“I Have Seen the Lord!” - April 10, 2024

 

Morning by Morning, April 10 - “I Have Seen the Lord!”   Good morning, Lord Jesus. I lift up my face and open up my heart to seek You in the morning and abide in You throughout the moments of my day. ...   “Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: ‘I have seen the Lord!’ And she told them that He had said these things to her” (John 20:18)   Some have a testimony that they’ve always been so close to Jesus and hardly ever committed any sins. I think my testimony is a little more like Mary Magdalene--“out of whom (Jesus) had driven seven demons” (Mark 16:9). Demons of pride, vainglory, self-righteousness, insecurity, fear, impurity, criticism can be just as wicked and destructive as any others.   But Mary Magdalene--with all her former issues, with all her former spiritual and emotional baggage from her former identity--got to be the first to see the resurrected Jesus! And she couldn’t wait to run and tell everybody else all the good news!   Like Mary, now we can seek You and see You, pursue You and run in our hearts to go share the good news of who You are and all You have done. No matter our past, no matter our struggles for identity, no matter our spiritual battles, in Your resurrection power You can set us free from all that would hold us back from being all You created us to be!   We can see You move in power in our lives. Then we can go tell everybody, “I have seen the Lord!” In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays My friend, may you be set free from all that would hold you back from being all God created you to be and then go tell everybody "I have seen Jesus!", in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day! Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries New Mailing Address: 502 North Milam Street Fredericksburg, Texas 78624 Please share this word to encourage a friend! Anyone can sign up for free at: https://messiah-ministries.org My Books on Inner Healing, Spiritual Freedom and Spiritual Intimacy with God are Available on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays “Setting hearts free to be all they were created to be —Free to Be Like Jesus— secure in their identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling their destiny"

Please Keep us in Prayer for These Messiah Ministries Events April 12 Men's Retreat on the Guadalupe River at Ingram, Texas April 13 Speaking with Rocio at a Women's Retreat in Boerne, Texas April 26-27 3rd Annual Revival at the Barn! at Yee Haw Ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas Worship, Word, Ministry, Baptisms in the Horse Trough! 6 PM Each Night May 1 New Wine Worship at Messiah Ministries in Fredericksburg, Texas 7PM All are welcome to come drink deep from the Well of the Holy Spirit May 3-5 Attending Rick Joyner's Christian Writer's Seminar at Moravian Falls, NC May 28-June 2 Ministry in Cali, Columbia with Rocio and speaking at the Citywide Pastors Association Monthly Meeting in Cali on Inner Healing and Deliverance Prayer Ministry. Huge Open Doors! Praise God! June 5-7 MorningStar Fellowship of Ministries Retreat at Fort Mill, SC June 23 Preaching 3 Services at Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas July 30-August 1 Teaching the Healing Academy at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries, Goodlettsville, TN in the Nashville, Tennessee area Tuesday Nights at 6PM Teaching our 9 Month Equipping Course on Tuesday Nights at 6PM at The Bridge Church, 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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Radiant Light in the Darkness - April 9, 2024

 

Morning by Morning, April 9 - Radiant Light in the Darkness   Good morning, Lord Jesus. I watch and wait for the leading of Your Spirit. ...   “The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His Being, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven” (Hebrews 1:3).   Yesterday, in our part of the world, we saw a total solar eclipse of the sun about mid-day. Light went to darkness and back to light again. For a small segment of time in the middle of the day, our world grew eerily dark and cold and still. And then there was light and warmth and life all around again.   What a picture of our redemption. You created our world in light. Then darkness of sin entered in. Then in the radiance of Your glory, You spoke words of spirit and life and truth for all the world to hear, then laid down Your life for us, that all who would put their trust in You could have new life in You and the Light of Your glory shining in them.   “In Him was life, and that life was the Light of all mankind. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” (John 1:4-5).   May the darkness of this world always lead us to Your Light. As You said long ago, You continue to speak to all who will hear, “I am the Light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in darkness, but will have the Light of Life” (John 8:12).   The Light of Your glory will never be eclipsed. Let Your Light shine in me and my world today. In Jesus’ name I Pray. Amen. Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays My friend, may the radiant Light of the glory of Jesus shine upon you and in you and through you today, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day! Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries New Mailing Address: 502 North Milam Street Fredericksburg, Texas 78624 Please share this word to encourage a friend! Anyone can sign up for free at: https://messiah-ministries.org My Books on Inner Healing, Spiritual Freedom and Spiritual Intimacy with God are Available on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays “Setting hearts free to be all they were created to be —Free to Be Like Jesus— secure in their identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling their destiny"

Please Keep us in Prayer for These Messiah Ministries Events April 12 Men's Retreat on the Guadalupe River at Ingram, Texas April 13 Speaking with Rocio at a Women's Retreat in Boerne, Texas April 26-27 3rd Annual Revival at the Barn! at Yee Haw Ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas Worship, Word, Ministry, Baptisms in the Horse Trough! 6 PM Each Night May 1 New Wine Worship at Messiah Ministries in Fredericksburg, Texas 7PM All are welcome to come drink deep from the Well of the Holy Spirit May 3-5 Attending Rick Joyner's Christian Writer's Seminar at Moravian Falls, NC May 28-June 2 Ministry in Cali, Columbia with Rocio and speaking at the Citywide Pastors Association Monthly Meeting in Cali on Inner Healing and Deliverance Prayer Ministry. Huge Open Doors! Praise God! June 5-7 MorningStar Fellowship of Ministries Retreat at Fort Mill, SC June 23 Preaching 3 Services at Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas July 30-August 1 Teaching the Healing Academy at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries, Goodlettsville, TN in the Nashville, Tennessee area Tuesday Nights at 6PM Teaching our 9 Month Equipping Course on Tuesday Nights at 6PM at The Bridge Church, 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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Sign of Total Eclipse in the Heavens Leading to Days of Total Repentance and Revival in Our Hearts - April 8, 2024

 

Morning by Morning, April 8 - Sign of Total Eclipse in the Heavens Leading to Days of Total Repentance and Revival in Our Hearts   Good morning, Lord Jesus. I look to You -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God -- and welcome the Light of the Glory of Your Presence into my heart and every moment of my day. ...   Today at our home in Texas, we’ll witness the much-anticipated total solar eclipse when the sun goes dark in the middle of the day. We’ll be taking time to look up in the sky and marvel at this rare event in the heavens. But at the same time, it reminds me of another time when the sun went dark in the middle of the day. It wasn’t a natural astrological event of the moon covering the sun of our world, but a supernatural spiritual event of the darkness of sin and death covering the Son of God as You took upon Yourself all the sins of the world in Your sacrifice of love for us at the cross:   “It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Jesus called out with a loud voice, ‘Father, into your hands I commit My spirit.’ When He had said this, He breathed His last” (Luke 23:44-46).   That event didn’t last three or four minutes, as ours will, but lasted for three hours. That was not a slender path of totality that crossed a nation, as ours will, but covered the whole land in total darkness.   Your Word speaks of signs in the heavens that call our attention to Your activity on the earth:   “God said, ‘Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens … and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years’” (Genesis 1:14).   As the “path of totality” of this total solar eclipse passes across our nation today from southwest to northeast, from Texas to Maine, may we see the beauty of Your creation in this rare form, but may we also heed any warning of Your Spirit to the heart of our nation, as exhorted by many prophetic voices of our nation, such as Chris Reed of MorningStar Ministries and others. Many have seen the event of a total eclipse throughout the occurrences of history as a spiritual warning of judgment, as when the sun is hidden in the sky speaking of times when the Son of God is hidden from the hearts of the people.   Some say a solar eclipse passed over the land during the days when Your prophet Jonah preached Your call to repentance to the king and people of Nineveh, called the Assyrian Eclipse and recorded in their historical texts (see Jonah 3:3-4). The king and the people of Nineveh in Assyria repented and “turned from their evil ways, (and You) relented and did not bring on them the destruction (You) had threatened” (v.10).   Many have noted that the “path of totality” of this total solar eclipse will pass over the cities of Nineveh, Texas, Nineveh, Ohio, Nineveh Indiana, Nineveh, Pennsylvania, and Nineveh, New York in America, as well as Nineveh, Nova Scotia in Canada. It will even pass over the city of Jonah, Texas. Some would say it’s a coincidence and others would say it’s a call to prayer and repentance as a sign in the heavens for our nation to return to its calling and identity as “one nation under God” as we “turn from (our) evil ways.”   Eclipse or not, signs in the heavens or not, the invitation of Your Word and what many would call Your Covenant of Revival still stands as an invitation to the people of this land and every land to turn our hearts to You in repentance for revival, cleansing, and healing of our land:   “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).   Lord, hear our prayer. Lord, move in our hearts and in the heart of our land. As darkness covers the sun, lets us also see the darkness that covers our souls and the soul of our nation so that the Son of God can arise again in our hearts in revival across our land!   Sometimes it gets darker before it gets brighter, just like it got darker on the Good Friday of the cross when great darkness covered the whole land, but everything changed in the Light of Your Glory on that Resurrection Sunday! Lord turn our darkness into light, as the Light of Your Glory revealed in the Face of the Son of God fills our hearts and our land with Your praise (2 Corinthians 4:4). Let the dawning of that day come when “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea!” (Habakkuk 2:14) In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays My friend, may you join in a spirit of repentance and prayer for revival in our heats and our lands, we we turn to the Son of God and let the Light of His Glory shine in us and all the world, even as we see this sign in the heavens of a total solar eclipse today, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day! Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries New Mailing Address: 502 North Milam Street Fredericksburg, Texas 78624 Please share this word to encourage a friend! Anyone can sign up for free at: https://messiah-ministries.org My Books on Inner Healing, Spiritual Freedom and Spiritual Intimacy with God are Available on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays “Setting hearts free to be all they were created to be —Free to Be Like Jesus— secure in their identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling their destiny"

