Friday, January 07, 2022

“Gathered Up ... Ready to Go” - January 7, 2022

Morning by Morning, January 7 - “Gathered Up ... Ready to Go”

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Help me hear what’s on Your heart at the beginning of my day -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. ...

As I wait and listen, this comes to my heart and rises up in the thoughts of my mind:

“Gather to Me. Come to Me. Draw near to Me. For you are being gathered up to be ready to go. Learn My voice. Hear My heart. Learn to discern My thoughts from your thoughts, My desires from your desires. And then be ready to go where I send you, when I send you, as I express My will and My plans through your lives.”  ...

Yes, Lord. As I ponder what I believe I’ve heard and test it against the plumb line of Your Word, this Scripture come to mind:

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! See! Your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’” (Matthew 23:37-39; Luke 13:34-35).

You still long to gather us. You still call us to come and learn to listen, to come and learn to discern Your voice and know Your heart. You don’t want us to miss “the time of (our) visitation” (Luke 19:44).

You’re gathering us now so that we’ll be ready to go, ready to move, ready to advance when the time comes. Even now, You’re giving us eyes to see You more clearly, ears to hear You more distinctly so we can say in our hearts and know in our spirits, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.” 

One day You’ll come in the clouds of the sky (1 Thessalonians 4:16; Acts 1:11; Revelation 19:11-16). But right now, and every day between this day and that day to come, You desire to come into our hearts. You long to gather us together with You. You have planned and purposed to live out Your life and Your will through us, as Your Body on this earth, filled with Your Spirit in our world. 

As You are, so are we to be in our world (1 John 4:17) For we are the Body of Christ and You are the Head of Your Church, united as One with all who are gathered to You in order to go forth and be sent out at Your word (1 Corinthians 12:27; Ephesians 4:15-16).

By the mercy of Your grace, may we hear Your call and respond to the longings of Your heart to be gathered up and ready to go. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may you be gathered up into the arms of Jesus and filled up with His Holy Spirit, discerning the voice of our Father and ready to go at His command, 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:
Friends, you might enjoy my 365 Day Devotional BookMorning by Morning, 2nd Edition, with selections from my daily prayers from past postings to cover every day of the year in a paperback form -- for yourself or as a gift if you think this would be a blessing and encouragement to someone.

All proceeds from our book sales 
support the vision and calling of our ministry:
Please Keep us in Prayer for These 
Messiah Ministries Events

January 11
Resume Weekly Teaching of the Freedom Equipping Course at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas
Tuesday afternoons 1:30 to 3:30 and Tuesday evenings 6:00 to 8:00
(The Monday afternoon class will now meet on Tuesday afternoon, due to our travel schedule this Spring).

January 20-22
Attending School of the Prophets at MorningStar Ministries.
(meeting once a month)

January 23
Healing Prayer Service 
Coker United Methodist Church in San Antonio, Texas at 5:30 PM. All are welcome.
I'll be leading a time of corporate prayer ministry after Pastor Adam Knight speaks on healing in the church for today.

January 25
Pakistan Ministry - Outdoor Evangelistic Crusade through our Internet Ministry Each Month
Each month we set up a projector screen in a different unreached village for our outdoor evangelistic outreach. I preach and minister with a live message through the internet, while Pastor Rizwan and Mehwish Fazal interpret the message, join me in prayer ministry, and follow up with discipleship. We welcome your partnership with us in prayer and support that helps make this outreach ministry possible and so fruitful every month! God bless you and Thank you!

January 27 to February 8
Ministry in Morelia, Mexico
2 Freedom Encounter Weekends and Citywide Leaders Meeting
Based on the principles of my book
Free to Be Like Jesus! — Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance

March
Teaching Deliverance Prayer Ministry Module as part of the Bible College of Christian Family Church, San Antonio, Texas. https://www.christianfamilychurchsa.com

March 31-April 2
Spiritual Retreat - Messiah Ministries' Freedom Encounter Weekend at Mo Ranch in the Texas Hill Country. All are Welcome!
Send me an email if you're interested in joining us for a weekend of worship and healing ministry in a beautiful Texas Hill Country Setting at Mo Ranch. TommyHays@Messiah-Ministries.org

June 17-18
Leading a Spiritual Retreat with South Texas Aglow Leadership at South Padre Island.

Watch our Weekly Episodes of Healing From the Inside Out on our Messiah Ministries YouTube Channel:
More Episodes being added every month! Please share it with anyone who needs to encounter the Healing Love of God!

