Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Morning by Morning, July 30 - "Will You Follow Me, My Son?"

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

As I watch and pray, waiting in silence before You, it seems I hear You singing out to my heart ...

Can you hear Me?
Are you listening?
Will you follow Me, My son?

I am with you
I'll never leave you
Will you follow Me, My son?

And I sing back to You from my heart ...

Daddy Abba
I am listening
I will follow You, my Lord

Where you lead me
What you show me
I will follow You, my Lord

I wouldn't miss it
This great adventure
I will follow You, my Lord

I want to see men free
As You heal their hearts
I want to see Your Word
Going forth in power
I want to do Your will
And see Your Kingdom come
I want to live each day
Like there's no tomorrow
I want to put my heart
In Your mighty hands
I want to know who I am
A son of the great I Am
I will follow You

Yes, Lord. I will follow You, as best as I can and all by Your grace. Like Caleb, who put his heart wholly in Your hands, followed You into the fullness of his inheritance, I want to follow You through every adventure every day into the fullness of my inheritance in You. What Your Word says of him, I pray Your heart will say of me:  "My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it" (Numbers 14:24). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  I pray you'll hear and respond to our Father's voice, calling you to come follow Him wherever He leads you in His great adventure for your life today. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

 
Friends, please pray for us as we prepare for our ministry trip to El Salvador. We leave on Friday for a week of ministry to the leaders and a group of youth, teaching inner healing prayer ministry with our Spanish Team from Rapha God Ministries and a mission team from Oak Hills Church. As always, our schedule is packed with teaching and ministry, so please pray for our energy and passion to minister the healing love of God in the mighty name of Jesus! God bless you!


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, July 29, 2014

Morning by Morning, July 29 - They Say, "Let the Name of Israel be remembered no more" (Psalm 83:4)

Good morning, Lord Jesus. As best as I can and all by Your grace, I willingly choose to be desperately dependent upon You alone. O Lord, my God -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit -- I worship You and welcome You into the moments of my day. Some show me now how to pray, as I watch and wait for the leading of Your Spirit. ...

As I try to focus in prayer, You keep bring my mind to the terror and war in Israel.  ...

"O God, do not keep silence; do not hold Your peace or be still, O God! Even now Your enemies are in tumult; those who hate You have raised their heads. They lay crafty plans against Your people; they consult together against those You protect. They say, 'Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more' " (Psalm 83:1-4).

You see past all the propaganda. All wickedness of heart is open to You. Every plan and scheme to turn the hearts of the nations against the nation of Your heart is laid bare before You. You are not deceived, but You are moved -- moved by the cries of Your people who long to live in peace but live in an endless nightmare of terror that rains down as rockets on their cities. And yet the whole world somehow sees their tormenters as the victims and justifies the hatred in their hearts and their strategies of terror.

You care about every heart and every home on every side of every border. You hear the cries of every child who can't sleep for fear and the explosions of war. And You hear the cries of every mother and father who can't bear see their children in pain, their homes destroyed, their hopes of peace shattered and crushed.

O God, You alone are the Peace they seek. You alone are their Rock and Refuge. You alone are their Messiah and Lord -- Messiah and Lord of Arab and Jew, of every Gentile of every nation. You alone are Lord of all.

Come open the eyes of every heart to see You as You. Come expose every evil, reveal every deception, and establish Your righteousness in the hearts of every person of this land and every nation. "O God, do not keep silence; do not hold Your peace or be still, O God!" (v. 1). "Let them know that You alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth" (v. 18). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  may the Holy Spirit move in your heart how to pray for the peace of Jerusalem and the people of the land of Israel, on every side of every border (Psalm 122). 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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Monday, July 28, 2014

Morning by Morning, July 28 - "Live in Love"

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Teach me Your ways and forgive me for mine that are not yet like Yours. Come fill me with Your Spirit in these first moments of my morning.  ...

"And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave Himself for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God" (Ephesians 4:30-5:1-2).

No grief. No regrets. Help me live each day in the life of Your Spirit. Help me live in love, as You love me -- slow to anger, quick to forgive, doing my best, all by Your grace to live and love in the way that honors You with all my heart. It's as simple as that. ... In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  may you live in love today, doing your best, all by God's grace, to live and love in the way that honor the Lord our God with all your heart. 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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Friday, July 25, 2014

Morning by Morning, July 25 - "See What God has Done!"

Good morning, Lord Jesus. King of kings, King of glory, come into my heart and rise up in my spirit, as I begin my day in prayer with You.  ...

