Morning by Morning, September 4 - "Always Confident"

 Good morning, Lord Jesus. Come into my heart and every moment of my day.  ... "So we are always confident; even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord -- for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we do have confidence, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please Him" (2 Corinthians 5:6-9). If I look at my world apart from You, it's hard to feel confident. Even with You in my heart and Your Spirit at work in my life, some days are harder than others to focus on the task at hand and press on in the faith in the times we live instead of spending the days I have just longing to be out of this body and away with You (1 Thessalonians 4:17). You've given me eyes to see, but You've also given me faith to believe.So I don't have to stick my head in the sand or detach from reality. I can be fully alive to the very real tensions and turmoil in the very real world around me. But at the same time, with eyes of faith, I can see You in the midst of it -- not indifferent, not indignant, but determined to fulfill Your Word to cause "all things (to) work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to His purpose" (Romans 8:28).  And that gives me confidence. That gives me a confidence in You and Your love for me in the security of faith that doesn't go up down with the stock market or the measure of morality of a nation or the tides of personal opinions. By the power of Your grace, alive and at work every day in our hearts and our minds, we can be "always confident" when we "walk by faith and not by sight."  "Without faith it is impossible to please God" (Hebrews 11:6). May I embrace that grace today and every day to make it my aim to please You by trusting You in faith. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

I pray you will always be confident, walking by faith in the power of God's grace this day and every day, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!     

 

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.Messiah-Ministries.org 

  

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Building 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com 

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Morning by Morning, September 3 - Discipline of Grace

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Steady my spirit, ground me in truth, and lead me in the paths of righteousness today.  ...

 

"Therefore prepare your minds for action, discipline yourselves; set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring you when He is revealed" (1 Peter 1:13).

 

This is the discipline of grace -- to both prepare my mind for action, while at the same time, I also set all my hope to fully trust in the grace of God through Jesus Christ. It's by the power of Your grace, moving in my mind and my heart, that I can discipline myself to choose to "set (my) mind on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for (I) have died, and (my) life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is (my) life is revealed, then (I) also will be revealed with Him in glory" (Colossians 3:2-4).

 

And in the discipline of grace, my mind is not only prepared to think what is right or even believe what is right, but my mind is prepared for action. My mind is prepared to stand for what is right and to do what is right, to not compromise or back down from what is right. In the discipline of grace, I'll not only be a hearer of the word and a believer of the word, but more significantly, I will be a doer of the word -- as best as I can and all by the power of Your grace (James 1:23-25). 

 

Come, Holy Spirit. Empower me today for this discipline of grace. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

I pray the Holy Spirit of God will empower you to prepare your mind for action as you live in the discipline of grace, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!     

 

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.Messiah-Ministries.org 

  

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Building 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com 

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Morning by Morning, September 2 - Exciting Days of September in the Heavens and on the Earth

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. O Lord, my God -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit -- I worship You in every dimension of Your Being and welcome You into every dimension of my being, as I begin my day in the communion of prayer with You.  ...

 

"The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims His handiwork. Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night declares knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words; their voice is not heard; yet their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world" (Psalm 19:1-4).

 

Much is happening in the month of September. We'll see the fourth of the four blood moons, where the heavens and earth witness a total lunar eclipse that makes the moon appear red on four Jewish feast days within a two-year period. We'll see the climax of the year of the Shemitah on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, marking the end of a seven-year cycle and which has also marked major economic shaking and upheaval in recent history. We'll see incredible geo-political events, such as the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church speaking to a joint session of Congress for the first time in our history and then speaking to the United Nations on topics of the world-wide climate and world-wide unity, among others. And depending upon the calculation, we may see the beginning of the Year of Jubilee on the Day of Atonement, with the freedom and blessing of rest and restoration that comes every fifty years in the biblical cycles of Sabbath rest and the favor of God (Leviticus 25:8-11, fulfilled in Jesus Christ, the Messiah, Isaiah 61:1-3 and Luke 4:18-19).

 

These are exciting days to be alive! And we are honored to be chosen to be alive on the earth in these epic days of Your glory and Your plans in the heavens and on the earth. As You said long ago, "Blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. Truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it" (Matthew 13:16-17).