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

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 from around the world.

Personal Ministry Appointments
Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions 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:

Thursday, January 06, 2022

Revelation of God by the Spirit of God - January 6, 2022

 

Morning by Morning, January 6 - Revelation of God by the Spirit of God

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Let Your Word come alive in my spirit, as I look and listen for Your leading, here in these first moments of my morning (John 10:27). ...

“But, as it is written,

‘What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
    nor the human heart conceived,
what God has prepared for those who love Him’--

these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For what human being knows what is truly human except the human spirit that is within? So also no one comprehends what is truly God’s except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. And we speak of these things in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to those who are spiritual” (1 Corinthians 2:13-19).

Holy Spirit of God, You search all things and reveal all things. You bring to life the Word of God which is the final Word on all things, always pointing us toward the One who is the Word of God, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ:

“When the Spirit of Truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own, but will speak whatever He hears, and He will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify Me, because He will take what is Mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is Mine. For this reason I said that He will take what is Mine and declare it to you” (John 16:13-15).

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God -- You are One; and You come to abide as One within us -- all in the mystery of our faith and the mercy of Your grace:

“As You, Father, are in Me and I am in You, may they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me. The glory that You have given Me I have given them, so that they may be one, as We are One, I in them and You in Me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me” (John 17:21-23).

With You abiding in us by Your Holy Spirit abiding here in our hearts, in our human spirits, You lead us into the truth. You lead us to the One who is the Truth, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who continues to say:

“I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you know Me, you will know My Father also. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.... Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me.... If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. You know Him because He abides with you, and He will be in You” (John 14:6-17, with spaces between these highlighted phrases).

Your Word, Your Truth, is revealed to us by Your Spirit. Come, Holy Spirit  -- Spirit of the Living God. Come reveal the Truth of Your Word into my heart today and every day. Bring the Word of God to life in my life today and every day. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may you be filled with Spirit of Truth who reveals the truth of the Word of God to you and points you to to the One is the Word of God and the Truth of God, 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:
Friends, you might enjoy my 365 Day Devotional BookMorning by Morning, 2nd Edition, with selections from my daily prayers from past postings to cover every day of the year in a paperback form -- for yourself or as a gift if you think this would be a blessing and encouragement to someone.

All proceeds from our book sales 
support the vision and calling of our ministry:
Please Keep us in Prayer for These 
Messiah Ministries Events

January 11
Resume Weekly Teaching of the Freedom Equipping Course at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas
Tuesday afternoons 1:30 to 3:30 and evenings 6:00 to 8:00
(The Monday afternoon class will now meet on Tuesday afternoon, due to our travel schedule this Spring).

January 20-22
Attending School of the Prophets at MorningStar Ministries.
(meeting once a month)

January 23
Healing Prayer Service 
Coker United Methodist Church in San Antonio, Texas at 5:30 PM. All are welcome.
I'll be leading a time of corporate prayer ministry after Pastor Adam Knight speaks on healing in the church for today.

January 25
Pakistan Ministry - Outdoor Evangelistic Crusade through our Internet Ministry Each Month
Each month we set up a projector screen in a different unreached village for our outdoor evangelistic outreach. I preach and minister with a live message through the internet, while Pastor Rizwan and Mehwish Fazal interpret the message, join me in prayer ministry, and follow up with discipleship. We welcome your partnership with us in prayer and support that helps make this outreach ministry possible and so fruitful every month! God bless you and Thank you!

January 27 to February 8
Ministry in Morelia, Mexico
2 Freedom Encounter Weekends and Citywide Leaders Meeting
Based on the principles of my book
Free to Be Like Jesus! — Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance

March
Teaching Deliverance Prayer Ministry Module as part of the Bible College of Christian Family Church, San Antonio, Texas. https://www.christianfamilychurchsa.com

March 31-April 2
Spiritual Retreat - Messiah Ministries' Freedom Encounter Weekend at Mo Ranch in the Texas Hill Country. All are Welcome!
(This does not replace the retreat for our Freedom Equipping Class at Bridge Church)
Send me an email if you're interested in joining us for a weekend of worship and healing ministry in a beautiful Texas Hill Country Setting at Mo Ranch. TommyHays@Messiah-Ministries.org

June 17-18
Leading a Spiritual Retreat with South Texas Aglow Leadership at South Padre Island.

