Monday, November 01, 2021

The Word of God is Honey to My Soul - November 1, 2021

 

Morning by Morning, November 1 - The Word of God is Honey to My Soul

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

“The voice said to me, ‘Son of man, eat what I am giving you -- eat this scroll! Then go and give its message to the people of Israel.’ So I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll. ‘Fill your stomach with this,’ He said. And when I ate it, it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth” (Ezekiel 3:1-3).

Lord, give me a deep hunger for Your Word and a tender sensitivity for Your voice. Give me a razor-sharp discernment for what I believe I hear You saying that comes out of a solid rock foundation of what I’ve read in Your Word.

“Your Word is a lamp to my feet and light to my path” (Psalm 119:105).

So let Your Word guide my steps. Let Your Word inform my thoughts. Let Your Word be the plumbline for my standards and the foundation for my beliefs. Let Your Word be the filter for all I receive, all I perceive, and all I release.

By the power of Your grace, let this be the attitude of my heart:

“Your Word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You.
Blessed are You, O Lord!
Teach me Your statutes.
With my lips I have declared
All the judgments of Your mouth.
I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies,
As much as in all riches.
I will meditate on Your precepts,
And contemplate Your ways.
I will delight myself in Your statutes;
I will not forget Your Word” (Psalm 119:1-16).

“How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” (Psalm 119:103).

With Your Word hidden my heart, like honey to my soul, fill my thoughts with Your ways, guide my steps with Your light, so that the words I speak are grounded in Your Word and filled with Your heart. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

My friend, may you be given a deeper hunger for the Word of God, like honey to your soul, to be expressed in your words and your life by the power of God's grace, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Tommy & Rocio Hays | Messiah Ministries

Messiah Ministries Mailing Address:
412 S. Adams Street #148
Fredericksburg, Texas 78624

Please share this word to encourage a friend!
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Some of Our Upcoming Events:

Watch our 1st Episode of Healing From the Inside Out on our Messiah Ministries YouTube Channel:
More Episodes being added each week! Please share it with anyone who needs to encounter the Healing Love of God!

November 3
Pakistan Preaching through our Skype Internet Ministry
Monthly Outdoor Evangelistic Crusade in an unreached village.

November 4 (Being Rescheduled)
Prayer Warrior's Roundtable in Helotes, Texas
Informal Sharing and Discussion of Prayer Strategies and Experiences
RSVP to Cara by emailing unite@mutuallyencourage.us 

November 5
Filming for our Christian TV Episodes with TLN-West Network in California called Healing from the Inside Out 
Past episodes on our developing YouTube Channel:

November 12-14
Preaching and Equipping for Prayer Ministry
at Grafton Methodist Church Harvest Festival 
at St. Paris, Ohio.

November 14
Speaking and Ministry at an Evening of Worship and Prayer with More Than Enough Ministries in Sidney, Ohio.

January 26 to February 5, 2022
Ministry in Morelia, Mexico
Including 2 Freedom Encounter Weekends being planned

Freedom Equipping Class every week as part of the discipleshipplan at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas
Monday Afternoons (1:30 - 3:30)
Tuesday Nights (6:00 - 8:00)

All are welcome! Based on the principles of my book
Free to Be Like Jesus! — Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance

Monday Nights
Rocio and I lead an Online Connect Group for MorningStar Ministries

Wednesday Mornings
Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Inner Healing and Deliverance Ministry Sessions for the Online Connect Groups.

Personal Ministry Appointments
Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer MinistrySessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment and as the Holy Spirit leads. Please keep us in prayer for spiritual breakthrough and transformation! Let us know if you'd like to set up a session: 

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

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Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Led by the Pillar of Cloud and Fire of the Holy Spirit - October 27, 2021

 

Morning by Morning, October 27 - Led by the Pillar of Cloud and Fire of the Holy Spirit

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Here I am, Lord. Steady me in Your Word and fill me with Your Spirit, as I walk out the steps of my day with You. ...

“The Lord went in front of them in a pillar of cloud by day, to lead them along the way, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light, so that they might travel by day and by night. Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people” (Exodus 13:21-22).

That pillar of cloud and pillar of fire, that led Your people under the Old Covenant speak of the Holy Spirit of the Living God who now leads Your people under the New Covenant in Christ. “For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God” (Romans 8:14).