"God is not a human being, that He should lie, or a mortal, that He should change His mind. Has He promised, and will He not do it? Has He spoken, and will He not fulfill it? ... The Lord their God is with (Israel), acclaimed as King among them.... Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, no divination against Israel; now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel, 'See what God has done!' " (Numbers 23:19-23).

In the days of the conquest of the Promised Land, as Israel prepared to cross the Jordan to embrace her inheritance of God, her enemies was afraid of what their God would do on behalf of His people (v. 22:1-3). Before the battle for Jericho, the King of Moab sent for the prophet Balaam to curse the people and the armies of Israel (v. 22:4-6).

But God would not permit His people to be cursed (v. 22:22-35). Balaam could only pray for Israel and declare the blessings and victories of God (v. 22:38).

All the eyes of the world are upon Israel again today. In the face of the daily rain of rockets fired indiscriminately upon her cities to inflict as many civilian casualties of men, women, and children as possible in waves of daily terror we can't even imagine taking place in our own nation, Israel is again moving in conquest of the land. And it seems all the world is again cursing Israel.

The Word of God has not changed:  "I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed" (Genesis 12:2-3). And Your call to prayer for the people and the land of Israel has not changed:  "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem" (Psalm 122:6).

Lord Jesus, You are the Messiah of Israel; You alone are her "Prince of Peace" and the Savior of all (Isaiah 9:6). And one day to come, she will look to You, repent of her sin of unbelief and embrace You as Lord and Savior (Zechariah 12:10-13:1). But until that day, we are to pray. We are to bless and not curse.  We are to stand firm in our faith with Your people against the injustice and terror that would seek to destroy her from the face of the earth before her destiny is fulfilled.

So Lord, teach us to pray and to speak the words You put in our mouths to declare and our hearts to embrace on behalf of Israel. Then let us be astounded as we look and see what God has done. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  I pray the Holy Spirit will show you how to pray for the people and the land of Israel and all her neighbors. 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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Thursday, July 24, 2014

Morning by Morning, July 24 - "Pure in Heart"

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Good morning, Heavenly Father. Good morning, Holy Spirit. Lord God, You are One and You are holy. I worship You in every Dimension of Your Being and welcome You into every dimension of my being.  ...

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God" (Matthew 5:8).

Make my heart pure, O Lord -- pure and holy, undefiled and unbroken. Forgive me of my sins; heal me of my hurts. Fill me with Your Spirit -- Your holy, pure Spirit.

Cause me to desire what is good and pure. Cause me to hunger and thirst for righteousness. Take away my hunger and thirst for all that is less. Free me from everything that would divide or defile my heart so that nothing can hold me back from boldly embracing You and the fullness of Your love and grace for me. "And by this we will know that we are from the truth and will reassure our hearts before Him whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and He knows everything. Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have boldness before God; and we receive from Him whatever we ask, because we obey His commandments and do what pleases Him" (1 John 3:19-22).

With a pure heart, I can see You. With a pure heart, I can embrace You and Your ever-abiding Presence, here with me and even here within me. "Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in His holy place? Those who have clean hands and pure hearts ..." (Psalm 24:2-4). So forgiven and free by Your mercy and grace, I lift up my hands and open up my heart "that the King of Glory may come in" (v. 24:7).

King of Glory, come into this heart You've made pure by the sacrifice of Your love and let me see You in my life today. "Truly God is good to the upright, to those who are pure in heart" (Psalm 73:1). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  embracing all Jesus has done for you through His sacrifice of love in His mercy and grace, may you see God in every moment of your life today, with clean hands and a pure heart as the child of God that you are. 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
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Morning by Morning, July 23 - Anointed as Priests of God

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

"Now this is what you should do to them to consecrate them, so that they may serve Me as priests.... You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting, and wash them with water. Then you shall take the vestments, and put on Aaron the tunic and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastpiece and gird him with the decorated band of the ephod; and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy diadem on the turban. You shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head and anoint him" (Exodus 29:1-7).

In Christ, we are Your "chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, in order that (we) may proclaim the mighty acts of Him who called (us) out of darkness into His marvelous light" (1 Peter 2:9). Together, we are Your "holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ" (v. 2:5). Embracing Your Good News of the Kingdom of God, as You save us and heal us and free us, we are now "called priests of the Lord" and "named ministers of our God" (Isaiah 61:6).

So here in this tent of meeting of my morning prayer, I deliberately dedicate and completely consecrate my heart and my life to You today. Anoint me with Your Holy Spirit and clothe me in Christ. Lead me and empower me to minister to You and hold Your people in my heart, 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 the Holy Spirit anoint you and lead you and empower you as a priest of our God throughout the moments of your day. 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
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Morning by Morning, July 22 - Child of God at Heart

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Here I am to worship and to wait awhile in the stillness of Your Presence for the leading of Your Sprit in these first moments of my day.  ...