 

As the heavens and the earth declare Your glory, so will we, by the grace of God, seeking to live as lights shining in the darkness (Philippians 2:14-15). No matter what comes, we'll be secure in the One who is our Rock, our Fortress, our Deliverer, our Refuge, our Shield, our Salvation, our Stronghold (Psalm 18:2). Though the heavens may tremble and the earth may shake, we will be firm and safe in Your grip of grace (Hebrews 12:26-29). "We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God" (Acts 14:22 NKJV). "Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, by which we offer to God an acceptable worship with reverence and awe!" (Hebrews 12:28)

 

Through it all, we can know our God is on His throne! (Psalm 47:8). And we can trust in the One who rules over all:  "The Lord has established His throne in the heavens, and His kingdom rules over all. Bless the Lord, O you His angels, you mighty ones who do His bidding, obedient to His spoken word. Bless the Lord, all His hosts, His ministers that do His will. Bless the Lord, all His works, in all places of His dominion. Bless the Lord, O my soul!" (Psalm 103:19-22) In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

I pray you will know you are safe and secure in the grip of God's grace through these exciting days, where we are chosen and blessed to be alive for the glory of God, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!     

 

Please come join us Wednesday Night for the

Worship and Healing Service 

at Oak Hills Church, Crownridge Campus in San Antonio this Wednesday night at 7pm. I'm excited to be sharing a message of hope and healing, joined by our prayer ministry teams from Rapha God Ministries and Oak Hill Church to pray for everyone.

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.Messiah-Ministries.org 

  

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Building 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com 

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Morning by Morning, September 1 - Your Name and Your Praise

 Good morning, Lord Jesus. I declare Your name and Your praise over every moment of my day.  ... I hear You writing a new song of surrender and praise in my spirit today.  ... 

Your name

And Your praise

Over all of my day

 

Have Your way

And Your say

Over all of my day

 

You're my Lord

And my King

You're the Song that I sing

 

You're the One

That I need

You're my Everything

 

Your name

And Your praise

Over all of my day

 

Have Your way

And Your say

Over all of my day

 Yes, Lord. As You declared long ago:  "There is no other god besides Me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is no one beside Me. Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I Am God, and there is no other. By Myself I have sworn, from My mouth has bone forth in righteousness a word that shall not return:  'To Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear'" (Isaiah 45:21-23, fulfilled in Jesus Christ, Acts 4:12 and Philippians 2:9-11).  So in humility of heart and assurance of faith, I bow my knees and confess Your name over all of my life and every moment of my day. You are my God and my Savior. There is no other. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

May the name and the praise of Jesus be declared and lived out as Lord over all your life and every moment of your day, in Jesus' name. There's power in the name of Jesus (John 14:14)! Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!     

 

Please come join us Wednesday Night for the

Worship and Healing Service 

at Oak Hills Church, Crownridge Campus in San Antonio this Wednesday night at 7pm. I'm excited to be sharing a message of hope and healing, joined by our prayer ministry teams from Rapha God Ministries and Oak Hill Church to pray for everyone.

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.Messiah-Ministries.org 

  

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Building 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com 

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Morning by Morning, August 31 - True from the Heart

 Good morning, Lord Jesus.  Come into my heart and every moment of my day.  ... "(Jesus) said to them, 'Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; in vain do they worship Me, teaching human percepts as doctrines.' You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition'" (Mark 7:6-8). Not only with my lips, but with my heart also; not only with my morning prayers, but with my choices throughout the moments of my day also -- I worship You in spirit and in truth. May I be faithful and true from the inside out, rather than the outside alone. Uproot and remove all that merely ritual and religion. Give me a passionate desire and uncompromising hunger for authentic relationship with You. May my actions and my heart be genuine expressions of my true faith in my one, true God. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

May your actions and your heart be a guanine expression of your true faith in our one, true God throughout your day, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

       

 

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.Messiah-Ministries.org 

  

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Building 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com 

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Morning by Morning, August 28 - Awake to Grace

 Good morning, Lord Jesus. I speak out Your name and awaken to Your grace.  ... I hear You writing a new song in my spirit this morning.  ... 

I awake

To Your grace

To seek Your face

Here, in my heart

Here, at the start

Of this new day

 

I arise

I come up high

My spirit flies

Here, in my heart

Here, at the start

Of this new day

 

I will go

Down the path You show

Where Your Spirit flows

Here, in my heart

Here, at the start

Of this new day

 Lord, it's so good to awake to grace. It's so good to know I have a clean slate and a fresh start, that my sins are forgiven and my heart is clear, that I'm so welcome in Your embrace to begin my day in the very Presence of God. "Who will ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in His holy place? Those who have clean hands and pure hearts.... Such is the company of those who seek Him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob" (Psalm 24:3-6). By Your tender mercies and the power of Your grace, I have clean hands and a pure heart before You. "If anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation:  everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!" (2 Corinthians 5:17) You're forever inviting me to "approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that (I) may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need" (Hebrews 4:16).  I need You every hour, every moment of every day. And You're always here with me, welcoming me and embracing me and reminding me I can awake to grace every day. "The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!" (Lamentations 3:22-23) In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

I pray you will awake to grace every morning in the welcoming, embracing, loving grace of our God, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

       

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.Messiah-Ministries.org 

  

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Building 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com 

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Morning by Morning, August 27 - "Be Strong, Do Not Fear, Here is Your God!" 

 Good morning, Lord Jesus. You are One with the Father and One with the Holy Spirit. Be One within me as I seek You in the communion of prayer.  ... "Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. Say to those who are of a fearful heart, 'Be strong, do not fear! Here is your God. He will come with vengeance, with terrible recompense. He will come and save you'" (Isaiah 35:3-4). Sometimes it feels like our hands are week and weary from well-doing and our knees have grown feeble from the long journey. We need to hear Your word in our hearts or hear Your voice spoken through a friend -- "Be strong! Do not fear! Here is your God!" And when respond to Your call and lift up our eyes to You and off of what's making us feel weary or worried, You come and save us. You come and strengthen us and encourage us and empower us. You lift up our spirits as we lift up our hearts. For You are always ready to help and "mighty to save" (Isaiah 63:1). Daddy Abba, my Father God, send forth Your word, utter Your voice. Strengthen me and encourage me and empower me today. Fill me afresh with Your Holy Spirit, Who's always leading me to Jesus, my Savior, to embrace the fullness of my salvation in You (John 14:26). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

May the Lord our God strengthen you and encourage you and empower you today wherever you may feel weary or worried, in Jesus' name. Be strong, fear not, for God is with you! Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

       

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.Messiah-Ministries.org 

  

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Building 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com 

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Morning by Morning, August 26 - A Voice Cries Out in the Wilderness

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Here I am to worship and wait for Your leading in my morning communion of prayer with You, O Lord, my God -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  ...

 

"A voice cries out:  'In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places plain. Then the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all people shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken'" (Isaiah 40:3-5).

 

Come, Holy Spirit. Prepare the way of the Lord in my heart and in the earth. Lift up every valley of discouragement, depression, anxiety, fear, failure, doubt and unbelief. Bring low every mountain of pride, arrogance, self-centeredness, self-sufficiency, and self-righteousness. Straighten out every crooked place of sin, shame, distortion, corruption, compromise, and complacency. Make way for the King of glory here in me, here in my world, here in my time.

 

For myself and for the people of God in my land, where our hearing has grown faint or our spirit has become dull, awaken us to hear the voice of Your Spirit crying out to us in our wilderness of the world and dry desert of faith. Let us arise and shine, for our Light has come, and the glory of the Lord shall arise upon us in the midst of the darkness that seeks to cover the earth and even the souls of the people of God (Isaiah 60:1). Let us hear the voice of the One crying in the wilderness of these times, "Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!" (Ephesians 5:14) In Jesus' name pray. Amen.

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

May you hear the voice of the Spirit speaking to your heart to arise and shine that the light and the glory of the Lord may arise upon you in the midst of your world, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

       

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.Messiah-Ministries.org 

  

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Building 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com 

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Morning by Morning, August 25 - Covenant of Peace

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Be at the center of who I am and all I do today.  ...

 

"For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but My steadfast love shall not depart from you, and My covenant of peace shall not be removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you" (Isaiah 54:9).

 

Stocks markets and economies may tremble and shake. All that was built by the hands and in the plans of man may seem to crumble and fall to the ground. But our God is with us. Your hand is upon us. You hold us in Your grip of grace in the midst of all that trembles and falls around us. 

 

Your commitment of love shall not depart and Your covenant of peace shall not be moved. And when all that can be shaken is shaken to its core, only what can't be shaken will remain (Hebrews 12:27). You will remain. And You will keep giving us the grace to remain steadfast and secure in You alone. "Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea; though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble with its tumult.... The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge" (Psalm 46:2-7). 

 

Your covenant of peace is unshakable and unbreakable. You are our "Mighty God" and our "Prince of Peace" (Isaiah 9:6). So whom shall I fear and what can make me afraid? By the power of Your grace, I will not fear, for I know that You are with me (Isaiah 43:5). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

May you remain at peace, confident the grace and power of our God to keep you secure in the midst of all that may tremble and shake around us, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

       

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.Messiah-Ministries.org 

  

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Building 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com 

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Morning by Morning, August 24 - Seeking Wisdom and Understanding

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I speak out Your name and listen in for Your voice, asking You to lead me through the moments of my day.  ...

 

"Happy are those who find wisdom, and those who get understanding, for her income is better than silver, and her revenue better than gold. She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy" (Proverbs 3:13-18).

 

Today is the first day of school for one my younger sons, Elijah, going off to the eighth grade at Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School, here in San Antonio. I pray for him and for all his teachers, I pray for the students and all their teachers in all the places where our children go to learn, whether in public schools, private schools, or home schools. May they hold fast the words of truth You've already spoken and sealed into their spirits, yet hungry and eager to learn and grow "in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and all the people" (Luke 2:52 NLT).

 

May they feel safe and secure, confident in who You have created them to be. May they seek Your discernment to filter all things through Your Word and by Your Spirit to embrace what is true and set aside what is not. May they connect and bond with Godly friends who will encourage them and enjoy the journey of education with them. May they focus and excel, steadfast in their faith and growing in grace, changing the very spiritual atmosphere of their schools as the carry the Spirit of Christ with them everywhere they go, empowered by Your Spirit to "do everything for the glory of God" (1 Corinthians 10:31).

 

As parents and teachers, may we have Your wisdom and grace to "train (our) children in the right way, and (believe Your promise that) when (they grow) old, they will not stray" (Proverbs 22:6). Help us listen to their questions, help them with Your answers, and encourage them as You teach them and equip them with wisdom and understanding through those You have chosen to influence and inspire their lives. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

I join in prayer with you for all our children and their teachers as we entrust them to God and the place of education where He has strategically positioned them for all His purposes in them and through them, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

       

Friends, please keep me in prayer today as I report for jury duty at the county courthouse, to carry the light of Christ within me in the midst of our justice system.

Friends, please join us for our

School of Ministry for Inner Healing Prayer Ministry

in September being hosted at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. 

Register by calling Rapha God Ministries at 210 233-1072 

DVDs are available if you can't join us in person!

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.Messiah-Ministries.org 

  

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Building 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com 

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Morning by Morning, August 21 - A Heart That's True

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. All that I am and all that I have, I entrust to You today, O Lord, my God -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  ...

 

"For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the entire earth, to strengthen those whose heart is true to Him" (2 Chronicles 16:9).

 

I want a heart that's true -- faithful to You, thankful for You, wholeheartedly committed and surrendered to You. And when I need to be strengthened -- which is most every day in some way, whether I know it or not -- I know Your eyes are upon me and Your arms are around me and Your Spirit is within me.

 

By the power of Your grace, whatever I face, I know I will overcome because Your eyes are upon me and Your face is toward me. "I can do all things through Him who strengthens me" (Philippians 4:13). So help me begin each day and continue through every moment of every day coming to You and resting in You "with a true heart in full assurance of faith;" and in the power of Your strength, I will "hold fast to the confession of (my) hope without wavering, for He who has promised is faithful" (Hebrews 10:22-24). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

May the eyes of the Lord always be upon you with His arms always around you to encourage you and strengthen you, with your heart faithful and true to Him, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

      

Friends, please join us for our

School of Ministry for Inner Healing Prayer Ministry

in September being hosted at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. 

Register by calling Rapha God Ministries at 210 233-1072 

DVDs are available if you can't join us in person!

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.Messiah-Ministries.org 

  

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Building 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com 

Please share this word to encourage a friend!

Morning by Morning, August 18 - Seeking the Mind of Christ

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Speak to me from Your Word, speak to be by Your Spirit, speak to me however You will, for You are my Shepherd and I am listening for Your voice.  ...

 

"'For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct Him?' But we have the mind of Christ" (1 Corinthians 2:16).

 

Lord Jesus, I pray for the mind of Christ. 

 

I know we all have to begin by humbly and honestly acknowledging that Your thoughts are not our thoughts and Your ways are not our ways (Isaiah 55:8). But that's just the beginning; that's not where we're to remain. We're to seek You and Your thoughts and Your ways. We're to embrace Your Spirit at work within us to change our thoughts and renew our minds (Romans 12:2). We're to seek to "come ... to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ ... no longer children ... we must grow up in every way into Him who is the head, into Christ" (Ephesians 4:11-16). We're to "let the same mind be in (us) that was in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 2:5).

 

As I'm praying, a funny picture from my childhood is coming to mind, from growing up watching the television series Star Trek. People used to tell me I looked like Captain Kirk, so maybe I watched it a little too much! But Mr. Spock would sometimes stretch out his hand and take hold of someone's head to do "the Vulcan mind meld" so that they would be of one mind on a matter.

 

Lord Jesus, would You stretch out Your mighty right hand to me? (Psalm 118:15) Would You take hold of my mind. Cause my thoughts to be more like Your thoughts so that my ways will be more like Your ways. I want to me more like You (1 John 3:2). Make me more like You each day (Romans 8:29). "Make my joy complete:  (let me) be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind" with You (Philippians 2:2). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

I pray the Holy Spirit in you will stir in your heart to pursue the mind of Christ, in Jesus' name. May the Lord Jesus stretch out His hand and take hold of your mind today, that you may be of one mind with Him. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

       

Friends, please join us for our

School of Ministry for Inner Healing Prayer Ministry

in September being hosted at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. 

Register by calling Rapha God Ministries at 210 233-1072 

DVDs are available if you can't join us in person!

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.Messiah-Ministries.org 

  

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Building 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com 

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Morning by Morning, August 17 - God's Will and My Freedom, My Heart in His Hands

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Let me experience Your presence, hear Your voice, and follow Your leading as I begin my day in the communion of prayer with You, my God -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  ...

 

"The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; He turns it wherever He will. All deeds are right in the sight of the doer; but the Lord weighs the heart" (Proverbs 21:1-2).

 

You're the sovereign Lord who rules and reigns over all, according to Your perfect plans and Your perfect will. Yet, at the same time, You've created us in Your perfect nature of love, in Your image of love, for a relationship of love. And a true relationship of love requires the freedom to love You or not, trust You or not, obey You or not. 

 

You turn our hearts according to Your will; and at the same time, You weigh our hearts based upon the choices we make in the freedom of our hearts to love You and trust You and obey You or not. In the morning by morning, moment by moment tension of these two truths, both Your sovereignty and our freedom are just as true and just as real.

 

Every day, You "set before (us) life and death, blessings and cruses," inviting us "Choose life so that (we) and (our) descendants may live, loving the Lord (our) God, obeying Him, and holding fast to Him" (Deuteronomy 30:19-20). Every day, You invite us to "choose this day" whom we will serve (Joshua 24:15). And every day You remind us "Those who love Me will keep My word, and My Father will love them, and We will come to them and make our Home with them" (John 14:23). "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. I have said these things to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have love you" (John 15:10-12).

 

So as best as I can and all by Your grace, I entrust my heart into Your hands today. I willingly choose to open my heart to Your desires, according to Your plan and Your will for my life this day. Move in my heart by Your Spirit to cause me to desire and to do what is right and pleasing to You. Empower me to love You and obey You in the freedom I have in Your sovereign will for my life. "For it is God who is at work in (me), enabling (me) both to will and to work for His good pleasure" (Philippians 2:13). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

May the Holy Spirit stir in your human spirit to put your heart in God's hands today to love Him and trust Him and obey Him as best as you can and all by His grace, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

     

Friends, please join us for our next School of Ministry in September being hosted at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. 

Register by calling Rapha God Ministries at 210 233-1072 

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.Messiah-Ministries.org 

  

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Building 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com 

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Morning by Morning, August 14 - Come in, King of Glory!

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I commit my life and this day into Your hands.  ...

 

"Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory" (Psalm 24:7-10).

 

King of glory, I lift up the gate of my spirit. I open wide the door of my heart -- that You may come in. Come with Your host of heaven, Your mighty warring angels. Come with Your Holy Spirit, You abiding and intimate and powerful Presence. Come strong and mighty to overcome and conquer everything in me that's not yet like You.

 

You are the King of glory. You are the "King of kings and Lord of lords" (Revelation 19:16). You are my King, my Lord, and my Savior. You are mighty and strong, triumphant and true, here in my heart and every moment of my day. And because You are mighty in me, I am more than a conqueror in You! (Romans 8:37) In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

May you lift up your spirit and open up your heart, that the King of glory may come in and empower you as more than a conqueror today. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

    

Friends, please join us for our next School of Ministry in September being hosted at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. 

Register by calling Rapha God Ministries at 210 233-1072 

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.Messiah-Ministries.org 

  

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Building 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com 

Please share this word to encourage a friend!