Morning by Morning,
January 23 - After 40 Years, Let Abortion "Come to a Full End"
Good morning, Lord
Jesus. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, You are One and You are holy and You are
here. I welcome You, Lord, in every dimension of Your Being into every dimension
of my being. ...
Yesterday marked the
forty-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade, where
abortion of our children became the law of our land. I'm sure some celebrated;
but the heaviness of my heart and stirring in my spirit as I think on these
things cause me to believe that heaven did not.
"...'But as for you,
your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. And your children shall be
shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and shall suffer for your
unfaithfulness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.
According to the number of days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for
every year you shall bear your iniquity, forty years, and you shall know My
displeasure.' I the Lord have spoken; surely I will do thus to this wicked
generation gathered together against Me: in this wilderness they shall come to a
full end, and there they shall die" (Number 14:32-35).
Lord, forgive us as a
nation for engaging in this evil that we call freedom of will to do whatever we
want with our right to choose, while rejecting our children's right to life. And
for forty years, we have suffered and our children have suffered under the
weight of our sin and the measures of withdrawn blessing and favor from Your
displeasure. We truly have no idea of the death and devastation we've allowed to
come into our nation and our generations through this open door of our national
sin and shame. And apart from Your conviction that leads us to repentance so we
can embrace Your mercy, we shall come to a full end.
In these fifteen years
of inner healing prayer ministry, I've prayed with many mothers who aborted
their children, many not even believing it was wrong at the time, who lived in
deep regret and inner shame for choosing or participating in the death of their
child. I've prayed with many fathers who were just as guilty as well, whether
through their absence, insistence, or tolerance. And how beautiful to see, over
and over again, Your forgiveness and mercy wash over their repentant hearts as
You healed their hurts, forgave their sin, and cleansed their shame, allowing
them the grace to give a mother or father's blessing to their child they were
now willing to affirm as a life created by God.
According to Your
judgment, it was a wicked generation that spied out the Promise Land but refused
to enter it, gathered against You and Your word and Your will for their nation.
They were judged to suffer for forty years under the burden of their national
sin and defiance in rebellion against You. Yet there were also those among them
who were of "a different spirit" who would not settle in their hearts for
anything less than restoration to full blessings and favor of God that flows
from obedience to the will of God by the power of the grace of God (v. 14:24).
And though they suffered with their nation for those forty years, even as they
prayed and longed for the day of repentance to come and the years of suffering
to end, there came a day when they were allowed to enter in to the Promise Land
with a new generation of a different spirit (v. 14:30-31).
O Lord, now that our
forty years have passed, may You stir up a spirit of repentance in the heart of
our nation. Make a way where there seems to be no way. Let it be the sin and
evil of abortion that "shall come to a full end" so that our land and our hearts
shall be free to enter in to all You've prepared and destined for us. Your plans
and Your will is for our good and not for our harm, for a future with hope, if
we will choose to seek Your face and call on Your name (Jeremiah
29:11).
As You spoke the nation
of Israel at the end of their forty years, with the opportunity to enter in to
the Promise Land, so I believe You are speaking to our nation today: "I call
heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life
and death, blessings and curses. Choose life, so that you and your descendants
may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying Him and holding fast to Him; for
that means life to you and length of days, so that you many live in the land
that the Lord swore to give to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob" (Deuteronomy 30:19-20).
Lord, let us hear the
call of Your Spirit, to not give up and to hold fast to You, in prayer and
intercession, persevering in faith, contending in the Spirit, until we see our
breakthrough come. As Your Word promises in Your eternal call and invitation to
covenant for revival: "If My people who are called by My name humble themselves,
pray, seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from
heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land" (2 Chronicles 7:14). In
Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love
of Jesus, Tommy
Hays
Friends, will
you join with me and those who are passionately praying for abortion to end? I
admit I have not always been moved with passion and pray on this issue, but the
more I see the deep devestation that comes from this sin and the power of the
grace of God to heal and forgive all who are involved, the more passionate I
become. I pray you will passionately follow the Holy Spirit's burdens on your
heart for prayer and intercession. Please pray the same for me. God bless you,
my friend!
I'm really excited to be speaking
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.
We are excited that 20 people have already signed up for this course for
equipping and training in healing prayer ministry! (www.RaphaGodMinistries.com)
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
