Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Healing Service with Max Lucado & Tommy Hays Tonight in San Antonio

Please join us if you can or join us by prayer or by Live-Stream if you can't tonight for our Healing Prayer Service at 7PM Central Standard Time at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas

I'm excited to be joining Max Lucado at the Crownridge Campus of Oak Hills Church on I-10 in San Antonio to share a message on hope and healing. Our Rapha God Ministries Prayer Team will be joining the Oak Hills Prayer Team and Elders to pray personally for everyone at the altar. We'll also have Spanish-speaking prayer teams.

May the name of Jesus be high and lifted up as we encounter the healing love of God in spirit, soul, and body. May you also experience the Lord's power and Presence in your church and community. Thank you for your prayers!

God bless you, my friend!
  
Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Bldg 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Morning by Morning, March 5 - Ashes and Honor

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I humble myself in Your sight and pray You would lift me up in Your embrace. Help me begin this day and every day embraced by the Father, centered in Christ, and filled with the Spirit.  ...

"But Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore the long robe that she was wearing; she put her hand to her head, and went away, crying aloud as she went" (2 Samuel 13:19).

In many traditions and streams of the Body of Christ today, people put ashes on their head or receive the imposition of ashes on their heads from their priest or pastor to mark Ash Wednesday. Part of the meaning is to speak of an attitude of humility and repentance for sin on this first day of the Lenten season of forty days before Easter Sunday. And any cultures and traditions in the world also celebrate Fat Tuesday the night before as one night of revelry before forty days of repentance.

But regardless or our traditions and rituals, You are a God who "draws near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit" (Psalm 34:18). "A broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise" (Psalm 51:17). As we humble ourselves in Your sight, You lift us up (James 4:10). You are our God who "raises up the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them set with princes and inherit a seat of honor" (1 Samuel 2:8).

Thank You for the forgiveness of sins and the embrace of Your love. Rather than just a day on the calendar or a ritual in the Church, help me live a lifestyle of humility of heart so I can also live a life fully embraced in Your Presence and lifted up into the place of honor in Your heart. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  may you be lifted up by the Holy Spirit into the place of honor in the heart of our God as you humble yourself in His sight today. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!


Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Morning by Morning, March 4 - Words of Life

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I seek Your face, call out Your name, and listen for Your voice, here in these first moments of my morning to start my day deliberately in Your Presence.  ...

"Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits" (Proverbs 18:21).

Sanctify my tongue, Lord. Fill my heart with Your Spirit and my mouth with Your words. Help me keep in communion with Your throughout the moments of my day so that I only speak the words I hear You speak. "Whoever is from God hears the words of God" (John 8:47).

Let my words bring life and not death, build up and not tear down. Let the blessings from Your heart be released through the words of my mouth into the hearts and lives of those You bring across my path today. "Let the words of my mouth and the mediation of my heart be acceptable to You, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer" (Psalm 19:14). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  may the Holy Spirit fill your heart and mouth with the words of God today. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!


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Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Monday, March 03, 2014

Morning by Morning, March 3 - "Equip the Saints" for Maturity in Christ

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I look to You and listen for the leading of Your voice. ...

"The gifts He gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of the ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ" (Ephesians 4:11-13).

Equip us and mature us. Build us up and grow us up as the body of Christ with the heart of Christ. Put Your thoughts on our mind and Your desires in our heart. Make us more like You each day. "We must no longer be children.... But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into Him who is the head, into Christ" (v. 14-15).

As You are doing with the body of Christ as a whole in this season, also show me personally within myself where I need to be built up and to grow up. Show me what is still immature within me. I want to embrace Your will to conform me into the image of the Son of God (Romans 8:29).

"When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways" (1 Corinthians 13:11). Lord, I want to be an adult in the Spirit and mature in Christ. And I want to know my part and take my place in the mature and healthy, equipped and empowered body of Christ that has grown into "the measure of the full stature of Christ" (Ephesians 4:13). Give me grace to embrace all You desire to do in me to accomplish Your will. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  may the Holy Spirit equip you and mature you, together with the body of Christ, to be built up and grow up into the full measure of the stature of Christ. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, thank you for praying for us this past weekend for  ourLevel 1 School of Ministry helping equip the Body of Christ for the ministry of inner healing and deliverance -- "healing from the inside out." We had another full class of 80 again at Rapha God Ministries, being hosted at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio! The Holy Spirit moved mightily among us with students from many different streams and churches of the body of Christ. We'll be staring our Level 2 School in a couple of weeks on Thursday Nights for seven weeks. God bless you as God equips you for the work of ministry where He has strategically positioned you.


