

Is your soul parched? How can it not be in this season of time where persecution is prevalent and deception is all around us? Communion with God is so important for our spiritual health, our soul to be well in times such as these. Jesus, He made a way for us, by the way of the cross. He sacrificed His life on our behalf so we could have communion with God. This was His mission, His purpose in coming here to us. God desired relationship with us, a vital-vertical connection between the Father God and His people. We have access to “living water” for our soul and it should never be parched, no matter how bad our cultural chaos gets, we can commune with God, heart to heart. There is no one, or nothing that can take the Presence of God from us, God is with us, God is for us. God waits for us to have that special time of communion with Him, where our first step out into our day is bowed down before Him and He touches us, lifts our face to His, speaks to us from His heart. God paid for this time of “communion” with us. We try so hard to do things on our own, we leave God out. We have these compartments of our life-style. God, you can come into this compartment on Sunday, but the rest of the week, I can handle it. But truly, we can’t. Remember Jesus! He did nothing without communing with His Father. Jesus showed us what we needed that night He had the first communion with His disciples. He asked us to remember this, to do this in memory of Him. The cross represents “Communion” purchased by Jesus’ blood and body broken, because of what Jesus did, we have access to God, every day and in every way. We should never take this for granted and we should find our way to that special communion with God every moment to every choice, giving God total access to our lives. Have we compartmentalized God out of our life? If our soul is weary, if our compassion is fatigued, if we are struggling emotionally, maybe we should thick about taking down the compartments in our lives and being wholly-holy God’s in every way, every day, letting God navigate us, being in communion with God, heart to heart. Dig Deeper: https://my.bible.com/bible/116/LUK.22.14-20 Do This In Remembrance Of Me Do you now what God’s heart desire is?? https://thebridegroomscafe.com/gods-heart-desire/ https://thebridegroomscafe.com/wholly-holy-2/

God Still Speaks~ Listen Up ~ Closely ~ Heart To Heart It is windy, loud and in our face, this is our current cultural chaos. How are we supposed to hear God? We can’t even hear ourselves think! There is so much chaos swirling around us, but God has not stop speaking, He has not stopped navigating us. If we slow down, if we stop trying to fix things, if we yield to God, listen up closely, heart to heart, we can hear Him, that still small, miraculous voice that is heard in the winds of our time. God still speaks. Open the Bible, sit with Him, let His Holy Spirit speak powerfully through His Word. Speak the name of Jesus, He is the disrupter of Chaos, He brings peace into the middle of our storms. Listen up to the Prophets of our time, He is speaking through them, navigating us by His Word. He has not stop speaking, we have stopped listening closely, we are hard of hearing. God still speaks. Get heart to heart with Him, listen closely for that still small voice of God. Think of it this way, this video has a lot of wind in it, but if you want to hear my voice, you listen in closely and you can hear it in the wind, God is in the storm, He has not left us, His voice is in the wind, listen up closely, God is still speaking, He is never not speaking, He is never not navigating us. When we want to hear, we listen up closely. Deception of our time is throughout the all of our lives. Our national media lies, our own corrupted government officials are craftily designing the stealing of our freedom, and the cultural chaos of deception among us all is like the angry sea, it is loud, it is crashing onto the shores of our lives, touching us all where we live in ways that are so very uncomfortable. Yet, God still speaks, still navigates, still has not left us, nor forsaken us to the way of the angry seas of our time. Maybe we need to step out of our comfort zone and listen up closely to God. God still speaks, His power is available to us. There is power in the name of Jesus, pray it up. There is power in the Word of God, pray it up. There is power in the Holy Spirit, Christ in us, the hope of glory, pray it up to Him. Listen Up Closely. There is power in the prophets He has chosen to give us the news before the news, (Julie Green Ministries) to prepare our hearts in wisdom, strength, courage and faith. God Still Speaks. Listen Up, Heart To Heart with Him, in personal, vital-vertical relationship with God. You will hear that still small voice and it will be clear, concise and revelational for times such as these. The wind whips around us, the chaos of the angry waves of our enemy crashing into the shores, all of this is so very loud, yet we can still hear the still small voice of God above it all. God Still Speaks. Human beings speak a lot of words, words, words, BUT when God speaks, things change up. Dig Deeper: https://my.bible.com/bible/114/1KI.19.11-13 https://thebridegroomscafe.com/god-still-can-2/ https://rumble.com/v2jdwe6-the-time-has-come-for-the-wake-up-call.html https://rumble.com/v1e1qil-storm-watch.html

