Morning by Morning, February 17 - Restore Our Power!
Good morning, Lord Jesus. I declare Your name above every name and all that I face on my journey of faith in You today. ...
Just a moment ago the lights came back on in our home. We went to bed by candlelight last night. Apparently much of America has lost its power and needs to be restored.
What a word picture of what many are feeling and experiencing in these days. Many struggle with feeling distant and disconnected from the Source of our Power. As You said long ago:
"I am the Vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in Me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from Me you can do nothing" (John 15:5).
We need You, Lord Jesus. ...
Take all our turmoil, all our questions, all our divisions and accusations and strife, all our fears and failures, all our worries and anxieties about our health, our safety, our economy, and our freedoms and remind us how much we need You, how much apart from You we can do nothing.
Your Word warns us of the challenges we'll face and are already facing in the latter days:
"You must understand this, that in the last days distressing times will come. For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power" (2 Timothy 3:1-5).
Set us free from both ungodliness and false godliness. One has no power and the other denies its power. You are our Power. You're our Higher Power and You're our Only Power. For apart from You we can do nothing.
The mighty wind turbines may be frozen over, but there is a rushing, mighty Wind of Your Holy Spirit that never freezes and never fails! As we abide in You and You abide in us by Your Holy Spirit, "(we) are not in the flesh; (we) are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in (us). Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him. But if Christ is in (us), though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in (us), He who raised Christ from the dead will give life to (our) mortal bodies also through His Spirit who dwells in (us)" (Romans 8:9-11).
Come, Holy Spirit! Come lift our eyes to Jesus, come fill our hearts with Jesus! Come fill us afresh with "the Spirit of Christ" as we turn to Him and abide in Him, for apart from Him we can do nothing!
Come, restore our Power! Come, turn on the Lights because Somebody's home and His name is Jesus! In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My friend, may you be filled afresh with the Holy Spirit -- the Spirit of Christ in you, the hope of glory -- that your power may be restored by the Power of the One who abides in you as you abide in Him, in Jesus name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!
Friends, please keep us in prayer for the upcoming Messiah Ministries Events:
Central Texas Area Aglow Spring Conference May 14-16.
I'm excited to be invited to be the Keynote Speaker at the Annual Gathering for the Central Texas Area Aglow in Kerrville Texas this coming May, in conjunction with Terry MacAlmon leading in worship at The Empty Cross in Kerrville.
Pakistan Evangelism Ministry this Saturday!
Our next monthly evangelistic outreach is set for Saturday February 20th through our Skype Internet Ministry. Our team sets up a projector screen in an outdoor meeting in a different village every month, where I preach through Skype with an interpreter to invite the people to come experience the love and power of God through Jesus Christ. Please keep us in prayer for another outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Pakistan!
Save the Dates!
March 19th-20th Speaking at Voice of Joy Ministries' annual Gathering hosted at Cornerstone Church, Danville, Kentucky. Contact Pastor Amy Barkman: amyb_love@att.net
March 21st Preaching Sunday morning at All Nations UMC Church, Nicholasville, Kentucky.
Contact Pastor Hunn Choi: moc.nsm@iocnnuh
Teaching Weekly Healing Prayer Ministry Course Online at Coker UMC in San Antonio, Texas. Our weekly online zoom series Healing Prayers: Free to Be Like Jesus on Thursdays. I'm teaching and equipping a prayer ministry team to serve at Coker United Methodist Church in San Antonio. God is getting His people ready for the great harvest to come! I pray for your equipping and serving as well in your calling and destiny with the gifts the Lord is giving and stirring up in you! God bless you!
Teaching The Life Transformation Course
live in person every week at the Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas beginning Tuesday Night, February 23th at 6:30. Based on the principles of my book Free to Be Like Jesus!
Mailing Address for Messiah Ministries:
Tommy & Rocio Hays
Messiah Ministries
17503 La Cantera Parkway, Suite 104407
San Antonio, Texas 78257
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