"See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are.... Beloved, we are God's children now... " (1 John 3:1-2).

Father God, You've already given me Your love; You already call me Your child. I don't have to earn You love or be good enough that one day You might accept me as a beloved child. By the power of Your grace and the mercy of Your love, I am Your child. And I'll always be Your child.

And because You love me, because You care about me, because You want the very best for me, I want to please You. I want to be more like You. So put Your thoughts in my mind and Your desires in my heart. Give me the desire and the power to honor You with my life today. Because I know I'm a child of God at heart, I can live this day like the child of God that I am. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  the Holy Spirit abide in you with the love of our Father to live your life today like the child of God that you are. 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
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Monday, July 21, 2014

Morning by Morning, July 21 - Breaking Our Chains, Setting Us Free!

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Be exalted in my heart and every moment of my day.   ...

"'For in that day,' says the Lord of Heaven's Armies, 'I will break the yoke from their necks and snap their chains. Foreigners will no longer be their masters. For My people will serve the Lord their God and their King descended from David -- the King I will raise up for them'" (Jeremiah 30:8-9, NLT).

I've just come home from ministry at the national conference of Aldersgate Renewal Ministries, where I was teaching equipping sessions on prayer ministry for emotional healing and physical healing. The conference is open to all but it's primarily part of the spiritual renewal movement within the United Methodist Church, filled with Methodists who are spiritually hungry to encounter God and to grow in their experience with the Holy Spirit, as they passionately pursue Jesus in an atmosphere of freedom, grace and love. I try to go every year I can. And I'm never disappointed!

During one of the worship gatherings the Lord gave me a prophetic vision to share with the body:  I saw a giant chain, with giant links of chain stretched tightly. In the center, a man stood in the place of one of the links. His arms were stretched out, forming part of the chain, holding one link of the chain in his left hand and another one in his right. It was as if he was trying to hold the chain together with all of his strength as the chain was being stretched. Suddenly, he let go of both links of the chain and lifted his hands in praise.

The Lord said to us, "I have been stretching you. Will you let Me break you? Will you let go of your control and praise Me? I am breaking your chains."

As we worshipped, as we hungered and thirsted and passionately pursued more of God with reckless abandon to embrace our Father's love, our chains fell off. Our hearts filled up. Our spirits went free. "For freedom Christ has set us free! (By the power of the grace of God, we will) stand firm, therefore, and not submit again to a yoke of slavery!" (Galatians 5:1)

Thank You, Lord, for all Your goodness to me and all Your children You love so much. Thank You for ministries like Aldersgate, where You encourage us with the Good News of the Kingdom of God, healing us where we're brokenhearted and setting us free where we've been held captive, that we can be free to be all You've created us to be, as oaks of Your righteousness to display Your glory through our lives (Isaiah 61:1-4). Thank You for the times and places of refreshing and renewal, where we can drink deeply from the wells of Your Living Water among those who believe and who always want more -- more of You. Thank You for breaking our chains and setting us free -- free to be more like Jesus every day -- knowing our identity and fulfilling our destiny as the Body and Bride of Christ. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  may you be free, as you entrust all control to God and praise Him with all your heart. May He break every chain that would hold you back from being all He created you to be. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!
Friends, thank you so much for all your prayers for me as I was ministering in Springfield, Illinois last week at the National Conference of Aldersgate Renewal Ministries, conference on Spirit-filled Life in the Wesleyan Tradition. It's named after the prayer meeting on Aldersgate Street in London where John Wesley was filled with the Holy Spirit and empowered for the ministry that brought great revival in his generation. I was teaching equipping sessions on Prayer for Inner Healing and Prayer for Physical Healing, as well as ministering on the Word Gifts Team and Prayer Ministry Team during the worship services. The conference will be in Lexington, Kentucky next summer. I hope you can come and may the Lord refresh you and renew you in the power of His Holy Spirit wherever you are. God bless you!


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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Thursday, July 17, 2014

Morning by Morning, July 17 - Delivered from Doubt, Forgiven for Unbelief

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Your name is the first word from my lips this day. I worship You and welcome You into the moments of my day.  ...

"(Jesus) came to His hometown and began to teach the people in their synagogue, so that they were astounded and said, 'Where did this man get this wisdom and these deeds of power? Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? Are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? Are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all this?' And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, 'Prophets are not without honor except in their own country and in their own house.' And He did not do many deeds of power there, because of their unbelief" (Matthew 13:54-58).

They couldn't believe God would anoint a man with such authority to teach and power to heal. They couldn't yet grasp the truth you were trying to reveal, that "all things are possible to him who believes" (Mark 9:23, NKJV).

But as the Son of Man, one living in the nature of man, You willingly chose to humble Yourself from the glory of heaven "in human form," showing us how a simple man, with family and friends that everyone knows, could live an extraordinary life, if only completely committed and surrendered to the will of God (Philippians 2:5-11). As a humble man, God anointed You with the power of heaven:  "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him" (Acts 10:38).

And now, just as God the Father anointed You and sent You, so You send us in the same power of the same Holy Spirit (John 20:21). You said, "Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in Me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If in My name you ask Me for anything, I will do it" (John 14:12-14).

Yes, Lord. "I believe; help my unbelief" (Mark 9:24). Deliver me from doubt. Forgive me for the sin of unbelief -- not fully believing the fullness of Your Word and fully embracing the inerrancy of Your Truth. "For God all things are possible" (Mark 10:27). And in Christ, "all things are possible to him who believes" (Mark 9:23).

Your ministry of the healing love and power of God was not welcome in Your own house or Your home town among Your own people. And ours may not always be either -- just like You warned Your first disciples (Luke 9:5). But our calling is to live our lives completely committed and surrendered to the will of God -- including our calling to minister Your healing love and power by the anointing of Your Holy Spirit, doing what we see You do and speaking what we hear You say, all to the glory of God (Luke 10:1-12; Mark 16:17-18). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,   may you be set free from doubt and unbelief to live into the fullness of your calling as your part of the Church of Jesus Christ, living and loving in the power of the Holy Spirit. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, I'm excited to be ministering in Springfield, Illinois this week at the National Conference of Aldersgate Renewal Ministries, conference on Spirit-filled Life in the Wesleyan Tradition. It's named after the prayer meeting on Aldersgate Street in London where John Wesley was filled with the Holy Spirit and empowered for the ministry that brought great revival in his generation. I'll be teaching equipping sessions on Prayer for Inner Healing and Prayer for Physical Healing, as well as ministering on the Word Gifts Team and Prayer Ministry Team during the evening worship services. Please keep us in prayer for personal revival and an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Come join us if you can. It's always a spiritually refreshing and exciting time for me every year I'm able to come. God bless you!


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, July 16, 2014

Morning by Morning, July 16 - Whatever

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Lord of all, be Lord of all of me and Lord of all of my day.  ...

"Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him" (Colossians 3:14-17).

Only with Your love clothing me, with Your peace ruling me, with Your word infusing me, can I do everything in Your name by your grace. Only then will my words and my deeds honor my Father in the name of my Savior.

This is the perfect harmony You invite me to embrace and encourage me to live -- the perfect harmony of my words and my actions, of my head and my heart, fully committed and fully surrendered to Your Lordship of my life. Lord, let it be so in whatever I do, wherever You send me today. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  I pray you would be clothed in the love, rule by the peace, and infused with the word of Christ in whatever you do today. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, I'm excited to be ministering in Springfield, Illinois this week at the National Conference of Aldersgate Renewal Ministries, conference on Spirit-filled Life in the Wesleyan Tradition. It's named after the prayer meeting on Aldersgate Street in London where John Wesley was filled with the Holy Spirit and empowered for the ministry that brought great revival in his generation. I'll be teaching equipping sessions on Prayer for Inner Healing and Prayer for Physical Healing, as well as ministering on the Word Gifts Team and Prayer Ministry Team during the evening worship services. Please keep us in prayer for personal revival and an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Come join us if you can. It's always a spiritually refreshing and exciting time for me every year I'm able to come. God bless you!


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, July 15, 2014

Morning by Morning, July 15 - Servant and Son of God

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Good morning, Heavenly Father. Good morning, Holy Spirit. Lord God Almighty -- You are One and You are holy and You are here with me now and forever. I acknowledge You and worship You in spirit and truth. I welcome You into every moment of this new day.  ...

"Here is My servant, whom I uphold, My chosen, in whom My soul delights; I have put My Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations. He will not cry or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street; a bruised reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice. He will not grow faint or be crushed until he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his teaching.... I am the Lord, I have called you in righteousness, I have taken you by the hand and kept you; I have given you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness. I am the Lord, that is My name; My glory I give to no other, nor My praise to idols. See, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth, I tell you of them" (Isaiah 42:1-9).

Yes, Lord. By the grace of God, in the mystery of faith, I am one of Your servants and one of your sons. Like each of Your children, Your Holy Spirit is upon me; the Spirit of Christ is within me -- equipping me and empowering me to do my part to live out my calling in the confidence of my identity and the fulfillment of my destiny as one of the servants of God.

