Thursday, May 29, 2025

Morning by Morning, May 29, 2025 - “Fan into Flame!”

 

Morning by Morning, May 29, 2025 - “Fan into Flame!”


Good morning, Lord Jesus. This day and every day, I seek to begin my day embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with the Holy Spirit. ...


“For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands” (2 Timothy 1:6).


Holy Spirit, You are the Gift of God which is within me. You are the Source of any gifts of the Spirit and fruit of the Spirit that abide within me.


May Your gifts be fanned into flame, stirred up, rekindled afresh to burn with the Light of Your glory for the glory of Your name. Set me ablaze with Your Fire. Awaken me. Revive me. Anoint me and empower me to be one of Your burning ones, burning with a passion for You and Your kingdom that will never burn out.


“For our God is a Consuming Fire!” (Hebrews 12:29). Consume me, O God! Consume me with a passion for all that consumes You. Burn out of me all that’s not like You. And burn like a Fire all that needs to be consumed around me—in my heart, my family, my city, my nation, my world.


As in the days of Isaiah, take a coal from Your heavenly altar and touch my lips and words, my heart and life, to fan my faith into flame with the refreshed and rekindled determination, “Here I am, Lord. Send me!” (Isaiah 6:8) In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen



Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays


My friend, may you be fanned into flame by the Holy Spirit of the Living God who is a Consuming Fire in your life, setting ablaze your heart and the world around you in Revival Fire, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!


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Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

502 North Milam Street

Fredericksburg, Texas 78624


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Messiah Ministries Christian School in Tara Garth, Pakistan with children from the Brick Kilns and village


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Messiah Ministries Discipleship Training School in Pattoki, Pakistan


May 31

Preaching at "The Hill Country for Jesus Revival" at The Empty Cross of The Coming King Prayer Garden in Kerrville, Texas. Worship, Testimonies and Teaching from 11-5pm, led by Minister Ruth Sebring. Information at: ruth1sebring@yahoo.com


June 2

Speaking with the Mason, Texas Intercessory Prayer Group on the Day of Pentecost


June 9 - Rescheduled for Sunday July 6

Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas


June 21-29

Teaching on Spiritual Warfare at Selah Men's Ministry Retreat in Cloudcroft, New Mexico


July 4

Leading Prayer at the Patriotic Prayer Gathering at the 4th of July Parade at the County Courthouse Gazebo hosted by the Fredericksburg Tea Party 9am. All are welcome!


July 6

Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas


July 9

Speaking at San Antonio Day Aglow Lighthouse Meeting 10am. All are welcome!


July 11-13

Preaching at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries Regional Meeting at Grafton Methodist Church, St. Paris, Ohio


July 23-August 4

Returning to Preach Crusades and minister in Kenol, Kenya and Nyrie, Kenya with Pastor Jeff Bealmear and Team


August 18-26

Preaching Crusades and Ministry in return ministry to Cartagena, Colombia


Wednesday Mornings

Leading Online Restoration Ministry Sessions for Online Connect Groups of MorningStar Ministries from around the world by appointment.



Personal Ministry Appointments

Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment in Person and Online through Zoom.

tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org

 Sessions are without set cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries.

https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute

Free On-line Video Series: Setting Hearts Free! 

My Core Teaching and Ministry

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Morning by Morning, May 28, 2025 - From Passover to Pentecost with Anticipation and Expectation

 

Morning by Morning, May 28, 2025 - From Passover to Pentecost with Anticipation and Expectation


Good morning, Lord Jesus. Be high and lifted up, here in my heart and every moment of my day (John 12:32). ...


In the rhythms of the Biblical Calendar we’re between the Day of Passover and the Day of Pentecost. We’re between the day You offered up Your life as our Sacrifice on the Cross as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world and the day You poured out Your Holy Spirit with Your power and love upon the people of God, that we might be Your hands and Your feet as the Body of Christ, filled with the Spirit of Christ, in our world.


During those days of anticipation and expectation, between that Passover and that Pentecost, Your first disciple waited together in an “upper room” in Jerusalem (Acts 1:13). “All these were constantly devoting themselves to prayer” (v. 14).


In that upper room, those first disciples were longing for a deeper experience of God. They were hungering and thirsting for more. And You were the One who had fanned the flame of their spiritual hunger and thirst. You were the One who had told them not to leave that place until their power encounter with Your Holy Spirit:


“While staying with them, (Jesus) ordered them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait there for the promise of the Father. ‘This,’ He said, ‘is what you have heard from Me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now’” (Acts 1:4-5).


Then You told them the purpose of their waiting, and the power to come of their spiritual pursuing:


“You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8).


Each one of those disciples knew You. Each had a deep and personal relationship with You as Lord and Savior. Each knew of and believed that You were crucified, dead, buried, and raised from the dead. Yet, there was more. You had more for each one of them. More was necessary for each one of them to be Your witnesses in their world to the ends of the earth. They needed “the Promise of the Father” (v. 4). They needed to “be baptized with the Holy Spirit” (v. 5).


As we approach this coming day of Pentecost “not many days from now” (on June 8th this year), I sense You drawing me into the “upper room” of prayer, of spiritual anticipation and expectation, of deeper spiritual hunger and thirst for more—more of You, more of Your Spirit, more of the expressions and manifestations of Your power and love, of the Person and Presence of Your Holy Spirit.


Prepare my heart to be “baptized with the Holy Spirit”—to be saturated, immersed, soaked, filled up and overflowing, again and again with the Holy Spirit of the Living God. Not just on that day, but on every day. Not just on the day we remember and celebrate what happened long ago with Your first disciples, but in every moment of every day, that we can embrace what You desire for every one of Your disciples every day, everywhere, throughout all our hearts and throughout all our world, to the ends of the earth. It’s one of the ways Your Word will be fulfilled in these last days:


“The earth will be filled

    with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,

    as the waters cover the sea!” (Habakkuk 2:14)


“Arise, shine;

For your Light has come!

And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.

For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,

And deep darkness the people;

But the Lord will arise over you,

And His glory will be seen upon you!” (Isaiah 60:1-2)


“This Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations, and then the end will come!” (Matthew 24:14)



In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.



Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays


My friend, may you be stirred with anticipation and expectation to be baptized with the Holy Spirit, filled up and overflowing again and again, to be disciple and witness of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit everywhere you are and everywhere He sends you, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!


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Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

502 North Milam Street

Fredericksburg, Texas 78624


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Every Tuesday Night


Friends, last night we finished my 9 Month Course with a Time of Impartation, Anointing, and Blessing! Come join us for the Next Course starting in September either in person or through Zoom link.


Teaching my 9 Month Equipping Course Free to Be Like Jesus! at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas. 6:00PM Central Time

Zoom link available by request to my email.

Based on My Book, Free to Be Like Jesus:

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays

tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org


May 31

Preaching at "The Hill Country for Jesus Revival" at The Empty Cross of The Coming King Prayer Garden in Kerrville, Texas. Worship, Testimonies and Teaching from 11-5pm, led by Minister Ruth Sebring. Information at: ruth1sebring@yahoo.com


June 2

Speaking with the Mason, Texas Intercessory Prayer Group on the Day of Pentecost


June 9

Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas


June 21-29

Teaching at Selah Men's Ministry Retreat in Cloudcroft, New Mexico


July 4

Leading Prayer at the Patriotic Prayer Gathering at the 4th of July Parade at the County Courthouse Gazebo hosted by the Fredericksburg Tea Party 9am. All are welcome!


July 9

Speaking at San Antonio Day Aglow Lighthouse Meeting 10am. All are welcome!


July 11-13

Preaching at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries Regional Meeting at Grafton Methodist Church, St. Paris, Ohio


July 23-August 4

Returning to Preach Crusades and minister in Kenol, Kenya and Nyrie, Kenya with Pastor Jeff Bealmear and Team


August 18-26

Preaching Crusades and Ministry in return ministry to Cartagena, Colombia


Wednesday Mornings

Leading Online Restoration Ministry Sessions for Online Connect Groups of MorningStar Ministries from around the world by appointment.

 

Personal Ministry Appointments

Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment in Person and Online through Zoom.

tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org

 Sessions are without set cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries.

https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute

Free On-line Video Series: Setting Hearts Free! 

My Core Teaching and Ministry

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Monday, May 26, 2025

Morning by Morning, May 26, 2025 - Memorial Day Prayer

 

Morning by Morning, May 26, 2025 - Memorial Day Prayer


Good morning, Lord Jesus. Be at the center of my heart and every moment of my day. ...


“Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and

awesome, and fight for your kin, your sons, your daughters, your

wives, and your home.... Rally to us wherever you hear the sound of

the trumpet. Our God will fight for us” (Nehemiah 4:14-20).


On this Memorial Day in America, I want to remember the men and

women who heard the sound of the trumpet in their hearts to stand up and stand firm to fight for our nation. I thank them and honor them and remember them for their sacrifice and for their service.


And I thank You for fighting for us and through them that we might have the blessing and privilege of security and freedom You desire for every nation. We are the land of the free and the home of the brave because You have blessed us. May we remember that and honor that and never forget that on this Memorial Day as well.


God bless America. And God bless the men and women who have

loved her and fought for her and laid down their lives for her. May she continue to turn to You with a repentant heart, humble faith, and courageous boldness to be and to do all You’ve destined for her—only by the power of Your grace, as “one nation under God.”


We remember You, as we remember these who have served You by serving our nation. And we remember that “Righteousness exalts a nation” (Proverbs 14:34). With that spirit, we continue to boldly, yet humbly declare on this day of remembrance the Official Motto of our Nation: In “God we trust.” In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.



Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays


My friend, may you be encouraged and inspired as we remember and honor those who have honored our Lord through the service and sacrifice of thier lives for our nation, one nation under God, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!


Click Here to Listen to Today's Prayer:

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Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

502 North Milam Street

Fredericksburg, Texas 78624


Please share this word to encourage a friend!

Anyone can sign up for free at:

https://messiah-ministries.org


My Books on Inner Healing, Spiritual Freedom and Spiritual Intimacy with God are Available on Amazon: 

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays


“Setting hearts free to be all they were created to be

—Free to Be Like Jesus—

secure in their identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling their destiny"

Please Keep us in Prayer for These

Messiah Ministries Events

Every Tuesday Night

Teaching my 9 Month Equipping Course Free to Be Like Jesus! at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas. 6:00PM Central Time

Zoom link available by request to my email.

Based on My Book, Free to Be Like Jesus:

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays

tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org


May 21-25 - Thank You for all your prayers for us, as we embraced a freeing, healing, cleansing, empowering move of the Holy Spirit here in Illinois this weekend.

Preaching and Ministry at Olney, Illinois First Methodist Church with my great friend Pastor Jeff Bealmear


May 31

Preaching at "The Hill Country for Jesus Revival" at The Empty Cross of The Coming King Prayer Garden in Kerrville, Texas. Worship, Testimonies and Teaching from 11-5pm, led by Minister Ruth Sebring. Information at: ruth1sebring@yahoo.com


June 2

Speaking with the Mason, Texas Intercessory Prayer Group on the Day of Pentecost


June 9

Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas


June 16-29

Teaching at Selah Men's Ministry Retreat in Cloudcroft, New Mexico


July 4

Leading Prayer at the Patriotic Prayer Gathering at the 4th of July Parade at the County Courthouse Gazebo hosted by the Fredericksburg Tea Party 9am. All are welcome!


July 9

Speaking at San Antonio Day Aglow Lighthouse Meeting 10am. All are welcome!


July 11-13

Preaching at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries Regional Meeting at Grafton Methodist Church, St. Paris, Ohio


July 23-August 4

Returning to Preach Crusades and minister in Kenol, Kenya and Nyrie, Kenya with Pastor Jeff Bealmear and Team


August 18-26

Preaching Crusades and Ministry in return ministry to Cartagena, Colombia


Wednesday Mornings

Leading Online Restoration Ministry Sessions for Online Connect Groups of MorningStar Ministries from around the world by appointment.

 

Personal Ministry Appointments

Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment in Person and Online through Zoom.

tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org

 Sessions are without set cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries.

https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute

Free On-line Video Series: Setting Hearts Free! 

My Core Teaching and Ministry

https://messiah-ministries.org/resources

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays

Friday, May 23, 2025

Morning by Morning, May 23, 2025 - The Hope that Does Not Disappoint

 

Morning by Morning, May 23, 2025 - The Hope that Does Not Disappoint


Good morning, Lord Jesus. First things first, as I look to You and listen for Your leading here in these first moments of my morning. ...


