Morning by Morning, October 3, 2025 – “Awake! Arise! Announce!”
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Fill me with Your Spirit as You draw me into the communion of prayer to begin my day with You — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God. ...
Throughout these past days, You’ve been speaking into my spirit these words that I’ve been sharing in every gathering where I’ve been invited to speak: “Awake! Arise! Announce!” ...
“Awake!”
To me, this speaks of the spiritual wakeup call from Ephesians:
“Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you” (Ephesians 5:14).
“Be filled with the Spirit” (Ephesians 5:18).
We are in the midst of a great awakening! You’re setting us free from our spiritual slumber, our settling for less than all You’ve created us and called us to be. You’re empowering us by Your Spirit to come out of our compromise and complacency with the culture of the times and return to Your heart and Your ways as a people set apart for Your purposes in our times:
“Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is already the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone; the day is near. Let us then throw off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light; let us walk decently as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in illicit sex and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy. Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires” (Romans 13:11-14).
“Arise!”
To me, this speaks of standing up again, rising up again, to take action under the unction of Your Spirit. Not only waking up, but also rising up. And as we’re rising up, “we must grow up” in spiritual maturity, “in every way into Him who is the head, into Christ” (Ephesians 4:15). “Until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ” (Ephesians 4:13).
Though these are dark and challenging days, You will have Your people who arise and shine in the midst of whatever is going on, whatever is destined to come, in our world as the remnant of Your people who are called by Your name through it all in the power of Your Spirit:
“Arise, shine, for your Light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For darkness shall cover the earth and thick darkness the peoples, but the Lord will arise upon you, and His glory will appear over you. Nations shall come to your Light and kings to the brightness of your Dawn” (Isaiah 60:1-2).
In the midst of the darkness, we are to arise and shine with the Dawn of Your Light shining through us! And that darkness can never overcome our Light! (John 1:5)
“Announce!”
To me, this speaks of our calling and anointing to speak up and speak out, with Your Spirit and Your Heart, as Your Word commands:
“Speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into Him who is the head, into Christ” (Ephesians 4:15).
You are “The Word Made Flesh” as You humbled Yourself from the glory of Heaven to come into our world in the likeness of human flesh and blood, to not only be our Savior but also our Example of living our lives wholly surrendered and obedient to the will of God (John 1:14; Philippians 2:5-11).
And now, You live in us. “Christ in us, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27). Now, with Your Spirit abiding in our hearts, Your Word is made flesh in us (Romans 8:9). You speak out Your words through us, You reach out Your hands through us, You activate us and anoint us by Your Spirit to shine the Light of Your Glory in our world through us, for we are Your Body by Your Spirit, ‘the Body of Christ” in our world (1 Corinthians 12:27). “Because as He is, so are we in this world” (1 John 4:17).
In our hearts, in our world, in every tribe and tongue and nation of this earth, let us now “Awake! Arise! Announce!” — all by the power of Your grace in the moving of Your Spirit in us and through us in our world! In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My friend, may you awake, arise, announce the coming of the King and the Kingdom of God by the power and anointing of the Holy Spirit of the Living God living in you, my friend! And you have a great day!
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