Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Morning by Morning, June 2 - Days of Sabbath Rest, Even from Spiritual Disciplines

Good morning, Lord Jesus. You are my Lord and Savior, my God and King, my Best Friend, my All in All. I worship You, Lord God -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit -- and I welcome You into every moment of every day of my life.  ...

"Jesus said to them, 'The wedding guests cannot fast while the bridegroom is with them, can they? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day' " (Mark 2:19-20).

I've come away for a couple of weeks from my daily routine -- if anyone can say I have a daily routine -- of life and ministry for some time apart with my family at my mother's house in the mountains of New Mexico. And though my daily life is normally filled different forms of spiritual discipline, along with my spiritual occupation, intermingled with my personal spiritual life, I'm not really planning on being so spiritually disciplined while I'm away with my family.

In fact, as they say, sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is to lay down and take a nap. The Bible calls this the spiritual discipline of "rest" (Hebrews 4:1). "So then, a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God; for those who enter God's rest cease from their labors as God did from His. Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest..." (v. 4:9-11).

So if it's ok with You, Lord, I would like to practice a lot of that spiritual disciple of sabbath rest for about two weeks. Maybe You can even teach me and empower me to hold on to my spirit of sabbath rest even when I return to the daily routine of my everyday life. But for now, as best as I can and all by Your grace, I entrust myself to Your sabbath rest. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  I pray for seasons and rhythms of sabbath rest for you. May you be refreshed and renewed as you rest in the Presence of God. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, I doubt that I'll be getting up early to write and send out my morning devotional while I'm away. Please forgive me. Here are some pics of my family:

 
 
 
The Lord has blessed me with an awesome family and some time to enjoy them! God bless you as you enjoy yours and rest in Him!


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Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
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Friday, May 30, 2014

Morning by Morning, May 30 - Let These be Yours and Increasing

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Be at the foundation of my day, in the center of all I do, and Lord over all.  ...

"For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, mutual affection with love. For if these are yours and are increasing among you, they keep you from being ineffective and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 1:5-8).

Father God, let these characteristics of Christ became ingrained in my character. Let them be mine and let them increase. Nothing would break my heart more than to live my life in this short sliver of time I have than to be ineffective and unfruitful with the knowledge of all You are to me and all You've done for me.

So in the power of Your grace, let me "be all the more eager to confirm (my) call and election, for if (I) do this, (I) will never stumble" (v. 10). "(Your) divine power has given (me) everything needed for life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called (me) by (Your) own glory and goodness" (v. 3). Empower me today to live my life for You forever. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  may they character of Christ be yours and increasing, all by the divine power of God at work within you, to fulfill your calling and election as a child of God and disciple of Christ. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, Click Here to Read the Report and See the Pictures of our Recent Uganda Trip prepared by our Team Sponsor, Mike Scalf of Life Endowment Ministries. Thank you for all your prayers! And please keep us in prayer for our next overseas ministry adventure when I travel to El Salvador in August with our Spanish Team from Rapha God Ministries to teach on inner healing prayer ministry. God bless you and thank you for joining me in the journey of prayer!



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Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Morning by Morning, May 29 - Holy Fire

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I worship You with all I am -- Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I welcome You into all I have, throughout every moment of this day.  ...

"Bless our God, O peoples, let the sound of His praise be heard, who has kept us among the living, and has not let our feet slip. For You, O God, have test us; You have tried us as silver is tried. You brought us into the net; You laid burdens on our backs; You let people ride over our heads; we went though fire and through water; yet You have brought us out to a spacious place.... Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what He has done for me.... Blessed be God, because He has not rejected my prayer or removed His steadfast love from me" (Psalm 66:8-16).

Like silver tried and refined in the fire, our hearts are softened, our faith is stretched, and our pride is humbled through the tests and trials we must encounter and endure on our endurance race through this broken and fallen world. Yet You never waste a moment of our sufferings. And You never leave us in the fire any longer than necessary to accomplish the purposes You've willed in Your heart to accomplish in our lives. No matter what comes against us, You cause it all to work together for our good, because You love us and call us according to Your purpose (Romans 8:28).

