The only Sign you need today is His Love

 

Often times we tend to look for signs as proof to things that we are expecting or believing but I want you to know we don't follow the signs of what if, the signs of disappointments, the signs of maybe, or the signs that the world tries to sink into our very beings that they are the proof of truth. The only sign that is sure is God's Love! It flows from within, it strengthens from within, it speaks from within, it guides from within, it encourages from within, it keeps us from within, it speaks to us from within, it transforms us from within, and it always affirms from the inside out!  That's the only proof we need. It is that proof alone in which we exist. So today walk in the assurance of His Love and allow it to discredit everything that is contrary to His very essence which is Love!

 

If you don't know the depth of His Love for you simply ask Him.

 

Be Ye Encouraged today!

 

Tiffany James, Encouraging Touch Enterprise
"Give a gift that creates a Legacy to Encourage, Inspire, and Bless those you love for a life time"

  http://www.encouragingtouch.com/ 

Steadfast, Unmovable, Always abiding in His Perfect Will by Tiffany James

 

 

I know for many it seems like the weight is getting too heavy to continue on but remember His Yoke is easy and His burden is light. We tend to forget we can't carry the cares of this world on our own. We are not to be independent in our Faith but totally dependent on our Father. In this season things seem like they are closing in on us but really it's forcing us to move out on Faith.  A situation happened with me and my family recently concerning finances and I could tell that it was weighing heavy on my husband. As he left to take my daughter up the street I walked him outside and I tried to encourage him. As I was standing outside there was a peace that really does surpass all understanding that came over me.  The Lord began to speak to me after that. I felt Him saying " We give money too much power" We tend to think money has the final say but it doesn't. The earth and everything in it has to yield itself to the creator.

 

The scripture money answers all things is often taken out of context.  

 

Money, in the context of this passage, is the Hebrew word keceph, meaning silver from it's pale color, money or price.

Price.  It speaks of value and worth and induces consideration.

So, could we then interpret Ecclesiastes 10:19 like this?  "There is a price for all things."

 

There is a price for all things but God has the final say for everything. He is the owner of all things.  Money will not dictate what God is going to do in our lives. God has a mandate & a promise for each of our lives.  I know it seems like the promises that we've tarried for looks as if it's never going to come to pass and it even seems like the promises that has finally come into our reach now looks like it's on the altar to be sacrificed but just like Abraham God wants to know, will you give back what is His if He ask?  It's His promise! Abraham knew it didn't matter how long he waited, how much he himself sacrificed, it didn't matter what he sowed, it didn't even matter that he had tried to do everything God asked of him, what mattered was he knew His promise really belonged to the Lord and He trusted God to take care what is His. We are just stewards! So the question is have you been a good steward of what God has entrusted you with?

 

 

I want to encourage those who feel like they don't know what to do. I don't know all what God is doing but I do know in this season do not question His love for you, do not question what He is going to do and how He chooses to do it.  God is looking for for the Abraham's  of today. Don't try to figure out how it's going to happen just trust God and keep moving forward No turning Back! Don't question if you made wrong decisions or did you hear God at all. The enemy tries to have us go back and forth because he knows a double minded man is unstable and will not hold on to the word of God and can not expect to receive anything from God because He simply doesn't believe.  There was a season not to long ago that I was going back and forth because our circumstance's looked so bleak. Loosing our home, my hubby not getting into career he labored for,  time when it seemed like every door of opportunity closed, and there was even one point on time we had just enough food, bank accounts over drawn barely couldn't pay tithes because there wasn't any money.  I began to question did I do something wrong, have I not did enough God, was I disobedient, started going over every decision I made, I started trying to do more to earn His favor as if I could ever do enough? before I knew it I had no peace and I was caught up with thoughts that were not my own and couldn't hear God.  But I can write you and tell you GOD IS FAITHFUL. I have seen His hand print in places that I never even knew He was working. I know He loves me and its nothing I can do to make Him love me any less and there is nothing I can do more of to make Him Love me more because He loved me unconditionally before the foundation of this world.  I will no longer partner with lies, fears, guilt, worry, etc.  I choose to walk in what I know and that is GOD is the same GOD yesterday, today, and forever more. I don't know what He is doing, I don't know why it's happening, I don't know why the provision is not coming like it use to in our circumstances and our individual lives, I dont know why it seems like God is quiet at times, I don't know why it seems like the promises look bleak but I do know GOD will meet every need and fulfill every promise. I know He is doing something big that no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind can even comprehend but my Spirit can bare witness!  It's ok to cry out to Him because in our weakness He is made strong.   As a parent you know you will do anything for your children....if you are doing something they don't understand but you tell them you will take care of everything ... don't worry about anything. You would want your kids to trust the mom or dad in you. Can you trust your heavenly father?  Be careful who speaks into your atmosphere.. You need people who are going to speak truth, stand on God's word, and intercede! Seeking His Will !   We want God to do miracles but we keep looking for the ways our minds can comprehend for Him to show up! We hold His hands back from doing what He desires.  It seems like I myself have been in the wilderness for a long time but I'm coming out and into my promise. I will not forfeit my Blessings in the desert.

