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Join me in my daily journey of prayer. I write these each morning send them out fresh "Morning by Morning" to start each day embraced by the Father, centered in Christ, and filled with the Holy Spirit. Subscribe to receive these prayers by email at Messiah-Ministries.org
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Morning by Morning, November 12 - "Without Blemish in the Presence of God"
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Draw me close to You and never let me go -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. ...
"Now to Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand without blemish in the presence of His glory with rejoicing, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen" (Jude 24-25).
You are work within me, causing me to will what is right and to do what is right. You put Your thoughts in my mind and Your desires in my heart. You speak to my spirit and direct my steps. You keep me from falling and remind me of my calling. You take me by the hand and cause me to stand without blemish in the presence of Your glory, all by the grace of Your mercy and the power of Your Spirit.
How can I keep from rejoicing? How can I keep from shouting Your name? You forgive my sins and cleanse my soul. You fill me with joy and make me whole. You bless me with favor and lavish me with love. You call me Your son and let me know it's true. I love You, Lord. And I thank You for all Your goodness in my life. To You be all glory, majesty, power, and authority, now and forever. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My Friend, I pray you would be continually cleansed by the blood of Jesus, standing without falling in the presence of God, knowing your identity and fulfilling your destiny. Please pray the same the same for me. God bless you, my friend!
Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257
Monday, November 11, 2013
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Friday, November 08, 2013
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Thursday, November 07, 2013
Morning by Morning, November 7 - One Touch of Jesus' Hand
Good morning, Lord Jesus. You are so good to me and I worship You -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit -- with all my heart, mind, soul, and strength as I begin my day deliberately with You. ...
"Then one of the leaders of the synagogue name Jairus came and, when he saw (Jesus), fell at His feet and begged Him repeatedly, 'My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay Your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live.' So He went with him.... He took her by the hand and said to her, 'Talitha cum,' which means, 'Little girl, get up!' And immediately the girl got up and began to walk about" (Mark 5:22-42).
With one touch of Your hand, the dead come to life, hearts are made whole, spiritual chains are broken off, and emotional and physical wounds are healed. And now Your holy hand, eternally scarred by the nail of our sin, reaches out to touch our hearts and heal our lives. You're still bringing the dead to life in our spirits, souls, and bodies (1 Thessalonians 5:23).
Thank You, Jesus, for every way and every time You've stretched out Your nail-scarred hand to me to touch my life, to make me whole and set me free. Thank You for every time You've awakened new life in me so that I could live for You. You are my Life (John 14:6). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My Friend, may Jesus stretch out His hand to touch your life, to make you whole and set you free, with the fullness of His life today. Please pray the same the same for me. God bless you, my friend!
We had an awesome night at our monthly Healing Service last night. Max Lucado spoke on bringing down strongholds for spiritual freedom and I spoke of pressing in to Jesus for healing of spirit, soul, and body. Thank you for all your prayers and encouragement that make this kind of ministry possible!
Tonight we'll continue with our 6 week Rapha God Ministries' Level 2 School of Ministry for Sozo Inner Healing Prayer Ministry. Please keep us in prayer as we help equip the saints for the work of ministry. God bless you and your ministry!
Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Max Lucado & Tommy Hays - Healing Service Tonight 11/6 at 7PM CST Live-Stream from San Antonio
Friends,
Please join us if you can or join us by prayer or by Live-Stream if you can't tonight for our Healing Prayer Service at 7PM CST at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas
I'm excited to be preaching again with Max Lucado at the Crownridge Campus of Oak Hills Church on I-10 in San Antonio. OurRapha God Ministries Prayer Team will be joining the Oak Hills Prayer Team and Elders to pray personally for everyone at the altar. We'll also have Spanish-speaking prayer teams.
May the name of Jesus be high and lifted up as we encounter the healing love of God in spirit, soul, and body. May you also experience the Lord's power and Presence in your church and community. Thank you for your prayers!
God bless you, my friend!
Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Bldg 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257
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Tuesday, November 05, 2013
Morning by Morning, November 5 - "Exact Imprint"
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Rule and reign as Lord and King in my life today. ...
"Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, but in these last days He has spoken to us by the Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom He also created the worlds. He is the reflection of God's glory and the exact imprint of God's very being, and He sustains all things by His powerful word" (Hebrews 1:1-3).
Lord Jesus, You are the "exact imprint" of our Father's being. You perfectly reveal the Father's heart and perfectly express the Father's love. You and the Father are One (John 10:30).
And now, by the grace of God and the mystery of faith, we are one with You as the Body and Bride of Christ, filled with the Spirit of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:27). You've even imparted Your glory to arise and shine upon us as an expression of Your heart and life flowing through us to the world around us, saying to the Father, "The glory that You have given Me I have given them, so that they may be one, as We are One" (John 17:22).
By the power of the grace of God, we are now to be Your "exact imprint" in this world. "Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of judgment, because as He is, so are we in this world" (1 John 4:17). Fully surrendered to Your will and fully committed to Your ways, by the Spirit of God abiding in us, You have created us and invited us to "become participants of the divine nature" (2 Peter 1:4).
Father God, You are at work within us, individually and together as the Body of Christ, conforming us into the image, truly the "exact imprint," of the Son of God (Romans 8:29). We can't earn it or deserve it; we can't control it or make it happen, but by the power of the grace of God we can embrace it as our identity and destiny in Christ. "For mortals it is impossible, but for God all things are possible" (Matthew 19:26). Lord, let it be so in me and in us. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My Friend, may you be filled with the Spirit of Christ and conformed into the image of Christ as part of the Body of Christ to be an exact imprint of the heart of the Father on this earth. Please pray the same the same for me. God bless you, my friend!
Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257
Monday, November 04, 2013
Morning by Morning, November 1 - “Treasure in Clay Jars”
Morning by Morning, November 1 -
“Treasure in Clay Jars”
Good
morning, Lord Jesus. Help me listen for Your voice and follow the leading of
Your Spirit. ...
“But we
have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this
extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us” (2 Corinthians
4:7).
Lord,
take the clay of my heart and shape it as You will today. Fill me with the
Treasure of Your Spirit in communion with my spirit. Scoop up the dust of the
earth that You’ve created to become my body and breathe Your breath of life
into me, that I may be a living soul, fully-surrendered and fully alive to You
today. May “the life of Jesus be made visible in (my) body” as You express Your
life through me today (v. 4:10). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
Morning by Morning, November 4 - "Believe in the Son of God"
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Here I am, Lord -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Speak to my heart and lead me by my spirit into the way and truth and life You have for me today. ...
"Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony in their hearts. Those who do not believe God have made Him a liar by not believing in the testimony that God has given concerning His Son. And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life" (1 John 5:10-12).
Dear Lord Jesus, I believe in the Son of God. I believe You are the Son of God, God the Son -- the One who perfectly reveals the heart and nature of God the Father and lives in my heart to make me more like You every day through God the Holy Spirit (Hebrews 1:3). I believe You are and the Father are One, that You are in Him, that He is in You, that You are in me, and I am in You by the constant communion of the Holy Spirit of God forever abiding in me (John 14:20).
So come live Your life through me today. May the life I live be lived by the faith of the Son of God living in me (Galatians 2:20). In the power of Your grace and love, You forgive me from my sins, heal me from my wounds, free me from my chains, and fill me with Your Spirit. Let this be my testimony of my heart and the declaration of my life, this day and every day. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My Friend, may the Son of God live His life through you today. Please pray the same the same for me. God bless you, my friend!
Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257
Friday, November 01, 2013
Morning by Morning, October 31 - Spirit of Light and Life
Good morning, Lord Jesus. On this day many celebrate the darkness and the dead, I want to start my day celebrating the Light and the Living One. Instead of filling my thoughts with ghosts and goblins, witches and skeletons, I want You to fill my mind and my heart with Your Holy Spirit and power until my bones rattle in the mighty rushing wind of Your Presence. ...
"If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through His Spirit that dwells in you" (Romans 8:11).
Come, Holy Spirit! Cleanse my soul, awaken my spirit, fill my body, sweep through my city with the light of the glory of God. "For it is the God who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,' who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ" (2 Corinthians 4:6). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My Friend, I pray you would know what a treasure of God you are, as Jesus lives His life through you today. Please pray the same the same for me. God bless you, my friend!
Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Morning by Morning, October 31 - Spirit of Light and Life
Good morning, Lord Jesus. On this day many celebrate the darkness and the dead, I want to start my day celebrating the Light and the Living One. Instead of filling my thoughts with ghosts and goblins, witches and skeletons, I want You to fill my mind and my heart with Your Holy Spirit and power until my bones rattle in the mighty rushing wind of Your Presence. ...
"If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through His Spirit that dwells in you" (Romans 8:11).
Come, Holy Spirit! Cleanse my soul, awaken my spirit, fill my body, sweep through my city with the light of the glory of God. "For it is the God who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,' who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ" (2 Corinthians 4:6). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My Friend, may you and your city be filled with the Spirit of Light and Life. Please pray the same the same for me. God bless you, my friend!
I had a great time speaking on prayer and transformation last night at The Park Community Church in San Antonio. Tonight we'll be teaching our Level 2 School of Ministry for Sozo Inner Healing Prayer Ministry at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. It was wonderful to speak on stewardship of spirit, soul, and body at the FUMC in La Grange last weekend. Thank you for keeping me and our ministry in prayer as we help equip the saints for the work of ministry and allow the Holy Spirit to continue His transformation process in our lives and city. I pray the same for you, my friends!
Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Morning by Morning, October 29 - Together "Face to Face"
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Continually come into my heart; continually flow out of my heart. Help me abide in You always, as You abide in me. ...
"Although I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink; instead I hope to come to you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete" (2 John 12).
You've created us for relationships that are close, personal, and intimate at varying levels that are appropriate to the levels of relationship and trust You've established in our lives. And while we can communicate through electronic technology and sometimes even paper and ink, there's something significant in speaking face to face, looking one another in the eyes, extending a touch, and exchanging an embrace. Your Spirit draws us out of isolation and loneliness into friendship and fellowship with one another, "not neglecting to meet together ... but encouraging one another" (Hebrews 10:22). And then "our joy may be complete."
Lord, free us from isolation and loneliness in Your Body. Align our hearts and relationships with You and with one another according to Your sovereign purposes and plans for our lives. "Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help" (Ecclesiastes 4:9-10).
You're always with us to help; and at the same, You also position the ones You have chosen to walk with us in the relationships of our journey to be an extension of Your hands to help us and an expression of Your face to look into our eyes and encourage us. And then, together, "our joy may be complete."
You're a God of personal relationship -- relationship with You and with one another. Establish Your relationships in our lives. Give us courage and faith to trust You to know what's best for each one of us. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My Friend, I pray the Lord will establish His personal relationships in your life to fulfill all His plans and purposes for you so that your joy may be complete. Please pray the same the same for me. God bless you, my friend!
Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257
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