Morning by Morning, August 29, 2025 – Thoughts and Prayers
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Awaken my heart to begin my day embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with Your Holy Spirit. ...
“Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distress. He stilled the storm to a whisper; the waves of the sea were hushed. They were glad when it grew calm, and He guided them to their desired haven. Let them give thanks to the Lord for His unfailing love and His wonderful deeds for mankind” (Psalm 107:28).
To cry out to You in our trouble is prayer. To call upon Your name when we don’t have the words to say is prayer. To allow You to embrace us in our grief, draw near to us in our questions, comfort us in our sorrows is prayer.
The heart of prayer is not begging You to do something You don’t want to do. The heart of prayer is not using some king of spiritual manipulation to get want we want. The heart of prayer is primarily communion with God. It’s opening our heart to Your Heart, opening our mind to Your Mind, allowing You to infuse us with Your Spirit.
Prayer is agreeing with God, seeking the moving of the Spirit of God in the love and power of God, surrendering to and embracing the will of God in the Presence of God and with one another. As You said:
“Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in My name, there am I with them” (Matthew 18:19-20). “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened” (Matthew 7:6-8).
That’s what stills the storms in our hearts because You’re with us in our hearts. That what hushes the waves, because You’re with us in our hearts. Trusting in You, embracing You, allowing You to embrace us through all the tragedies and travesties we go through in this broken and fallen world is what brings us into our desired haven, because You are our Desired Haven.
Through this deeply personal communion with You where heart cries out to Heart, spirit cries out to Spirt, deep cries out to Deep, You embrace us, You comfort us, and You change us. And then in Your way and Your time, You begin to motivate us to pray and to speak and to act as You lead. Not out of our own desires, but Your Desires. Not our will, but Your Will. Not in our time, but Your Time.
So if anybody says thoughts and prayers have no meaning, thoughts and prayers are passive, thoughts and prayers make no difference, they probably don’t know anything about prayer. They probably desperately need the One who is the Object and Answer to all true prayer.
So I pray for them. That they may know You. And as they know You, they will come to learn just how meaningful and powerful is this gift of prayer and the Person who is at the heart of all true prayer.
I’m asking that You would give them revelation and understanding of who You are. I’m seeking a moving of Your Spirit in their heart that they would find You. I’m knocking on the doors of Heaven that the door of their heart would be open to You and find out just how much You love them and desire to use their voice and their actions to make a difference in their world, if they would humble themselves to cry out to You in prayer. And I pray the same for myself, as I seek to keep growing in our deeply personal communion of prayer. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My friend, may you never stop crying out the Lord, never stop offering up your thoughts and prayers to God, never stop reaching out to those suffering through tragedies and travesties of this world, and never back down from your God-given heart and right to pray, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!
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