Just as Your Word declares of me and each of Your children who are now in Christ:  "(I am) not in the flesh; (I am) in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in (me). Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him. But if Christ is in (me), though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in (me), He who raised Christ from the dead will life to (my) mortal body also through His Spirit that dwells in (me).... For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God... When (I) cry, 'Abba! Father!' it is that very Spirit bearing witness with (my) spirit that (I am one of the) children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ -- if, in fact, we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him" (Romans 8:9-17).

So by the power of Your grace at work within me, send me out today as a messenger of Your life and light, available to all to come into covenant with You. "Christ in (me), the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27). May the blind see and the prisoners be free, all by the power and for the glory of God. Let the new things of new life in Christ spring forth in me and all around me everywhere You send me, as Your servant and Your son. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  may you go forth in the power and the Presence of God today, confident in your identity and fulfilling your destiny as a child of God with the Spirit of Christ upon you and within you. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, I'm excited to be ministering in Springfield, Illinois this week at the National Conference of Aldersgate Renewal Ministries, conference on Spirit-filled Life in the Wesleyan Tradition. It's named after the prayer meeting on Aldersgate Street in London where John Wesley was filled with the Holy Spirit and empowered for the ministry that brought great revival in his generation. I'll be teaching equipping sessions on Prayer for Inner Healing and Prayer Physical Healing, as well as ministering on the Word Gifts Team and Prayer Ministry Team during the services. Please keep us in prayer for personal revival and an outpouring the Holy Spirit. Come join us if you can. It's always a spiritually refreshing and exciting time for me every year I'm able to come. God bless you!


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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Friday, July 11, 2014

Morning by Morning, July 11 - Hannah's Prayer of Trust

Good morning Lord Jesus. Be lifted up in my heart as You draw me to Yourself in the communion of prayer.  ...

"Hannah prayed and said, 'My heart exults in the Lord; my strength is exalted in my God.... There is no Holy One like the Lord, no one besides You; there is no Rock like our God.... He will guard the feet of His faithful ones.... The Lord will judge the ends of the earth; He will give strength to His king, and exalt the power of His anointed" (1 Samuel 2:2-10).

Lord, let me be one of Your faithful ones, one of Your anointed ones, knowing my identity and living out my destiny in Christ. You are my Rock and my Strength, my Guard and my Judge. So I lift up my heart to exult in Your name and rest the embrace of Your love and Your plan for me this day. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  I pray you will know the power and the Presence of the One who is your Rock and Strength, your Guard and Judge, in the fullness of His love for you 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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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Morning by Morning, July 10 - Relentless Rest

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I speak out Your name and listen for Your voice, embracing Your promise, "My sheep hear My voice."  ...

It seems I hear You say, "Rest in Me."

Yes, Lord. Rest, how? ...

"The rest that is relentless in choosing to trust Me in all things."

How do I do that, Lord?

"This rest is an attitude you allow Me to develop in your heart. It is an attitude that actively entrusts every burden, every desire, every moment to Me. It is not passive, nor complacent. My rest is like My word -- alive and active, expecting My promises of My provision and power to be sufficient, even more than enough, for all you need and all you are. Rest in Me, My son."

Yes, Lord.  As I seek to discern if this is Your voice and if these are Your words to me, I believe these words line up with Your Scripture, bear witness to my spirit, display the fruit that draws my attention to You and brings the fruit of Your Spirit to me. May it also be confirmed in the council of others in their hearts as well. Teach me how to live into this kind of rest, this relentless rest.

"For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel:  In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength" (Isaiah 30:15).

Forgive me for the ways I've spurned or ignored Your invitation to enter into Your rest -- whether deliberately and defiantly in rebellion or more subtly but steadily taking on burdens that were never mine to bear with expectations You never imposed, trying to live my life in my own strength and my own way according to my own will. I receive Your forgiveness and embrace Your invitation to enter into Your rest. I thank You for beginning to develop and mature this attitude of heart in me by Your Spirit.

"Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to (me); therefore He will rise up to show mercy to (me). For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are those who wait for Him" (v. 30:18). Lord, as best as I can and all by Your grace, I choose to wait for You; I choose to trust in You; I choose to rest in You. Thank You for this gift and grace of relentless rest. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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


My Friend,  may you experience God's gift and grace of relentless rest, as He develops and matures this attitude of heart in you by His Spirit. May this word of the Lord be alive and active, sharper than a two-edged sword in you (Hebrews 4:12). 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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