Monday, May 01, 2023

“Look to Me with Expectant Faith” - May 1, 2023

 

Morning by Morning, May 1 - “Look to Me with Expectant Faith”

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I look to You and listen for Your leading, for Your sheep hear Your voice (John 10:27) and the children of God are led by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14). ...

 

As I listen, what comes to my heart this morning is this Scripture from the apostle Paul:

 

“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,

Nor have entered into the heart of man

The things which God has prepared for those who love Him”

(1 Corinthians 2:9).

 

And I’m remembering similar words from the prophet Isaiah:

 

“For since the beginning of the world

Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear,

Nor has the eye seen any God besides You,

Who acts for the one who waits for Him” (Isaiah 64:4).

 

And now what rises up in my heart from Your heart are these words:

 

“Look to Me with expectant faith. You’ve only just begun and the best is yet to come. But the key to the kingdom I have set before you, the key to the kingdom of God I am forming within you and within the hearts of all who would seek Me and follow Me, is to keep looking to Me. Let me open your eyes to My vision and your ears to My voice. And I will guide your heart and your steps into My plan. And my plan is form the character of My nature in you. For the kingdom of God is within you.” ...

 

Yes, Lord. ...

 

As I seek to discern what I believe I’m hearing in Your spoken word, these Words come to me from Your written Word:

 

“Now when (Jesus) was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, ‘The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you’” (Luke 17:20-21).

 

“For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit” (Romans 14:17).

 

“For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren” (Romans 8:29).

 

“Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world” (1 John 4:17).

 

“Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.... Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 1:2-11).

 

Yes, Lord. I seek You and seek to follow You and I seek to allow You to establish Your abundant and everlasting kingdom in my heart, as You keep forming the character of Your nature in me -- as best as I can and all by Your grace. Apart from You, I can do nothing (John 15:5). And I praise God that I am ever apart from You (Matthew 28:20). You supply all I need (Philippians 4:19). “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13). “All things are possible to him who believes” (Mark 9:23).

 

So with all my heart, I believe in You and I will keep seeking You with expectant faith, as You keep establishing Your kingdom in me. One day my eyes will see and my ears will hear and my heart will know these astounding things You have prepared for me and for all who love You and seeking You. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.


Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

 

My friend, may you keep looking to God with expectant faith, letting Him establish His kingdom in your heart and the character of His nature in your life, in Jesus' name. God bless you!



Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Mailing Address:

412 S. Adams Street #148

Fredericksburg, Texas 78624


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Thank you and Praise God for all He did at Revival at the Barn with salvations, healing, and baptisms in the horse trough! Here's one testimony from a great friend of ours, Carolyn Urban, who couldn't come but joined with us on our Messiah Ministries' FB Live:


WOW, PRAISE GOD!! I feel like I had an "Asbury experience" streaming "Revival at the Barn" in my living room. I suffer from chronic, debilitating back and shoulder pain which had been getting worse lately and so limiting my life and I was fighting depression. Through the testimony of Scott Knudson and the powerful anointed message of Pastor Tommy, I felt the love of the Lord so strongly and a peace come over me that is indescribable. That night and last night I slept better than I have slept in a long, long time, getting 8 hours of deep sleep and waking up to at least a 50% reduction in my pain level and a much-improved state of mind. Thank you, Lord and Revival at the Barn!


You can join us for the videos and photos on our Messiah Ministries FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/MessiahMinistries.org


Thank you for your prayers for us at the Fellowship of Ministries Annual Retreat with MorningStar Ministries all last week, where my wife Rocio Caballero Hays was Ordained! She also received a prophetic word and miraculous healing of her knee from Chris Reed, which they recorded and is also on our Messiah Ministries FB Page:

https://www.facebook.com/MessiahMinistries.org


May 5-6

Messiah Ministries' Men's Retreat hosted this time at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg. All men are welcome! We had fantastic feedback from our "pilot" retreat in February. Send me an email if you are interested! tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org


May 10

Speaking at San Antonio Aglow International Ministries - Day Time Lighthouse. 10 to Noon. Contact: sa.day.aglow@gmail.com

 

May 25-29

Ministry in Mexico City at several churches and different settings for inner healing, deliverance, evangelism, and prayer for revival.


June 1

Speaking at Boerne, Texas Lighthouse of Aglow International Ministries. The Kendall Inn at 7pm


July 17-31

Preaching an Evangelistic Crusade in Kenya!


Tuesday Nights (September through May)

Teaching my Free to Be Like Jesus course at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas 6-8pm.

Based on my Books Free to Be Like Jesus and First the Spirit

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays


Wednesday Mornings

Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Restoration Ministry Sessions for 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: 

tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org

 

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

https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute

Free On-line Video Series: Setting Hearts Free!

