Morning by Morning, April 21 - Radiant Aroma

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Fill me with Your Spirit and draw me deeply into Your Presence, as I begin my day centered in You.  ...

 

As I wait for the leading of Your Spirit, I hear these words in my heart:  "Radiant Aroma."  ... Lord, what are You speaking to me by these words?  ...

 

The Scriptures come to mind of the offerings made by fire upon the altar of the Lord, burning with the radiance of the fire and releasing a pleasing aroma to God. "And the priest shall burn all on the altar as a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord" (Leviticus 1:9 NKJV).

 

All of the laws and the rituals of the Old Covenant are fulfilled in You, Lord Jesus (Matthew 5:17). You are the Altar; You are the Sacrifice; You are the Fire. You are the Radiance and You are the Aroma. "Walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma" (Ephesians 5:2 NKJV).

 

And now, in Christ, we are to "be imitators of God as dear children" (Ephesians 5:1 NKJV). "But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads in every place the fragrance that comes from knowing Him. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing" (2 Corinthians 2:14-15 NRSV). And now the fire of God, the holy Fire of Your Holy Spirit burns within our hearts to display the radiance of Your glory through our lives (Luke 24:32; Isaiah 61:3). "Christ in (us), the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27).

 

My Father God, let me be a radiant aroma of Christ today. I offer my life "a living sacrifice" to You (Romans 12:1). As the fire of Your Spirit burns in my heart, let me be radiant with Your glory shining through me and let the aroma of Christ diffuse the atmosphere around me everywhere You send me. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

I pray the fire of the Holy Spirit will burn in your heart, that the radiant light of Christ will shine through you, and that you will carry and diffuse the aroma of Christ everywhere you go, as you offer your life and this day to God as a living sacrifice to Him, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Please come join us of our Inner Healing Conference this weekend  -- From Brokenness to Breakthrough! If you're not able to join us, you might consider our dvds from our School of Ministry on the Biblical principles of inner healing, request my book Free to Be Like Jesus or call our ministry office for other resources or to set up your personal prayer ministry appointment:  RaphaGodMinistries.com We offer sessions free, without cost to all who come.

         

From Brokenness to Breakthrough!

Please join us and spread the word for our 

 2016 Inner Healing Conference of Rapha God Ministrieson April 22-23 in San Antonio

hosted at Oak Hills Church, North Central Campus by the Airport

 

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, April 20 - "In Your Hearts Sanctify Christ as Lord"

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. You're Lord of my life. Come be Lord of the moments of my day.  ...

 

"In your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord" (1 Peter 3:15).

 

Lord, I know You're the One who saves me and sanctifies me. You're the One who forgives me and frees me, who heals me and holds me. You're the One the loves me and leads me, who calls me and commissions me. So how do I "sanctify Christ as Lord" in my heart?  ...

 

It seems I hear You say in my heart:  "You sanctify Me as Lord in your heart to the degree that you choose to trust Me and entrust to Me that measure of control and authority in your life, from your heart."  ...

 

Yes, Lord. Any area of my heart, any area of my life, where I'm in control, I'm not trusting You to be in control. Where I'm being Lord, I'm not trusting You to be Lord. Those are the places of my heart I've not fully committed and surrendered to You alone as Lord of my life.

 

Show me those places, Lord. Search my heart and see if there's anything I'm holding back from You, anything I'm protecting and guarding within myself instead of fully entrusting myself to completely to You, anything in me that's not yet like You. "Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts. See if there is any wicked way in me, (any resistant, not fully trusting way in me), and lead me in the way everlasting" (Psalm 139:23-24).

 

And as You reveal these things to me, these places in my heart I've not fully surrendered to You, help me trust You more so I can choose to surrender more -- as best as I can and all by grace, more and more every day. Give me the wisdom and the courage, the power and the grace, to sanctify You as Lord in my heart, Lord Jesus Christ. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

I pray you'll allow the Lord to reveal Himself to you in the way you need so you can can trust Him more and entrust more of your heart to Him every day, sanctifying Jesus Christ as Lord in your heart, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend! 

