Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Morning by Morning, March 31 - Two Swords of God's Word for Protection and for Healing
 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. You're the King of Kings and Lord of Lords (Revelation 19:16). Be the King of all my heart and Lord of every area of my life, as I seek You and listen for Your voice today (John 10:27). ...
 
I sense I hear in my spirit, "Two swords for this fight. One sword for protection; one sword for healing. Both swords speak of My word. Wield My word in faith. Do not lose heart, do not retreat, and do not lay down your sword." ...
 
Yes, Lord. "For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword...." (Hebrews 4:12). "Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints" (Ephesians 6:17-18).
 
With one arm of prayer, I lift up the sword of Your word for protection. I join with all those who are praying in the Spirit around the world for Your protection, for our world and for ourselves. Protect us from sickness and death, from fear and panic, from worry and withdrawal, from hopelessness and despair, from surrender and defeat. Be a sword in our hand and a shield about our hearts with a Wall of Fire of Your Spirit all around us and those entrusted to us. "'For I,' says the Lord, 'will be a Wall of Fire all around (you), and I will be the glory in (your) midst'" (Zechariah 2:5).
 
With one arm of prayer, I lift up the sword of Your word for healing. For all who are stricken and suffering, under assault from sickness and infirmity, let Your word go forth to comfort them and heal them, to know You are with them, to trust in the good desires and good plans in Your heart for them to bring them through all they are enduring. "They cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress; He sent out His word and healed them, and delivered them from destruction" (Psalm 107:19-20).
 
For our world and for ourselves, we pray Your Word and You send forth Your word -- alive and active, living and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword. We thank You and praise You for Your words of Spirit and Life (John 6:63). "So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it!" (Isaiah 55:11) In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may you be empowered by God's grace to pray His Word in the Spirit with the heart of our Father in the authority of the name of Jesus for our world and for ourselves, for His protection and healing, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

  
Daily Prayer Journey with Tommy Hays



Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out ...
Preparing the Way of the Lord
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
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Monday, March 30, 2020

Morning by Morning, March 30 - Following God in Faith Where We've Never Been Before
 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. I look to You and listen for Your leading to begin my day embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with Your Holy Spirit. ...
 
Thinking of the journey we're on in our world today, with all its uncertainties and unknowns, I'm thinking of Abraham, when You first spoke to him and called him on his life-long journey of faith in You.
 
"Now the Lord said to Abram, 'Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.... So Abram went, as the Lord had told him..." (Genesis 12:1-4).
 
Like Abram, in some ways I feel like I have no clue about where my journey ahead is leading me. "By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive an inheritance; and he set out, not knowing where he was going" (Hebrews 11:8). And at the same time, You've given me a measure of guidance without giving me all the details, You've spoken to me Your word without overriding my free will. Like Abram, I'm on a "need to know basis" and You call me to trust You alone with knowing what I need to know and when I need to know it. And the same is true with every one of us in our world right now. 
 
Hundreds of years and many generations after You first spoke those words to Abram -- after You changed his name and changed his character, after You passed down the blessings and the calling and the destiny to his children and children's children -- there came a time when the sons and daughters of Abraham were finally crossing over to enter in to their Promise Land of their inheritance. You commanded them to follow the Ark of the Covenant, saying through Your leaders, "Follow it, so that you may know the way you should go, for you have not passed this way before" (Joshua 3:2-4).
 
It's a journey of faith and not sight, as Your Word says, "We walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Corinthians 5:7). And Abraham is called the father of the faith, "the father of all of us," of "those who share the faith of Abraham" (Romans 4:16). "Hoping against hope, he believed.... being fully convinced that God was able to do what He had promised" (Romans 4:18-21).
 
We don't call Abraham "the father of having it all figured out" or "the father who always knows best because he always knows what lies ahead" or "the father who never fails, never falters, never falls because he's so holy and perfect and pure in his own self-righteousness." No, we call him "the father of the faith" because "his faith was reckoned to him as righteousness" (Romans 4:22), because "he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God" (Romans 4:20).
 
The faith of Abraham speaks to us of Your invitation to put out all our faith in You. These are uncertain days and we've never been this way before. But by the power of Your grace at work within us, we will look to You, we will trust You, we fill follow You on our unfolding journey of faith in You, growing strong in our faith as we give glory to You -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God. As we do, we enter in to our Promised Land and receive "all the blessings of Abraham" in You (Galatians 3:14). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

My friend, may you be filled with faith to trust in God to lead us into the land and into these times He's set before us, where we've never been before, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

  


Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out ...
Preparing the Way of the Lord
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Sunday, March 29, 2020





Morning by Morning, March 29 - Reset and Realignment Prophetic Word from Lana Vawsar Ministries
Good morning, Lord Jesus. I welcome You here in my heart and every moment of my day. ...