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Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Friday, February 28, 2014

Morning by Morning, February 28 - The Hands and Heart of Jesus

Good morning, Lord Jesus. You are mighty to save -- mighty to minister the fullness of Your salvation to us -- eternal life, healing, deliverance, wholeness and holiness in every dimension of our being. Show Yourself mighty in my life today.  ...

"Once, when He was in one of the cities, there was a man covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he bowed with his face to the ground and begged him, 'Lord, if you choose, you can make me clean.' Then Jesus stretched out His hand, touched him, and said, 'I do choose. Be made clean.' Immediately the leprosy left him" (Luke 5:12-13).

Just as You did when You walked this earth in the flesh, You continue move through this earth in the power of Your Spirit saving the lost, healing the sick, casting out demons, cleansing the leapers, raising the dead. You still choose to stretch out Your hand and heal in the hurting, broken, and bound in spirit, soul, and body.

You are "the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8). And we are Your Body -- the Body of Christ, filled with the Spirit of Christ, continuing the ministry of Christ (Matthew 10:8). As the Father sent You, so You send us to teach what You taught, to do what You did, in the power that You had (John 20:21). The same Spirit that anointed You to preach the Good News of the Kingdom of God, to heal the sick, to overcome evil is the same Spirit within us as the Body of Christ (John 20:22).

Lord, stretch out Your hand to save and heal and deliver today. Let us be Your Body, filled with Your Spirit, continuing Your ministry, everywhere You send us. We are Your expression of Your hands and Your heart in this earth (1 Corinthians 12:27). In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  I pray you will know you are an expression of the hands and heart of Jesus today. May He be mighty to save, heal, and deliver through you in the power of His Spirit within you wherever He sends you. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, please keep us in prayer this week for our Level 1 School of Ministry this Thursday through Saturday, helping equip the Body of Christ for the ministry of inner healing and deliverance -- "healing from the inside out." We're excited to have a full class again at Rapha God Ministries, being hosted at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio!


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Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Thursday, February 27, 2014

Morning by Morning, February 27 - "Chosen and Destined by God"

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I abide in You, as You abide in me.  ...

"(We) have been chosen and destined by God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ and to be sprinkled with His blood. May grace and peace be (ours) in abundance" (1 Peter 1:2).

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, You are the Lord my God. As best as I can and all by Your grace, I entrust every dimension of my being to every dimension of Your Being. I'm covered by Your blood and embraced by Your love. I'm chosen and destined by God to be filled with Your Spirit and follow Christ. As I do, all by the power of Your grace at work within me, Your peace will abound in me, regardless of what's not at peace around me.

No matter what challenges I may face or even injustices I may endure, even when it seems I'm being "tested by fire," I have "an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for (me)" (v. 3-9). You're at work through it all, with me through it all, developing "the genuineness of (my) faith--being more precious than gold" (v. 7). May my life "be found to result in (Your) praise and glory and honor when (more and more of the nature of) Jesus Christ is revealed (in me) (v.7). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  I pray you will the peace of Christ in the depths of your heart no matter what fires of testing you endure in faith, so that God may express His praise and glory and honor through your life. May you always know you are chosen and destined by God. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, please keep us in prayer this week for our Level 1 School of Ministry this Thursday through Saturday, helping equip the Body of Christ for the ministry of inner healing and deliverance -- "healing from the inside out." We're excited to have a full class again at Rapha God Ministries, being hosted at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio!


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Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Morning by Morning, February 26 - Walking and Talking with Jesus

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Walk with me and talk with me and tell me I am Your own. ...

"Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus.... While they were talking and discussing, Jesus Himself came near and went with them.... Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, He interpreted to them the things about Himself in all the Scriptures.... They said to each other, 'Were not our hearts burning within us while He was talking to us on the road, while He was opening the Scriptures to us?'" (Luke 24:13-32).

