Persisting in Faith Believing 4-30-10

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I love You, Lord. Thank You for first loving me. … “And will not God grant justice to His chosen ones who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay long in helping them? I tell you, He will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes will He find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:7-8). A great way to teach is by learning. And a good way to learn is by doing. I’ve been teaching and learning and doing in our four day intensive School of Spiritual Ministry this week. We learned from You and prayed for one another. We’ve seen You move in the transforming power of Your healing and deliverance of spirit and soul and body, as You’ve ministered Your healing love to us and as You’ve been equipping us to minister Your healing love to others. As the Father sent You, so You send us as Your disciples to continue Your ministry in the power of Your Spirit to the glory of our Father and the proclamation of the power of Your name (John 20:21). Many of us have been praying and fasting for the complete healing and restoration to the fullness of life a young man in Florida named Phil. He’s been in a coma for some time. You’ve been moving in his spirit to desire to awaken and arise. You’ve moved in the hearts of many of us to keep asking, to keep seeking, to knocking in persistent, fervent prayer, in faith believing that one day we will see him rise up and walk, jumping and leaping and praise God (Matthew 7:7; Acts 3:8). As we prayed for him together last night and then checked in with his family by phone, we were all so excited to hear that he was stirring as we prayed. Encouraged and spurred on to tenacious prayer, we joined with Phil and his family by phone as we kept on asking, kept on seeking, kept on knocking. As we prayed, he moved. As we proclaimed in the authority of the name of Jesus, we knew he was agreeing in his spirit with our prayers. As we declared in the anointing of Your Holy Spirit in agreement with Your Holy Word, “Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you”, we believed by faith Your were speaking life and releasing Your power into his spirit and soul and body (Ephesians 5:14). With excitement and anticipation, Phil responded with groans too deep for words, as Your Spirit moved in his spirit bringing his will into alignment with Your will and his earthly realm into alignment with Your heavenly realm (Romans 8:26). For the first time since entering this coma, Phil seemed to be responsive with his eyes! We have not yet seen him rise up out of that bed on his own. But it is our belief that he will. Those results are in Your hands. Your part is to do it; our part is to pray it. Like the woman who kept coming to the judge to persist in her plea for justice, we will keep coming to You, our Just Judge, our Great Physician, as long as we sense Your leading to pray for Your kingdom to come and Your will to be done here on earth, here in Phil’s spirit and soul and body, just as it is in heaven. In heaven, there are no comas. Let there be no coma on earth, in the name of Jesus. We don’t always understand what seems like delay. We know Your Kingdom has come with the first coming of Christ and we know Your Kingdom will not yet be fully made manifest on earth as it is in heaven until the second coming of Christ. But between now and then, we will pray what You tell us to pray and we will say what You tell us to say as we seek to obey Your command to pray for Your Kingdom to come and Your will to be done here on earth as it is in heaven. Give us the grace of Your faith to persist and persevere, to keep on asking, keep on seeking, keep on knocking until the floodgates of heaven are opened wide and answers to our prayers come raining down. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen. Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays Friends, please keep us in prayer this week for our 4 Day Intensive School of Spiritual Ministry I will be leading here in Lexington, teaching along with Dan Van Nice and Lisa Preston. By the grace of God through the Holy Spirit, we will be equipping and empowering spiritual leaders in the ministry of healing and deliverance to prepare the Bride of Christ and prepare the way of the Lord. DVD's of our teaching on Level 1 and Level 2 of our Schools, along with Powerpoint Outline presentations are available for order for personal or group study if you're not able to come but may be called to this area of ministry or interested in learning more. This follows the teaching in my book Free to Be Like Jesus--Transforming Power of Healing & Deliverance www.shop.messiah-ministries.org Please share these morning prayers with anyone who may be interested. Subscribe by email to Tommy Hays at Messiah Ministries: MessiahMin@aol.com -- "Preparing the Way of the Lord ... Ministering the Healing Love of God" www.messiah-ministries.org To order my books and our ministry resources or contribute to our ministry on-line: www.shop.messiah-ministries.org Messiah Ministries; 2800 Tates Creek Rd; Lexington, KY 40502 God bless you!