Friday, October 16, 2020

Lifted Up! - October 16, 2020

 Morning by Morning, October 16 - Lifted Up!

 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Make me more like You today. ...
 
"The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me into the inner court; and the glory of the Lord filled the temple" (Ezekiel 43:5).
 
Come, Holy Spirit of the Living God. Come lift me up into the inner court, into the intimate place of Your Presence in deep communion with You -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Let the glory of Your Manifest Presence fill this temple of my heart, to begin my day lifted up in Your embrace.
 
When my kids were young, one of their favorite things was to stop over and stay in a motel along the way of our journeys. The best part was the swimming pool. They loved for me to shoot them up into the air, out of the water, as high as I could throw them. They would say over and over again, "Do it again, Dad! Shoot me up like a rocket!" We'd do that forever it seemed, at least until Mission Control at Houston got worn out from launching those rockets.
 
And I was thinking this morning how You're a Father who loves to lift us up and launch us high into all You have for us. You love to hear us giggle with delight at the thrill of the adventure. You love to give us the desires of heart whenever You can, maybe even just to see the smile on our faces and hear the joy in our voices, excited for You to do it again and again and again. And You're a Daddy, a good, good Father -- our Abba Father -- who never wears out and never gets tired of giving good gifts to Your children (Romans 8:15; Matthew 7:11).
 
My Father, You lift me up. You shoot me high into the sky, like a rocket. You have in Your heart to do exceedingly, abundantly far more than I can even ask or imagine (Ephesians 3:20). "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him!" (1 Corinthians 2:9) Do it again, Daddy Abba, my Father God! Shoot me up like a rocket today! In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may you be lifted up and launched high in the adventure our Father has for you today, even giggling with delight in the thrill of the adventure no matter what you face, in Jesus name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

  

Ministry in Kentucky Next Week! Come join us if you are in the Lexington, Kentucky area the weekend of October 23-24thwhere I'll speaking at our Setting Hearts Free conference at Ignite Church in Nicholasville just west of Lexington. 
All are welcome! Spread the word!


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Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance 
 


New Mailing Address for Messiah Ministries:

Tommy & Rocio Hays
Messiah Ministries
17503 La Cantera Parkway, Suite 104407
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Thursday, October 15, 2020

The Beauty of His Holiness and Intimacy of His Presence - October 15 ,2020

 Morning by Morning, October 15 - The Beauty of His Holiness and Intimacy of His Presence

 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. I lift up my eyes and open up my heart to enter into deep communion with You, here in these first moments of my morning -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God. ...
 
"Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness! Tremble before Him, all the earth!" (Psalm 96:9)
 
Having dinner with friends, we found ourselves talking about the Lord and all You're goodness and mercy through different challenges of each of our lives. We began to speak of intimacy with You and suddenly You were there, intimately with us. In waves of words in Your Spirit with waves of words of interpretation and understanding, we experienced a deeply intimate visitation with You. One being deeply moved kept quietly, lovingly speaking, "You're so beautiful. You're so beautiful. You're so beautiful...."
 
O Lord, You are so beautiful. And in the beauty of Your mercy and love, You love to draw near to us as we seek to draw near to You (James 4:8). As we open up our hearts to You, You pour Your love into our hearts by Your Spirt. "Hope does not disappoint us, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has been given to us" (Romans 5:5).
 
As I open up my heart to Your Spirit this morning, it seems I hear You speaking in my heart: "My son, as you behold the beauty of My holiness and seek to pursue the intimacy of My love, what is beautiful to Me is the heart of one who wholly surrenders your heart to Me. The more deeply you surrender, the more intimately you'll experience the depths of My love -- My love for you and for every one of My children. Each one of you, in that moment of surrender and trust and love, will know you are Mine and I am yours." ...
 
As I ponder and discern what I believe I hear as Your word in my heart, this Word of Your Scripture comes to mind: "My beloved is mine and I am his" (Song of Solomon 2:16). ...
 
Yes, Lord. As best as I can and all by Your grace, I welcome Your Spirit into my heart and every moment of my day. Even as I arise and go about my day, may my spirit never leave this place of deep intimacy with Your Spirit -- spirit to Spirit, heart to Heart, deep to Deep. Help me keep trusting even more, surrendering even more, experiencing the intimacy of Your love and the beauty of Your holiness even more. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. 
 
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

My friend, may you be drawn into an ever deeper place of intimacy with the Lord in the beauty of His holiness and extravagance of His love, in Jesus name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

  

Save the Date! Come join us if you are in the Lexington, Kentucky area the weekend of October 23-24th where I'll speaking at our Setting Hearts Free conference at Ignite Church in Nicholasville just west of Lexington. 
All are welcome! Spread the word!

Healing Academy in Fredericksburg at the Bridge Church. Please Thank you for your prayers! We're praising God for another powerful night, as we experienced great deliverance and freedom in the powerful name of Jesus! Every week gets better! Praying the Holy Spirit will connect you in those places He has for you to be filled up and overflowing! The Healing Academy teaching is based on my Book Free to Be Like Jesus -- Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance.
 
Friends, let me know if your church or group would like to discuss arranging an Intensive Version of our Healing Academy in Your community. Just reply to this email.


Free to Be Like Jesus!
Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance 
 


New Mailing Address for Messiah Ministries:

Tommy & Rocio Hays
Messiah Ministries
17503 La Cantera Parkway, Suite 104407
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Wednesday, October 14, 2020

"Today We Choose Life" - October 14, 2020

 Morning by Morning, October 14 - "Today We Choose Life"

 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Guide my steps along Your path of life today -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God. ...
 
"Then Jesus declared, "I AM the Bread of Life" (John 6:23).
 
Today we choose Life. Today we choose to honor and affirm and defend those who choose Life.
 
And we thank You for the life You've given each of us. For "the Spirit gives life" (John 6:63). From the moment of our conception in our mother's womb until our last breath in these earthly bodies and on into eternity in our resurrected life in You, we thank You for Your gift of life to us.
 
May we honor this life. Cherish this life. Fight for the right for every life created in their mother's womb to be birthed and to breathe their first breath and live into the life You've chosen for each to live.
 
"For You created my inmost being;
    You knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    Your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from You
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in Your book
    before one of them came to be" (Psalm 139:13-16).
 
Thank You for life, Lord. Thank You for the abundance and fulfillment of life You have for each of us. As You said in Your Word, "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that (you) may have life and have it abundantly" (John 10:10).
 
Today I choose to stand up and speak out for the life of every soul created and chosen to live out every day ordained for them to live, just as written in Your Book. And today, in the name of Jesus who is Life, I choose to stand against the thief, in every form presented in my world, who come only to steal and kill and destroy. Today I choose Life and I choose to honor life, in the power and authority of Your name. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
 
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

My friend, may you be filled and blessed with the abundance of life the Creator of Life has for you, and may you empowered by the Spirit who gives life to stand up and speak out for life in every way He leads you today and every day, in Jesus name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

  

Save the Date! Come join us if you are in the Lexington, Kentucky area the weekend of October 23-24th where I'll be preaching our Setting Hearts Free conference at Ignite Church in Nicholasville just west of Lexington. 
All are welcome! Spread the word!

Healing Academy in Fredericksburg at the Bridge Church. Please Thank you for your prayers! We're praising God for another powerful night last night, as we experienced great deliverance and freedom in the powerful name of Jesus! Every week gets better! Praying the Holy Spirit will connect you in those places He has for you to be filled up and overflowing! The Healing Academy teaching is based on my Book Free to Be Like Jesus -- Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance.
 
My friend, let me know if your church or group would like to discuss arranging an Intensive Version of our Healing Academy in Your community. Just reply to this email.


Free to Be Like Jesus!
Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance 
 


New Mailing Address for Messiah Ministries:

Tommy & Rocio Hays
Messiah Ministries
17503 La Cantera Parkway, Suite 104407
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Mighty Warrior Who Contends for Me - October 13, 2020

 Morning by Morning, October 13 - Mighty Warrior Who Contends for Me

 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. King of Kings and Lord of Lords, come rule and reign in my heart and every moment of my day. ...
"For thus says the Lord: 'Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken, and the prey of the tyrant be rescued, for I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children!'" (Isaiah 49:25)
 
There are battles being fought in the spiritual realm all around all the time. Battles for my health and hope, for my faith and finances, for my security and sense of peace, for my children and their children and their children and their children. But mighty are You, Lord! And powerful is Your name!
 
Though the battles are intense and the spiritual war is real, the victory was already won the very moment I welcomed You into my heart! You're my Mighty Warrior. You're my Dread Champion! You're the Mighty and Victorious One who contends with those who contend with me, who overcomes all that would try to overwhelm me!
 
"The Lord is a Warrior; the Lord is His name!" (Exodus 15:3)
 
"The Lord will go forth like a warrior,
He will arouse His zeal like a man of war.
He will utter a shout, yes, He will raise a war cry.
He will prevail against His enemies!" (Isaiah 42:13)
 
"The Lord is with me like a dread champion;
Therefore my persecutors will stumble and not prevail.
They will be utterly ashamed, because they have failed,
With an everlasting disgrace that will not be forgotten!" (Jeremiah 20:11)
 
"The Lord (my) God is in (my) midst,
A Victorious Warrior.
He will exult over (me) with joy,
He will quiet me in His love,
He will rejoice over (me) with shouts of joy!" (Zephaniah 3:17)
 
Mighty Warrior, I trust in You, knowing You're contending with those who contend with me, knowing that victory is mine because You've already prevailed through the power of Your blood and the victory of Your cross! "Having disarmed the powers and authorities, (You) made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross!" (Colossians 2:15)
 
Now I have victory in You in every battle I face. Let Your victory and my faith live loud in me today! "For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world -- our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. This is He who came by water and blood -- Jesus Christ!" (1 John 5:4-6)  In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may your faith live loud in you today, knowing the victory is won is Jesus Christ, in Jesus name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

  

Save the Date! Come join us if you are in the Lexington, Kentucky area the weekend of October 23-24th where I'll be preaching our Setting Hearts Free conference at Ignite Church in Nicholasville just west of Lexington. All are welcome! Spread the word!

Healing Academy in Fredericksburg at the Bridge Church Tonight. Please keep us in prayer, as Rocio and I travel to Fredericksburg, expectant and excited for another great evening of healing worship, teaching and impartation. Every week gets better! Praying the Holy Spirit will connect you in those places He has for you to be filled up and overflowing! The Healing Academy teaching is based on my Book Free to Be Like Jesus -- Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance.
 
Friends, let me know if your church or group would like to discuss arranging an Intensive Version of our Healing Academy in Your community. Just reply to this email.


Free to Be Like Jesus!
Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance 
 


New Mailing Address for Messiah Ministries:

Tommy & Rocio Hays
Messiah Ministries
17503 La Cantera Parkway, Suite 104407
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Monday, October 12, 2020

Abundant Waters in the Wilderness and Flowing Streams in the Desert - October 12, 2020

Morning by Morning, October 12 - Abundant Waters in the Wilderness and Flowing Streams in the Desert
 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Lead me by Your Spirit and form in me Your Nature, as I seek to begin my day embraced by My Father, centered in Christ, and filled with the Holy Spirit. ...
 
"The desert and the parched land will be glad;
    the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.
Like the crocus, it will burst into bloom;
    it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
    the splendor of Carmel and Sharon;
they will see the glory of the Lord,
    the splendor of our God!" (Isaiah 35:1-2)
 
We tend to think it's in the beautiful places that we experience Your beauty and in the abundant times that we experience Your abundance. Sometimes that's true. But so many times, it's just the opposite.
 
It's when we experience You in the "desert" places and parched land that we are glad. It's when we experience You in the "wilderness" wanderings and wonderings that we rejoice.
 
In contrast with the broken and fallen world around us, You rise up within us. In contrast with those among us who have no hope, given in to despair, overwhelmed by fear, You lift up our heads and stir up our hearts to burst into bloom and even shout for joy!
 
It's not normal; it's abnormal. It's not cultural; it's countercultural. It's not natural; it's supernatural.
 
It's one of the ways You display Your glory, the splendor of our God, through the peace and hope and even joy You give Your people in the midst of our problems and all the paranoia and panic of the world around us.
 
We're not indifferent to the sufferings around us, not blind to the challenges we face, nor immune to the consequences of the choices being made that affect all of our lives. But we do not grieve as those who have no hope; and our peace and joy is not dependent upon the governments or people or even circumstances of this world. We look to You. We look up to the hills from where our strength comes from. We trust in the One who is with us through it all and even uses it all to make us more like Him.
 
As we do, this is what You're able to do through us, as You display the splendor of Your glory in us:
 
"Strengthen the feeble hands,
    steady the knees that give way;
say to those with fearful hearts,
    'Be strong, do not fear;
your God will come,
    He will come with vengeance;
with divine retribution
    He will come to save you!'" (Isaiah 35:3-4)
 
Trusting in You, strong in the strength You provide and encouraged in the hope You supply, the dry and weary land around us and the dry and weary hearts among us begin to see the power of the presence of our God:
 
"Then will the eyes of the blind be opened
    and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
Then will the lame leap like a deer,
    and the mute tongue shout for joy.
Water will gush forth in the wilderness
    and streams in the desert!" (Isaiah 35:5-7)
 
You lead us out of the desert and out of the wilderness of a life depending on ourselves and our world and into the flourishing abundance of Your grace on "the highway of holiness" (Isaiah 35:8). Even those who went astray will return and be redeemed (Isaiah 35:9). For all who turn to You, who return to You, who learn to trust and rest in You no matter what we're going through, there is confidence, peace, assurance, and joy:

"They will enter Zion with singing;
    everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
    and sorrow and sighing will flee away!" (Isaiah 35:10)
 
Lord, let it be so -- here in my heart, here in my world, here right now and 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 you be filled up and overflowing in the Presence and power of the Lord through whatever desert place or wilderness journey you're facing and our world around us is facing, in Jesus name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

  

Save the Date! Come join us if you are in the Lexington, Kentucky area the weekend of October 23-24th where I'll be preaching our Setting Hearts Free conference at Ignite Church in Nicholasville just west of Lexington. All are welcome! 

Free to Be Like Jesus!
Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance 
 


New Mailing Address for Messiah Ministries:

Tommy & Rocio Hays
Messiah Ministries
17503 La Cantera Parkway, Suite 104407
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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