God bless you and your family, today I am praying for us all. Father God, we ask You to protect our “nuclear family” of father, mother, children. My father was the first one to teach me that a “family who prays together, stays together”! Dad taught me the power of togetherness and the protection of swimming in a school of fish, so we don’t get picked off by the enemy, who is so ready to deceive us to swim away on our own so the world can eat us up. God created us to be a strong family unit with Him at the center of our family. God-Jesus-Family A Three Strand Cord! We pray for every family unit to become like a three strand cord that is not easily broken. This is a family that has Jesus at the center of their family life. They are like a school of fish being led and in followship of the One who knows how to use the currents to swim together, safe and protected. We are better together, we are safer together, protected from the wiles of the evil of our time, from deception which is so prevalent. We have the counter cultural tide going on where good is bad and bad is good and it is sweeping into and through our nations with the divisive intention of isolating children from their family and dissolving the God given boundaries of gender. The enemy wants to destroy the nuclear family. God says: Stay together, swim together like schools of fish who stay within the boundaries of the family and are protected and safe from evil intentions. God created male and female and He creates each child given to each nuclear family, male or female, He shapes them in their mother’s womb. The enemy wants to destroy gender, because this will destroy the God given nuclear family that has been the strength of society from the beginning of time. God created family, just as He created in the fish the wisdom to swim in schools, because together is better, together is safer and together is being protected from evil. Today, we ask God to protect our “nuclear family” from the onslaught of deception, to protect the children from the deceiver. We ask Jesus to guide each child away from the cultural chaos of our time where people are rebelling against God and His design for them. Evil people are trying to erase gender for motives that are unseen by innocent children who they are preying on to advance their political agenda of a one world government. They are using gender confusion as their means for their political gains. If they can destroy the nuclear family, they can destroy the strength of the nation. God protect our children from their devices of evil, deception and crafty plans of our enemy, satan. Help us Jesus, the Nuclear Family, not to be isolated from one another through the deception of our enemy. Protect us and keep us swimming in the “schools of fish” that You have placed us in. Jesus, You create every family with a specific design, mother, father and children, You put together families, designed for our good, for the protection and welfare of humanity. This is Your creation, the nuclear family, we ask You to protect it in these times of evil, and let no weapon formed against our family prosper. Keep us swimming together as a “school of fish” through the currents and chaos of our times, keep us together because we know, together as a family is the best protection against the enemy of our soul. Together, Christ in us, our three strand cord which will not be easily broken and we will stand strong against this evil political agenda in the truth of God’s Word, together, unshakeable on His firm foundation and unbreakable by His Power! https://rumble.com/vwiy75-where-are-you.html https://rumble.com/vrvor8-better-together.html https://thebridegroomscafe.com/family-prayer-4/ Two people are better than one. They get more done by working together. If one person falls, the other can help him up. But it is bad for the person who is alone when he falls. No one is there to help him. If two lie down together, they will be warm. But a person alone will not be warm. An enemy might defeat one person, but two people together can defend themselves. A rope that has three parts wrapped together is hard to break. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ICB

God help us not to react to the crazy suddenly that likes to pop up in our life path. Help us to fully face you, hear from You and respond godly with Your wisdom and navigation. We can make the right choice today. We don’t chase after feelings… we do what is right, make the right choice the first time. We can be people who don’t chase after our emotions, but make the right choice the first time. We can. We can plug into the power of God, who can infuse us with the strength we need to be self-controlled, we can have a faith that is increased, joy that supersedes our situation and we can know our next step as He lights up our life-path. It is good to spend time with God, it is good to be in God’s Word, it is good to exercise our bodies and take care of health by eating good. Truly, we can trust or follow after our feelings and make the right choice. We can be people who are disciplined in our choices and not chase after our emotions, but admirably make the right choice, the first time. God can equip us, help us, navigate us and we can finish this day so very well. Make the right choice the first time. God bless ya. Dig Deeper: Standing on the ledge of hell probably is not a good time to try to decide what to do... might be a good idea to set up boundaries that you just won't cross. If you are that close, you are going to fall in. Set your boundaries before you find yourself standing on the edge of hell. https://rumble.com/v13a0u1-choices-choices.html #1MinuteEncouragement Video

The enemy of our soul would love for us to drift away from God’s Word, our light of truth. When we step out of the light of truth, fear floods in with a darkness of evil that we should never underestimate its power to wreck our lives. This is why we stay in the “Light Of God’s Word”! God’s Word is extraordinary and it is spoken from the mouth of our Awe-God. God is the only one who can break through the darkness of deceit with incredible and powerful light that shatters the darkness of evil deception. Today we can live in the light of God’s miraculous presence. God is always with us, always for us, reigning in the darkness of this world with a light of His Glory. We can wholly-holy live aligned with God in personal relationship. We can hope in the dark as we wait for the persevering light of God to break through our darkness. There is no darkness that the light of God can’t supersede. There is no darkness of the enemy of our soul that can put out the light of God. Are you sitting in the dark, hopeless today. Get up! Get in the Word of God and light up your life with His powerful love. Speak the name of Jesus and shatter the darkness that surrounds your soul and be enveloped in the miraculous light of God. Extraordinary, Amazing, Awe God! He is! He was! He will be! This Navigator God, His light will shine upon our life-path and navigate each and every one of us, on this day! God bless you. Our God Reigns! And this Light never fails to shine through darkness— Light that darkness could not overcome! In the beginning the Living Expression was already there. And the Living Expression was with God, yet fully God. They were together— face-to-face , in the very beginning. And through his creative inspiration this Living Expression made all things, for nothing has existence apart from him! A fountain of life was in him, for his life is light for all humanity. John 1:1-5 Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/yet-in-darkness/ https://thebridegroomscafe.com/shatter-the-darkness/ https://rumble.com/embed/vaar2j/?pub=1ecq3

I am grateful that everything in life that I experience is used to etch God’s character in my heart. At the times that we are growing through things that are hard, we would rather not have God’s ways written on our hearts, we sometimes would rather not grow through. But, as I look back with heavenly-hindsight, I am so very grateful for the finger of God etching His ways into my stony heart and creating a beautiful creation of His glory, a soft pliable heart, miraculously magnificent in every facet of life. I have been changed by my life experiences, and I know I am a unique design of God, shaped in a way I could never hope for or imagine. I am so very thankful to God, who is very detailed orientated and within the boundaries of His love, I have been shaped well. God takes a sharp edged heart of stone and makes it into a beautiful shiny, smooth rock, with its own unique design that stands out for all to see, a shape only He could create. All throughout our lives God uses what we human beings will stereotype as good things or bad things to shape our lives in His character, He changes our hearts through the life experiences He brings us to and purposefully through. We are all shaped so differently. Not one rock on that beach near the Mediterranean Sea was the same, all uniquely designed. Feeling awkward, what does the human condition do, it tries to shape others like they are designed, shape them in your image, because you are comfortable with who you are, but not who they are. Do we do this? Instead of loving people unconditionally, we put conditions on them to try to make them like us, in our image, in our shape, in our personality, because that is comfortable for us. Some people may not be easy to be around, because they are not designed or shaped in personality like us, and we have to step out of our comfort zone when they are around us because they are just not likable to us. Do we try to re-shape people in our image, with our design, with our shape? It is kind of hard to do and makes for really difficult relationships because GOD is the one Who uniquely designed them. God shapes our hearts through what He brings us to in this life. Whatever condition our hearts may be in, whatever situation we find ourselves in, God is using it, depositing His character in our hearts, softening our hearts, purifying our hearts and shaping our hearts to be beautiful, unique and special so people no longer see a stoney, jagged, hard heart, they see a beautifully designed heart, soft, smooth, pliable and responsive to the touch of God. Our hearts are His masterpiece, so open them wide to Him and let God work, shape us in with the method of His choice. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/completely-satisfied/ https://rumble.com/vowwev-whose-i-am.html Psalm 139: https://rumble.com/embed/v8lulf/?pub=1ecq3

I am sure, without a doubt that there are not many of us who feel very challenged right now. Our national cultures are all in a state of flux and things we have known our whole lives as being wrong are lifted up as being right, there is only justice for those who lean into the political flavor of the day and have no opinion on how it tastes, just how they are told: You like this… then they say: I like this. Our society of human beings trying to cancel God, His ways, truth and life is exploding, because without Him, the ugly truth is, we are not good, the political flavor of the day doesn’t taste good, yet every news channel you turn, you hear the same prescript political mindless false narrative. “This isn’t bad, it is good, this isn’t good, its bad”! Anyone who doesn’t follow the script, you are cancelled this makes for a life-less society of brainless people who do as they are told, who listen to “a story” and not “the” story and believe the deception being spoon fed them without even searching for what is true. This kind of cancel God culture, this is exactly why Jesus was killed for something he did not do, because the cancel Jesus crowd was swayed by an angry mob yelling “Crucify Him”! Why? What has He done wrong? Oh, He has done whatever “they” said He did. We think that “we know what we know” but truly know nothing yelling “Crucify Him” riding on the coattails of an angry mob. Whenever deception is in control, everyone suffers. Jesus, God Incarnate, could have escaped all of this, but He was on mission, serving us, saving us, that He yielded to the plan of God, and in all meekness (power under control) He was beaten and crucified for absolutely no good reason. It was evil using people that put Him on that cross, people who had yielded to their humanity and not to God. We are at our best when we have yielded our life to God, when we are not yielded, we corrupt, our human condition fails forward and we can see in our history as a human race that our corruption is absolutely horrendous. Human beings are capable of evil beyond measure, even to the point of plotting to kill an innocent man, beating him to a pulp, and not only crucifying Him with ropes, but going to the extreme of nailing his feet and hands to the cross, a cross He did nothing to deserve to be on. Human being, we are capable of horrific things apart from God and influenced by the evil of satan who wants to kill, steal and destroy us, we put to death the One GOD, Who wanted to love us, save us for all eternity. Us without God, nations that are not “Under God” it is not pretty, in fact it is ugly and leans into some really bad times of suffering for all people. People taking illegitimate authority over others, walking in the light of a man made fire that flames out… these are going to be dark times of suffering. We need God. We need to return to Him, to His way, truth and life. Otherwise our suffering will be great. Dig Deeper: Life Is A Beautiful Agony As Jesus’ Life Purposefully Was! His Passion Is An Undeserved Cross, Suffering That Should Have Been Ours. We Are Fallen And Wounded By Our Human Condition And Jesus Bled Into Our Wounds, His Blood And Healed Us Eternally So! https://thebridegroomscafe.com/how-love-wins/ https://rumble.com/vay6md-rudely-interrupted.html

I am thinking the heart of Jesus broke when He knew there were people He could not reach because of the self-righteousness of our human condition. What about you? Can you imagine how Jesus’ heart breaks for us? I was one of those people who God’s heart broke for. He never gave up on me. We forget that we are just human beings, Who God has saved to serve others with our lives, being reconcilers, people who add value to others, not devalue them, not self righteously judge them. I f your heart has been broken by someone, don’t react to the chaos in your relationship with bitterness or judgement, turn to God, let God respond through you. Usher in the peace of God, be peaceful because the Prince of Peace lives inside of you. Jesus is our Way-Maker to loving those who have broken our hearts, loving people just like He did. Jesus was a reconciler, He did not point fingers at others, He climbed up on the cross where we were meant to die. He became peace in the division between God and us. Jesus, He went to the cross for those who rejected Him, those who wounded Him and He loved just like He had never been hurt. Think on this today when in our world we see nothing but strife between people groups, and change things up in your life to not being a part of strife but being a peace maker. Exchange bitterness and judgement for the attitude of unconditional love, and the spirit of reconciliation and put others over yourself. Add value to someone’s life today whether they deserve it or not. Show mercy, show kindness, show others that even though our culture is in chaos, compassion is not dead. Speak Shalom into your sphere of influence, and let Jesus disrupt the cultural chaos with His peace. In relational strife, do everything possible on your part to make peace and let be and let God Work. God is the Fixer. This is how we live like Jesus lived throughout all His life as He spoke the truth in love, was peace where there was strife, and loved unconditionally, never giving up on what was right, standing on the side of truth, gentle as a dove, wise as a serpent. This is our God, a disrupter of chaos, as He ushers in peace like no other… miraculously so. Dig Deeper: https://rumble.com/vlz4dq-love-well.html https://thebridegroomscafe.com/reciprocal-love/ Work at living in peace with everyone, and work at living a holy life, for those who are not holy will not see the Lord. Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many. Hebrews 12:14-15