“Hope deferred makes the heart sick,

    but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life” (Proverbs 13:12).


When our hopes are deferred, our hearts grow sick. Delays produce doubts.

Uncertainties make for insecurities.


These are challenges we face on our daily journey through this broken and fallen world. But they’re also opportunities to shift our perspective and our priorities from the emphasis upon what is temporary to what is eternal, from what is seen to what is unseen.


An old hymn comes to mind right now:


My hope is built on nothing less

Than Jesus' blood and righteousness

I dare not trust the sweetest frame

But wholly lean on Jesus' name

 

On Christ the solid rock I stand

All other ground is sinking sand

All other ground is sinking sand

 

When You are my Hope, my hope is not deferred. When You are my Desire, my desire is fulfilled. When You are my Rock, I stand secure.


My Tree of Life is rooted in the One who hung upon the Tree of the Cross that I could live every day in relationship with my God who always loves me, who’s always for me, who’s always with me through every disappointment, through every doubt, through every delay.


With my eyes on You, seeing with Your perspective, Your Spirit is at work within me, within any places in my heart that have grown weary or sick from the hopes deferred or delayed, to even use those frustrations to develop Your character in me:


“Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through Him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us” (Romans 5:1-5).


Only You can do that. And You can only do that as I keep lifting up my heart to trust in You, to hope in You, to rest in You and Your work in me by Your Spirit You’ve given me. That’s how hope does not disappoint me, because my hope is not in any circumstances, whether fulfilled or not, my hope is in You. My trust is in You. In Your goodness, in Your love, in Your work to develop Your character in me all along the way. My hope is built on nothing less. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.



Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays


My friend, may you be strengthened and encouraged with your hope secure in the One who is your Hope who does not disappoint because of His contact Presence and indwelling Spirit with you through whatever you endure and however long it takes, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!


Click Here to Listen to Today's Prayer:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2375760


Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

502 North Milam Street

Fredericksburg, Texas 78624


Please share this word to encourage a friend!

Anyone can sign up for free at:

https://messiah-ministries.org


My Books on Inner Healing, Spiritual Freedom and Spiritual Intimacy with God are Available on Amazon: 

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays


“Setting hearts free to be all they were created to be

—Free to Be Like Jesus—

secure in their identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling their destiny"

Please Keep us in Prayer for These

Messiah Ministries Events

Every Tuesday Night

Teaching my 9 Month Equipping Course Free to Be Like Jesus! at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas. 6:00PM Central Time

Zoom link available by request to my email.

Based on My Book, Free to Be Like Jesus:

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays

tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org


May 21-25

Preaching and Ministry at Olney, Illinois First Methodist Church with my great friend Pastor Jeff Bealmear


May 31

Preaching at "The Hill Country for Jesus Revival" at The Empty Cross of The Coming King Prayer Garden in Kerrville, Texas. Worship, Testimonies and Teaching from 11-5pm, led by Minister Ruth Sebring. Information at: ruth1sebring@yahoo.com


June 2

Speaking with the Mason, Texas Intercessory Prayer Group on the Day of Pentecost


June 9

Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas


June 16-29

Teaching at Selah Men's Ministry Retreat in Cloudcroft, New Mexico


July 4

Leading Prayer at the Patriotic Prayer Gathering at the 4th of July Parade at the County Courthouse Gazebo hosted by the Fredericksburg Tea Party 9am. All are welcome!


July 9

Speaking at San Antonio Day Aglow Lighthouse Meeting 10am. All are welcome!


July 11-13

Preaching at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries Regional Meeting at Grafton Methodist Church, St. Paris, Ohio


July 23-August 4

Returning to Preach Crusades and minister in Kenol, Kenya and Nyrie, Kenya with Pastor Jeff Bealmear and Team


August 18-26

Preaching Crusades and Ministry in return ministry to Cartagena, Colombia


Wednesday Mornings

Leading Online Restoration Ministry Sessions for Online Connect Groups of MorningStar Ministries from around the world by appointment.

 

Personal Ministry Appointments

Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment in Person and Online through Zoom.

tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org

 Sessions are without set cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries.

https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute

Free On-line Video Series: Setting Hearts Free! 

My Core Teaching and Ministry

https://messiah-ministries.org/resources

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays