Morning by Morning,
January 1 - "Everything Has Become New"
Good morning, Lord
Jesus. Your name is my first word in these first moments of this first day of
this new year, 2013. May Your name be high and lifted up over every moment of
every day of my life this year. ...
"So if anyone is in
Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything
has become new!" (2 Corinthians 5:17)
Today is begins a new
year - at least on the Gregorian Calendar of my culture, if not the Hebrew
calendar that seems to truly mark the times and seasons and cycles of our lives
according the bigger picture of Your eternal, unfolding plan. But I have high
hopes for all You have planned for me in this year to come. It's a holy
adventure of faith to fully entrust all my days into Your hands.
So help me let go of
this past year, with all its high mountains and deep valleys, so I can fully
take hold of all that You have for me now. You've not wasted a moment, but in a
sense, it's all only preparation for is to come. Behold, the old has passed away
in Christ. Behold, all things have become new in You. It is a new day, and I
intend to arise and shine, to find my place, all by Your grace, in Your
unfolding plan and my adventure of faith (Isaiah 60:1). I know it's going to be
good (Jeremiah 29:11).
Let this be my
perspective and attitude as I begin the adventure of this new year: "I want to
know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the sharing of His sufferings
by becoming like Him in His death, if somehow I may attain the resurrections
from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the
goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ has made me His own.
Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own, but this one thing I do:
forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on
toward the goal of the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus"
(Philippians 3:10-14). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love
of Jesus, Tommy
Hays
My Friend, by
the power of God's grace, may you let go of the past and press on toward the
goal of the prize of the heavenly call of God for your life this year, with
great favor and blessings of the Lordour God in the name of Jesus for all you
need to fulfill His good plans for you. Please pray the same for me. God bless
you, my friend and Happy New Year!
After a
long season of fasting and prayer, I'm excited that I will begin a
transition back to Texas after my twenty year season of life,
equipping, and ministry in Kentucky. Thank you for being a part and continuing
to join wtih me in the great adventure of faith and journey of prayer, my
friend!
Tommy Hays | Messiah
Ministries
Healing from the Inside
Out
2800 Tates Creek
Road
Lexington, Kentucky
40502