And like the silversmith who purifies the silver until he can see the reflection of his face on the surface of the metal, You refine us in Your holy fire until You see the reflection of Your nature in our hearts. "His divine power has given us everything needed for life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness. Thus He has given us, through these things, His precious and very great promises, so that through them (we) may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may become participants of the divine nature" (2 Peter 1:3-4).

Holy Spirit, purify me in Your holy fire. Make me more like Jesus today, as You hold me close in the steadfast embrace of my Father's love through anything I may encounter and endure this day. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  may the Holy Spirit make you more like Jesus today, embraced in your Father's steadfast love. 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
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Morning by Morning, May 28 - "Come and See"

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

"Philip found Nathanael and said to him, 'We have found Him about whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth.' Nathanael said to him, 'Can anything good come out of Nazareth?' Philip said to him, 'Come and see' " (John 1:45-46).

Like Nathanael, Your Holy Spirit invites me every day to come and see what God will do. And every day I'm excited to see what good will come out of all You touch, as You bring beauty from ashes, joy from mourning, and praise for heaviness (Isaiah 61:3). I'm excited to come and see how You'll cause all things to work together for good for those who love You and who are called by Your name (Romans 8:28).

Thank You for inviting me on this great adventure with You every day. "Come and see what God has done:  He is awesome in His deeds among mortals" (Psalm 66:5). I can't wait to come and see what You'll do today. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  I pray you'll be excited to come and see what awesome things our God is doing in your life each day. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, thank you for all the prayers. I'm feeling much better today, after a good day of rest yesterday. Thanks for joining with me in the journey of prayer!



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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, May 27, 2014

Morning by Morning, May 27 - Consumed with Fiery Zeal

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Consume me in the fire of Your Spirit. Possess me in the power of Your love.  ...

"Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of his ancestor David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left. For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a boy, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the sacred poles, and the carved and the cast images. In his presence they pulled down the altars of the Baals; he demolished the incense altars that stood above them. He broke down the sacred polies and the carved and the cast images; he made dust of them and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem. In the towns ... as far as Naphtali, their ruins all around, he broke down the altars, beat the sacred poles and the images into powder, and demolished all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem" (2 Chronicles 34:1-7).

Josiah was passionate about the things of God. His very name in Hebrews means the Fire of the Lord. He was not intimidated by the culture and compromise around him. He was filled with a heart for God. And as a forerunner of the coming Messiah, zeal for the house and heart of God consumed him (Psalm 69:9, fulfilled in John 2:17).

Lord, let zeal for Your house and Your heart consume me. Let the fire of the Lord burn in my spirit. Keep me free from the false fervency and fake intimacy of legalism and self-righteousness, but awaken within me a true zeal for You and what really matters -- the matters of the heart. Set my heart ablaze with a true passion and uncompromising faith. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  may you be consumed with a fiery zeal for the Lord. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, I would appreciate your prayers. Since returning home from Africa last week, my stomach has not been quite right. I'm going to get it checked out and I thank God for every way He chooses to heal and set things right in our lives. I pray His peace and healing for you. Thanks for joining with me in the journey of prayer!




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Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
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Friday, May 23, 2014

Morning by Morning, May 23 - As He is, So are We to Be

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Put Your thoughts in my mind and Your desires in my heart. Change me from the inside out to be more like You each day.  ...

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

Lord Jesus, let the truth of this word sink deeply into my soul. As You are, so are we to be in this world. Help me embrace this word on the most personal and intimate level:  As You are, so am I to be in this world.

Give me eyes to see what it would look like to be like Jesus as I go through the moments of my day. When I'm confronted with the challenges of my circumstances, the needs of people, the questions of injustice, the spiritual forces of wickedness, the self-righteousness of the arrogant or the rudeness of the indifferent, show me Your heart, give my Your words, and let my actions be in alignment with Your nature.

I could never even begin to do this in my power or my nature. Apart from You, I can do nothing (John 15:5). So my part is to willingly choose to be desperately dependent upon You alone, with true humility of heart and trusting faith, abiding in You as You abide in me (John 15:4). "Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts" (Zechariah 4:6). "For in (You) we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  I pray the Holy Spirit will fill you with the Father's heart and the mind of Christ today, that you would be empowered by God to be like Jesus throughout the moments of your day. 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, May 22, 2014

Morning by Morning, May 22 - Seek to Love like God

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Make me more like You today.  ...

"Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God's love was revealed among us in this way:  God sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another God lives in us, and His love is perfected in us" (1 John 4:7-12).

Son of God, Lord Jesus Christ, let me live through You today. Let Your love live in me today. Let power of the love of God, perfectly revealed in Jesus Christ, move mightily through my words and actions, through my thoughts and desires, through the steps I take and the decisions I make today.

"So (I) have known and believe the love that God has for (me). God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them" (v. 4:16). Come, Lord Jesus, abide in me today.

"By this (I) know that (I) abide in Him and He in (me), because He has give (me) of His Spirit" (v. 4:13). Come, Holy Spirit, Spirit of Christ in me, abide in me today. Let the love of God flow through me today, as You make me more like You. As best as I can and all by Your grace, let me seek to love like God today. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. 

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


My Friend,  may the Holy Spirit abide in you as the love of God flow though you powerfully today. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, thank you so much for all of our prayers for us and our ministry to Africa in partnership with New Life Endowment Ministries. Everyone was healthy and filled with joy, sharing the love of God in Jesus Christ everywhere we went. We could never do this kind of ministry with your prayers and I thank God for you! Thank you so much for joining with me in this journey of prayer! Love you all, Tommy.

I've been posting some of our photos on Facebook and will include a few below. God bless 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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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Morning by Morning, May 21 - "The Least of These"

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Here I am, Lord. Send me today, wherever You will.  ...

As I watch and wait for the leading of Your Spirit to begin my day embraced in Your Presence, I hear a the words of new song rising up in my spirit. I hear Your voice inviting me to come into a deeper place in Your heart. ...

Will you reach out to the least of these?
Will you come out to the least of these?
They are My children, my little ones
They are My lost and abandoned ones
So won't you reach out, won't you come out
To love and to care for the least of these?

Will you reach out to the least of these?
Will you come out to the least of these?
They are My hurting and broken ones
Bound and addicted, My suffering ones
So won't you reach out, won't you come out
To love and to care for the least of these?

Will you reach out to the least of these?
Will you come out to the least of these?
Wounded and abused, My empty ones
Angry and afraid, My hopeless ones
So won't you reach out, won't you come out
To love and to care for the least of these?

Yes, Lord. Bring me into a deeper place in Your heart. Put Your thoughts in my mind and Your desires in my heart. Cause the things that break Your heart to break my heart and the things that bring You joy to bring me joy. And especially open my eyes to see and my heart to embrace the least of these whenever You choose to bring them into my life or bring me into theirs.

"Then the righteous will answer Him, 'Lord, when was it that we saw You hungry and gave You food, or thirsty and gave You something to drink? And when was it that we saw You a stranger and welcomed You, or naked and gave You clothing? And when was it that we saw You sick or in prison and visited You?' And the King will answer them, "Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of My family, you did it to Me' " (Matthew 25:37-40).

Lord, give me Your heart to live my life in Your way, as best as I can and all by Your grace. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


Friends,  I pray the Holy Spirit will continue to fill your heart with the heart of Jesus to be the about our Father's business of reaching out and going out to the least of these. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, thank you so much for all of our prayers for us and our ministry to Africa in partnership with New Life Endowment Ministries. Everyone was healthy and filled with joy, sharing the love of God in Jesus Christ everywhere we went. We could never do this kind of ministry with your prayers and I thank God for you! Thank you so much for joining with me in this journey of prayer! Love you all, Tommy.

I've been posting some of our photos on Facebook and will include a few below. God bless 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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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Morning by Morning, May 20 - Returning with Joy!

Good morning, Lord Jesus. At the sound of Your name, let every knee bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father. I bow down and confess out loud Your Lordship over my life today.  ...

"After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of Him in pairs to every town and place where He Himself intended to go. He said to them, 'The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.... The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, in Your name even the demons submit to us! ... At that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, 'Thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was Your gracious will!" (Luke 10:1-21)

Thank You, Jesus! You sent us to Your harvest in Uganda, proclaiming the coming of the Kingdom of God and the Good News of the love of God revealed in Jesus Christ. And we saw You demonstrate the power of God through the words and prayers and love in action You gave us to give away to the people of that land. And after just a week that seemed like a life-time, we've returned with joy, shouting Your praises and telling the stories of Your wondrous grace to them and to us.