He’s not here… but before they said that, at the beginning of the week of Easter, they had no idea what God was going to do that Friday, what Jesus, their beloved Savior would have to grow through. God’s Timing Was Everything. He’s not here. As we start Easter week, or any week of the year, we don’t know what lies ahead for us, but we do know God is with us and He is for us in that incredible way of His. God’s timing is perfect as we wait on Him at the beginning of our week. I have never really liked Monday, I don’t know why? Anyone else feel that way about Monday? I guess it is a bummer because we come off of a long weekend and it is the start of a long week ahead. Can you imagine what Jesus felt like that Monday before He was to die on Friday? Can you even begin to imagine?? Yet, He stayed on mission, because timing is everything, and it mattered. Jesus was determined to finish well. That shows me one thing, every day is a gift and no matter what lies ahead for us, if we stay on Mission with Jesus, we can finish well. How did Jesus begin his week? This scripture should give you a huge hint: “Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited. Instead he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of humanity. And when he had come as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death—even to death on a cross.” Philippians 2 Father God, make us to be so, like Jesus, may we be saved to serve and stand on the side of truth like He was and is, and in all humility, love others like He did and is, loving them like He had never been hurt by them. Jesus continues to give His all to us all, speaking truth and life, and finishing well despite our, rejection, false accusations, and hate. Because of Jesus, and His humility and His position underneath the Rulership of God, and His truth, Jesus beat his enemies and won the greatest victory over evil known to mankind. Timing is everything. He Is Not Here! That is what they said the morning they went to the tomb to prepare Jesus’ body for burial. Death was the evil intention, eternal life was the outcome. The illegitimate authority over Jesus appeared to have the upper hand because He was allowing it for a greater purpose, which had an endgame of eternal life. Timing was everything. So, start every Monday with good intentions, wholly-holy aligned with Jesus, and be like Him and finish every week well. Wait on God, yielding, believing, trusting, and activating faith, because God’s timing is everything, we patiently endure. We yield to God and His methods because we know to trust God, we must believe that His timing is perfect, His timing is everything. God loves us too much to answer our prayer when we want it with what we want. God waits until the timing is right for what is absolutely the best outcome for us. He speaks Shalom into our injustice and disrupts the chaos of everything that doesn’t feel right with HIs peace and truth, that stands the tests of these evil times. Do You Want To Dig Deeper? Use These To Do So: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/easter-is/ https://rumble.com/vb5jcn-turbulent-shore-break.html John Chapter 11 https://my.bible.com/bible/116/JHN.11.3-6,17,20-26,39-44,47-48,53 “In the chaos of false indictments, and lopsided justice, we feel deeply the confusion of the enemy who has flipped right to be wrong and wrong to be right. In the overwhelming feeling of injustice, we wait, we patiently endure and wait on God’s perfect timing, knowing He will make crooked places straight.” KimberlyMac

Feeling alone? Feeling isolated? Feeling Hopeless? These are prevalent things in times such as these! We are not alone in our struggles and challenges, God is with us. The Shalom, that peace which disrupts the chaos of the enemy, it floods in our soul as we yield to God. We know that the darkness in our nations has thickened with deception, hatred and greed for power, position and money. How can we fight this kind of prevalent darkness. The truth is, the darkness never completely overpowers the light. The darkest of evil can’t put out the light of God’s truth. Never, will God’s light not be with us. It may be dark, but out of this darkness shimmers the hope of God, the light of His truth, which can stand the test of these storms which are upon our nations. Yield to God, trust God, believe God and activate our faith, this is a pathway to hope. Hope settles deep within our souls and rests on the foundation of trust, it is a wonderful thing, never lose it, never let the enemy steal it from you. Every dark night has a moon where the light of Jesus glimmers hope on the dark waters of our life situation. Hope is exactly this… like the moon light on the water of a dark night, so we turn our hearts upward and focus on Jesus in times such as these and refresh our soul with hope in Him. Dig Deeper: https://rumble.com/vd05bt-its-opposite-day.html https://rumble.com/vcad7z-god-still-can.html https://thebridegroomscafe.com/the-bridegroom-speaks-about-hope/

