"My Special Possession" - May 31

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Draw me close; help me hear; guide my thoughts; direct my path. ...

"They shall be Mine, says the Lord of hosts, My special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as parents spare their children who serve them. Then once more you shall see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him" (Malachi 3:17-18).

Last night we were so honored to be welcomed by the Native American People and those who gathered with us on the site of the old Methodist Mission on the Cherokee Reservation in North Carolina. We asked for You to give us Your heart and Your words for each one of Your children. And You poured out Your prophetic words of encouragement and comfort for each one there, hungering to hear the Father's heart (1 Corinthians 14:3).

Thank You that You see us as Your special possessions, Your treasured jewels. You know us each by name and know us each as we truly are. And despite all our sins and failures, despite all our broken hearts and shattered dreams, You love us deeply and draw us intimately into Your embrace and Your purposes for our lives. O how You love us so. Help us see that and believe that every moment of every day. Help us live into the fullness of our inheritance as children of God, our great Creator and Father (Ephesians 1:11). In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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

My Friend, you are your Father's special and treasured possession! I pray you would know and experience the fullness of His perfect plans and purposes for your life. Thank you for praying the same for me -- in agreement in Jesus' name.

Friends, if you would like to be part of our Interactive Prayer Team covering us in ministry in some capacity, please send a note to Heather Butler, our Pastor of Prayer Ministries, and Heather will let you know the opportunities and blessings of being part of our team in this way: prayerlead@messiah-ministries.org

Be empowered, equipped, and encouraged to fulfill your destiny in Christ!

Tommy & Sylvia Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.messiah-ministries.org

"Fresh Oil" - May 30

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Fill my mind with Your thoughts and my heart with Your desires. Make me more like You each day. ...

"But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; You have poured over me fresh oil" (Psalm 92:10).

I seek Your fresh oil today. I seek a fresh anointing of Your Holy Spirit. While I thank You and praise You for yesterday's anointing, I want to advance with You. I don't want to live off of the stories of the past, but in the experiences and encounters of each new day.

Lord, free me to live more moment by moment and day by day. I need the fresh oil of Your Spirit morning by morning. The lamp of my spirit is open to be filled afresh every day. Now let Your light burn and Your glory shine through my life today. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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

Tonight, Sylvia and I will be ministering at the Cherokee Indian Reservation in the mountains of North Carolina. Please keep us in prayer as we lift up the name of Jesus, as He ministers His healing love and power among those who are hurting and bound.

Be empowered, equipped, and encouraged to fulfill your destiny in Christ!

Tommy & Sylvia Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.messiah-ministries.org

Announcing Heather Butler as Pastor of Prayer Ministries

Friends of Messiah Ministries,

 

We are so excited to let you know that Rev. Heather Butler, our dear friend in Wales, has accepted our invitation to be our Pastor of Prayer Ministries. She immediately expressed that this was the desire of her heart and is graciously contributing her gifts and passion for this place on our team at Messiah Ministries.

Heather will be coordinating our prayer cover, interactive prayer teams, helping coordinate prayer ministry appointments, and praying for people over the phone and through Skype. We are so honored and thrilled to have this dimension of our ministry in place. Heather is including her note of greeting below to express her desires for this strategic position with our ministry.

Sylvia and I are so grateful to you for all your prayers, encouragement and support that are so essential to our being able to fulfill our calling and destiny through Messiah Ministries. Please keep in touch as we move forward in this exciting season. And may the Lord pour out His exceeding, abundant blessings upon your lives, far above all you can ask or imagine!

In the Love of Jesus,

Tommy & Sylvia Hays

Messiah Ministries

www.messiah-ministries.org

Greeting from Heather Butler, Our Pastor of Prayer Ministries

Dear Friends,

I count it such a joy to be able to stand with you all in prayer for Messiah Ministries. I know many of you from my visits and our correspondence over the internet. It's no secret that I have always had a heart for this ministry, and have been praying this last seven years for Tommy's diary dates, and for those prayer requests that have come to us. During that time, friendships have flourished, and my heart has grown more passionate for those who are ministered to by Tommy and Sylvia and for the work of the Lord in them.

Messiah Ministries has grown, and is growing still. And now more than ever it's essential that we unite to pray for Tommy and Sylvia in their ministry trips and every aspect of the ministry.

You have been such a faithful, supportive and loving team, who have grown together, and its so wonderful to have been asked to coordinate prayer in the midst of you all.