Please Keep us in Prayer for These Messiah Ministries Events April 12 Men's Retreat on the Guadalupe River at Ingram, Texas April 13 Speaking with Rocio at a Women's Retreat in Boerne, Texas April 26-27 3rd Annual Revival at the Barn! at Yee Haw Ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas Worship, Word, Ministry, Baptisms in the Horse Trough! 6 PM Each Night May 1 New Wine Worship at Messiah Ministries in Fredericksburg, Texas 7PM All are welcome to come drink deep from the Well of the Holy Spirit May 3-5 Attending Rick Joyner's Christian Writer's Seminar at Moravian Falls, NC May 28-June 2 Ministry in Cali, Columbia with Rocio and speaking at the Citywide Pastors Association Monthly Meeting in Cali on Inner Healing and Deliverance Prayer Ministry. Huge Open Doors! Praise God! June 5-7 MorningStar Fellowship of Ministries Retreat at Fort Mill, SC June 23 Preaching 3 Services at Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas July 30-August 1 Teaching the Healing Academy at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries, Goodlettsville, TN in the Nashville, Tennessee area Tuesday Nights at 6PM Teaching our 9 Month Equipping Course on Tuesday Nights at 6PM at The Bridge Church, 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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“How Deep the Father’s Love for Us” - April 4, 2024

 Morning by Morning, April 4 - “How Deep the Father’s Love for Us”

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. You’re one with my Father, one with the Holy Spirit; and at the same time, in the mystery of faith and fullness of love, You desire to be one with me and every one of us who open our hearts to You. ...

 

As You prayed before going to the cross in view of the resurrection:

 

“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in Me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as You 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. I have given them the glory that You gave Me, that they may be one as We are one--I in them and You in Me--so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that You sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me” (Luke 17:20-23).

 

That Truth seems almost too amazing to be true--that our Father loves us even as much as He loves You. But that’s what You came to reveal, what You laid down Your life for us to reveal--that “the world will know that (the Father) sent (the Son) and (has) loved (us) even as (the Father) loved (the Son” (v. 23).

 

As I ponder this Truth, allowing it to seep deeply into my soul, the words of a profound song of worship come to mind:

 

How deep the Father's love for us,

How vast beyond all measure!

That He should give His only Son,

To make a wretch His treasure.

How great the pain of searing loss!

The Father turns His face away;

As wounds which marred the Chosen One

Bring many sons to glory.

 

How deep the Father's love for us,

How vast beyond all measure!

That He should give His only Son,

To make a wretch His treasure.

How great the pain of searing loss!

The Father turns His face away;

As wounds which marred the Chosen One

Bring many sons to glory.

 

Behold the man upon a cross:

My sin upon His shoulders;

Ashamed I hear my mocking voice

Call out among the scoffers.

It was my sin that held Him there

Until it was accomplished;

His dying breath has brought me life:

I know that “It is finished.”

 

I will not boast in anything:

No gifts, no power, no wisdom;

But I will boast in Jesus Christ:

His death and resurrection.

Why should I gain from His reward?

I cannot give an answer;

But this I know with all my heart;

His wounds have paid my ransom.

Why should I gain from His reward?

I cannot give an answer;

But this I know with all my heart:

His wounds have paid my ransom.

(Songwriter: Stuart Townsend)

 

Your death and resurrection, Your eternal sacrifice of love in laying down Your life for us, move me to love You and receive Your love for me. You’re “bringing many sons to glory” -- “many sons (and daughters, the children of our God and Father) to glory” (Hebrews 2:10). In humility and honor, in surrender and faith, I embrace Your invitation that’s greater than my imagination, that You might make me one with You--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God--as You reach out to all the world to know this same deep love You have for every one of us. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may your heart filled with this profound Truth that God our Father loves you just as much as He Loves God the Son, our Lord and Savior, the Chosen One, Jesus Christ, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

New Mailing Address:

502 North Milam Street

Fredericksburg, Texas 78624

Please share this word to encourage a friend!

Anyone can sign up for free at:

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“Setting hearts free to be all they were created to be

—Free to Be Like Jesus—

secure in their identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling their destiny"

Burning Hearts - April 3, 2024

 

Morning by Morning, April 3 - Burning Hearts   Good morning, Lord Jesus. Lead me in the way that leads to life in You today. ...   “Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing, Jesus Himself came near and went with them, but their eyes were kept from recognizing Him.... When He was at the table with them, He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized Him; and He vanished from their sight. They said to each other, ‘Were not our hearts burning within us while He was talking to us on the road, while He opened the Scriptures to us?’” (Luke 24:13-32)   Lord Jesus, as I speak of You, would You come near to me? As read of You, would You cause my heart to burn within me?   The words of Moses and the words of the prophets speak of You, the One who fulfills the promises of God (v. 27). The words of the Scriptures of God prepare the way of the Lord in my heart to encounter the Presence of God. And You come near. You open my eyes to see, my heart to receive, and my faith to believe.   In the communion of Your Presence--both grounded in Your Word and filled with Your Spirit--let Your Word and Your Spirit burn in my heart. Set me ablaze with a passion for You in these first moments of my morning and let my heart burn within me, with both love and obedience, throughout the moments of my day. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays My friend, may your heart burn within you, as you're grounded in the Word and filled with the Spirit, loving and obeying Jesus now and throughout the moments of your day, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day! Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries New Mailing Address: 502 North Milam Street Fredericksburg, Texas 78624 Please share this word to encourage a friend! Anyone can sign up for free at: https://messiah-ministries.org My Books on Inner Healing, Spiritual Freedom and Spiritual Intimacy with God are Available on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays “Setting hearts free to be all they were created to be —Free to Be Like Jesus— secure in their identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling their destiny"

Please Keep us in Prayer for These Messiah Ministries Events  April 3 New Wine Worship at our Ministry Home Base in Fredericksburg, Texas. 1st Wednesday of Every Month. Come drink deeply from the Well of the Holy Spirit. All are welcome! https://messiah-ministries.org/event-list April 12 Men's Retreat on the Guadalupe River at Ingram, Texas April 13 Speaking with Rocio at a Women's Retreat in Boerne, Texas April 26-27 3rd Annual Revival at the Barn! at Yee Haw Ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas May 3-5 Attending Rick Joyner's Christian Writer's Seminar at Moravian Falls, NC May 28-June 2 Ministry in Cali, Columbia with Rocio and speaking at the Citywide Pastors Association Monthly Meeting in Cali on Inner Healing and Deliverance Prayer Ministry. Huge Open Doors! Praise God! June 5-7 MorningStar Fellowship of Ministries Retreat at Fort Mill, SC June 23 Preaching 3 Services at Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas July 30-August 1 Teaching the Healing Academy at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries, Goodlettsville, TN in the Nashville, Tennessee area Tuesday Nights at 6PM Teaching our 9 Month Equipping Course on Tuesday Nights at 6PM at The Bridge Church, 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