Watch our Weekly Episodes of Healing From the Inside Out on our Messiah Ministries YouTube Channel:
More Episodes being added every month! Please share it with anyone who needs to encounter the Healing Love of God!

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

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 from around the world.

Personal Ministry Appointments
Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions 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:

Wednesday, January 05, 2022

“New Every Morning” - January 5, 2022

 

Morning by Morning, January 5 - “New Every Morning”

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Speak to my heart, as I listen for the leading of Your Spirit and seek to begin my day embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with the Holy Spirit. ...

Every morning is a new day -- here on the earth and here in my heart. It’s a clean slate and a fresh start. The old has passed away. “Behold, all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

It’s more than a nice thought, a positive attitude, or wishful thinking. It’s the Word of God:

“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,  
    His mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
    great is Your faithfulness.
‘The Lord is my portion,’ says my soul,
    ‘therefore I will hope in Him’” (Lamentations 3:22-24).

Yes, Lord. Your mercies are “new every morning.” Every morning, my soul is renewed in You. Your steadfast love for me never ceases and Your tender mercies for me never come to an end. So every morning of every day -- morning by morning and day by day -- I begin anew, in a sense, with a clean slate and a fresh start. My soul’s untainted and undefiled by the past, expectant with hope to live into today.

Just as the old hymn declares with confidence and joy, written from these very Words of Your heart for us:

Great is Thy faithfulness
Great is Thy faithfulness
Morning by morning new mercies I see
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me

Even when I’ve been faithless, You’re always faithful (2 Timothy 2:13). Even when I don’t deserve it -- and I never do -- You always lavish me with Your grace and cover me with Your mercy, not on the basis of anything I have done, but by all You’ve done for me in Your steadfast resolve for all You desire to do in me (Ephesians 2:4-10).

Great is Your faithfulness, Lord, unto me! Morning by morning, new mercies I see! In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may you start off this day and every day in the peace and joy of knowing you have a clean slate and a fresh start in the steadfast love of the Lord and His mercies for you that are new every morning, 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:
Friends, you might enjoy my 365 Day Devotional BookMorning by Morning, 2nd Edition, with selections from my daily prayers from past postings to cover every day of the year in a paperback form -- for yourself or as a gift if you think this would be a blessing and encouragement to someone.

All proceeds from our book sales 
support the vision and calling of our ministry:
Please Keep us in Prayer for These 
Messiah Ministries Events

January 11
Resume Weekly Teaching of the Freedom Equipping Course at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas
Tuesday afternoons 1:30 to 3:30 and evenings 6:00 to 8:00
(The Monday afternoon class will now meet on Tuesday afternoon, due to our travel schedule this Spring).

January 20-22
Attending School of the Prophets at MorningStar Ministries.
(meeting once a month)

January 23
Healing Prayer Service 
Coker United Methodist Church in San Antonio, Texas at 5:30 PM. All are welcome.
I'll be leading a time of corporate prayer ministry after Pastor Adam Knight speaks on healing in the church for today.

January 27 to February 8, 2022
Ministry in Morelia, Mexico
2 Freedom Encounter Weekends and Citywide Leaders Meeting
Based on the principles of my book
Free to Be Like Jesus! — Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance

March, 2022
Teaching Deliverance Prayer Ministry Module as part of the Bible College of Christian Family Church, San Antonio, Texas. https://www.christianfamilychurchsa.com

March 31-April 2,
Spiritual Retreat - Messiah Ministries' Freedom Encounter Weekend at Mo Ranch in the Texas Hill Country. All are Welcome!
(This does not replace the retreat for our Freedom Equipping Class at Bridge Church)
Send me an email if you're interested in joining us for a weekend of worship and healing ministry in a beautiful Texas Hill Country Setting at Mo Ranch. TommyHays@Messiah-Ministries.org

June 17-18
Leading a Spiritual Retreat with South Texas Aglow Leadership at South Padre Island.

Watch our Weekly Episodes of Healing From the Inside Out on our Messiah Ministries YouTube Channel:
More Episodes being added every month! Please share it with anyone who needs to encounter the Healing Love of God!

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

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 from around the world.

Personal Ministry Appointments
Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions 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, January 04, 2022

Whatever Comes, “The Word of our God Will Stand Forever” - January 4, 2022

 

Morning by Morning, January 4 - Whatever Comes, “The Word of our God Will Stand Forever”

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Speak to me and lead me in this time of communion in prayer, as I begin my day deliberately seeking You and embracing Your Presence -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God. ...

