Morning by Morning&#8212;Daily Prayer Journey with Tommy Hays

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, May 23, 2018

Morning by Morning, May 23 - One Thing I Seek After with All My Heart

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Let me be one spirit with You-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God-here in the intimacy of worship and prayer in my heart and every moment of my day. ...

"One thing I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.... Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud, be gracious to me and answer me! 'Come,' my heart says, 'seek His face!' Your face, Lord, do I seek" (Psalm 27:4-8).

Stir a deeper hunger in my heart to seek You, to passionately pursue You, as if You were the "One Thing" that matters most. The truth is You are. You are I AM. You are my "All in All" (1 Corinthians 15:58).

It seems I hear You speaking in my spirit: "I Am worthy of your pursuit. I Am worthy of your surrender of everything else and everything less. I Am worthy of your holy obsession to wholeheartedly pursue Me with all your heart and mind and soul and strength. I Am the fulfillment of all you desire, all you need, and all I've created you to be. Your heart is the house of the Lord. Your heart is My temple. Behold My beauty in your heart; and My glory of My presence will fill My temple in your heart all the days of your life." ...

Yes, Lord. This One Thing I ask of You, this One Thing will I seek after. Thank You for the promise of Your Word: "(My) body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in (me), whom (I) have from God... therefore (I) glorify God in (my) body and in (my) spirit, which are God's" (1 Corinthians 6:19-20 NKJV). Thank You for the invitation of Your Word to embrace this holy obsession to passionately pursue Your presence: "When you call upon Me and come and pray to Me, I will hear you. When you search for Me, you will find Me; if you seek Me with all your heart, I will let you find Me, says the Lord" (Jeremiah 29:13).

In response to Your voice and the stirring of Your Spirit, I cry out to You from the depths of my heart in the very words of Your Word: "How lovely is Your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! My soul longs, indeed it faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.... Happy are those who live in Your house, ever singing Your praise.... For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere!" (Psalm 84:1-10)

In the mystery of faith and the power of Your grace, Your dwelling place and Your house and Your temple and Your courts are right here in my heart every moment of every day in You (Romans 8:9). And from this place, here in my heart, I seek the One Thing I'm coming to crave and desire most, above everything else and everything less. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, I pray your heart is stirred with a holy obsession and passionate pursuit of the One Thing who want to fill your heart and your life above everything else and everything less, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, I'm excited to be speaking on

the Healing Ministry of Jesus at the Vineyard Church

of San Antonio again this coming Sunday.

Please keep us in prayer for the moving of God's Holy Spirit

in His power and love in the mighty name of Jesus!

I pray the same of you!

Free to Be Like Jesus!

Transforming Power of Healing & Deliverance Ministry

Available through Amazon Today

Tommy Hays' 365 Day Prayer Devotional

Morning by Morning, 2nd Edition

"A Deeply Intimate Journey with Jesus"

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, May 22, 2018

Morning by Morning, May 22 - No Fence of Offense in Christ

Good morning, Lord Jesus. You are here-here with me, here within me, here in all the fullness of the presence of God-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. ...

"(Jesus) left that place and came to His hometown, and His disciples followed Him. On the Sabbath He began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard Him were astounded. They said, 'Where did this man get all this? What is this wisdom that has been give to Him? What deeds of power are being done by His hands! Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not His sisters here with us?' And they took offense at Him. Then Jesus said to them, 'Prophets are not without honor, except in their hometown, and among their own kin, and in their own house.' And He could do no deed of power there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and cured them. And He was amazed at their unbelief" (Mark 6:1-6).

There was a fence of offense that keep the people of Nazareth from receiving the blessings of Your grace and love. Their unbelief limited Your power. Their familiarity hindered their honor and restricted their respect. So You moved on to other places and other people who would welcome You and Your message of hope and healing (v. 6b).

Lord Jesus, I want to grow in my familiarity and intimacy with You. I want to be able to say with integrity and truth that "(I) know that the Son of God has come and has given (me) understanding so that (I) may know Him who is true; and (I am) in Him who is true, n His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life" (1 John 5:18). "Thanks be to God, who in Christ Jesus always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads in every place the fragrance that comes from knowing Him" (2 Corinthians 2:14).

But in knowing You, I want to always honor You, respect You, and treasure You. Let me never take You for granted or doubt Your greatness. Let there never be a fence of offense between us and never allow doubt and unbelief to creep into my heart or my faith to block Your blessings into my life. Let my heart be wide open to welcome You in to every moment of my life and every part of my life. By the power of Your grace, may I "be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God" (Philippians 1:10-11 KJV). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, I pray your heart is open wide to Jesus, with no fence of offense between your heart and His, with no blockages to His blessings in any area of your life, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, I'm excited to be speaking on

the Healing Ministry of Jesus at Vineyard Church

of San Antonio this again this coming Sunday.

Please keep us in prayer for the moving of God's Holy Spirit

in His power and love in the mighty name of Jesus!

I pray the same of you!

Free to Be Like Jesus!

Transforming Power of Healing & Deliverance Ministry

Available through Amazon Today

Tommy Hays' 365 Day Prayer Devotional

Morning by Morning, 2nd Edition

"A Deeply Intimate Journey with Jesus"

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, May 18, 2018

Morning by Morning, May 18 - Go About "Doing Good"

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I welcome You here in my heart and every moment of my day. ...

"Then Peter began to speak to them: 'I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears Him and does what is right is acceptable to Him. You know the message He sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ-He is Lord of all. That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John announced: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how He want about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him" (Acts 10:34-38).

Lord Jesus, as You walked this earth as the Son of Man-in the nature of man, in the likeness of human flesh and blood-You were anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power. And in Your power, You went about "doing good." Going about "doing good" didn't just mean helping little old ladies across the street, being kind to the cashier, or making a donation to the inner city mission. I'm sure You did all those things and more in Your own way as You were led by the Spirit to see what the Father was doing.

But for You, "doing good" also meant healing the broken and casting out demons to deliver them from evil in the anointing and abiding presence of the Holy Spirit. This is exactly what You said You would do and why God the Father had poured out the anointing of God the Holy Spirit upon You, declaring: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor!" (Luke 4:18-19)

Come, Holy Spirit. Anointed me with Your abiding presence to go about doing good today-not merely naturally, but also supernaturally. Not merely supernaturally, but also naturally. May I be an authentic ambassador and disciple to represent Your name with Your nature, with the authority of the name of Jesus on my lips and the character of the nature of Jesus in my heart. "We are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making His appeal through us" (2 Corinthians 5:20). As You are, so are we to be in our world (1 John 4:17). Just as the Father sent You, so You send us (John 20:21).

I can't do any of that in my power, but only in Your power. Apart from You, I can do nothing (John 15:5). But I thank You that I'm never apart from You (Matthew 28:20). You are "Lord of all" and Lord of my heart (Acts 10:36). So You have empowered me with Your Spirit-"the Spirit of Christ" within me (Romans 8:9). And the same Spirit that raised You from the dead is the same Spirit who lives in me (Romans 8:11). Now by God's grace and Spirit of God, anointing me and empowering me, may I boldly and faithfully go about "doing good" for Your glory today. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, I pray you go about "doing good" both naturally and supernaturally today with the authority of the name of Jesus on your lips and the character of the nature of Jesus in your heart, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, I'm excited to be speaking on

the Healing Ministry of Jesus at Vineyard Church

of San Antonio this Sunday and next Sunday.

Please keep us in prayer for the moving of God's Holy Spirit

in His power and love! I pray the same of you!

Free to Be Like Jesus!

Transforming Power of Healing & Deliverance Ministry

Available through Amazon Today

Tommy Hays' 365 Day Prayer Devotional

Morning by Morning, 2nd Edition

"A Deeply Intimate Journey with Jesus"

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Building 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

Please share this word to encourage a friend!

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Morning by Morning, May 16 - Praying for Israel and the Peace of Jerusalem

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Speak to my spirit, as I worship You and welcome You into my heart and into my day - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God. ...

"Now the Lord said to Abram, 'Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. So Abram went, as the Lord had told him..." (Genesis 12:1-4).

Father God, I pray for the land of Israel and the descendants of Abram, who You named Abraham. As Your Word commands us, I "pray for the peace of Jerusalem" that there may be "peace within (her) walls and security within (her) towers" and that I may "seek (her) good" (Psalm 122:6-9).

Your Word also says that there will come a day when "all the nations of the earth shall come together against (Jerusalem)" but in the end "the Lord will give victory" to Your city "and on that day (You) will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem" (Zechariah 12:3-9). And at the same time, Your Word says "(You) will pour out a spirit of compassion and supplication on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that, when they look on the One whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over Him, as one weeps over a firstborn" (Zechariah 10). Then an amazing prophecy of Your Word will be fulfilled before the eyes of all heaven and earth: "On that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.... They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are My people'; and they will say, 'The Lord is our God!" (Zechariah 13:1-9). As they "look on the One whom they have pierced," may they cry out to You from the depths of the pain and desperation of their hearts, "Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord!" (Psalm 118:26).

As You promised the people of Your city many generations ago: "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! See, your house is left to you, desolate. For I tell you, you will not see Me again until you say, 'Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord'" (Matthew 23:29). And Your Word that cannot fail will be fulfilled: "So that you may not claim to be wiser than you are, brothers and sisters, I want you to understand this mystery: a hardening has come upon part of Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved; as it is written, 'Out of Zion will come the Deliverer; He will banish ungodliness from Jacob. And this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins" (Romans 11:25-27).

Father God, I want to come into agreement with Your will and Your Word, praying by the leading Your Spirit in the name of Jesus. I want my words and my prayers to be in alignment with Your heart for Jerusalem, for Israel, for her people, and all that they represent in the face of every means intended to destroy her by her spiritual enemy seeking use the nations of the earth to come against her in every generation. Use their struggles to turn their hearts to You, the Savior and Deliverer of all-"that (You) might create in (Yourself) one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross" (Ephesians 2:15-16).

Through my words and prayers, I sense a leading to be a part of all that You intended in the image of Your Word of the wings of the
great eagle" sent to lift up Your people in the face of destruction: "So when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male Child. But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she could fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to her place where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time" (Revelation 12:14). I don't know all that this means or represents, but I do want to be a part in my generation and my nation to take my place among "those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus" even in the face of "the dragon (who is) angry will the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her children" (Revelation 12:13-17).

Come, Holy Spirit. Show me how to pray in these days. Pray through me and all You are moving to pray for Your people and the people of all the earth in our times. "The Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God" (Romans 8:26-27).

These are both frightening and exciting days to be alive and called to the work and advancement of Your kingdom for such a time as this. "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. For in hope we are saved" (Romans 8:22-24). I groan in prayer for Your people and all who are to be saved by the grace of God through Jesus Christ, as I groan and labor in prayer for the day that "the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea!" (Habakkuk 2:14) May I be found faithful to be among those You've led to be "looking for and hastening the coming of the day of the Lord" (2 Peter 3:11) In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, I pray you will be moved by the Holy Spirit to pray according to the will of the Father in the name of Jesus for Israel and all the nations and people of the earth, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Tommy Hays' 365 Day Prayer Devotional

Morning by Morning, 2nd Edition

"A Deeply Intimate Journey with Jesus"

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Building 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257