Thursday, November 09, 2017


Morning by Morning, November 9 - Groaning for Greatness
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Make me more like You today.  ...
"We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies" (Romans 8:22-23).
We're groaning for greatness. We're yearning to be all You created us to be -- forgiven for our sins, filled with Your Spirit, and fulfilling our destiny as the sons and daughters of the King we are. May we settle for nothing less. May we hunger and thirst for more -- more of You, more of Your love, more of Your grace, more of Your nature in our hearts and Your power in our lives. 
"Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised!" (Psalm 145:3) And in Your greatness, You long to do great things in us. "Be glad and rejoice, for the Lord has done great things" and will continue to do even more (Joel 2:20).  "Thus says the Lord who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to establish it -- the Lord is His name:  Call to Me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known... I am going to bring (you) recovery and healing; I will heal (you) and reveal to (you) abundance of prosperity and security.... And (you) shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for (you); they shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for (you)!" (Jeremiah 33:2-9)
Lord, let it be so. Set us free from complacency and give us fresh passion. Deliver us from the poverty of lacking a zeal for You and the fulfillment of Your Word and Your will in our lives. With an increasing, insatiable hunger for Your kingdom and Your righteousness, we're groaning for greatness in You (Matthew 6:33). And as we do, Your Word will be fulfilled:  "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled!" (Matthew 5:6) In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays







I pray you will be filled with a hunger and thirst for righteousness, that you groan for greatness, and that the Lord will do great and awesome things in you and through your life, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same of me. God bless you, my friend!

      

I invite you to join with me on the spiritual journey of hungering and thirsting for more with a couple of my books I believe I've been led to write and to share:

A Deeper Journey to Healing and Freedom


 
A Deeper Journey to Intimacy in Prayer

 


God bless you and thank you for joining with me in the journey!

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Wednesday, November 08, 2017

Morning by Morning, November 8 - "The Path of Life"
 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Help me start this day embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with the Holy Spirit in the communion and intimacy of prayer with You.   ...
 
"I keep the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices; my body rests secure.... You show me the path of life. In Your Presence there is fullness of joy; in Your right hand are pleasures forevermore" (Psalm 16:8-11).
 
May I not be moved by anything but You -- not moved by worry or wishful thinking, resentment or regret, selfishness or shame, or anything else that's anything less than Your Spirit moving in my heart. "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God" (Romans 8:14).
 
Put Your thoughts in my mind and Your desires in my heart. Motivate my actions and order my steps. Lead me in the way that leads to life in You. "Show me the path of life." In that path alone will my heart be glad and my soul rejoice. In that path alone will I find the "fullness of joy." In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays




I pray you will be moved by nothing but God, moving in your thoughts and desires by His Holy Spirit to lead you in the path of life and into the fullness of joy in Him, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same of me. God bless you, my friend!

      
 


I invite you to experience the path of life on a journey with me through a couple of my books I believe I've been led to write and to share:

A Deeper Journey to Healing and Freedom

 



 

 

 
A Deeper Journey to Intimacy in Prayer

 

  

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Tuesday, November 07, 2017

Morning by Morning, November 7 - Peace Through the Troubles and Tribulations
 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God -- You are One; and You are with me. I welcome You here within me and every moment of my day.  ...
 
"Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.... Rise, let us be on our way" (John 14:27-31).
 
Every morning, I can rise and be on my way with You because Your peace is within me. As You promised to Your first disciples, You continue to promise every disciple, "These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world" (John 16:33 NKJV).
 
When my world feels full of foreboding and fear, chaos and confusion, injustice and inhumanity, troubles and tribulations, You invite me to find my peace in You. You remind me You are the "Prince of Peace" -- my "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace" (Isaiah 9:6). You encourage me to overcome by embracing the One who has already overcome (Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 26; 3:5, 12, 21).
 
As I do, there's a shifting in me, long before there's any shifting in the world around me. It's a shifting of perspective that gives me peace in the confidence and assurance of Your Presence. You're with me through it all (Isaiah 43:2; Psalm 23:4). You never leave me, nor forsake me (Hebrews 13:5). You're with me "always" (Matthew 28:20). 
 