Friends, I don't normally write and send out my daily prayer devotional on Saturdays and Sundays, but I felt strongly moved to share this prophetic word I read this morning in my "inbox" from Lana Vawsar of Lana Vawsar Ministries in Australia. Everything I read in her word is a such a stirring and confirmation to so much of what I've been hearing personally and among my different "streams" of the Body and Bride of Christ these past few months. So I share here her word in its entirety. Like all words, visions, and dreams, we must test it and weight it, to hold fast to what is true and bears witness by the Holy Spirit in alignment with the Word of God, the heart of the Father, and the character of Jesus (1 Thessalonians 5:21; 1 Corinthians 14:29):

There is So Much Grace and Help from the Lord for You in This Time of Reset and Time of Alignment -- by Lana Vawser
Lana Vawser Ministries | lanavawser.com/author/lana-vawser-ministries
As we can see right now we are in a time of reset and a time where the Lord is inviting His people to come into alignment with Him and the new wineskin and to prepare ourselves for what God is about do in the earth. In this SELAH moment that is upon us as the Church the Lord is restructuring, He is redirecting our steps, He is bringing us into alignment with Him and His ways and the new thing He is doing. The way we engage with the Lord and move into alignment is by having eyes to see, ears to hear, a tender heart and laying ourselves down in humility before Him.
This is a MAJOR shift that is taking place in the body of Christ and in the earth right now and things are not going to remain the same as we come out of this SELAH moment. The Lord out of His extravagant love is drawing us as His people back into the garden to embrace the refining fire of the Lord, the shaking of God and to move with Him into new things that we have never seen before. It is such a beautiful invitation to lay ourselves down and our expectations of how we 'think' it should look, let go of control and fall into the arms of our beautiful Jesus, allowing the Holy Spirit to have the reigns. Allowing the Holy Spirit to mould, craft and shape what is to be the next steps before us and the move of God in and through our lives in the way that He desires it to be. 
For many, many, many months the Lord has been speaking to me about the unexpected. This is the era of the unexpected and the way He moves is going to be extraordinary and like we have not seen before. He is going to lead His people into unexpected places and positioning that are more glorious than we realise but if we are holding onto what we think it has to look like, then we could miss some of the most glorious moves of His Spirit and divine upgrades that He has for us.
The Lord showed me in a dream last night very clearly an encouragement that He wanted me to release to you. There is a new rhythm God is inviting His people into. It's a place and a time to really get aligned and He is raising the bar, He is moving the Church into a new level of normal. He is calling His people to walk in holiness and be consecrated. This is a time where the Lord is deeply cleansing and the world is being taken OUT of the Church (Romans 12:1-2) by His fire and His beautiful conviction that comes from His burning love for His people. It's time for the Bride to make herself ready and there is an urgency of the hour to do that. (Revelation ) It's really a time to hear what the Spirit is saying and move on HIS direction and HIS voice and not the voice of others or the world that come from fear or the wisdom of man that is opposite to what God is saying. (Isaiah 55:11)
In my dream last night, the Lord showed me GRACE. He showed me GRACE, COMFORT and HELP. The Lord wants YOU to know today that yes in this MAJOR reset taking place, this MAJOR shift, this MAJOR time of being called to be in right alignment with the Lord, that He has not left you alone to "work it out" and "hopefully you get it right". He isn't standing on the sideline watching you with His arms crossed, impatient and angry and waiting for you to get it right and "FIGURE OUT" how to get everything right. 
God showed me in my dream last night that He is RIGHT beside you. He is WITH you, He is helping you, He is bringing you the GRACE that you need to accept the invitations that He is placing before you. He is highlighting the urgency of the hour to be prepared, but He is also holding your face in His hands, His eyes upon you and He is saying "I'm here with you and I am going to help you do all I am asking you to do. I am going to give you the grace to accomplish all that I ask you to do. I am going to give you the empowerment and grace to align. Just be willing. Just say YES. Say YES and I will do the rest."
"Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need." (Hebrews 4:16 NKJV)
"So now we come freely and boldly to where love is enthroned, to receive mercy's kiss and discover the grace we urgently need to strengthen us in our time of weakness." (Hebrews 4:16 TPT)
Beloved, the Lord is with you. The Lord wants you to have peace and He wants you to know that you don't have to 'work this out all'. He is inviting you beside still waters. (Psalm 23) He is wanting to lavish His grace and empowerment upon you to walk in complete obedience to Him.
The Lord wants you to know as you still yourself before Him, as you quiet yourself before Him and go before Him in a place of humility asking Him to speak and have His way, He is going to make things clear to you in how to prepare yourself in this time for what He is going to do on the earth. Don't be overwhelmed or anxious or striving to 'work things out', rest before Him, rest in His presence and allow Him to speak. Love and embrace His conviction. Allow the purifying, refining fire of God to envelop you, knowing the Lord does not condemn you, He loves you and He is drawing you deeper into the place of communion with Him and first love. This is your greatest hour of fortification in Him. This is your greatest hour of seeing Jesus as your Rock (Psalm 18:2) and your Shepherd. (Psalm 23)
This is a time of rapid and very, very deep deliverance and those who yield are shifting into the greatest positioning of their destiny in the Lord receiving significant promotion.
You are not alone. 
Lift up your eyes, for where does your help come from? The Maker of Heaven and Earth. (Psalm 121)
He's with you. He loves you and you have ALL you need as you surrender afresh, in His grace to move into all He has for you. 
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." (Philippians 4:13 - NKJV)
As everything changes, rest, relax and go with His flow in this moment of MAJOR birthing and repositioning for the new wine that's flowing. He's helping you and leading you every step. Just say YES!

-- Lana Vawsar


Yes, Lord! Let it be so! In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

Tommy, may you be encouraged and strenthendjed, filled with hope and faith, excited and expectant to see what God will do through all we are going through in these challenging but exciting days, when we we created and chose to be alive in Christ for such a time as this, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend! 



 



Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out ...
Preparing the Way of the Lord
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Friday, March 27, 2020

Morning by Morning, March 27 - God's Wisdom and Strategies through our "Famines"
 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. I welcome You here in my heart and every moment of my day. ...
 
"Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe. The land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine. Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, in exchange for the grain that they bought" (Genesis 47:13-14).
 
Father God, during the great famine of the land that stretched across the Middle East in the days of Joseph, You gave Joseph a voice of authority and the wisdom to use it. You "gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house" (Acts 7:9-10). All through the days of hardship that came upon all that part of the world, You kept giving Joseph wisdom and strategies to provide for the people who came to him to listen to him, to trust him, and to follow him in his leadership (Genesis 47:15-26).
 
Though it was costly to them all, the people survived. And among all the people of that part of the world, going through all the struggling and suffering of the famine, there was a people who not only survived, but also thrived. They were the family of Joseph -- the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. By the decree of Pharaoh, executed through Joseph as his governor, Jacob and his family were given "the best part of the land ... the land of Goshen" (Genesis 47:1-6).
 
In Goshen, they survived and they thrived. "Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen; and they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly" (Genesis 47:27-28).
 
Lord Jesus, You are our Joseph. You are our Salvation. You are our Wisdom. You are our Land of Goshen. We turn to You, to listen to You, to trust You, and to follow You. We ask for Your wisdom, for Your strategies, and above all, for Your favor. "For You bless the righteous, O Lord; You cover them with favor as with a shield" (Psalm 5:12). Your voice of wisdom says, "Whoever finds Me, finds life and receives favor from the Lord" (Proverbs 8:35).
 
Father, we ask this for those You've strategically positioned in places of leadership and authority for such a time as this -- places of authority on the earth and places of authority in the heavens. As You said in Your Word, "If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you. But ask in faith..." (James 1:5-8).
 
Holy Spirit of the Living God, fill us with faith, lead us with wisdom, empower us with courage. By the power of Your grace at work within us, You will guide us through this. You will give us Your divine strategies and godly wisdom. In You, we will survive and even thrive. And all the world will know there is a God who sees, who cares, and who leads in wisdom and love through all our famines and all we face. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may you be filled with faith, led forth in wisdom, and empowered with courage, as You trust in the Lord and pray for all who in strategic positions of authority on the earth and in the heavens, in Jesus' name. May you survive and thrive, and take your place of authority as a child of God and disciple of Jesus, anointed, favored, and empowered by His Holy Spirit. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend! 
 

 

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out ...
Preparing the Way of the Lord
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Thursday, March 26, 2020

Morning by Morning, March 26 - "Hope is a Beautiful Gift and a Mighty Weapon"
 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. As I turn my eyes to You, help me begin my day deeply knowing I'm embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with the Holy Spirit. ...
 
Listening for Your leading this morning, I hear in my heart: "Hope is a beautiful gift and a mighty weapon. Put your hope in Me and I will fill you with My hope." ...
 
Yes, Lord. You bring to mind Your written Word to confirm Your spoken word: "May the God of hope fill you will all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit" (Romans 15:13).
 
Hope is gift from You -- just like joy and peace. And You fill us with hope as You fill us with "the power of the Holy Spirit." It's not just a little trickle of hope, not just a little hope to get us through another day, not just enough hope to get us over to the other side. It's a hope that empowers us to thrive and not merely survive, to "abound in hope" and not merely stick around in wishful thinking that it might turn out okay after all.
 
Hope comes by believing in You, by trusting in You. Then, it's a beautiful gift we receive and a mighty weapon we wield.
 
I've known what it is to feel hopeful and to feel hopeless, to feel encouraged and to feel discouraged, to feel faithful and to feel faithless. But Your Word is greater than my feelings and Your Truth can overcome any doubts I'm feeling at the moment. 
 
So as best as I can and all by the power of Your grace, I choose this day to put my hope in You. I choose this day to open wide my human spirit to filled afresh with Your Holy Spirit (Ephesians 5:18), to be "endued with power from on high" (Luke 2:49). And I choose this day to thank You and praise You that You are "the God of hope" who is filling me now "with all joy and peace" as I am believing and trusting in You. You are my "Living Hope" -- living in me and filling me with Your hope today (1 Peter 1:3). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may you be filled with hope and joy and peace today by the power of the Holy Spirit, enduing you with power to hope from on high, in Jesus' name. May you embrace this beautiful gift from God and wield this mighty weapon against the darkness and doubt, the fear and confusion, the hopelessness and despair in the world around you. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

 


Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out ...
Preparing the Way of the Lord
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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