The Cloud of Your Glory fills my heart, as Your Holy Spirit fills my body as Your temple. “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?” (1 Corinthians 6:19). And the Fire of Your Presence consumes my heart with a burning Fire to follow You, as I seek to become more like You. “For indeed our God is a Consuming Fire” (Hebrews 12:29).

When I sense the Cloud and the Fire of Your Spirit leading me out into my day, give me Your holy sensitivity to know it’s time to go. Lead my heart and guide my steps. And when I sense the Cloud and Fire of Your Spirit holding steady, give me Your holy patience to wait on You and trust in Your timing. For from the day I welcomed Your Spirit into my heart -- “the Spirit of Christ” within me (Romans 8:9) -- my body was no longer my own and my life is no longer my own, for “(I) belong to Christ” (1 Corinthians 3:23). “It is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me” (Galatians 2:20).

So come, Holy Spirit -- Pillar of Cloud and Pillar of Fire, Spirit of the Living God and “Spirit of Christ” in me. Spirit, lead on.

“Make me know Your ways, O Lord;
Teach me Your paths.
Lead me in Your truth and teach me,
For You are the God of my salvation;
For You I wait all the day” (Psalm 25:4-5).

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 and led by the Spirit in the ways and paths of the Lord He has set before each day, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Tommy & Rocio Hays | Messiah Ministries

Messiah Ministries Mailing Address:
412 S. Adams Street #148
Fredericksburg, Texas 78624

Please share this word to encourage a friend!
Anyone can sign up for free to receive them at:
Join us and Pray for us!
Some of Our Upcoming Events:

Watch our 1st Episode of Healing From the Inside Out on our Messiah Ministries YouTube Channel:
More Episodes being added each week! Please share it with anyone who needs to encounter the Healing Love of God!

October 28-30
Monthly School of the Prophets at MorningStar Ministries, Fort Mill, South Carolina. Rocio and I are learning and receiving equipping. I'm a member of the Fellowship of Ministries of MorningStar Ministries led by Rick Joyner.

October 31
Preaching at Fireworks Church meeting at Estancia at Thunder River Clubhouse outside Boerne, Texas. All are welcome.

November 3
Pakistan Preaching through our Skype Internet Ministry
Monthly Outdoor Evangelistic Crusade in an unreached village.

November 4
Prayer Warrior's Roundtable in Helotes, Texas
Informal Sharing and Discussion of Prayer Strategies and Experiences
RSVP to Cara by emailing unite@mutuallyencourage.us 

November 5
Filming for our Christian TV series with TLN-West Network in California called Healing from the Inside Out 
Past episodes on our developing YouTube Channel:

November 12-14
Preaching and Equipping for Prayer Ministry
at Grafton Methodist Church Harvest Festival 
at St. Paris, Ohio.

November 14
Speaking and Ministry at an Evening of Worship and Prayer with More Than Enough Ministries in Sidney, Ohio.

January 21-30
Ministry in Morelia, Mexico
Including 2 Freedom Encounter Weekends being planned

Freedom Equipping Class every week as part of the discipleshipplan at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas
Monday Afternoons (1:30 - 3:30)
Tuesday Nights (6:00 - 8:00)

All are welcome! Based on the principles of my book
Free to Be Like Jesus! — Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance

Monday Nights
Rocio and I lead an Online Connect Group for MorningStar Ministries

Wednesday Mornings
Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Inner Healing and Deliverance Ministry Sessions for the Online Connect Groups.

Personal Ministry Appointments
Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer MinistrySessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment and as the Holy Spirit leads. Please keep us in prayer for spiritual breakthrough and transformation! Let us know if you'd like to set up a session: 

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

Sign up Here for this Free Video Series for Inner Healing and Spiritual Freedom in Christ:

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Praying and Responding to the Lord of the Harvest - Here I Am, Lord - October 26, 2021

 

Morning by Morning, October 26 - Praying and Responding to the Lord of the Harvest - Here I Am, Lord

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I look to You and listen for Your leading. ...

“Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every sickness. When He saw the crowds, He had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest’” (Matthew 9:35-38).

Lord Jesus, what You spoke to Your first disciples, I believe You are still speaking to Your disciples today. I believe the “harvest” You spoke of has not come and gone. It hasn’t just withered on the vine or been plowed over and left as fallow ground.

No, I believe every seed You’ve sown in Your harvest field is coming to maturity. Just as every seed the enemy of our souls has sown into that same field is coming to maturity.

In Your parable of the wheat and the weeds, both coming to maturity as they grow up from seeds to the time of harvest in the same field, You said, “the harvest is the end of the age” (Matthew 13:24-43). And as we near “the end of the age,” the harvest will come. You said “the good seed are the children of the kingdom; the weeds are the children of the evil one” (v. 37). We certainly see both in our world today -- both growing up into full maturity, whether good or evil. And the times are ripe for harvest.

So in obedience to Your Word, I pray the prayer You taught Your disciples to pray: Lord of the harvest, send out laborers into Your harvest. 

And as I pray for others to be sent, what stirs in my heart is, “Here I am, Lord. Send me.” ...

And an old song from much earlier in my life, from the early days of my deeper journey with You, comes rising up in my spirit right now:

I the Lord of sea and sky
I have heard My people cry
All who dwell in dark and sin
My hand will save

I who made the stars of night
I will make their darkness bright
Who will bear My light to them?
Whom shall I send?

Here I am Lord,
Is it I Lord?
I have heard You calling in the night
I will go Lord,
If You lead me,
I will hold Your people in my heart

I, the Lord of snow and rain
I have borne My people's pain
I have wept for love of them
They turn away
I will break their hearts of stone
Give them hearts for love alone
I will speak My words to them
Whom shall I send?

Here I am Lord,
Is it I Lord?
I have heard You calling in the night
I will go Lord,
If You lead me
I will hold Your people in my heart

I, the Lord of wind and flame
I will tend the poor and lame
I will set a feast for them
My hand will save
Finest bread I will provide
'Til their hearts be satisfied
I will give My life to them
Whom shall I send?

Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord?
I have heard You calling in the night
I will go, Lord, if You lead me
I will hold Your people in my heart
(written by Dan Schutte)

Yes, Lord. Here I am, Lord. Send me into Your harvest today. I will go, Lord, if You lead me. I will hold Your people in my heart. And I pray You will send Your other laborers of Your love into Your harvest too. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

My friend, may you be stirred up to pray and respond to the Lord of the harvest with all your heart, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Tommy & Rocio Hays | Messiah Ministries

Messiah Ministries Mailing Address:
412 S. Adams Street #148
Fredericksburg, Texas 78624

Please share this word to encourage a friend!
Anyone can sign up for free to receive them at:
Join us and Pray for us!
Some of Our Upcoming Events:

Watch our 1st Episode of Healing From the Inside Out on our Messiah Ministries YouTube Channel:
More Episodes being added each week! Please share it with anyone who needs to encounter the Healing Love of God!

October 28-30
Monthly School of the Prophets at MorningStar Ministries, Fort Mill, South Carolina. Rocio and I are learning and receiving equipping. I'm a member of the Fellowship of Ministries of MorningStar Ministries led by Rick Joyner.

October 31
Preaching at Fireworks Church meeting at Estancia at Thunder River Clubhouse outside Boerne, Texas. All are welcome.

November 3
Pakistan Preaching through our Skype Internet Ministry
Monthly Outdoor Evangelistic Crusade in an unreached village.

November 4
Prayer Warrior's Roundtable in Helotes, Texas
Informal Sharing and Discussion of Prayer Strategies and Experiences
RSVP to Cara by emailing unite@mutuallyencourage.us 

November 5
Filming for our Christian TV series with TLN-West Network in California called Healing from the Inside Out 
Past episodes on our developing YouTube Channel:

November 12-14
Preaching and Equipping for Prayer Ministry
at Grafton Methodist Church Harvest Festival 
at St. Paris, Ohio.

November 14
Speaking and Ministry at an Evening of Worship and Prayer with More Than Enough Ministries in Sidney, Ohio.

Freedom Equipping Class every week as part of the discipleshipplan at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas
Monday Afternoons (1:30 - 3:30)
Tuesday Nights (6:00 - 8:00)

All are welcome! Based on the principles of my book
Free to Be Like Jesus! — Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance

Monday Nights
Rocio and I lead an Online Connect Group for MorningStar Ministries

Wednesday Mornings
Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Inner Healing and Deliverance Ministry Sessions for the Online Connect Groups.

Personal Ministry Appointments
Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer MinistrySessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment and as the Holy Spirit leads. Please keep us in prayer for spiritual breakthrough and transformation! Let us know if you'd like to set up a session: 

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

Sign up Here for this Free Video Series for Inner Healing and Spiritual Freedom in Christ:

Monday, October 25, 2021

Each Part, Fully Expressed - October 25, 2021

 

Morning by Morning, October 25 - Each Part, Fully Expressed

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Your Word is a Lamp to my feet and Light to my path. Guide my steps today, I pray, as I seek to start my day grounded in Your Word and filled with Your Spirit. ...

I’ve been in many different gatherings recently where there was a powerful flow of Your Spirit from one person to another, with each offering their part as You wove together all the parts into a whole. It reminds me of one of the places in Your Word where every dimension of Your Holy Trinity is expressed in drawing us near to You in worship and prayer:

“Be filled with Spirit, as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts, giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Ephesians 5:18-20).

And it reminds me of Your heart to unite us together, with each sharing our part so that You can fit together all the parts in worship and prayer, when each part is fully expressed:

“What should be done then, my friends? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up. If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn; and let one interpret. But if there is no one to interpret, let them be silent in church and speak to themselves and to God. Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said. If a revelation is made to someone else sitting nearby, let the first person be silent. For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged. And the spirits of prophets are subject to the prophets, for God is a God not of disorder but of peace” (1 Corinthians 14:26-33).

“One by one” we can each share our part “so that all may learn and all be encouraged” (v. 31). When we do, by the leading of Your Holy Spirit and with guidance of Your Father heart, all is done in “peace” as we experience Your Presence and Your power in our midst (v. 32).

There’s room to “weigh what is said” with wisdom and discernment, to weed out the flesh and embrace the Spirit (v. 29). And there’s a right way with a right spirit that “all things (are) done for building up” the body of believers, when we come together in freedom and love, with no agenda but Yours (v. 26).

In humility and in honest expression of our need for one another in the bonds of love together in worship and prayer, passionately pursuing our need of You, Your Word reminds us that “we know only in part and we prophesy only in part” so that we need all the parts to be fully expressed (1 Corinthians 13:9). By the power of Your grace, set us free from reluctance and fear, feelings of insecurity or inadequacy, or anything else that would hold us back from sharing the hope that is within us all for the good of us all (1 Peter 3:15). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

My friend, may you be freed from anything that would hold you back from fully expressing your part along with all the other parts, that the Lord may build us up into all He has created us to be, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Tommy & Rocio Hays | Messiah Ministries

Messiah Ministries Mailing Address:
412 S. Adams Street #148
Fredericksburg, Texas 78624

Please share this word to encourage a friend!
Anyone can sign up for free to receive them at:
Join us and Pray for us!
Some of Our Upcoming Events:

Watch our 1st Episode of Healing From the Inside Out on our Messiah Ministries YouTube Channel:
Later Episodes being added each week! Please share it with anyone who needs to encounter the Healing Love of God!

October 28-30
Monthly School of the Prophets at MorningStar Ministries, Fort Mill, South Carolina. Rocio and I are learning and receiving equipping. I'm a member of the Fellowship of Ministries of MorningStar Ministries led by Rick Joyner.

October 31
Preaching at Fireworks Church meeting at Estancia at Thunder River Clubhouse outside Boerne, Texas. All are welcome.

November 3
Pakistan Preaching through our Skype Internet Ministry
Monthly Outdoor Evangelistic Crusade in an unreached village.

November 4
Co-Leading Prayer Warrior's Roundtable in Helotes, Texas

November 5
Filming for our Christian TV series with TLN-West Network in California called Healing from the Inside Out 
Past episodes on our developing YouTube Channel:

November 12-14
Preaching and Equipping for Prayer Ministry
at Grafton Methodist Church Harvest Festival 
at St. Paris, Ohio.

November 14
Speaking and Ministry at an Evening of Worship and Prayer with More Than Enough Ministries in Sidney, Ohio.

Freedom Equipping Class every week as part of the discipleshipplan at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas
Monday Afternoons (1:30 - 3:30)
Tuesday Nights (6:00 - 8:00)

All are welcome! Based on the principles of my book
Free to Be Like Jesus! — Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance

Monday Nights
Rocio and I lead an Online Connect Group for MorningStar Ministries

Wednesday Mornings
Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Inner Healing and Deliverance Ministry Sessions for the Online Connect Groups.