Friends, this is our model of inner healing prayer ministry -- Reveal, Remove, and Replace -- letting the Lord reveal Himself and what we need to let go or surrender to Him, letting Him remove it as He heals us and frees us, then letting Him replace it with a deeper measure of His love, His truth, His Spirit so we can live into the fullness of all He created us to be.

Please come join us of our Inner Healing Conference this weekend  -- From Brokenness to Breakthrough! If you're not able to join us, you might consider our dvds from our School of Ministry on the Biblical principles of inner healing, request my book Free to Be Like Jesus or call our ministry office for other resources or to set up your personal prayer ministry appointment:  RaphaGodMinistries.com We offer sessions free, without cost to all who come.

          

From Brokenness to Breakthrough!

Please join us and spread the word for our 

 2016 Inner Healing Conference of Rapha God Ministrieson April 22-23 in San Antonio

at Oak Hills Church, North Central Campus by the Airport

 

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, April 19 "Rain Down Righteousness"

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. At the beginning of my day, I want to begin with You -- embraced by the Father, centered in Christ, and filled with the Holy Spirit.  ...

 

"Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the skies rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation may spring up, and let it cause righteousness to spurt up also; I the Lord have created" (Isaiah 45:8).

 

We've had heavy rains for a few days. Rains can be destructive or rains can be a blessing -- and sometimes rains can be both. Rains can flood our lives, but also replenish our land. Sometimes the rains of our physical realm speak of truths taking place in our spiritual realm.

 

Rain down righteousness, O Lord! Cleanse our hearts and our land by the washing of the water of Your Word (Ephesians 5:26). Renew us and replenish us, revive us and awaken us, as You wash away the clutter from our souls (Ephesians 5:14).

 

Come, Holy Spirit. Rain down righteousness in our land -- may we be set right with God, right with each other, and right within ourselves. And let the fullness our salvation spring up in us and in our land. "If My people who are called by My name humble themselves, pray, seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land" (2 Chronicles 7:14). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

I pray the fullness of salvation will spring up in your heart and in our land, as the Lord rains down His righteousness upon you and awakens revival within you, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend! 

          

From Brokenness to Breakthrough!

Please join us and spread the word for our 

 2016 Inner Healing Conference of Rapha God Ministrieson April 22-23 in San Antonio

at Oak Hills Church, North Central Campus by the Airport

 

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, April 18 - "Overflow More and More"

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Help me hear Your heart, as I begin my day in communion with You -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  ...

 

"And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you to determine what is best, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God" (Philippians 1:9-11).

 

Lord Jesus, make me more like You today. Make me more like You each day. Teach me and empower me to allow Your love and Your life to "overflow more and more" out of me. More, Lord -- more of Your love, more of Your power, more of Your nature, more of Your will -- more of You in me, more of You overflowing out of me. 

 

Set me free from everything in me that is not yet like You (Romans 8:29). Renew my mind (Romans 12:2). Change my heart (Psalm 51:10). Cleanse my soul (1 John 1:9). Together will all who seek to be more like You, help me "grow up in every way" into Christ-likeness, "to maturity, to the full measure of the full stature of Christ" (Ephesians 4:13 and 15). 

 

I know I have far to go. But I also know by the yearning of Your Holy Spirit stirring within my human sprit that I'm on the journey (Galatians 4:19). "And I am certain that God, who began the good work within (me), will continue His work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns" (Philippians 1:6 NLT). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

I pray you will be more like Jesus every day, as the Holy Spirit keeps conforming you into the image of Christ, growing you up in spiritual maturity, and allowing the love and life to overflow through you more and more, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend! 

          

From Brokenness to Breakthrough!

Please join us and spread the word for our 

 2016 Inner Healing Conference of Rapha God Ministrieson April 22-23 in San Antonio

at Oak Hills Church, North Central Campus by the Airport

 

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, April 15 - Free from Fear in the Grip of God

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Your name is the name above every name (Philippians 2:9). Let Your name be above every moment of my day.  ...

 

"But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, My friend; you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, 'You are My servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off;' do not fear, for I am with you, do not be afraid, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with My victorious right hand.... For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, 'Do not fear, I will help you'" (Isaiah 41:8-13).

 

Through Christ, I'm a spiritual descendant of Abraham, with all the blessings of Abraham (Galatians 3:6-9). And through Christ, I'm a child of God, with all the blessings of a child of God -- "for in Christ Jesus (we) are all children of God through faith" (Galatians 3:26).