 

 

I will continue to intercede and I know GOD will show up and show out! I don't know how I just know He can and He will !!! So be free to minister and pour out His Love out everywhere you go in confidence. At the end of the day it always comes back to His Love!  We might not have happiness 24 hours a day because happiness stems from the things we are blessed with in this world but We do have JOY because it comes from deep within. That place that only God can reach and assure all is Well ! It's JOY that I can send this email, It's joy that I can still give and encourage people when my situation might look just as bad ! It's a joy that says the GOD I serve is Faithful and HE LOVES ME ! When I mess up He loves me, When I'm not sure what's going HE LOVES ME. That's why I can still minister HIS LOVE because it will never FAIL ! I feel like crying, shouting, laying hands,  laying out ! Man in times like this new opportunities to see GOD comes forth before I very eyes.  When you get desperate and hungry for GOD ....You do things that you have been fearful to do before because now it's a must! Lets ask GOD what do He want!  Our ways are not His ways and our thoughts are not His either! 

 

We are testimonies to the GOODNESS OF GOD! We don't serve a little GOD. So lets stop telling GOD how big our problems are and start telling our problems how Big our GOD IS!

 

LOVE YOU ALL ! BLESSED IN THE CITY, BLESSED IN THE FIELDS, WHEN WE GO ON, WE CAST DOWN EVERY STRONGHOLD, SICKNESS AND PROERTY MUST CEASE BECAUSE THE devil IS DEFEATED WE ARE BLESSED, BLESSED, BLESSED, BLESSED! SING IT AND RELEASE AND WALK IN IT NOT BY WHAT YOU SEE BUT BY WHAT YOU KNOW TO BE TRUE ACCORDING TO HIS WORD AND HIS LOVE.

 

 

 BE YE ENCOURAGED

 

Tiffany James, Encouraging Touch Enterprise
"Give a gift that creates a Legacy to Encourage, Inspire, and Bless those you love for a life time"

  www.encouragingtouch.com 

Word from Encouraging Touch by Tiffany James - Naked Before Him

"Naked Before Him"

I found myself slowing removing my robe of false protection that had hidden all my insecurities, yes I took off the last piece of garment of comfort that hid my deepest emotions. I felt so vulnerable at first but as I stood before him naked I felt His love covering me. A sense of intimacy that words can't utter.   I had to admit that I had been bare before my friends in regards to my struggles and fears even though God is the only one who has felt the very thing that has invaded my spirit and flooded my soul.  Why have I waited so long to unlock the dungeon of my soul when he was right here calling out me, " My child I already have the key"  I was so ashamed yet desperately trying to overcome the battle within so that I could stand before Him and say I've kept His commandments and I did not sin.  I made a promise that I could not keep and I tried to hide my failed attempts each time. I didn't want the one I truly loved, the one who I owed my life to, the one who I wanted to please more than anything,  the one I longed to be like, that I was imperfect and incapable of doing this on my own. There were fears that I could not beat, struggles that was becoming too powerful for me to continue to wrestle with and roots that became so stubborn that it would take more than a crane to remove.   As I continued to hide He continued to wait and I became weaker and in return He became stronger & even though I refused to yield to His strength I became over powered and the cave of my soul began to collapse.   I found myself in the apparatus of His Glory and the formation of who He created me to be begun.  Yes like a premature new born baby I was kept in the incubator of His love.  He controlled the conditions of my growth and made sure I was not exposed to anything that would weaken the immune system of my spirit. 