My Core Teaching and Ministry

https://messiah-ministries.org/resources

Order these Spiritual Books by Tommy Hays Today!

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays

Friday, April 21, 2023

“Ho! ... Come to the Waters!” - April 21, 2023

 

Morning by Morning, April 21 - “Ho! ... Come to the Waters!”

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Come rule and reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords in my heart today. ...

 

As I’m waiting, what’s coming to my heart this morning are the words of passionate, spiritual hunger through the prophet Isaiah:

 

“Ho! Everyone who thirsts,

Come to the waters!” (Isaiah 55:1)

 

My spirit cries, “Ho!” My heart cries, “Ho!” Because I’m thirsting for You, hungering for You, crying out for You. For more and more of You -- more of Your Spirit, more of Your Presence, more of the moving of Your power and love to save our souls and our city, heal our hearts and our land, deliver us from evil and set us free from everything that would hold us back from being all You created us to be.

 

And at the same time, Your Spirit, expressed through the Word of Your prophet, is still expressing Your passion for Your people to come to You, to come to the One who is the Living Waters, the only One who can ever satisfy this spiritual thirst You’ve created in us.

 

“Ho! Everyone who thirsts,

Come to the Waters!”

 

Last night Your rain poured down in abundance upon our community here in Fredericksburg, Texas. And I’m bold enough to believe that even that was an expression of Your Heavenly Heart to pour out Your Living Waters on us  in this weekend of prayer for Revival in our city. A physical foretaste of the Spiritual Flood of Living Waters You’re pouring out for all who are thirsting to come to Your Waters and drink from Your Spirit.

 

As Your prophet went on to declare in his prophetic Word:

 

“Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,

And let your soul delight itself in abundance.

Incline your ear, and come to Me.

Hear, and your soul shall live;

And I will make an everlasting covenant with you” (v. 2-3).

 

“Seek the Lord while He may be found,

Call upon Him while He is near” (v. 6).

 

“Let the wicked forsake his way,

And the unrighteous man his thoughts;

Let him return to the Lord,

And He will have mercy on him;

And to our God,

For He will abundantly pardon!” (v. 7)

 

“For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,

And do not return there,

But water the earth,

And make it bring forth and bud,

That it may give seed to the sower

And bread to the eater,

So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;

It shall not return to Me void,

But it shall accomplish what I please,

And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it!” (v. 10-11)

 

“For you shall go out with joy,

And be led out with peace;

The mountains and the hills

Shall break forth into singing before you,

And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands!” (v. 12)

 

This day, this weekend, every day and every weekend, break forth with Your Waters, with Your joy, with Your singing and saving, with Your Spiritual awakening and revival in these hills of the “Texas Hill Country” and in the hearts of all who are thirsty for these Living Waters across this land and throughout this world!

 

So this morning, I cry out, “Ho!” for Your Spirit! “Ho!” for Your Living Waters! “Ho!” for Your Revival and Awakening in me and all who will come to You. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.


Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

 

My friend, may you filled with passionate, spiritual hunger for the One who pours our His Living Waters to all who are thirsty for more of Him in awakening and revival, in Jesus' name. God bless you!



Tommy Hays | 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 at:

https://messiah-ministries.org

Please Keep us in Prayer for These

Messiah Ministries Events


April 21-22

Preaching Revival at the Barn! 6pm Friday and Saturday Nights

The Barn behind Yee Haw Ranch Outfitters in Fredericksburg, Texas

Please come and Spread the word as we pray for Revival!


Watch us Streaming Live on our Messiah Ministries Facebook page at 6PM Central Standard Time: https://www.facebook.com/MessiahMinistries.org


April 23

Teaching my 6 Week Series on Free to Be Like Jesus at Bridge Church on Sunday Mornings at 9:00am in Fredericksburg.

Spiritual Freedom, Maturity, and Authority (April 16 to May 21)

Based on my Books Free to Be Like Jesus and First the Spirit

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays


April 24-27

Fellowship of Ministries Annual Retreat with MorningStar Ministries

My wife Rocio Caballero Hays will be Ordained!


April 29

Officiating the Wedding of Karen Lindsay's Daughter Sarah and John


May 5-6

Next Messiah Ministries' Men's Retreat hosted this time at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg. All men are welcome! We had fantastic feedback from our "pilot" retreat in February. Send me an email if you are interested!


May 10

Speaking at San Antonio Aglow International Ministries - Day Time Lighthouse. 10 to Noon. Contact: sa.day.aglow@gmail.com

 

May 25-29

Ministry in Mexico City at several churches and different settings for inner healing, deliverance, evangelism, and prayer for revival.


June 1

Speaking at Boerne, Texas Lighthouse of Aglow International Ministries. The Kendall Inn at 7pm


July 17-31

Preaching an Evangelistic Crusade in Kenya!


Tuesday Nights (September through May)

Teaching my Free to Be Like Jesus course at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas 6-8pm.

Based on my Books Free to Be Like Jesus and First the Spirit

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays


Wednesday Mornings

Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Restoration Ministry Sessions for 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: 

tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org

 

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

https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute

Free On-line Video Series: Setting Hearts Free!

My Core Teaching and Ministry

https://messiah-ministries.org/resources

Order these Spiritual Books by Tommy Hays Today!

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Preparing a Place for You for Revival in Our Hearts - April 20, 2023

 

Morning by Morning, April 20 - Preparing a Place for You for Revival in Our Hearts

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. As I seek Your face and listen for Your voice, help me begin my day embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with the Holy Spirit. ...

 

As I watch and wait in silence before You, this comes to my heart from Your heart this morning:

 

“I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also” (John 14:2-3).

 

I’m excited to get out to the barn this morning, out behind the Yee Haw Ranch Outfitters in our little community of Fredericksburg, Texas. I’m going to help “prepare a place for You” for our “Revival at the Barn” this weekend.

 

We’ll set up the chairs and the projector screen. We’ll get out a couple of rows of old-timey antique pews that Donna, the business owner, kept aside for just this purpose. We’ll hang some banners from the rafters and set up a little hand-made platform just big enough for me to preach the Gospel from and for others to share their hearts and testimonies and prayers and prophetic words from. We’ll fill up the horse trough for the baptisms and get everything in its place for all the guests and tourists, all the friends and prayer warriors, all the lookers-on who’ll see the ad in the paper or see the sign on the bull in the parking lot or find one of the flyers about town, and all the pressers-in who’ll be pressing into the Presence of God with hungry hearts and stirring spirits for a spiritual revival and awakening in their lives.

 

But most of all, we’ll be preparing a place for You.

 

Wherever You are, that’s where I want to be. That’s where I’ll be embracing the Promise of Your Presence, when You said, “Where I AM, there you may be also” (v. 3).

 

Yes, You’ll be there in that place You’ve prepared for me when I get to Heaven when I die. But at the same time, You’re bringing Heaven into me now. You’re right here, right now, in the place You’ve prepared for me in my heart.

 

Let Heaven meet Earth this weekend, as Your Kingdom comes and Your will is done, “on Earth as it is in Heaven” -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God. And let Heaven meet Earth every moment of every day, right here in my heart.

 

The Kingdom of Heaven is within me (Luke 17:21). The Kingdom of Heaven is “righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit” right here in my heart (Romans 14:17). The Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of God, is everywhere we welcome You to rule and reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords in us.

 

So with expectant faith and a hungry heart, I’m joining in the agreement of prayer for a mighty move of Your Holy Spirit, as the Kingdom of Heaven comes and fills our hearts in this place we’ve prepared for You -- this weekend and every weekend, this day and every day, in our hearts and in every hungry heart who’s pressing in for more of You (Ephesians 5:18). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.


Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

 

My friend, may you be stirred in your spirit with a hunger for revival in your heart in the place Jesus has prepared for you to encounter Him this day and every day, in Jesus' name. God bless you!



Tommy Hays | 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 at:

https://messiah-ministries.org

Please Keep us in Prayer for These

Messiah Ministries Events


April 21-22

Preaching Revival at the Barn! 6pm Friday and Saturday Nights

The Barn behind Yee Haw Ranch Outfitters in Fredericksburg, Texas

Please come and Spread the word as we pray for Revival!


Watch us Streaming Live on our Messiah Ministries Facebook page at 6PM Central Standard Time: https://www.facebook.com/MessiahMinistries.org


April 23

Teaching my 6 Week Series on Free to Be Like Jesus at Bridge Church on Sunday Mornings at 9:00am in Fredericksburg.

Spiritual Freedom, Maturity, and Authority (April 16 to May 21)

Based on my Books Free to Be Like Jesus and First the Spirit

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays


April 24-27

Fellowship of Ministries Annual Retreat with MorningStar Ministries

My wife Rocio Caballero Hays will be Ordained!


April 29

Officiating the Wedding of Karen Lindsay's Daughter Sarah and John


May 5-6

Next Messiah Ministries' Men's Retreat hosted this time at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg. All men are welcome! We had fantastic feedback from our "pilot" retreat in February. Send me an email if you are interested!


May 10

Speaking at San Antonio Aglow International Ministries - Day Time Lighthouse. 10 to Noon. Contact: sa.day.aglow@gmail.com

 

May 25-29

Ministry in Mexico City at several churches and different settings for inner healing, deliverance, evangelism, and prayer for revival.


June 1

Speaking at Boerne, Texas Lighthouse of Aglow International Ministries. The Kendall Inn at 7pm


July 17-31

Preaching an Evangelistic Crusade in Kenya!


Tuesday Nights (September through May)

Teaching my Free to Be Like Jesus course at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas 6-8pm.

Based on my Books Free to Be Like Jesus and First the Spirit

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays


Wednesday Mornings

Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Restoration Ministry Sessions for 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: 

tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org

 

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

https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute

Free On-line Video Series: Setting Hearts Free!

My Core Teaching and Ministry

https://messiah-ministries.org/resources

Order these Spiritual Books by Tommy Hays Today!

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Returning and Resting in Relationship with Jesus - April 19, 2023

 

Morning by Morning, April 19 - Returning and Resting in Relationship with Jesus

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I speak Your name over all I’ll face throughout my day, as I listen for Your voice here in my heart and all along the way (John 10:3). ...

 

Waiting on You, this comes to mind this morning:

 

“For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel:

 

‘In returning and rest you shall be saved;

In quietness and confidence shall be your strength’” (Isaiah 30:15).

 

Yes, Lord. Give me grace to keep returning and resting in relationship with You. I turn to You. I re-turn to You, again and again and again. It’s not a one-time choice, but a grace-filled, Spirit-led, lifestyle of choices on a life-long journey of faith with You (Hebrews 12:1-2).

 

In turning to You to be my Confidence, to be my Strength, to be my Salvation, I can rest from trying to do any of that myself, in my own wavering confidence, in my own insufficient strength, trying to be my own savior and lord apart from You. As You said, “Apart from Me, you can do nothing” (John 15:5).

 

I need You. I need Your wisdom, Your wisdom from above, rather than the wisdom of the world or the wisdom from my own thoughts apart from “the mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16). For “the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere” (James 3:17).

 

I need You to keep transforming my heart and renewing my mind (Romans 12:2), putting Your thoughts in my mind and Your desires in my heart (Philippians 2:5). I need Your leading, Your guidance, Your strength, Your wisdom, as You keep forming the character of Your nature in me (Romans 8:29).

 

In the “quietness” of resting in Your strength, trusting in Your wisdom, I can follow Your voice and be led by Your Spirit. For You said, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them and they follow Me” (John 10:27). And Your Word promises, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God” (Romans 8:14).

 

Speak to me. Lead me. Transform me. Make me more like You today. For as You are, so are we to be in our world -- as we learn to trust You and follow You more every day (1 John 4:17), step by step along the way (1 Peter 2:21). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.


Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

 

My friend, may you keep turning to Jesus, returning and resting in relationship with Him all along the journey of your life, as He make you more like Him each day by His Spirit at work within you, in Jesus' name. God bless you!



Tommy Hays | 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 at:

https://messiah-ministries.org

Please Keep us in Prayer for These

Messiah Ministries Events


April 21-22

Preaching Revival at the Barn! 6pm Friday and Saturday Nights

The Barn behind Yee Haw Ranch Outfitters in Fredericksburg, Texas

Please come and Spread the word as we pray for Revival!


April 23

Teaching my 6 Week Series on Free to Be Like Jesus at Bridge Church on Sunday Mornings at 9:00am in Fredericksburg.

Spiritual Freedom, Maturity, and Authority (April 16 to May 21)

Based on my Books Free to Be Like Jesus and First the Spirit

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays


April 24-27

Fellowship of Ministries Annual Retreat with MorningStar Ministries

My wife Rocio Caballero Hays will be Ordained!


April 29

Officiating the Wedding of Karen Lindsay's Daughter Sarah and John


May 5-6

Next Messiah Ministries' Men's Retreat hosted this time at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg. All men are welcome! We had fantastic feedback from our "pilot" retreat in February. Send me an email if you are interested!


May 10

Speaking at San Antonio Aglow International Ministries - Day Time Lighthouse. 10 to Noon. Contact: sa.day.aglow@gmail.com

 

May 25-29

Ministry in Mexico City at several churches and different settings for inner healing, deliverance, evangelism, and prayer for revival.


June 1

Speaking at Boerne, Texas Lighthouse of Aglow International Ministries. The Kendall Inn at 7pm


July 17-31

Preaching an Evangelistic Crusade in Kenya!


Tuesday Nights (September through May)

Teaching my Free to Be Like Jesus course at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas 6-8pm.

Based on my Books Free to Be Like Jesus and First the Spirit

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays


Wednesday Mornings

Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Restoration Ministry Sessions for 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: 

tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org

 

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

https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute

Free On-line Video Series: Setting Hearts Free!

My Core Teaching and Ministry

https://messiah-ministries.org/resources

Order these Spiritual Books by Tommy Hays Today!

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays