Monday, January 14, 2013


Morning by Morning, January 14 - "About My Father's Business"


Good morning, Lord Jesus. You are the Word of God made Flesh. Let Your Word be made Flesh in my thoughts and desires today. ...


"And (Jesus) said to them, 'Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?' ... And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men" (Luke 2:49-52).


I those thirty-three years You walked this earth as the Son of God made flesh as the Son of Man, You were always about Your Father's business. With each step and each day, You increased in wisdom and stature; You increased in divine and human favor. The hand of God and the Spirit of God were upon You (Acts 10:38).


Now, as the Body of Christ we have "the Spirit of Christ" abiding within us (Romans 8:9). Together as one, we are to be like You in this world (1 John 4:17). We are to be about our Father's business every day. We are to grow in wisdom and stature and favor. Moved and empowered by Your Spirit in obedience to our Father, we are to hear the cry of the needy and minister the saving, healing, freeing love and power of God in the spheres of influence You've entrusted to us.


As we do, all in abiding, personal relationship with You, we'll continue to grow and increase, becoming all You've created us and called us to be as Your Body in this world. By Your Holy Spirit, moving us in the ministry of our Father, You "equip the saints for the work of the ministry, for building up the Body of Christ, until all of us come to a unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ. We must no longer be children.... But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into Him who is the head, into Christ" (Ephesians 4:12-15). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.


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



Friends, I pray you will be filled and empowered by the Holy Spirit to be about Your Father's business in the name and nature of Jesus Christ today. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!


I'm really excited to be invited to speak on The Healing Nature of Jesus during "An Evening of Healing" with Max Lucado at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio Wednesday Night, February 6 at 7pm. Please come join us if you can (www.oakhillschurch.com).


Starting Thursday Night, January 31, we will begin a 6 Week Level 1 School of Ministry for Sozo Inner Healing Prayer Ministry Training, at our ministry office at Rapha God Ministries in San Antonio. Please come join us; seating is limited (www.RaphaGodMinistries.com)


If you're in the Kentucky area, I'll be leading a Spiritual Renewal Weekend at Bagby Memorial United Methodist Church in Grayson, Kentucky, January 18-20 with my good friend Pastor Susan Elkow (http://bagbyumc.org/events.php). Come join us if you can!


In this new season, I will still be leading Messiah Ministries, but also joining in leadership as the Pastoral Director of Rapha God Ministries based in San Antonio, Texas, continuing my calling of equipping and ministry of inner healing -- healing from the inside out -- to see God's people set from from their past and awakened to their identity and destiny in Christ. I'll also continue to share these morning prayers, teach our 4 Day Schools in Kentucky and elsewhere, and still travel to speak and minister as the Lord leads with the relationships we've established and the new ones to be formed, at home and abroad.


For a few months of transition, the Messiah Ministries mailing address in Lexington will remain the same, but I will be moving into my new office and the new base for ministry will be at: 4 Dominion Drive, Building 1; San Antonio, Texas 78257 www.RaphaGodMinistries.com


God bless you and thank you for all your prayers and friendship!


Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
2800 Tates Creek Road
Lexington, Kentucky 40502