Nothing else accompanied me in His Presence. My shame could no longer hide, my guilt stood before Him speechless, Sin loosed its grip, every thought was taken captive, and my pain & disappointments began to wail out in agony. I was bare and uncovered. Exposed and Defenseless against His Love and for the first time in my life I felt complete.

 

Tiffany James, Encouraging Touch Enterprise
"Give a gift that creates a Legacy to Encourage, Inspire, and Bless those you love for a life time"

  www.encouragingtouch.com 

 

Being Different

Hello,

 

I pray that you had a chance to think about what you have to offer the world that only you can give them!  As for me it will always be my writings and my passion to encourage & empower.  I always loved to write.  It was my way of expressing how I felt with no one trying to persuade me with their opinions.  No on there to correct my grammar, no one their to tell me how I should write or what to say, no one there to tell me they don't understand why I feel a certain way. Yes it was just me and my pen.  A place of serenity. A perfect place to be me. Writing brought me so much freedom because I could be any place at any given time in my writings. I could be powerful, romantic, intelligent, bold, funny, sad, young or old.  It was fun to create and for me I love to empower so in my place of  serenity I did just that.  I remember the first time I shared my writings. It was at the International Poet Society competition in Vegas 2006. I wrote a short piece entitled "The Simple Cares of Life"  which was shared on their site and won me a spot in the competition. I was so excited and nervous all at the same time but the prize of ten thousand dollars helped calm my nerves.  As the competition began to unfold my hopes of winning looked very bleak. I decided to go with a different piece entitled "Life".  I felt pretty good about my presentation considering it was my first time doing a reading before a crowd. I remember after all the poets went forth and we were given instructions on what to expect next three women came up to me expressing how my piece spoke to them. It had brought tears to my eyes because one of the ladies had lost a child, another almost lost her life& her children's at the hands of an abusive husband, and another had come to the competition only to get robbed the same day she arrived.  I felt as if God sent me there just for them. But the next morning when the 1st, 2nd, 3rd  place winners were announced my confidence was down and the tears of gratitude I felt just the day before were lost. The poets who won so deserved it. They were awesome but their poetry style was so different from mine yet so similar to each other.  To top it off my wonderful husband didn't realize it but his comment was "lets go like nothing happened made me feel worst"  It was like he was saying no big deal you tried, you had the experience, so lets move on.  I struggled each day after arriving back home to Pittsburg, Ca to encourage myself and not loose hope but it was just that a struggle. It's not so easy to believe in something that it seems like no one else can see.  Was I blinded to the truth?  The truth that maybe I wasn't a good poet after all.  I did attend the classes they offered us by real poets during the weekend of the competition & there was so much I didn't know about writing poems.  I had these very educated poets telling me indirectly I had gone about it all wrong. So many thoughts ran through my mind like a child freely running through a play ground with no supervision. 

 

It is very intriguing how fast one negative seed can grow and take over the battlefield of our mind but we can have twice as many positive seeds planted yet they struggle to take ground.  I had three people at my job ask to purchase the piece " Life" after they read it when inquiring about my weekend. Right then and there not only was I being affirmed but a business was being birth.  I never thought about putting my writings on beautiful paper, placing it in a frame, and selling it to sit on someones desk or coffee table until that very moment. 