“The grass withers, the flower fades;
    but the word of our God will stand forever” (Isaiah 40:8).

It’s Your word that sustains us when the grass withers and when the flowers fade. It’s Your word that supports us and strengthens us through the winter seasons and the desert times. It’s Your word that stands firm, faithful and true, when everything else wobbles and withers under the pressures and powers coming against us and all around us on our lifelong journey through this broken and fallen world.

Your word endures. Your word prevails. Your word never falters and never fails. 

“Every word of God proves true;
    He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him” (Proverbs 30:5).

“God is not a human being, that He should lie,
    or a mortal, that He should change His mind.
Has He promised, and will he not do it?
    Has He spoken, and will He not fulfill it?” (Numbers 23:19).

“Remember this and consider, 
    recall it to mind, you transgressors,
    remember the former things of old;
for I am God, and there is no other;
    I am God, and there is no one like Me,
declaring the end from the beginning
    and from ancient times things not yet done,
saying, ‘My purpose shall stand,
    and I will fulfill My intention,’
calling a bird of prey from the east,
    the man for My purpose from a far country.
I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass;
    I have planned, and I will do it” (Isaiah 46:8-11).

Yes, Lord. You will do it. You will fulfill every word You’ve ever spoken. As You said, “The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63). You will fulfill every word You’ve ever written. As You said, “For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled” (Matthew 5:18 NKJV).

So as I prepare my heart to go forward into this new year -- into all that I may face and encounter and endure and overcome, into all that may be fading or flourishing, withering away or springing forth in abundance -- I will trust in You and stand firm in Your word, all by the power of Your grace. “For the word of (my) God will stand forever” (Isaiah 40:8).

As I entrust this day and this year to You, the words of an old song of praise and trust, grounded in Your Word rises up in my spirit and rests secure in the thoughts of my mind, being renewed in You:

“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path” (from Psalm 119:105 KJV).

Let every word You have spoken, every Word You have written, be my lamp and my light, as I continue my journey this year on my spiritual adventure, morning by morning trusting in You. For You are “The Word of God” (Revelation 19:13). And You are always “Faithful and True” (Revelation 19:11). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may you be grounded, confident, and secure in every word of God He has spoken and every Word He has written, as you journey through this new year trusting in the One who is The Word of God, Faithful and True, 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:
Friends, you might enjoy my 365 Day Devotional BookMorning by Morning, 2nd Edition, with selections from my daily prayers from past postings to cover every day of the year in a paperback form -- for yourself or as a gift if you think this would be a blessing and encouragement to someone. 

All proceeds from our book sales 
support the vision and calling of our ministry:
Please Keep us in Prayer for These 
Messiah Ministries Events

January 11
Resume Weekly Teaching of the Freedom Equipping Course at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas
Tuesday afternoons 1:30 to 3:30 and evenings 6:00 to 8:00
(The Monday afternoon class will now meet on Tuesday afternoon, due to our travel schedule this Spring).

January 20-22
Attending School of the Prophets at MorningStar Ministries.
(meeting once a month)

January 23
Healing Prayer Service 
Coker United Methodist Church in San Antonio, Texas at 5:30 PM. All are welcome.
I'll be leading a time of corporate prayer ministry after Pastor Adam Knight speaks on healing in the church for today.

January 27 to February 8, 2022
Ministry in Morelia, Mexico
2 Freedom Encounter Weekends and Citywide Leaders Meeting
Based on the principles of my book
Free to Be Like Jesus! — Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance

March, 2022
Teaching Deliverance Prayer Ministry Module as part of the Bible College of Christian Family Church, San Antonio, Texas. https://www.christianfamilychurchsa.com

March 31-April 2,
Spiritual Retreat - Messiah Ministries' Freedom Encounter Weekend at Mo Ranch in the Texas Hill Country. All are Welcome!
(This does not replace the retreat for our Freedom Equipping Class at Bridge Church)
Send me an email if you're interested in joining us for a weekend of worship and healing ministry in a beautiful Texas Hill Country Setting at Mo Ranch. TommyHays@Messiah-Ministries.org

June 17-18
Leading a Spiritual Retreat with South Texas Aglow Leadership at South Padre Island.

Watch our Weekly Episodes of Healing From the Inside Out on our Messiah Ministries YouTube Channel:
More Episodes being added every month! Please share it with anyone who needs to encounter the Healing Love of God!

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

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 from around the world.

Personal Ministry Appointments
Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions 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: