Increase Your Faith

The enemy is in play, pushing against us in all kinds of ways. This can leave you feeling lost. Is your faith being stretched beyond what you think it can endure? I have been there and experienced that. Your faith will hold, test it and you will see how it will keep you. Feelings are strong things and they cover over the reality of truth at times. The truth is prevalent and nothing changes it, not even our feelings. Truth is truth and not even a strong opinion can shake the reality of truth. Are there times when you don’t sense God’s Presence or hear His Voice? These times we need to dig deeper into the Promises of God, anchoring ourselves to the truth that God is with us, God is for us and God never leaves us. If you feel restless, shaky in your faith and confused, the best resting place for you is God’s Promises, believe me, I know, been there and done this. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/gods-promises/

If you ever find yourself curious about God and want to know more, want to know God personally… I hope this might help you… leave me a comment on this video and I will also pray for you! Then Jesus added, shouting out to all who would hear, “Listen with your heart and you will understand! Luke 8:8;15 God bridged the gap between heaven and earth with Jesus. So, what causes gaps between us? Listen With Your Heart: John John 1:45-51 A sneering, prideful heart, is a cynical heart…a worldly viewpoint… expressed…what you “think you know”…Nathanael sneered, “Nazareth! What good thing could ever come from Nazareth?” Check Your Heart: Cynical: Is you are skeptical because of a doubt caused by a preconceived idea, something you are assuming, something you have speculated on and formed an opinion which leans you into a worldly viewpoint. COME AND SEE John 1:38-39 Philip answered, “Come and let’s find out!” Think On This: Where are YOU staying? Where are You abiding. So many times we are asking God to join us in our comfort zone, doing our thing, instead of asking: Where are you abiding? Can I abide with You? What Say You? Why do you “read” the Bible? Would you say that you are listening to the Word of God with your heart? Do you listen with your heart?Do you believe God wants to speak to you personally?Do You Quiet Your Soul? Do you see the Bible as a conversation with God? Do you invite the Holy Spirit to be a part of Your conversation to teach, guide and help the conversation stay free of preconceived ideas, biases, presuppositions, assumptions, opinions? Listen With A Wide Open Heart… “I am the Lord  your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.” Psalms 81:10 CSB Dig Deeper Open your heart wide and God will fill it. God can’t lead you where you have predetermined yourself to go. Are you curious, open and alive to God in your heart, with your agenda set aside? “What deadens us most to God’s presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continuously engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought. I suspect that there is nothing more crucial to true spiritual comfort than being able from time to time to stop that chatter, including the chatter of spoken prayer. If we choose to seek the silence of the holy place, or to open ourselves to its seeking, I think there is no surer way than by keeping silent. Quote By: Frederik Buechner Followship! Psalms 27:8 I heard your voice in my heart say, “Come, seek my face;” my inner being responded, “Yahweh , I’m seeking your face with all my heart.”John 1:38-39 Food For Thought “This is a question that should be asked to every follower of Jesus: “What do you want in following Jesus?” Do we want something only for ourselves? Answers to prayer? Or do we simply want to be with Jesus, Linger with Jesus? Their answer, “Where are you staying?” shows that they were seeking only him.” Commentary Brian Simmons Ask Yourself When it comes to followship of Jesus, what hinders you? What keeps you from the plan of Jesus instead of running with Your Plan? How would your day be different if you consistently and intentionally prayed for the plan of Jesus. Come and See… Linger with Jesus. Decrease Worldly Viewpoint = Increase Kingdom Perspective It is necessary for him to increase and for me to decrease. John 3:27-30 We want to decrease the mediocre (indifferent chatter) fleshly reactions, (Worldy Viewpoints) and increase the power of God responses of godly chatter (Kingdom Perspective). Psalm 66:5 Talk It Up: Our flesh has mediocre (barely adequate) worldly viewpoint reactions, our spirit has kingdom perspective, empowered responses through the renewal of our soul in our daily vital-vertical relationship with God where our hear is wide open and our ears are listening with our spirit and heart. Come And See! Listen With Your Heart! Followship: Come And See- Psalm 27:8 Followship: Abandon-ship of all things us and a strong grip on Jesus, a firm faith foundation, on the truth. Just Do It Come And See Is Not Come And “Show And Tell”, Clear The Slate And Let God Speak-Lead. God is creative and He does new things. Will we know them or will we be stuck in our preconceptions? Dig Deeper: Isaiah 43:18-19 God Is Saying To Us Women: Shall You Not Know? Open Your Heart Wide To God ~ Holy-wholly Listen With Your Heart - Let Go Of Preconceptions - Hear The Newness Of God, I Am Doing Something New. Your Best Life Is Stepping Our Of What You “Think You Know” And Dare To Stay In Followship Of God, Living In The Flow Of His Holy Spirit In Great God Adventure. Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/whispers/ https://thebridegroomscafe.com/open-your-heart/