 

Yes I was excited for the moment and started to take ground and move ahead with what I love to do but the more I moved forward the more the negative views or in some cases just the constructive criticism of people caused me to retreat once again.   I don't think many people realize what they do when they point out the negative instead of pulling out the positive.  What would this world be like if we seen the potential  in people & help them tap into that potential. Yes help them discover how to use that potential and what they can do instead of focusing what they can't do!  We all have to start somewhere.  Well it took me a long time but I finally realized through faith, friends, God's word, and simply stepping out and taking a chance to give the world what they never heard. See I am unique; made in His Likeness. He formed & predestined me in my mothers womb and no one has my DNA ( Divine Natural Ability) to do what He has called me to do. I can't worry about winning the similarity contest. I can't worry about fitting in and looking like the majority. I can no longer strive to be normal. If I did then I would look, sound, and act like everyone else. I would be just another familiar voice in this world. Never really being able to be heard because my voice had been compromised to no longer sound like mine.  So today I am loving being me!  Yes at times it seems as if I'm right back on the battle field of my mind but no longer am I running away but marching towards the lies of enemy and taking captive every thought that tries to exalt it self over the words and promises of God. What I loved almost became a burden because I began to work hard to look like the world instead of using it to change the world.

 

So Be encouraged the world is still waiting on you!

 

 

Tiffany James, Encouraging Touch Enterprise
"Give a gift that creates a Legacy to Encourage, Inspire, and Bless those you love for a life time"

  www.encouragingtouch.com 

" You haven't truly lived until you learn to live being yourself"

 Hello Men & Women of Destiny

 

Quote of the week  " You haven't truly lived until you learn to live being yourself"

 

 

So I have a question for you. Are you living or merely existing?    There is a difference between living and existing.  Techonolgy exist, lies exist, fast food exist, hardship exist. No big deal we know those things and many more exist. At some point they don't really impact us any more because it's something we get use to.  Things can and will exist whether we like it or not. They are things we come to expect and we deal with it as they arise. But I say it's time out for merely being but never moving.  When you are living you are always moving, always growing. You are alive!   We've become so satisfied with existing and doing what it takes to make it through the day but I dare you to get tired of just being, tired of just settling. It's time to impact the world with your gifts, talents, words, songs, wisdom, knowledge, or what ever it is that is unique about you that no one can do quite like you. I dare you to get on your face and ask the Lord to show you who He created you to be and then trust & depend on His Holy Spirit to help you discovery all that has been placed on the inside of you.  Yes impact & Change the world with the unexpected!

 

Next week I will share my struggle being different.

 

God Bless .. Now get Moving.

 

Tiffany James, Encouraging Touch Enterprise
"Give a gift that creates a Legacy to Encourage, Inspire, and Bless those you love for a life time"

  www.encouragingtouch.com 

Welcome to my encouragement blog! I'm sooo glad you made it!!!!

Hello and Welcome to Encouraging Touch… The Blog that Encourages, Inspires, and blesses you.   It is my sincere prayer that when you leave this site that you leave uplifted by the words I write.  We always hear that life is a journey and we’ve come to understand that no one person can give us the exact directions on how to get there.  With guidance from God through prayer, His Divine wisdom, and the power of encouragement, we can make it through this journey of Life and arrive right at our Destiny.

I’ve chosen to open my blog with a piece entitled, “Questions & Answers.  This piece is one that has helped me in my personal journey.  Because I am my greatest encourager, sometimes I must pull over, be still, and examine the roads I’ve chosen to take thus far and then ask myself some questions so that I can get back on track.  

Questions & Answers

You’ve been here before, what did you learn?

You’ve cried before, what did it change?

You’ve tried before what did you loose?

You lied before did it make things any better?

You’ve prayed before what was the outcome?

You’ve loved before did you try again?

You’ve dreamed before did it come to pass?

You’ve failed before did you try something different?

You’ve struggled before did you survive?

You’ve stumbled before did you find the courage to get back up?

You’ve laughed before where did that joy come from?

You’ve lost before but have you ever won?

You’ve feared before have you gained the courage to get over it?

Life is full of answers do you have the courage to ask yourself the Questions

The answers lies within the questions you ask!

Copyright © 2011 by Tiffany James

My readers are my inspiration so if there is a day that you feel like you can’t get out of bed, you need advice or just a little encouragement, please email me at encouragetouch@yahoo.com or post your comments or questions and I will respond to you.  

“Always remember yesterday is a good day to visit but not a good day to live.  So move past your yesterdays so you can embrace your today.”