Personal Ministry Appointments
Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer MinistrySessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment and as the Holy Spirit leads. Please keep us in prayer for spiritual breakthrough and transformation! Let us know if you'd like to set up a session: 

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

Sign up Here for this Free Video Series for Inner Healing and Spiritual Freedom in Christ:

Friday, October 22, 2021

The Best Thing I Can Do for God - October 22, 2021

 

Morning by Morning, October 22 - The Best Thing I Can Do for God

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Be at the center of my heart, the beginning of my day, and every moment of my life (Matthew 28:20). ...

“Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him” (from Romans 12:1-2 The Message).

Yes, Lord. As it turns out, apart from You, I can do nothing -- nothing of any eternal value, nothing that really makes a difference in my life or the lives of others (John 15:5). And as it turns out, it really is All about You and Not about me.

Help me get hold of that. Deep down in my spirit. Give me a heart of humility that willingly chooses to be desperately dependent upon You alone. Then as I humble myself in Your sight, You can lift me up and position me in the place I’m called to be -- abiding in You and You abiding in me, so that my life will “bear much fruit” (John 15:4). Then “the harvest is sure to be abundant” (v. 4 in The Message).

But the abundant harvest will glorify You and not me, will advance Your kingdom and not mine. Then I can truly say, according to Your will revealed in Your Word, “It is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me” (Galatians 2:20).

That’s choosing “the best part” (Luke 10:42). That’s living out my journey of faith with You in the best way. And that’s the best thing I could ever do for You. 

Lord, let it be so -- all by the power of Your grace at work within me. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

My friend, may you be set free from performing for God in your power, your wisdom, your righteousness and be filled with the Spirit of Christ abiding in you to live your life in Christ and Christ living His life through you, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Tommy & Rocio Hays | Messiah Ministries

Messiah Ministries Mailing Address:
412 S. Adams Street #148
Fredericksburg, Texas 78624

Please share this word to encourage a friend!
Anyone can sign up for free to receive them at:
Join us and Pray for us!
Some of Our Upcoming Events:

Watch our 1st Episode of Healing From the Inside Out on our Messiah Ministries YouTube Channel:
Please share it with anyone who needs to encounter the Healing Love of God!

October 28-30
Monthly School of the Prophets at MorningStar Ministries, Fort Mill, South Carolina. Rocio and I are learning and receiving equipping. I'm a member of the Fellowship of Ministries of MorningStar Ministries led by Rick Joyner.

October 31
Preaching at Fireworks Church meeting at Estancia at Thunder River Clubhouse outside Boerne, Texas. All are welcome.

November 3
Pakistan Preaching through our Skype Internet Ministry
Monthly Outdoor Evangelistic Crusade in an unreached village.

November 4
Co-Leading Prayer Warrior's Roundtable in Helotes, Texas

November 5
Filming for our Christian TV series with TLN-West Network in California called Healing from the Inside Out 
Past episodes on our developing YouTube Channel:

November 12-14
Preaching and Equipping for Prayer Ministry
at Grafton Methodist Church Harvest Festival 
at St. Paris, Ohio.

November 14
Speaking and Ministry at an Evening of Worship and Prayer with More Than Enough Ministries in Sidney, Ohio.

March 4-5, 2022
Keynote Speaker
Transformation Conference at Statewide Aglow Gathering for Kentucky.

Freedom Equipping Class every week as part of the discipleshipplan at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas
Monday Afternoons (1:30 - 3:30)
Tuesday Nights (6:00 - 8:00)

All are welcome! Based on the principles of my book
Free to Be Like Jesus! — Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance

Monday Nights
Rocio and I lead an Online Connect Group for MorningStar Ministries

Wednesday Mornings
Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Inner Healing and Deliverance Ministry Sessions for the Online Connect Groups.

Personal Ministry Appointments
Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer MinistrySessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment and as the Holy Spirit leads. Please keep us in prayer for spiritual breakthrough and transformation! Let us know if you'd like to set up a session: 

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

Sign up Here for this Free Video Series for Inner Healing and Spiritual Freedom in Christ: