Morning by Morning&#8212;Daily Prayer Journey with Tommy Hays

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, May 17, 2018

Morning by Morning, May 16 - Praying for Israel and the Peace of Jerusalem

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Speak to my spirit, as I worship You and welcome You into my heart and into my day - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God. ...

"Now the Lord said to Abram, 'Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. 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. So Abram went, as the Lord had told him..." (Genesis 12:1-4).

Father God, I pray for the land of Israel and the descendants of Abram, who You named Abraham. As Your Word commands us, I "pray for the peace of Jerusalem" that there may be "peace within (her) walls and security within (her) towers" and that I may "seek (her) good" (Psalm 122:6-9).

Your Word also says that there will come a day when "all the nations of the earth shall come together against (Jerusalem)" but in the end "the Lord will give victory" to Your city "and on that day (You) will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem" (Zechariah 12:3-9). And at the same time, Your Word says "(You) will pour out a spirit of compassion and supplication on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that, when they look on the One whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over Him, as one weeps over a firstborn" (Zechariah 10). Then an amazing prophecy of Your Word will be fulfilled before the eyes of all heaven and earth: "On that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.... They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are My people'; and they will say, 'The Lord is our God!" (Zechariah 13:1-9). As they "look on the One whom they have pierced," may they cry out to You from the depths of the pain and desperation of their hearts, "Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord!" (Psalm 118:26).

As You promised the people of Your city many generations ago: "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! See, your house is left to you, desolate. For I tell you, you will not see Me again until you say, 'Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord'" (Matthew 23:29). And Your Word that cannot fail will be fulfilled: "So that you may not claim to be wiser than you are, brothers and sisters, I want you to understand this mystery: a hardening has come upon part of Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved; as it is written, 'Out of Zion will come the Deliverer; He will banish ungodliness from Jacob. And this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins" (Romans 11:25-27).

Father God, I want to come into agreement with Your will and Your Word, praying by the leading Your Spirit in the name of Jesus. I want my words and my prayers to be in alignment with Your heart for Jerusalem, for Israel, for her people, and all that they represent in the face of every means intended to destroy her by her spiritual enemy seeking use the nations of the earth to come against her in every generation. Use their struggles to turn their hearts to You, the Savior and Deliverer of all-"that (You) might create in (Yourself) one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross" (Ephesians 2:15-16).

Through my words and prayers, I sense a leading to be a part of all that You intended in the image of Your Word of the wings of the
great eagle" sent to lift up Your people in the face of destruction: "So when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male Child. But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she could fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to her place where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time" (Revelation 12:14). I don't know all that this means or represents, but I do want to be a part in my generation and my nation to take my place among "those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus" even in the face of "the dragon (who is) angry will the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her children" (Revelation 12:13-17).

Come, Holy Spirit. Show me how to pray in these days. Pray through me and all You are moving to pray for Your people and the people of all the earth in our times. "The Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God" (Romans 8:26-27).

These are both frightening and exciting days to be alive and called to the work and advancement of Your kingdom for such a time as this. "We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies. For in hope we are saved" (Romans 8:22-24). I groan in prayer for Your people and all who are to be saved by the grace of God through Jesus Christ, as I groan and labor in prayer for the day that "the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea!" (Habakkuk 2:14) May I be found faithful to be among those You've led to be "looking for and hastening the coming of the day of the Lord" (2 Peter 3:11) In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, I pray you will be moved by the Holy Spirit to pray according to the will of the Father in the name of Jesus for Israel and all the nations and people of the earth, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Tommy Hays' 365 Day Prayer Devotional

Morning by Morning, 2nd Edition

"A Deeply Intimate Journey with Jesus"

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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Morning by Morning, May 17 - I Praise My Way through My Day

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Help me begin my day well, so it will go well and end well with Your Spirit leading my heart and guiding my steps all along the way. ...

I hear in my heart words of worship and trust, of joy and praise, stirring me to be excited to embrace Your Presence and Your plans for the encounters You've purposed for my day. ...

Holy and Righteous

God With Us

Come and fill my heart

Faithful and True

Worthy are You

O how Great Thou Art

I give You this day

Come have Your way

Right from the very start

Let my spirit arise

Let my joy abound and thrive

Filled up and overflowing

With Your Power and Love that will never part!

Yes, Lord. Let it be so. You are my Immanuel-God With Us (Matthew 1:23; Isaiah 7:14). And You fill my spirit with Your Spirit, bearing witness that I am a child of God, beloved of the Lord, hearing Your voice, and walking in Your steps (John 10:3; Romans 8:14-17). "Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices; my body also rests secure.... You show me the path of life. And in Your Presence there is fullness of joy; in Your right hand are pleasures forevermore!" (Psalm 16:9-11) In Jesus' name I pray. And in Jesus' name I praise my way though my day! Amen.

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

My friend, I pray you praise your way through your day with your Immanuel, with you and within you every step of the way, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, I'm excited to be speaking on

the Healing Ministry of Jesus at Vineyard Church

of San Antonio this Sunday and next Sunday.

Please keep us in prayer for the moving of God's Holy Spirit

in His power and love! I pray the same of you!

Tommy Hays' 365 Day Prayer Devotional

Morning by Morning, 2nd Edition

"A Deeply Intimate Journey with Jesus"

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, May 15, 2018

Morning by Morning, May 15 - Yield and Be Filled

Good morning, Lord Jesus. You are One with the Father, One with the Holy Spirit; and I embrace You as One within me as I entrust my heart and my life completely to You. ...

"Anyone united to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him" (1 Corinthians 6:17).

Lord, how can I be united with You and become one spirit with You? ...

It seems I hear You saying in my heart: "Trust Me and yield to Me. The more you yield, the more I can fill. And as I fill you with My Spirit, you are united with Me in Spirit." ...

Yes, Lord. Your written Word confirms Your living words to my heart. Your Word says, "Be filled with the Spirit" (Ephesians 5:18). Your Word says, "Present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship" (Romans 12:1). Your Word says, be "willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits" (James 4:4). Your Word say, "Yield yourselves to the Lrod and come to His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever" (2 Chronicles 30:8). Your Word says, "Steadfast love surrounds those who trust in the Lord" (Psalm 32:10). You say in Your Word, "Abide in Me as I abide in you" (John 15:4). And You say in Your Word, "Believe in God, believe also in Me.... Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me.... I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth.... You know Him, because He abides with you, and He will be in you.... On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.... As You, Father, are in Me and I am in You, may they also be in Us.... The glory that You have given Me I have given them, so that they may be one, as We are one, I in them and You in Me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me.... I have made Your name known to them, and I will make it know, so that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them" (John 14:1-17:26).

So by the grace of God at work within me, I do seek to trust You more, to yield to You more-to yield and be filled. As I do, I trust You to unite me with Your Spirit and be One within me-more and more every day-"changed into (Your) same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord" (2 Corinthians 3:18 KJV). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, I pray you will yield and be filled with the Spirit of the Lord, trusting in the Lord with all your heart and mind and soul and strength, being conformed into the image of the Son of God from glory to glory every day, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Tommy Hays' 365 Day Prayer Devotional

Morning by Morning, 2nd Edition

"A Deeply Intimate Journey with Jesus"

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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Monday, May 14, 2018

Morning by Morning, May 14 - "All the Treasures"

Good morning, Lord Jesus. O Lord, my God--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit--I worship You in spirit and truth; and I welcome You into my heart and every moment of my day. ...

"I want their hearts to be encouraged and united in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God's mystery, that is, Christ Himself, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" (Colossians 2:2-3).

Lord Jesus, in You are hidden "all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." As it turns out, it's all about You! Just as You revealed to Your two disciples walking to Emmaus right after Your resurrection, the law and the prophets all point to You; what's concealed in the Old Covenant is revealed in the Christ of the New Covenant: "Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, (Jesus) interpreted to them the things about Himself in all the Scriptures" (Luke 24:20). And just as You said to all Your disciples gathered near to You at the shore just before Your ascension back to heaven: "These are My words that I spoke to you while I was still with you--that everything written about Me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled" (Luke 24:44). "Then (You) opened their minds to understand the Scriptures" (Luke 24:45).

Lord Jesus, open my mind to understand the Scriptures. Open my spirit to embrace Your truth and experience Your Presence on my daily journey to grow in "the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God's mystery, that is Christ Himself." There's joy in this journey to seek out "all the treasures" You've hidden away for us to find. "It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings to search things out" (Proverbs 25:2).

As I search Your Word and seek Your Presence, I know the more I seek You, the more I find You. That's the Promise of Your Word as well: "When you search for Me, you will find Me; if you seek Me with all your heart, I will let you find Me, says the Lord" (Jeremiah 29:13-14). The more I seek and the more I find, I find Your Word to be faithful and true that "all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" are hidden in You (Colossians 2:2-3). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, I pray you will experience great joy on your daily journey to seek out all treasures of God hidden in Christ, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Tommy Hays' 365 Day Prayer Devotional

Morning by Morning, 2nd Edition

"A Deeply Intimate Journey with Jesus"

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, May 11, 2018

Morning by Morning, May 11 - True Identity

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Be high and lifted up, here in my heart and every moment of my day. ...

"Beloved, we are God's children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when He is revealed, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is. And all who have this hope in Him purify themselves, just as He is pure" (1 John 3:2-3).

Now, I am Your child--a child of God, a disciple of Jesus Christ, part of the bride and the body of Christ here on this earth and here in my generation. I don't have to wait until I get to heaven when I die or when You return at Your second coming. I am God's child now.

In the same way, You are already revealing who I am, what my true identity already is. I don't already see it all; I don't already see myself completely as You see me. But You are in the process of revealing my true identity to me more and more every day. And it happens as I see You as You are: "When (You are) revealed, (I) will be like (You), for (I) see (You) as (You are)" (v. 2).

I always thought of this as an end time Scripture--something to be fulfilled when I stand in Your presence after I die and go to heaven or if I'm part of that generation on the earth when You return. This Scripture includes those events--whether it's the end time for the world or just the end time for me. "Just as we have borne the image of the son of dust, we will also bear the image of the Man of heaven.... we will all be changed" (1 Corinthians 15:49-52). But I believe Your Spirit is revealing to me that this Scripture is also for today and every day between now and that day to come as well.

Already You are at work in me, revealing to Me who You are and also who I am in You. Already this Word is being fulfilled: "And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed in to the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit" (2 Corinthians 3:17). Already You are pulling back the veil for me to see You and see myself as I truly am. And who I am is a child of God, being conformed into the image of the Son of God more and more every day, as I keep seeking You and You keep revealing Yourself to me (Romans 8:29).

Come, Holy Spirit. Keep opening the eyes of my heart--"so that, with the eyes of (my) heart enlightened, (I) may know what is the hope to which He has called (me), what are (my) riches of His glorious inheritance among the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of His power for us who believe, according to working of His great power" (Ephesians 1:18-19). More and more every day, may "the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give (me) a spirit of wisdom and revelation as (I) come to know Him" (Ephesians 1:17).

It has not yet been fully revealed to me just who I am and just who Christ is, but You are at work in me doing just that. By the power of Your grace, give me "a mind to understand, eyes to see, (and) ears to hear" along with the faith to believe it and receive it (Deuteronomy 29:2). I am God's child now (1 John 3:8). Let me see that in myself and let me see that in the children of God around me, being conformed into the image of Christ as we all see with greater revelation who Christ is, who we are in Christ, and who Christ is in us. "Christ in (us), the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27). More and more every day, let me "see what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are"--our true identity (1 John 2:28). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, I pray you will see more clearly every day who Christ is, who you are in Christ, and who Christ is in you, knowing the revelation of your true identity as a child of God, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

(a photo taken during a powerful move of the Holy Spirit in our worship on one of my ministry trips overseas)

Tommy Hays' 365 Day Prayer Devotional

Morning by Morning, 2nd Edition

"A Deeply Intimate Journey with Jesus"

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Building 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Wednesday, May 09, 2018

Morning by Morning, May 9 - Waiting on God's Words, Being "Patient with Purpose"

Good morning, Lord Jesus. King of kings and Lord of lords, be King of my heart and Lord of my life, this day and every day. ...

"My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen carefully to My words. Don't lose sight of them. Let them penetrate deep into your heart, for they bring life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body" (Proverbs 4:20-22 NLT).

Lord, let Your words penetrate deep into me heart. Your words "are spirit and life" (John 6:63). Your words are "trustworthy and true" (Revelation 21:5). And every one of Your words will come to pass, none returning empty or void, but each one fully accomplishing the purpose for which You sent it (Isaiah 55:11).

My Father, is there a word of spirit and life You want to penetrate deep into my heart this morning, as You set the course for my life today? ...

It seems I hear You saying: "My child, My words are like seeds I have sown into Your heart. Some have sprouted and grown to the maturity of harvest. But most are still growing from deep within, even still hidden beneath the surface of the soil of your life. What is hidden will be seen and will also grow to the fullness of maturity in Me--all in My time and all for My purpose through your life, My child. So be patient with purpose, for My words in Your heart will surely come to pass, bringing life to you and all I will touch through you."

Yes, Lord. Help me learn to be "patient with purpose" as You have said. Give me Your grace for that. "Love is patient" (1 Corinthians 13:4). Thank You for loving me through Your patience with me. Help me love You back with my patience with You and Your words for me.

You've sown Your seeds with purpose into my soul. "In Christ, (I) have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of Him who accomplishes all things according to His counsel and will, so that (I have) ... set (my) hope on Christ (to) live for the praise of His glory" (Ephesians 1:11-12). By Your grace, I have "heard the word of truth" and now I'm "marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit" to bring forth every word You've sown into me for the harvest of Your will for my life--all in Your time, all in Your way, all for Your glory. Thank You for continuing to give me patience to see every word come to pass. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, I pray you will be "patient with purpose" as you wait on God's words of spirit and life to come pass in Your life, in Jesus' name! May you know in your soul that is will be worth the wait! Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Tommy Hays' 365 Day Prayer Devotional

Morning by Morning, 2nd Edition

"A Deeply Intimate Journey with Jesus"

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Building 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257