 

One of Your greatest blessings for the descendants of Abraham, for the children of God is the blessing of freedom from fear. You know the struggles we have and the battles we face. You know the uncertainties and worries we encounter in the unsettledness of our journey as strangers in a foreign land through the challenges of this broken and fallen world. But You constantly remind us, "You are not alone. I am with you. Fear not. Hold on to Me and know that I am always holding on to you."

 

O Lord, take me by Your hand and lead me by my heart. Remind me who I am and help me always remember who You are. You're my Father, and I'm Your child. You've chosen me and called me. You strengthen me and encourage me. And You empower me to overcome every worry and fear in Your perfect love (1 John 4:18). 

 

In the grip of Your hand, I'm free from fear. Your mighty right hand is victorious! And so am I in You. Thank You for this blessing. Thank You for Your words of spirit and life and truth You're speaking into my spirit today (John 6:63). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

I pray you will rest securely in the grip of God, free from fear and filled with His Spirit and perfect love to overcome every worry you may be facing, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend! 

          

Please join us and spread the word for our 

 2016 Inner Healing Conference of Rapha God Ministrieson April 22-23 in San Antonio

at Oak Hills Church, North Central Campus by the Airport

 From Brokenness to Breakthrough!

I'm excited to be preaching a series on Inner Healing at

The Vineyard Church of San Antonio. I'll be preaching thenext two Sunday mornings at 10:30. Please keep us in your prayers! www.vineyardsa.org God bless you!

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, April 14 - Complete Joy

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Speak to my heart, Good Shepherd of my soul, I pray. Help me begin this day embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with the Holy Spirit.  ...

 

"I have said these things to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete" (John 15:11).

 

Complete joy is only in Jesus. No Jesus, no joy. Know Jesus, know joy.

 

Lord Jesus, You long for Your joy to be in us. So You speak to us and teach us and lead us into Your joy. And You express to us the interwoven, inseparable relationship between love, obedience, and joy:  "My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become My disciples. As the Father has loved Me, so I have loved you; abide in My love. 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 commandments, that you love one another as I have loved you" (John 15:8-12).

 

A joyful life is a fruitful life -- a life that's fruitful through receiving and sharing the love of God through Jesus Christ. Lord, teach me how to love more deeply and how to embrace Your joy more fully. Increase my capacity for joy as You increase my capacity for love. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

I pray you know the complete joy of Jesus, as the Holy Spirit continually increases your capacity for love and joy in a fruitful life of obedience to God, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend! 

          

Please join us and spread the word for our 

 2016 Inner Healing Conference of Rapha God Ministrieson April 22-23 in San Antonio

at Oak Hills Church, North Central Campus by the Airport

 From Brokenness to Breakthrough!

I'm excited to be preaching a series on Inner Healing at

The Vineyard Church of San Antonio. I'll be preaching thenext two Sunday mornings at 10:30. Please keep us in your prayers! www.vineyardsa.org God bless you!

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, April 12 - Look and Love

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I welcome here in my heart and every moment of my day. Now I listen and wait for the leading of Your Spirit, here in the embrace of my Father.  ...

 

"Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, 'You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow Me'" (Mark 10:21). 

 

You know what it is in each of our hearts that holds us back from fully following You. For some, it's wealth or pride. For others, it's loss and lack. For some, it's the shame and regret of our past. For others, it's the fear and uncertainty of our future. But whatever it is, You look at us and You love us. You never turn away from us, but encourage us to entrust all that we are and all that we have completely to You.

 

And just as You look at us and love us, You want to give us that same heart toward those around us. We're not to stare and judge; we're to look and love. As I pray, I hear Your Spirit writing a song in my heart of You call to us to look and to love with Your eyes and Your heart. ...

 

You look and you love

And the arms from above

Will reach around you

Will love right through you

 

As You look and you love

He'll be more than enough

He will reach around you 

He will love right through you

 

Just give Him your heart

He will give you His eyes

And wherever you are

You'll be His sight

 

To look and to love

With His arms from above

To the lost and the least

To heal and set free

 

In the power of His love

His Kingdom will come

As He opens your eyes

To look and to love

 

Yes, Lord. Let it be so. Just as You look at me, but reach out and love to me, let me do the same -- 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

I pray you live look and love with the eyes and heart of Jesus today, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend! 