We are praising You, God, for an incredible time of ministry in the African cities, villages, and countryside where You sent us in Uganda -- Teaching on Healing Prayer Ministry at the Pastors and Leaders Conference with 560 pastors and leaders from all over the area around Mubende, Uganda; giving out Bibles to the pastors and evangelists in their own language, evangelistic ministry in the markets with many salvations and a dramatic deliverance seeing a tormented woman set free and embrace Jesus, with the gathering crowd seeing the power of the love of God in the mighty name of Jesus; ministry in the villages and countryside with salvations, ministry at orphanages and boarding schools with salvations; 28 students getting saved at the High School; getting to preach and pray on the radio broadcasting across the nation of Uganda one morning; preaching at two churches Sunday morning, with testimonies of healing and encouragement after the prayers. Even on the flight home, one of our team prayed inner healing all night for a pastoral counselor from Holland who wants us to bring out team there next.

Your harvest is ripe! O Lord, send us as Your laborers in Your vineyard declaring the word of the Lord!

And that we return home, help us hold on to these things and ponder them in our hearts. We are forever changed. Now help us not simply return to life as usual, but also help us re-enter life as usual without letting go of all You've done in each one of us. Let us be ready at any moment to say, "Here I am, Lord; send me" -- whether it's to the nations or across the street. Whenever we do, we'll always return with joy! In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  I pray you would go out in the power of God's love and Spirit wherever He sends you into His harvest, knowing you will return with great joy in your heart! Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, thank you so much for all of our prayers for us and our ministry to Africa in partnership with New Life Endowment Ministries. Everyone was healthy and filled with joy, sharing the love of God in Jesus Christ everywhere we went. We could never do this kind of ministry with your prayers and I thank God for you! Thank you so much for joining with me in this journey of prayer! Love you all, Tommy.

I've been posting some of our photos on Facebook and will include a few below. God bless 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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Thursday, May 08, 2014

Morning by Morning, May 8 - Wait for Power to be His Witness

Good morning, Lord Jesus. King of kings and Lord of lords, be King and Lord of my life today.  ...

"After His suffering He presented Himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. While staying with them, He ordered them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for the promise of the Father. 'This,' He said, 'is what you have heard from Me; for John baptized with water but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.... But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be My witnesses ... to the ends of the earth" (Acts 1:3-8).

Lord Jesus, thank You for sending me to the ends of the earth. Since You called me out of my career as a lawyer and into Your ministry of healing, I've been thrilled to be Your witness of Your power and love in so many nations of the earth. Now I'm so excited to be carrying Your message of hope and healing to the people of Uganda in a couple of days. And I'm excited to hear their stories of Your power and love already in their midst.

But I don't want to go anywhere -- not to Uganda, not across the street in San Antonio -- until I've waited on You and the promise of my Father to be "clothed with power from on high" (Luke 24:49). Fill me up to overflowing with Your Holy Spirit (Ephesians 5:18). Baptize me afresh in Your Holy Spirit and Your holy Fire (Matthew 3:11). Set me ablaze with a passion for You and for Your people who need to know the power and love of our mighty God.

Like Paul's witness everywhere You sent him, let "my speech and my proclamation (be) not with plausible words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that (our) faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God (1 Corinthians 2:4-5). "For Christ did not send me to baptize but to proclaim the gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, so that the cross of Christ might not be emptied of its power" (v. 1:17). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  I pray you would be baptized afresh in the Holy Spirit and God's holy Fire, clothed with power from on high, to be a witness of Jesus wherever He sends you. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, our Rapha God Ministries team is preparing to travel to Uganda on Saturday for a week of ministry, partnering with our friends at New Life Endowment Ministries. I'll be teaching on inner healing prayer ministry at the Pastors and Leaders Conference during the days with evangelistic meetings in the evenings. Our team will also be leading a Women's Conference in the evenings and we will also be sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ at an orphanage and schools. Please keep us in your prayers! 