Come alongside me today, Lord Jesus. Open up the Word of God to me. Let Your Spirit burn inside of me as the Word of God within me. You're my Lord and Savior, my Father and Friend. You're my Constant Companion.

Open the eyes of my heart to see You as You truly are (v. 31). Stir in my heart to know the intimacy and power of Your Presence, forever with me throughout every moment of my day. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  I pray you will experience the intimacy and power of the Presence of Jesus in your journey today. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, please keep us in prayer this week for our Level 1 School of Ministry this Thursday through Saturday, helping equip the Body of Christ for the ministry of inner healing and deliverance -- "healing from the inside out." We're excited to have a full class again at Rapha God Ministries, being hosted at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio!


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Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Morning by Morning
Daily Prayer Journey with Tommy Hays
Morning by Morning, February 25 - "Gathered in My Name"

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Help me start this day and every day embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with Your Holy Spirit.  ...

"For where two or three are gathered in My name, I am there among them" (Matthew 18:20).

These days, most of my days are spent in two hour, inner healing, prayer ministry sessions. Two or three of us gather together in the authority Your name and by the power of Your Spirit to come alongside one of Your children who is bound or broken, wounded or afraid, shutdown or ashamed and help them release to You everything in them that's holding them back from being all You created them to be. We help facilitate an encounter with You so they can let go of the past and "press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 3:13-14).

You're always there in the midst of us. You're always healing what was broken, restoring what was stolen, affirming their identity and awakening their destiny, all in the intimacy of Your Presence. We're really there just to help that hurting one embrace their Healer, take hold of their Deliverer, and arise into newness of life to advance into the fullness of their inheritance in Christ.

It can be exhausting, but it's always exhilarating. It never gets old to see You heal the brokenhearted and set the captives free, to see You bring beauty from ashes and give Your wounded and weary children the garments of praise instead of the spirit of heaviness, so that they may be established in Your love as oaks of righteousness (Isaiah 61:1-4, fulfilled in Luke 4:18-19).

We'd never see a healing, never experience a deliverance, never see the diamond of the hidden treasure of someone heart burst forth in the light of Your glory if You weren't there. Apart from You, we can do nothing (John 15:5). But we are never apart from You; You are with us always (Matthew 28:20). You're always speaking, always inviting us to hear Your voice and follow the leading of Your Spirit (John 10:3). And wherever two or three are gathered together in intimacy and power of Your name, there is Love, for You are there in the midst of us.

Lord God -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, thank You for the gift of spending the days of my life ministering the healing love of God. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  I pray you will experience the intimacy and power of the Presence of Jesus wherever He leads you to gather in His name today and every day. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, please keep us in prayer this week for our Level 1 School of Ministry this Thursday through Saturday, helping equip the Body of Christ for the ministry of inner healing and deliverance -- "healing from the inside out." We're excited to have a full class again at Rapha God Ministries, being hosted at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio!



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Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Monday, February 24, 2014

Morning by Morning, February 24 - "A Seal Upon Your Heart"

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I lift up my eyes and open up my heart to welcome You into every moment of my day.  ...

"Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame" (Song of Solomon 8:6).

Seal me to Your heart, Lord. Awaken a fierce and passionate love in me that burns for You like an unquenchable fire (v. 8:7). Let there be nothing religious or routine in my relationship with You. Let there be nothing lukewarm or lackluster, nothing halfhearted or hollow.

Lord, let Your first commandment be my first love (Exodus 20:1). Don't ever let me be among those whose love grows cold (Matthew 24:12). By the power of the grace of God, let me never forget my First Love (Revelation 2:4).

Move in me to love You with all my heart and mind and soul and strength (Matthew 22:36).  You are a Consuming Fire for me; I want to be a consuming fire for You (Hebrews 12:29). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friends,  I pray you will burn with a fierce and passionate love for the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength. May the Lord set you as a seal upon His heart. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, please keep us in prayer this week for our Level 1 School of Ministry this Thursday through Saturday. We're excited to have a full class again at Rapha God Ministries, being hosted at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio!