Thank you so much for your love and for your prayers as I transition into this position. I will need your prayers as I learn how to pass on information to you all, and how to deal with many different issues.

I am blessed indeed and looking forward to seeing breakthrough on many levels this coming year in Messiah Ministries, and in our own lives and those we serve.

I am accessible to you all, so please feel free to email or chat with me by email or on Facebook.

Every blessing,

Heather

Pastor of Prayer Ministries

Messiah Ministries

prayerlead@messiah-ministries.org

Gift of Joy - May 29

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Let the adventure of our day begin. Let Your name be the first word that I speak and Your will be the first choice of my heart. ...

"It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; to declare Your steadfast love in the morning, and Your faithfulness by night.... For You, O Lord, have made me glad by Your work; at the works of Your hands I sing for joy" (Psalm 92:1-4).

You make me glad and Your fill me with joy. Every day is not easy and every task is not fun, but regardless of what I may face and regardless of what I may feel, You are always ready to fill me with joy. Your joy is my strength, O Lord (Nehemiah 8:10).

When I think of Your steadfast love in the morning, You fill me with joy. When I think of Your faithfulness at night, You fill me with joy. When I think about You and all You've done for me and in me and through me, You fill me with joy. The gift of joy is part of my inheritance as a child of the King of the Kingdom of God. "For the Kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit" (Romans 14:17).

So by the power of the grace of God, I will not let anything steal my gift of joy. It is precious treasure-to be guarded and cherished, to be taken in and given away-regardless of what may try to come. Even the sufferings of the cross could not steel away Your gift of the Father's joy from You. It was "for the sake of the joy that was set before (You)" that You "endured the cross, disregarding its shame" (Hebrews 12:2). And it's for the sake of the joy that I praise You and thank You for the adventures to come this day with You. You have made me glad and I will sing for joy. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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

Friends, Sylvia and I will be spending the next few days with our collegues in the MorningStar Fellowship of Ministries at the home base in Fort Mill, SC, led by Rick Joyner. We're excited to be having a time of personal prayer, anointing and impartation tonight from the leaders (www.morningstarministries.org). Please keep us in prayer for this time of renewal, encouragement, and strengthening of relationships. We pray the same for you!

Be empowered, equipped, and encouraged to fulfill your destiny in Christ!

Tommy & Sylvia Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.messiah-ministries.org

"More Than Ever" - May 28

Good morning, Lord Jesus. King of kings and Lord of lords, be King and Lord of every moment of my day. ...

"Yet more than ever believers were added to the Lord, great numbers of both men and women, so that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mats, in order that Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he came by. A great number of people would also gather from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all cured" (Acts 5:14-16).

More than ever, believers were added to the Body of Christ. More than ever, the presence and power of God rested upon the disciples. More than ever, diseases and demons were overcome and destroyed by the blood of the Lamb and the name of Jesus. The experience and expression of Your Kingdom coming and Your will being done, on earth as it is in heaven, increased and abounded more and more every day. And You are "the same yesterday, and today, and forever" (Hebrews 13:8).

Your mission has not changed: "The Son of God was revealed for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil" (1 John 3:8). And Your commission has not changed: "As the Father sent Me, so I send you" (John 20:21). So Lord let us experience and express You and Your Kingdom more and more every day. Overshadow us with Your presence and power, so that even our shadows are an extension of Your Kingdom through our lives, more than ever. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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

Friends, Sylvia and I will be spending the next few days with our collegues in the MorningStar Fellowship of Ministries at the home base in Fort Mill, SC, led by Rick Joyner. Please keep us in prayer for this time of renewal, encouragement, and strengthening of relationships. We pray the same for you!

We are lining up meetings on our travels in June through North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. Please come join us whenever you can and keep us in your prayers. We will be updating our events on the web-site:

Upcoming Ministry Events with Tommy & Sylvia Hays | Messiah Ministries

Please let us know if your church or group would like us to come and speak and minister one night or for a weekend. Most of our topics are also available by CD and DVD through our web site: www.messiah-ministries.org

Spiritual Authority - May 25

Good morning, Lord Jesus. With a hungry heart and an open spirit, I seek Your face an listen for Your voice in these first moments of my morning with You. ...

"He called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over unclean spirits.... So they went out and proclaimed that all should repent. They cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them" (Mark 6:7-13).

All authority in heaven and earth has been given to You (Matthew 28:18). And in the sovereignty of God and the mystery of faith, You have also entrusted authority to us, even over demons and disease. "The heavens are the Lord's heavens, but the earth He has given to human beings" (Psalm 115:16).

Lord, let me know the measure and the means of authority You've entrusted to me today. Lead me to use it in Your power for Your purposes. Give me the right heart and right motives. Give me the humility to know that any authority in me comes from You and also the faith to believe You desire to express Your authority through me. "Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received. Whoever speaks must do so as one speaking the very words of God; whoever serves must do so with the strength that God supplies, so that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ. To Him belong the glory and the power forever and ever" (1 Peter 4:10-11). In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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

We are lining up meetings on our travels in June through North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. Please come join us whenever you can and keep us in your prayers. We will be updating our events on the web-site:

Upcoming Ministry Events with Tommy & Sylvia Hays | Messiah Ministries

Please let us know if your church or group would like us to come and speak and minister one night or for a weekend. Most of our topics are also available by CD and DVD through our web site: www.messiah-ministries.org

"Anointed by the Holy One" - May 24

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Help me start this day and live it out emptied of my own will and completely yielded to Your will, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. ...

"But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and all of you have knowledge.... Let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father.... As for you the anointing that you received from Him abides in you, and so you do not need anyone to teach you. But as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, abide in Him" (1 John 2:20-27).

Holy Spirit-Spirit of Christ, Spirit of Truth-abide in me. Holy One, teach me and lead me always to the One who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Remind me of Your truth and empower me to "live and move and have (my) being" in You (Acts 17:28).

God the Father, You are always sending Your Holy Spirit. God the Holy Spirit, You are always leading me to Jesus. God the Son, You are always perfectly revealing the heart and ways and will of my Father. Fill me up with Your anointing and pour me out in Your service. Father, You have embraced us in Christ and anointed us with Your Spirit to live our lives for You and live our lives in You. "It is God who established us with you in Christ and has anointed us, by putting His seal on us and giving us His Spirit in our hearts as a first installment" (2 Corinthians 1:21-22). In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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

We are lining up meetings on our travels in June through North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. Please come join us whenever you can and keep us in your prayers. We will be updating our events on the web-site:

Upcoming Ministry Events with Tommy & Sylvia Hays | Messiah Ministries

Be empowered, equipped, and encouraged to fulfill your destiny in Christ!

Tommy & Sylvia Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.messiah-ministries.org

Holy Hunger, Humble Heart - May 23

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Be my vision, O Lord of my heart. ...

"Then His disciples asked Him what this parable meant. He said, 'To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to others I speak in parables, so that 'looking they may not perceive, and listening they may not understand' " (Luke 8:9-10).

Lord, I want to be one who is able to look and see, to listen and hear. I want to be one who is able to perceive and understand Your words of spirit and life. I want to be one who is able to know and embrace Your secrets of the kingdom of God.

Give me a holy hunger to seek and a humble heart to learn. "It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out" (Proverbs 25:2). In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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

We are lining up meetings on our travels in June through North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. Please come join us whenever you can and keep us in your prayers. We will be updating our events on the web-site:

Upcoming Ministry Events with Tommy & Sylvia Hays | Messiah Ministries

Be empowered, equipped, and encouraged to fulfill your destiny in Christ!

Tommy & Sylvia Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.messiah-ministries.org

Personal Pentecost - May 22

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I am Yours, and You are mine. Draw near to me, as I draw near to You. I abide in You, as You abide in me. ...

"While staying with them, He ordered them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for the promise of the Father. 'This,' He said, 'is what you have heard from Me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.... You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth" (Acts 1:4-8).

Every morning, I want to wait on You to be clothed with Your power before going out into my day. Every morning, I want to wait for the My Father's promise of a fresh filling of Your Holy Spirit. Every morning, I want to wait for Your holy fire to fall and Your Holy Spirit to arise in my daily encounter with the Living God in these moments of personal Pentecost.

I don't want to get up and go anywhere without You. I don't want to do anything in my own power, in my own wisdom, out of my own will apart from Yours. I want to yield and surrender all to You. Then I can be Your witness, without tooting my own horn. Then I can seek Your glory, without seeking to build my own kingdom. Then I can bear much from that will last forever, without wasting the time and talents You've entrusted to me like so much wood and hay and stubble that will only last as long as the next strong wind.

Come, Holy Spirit. Fill me afresh today. I thirst for You in the intimate communion of prayer and the desperate cry of my heart for my personal Pentecost. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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

Friends, thank you for praying for us at our School of Ministry last weekend hosted with Pastor Jeff Bealmear at First Methodist Church in Aledo, Illinois. The Lord moved mightily, with many being activated into their spiritual gifts and with many experiences of healnig and breakthrough. Then during our time of Holy Communion and impartation at the close Sunday night, anointing oil was supernaturally flowing through Sylvia's hands, as we prayed blessings for everyone. That's never happened before and was very exciting! We felt like it was a physical expression of the spiritual grace that the anointing of the Holy Spirit was breaking the yokes of spiritual bondage and destroying the works of darkness (Isaiah 10:27; 1 John 3:8).

We had a great time with our great friends at Door of Life Ministries in Greensburg, Illinois last night, as Sylvia spoke on prophetic dream interpretation. We are lining up meetings on our travels in June through North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. Please come join us whenever you can and keep us in your prayers. We will be updating our events on the web-site:

Upcoming Ministry Events with Tommy & Sylvia Hays | Messiah Ministries

Be empowered, equipped, and encouraged to fulfill your destiny in Christ!

Tommy & Sylvia Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.messiah-ministries.org

"Taught by God" - May 18

Good morning, Lord Jesus. All is well with my soul, when I begin my day in Your embrace. ...

"It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be taught by God.' Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me" (John 6:45).

Holy Spirit, You are always leading me to Jesus. Lord Jesus, You are always perfectly revealing my Father. Heavenly Father, You are always sending Your Holy Spirit. Together as One, yet in these three Persons of Your Being, expressing and revealing Yourself in the three Dimensions, You are always reaching out to embrace me, to teach me Your ways, to change me into Your image, and to conform me to Your nature. And though all this is always available to me, I must respond to Your grace by coming to You.

So I come to You in these first moments of my day. I open my spirit to encounter Your embrace and open my mind to learn Your ways. I want to be one who is "taught by God." And I admit I have much to learn. But You've taught me this much: You're a God who loves to give to those who ask. So in faith and trust, I humble myself to ask for Your teaching and welcome Your Spirit, who comes in Your name from our Father in heaven, to teach me Your ways and conform me to Your nature (v. 14:26). In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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

Please come join us if you can and pray for us if you can't This Weekend May 18-20 in Aledo, Illinois for our School of Ministry hosted at The First Methodist Church with my great friend, Pastor Jeff Bealmear. Upcoming Ministry Events with Tommy & Sylvia Hays | Messiah Ministries

We will be teaching on Dream Interpretation Monday Night, May 21 in Greensburg, Indiana on our way home. All are welcome! Contact Jeannie Bedel with Door of Life Ministries at tibedel@etczone.com

"Above Every Name" - May 16

Good morning, Lord Jesus. You are the King of kings and Lord of lords. You are my King and my Lord, and I welcome You in to rule and reign in my life today. ...

"God put this power to work in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the age to come. And He has put all things under His feet and has made Him head over all things for the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all" (Ephesians 1:20-23).

Lord Jesus, Your name is above every name. Your authority is above every authority. Your power is above every power. All things are under Your feet-under Your authority and power-the power and authority of the name of Jesus.

And then in the mystery of faith and the sovereignty of God, You encourage us to call on Your name, to ask in Your name, to speak in the authority of Your name (John 14:14). We are Your body, filled with Your Spirit, growing in Your nature, to fulfill Your purposes in the power of Your name. And there is great power-all power and authority-in the name of Jesus.

Lord Jesus, let the power of Your name forgive every sin, heal every wound, and break every chain in me and in us. Then let it forgive and heal and break through us as Your body, "the fullness of Him who fills all in all." In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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

Friends, thank you for praying for our meeting in Lexington with Aglow Ministries yesterday. We had a incredible time of teaching, ministry, and impartation on prophetic dreams and how the Holy Spirit uses dreams to help heal us from the inside out and free us to be all the Lord created us to be. Please let us know if your church would like to have us come share Dream Interpretation or our other workshops and ministries in your area.

Please come join us if you can and pray for us if you can't This Weekend May 18-20 in Aledo, Illinois for our School of Ministry hosted at The First Methodist Church with my great friend, Pastor Jeff Bealmear. Upcoming Ministry Events with Tommy & Sylvia Hays | Messiah Ministries

"The Law of Kindness" - May 15

Good morning, Lord Jesus. There's power in Your name. There's peace in Your Presence. There's hope in Your voice. There's encouragement in Your Word. So I come into Your Presence in the peaceful communion of my morning prayer to call on Your name, meditate on Your Word and listen for Your voice. ...

"She opens her mouth with wisdom, and on her tongue is the law of kindness" (Proverbs 31:26, NKJ).

Lord, teach me the law of kindness. Write in on my heart and express it through my mouth. "Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life and honor" (v. 21:21).

As I go through the encounters and experiences of my day, let my countenance be kind. Let my eyes and words express the kindness of Your Spirit dwelling in me, for "the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control" (Galatians 5:22). In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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

Friends, please come join us This Weekend May 18-20 in Aledo, Illinois for our School of Ministry hosted at The First Methodist Church with my great friend, Pastor Jeff Bealmear. Contact Information at:

Upcoming Ministry Events with Tommy & Sylvia Hays | Messiah Ministries

Sylvia and will be speaking Today, Tuesday, May 15 on Dream Interpreation, at the Lexington Aglow Ministries monthly meeting hosted at Southern Hills UMC in Lexington, Ky. All are welcome. Please come and spread the word!

True Heart - May 14

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I can always speak and know You are listening, because You're always here. ...

"Those who speak on their own seek their own glory, but the one who seeks the glory of Him who sent him is true, and there is nothing false in him" (John 7:18).

I want my heart to be true and I want my words to be true. I want my life to be one that leads others to the One who is true, as I try to follow You and worship You in spirit and in truth. Please forgive me when I fail, strengthen me when I'm weak, and correct me when I'm wrong.

Remind me throughout the moments of my day that I am seeking Your glory, honoring Your name, advancing Your kingdom-not my own. Continue to free me from self-centeredness and self-righteousness. Continue to move in my spirit to lift up my eyes and open up my heart to trust in the One who is true. Then out of the abundance of my heart, let my mouth and my life speak (Luke 6:45). In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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

Friends, please come join us This Weekend May 18-20 in Aledo, Illinois for our School of Ministry hosted at The First Methodist Church with my great friend, Pastor Jeff Bealmear. Contact Information at:

Upcoming Ministry Events with Tommy & Sylvia Hays | Messiah Ministries

Sylvia and will be speaking This Tuesday, May 15 on Dream Interpreation, at the Lexington Aglow Ministries monthly meeting hosted at Southern Hills UMC in Lexington, Ky. All are welcome. Please come and spread the word!

"Ask God" - May 11

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Spirit to spirit, Deep to deep, I embrace You-Father, Son and Holy Spirit-in the communion of prayer at the foundation of my day. ...

"If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given to you. But ask in faith, never doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind; for the doubter, being double-minded and unstable in every way, must not expect to receive anything from the Lord" (James 1:5-8).

Your Word invites me to ask You for wisdom. And Your Word calls me to ask in faith, believing that what I ask will be given to me. So Father, in the name of Jesus, I do ask You for wisdom; I repent and reject and renounce all doubt and unbelief; I open my mind to Your thoughts and my heart to Your desires; and I lay my questions and needs before You, my wise King, faithful Friend, and gracious God. ...

Now, as I wait and listen for Your wisdom in prayer and then, as I arise and go about my day, continuing to abide in Your Presence by Your Spirit with me and within me, I will be expectant for Your wisdom to guide my choices and direct my path. "And this is the boldness we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have obtained the requests made of Him" (1 John 5:14-15). In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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

My Friend in the journey of prayer, I pray for God's wisdom in all your needs and questions; and I pray you'd be filled with great hope and expectant faith that the wise One who loves you so will guide your steps and direct your paths. Thank you for praying the same for me.

Friends, please come join us Saturday, May 12, for our Dream Interpretation Teaching in Frankfort, Kentucky at 10 AM, with Lunch included. Hosted by Bishop William Morton at Thou Kingdom Come Ministries, 3445 Versailles Rd, Frankfort, KY 40601.

Upcoming Ministry Events with Tommy & Sylvia Hays | Messiah Ministries

We will also be presenting this teaching at the Lexington Aglow Ministries monthly meeting on Tuesday May 15 hosted at Southern Hills UMC in Lexington, Ky. All are welcome. Please come and spread the word!