It is never too late… the is what is so amazing about God. He pursues us, He waits for us, He lets us grow through until our hearts desire Him. We should never give up hope, we are never stuck in a rut in life. Ask God for what you need, no matter what our age from the youngest to the oldest, God wants to walk with us, He wants to change things up for our good and for His glory. It is never too late as I have experienced lately God giving hope to the elderly, loving them, encouraging them, I realize He keeps on pursuing us until our final breath here on earth, because for God, His mercy, His grace, His love, they are not conditioned by time, for Him, time matters not, it is the endgame, the winning of our hearts that matters most. Our God will take us home with our last breath as we surrender to Him, because He never gives up on us, it is never too late with Him… He loves us that much that He is faithful to wait for us and trustworthy to meet us when we are ready to embrace Him in the fullness of Who He is, His life, way, and truth. There is no greater love than that of our God and His “never too late” heart attitude of love towards us, He is very long suffering in His pursuit of us. So if you have said: It is too late for me. I highly suggest you let go of that lie and open your heart wide to God, He will fully embrace you in His Love, because, it is never too late for God. God bless ya. Dig Deeper: John 3:16-17; 1 Corinthians 13:4-7; Romans 8:35-39; “There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone.” ~ Shannon Alder Consider what you owe to God’s immutability. Though you have changed a thousand times, He has not changed once. Charles Spurgeon Quote https://rumble.com/vdtfpb-contagious-love.html https://thebridegroomscafe.com/the-bridegroom-speaks-about-love/ “The way of the cross, was not sentimental, romantic, or emotional decision. I consciously chose a sacrificial love. The message of the cross portrays a picture of true, inestimable love. This kind of devotion does not travel down an easy, broad path. My infinite love. dared to run the race of this life on a difficult, narrow road. Genuine love is a hard- hitting, enduring passion that is courageous, willing, and ready to forfeit all. This is the love I have for you, Bride of Christ.” Excerpt From: The Bridegroom’s Voice

If we stop listening to and spreading assumptions, speculations or presuppositions and we stop the spread of strife and instead of confusion, we have peace. A Tale-Bearer could easily be me or you, or all of us, because we all at some time or another speak out of assumption, speculation or presupposition and these are all on the enemies playground of strife. This is exactly where the enemy wants us, being a Tale-Bearer. A forceful opinion is driven by pride, and pride is at the root of every Tale-Bearer. Pride! We want our opinions to matter and we don’t want to listen to truth, we want to pridefully lift up our opinion into the first slot where everyone can admire it. Opinions are very, very often at their formation, deceptively based on thoughts of assumption, speculation or presupposition. Where do these thoughts come from? The enemy of our soul, the father of lies. When we think on an assumptive, presumptive or speculative thought, the enemy of our soul is shaping us into a Tale-Bearer, who is forming opinions driven by pride, so we can tell His Tale of deception which is not “The Story” but A Story. Being a Tale-Bearer is not even the endgame of the enemy, he wants to escalate Tale-Bearing into strife and confusion. Where there is confusion, we know automatically that the enemy is in play and deception is the game plan as we run around the bases of confusion, strife and pride. The best choice we can make, thought to thought, is to cast out of our mind any assumption, speculation or presupposition and think only on what we know is truth, not on what we “think we know” and this creates less strife in our lives and keeps us from being The Tale-Bearer the enemy is scheming for us to be. Speak Truth, deal truly and live truly in the Light of Jesus Christ by the power of His Truth. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/fear-lies/ READ Proverbs 4; https://thebridegroomscafe.com/ego-trap/ https://rumble.com/vax8vn-do-not-be-deceived.html