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Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Friday, February 21, 2014

Morning by Morning, February 21 - Wheat and Weeds

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Help me hear Your voice and follow Your leading -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  ...

"(Jesus) put before them another parable:  'The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, then went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well.... Let both of them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn'" (Matthew 13:24-30).

Lord, as I grow up by Your grace into maturity, help me grow in discernment. Send in Your reapers to gather the weeds out of my own heart so that the grains of wheat that have grown from the seed of the words of Spirit and life You've planted in my heart may be gathered into Your great harvest. "As a plan for the fullness of time, (You) gather all things up in (Christ), things in heaven and things on earth. In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of Him who accomplishes all things according to His counsel and will, so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, might live for the praise of His glory" (Ephesians 1:10-12).

I pray for increase in the "Spirit of wisdom and revelation as (I) come to know (You), so that, with the eyes of (my) heart enlightened, (I) may know what is the hope to which (You) have called (me) ..." (Ephesians 1:17-18). I pray for an increase in the spiritual gift of discernment (1 Corinthians 12:10).

You are "the One who sows the good seed" (Matthew 13:37). And by the grace of God, I am one of Your "children of the kingdom" (Matthew 13:38). Let there be a harvest of righteousness in my heart, as You bundle up and burn everything in me that's not like You (Matthew 13:43). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  may you grown in discernment as the wheat and weeds in this world grow up into maturity, and may your heart be a part of God's great harvest of righteousness in the earth. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

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Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Thursday, February 20, 2014

Morning by Morning, February 20 - "In the Valley of Decision"

Good morning, Lord Jesus. You are the King of kings and Lord of lords. Rule and reign in my life; be Lord of every moment of my day.  ...

"Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision" (Joel 3:11)

In a sense, every day is the day of the Lord and every valley is the valley of decision. You set before us each day life or death, blessing or curse; and You invite us to choose whom we will trust, whom we will obey, whom we will serve.

All Your promises are before us. The abundance of life we can have in You is ready to be embraced every day if we will turn and look to the One who promises to bring us through every valley and into the fulfillment of our inheritance. As You said to Moses and Joshua and all the children of Israel, You say to us every day:  "I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may life, loving the Lord your God, obeying Him, and holding fast to Him; for that means life to you and length of days, so that you may live in the land that the Lord swore to give to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob" (Deuteronomy 30:19-20).

As we choose You and keep choosing You, You bring us through every valley (Psalm 23:4). You bring us through the waters and rivers and fires, for You love us and You are with us (Isaiah 43:1-5).  So as best as I can and all by Your grace, I choose You. "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord" (Joshua 24:15). Let this day be a good day, a day of the Lord in my life. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  may you know the Presence and power and grace of God with you through every decision, as you keep choosing Him and trusting Him to faithful to you through whatever choices you face. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

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Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Morning by Morning, February 19 - "Continue in the Grace of God"

Good morning, Lord Jesus. You're my Lord and Savior, my Father and Friend, Son of God and Son of Man. Make me more like You today.  ...

"By this Jesus everyone who believes is set free from all those sins from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.... When the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who spoke to them and urged them to continue in the grace of God" (Acts 13:39-43).

There is a law of sin and death:  when we sin, we die -- we die to the fullness of life we can have in You. But if we confess our sins and admit our need of a Savior who forgives us of our sins and delivers us from death, You forgive us and cleanse us and restore us into fullness of life through the repentance of our hearts (1 John 1:9). "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set (us) free from the law of sin and death" (Romans 8:1-2).

As You forgive us and restore in righteousness -- in right relationship with God -- You urge us to continue in the grace of God. You urge us not to turn back to the law of sin and death, not to turn back to condemnation and regret, for ourselves of for others. You urge us to keep turning to You and the fullness of life we have in You, trusting in what You have done for us, not in what we have done or failed to do.