          

 

Friends, Thank You so much for your prayers for us last night when I had a chance to share about inner healing prayer ministry and minister live on Radio Air Jesus on the Monday Night Emerge program with Lee and Vanessa Rios. There were tears and joy in the ministry and the message of encouragement went out to over a hundred nations. Praise God! We thank God for this ministry that touches nations and allowed us to be a part!

 radioairjesus.com/index.php/programs/monday-night-emerge

Please join us for our 

 2016 Inner Healing Conference of Rapha God Ministrieson April 22-14 in San Antonio

 From Brokenness to Breakthrough!

I'm excited to be preaching a message on Inner Healing at

The Vineyard Church of San Antonio. I'll be preaching thenext two Sunday mornings at 10:30. Please keep us in your prayers! www.vineyardsa.org God bless you!

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, April 11 - "Let Love be Genuine"

 

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

 

"Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor. Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; do not claim to be wiser than you are. Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all" (Romans 12:9-18).

 

Lord, is my love genuine? Does it come from a heart that's been wholly surrendered to You? Does it honestly express a true desire to be genuinely concerned for the needs and hopes of those around me You bring into my life? Or do I only love to be loved; do I only give in order to get; do I only act like how I think I ought to look in the eyes of others; do I only say what I think someone wants to hear if it will advance my cause and serve my plans? Or is it a little of both?

 

If I'm really honest with You and honest with myself, I'd have to admit I still have a long way to go to have a heart like You, completely genuine in love. "The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse -- who can understand it?" (Jeremiah 17:9).

 

But at the same time, "(You) test the mind and search the heart" (Jeremiah 17:10). You long to "create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me" (Psalm 51:10). And Your Spirit pours Your love into my heart to make my heart more like Yours every day that I continue to open my heart to You (Romans 5:5). So by the power of the grace of God, "(I) do not lose heart. Even though (my) outter nature is wasting away, (my) inner nature is being renewed day by day" (2 Corinthians 4:16). 

 

Throughout the moments of my day, You offer me the choice to embrace the heart of genuine love You continually offer to me. You continually invite me to live into the truth of the new and clean heart You've created in me. "For the love of Christ urges us on ... So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation:  everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!" (2 Corinthians 5:17) Even my heart and the genuineness of my love -- "all this is from God" (2 Corinthians 5:18). Thank You, Jesus. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

I pray you live into the genuine love a the renewed heart given to you by the grace of God through Jesus Christ today, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend! 

          

 

Friends, I excited to be speaking and ministering live on Radio Air Jesus tonight at 9pm EST on the Monday Night Emerge program with Pete and Vanessa Rios.  radioairjesus.com/index.php/programs/monday-night-emerge

Friends, Thank You for your prayers this Sunday, preaching a message on Inner Healing at The Vineyard Church of San Antonio. I'll be preaching the next two Sunday morningsat 10:30. Please keep us in your prayers! www.vineyardsa.org

Please join us for our 

 2016 Inner Healing Conference of Rapha God Ministrieson April 22-14 in San Antonio

 From Brokenness to Breakthrough!

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, April 8 - The Birth of Caleb and A Caleb Generation

 Good morning, Lord Jesus. You are One with the Father and One with the Holy Spirit. Be One within me through the communion of prayer as I start my day seeking Your face and listening for Your voice.  ... 

"But 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). Caleb had "a different spirit."

He lived in a time when even the people of God tested You and resisted You and would not obey You (v. 22). They leaned on their own understanding; they depended on their own strength and wisdom. And so they were limited by fear, restricted to only what they could accomplish in their own abilities, and subjected to failure. They couldn't enter into the fullness of the inheritance You longed for them to embrace. Instead, in their stubbornness and pride, they were self-determined -- and therefore, self-destined -- to wander in a wilderness of something far less than the promised land of Your Father heart for their lives (v. 23). 

But Caleb had "a different spirit." He sought You and pursued You and followed You "wholeheartedly" (v. 24). His spirit was a foreshadow of a generation to come (Colossians 2:17). The passion of his life spoke of a passionate people of God, filled with a different, "filled with the (Holy) Spirit" (Ephesians 5:18). His life inspires us to be a people of a generation - a Caleb generation - "baptized with the Holy Spirit" (Acts 1:5) and set ablaze with a fiery passion in our hearts that's unrestricted, unrestrained, and unafraid from embracing the fullness of our inheritance of identity and destiny in You (Matthew 3:11). May we be a generation of those who pursue and passionately "love the Lord (our) God with all (our) heart, and with all (our) soul, and with all (our) mind, and with all (our) strength" -- wholeheartedly devoted to You (Mark 12:30).

 

Yesterday morning, at 10:54 am on April 8, 2016, Caleb was born. Caleb Michael Miller -- the first child of our dear friends Taylor Watts Miller and Matt Miller, and the first grandchild of my ministry partner, Tammy Watts and old law partner, Mikal Watts -- has entered this world to take it by storm. May Caleb live into the fullness of the calling of his destiny in his identity of all that his name implies and inspires.  

And may the birth of Caleb be a birthing of a fresh passion in the hearts of the people of God -- a people of "a different spirit," filled with the Holy Spirit, unrestricted, unrestrained, and unafraid, wholeheartedly devoted to You. With that different Spirit in our hearts, may we share the Good News of Jesus Christ, with all the grace and mercy and power and love of our God to the ends of the earth, that "the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea" (Habakkuk 2:14, Matthew 28:18-20). 

May God bless Caleb. And may God bless this Caleb generation. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

I pray you will be filled afresh, baptized with the Holy Spirit and with fire, wholeheartedly devoted to God, embracing the fullness of your identity and destiny in Jesus Christ, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. And please join with me in praying for God's blessings upon the life of Caleb Michael Miller and his family. God bless you, my friend! 

          

 

Friends, I'm excited to be preaching at The Vineyard Church of San Antonio the next three Sunday mornings at 10:30. Please keep us in your prayers! www.vineyardsa.org

Please join us for our 

 2016 Inner Healing Conference of Rapha God Ministrieson April 22-14 in San Antonio

 From Brokenness to Breakthrough!

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, April 7 - "Where Was I?"

 Good morning, Lord Jesus. Your name is above every name. Let Your name be above everything I'll encounter and experience today.  ... 

"But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told Him, 'We have seen the Lord.' But He said to them, 'Unless I see the mark of the nails in His hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in His side, I will not believe'" (John 20:24-25). Thomas wasn't there when You came. Thomas wasn't there when You spoke peace into their spirits and said to them You were sending them out in the same way the Father sent You (v. 21). 

Thomas wasn't there when You "breathed on them and said to them, 'Receive the Holy Spirit'" (v. 22). And sometimes we're like Thomas. Sometimes we look around at what we missed and think "Were was I?" Sometimes we start to compare ourselves with others and think "Were was I when all the good gifts were given out, when all the good stuff happened? I'm always last, I always the least, I always left out." 

But You're not a God who leaves us out or leaves us behind. You love us all and You are at work within us all. And You know just what each of us needs. Thomas needed to have a chance to put his finger in Your hands and put his hand on Your side. Before he could take hold of Your promises in faith he felt he needed to take hold of You in the flesh. 

And sometimes, aren't we just like Thomas too? Don't we find it hard to believe what we haven't seen, hard to be encouraged by what we haven't yet experienced? But in Your mercy and love, You came to meet Thomas where he was. And in one encounter of Your presence, all his doubts turned to faith. When he heard Your voice speaking to his heart, he cried out in faith "My Lord and my God!" (v. 28) His words stand today as the most direct declaration of the Deity of Jesus Christ in all of Scripture. 

Thank You that I can encounter You every day. Thank You that You that You know my needs and encourage my faith and You never leave me out or leave me behind. Thank You that You are forever "my Lord and my God!" In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

I pray you will hear Jesus speaking His peace to your heart and filling you with faith as you encounter His presence every day, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend! 

          

 

Friends, I'm excited to preaching at The Vineyard Church of San Antonio the next three Sunday mornings at 10:30. Please keep us in your prayers! www.vineyardsa.org

 

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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