Thursday, June 15, 2023

“Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last” - June 15, 2023

 

Morning by Morning, June 15 - “Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last”

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. “Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last,” I want to begin and end my day thinking of You and entrusting my day to You (Revelation 22:13). ...

 

As I listen for Your first words to me this morning, what comes to mind are Your last Words in the Bible:

 

And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.

 

“Blessed those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.

 

“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star” (Revelation 22:12-16)

 

As John heard and wrote down Your Words of Revelation, he responded with all his heart:

 

And the Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come!’ And let him who hears say, ‘Come!’ And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.... Even so, come, Lord Jesus! The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with (us) all. Amen” (v. 17-21).

 

With all my heart -- as best as I can and all by Your grace -- I say, Come! Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

 

Come into my heart and every moment of my day. Come give me Your heart and Your desires. Anoint me and empower me to honor You for the work of Your kingdom You entrust to me, to do Your commandments You set before me, to enter through the gates into all You have prepared for me.

 

I set my sights to guide my journey through this day and every day on “the Bright and Morning Star” of Your Presence before me and abiding within me. By Your grace, I set my heart to hear and thirst, to trust and obey, to seek and follow -- from beginning to end and all along the way. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.


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

 

My friend, may you entrust yourself, from beginning to end and all along the way to the One who is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last, 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:

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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 9

Preaching at The Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas


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


August 6

Preaching at The Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas


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

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

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Refuge in the Floods - June 14, 2023

 

Morning by Morning, June 14 - Refuge in the Floods

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I set apart this time to begin my day in the communion of prayer with You -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God. ...

 

“And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock” (Matthew 7:25).

 

When the floods come, You are our Refuge. At times when it seems the enemy comes in like a flood -- through conflicts or challenges, through backlash or backbiting, through temptations or troubles -- You raise up the banner of Your love and protection and provision over us (Isaiah 59:19).

 

The floods just lift us up to higher ground in You. You set our feet on solid ground. You hold us tight with arms of love. You get us through and even make us stronger in Your strength, more faithful as we see Your faithfulness, more intimate in our surrender to Your embrace as we embrace Your Presence through all we endure.

 

As David learned to turn to You through everything he went through -- whether through the sin of his own actions or the attacks of his enemies against him -- You teach us to turn to You, to trust in You -- whether we deserve it or not -- even especially when we don’t deserve it all, but put our trust and our hope in You:


“I will love You, O Lord, my Strength.

The Lord is my Rock and my Fortress and my Deliverer;

My God, my Strength, in whom I will trust;

My Shield and the Horn of my salvation, my Stronghold.

 

“I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised;

So shall I be saved from my enemies.

The pangs of death surrounded me,

And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me;

The snares of death confronted me.

 

“In my distress I called upon the Lord,

And cried out to my God;

He heard my voice from His temple,

And my cry came before Him, even to His ears” (Psalm 18:1-6)

 

Thank You for hearing my cry, for answering my prayers, for being with me through the floods and sorrows and snares. Thank You for giving me faith to keep trusting in You through the rains and floods and winds that would blow me down and beat me up if it weren’t for You -- my Refuge and Rock, my Fortress and Deliverer, my Strong Tower and Shield of Faith. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.


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

 

My friend, may you trust and rest in the One who is your Refuge in the floods, letting even the floods lift you up to higher ground in Him, 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 9

Preaching at The Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas


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


August 6

Preaching at The Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas


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

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

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

A Wall Around Us, the Glory of God’s Presence Within Us - June 13, 2023

 

Morning by Morning, June 13 - A Wall Around Us, the Glory of God’s Presence Within Us

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I welcome You here in my heart and every moment of my day. ...

 

“‘For I,’ says the Lord, ‘will be a wall of fire all around her, and I will be the glory in her midst’” (Zechariah 2:5).

 

Yesterday a big buck deer ran right into the side of my wife’s vehicle as she was driving two friends down the highway. There was much carnage -- for the deer and for the vehicle, but thankfully much protection for my wife and her friends. You were a wall around them, with the glory of Your Presence within them.

 

They were not unscathed through the encounter, but it could have been so much worse. As we praised You for protection in our prayers last night, we also recounted how often You protect us in ways we don’t always know and fight for us in ways we don’t always see on our journey through all the encounters and collisions and carnage on our adventure of faith in this broken and fallen, challenging world where You’re growing our faith and teaching us to love and showing us Your love for us.