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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Wednesday, May 07, 2014

Max Lucado & Tommy Hays - Healing Service Tonight at 7PM CST by Live-Stream in San Antonio

Please join us tonight if you can or join us by prayer or by Live-Stream if you can't 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!

Also, please keep our team in prayer as we travel to Uganda in Africa on Saturday to teach on inner healing prayer ministry, preach for evangelism, share our testimonies in schools and orphanages, and share the love of God in Jesus Christ all along the way in every Divine appointment the Lord provides. 

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, May 7 - Focus on Following Jesus

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Make me more like You today.  ...

"Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them.... When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, 'Lord, what about him?' Jesus said to him, 'If it is My will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? Follow Me!' " (John 21:20-22)

You loved Peter and You loved John, just as You love every soul created in the image of God. Both would follow You, both would live the rest of their lives for You. According to the legends of their lives, Peter would die hanging upside-down on a cross and John would be exiled on an island alone, but both would hold fast to their faith to the end. Peter would share his with the first Gentiles who would receive the Holy Spirit (Acts 10:44). And John would share his with the generations to come through writing of his encounter with You reveling the end times of the earth (Revelation 1:1).

Both Peter and John would love You and follow You in their own way by the leading of Your same Spirit. And You made it clear from the beginning that one was not to compare himself with the other. Each was to focus on following You.

Lord, free me to focus on following You. Free me from comparing myself to any of Your other disciples. Free me from jealousies, insecurities, and pride. Free me to be who You created me to be and to follow You wherever You are leading me. Give me a heart that celebrates all You're doing through Your other disciples, a heart that's inspired and encouraged by the journeys of others, but also a heart that is passionate to find my own path and content to follow You in the unique way You've called me.

Let me live out no one's destiny but my own. And when it's all been said and done, let me hear Your voice speaking to my spirit, "Well done, My good and faithful servant" (Matthew 25:21). As Your Word says, "Pay careful attention to your own work for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won't need to compare yourself to anyone else. For we are each responsible for our own conduct" (Galatians 6:4-5, NLT). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  I pray the Holy Spirit would lift your eyes fill your heart to follow Jesus in the unique way He has called you alone. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, our team is preparing to travel to Uganda on Saturday for a week of ministry, partnering with our friends at New Life Endowment Ministries. I'll be teaching on inner healing prayer ministry at the Pastors and Leaders Conference during the days with evangelistic meetings in the evenings. Our team will also be leading a Women's Conference in the evenings and we will also be sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ at an orphanage and schools. Please keep us in your prayers!

I'm excited to be preaching with Max Lucado again this month at the 1st Wednesday Healing & Prayer Service at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio on May 7th. Please join us in prayer and by Live-stream at 7pm Central Time
God bless you and thank you for joining with me in this journey of prayer!  

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Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
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Monday, May 05, 2014

Morning by Morning, May 5 - Hear Him Call Your Name

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I seek Your face and listen for Your voice....

"When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, 'Simon son of John, do you love Me more than these? ... Feed My lambs.... Tend My sheep.... Follow Me' " (John 21:15-19).

To follow You and fulfill our destiny is an expression of love for You. And You have a holy jealousy for our love. You want us to love You more than anything else. Just as You love us more than anything else. "There is no greater love" (v. 15:13).

I can hear You call my name
Calling me to follow You
I want to know my call in You
To follow You where You lead

Let me have Your heart in me
In Your heart I am complete
Let me fulfill Your heart's desire
I'm in You and You're in me

Jesus, You call my name
Jesus, I seek Your face
Jesus, You live in me
Jesus, I live in You

Thank You, Lord. Empower me to live into the words You've written on my heart today. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  may you hear the Lord call your name and invite you to follow Him to fulfill your destiny as a child of God. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, our team is preparing to travel to Uganda on Saturday for a week of ministry, partnering with our friends at New Life Endowment Ministries. I'll be teaching on inner healing prayer ministry at the Pastors and Leaders Conference during the days with evangelistic meetings in the evenings. Our team will also be leading a Women's Conference in the evenings and we will also be sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ at an orphanage and schools. Please keep us in your prayers!

I'm excited to be preaching with Max Lucado again this month at the 1st Wednesday Healing & Prayer Service at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio on May 7th. Please join us in prayer and by Live-stream at 7pm Central Time
  

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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