Morning by Morning, April 7 - Manifestations of God's Spirit for God's Glory
Good morning, Lord Jesus. You are "the Alpha and the Omega" -- the One "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty" (Revelation 1:8). I worship You and welcome You to come in the almighty power and Presence of God into my heart and every moment of my life today. ...
"To each is given a manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.... All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses" (1 Corinthians 12:7-11).
I'm still processing in my memory and trying to grasp with my mind what all happened in my spirit and all around me this past weekend at the Prayer Minister's Retreat I was helping lead at St. James United Methodist Church in Athens, Georgia, near the University of Georgia campus. We were learning and experiencing our spiritual gifts for inner healing prayer ministry. But You opened up the heavens and come down mightily in the power of Your love and Presence of Your glory. Our time of anointing and impartation Saturday night wasn't over until midnight, when we finally had to make ourselves get up from the floor of the sanctuary and try to get some rest for Sunday morning!
To each was given a manifestation of the Spirit throughout our weekend together. Several saw angels. The pastor saw Jesus. Many felt the fire of the Holy Spirit burning in our hearts and going like electricity through our bodies. A young college girl and a lady joining us from another church were supernaturally filled with the overflowing love of God and prayed for each of us. Many were in the floor with waves of tears and waves of joy, overwhelmed by the weighty Presence of the Lord, resting in the Spirit -- including the oldest man in the church, who was baptized in the Holy Spirit at eighty-one years old. I asked him to pray a Father's blessing over me before I left.
Deep healing took place, as live models of ministry for all, with freedom from chains that had held back children of God for years. As You drew up and out the pain and shame, smiles of joy suddenly came over faces streaming with cleansing tears just moments before. Deep healing of the church body took place, from hurts and wounds of the past, as expressions of forgiveness and hope for restoration were passionately prayed and prophetically expressed, to arise and cross over, out of the past and fully advance into the promised land of a new season and the dawning of a new day (Galatians 6:1).
You are so good, Lord God. And You want Your people healed and free, fully alive, to be the Body and Bride of Christ to welcome You're coming in glory in our hearts and on the earth. You've given us gifts to express Your heart for the healing and encouragement of Your people (1 Peter 4:10-11). You're teaching us and equipping us and empowering us to understand them and use them, as the glory of Your Presence manifests in Your children and covers the earth (Habakkuk 2:14).
That's the revival that's breaking out in our day for those who hunger and thirst for more of You (Matthew 5:6). O that You would prepare the way of the Lord in our hearts and send us out into Your harvest in the fullness of Your Spirit (Matthew 13:36-43). O that You would continue to "pour out (Your) Spirit upon all flesh" before the coming of the day of the Lord (Acts 2:17). "O that you would tear open the heavens and come down!" (Isaiah 64:1) In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My Friend, may the Spirit of the Living God fall afresh on you and rise up within you today in His loving and powerful transformation of your soul. May your life manifest the Presence and glory of God in every way He chooses to express Himself through your life. May your church and the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ throughout the earth be set ablaze with a revival of God's love and power. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!
Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257
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