 

Your wall of protection around us doesn’t mean we won’t experience some difficult or destructive challenges. And Your glory within us doesn’t mean we’ll be immune from trials and troubles and tribulations. But it does mean You’re with us through it all, with the Treasure of Your Presence going with us, coming along beside us, abiding within us:

 

“We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed -- always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body” (2 Corinthians 4:7-10).

 

Through it all -- through the valley of the shadow of death (Psalm 23:4), through the waters and rivers and fires (Isaiah 43:2) -- You are Immanuel, the God who is with us (Matthew 1:23). You’re the God who’s for us. And if God be for us, what can stand against us! (Romans 8:31)

 

“For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord!” (Romans 8:38-39) In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.


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

 

My friend, may you know the Lord is around you and within us, protecting you and fighting for you always, 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 9

Preaching at The Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas


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


August 6

Preaching at The Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas


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

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

Monday, June 12, 2023

Riding with the Armies of Heaven - June 12, 2023

 

Morning by Morning, June 12 - Riding with the Armies of Heaven

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Forever Father, Faithful Friend, be First and Foremost in my heart and every moment of my day. ...

 

As I lift up my heart in prayer, You’re opening up my eyes of faith to see an image from Scripture of a day to come:

 

 “Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written:

 

KING OF KINGS AND

LORD OF LORDS

 

(Revelation 19:11-16).

 

One day soon the heavens will open and You will descend when You come again in full glory and final victory! Those who have died and gone to heaven will be with You -- riding in the armies of heaven, dressed in white, following the King of Kings and Lord of Lords on that day of fulfillment of Your Word when there will be “loud voices in heaven, saying, ‘The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!’” (Revelation 11:15)

 

And between this day and that day to come, let Your kingdom come in our hearts, let Your will be done in our lives, let us take our place now in the armies of heaven as the “Commander of the Army of the Lord,” the General of the Armies of Heaven, the “King of Kings and Lord of Lords” lives in us (Joshua 5:14; Colossians 1:27).

 

For “The Lord is a Warrior; the Lord is His name” (Exodus 15:3). “The Lord (our) God is with (us), the Mighty Warrior who saves (Zephaniah 3:17). And we are Your warriors in the Spirit, with the spiritual weapons of our warfare You have placed in our hands and our hearts to follow You into every battle You set before us. “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds...” (2 Corinthians 10:4-6). “We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 6:12).

 

As the words of prayer rise up in my heart for the battles I’ll face today and with expectant faith for the final battle of that great day to come, I hear in my heart the song of the Lord from the days of the Brownsville Revival I was humbled and honored to experience many years ago:

 

He has fire in His eyes

And a sword in His hand

And He's riding a white horse

Across this land

He has fire in His eyes

And a sword in His hand

He's riding a white horse

All across this land

And He's calling out to you and me

Will you ride with me

And we say yes

We'll ride with you

We say yes Lord

We will stand up and fight

We will ride

With the armies of Heaven

We're gonna be dressed in white

We say yes Lord

We will ride

He has a crown on His head

And He's carrying a scepter

In His hand

And He's leading the armies

And He's calling out to you and me

Will you ride with Me

Will you ride with Me

We say yes Lord

We'll ride

That fire in His eyes

Is His love for His bride

And He's longing that she will be with Him

Right by His side

That fire in His eyes

Is His burning desire

That His bride be with Him

Right by His side

And He's calling out to us right now

Will you ride with Me

Yes Lord, yes Lord, yes Lord, yes Lord

(Lyndell Cooley, Andy Park, Brownsville Revival)

 

Yes, Lord. By the power of Your grace and by the Fire You’re burning in my heart, I’ll ride with You. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.


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

 

My friend, may you be riding with the armies of heaven every day with the King of Kings and Lord of Lords in your heart and across this land, 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

Photo from Sculpture of "The Coming King" by Max Greiner in Kerrville, Texas at The Coming King Sculpture Prayer Garden.

I'll be blessed and honored to be speaking there October 14 for the Lunar Eclipse Event with Louada Raschke Ministries.

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 9

Preaching at The Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas


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


August 6

Preaching at The Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas


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

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