Turning 62, Embracing Isaiah 62 - June 9, 2023

 

Morning by Morning, June 9 - Turning 62, Embracing Isaiah 62   Good morning, Lord Jesus. Awaken my soul to arise into Your Presence to begin my day in the communion of prayer with You -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God (Psalm 57:8). ...   Tomorrow I’ll turn 62. I used to think that sounded old, but now I like to think of things like when Moses didn’t even begin his life’s calling until he was 80 and Enoch who walked with God until he was taken up in the Spirit at 365 years old. I don’t think I want to live that long, but I do want every year, every day to count, as I walk with You.   On the numbers of my birthdays, I often think of the chapters of my favorite Book of the Bible, the Prophet Isaiah. And it’s Isaiah 62 that declares these words of prophecy which I embrace for my 62nd year:   “Go through, Go through the gates! Prepare the way for the people; Build up, Build up the highway! Take out the stones, Lift up a banner for the peoples!   “Indeed the Lord has proclaimed To the end of the world: ‘Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Surely your salvation is coming; Behold, His reward is with Him, And His work before Him.’   “And they shall call them The Holy People, The Redeemed of the Lord; And you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken” (Isaiah 62:10-12).   I’m excited to “go through the gates” this year!   I’m excited to go everywhere You send me, to go through every gate You set before me.   I believe some will be gates You’ll open for me -- like the gates You open that no man can shut (Isaiah 22:22; Revelation 3:7).   And I believe some will even be “the gates of hell (that) shall not prevail” against the men and women of God who are the body and bride of Christ, filled with Your Spirit and fulfilling our calling (Matthew 16:18).   As I “go through the gates” this year, give me the grace to join in Your heart and Your ministry to open up the gates of salvation for all who need to know the love of God revealed in Jesus Christ, to open “prepare the way” for people to encounter the living Presence of the Living God, to build up their spirits that are cast down, to help build a highway of holiness in the hearts of those hungering and thirsting to encounter more of the Lord their God, to help clear away the stones of every barrier that would try to block their way from fulfilling their destiny in You, and to life up the banner of Your love over the people of the body and bride of Christ.   Do it in me and do it through me this year, this 62nd year, I pray.   As I go through the gates, I life up the gates of my heart to You, that the King of Glory may come in as never before, as King David declared with his heart after You:   “Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory!” (Psalm 22:7-10)   In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays   My friend, may the gates of heaven be opened before you into all the Lord has for you this year and every year, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!  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 June 15 Speaking at San Antonio, Texas Evening Aglow 7PM Hosted at Friendship Church, 14015 San Pedro. Contact Hannah for details: sa.aglow.evening@gmail.com All are welcome! July 17-31 Preaching an Evangelistic Festival in Kenya! I'll be part of a team of evangelists and intercessors sharing the Gospel in outdoor meetings, prisons, universities, orphanages, street ministry in Nyeri, Kenya, led by Wesley Paul Ministries. Over 150 Churches and ministry alliances across all denominations are hosting us and joining in weekly gatherings of unified prayer across the city! August 5 Setting Hearts Free! conference Messiah Ministries' Conference hosted at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas on Saturday 8:30 to 4:30, with breakfast and lunch included. Worship and Inner Healing Prayer Ministry. All are Welcome! No Charge. Love Offering. Please send us an email to register: Events@Messiah-Ministries.org September 9 - Save the Date! Messiah Ministries' Annual Celebration Fundraiser Free to Be Like Jesus - Texas Style! Please make plans to come join us if you can. Hosted this year at the Y.O. Ranch Hotel & Conference Center in Kerrville, Texas Events@Messiah-Ministries.org October 14 Speaking at the Worship Meeting with Louada Raschke Ministries at The Empty Cross in Kerrville, Texas for the Lunar Eclipse optimal vantage point in the Texas Hill Country when thousands will come to see it that weekend. Coming King Sculpture Prayer Garden. November 2-13 Ministry in Spain! Freedom Encounter Weekends at 2 Churches inviting us for Inner Healing and Deliverance Prayer Ministry and Equipping Tuesday Nights (September through May) Teaching my Free to Be Like Jesus course at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas. 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

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Speaking Words from Faith - June 8, 2023

 

Morning by Morning, June 8 - Speaking Words from Faith   Good morning, Lord Jesus. I speak out Your name over my day and all I’ll face and all I’ll overcome by the power of Your grace. ...   “So Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them” (Mark 11:22-24).   These are Your Words. This is Your invitation -- to believe in faith, to pray in faith, to speak in faith, to receive in faith.   So deliver me from doubt. Break off my unbelief. Increase my faith (Luke 17:5; Mark 9:24). Don’t let any disappointments from past prayers define the limits of my faith for my present prayers.   “With God all things are possible” (Mark 10:27). And in Your own Words, “All things are possible to him who believes” (Mark 9:23).   Instead of coming up with bad theologies, empty philosophies based on arguments from silence in past experiences, or distorted interpretations of the Word of God to try to explain away any lack of my experience of the Truth of Your Words, I humble myself to ask You for the grace of obedience to obey the express command of Your Scripture: “Have faith in God.”   I can’t make that happen. “Apart from (You), I can do nothing” (John 15:5). But I praise God that I’m never apart from You. You’re always with me (Matthew 28:20). And You’re always reminding me by the moving of Your Spirit in my heart, “It is (our) Father’s good pleasure to give (us) the kingdom” (Luke 12:32).   So align my heart with Yours, my thoughts with Yours, my words with Yours. Put Your thoughts in my mind and Your desires in my heart so that that the words that come out of my spirit in prayer and my mouth in faith are expressions of Your heart and mind and will -- here on earth as it is in heaven, according to the will of God (Luke 11:2). That’s the kind of faith I want to have. That’s the kind of words I want to speak. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays   My friend, may your heart and your words be filled with faith, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!  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 June 15 Speaking at San Antonio, Texas Evening Aglow 7PM Hosted at Friendship Church, 14015 San Pedro. Contact Hannah for details: sa.aglow.evening@gmail.com All are welcome! July 17-31 Preaching an Evangelistic Festival in Kenya! I'll be part of a team of evangelists and intercessors sharing the Gospel in outdoor meetings, prisons, universities, orphanages, street ministry in Nyeri, Kenya, led by Wesley Paul Ministries. Over 150 Churches and ministry alliances across all denominations are hosting us and joining in weekly gatherings of unified prayer across the city! August 5 Setting Hearts Free! conference Messiah Ministries' Conference hosted at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas on Saturday 8:30 to 4:30, with breakfast and lunch included. Worship and Inner Healing Prayer Ministry. All are Welcome! No Charge. Love Offering. Please send us an email to register: Events@Messiah-Ministries.org September 9 - Save the Date! Messiah Ministries' Annual Celebration Fundraiser Free to Be Like Jesus - Texas Style! Please make plans to come join us if you can. Hosted this year at the Y.O. Ranch Hotel & Conference Center in Kerrville, Texas Events@Messiah-Ministries.org October 14 Speaking at the Worship Meeting with Louada Raschke Ministries at The Empty Cross in Kerrville, Texas for the Lunar Eclipse optimal vantage point in the Texas Hill Country when thousands will come to see it that weekend. Coming King Sculpture Prayer Garden. November 2-13 Ministry in Spain! Freedom Encounter Weekends at 2 Churches inviting us for Inner Healing and Deliverance Prayer Ministry and Equipping Tuesday Nights (September through May) Teaching my Free to Be Like Jesus course at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas. 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

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Abounding Hope - June 7, 2023

 

Morning by Morning, June 7 - Abounding Hope   Good morning, Lord Jesus. Help me begin my day embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with Your Holy Spirit. ...   These Words of blessing come to my heart as I wait for Your leading:    “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” (Romans 15:13).   To be filled with Your Spirit is to be empowered by Your Spirit. To be filled with Your Spirit is to be filled with joy and peace and faith. And to be filled with Your Spirit is to be abounding in hope.   Come fill my heart with hope today. Abounding hope. Hope that abounds in trusting the One who puts hope in my heart and gives me the grace to keep hoping even before I see it and to keep believing even before I receive it.   “Hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees?” (Romans 8:24) So between this day and the day of my hopes fulfilled, I will trust in You, I will believe in You, I will put all my faith and hope in You -- as best as I can and all by Your grace. For “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not (yet) seen” (Hebrews 11:1). And “if we hope for what we do not (yet) see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance” (Romans 8:25).   With this kind of hope, grounded in this kind of joy and peace and faith that only You can provide by the power of Your grace, I will not be disappointed but expectant -- even in the waiting, in the praying, in the persevering until Your promises come to pass.   For this kind of “hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us” (Romans 5:5). Even though “hope deferred makes the heart sick ... when the desire comes, it is a tree of life” (Proverbs 13:12).   So fill me with Your Spirit today. Fill me with Your abounding hope today, O God of hope! Let “this hope (I) have (be) as an anchor of (my) soul, both sure and steadfast, and which (embraces Your) Presence (Hebrews 6:19). And now, by the power of Your grace, “(I) lay hold of the hope set before (me)” for this day and every day until my hope is completely and finally fulfilled in You (Hebrews 6:18). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays   My friend, may you be filled with a heart of abounding hope today, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!  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 June 15 Speaking at San Antonio, Texas Evening Aglow 7PM Hosted at Friendship Church, 14015 San Pedro. Contact Hannah for details: sa.aglow.evening@gmail.com All are welcome! July 17-31 Preaching an Evangelistic Festival in Kenya! I'll be part of a team of evangelists and intercessors sharing the Gospel in outdoor meetings, prisons, universities, orphanages, street ministry in Nyeri, Kenya, led by Wesley Paul Ministries. Over 150 Churches and ministry alliances across all denominations are hosting us and joining in weekly gatherings of unified prayer across the city! August 5 Setting Hearts Free! conference Messiah Ministries' Conference hosted at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas on Saturday 8:30 to 4:30, with breakfast and lunch included. Worship and Inner Healing Prayer Ministry. All are Welcome! No Charge. Love Offering. Please send us an email to register: Events@Messiah-Ministries.org September 9 - Save the Date! Messiah Ministries' Annual Celebration Fundraiser Free to Be Like Jesus - Texas Style! Please make plans to come join us if you can. Hosted this year at the Y.O. Ranch Hotel & Conference Center in Kerrville, Texas Events@Messiah-Ministries.org October 14 Speaking at the Worship Meeting with Louada Raschke Ministries at The Empty Cross in Kerrville, Texas for the Lunar Eclipse optimal vantage point in the Texas Hill Country when thousands will come to see it that weekend. Coming King Sculpture Prayer Garden. November 2-13 Ministry in Spain! Freedom Encounter Weekends at 2 Churches inviting us for Inner Healing and Deliverance Prayer Ministry and Equipping Tuesday Nights (September through May) Teaching my Free to Be Like Jesus course at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas. 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

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Whose Feet Will I Wash? Whose Heart Will I Have? - June 6, 2021

 

Morning by Morning, June 6 - Whose Feet Will I Wash? Whose Heart Will I Have?   Good morning, Lord Jesus. Your sheep hear Your voice (John 10:3). Your children follow Your Spirit (Romans 8:14). Your disciples walk in Your steps (1 Peter 2:21). Lead me today, Lord Jesus. ...   And what comes to me today is this picture of You humbling Yourself to wash Your disciples’ feet:   “So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, ‘Do you know what I have done to you? You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them” (John 13:12-17).   There’s a depth of humility in Your heart that I know is not yet in my heart. As much as I like to think I give and love and serve, I know the honest truth is I’m still very focused on me -- how do I feel, how do I look, how will this help me. And the really, really honest truth is, sadly, that even when I’m giving and loving and serving, I’m still even very focused on me while I’m doing that!   Lord, help me. Holy Spirit, change me. Crucify me of more of my flesh and fill me with more of Your Spirit (Ephesians 5:18). Set me free from the idolatry of this unholy trinity of me, myself, and I. Create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me (Psalm 51:10; Ephesians 4:23).   Put Your thoughts in my mind. Put Your desires in my heart. Let me “be transformed by the renewing of (my) mind” (Romans 12:2). Let me “be conformed to (Your) image” (Romans 8:29). Make me more like You today, “because as (You are), so are we (to be) in this world” (1 John 4:17).   So whose feet will You lead me to wash today? Whose life will You lead me to serve today. Whose heart will You lead me to touch today? Open the eyes of my heart to see them and not myself, to serve You and not my own self interests. “A servant is not greater than his master,” so let me be about my Master’s business of giving and loving and serving today -- from the heart of my Master abiding in me (John 15:4). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays   My friend, may you be filled with the heart of our Master, as you give and love and serve with His heart today, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!  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 June 15 Speaking at San Antonio, Texas Evening Aglow 7PM Hosted at Friendship Church, 14015 San Pedro. Contact Hannah for details: sa.aglow.evening@gmail.com All are welcome! June 16-17 (Being Postponed until August 5) Setting Hearts Free! Messiah Ministries Conference hosted at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas on Saturday. All are Welcome! No Charge. Love Offering. Please send us an email to register: Events@Messiah-Ministries.org July 17-31 Preaching an Evangelistic Festival in Kenya! I'll be part of a team of evangelists and intercessors sharing the Gospel in outdoor meetings, prisons, universities, orphanages, street ministry in Nyeri, Kenya, led by Wesley Paul Ministries. Over 150 Churches and ministry alliances across all denominations are hosting us! September 9 - Save the Date! Messiah Ministries' Annual Celebration Fundraiser Free to Be Like Jesus - Texas Style! Please make plans to come join us if you can. Hosted this year at the Y.O. Ranch Hotel & Conference Center in Kerrville, Texas Events@Messiah-Ministries.org October 14 Speaking at the Worship Meeting with Louada Raschke Ministries at The Empty Cross in Kerrville, Texas for the Lunar Eclipse optimal vantage point in the Texas Hill Country when thousands will come to see it that weekend. Coming King Sculpture Prayer Garden. November 2-13 Ministry in Spain! Freedom Encounter Weekends at 2 Churches inviting us for Inner Healing and Deliverance Prayer Ministry and Equipping Tuesday Nights (September through May) Teaching my Free to Be Like Jesus course at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas. 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

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