Celebrate Recovery 10-5-06

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I celebrate Your goodness and praise Your for Your presence in my heart and my life. ... "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of my poor people not been restored? (Jeremiah 8:22). Last night at my home church, I was overwhelmed with the sense of Your heart for restoration of Your people. First I met with those You are calling to be equipped and empowered to minister Your healing and life at the altar of our church in the Prayer Ministry Team. And then I joined the meeting with those You are calling to come along side those suffering from the addictions and struggles with every form of hurts, habits, and hang-ups in the ministry of Celebrate Recovery. You want You people healed and whole, free and filled, saved and sanctified. You are the Balm of Gilead. You are the Great Physician. But we have to humble ourselves to acknowledge we need Your healing of our spirits and souls and bodies, that we all have hurts, habits, and hang-ups, that we all need recovery and restoration. As You said long ago, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick" (Luke 5:31). Help us humble ourselves to admit our need and then come to You in faith to restore our health in every area of our lives. Then we can minister to others out of our healed hearts and not our hurts, with fresh faith and not our wounded spirits. Then others will be drawn to the light of Your glory shining through a people who have humble themselves at the foot of Your cross and allowed You to lift us up in Your arms, heal our hurts, break our bondage, and fill us afresh with life of Your Spirit to shine with the light of Your glory. Then we will be a church and a people who display Your glory -- not because we were not broken or bound; but because we were and we called on Your name in humility and faith so that You healed us and set us free! Thank You for letting me be part of a church like that. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen. Be encouraged this day! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays Friends, please come join us if you can and spread the word about our one day inner healing conference of teaching, worship, and healing ministry in Lexington on Saturday, October 14th: "From Brokenness to Breakthrough -- healing from grief, sorrow, trauma, and pain in a broken world." We will hold this in The Foundry at my home church, Centenary UMC, 2800 Tates Creek Rd from 9 am to 9 pm (Morning and Afternoon teaching, worship, and ministry; Evening healing service). Please come if you can and please keep us in prayer. Pre-register by contacting Marilyn Walker, our Director of Ministries at 859-317-1591 or email at DirOfMinistries@aol.com Please forward this note and spread the word to your church and friends! To subscribe/unsubscribe or to order my teaching and prayer dvd's and cd's for spiritual transformation, write to me at Messiah Ministries MessiahMin@aol.com -- "Preparing the Way of the Lord." 2800 Tates Creek Rd; Lexington, Kentucky 40502: www.messiah-ministries.orgDaily archives of my devotional: www.morningbymorning.injesus.com