And when it's all been said and done, when I see with my eyes what I've known in my heart, that You've been with me to the end, I will look and see that none of the things of this world that tried to overwhelm me and overcome me to steal my peace had the last word or defined my life. You did. You always have and You always will. And Your word over me is always good (Jeremiah 29:11). You are the Living Word of God, who is always with me (John 1:14). And that's what gives me "the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, (which) will guard (our) hearts and (our) minds in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:7). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays




I pray you will know the peace that surpasses all understanding through every trouble and tribulation you ever endure, safe and secure, encouraged and overcoming in the One who is your Prince of Peace, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same of me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, I join with you in prayer for all those who are grieving and struggling with the tragic loss of life in the community of Sutherland Springs, Texas and everywhere the troubles and tribulations of this world seek to overwhelm and overcome us.
     
 

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Monday, November 06, 2017

Morning by Morning, November 6 - "In the Twinkling of an Eye"
 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Lord and Savior -- Lord of my life and Savior of my soul, lead my heart and my steps today.  ...
 
"Listen, I will tell you a mystery. We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled:  'Death has been swallowed up in victory.' 'Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?' ... Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Corinthians 15:51-57).
 
Yesterday morning, in the little town of Southerland Springs, Texas, not far from our home in San Antonio, a church full of mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, friends and family went home to be their Lord. They see You now "face to face" (1 Corinthians 13:12). "In the twinkling of an eye" their work on earth was done and they now rest forever in Your embrace. In the everlasting joy and eternal peace of Your resurrection power, they are "away from the body and at home with the Lord" (2 Corinthians 5:8).
 
Here on earth, we'll struggle to try to make sense of the senselessness of their horrific mass murders in the midst of their Sunday morning worship. We'll seek justice and seek to make adjustments to try to guard against the terror and tragedies of this kind of evil in our world. But for every one of them who had You in their hearts, their fight with the evil of this broken and fallen world is finished. Death has lost its sting; death has found no victory, for You snatched them out of the grip of death and delivered their souls into the arms of their Father forever.
 
One day the last trumpet will sound and all who have lived or are living in personal relationship with You as Lord and Savior "will be caught up in the clouds together ... to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever" (1 Thessalonians 4:17). But in a sense, the trumpet could sound just as suddenly, just as unexpectedly for any one of us or for any one of those we love any day. 
 
So whether we're the one going home to be with the Lord or whether we're among the ones left here to mourn and grieve through the sorrow and anger, we all need You. We need to know You're with us, You're for us, You'll love us and lead us through whatever death or devastation we may endure until it's our day for all to be changed in the twinkling of an eye. Thank You that You are (Matthew 28:20). "Now may the Lord of peace himself give (us) peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with (us) all" (2 Thessalonians 3:16). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays




I pray you will live every day with the peace of Christ in your heart, ready at any moment to be with Your Savior forever, leading those around you to live in that peace as well, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same of me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, I join with you in prayer for all those who are grieving and struggling with this tragic loss of life in the community of Sutherland Springs, Texas.
     
 

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Friday, November 03, 2017

Morning by Morning, November 3 - Cup and Bread, Body and Blood, One in Christ
 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. I settle in to my place of prayer and welcome You in to Your place in me.  ...
 
"The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread" (1 Corinthians 10:16-17).
 
The cup and the bread, the body and the blood, the living Presence of the living Christ, living in me and living in us, together as one -- one with You, with one another, one in ministry to all the world. With You and with one another, "(we) are the body of Christ" in our world (1 Corinthians 12:27). "Just as the body is one and has many members of it, and all are members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we are all baptized into one body ... and we were all made to drink of one Spirit" (1 Corinthians 12:12-13). Thank You for the promise and the mystery of our faith and Your Word that "anyone united with the Lord becomes one spirit with Him" (1 Corinthians 6:17).
 
Come, Holy Spirit. You are "the Spirit of Christ" (Romans 8:9). You are "the Promise of the Father" (Acts 1:4). And You are here within me, here within us, together as one in our world to display the glory of God through our lives in Christ -- "Christ in (us), the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27). Come display the glory of God through my life today. "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with (us) all" (2 Corinthians 13:13). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays




I pray God will display His glory through your life in your world today, as one in Christ with Him and His body, carrying within you the presence and the power of the Spirit of Christ everywhere you go, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same of me. God bless you, my friend!
     


Friends, I'm excited to be publishing my new book -- 
Free to Be Like Jesus! (Updated and Revised 3rd Edition)endorsed by Max Lucado, Andy Reese and Randy Clark. 
Click  Here to Order One Today through Amazon.com

Endorsement from Max Lucado:
"Tommy Hays has spent a lifetime studying the place of prayer in inner healing. I have personally benefitted from his teaching, writing, and encouragement. This book gathers a wealth of helpful insights and experiences into one volume. I am honored to have it on my shelf and honored to call Tommy my friend."
Endorsement from Andy Reese,
Author of Freedom Tools:
"Tommy Hays combines a lawyer's keen logic with a spiritual intuition to bring inner healing to a practical, effective, and applied level. His proven techniques have been used in hundreds of ministry settings and can serve as simple yet profound tools in the hands of even the novice minister."
Endorsement from Randy Clark,
Global Awakening:
"Free to Be Like Jesus! will take you on a journey to learn more about the inner healing ministry. This book has many foundational spiritual truths and will help you if you want more healing in your own life, or if you want more tools to assist you in your inner healing ministry."
 

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Thursday, November 02, 2017

Morning by Morning, November 2 - Hearing the Voice of the Great Shepherd
 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. You're with me always and everyway. I welcome Your Presence as I begin my day in the intimacy and communion of prayer with You -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  ...
 
"Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, make you complete in everything good so that you may do His will, working among us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever" (Hebrews 13:20).
 
You are the great Shepherd of the sheep and the great Shepherd of my soul. I'm one of Your sheep, seeking to hear Your voice and follow Your way in what is pleasing in Your sight -- as best as I can and all by Your grace. "The sheep hear His voice. He calls His own sheep by name and leads them out. When He has brought out all His own, He goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow Him because they know His voice" (John 10:3-4).
 
Help me keeping growing in knowing Your voice. Sharpen my spiritual senses and refine my spiritual discernment. Help me learn to discern, so I can sort out the source of every thought and image and sensing -- what's of You, what's of me, what's of something else. "(His sheep) will not follow a stranger, but they will run from him because they do not know the voice of strangers" (John 10:5).
 
As I listen, it seems I hear You saying, "Discern My voice by testing what You hear against My Word and the nature of My heart. I Am Truth; and I Am Love. If it's not Truth, if it's not Love, it's not Me."  ...
 
Yes, Lord. As Your Word says, "Test everything; hold fast to what is good; abstain from every form of evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:21-22). "Those who are spiritual discern all things" (1 Corinthians 2:15).
 
So I seek and welcome Your gift of discernment (1 Corinthians 12:10). I embrace the gift of my identity and my inheritance as a child of God to be led by the Spirit of God, "for all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God" (Romans 8:14). By the power of Your grace, what You speak, I will hear; and where You lead, I will follow -- my great Shepherd. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays




I pray you will grow in the gift of discernment, seeking to hear and trust and obey the voice of the great Shepherd of your soul, following where He leads as the beloved child of God that you are, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same of me. God bless you, my friend!

    



Friends, I'm excited to be publishing my new book -- 
Free to Be Like Jesus! (Updated and Revised 3rd Edition)endorsed by Max Lucado, Andy Reese and Randy Clark. 
Click  Here to Order One Today through Amazon.com

Endorsement from Max Lucado:
"Tommy Hays has spent a lifetime studying the place of prayer in inner healing. I have personally benefitted from his teaching, writing, and encouragement. This book gathers a wealth of helpful insights and experiences into one volume. I am honored to have it on my shelf and honored to call Tommy my friend."
Endorsement from Andy Reese,
Author of Freedom Tools:
"Tommy Hays combines a lawyer's keen logic with a spiritual intuition to bring inner healing to a practical, effective, and applied level. His proven techniques have been used in hundreds of ministry settings and can serve as simple yet profound tools in the hands of even the novice minister."
Endorsement from Randy Clark,
Global Awakening:
"Free to Be Like Jesus! will take you on a journey to learn more about the inner healing ministry. This book has many foundational spiritual truths and will help you if you want more healing in your own life, or if you want more tools to assist you in your inner healing ministry."
 

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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