“A True Heart in Full Assurance of Faith” - May 10

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I speak out Your name, lift up my eyes, and open up my heart. Speak, Lord, for I am listening.  …

“Therefore, my friends, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that He opened for us through the curtain (that is, through His flesh), and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who has promised is faithful” (Hebrews 10:19-20).

By the power of Your grace, by the blood of Jesus, I will not waver, but hold fast. I will not hold back, but press in. I will not give up, but surrender all.

You remind me of Your promises to remind me how to pray. You remind me of Your prophecies to remind me what to believe. You remind me of Your nature to remind me to trust.

Only by the blood of Jesus can I have clean hands and a pure heart. Only by the blood of Jesus can I enter into the holy place of Your abiding Presence. Only by the blood of Jesus can I call out Your name, lift up my eyes and open up my heart to embrace this gift of “a true heart in full assurance of faith.” So by the blood of Jesus, I do. By the grace of God, I hold fast to this confession of my hope without wavering. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

A Better Covenant, More Intimate Relationship - May 9

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Father, Son and Holy Spirit, fill my spirit, soul and body with Your Presence and Your peace and Your purpose. ...

"After this David inquired of the Lord, 'Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?" The Lord said to him, 'Go up.' David said, 'To which shall I go up?' He said, 'To Hebron.' So David went up there.... Then the people of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah.... The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months" (2 Samuel 2:1-11).

David humbled himself to hear Your voice. He listened carefully for Your leading. He inquired specifically for Your specific instructions. And You answered him and guided him through the seasons of his life into his calling and destiny.

Yet David lived out his life and relationship with You under the old covenant of the law. But now, through Christ, we can live out our lives and relationship with You under "a better covenant, which has been enacted under better promises" (Hebrews 8:6). Now Your law with Your will and ways are written "in (our) minds" and "on (our) hearts" so that we can all know You deeply and intimately "from the least of (us) to the greatest"-weather we are called to be kings or anything else in all Your Kingdom (Hebrews 8:10-11).

Lord, let me know You more deeply and intimately. Let me hear Your voice and follow Your leading by the guidance of Your Spirit in my mind and on my heart. Remind me to always humbly inquire of You and then faithfully continue to abide in constant communion with You, throughout the moments of my day. In this great gift of personal relationship with You under this intimate covenant with You, let me know my identity and fulfill my destiny, through all the seasons of my life. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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

Friends, please come join us Saturday, May 12, for our Dream Interpretation Teaching in Frankfort, Kentucky at 10 AM, with Lunch included. Hosted by Bishop William Morton at Thou Kingdom Come Ministries, 3445 Versailles Rd, Frankfort, KY 40601.

Upcoming Ministry Events with Tommy & Sylvia Hays | Messiah Ministries

We will also be presenting this teaching at the Lexington Aglow Ministries monthly meeting on Tuesday May 15 hosted at Southern Hills UMC in Lexington, Ky. All are welcome. Please come and spread the word!

"Moved with Compassion" - May 8

Good morning, Lord Jesus. My Savior, my Lord, my Best Friend, I welcome You in to every moment of my day. ...

"And when Jesus went out He saw a great multitude; and He was moved with compassion for them, and healed their sick" (Matthew 14:14, NKJ).

"And Jesus, when He came out, saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So He began to teach them many things" (Mark 6:34, NJK).

You ministry was motivated by Your compassion. You reached out to them out of compassion; You healed them out of compassion; You taught them out of compassion. Their circumstances and challenges stirred Your Spirit and moved Your heart. You didn't judge them or condemn them; You didn't look down on them or chastise them. You reach out to them to extend and express the healing love of God to them.

And so it is to be with us. "Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep" (Romans 12:15). "Bear one another's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ" (Galatians 6:2).

Lord, give me more c0mpassion for people. Let Your love be my aim in all I do, as I extend and express the healing love of God, by Your Spirit reaching out through my life this day. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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

Friends, please come join us Saturday, May 12, for our Dream Interpretation Teaching in Frankfort, Kentucky at 10 AM, with Lunch included. Hosted by Bishop William Morton at Thou Kingdom Come Ministries, 3445 Versailles Rd, Frankfort, KY 40601

We will also be presenting this teaching at the Lexington Aglow Ministries monthly meeting on Tuesday May 15 hosted at Southern Hills UMC in Lexington, Ky. All are welcome. Please come and spread the word!