God created and maintained this world in such a way that it proves He is Jehovah Jireh. God will provide. (Genesis 8:22; Genesis 22:14;) Shows that incredible way creation is endurable and enduring. Yes, as long as the earth endures, we have seedtime and harvest, we have cold and heat, summer, fall, winter and spring, and our day and night never ceases. God maintains what He created and out of the seed of everything we plant, grow and eat, comes more seed. (Psalm 145:15-16)Have you ever eaten a cantaloupe and seen the seeds inside of it… an apple, cucumber, pear, green beans, peas, tomatoes, broccoli, lettuce, all these go to seed and you can plant them again and again. We are provided for in such a magnificent and glorious way. (Matthew 7:11) Just watching the progression of a spring garden as the seeds are put in the ground and the little sprouts come up. It is beautiful to see the evidence of God’s Provision for us. He is so good to us. That is why we stand in Awe and Adoration of our Jehovah Jireh. He supplies all our needs (Philippians 4:19) according to His riches and glory and it is more than we could ever hope for or imagine. He is so incredibly good! When I walk through a summer garden and see the hand of His Provision,(Matthew 6:31-32) I do not worry about what shall we eat. I will always have seed to plant and harvest time and time again. God has a plan for us, our Provider and He made a way for us to plant seed, garden, till and water and eat the harvest He provides. (Psalm 23:1) When we seek God, and wholly-holy Adore Him, in vital-vertical personal relationship with Him, we lack no good thing.(Psalm 34:10) God is so gracious and merciful to us, we often are given things we have not earned or do not deserve because of His mercy, which is new every morning. God is a part of our Great God Adventure here on this earth, He is Omnipresent, He sees us, and is very aware of our need. God blesses the work of our hand, this is seen so clearly in the summer gardens that we plant and tend. (Deuteronomy 2:7) Our Provider is incredible in so many ways and we can see that in the many animals that do not sow or reap, but He takes care of them.(Luke 12:24) Gardening is one of the many ways we see the miracles of God and we partake in His Provision. God Provides! We praise You Jehovah Jireh and we thank you for always caring for us. (Isaiah 58:11) Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/this-is-paradise/ https://thebridegroomscafe.com/?s=planted https://rumble.com/vdnftx-created-to-thrive.html https://rumble.com/valden-god-with-us.html

Everything is changing so rapidly. How do you steady yourself in times such as these?? Making decisions is much harder because everything we know and knew, seems to be shaking. These are such unsure times and when we do step out, it feels like we are stepping out on shaky ground. Our future does not look like it will go the way we planned it. There is a lot of instability in our cultures. We look and we see negative changes for the worse, in our chaotic culture. So if we need to navigate through a tight channel to find our way through, the navigational buoy helps keep us on track, so we can safely go through the channel even if the inlet is a frenzy of chaotic cultural change. There are people in our time, terrible people, doing awful things as they are directed by evil, wanting to hurt and destroy us. People in our time are evil as they are serving no power higher than self corruption, and this causes grave consequences in our lives, and we have to face hard things that we never even had begun to imagine having to deal with. But GOD, He is with us, He is the red buoy in the inlet of blue evil, He is the only One who can and will lead us out to safety. We can find our way out of every rough situation as the Spirit of God guides us with His discernment and as we listen up to Him. God is always available to us and He charts our course safely out of stormy, and very rough channels, thwarting very evil plan to crash our boat and bringing us safely into the open sea and out of the chaos of a wild inlet. God makes a way for us where there seems to be no way. Jesus is our Deliverer and will stand in front of us when the enemy comes in like a flood and we can’t take another step in safety. We are never dead ended, because God finds us a good path out of evil traps laid for us, as He never leaves us nor forsakes us. If our culture is chaotic in the mediatic false frenzy which evil has stirred up, God makes a way of truth for us. There is never a time where we will not know our next step as Jesus shines His light of truth through the darkness of deception ahead of us. We will never be boxed in by the enemy of our soul as we stay in followship of God. It doesn’t matter how much deceptive havoc our enemy stirs up, or how much muck and mire the people enticed by evil greed throw out on us, the Holy Spirit of God will lead us through, protecting us, cleansing us, keeping us, and giving us the favor we need to succeed. Even though greed is followed up by injustice nipping at its heals, we serve a God of Justice, Who can and will make the crooked places straight, and thwart the evil plans of our enemy. Yes, because people have lost their way and have served no power higher than themselves, we have unsure times, but we can have a firm foundation when we step out in Christ Jesus, our identity wholly-holy in Him. He is our Way-Maker. There is never a time that we have chosen followship of God, that we will be lost, betrayed, forgotten, or forsaken. Jesus Christ is our anchor, and He is the buoy we can follow to safely to make our way in a world where all our societies are in chaos, stirring up whirlwinds which create unsure times, with currents that can carry us away. We can stop drifting away from God in times such as these, if we are anchored in Christ Jesus, He is an anchor that will hold. Let be, be still and know He is God. Dig Deeper: Psalm 46 https://www.bible.com/bible/1713/PSA.46.CSB https://thebridegroomscafe.com/anchor/ https://rumble.com/v3k4alu-authority-not-abdicated.html https://rumble.com/vbb45t-securely-anchored.html

#1MinuteEncouragement I AM doing this MY Way says the Lord! God is doing things His way in times such as these. Will we trust Him? I know for me, this season of cultural chaos is so far out of my comfort zone it makes my head spin and my heart flutter with anxiety. I don’t know if I can handle the change occurring in our culture, it feels like it is more than I can bear. I know GOD, I believe in Him, so I also know that this is a time for me to stretch my faith, to change my believing of God, to believing God. God said: I will never leave you. Times may be hard, but I am with you. I will not give you more than what you can bear without making a way of escape for you. God has asked us for His trust. It feels like the whole world is in a whirlwind, just spinning out of control. Yet I also know, God is in the whirlwind. For me, I need to stay in followship of God in times such as these, I need to stay away from the cultural whirlwind, so I don’t unintentionally drift into it. What does that mean? I can’t focus on the whirlwind, I need to put God as the centerpiece of my soul, so He can calm my emotions with His peace that surpasses all of my understanding. Let go and let God navigate me. This will keep me anchored to His reality of Truth, so I don’t fall into the whirlwind of fake reality, the deceptions so prevalent in our culture. I believe God will make a way for us to side step the whirlwinds of our time, as we simply-significantly stay heart to heart with Him, in vital-vertical relationship with Him, wholly-holy entrusting our lives to Him. God is trustworthy. Get back to the basics of God being the all of our everything. #DigDeeper https://thebridegroomscafe.com/my-way/

A brand new life season has begun. I pray for God’s blessings on us all. Sometimes our new life season starts out needing our hearts dredged by God. We step out of the previous life season with our state of affairs not so good and we dread the new life season because of it. The best thing for us to do as we begin a new life season battered by the old one is to yield… yield to God. God is the only one who can dredge out the old and leave behind something amazingly new. Yielding to God is a good thing. Actually we can’t fix the things of the past, we can only I’ve well in the present from moment to choice. It is hard to leave unfinished business behind, especially if it is left in a mess because of the corruption of others. It is hard to traverse into something new, when the old seems to haunt us. That is why we need to yield to God. Step out into the new life season surrendered wholly-holy to God. In this yielding to God in this surrender of our will and way, there is not doubt about it, we will be navigated in that way only God can. God will intersect the old and the new and bring forth His purposes in our life, intervening for us in miraculous ways. God is doing something new and if we dread it, and if we step out with doubt, fear and disillusionment into the new, it won’t go well for us. But if we yield to The Fixer, the only One who can transition us from a broken life season to a new life season, in that way we can’t even begin to wrap our minds around, imagine or hope for, we will experience God Intervention. So as we all start a new life season, let’s make the right choice to yield to God, to be navigated by Him. As we do, as we yield to God, we will step into the flow of His purposes, provision and protection and there is no better way to live, no better Great God Adventure. God bless you! Yield! Dig Deeper: https://rumble.com/v2gulx0-yield-to-god.html https://thebridegroomscafe.com/soul-funk/ https://thebridegroomscafe.com/more-and-most/

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