Thank You for Your grace, and thank You for empowering us to continue in Your grace. "For by grace (we) have been saved through faith, and this is not (our) own doing; is the gift of God -- not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what He has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life" (Ephesians 2:8-10). So by the power of the grace of God, I will continue in the grace of God. By the life of Christ in me, I choose to live my life for You -- as best as I can and all by Your grace. In Jesus' name pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  I pray you would continue in the grace of God, with no condemnation and no regret, living into the fullness of life He has for you in Christ. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Praying with you,
Tommy


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Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Morning by Morning, February 18 - After God's Heart

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Take me by the hand and lead me by the heart throughout the moments of my day.  ...

"Then they asked for a king; and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, who reigned for forty years. When He had removed him, He made David their king. In His testimony about him He said, 'I found David, son of Jesse, to be a man after My heart, who will carry out all My wishes.' Of this man's posterity God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as He promised" (Acts 13:21-23).

You honor our decisions and follow through on our choices. Yet You seek those who seek You, who seek after Your heart to carry out Your wishes. You fulfill Your promises and display Your glory through the lives of those who surrender their hearts to You.

Somehow, in Your mercy and the sovereignty of Your grace, You'll use sinful human beings like David to accomplish Your purposes -- never condoning our sins, but also never crushing our spirit; never turning a blind eye to our failures, but also never cancelling our destiny. Despite the sin in his heart, David was always a man after Your heart. And that's the kind of heart You'll use to do great things through the great grace of a personal, passionate relationship with our great God.

Lord, I want to be a man after Your heart. As a Father who loves His son, You'll correct me when I'm wrong and encourage me when I'm weak. And as a son who loves His Father, I ask You to keep putting Your thoughts in my mind and Your desires in my heart. Make me more like You each day. I want to be one who seeks You with all my heart and lives my life out of a personal, passionate relationship with You. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  may you be a person after God's heart, in passionate pursuit for the One you seek with all your heart. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Praying with you,
Tommy


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Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
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Morning by Morning, February 14 - "Beloved by God" on Valentine's Day

Good morning, Lord Jesus. With all my heart, all my mind, all my soul, all my strength, I entrust my life to Your love -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God.  ...

"For we know, brothers and sisters beloved by God, that He has chosen you" (1 Thessalonians 1:2).

By the grace of God, I am chosen by God, a beloved child of God. "See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and this what we are" (1 John 3:1).

On this day we call Valentine's Day, when all the world celebrates love with flowers and candy and cards, I want to first celebrate You and Your love for me. You are Love (1 John 4:8). And any expression of true love we experience in this world is intended to be only a measure or foretaste of the love You have for us and the love we can only fully experience in our relationship of love with You. "We love because He first loved us" (1 John 4:19).

I love You, Lord -- my Beloved, my Best Friend (Song of Solomon 5:16). And I thank You for first loving me. I celebrate Your love for me today. As the worship song declares, "How deep the Father's love for us; how vast beyond all measure.... But this I know with all my heart, His wounds have paid my ransom" (by Stuart Townend). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  I pray you would know the deep love the Father has for you and that you would experience His love throughout the loving relationship He brings into your life. Happy Valentine's Day. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Praying with you,
Tommy


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Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
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Friday, February 14, 2014

Morning by Morning, February 14 - "Beloved by God" on Valentine's Day

Good morning, Lord Jesus. With all my heart, all my mind, all my soul, all my strength, I entrust my life to Your love -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God.  ...

"For we know, brothers and sisters beloved by God, that He has chosen you" (1 Thessalonians 1:2).

By the grace of God, I am chosen by God, a beloved child of God. "See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and this what we are" (1 John 3:1).

On this day we call Valentine's Day, when all the world celebrates love with flowers and candy and cards, I want to first celebrate You and Your love for me. You are Love (1 John 4:8). And any expression of true love we experience in this world is intended to be only a measure or foretaste of the love You have for us and the love we can only fully experience in our relationship of love with You. "We love because He first loved us" (1 John 4:19).

I love You, Lord -- my Beloved, my Best Friend (Song of Solomon 5:16). And I thank You for first loving me. I celebrate Your love for me today. As the worship song declares, "How deep the Father's love for us; how vast beyond all measure.... But this I know with all my heart, His wounds have paid my ransom" (by Stuart Townend). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  I pray you would know the deep love the Father has for you and that you would experience His love throughout the loving relationship He brings into your life. Happy Valentine's Day. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Praying with you,
Tommy


Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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