My God is For Me - May 7

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I set my focus on Your face and listen in my spirit for the leading of Your voice. ...

"What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" (Romans 8:31-32, NKJ)

If You are for me, I have nothing to fear. If You are for me, I have nothing to lose. In fact, I can't lose. Even the things that challenge me and chafe me, even the things that worry me and weary me-You even cause those things to work together for my good, if I keep entrusting myself to the One who is for me, to the One who has already given Himself in the greatest sacrifice of love for me (v. 28).

So by the power of the grace of God at work for me and at work within me, I will not fear or worry; I will not waver or grow weary. I will trust in You and rest in Your truth. My God is for me. So what can stand against me? Whatever may come, whatever I may endure, as I journey each day through this broken, fallen world, I overcome and endure with You at my side and with Your Spirit inside (v. 9). In all these things, I am more than a conqueror through the One who loves me, the One who's for me, and the One who's with me (v. 37). In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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

Friends, please come join us Saturday, May 12, for our Dream Interpretation Teaching in Frankfort, Kentucky at 10 AM, with Lunch included. Hosted by Bishop William Morton at Thou Kingdom Come Ministries, 3445 Versailles Rd, Frankfort, KY 40601

We will also be presenting this teaching at the Lexington Aglow Ministries monthly meeting on Tuesday May 15 hosted at Southern Hills UMC in Lexington, Ky. All are welcome. Please come and spread the word!

"Love is Patient, Love is Kind" - May 3

Good morning, Lord Jesus. My eyes are on You. Help me see You as You are and see me as I am. As I behold You, You are changing me into Your image (2 Corinthians 3:17). ...

"Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends..." (1 Corinthians 13:4-8).

Lord God, You are my Father and You are my Friend. And You are Love (1 John 4:8). That's not just one of Your attributes or part of Your nature or something You do. That's who You are. That's the essence of Your Being. And You want me to be more like You every day. As You are, so am I to be in this world. "God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.... Because as He is so are we in this world (1 John 4:16-17).

So help me, empower me to be more patient, to be more kind, to be more thoughtful and hopeful and faithful. Help me to be more of all these things that describe Your love, that describe Your heart and Your nature. Help me be more like You each day. For this is Your will and my destiny-to be conformed into the image of Christ, to be conformed into the image of the One who is Love (Romans 8:29). In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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

Be empowered, equipped, and encouraged to fulfill your destiny in Christ!

Tommy & Sylvia Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.messiah-ministries.org

Tree of Life - May 2

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I want to drink deeply of the living water from Your streams of life. ...

"Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers; but their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His law they meditate day and night. They are like trees planted by streams of water, which yield their fruit in its season, and their leaves do not wither. In all that they do, they prosper" (Psalm 1:1-3).

Let the tree of my life be planted securely in Your Word, drawing deeply from Your Spirit. I need Your streams of mercy, flowing freely through my heart and mind every moment of every day. I want to prosper in all I do; I want my life to bear fruit that honors You.

Keep drawing my roots down more deeply into the fertile soil of Your Word and the living water of Your Spirit. Keep changing me and causing me to delight in the things that delight You and to turn from the things that don't. Your words are wise; Your leading is sure; Your voice is true. To willingly seek to walk in Your ways down the path You've chosen for the destiny of my life is wisdom. "Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy" (Proverbs 3:17-18). In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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

Be empowered, equipped, and encouraged to fulfill your destiny in Christ!

Tommy & Sylvia Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.messiah-ministries.org

"Always Before Me" - May 1

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Put Your thoughts in my mind and Your desires in my heart, as You set my feet on Your path this day. ...

"I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me. 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 also rests secure.... You show me the path of life. In Your Presence there is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore" (Psalm 16:7-11).

You are my wise King. You are my "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace" (Isaiah 9:6). You are the God who gives wisdom and guidance to all who ask and humble themselves to listen and hear (James 1:5).

Thank You for the peace that comes, even before the answer comes, when we entrust our questions to You. Even before I see where my path will lead in this season of my journey, I can rest secure that it will lead to good places with great adventures because You're always before me and Your Presence will always be with me all along the way. "Therefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices." In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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

Be empowered, equipped, and encouraged to fulfill your destiny in Christ!

Tommy & Sylvia Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.messiah-ministries.org