Thursday, July 07, 2022

Reminded by the Spirit of My Identity in Christ - July 7, 2022

 

Morning by Morning, July 7 - Reminded by the Spirit of My Identity in Christ
 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. You are the Way to Heaven; and You’ve made Your way into my heart and life by Your Holy Spirit, who reminds me every morning and throughout the moments of my day that I am a child of God. ...
 
“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a Spirit of Adoption. When we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’ it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if we in fact suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him” (Romans 8:14-17).
 
Simple but profound and forever true -- Your Spirit bearing witness with my spirit that I am saved, I am forgiven, I am free. I am a child of God.
 
Every now and I then, I just need to take a moment, take my morning time here in the silence of surrender before You, here in my morning communion of prayer with You, to remember my identity. Secured and assured by Your Spirit that You are with me, that You are for me, that You have given me Your Spirit of Adoption to know and not doubt that I am a child of God.
 
I’m an heir of Heaven, as a joint heir with Christ. And my inheritance is my identity, that God himself is my Father -- a Father who never leaves me nor forsakes me; a Father who loves me and looks out for me; a Father who even takes whatever sufferings I endure on my journey through this sliver of time I have in this world on this side of Heaven, to make me more like Jesus every day in the glory of His identity.
 
As Your Word goes on to say in the next verse: “I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us” (v. 18).
 
Yes, Lord. My Father God, I am Your child. Lord Jesus, I am Your joint heir, even as I am also Your disciple and servant. Holy Spirit of the Living God, I am living in constant communion with You as You abide in me and bear witness to me of who I am in Christ.
 
Nothing I ever encounter and overcome, nothing I suffer through on my journey through this broken and fallen world, will ever separate me from Your love (v. 38-39). “No, in all these things (I am) more than victorious through Him who loves (me)!” (v. 37)
 
Thank You for reminding me of Your written Word and sending it into my spirit by Your spoken word this morning -- simple, profound, and forever true. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may you be reminded by the Spirit of your identity as a child of God, forgiven and free, secured and assured of His forever love for you, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Messiah Ministries Mailing Address:
412 S. Adams Street #148
Fredericksburg, Texas 78624

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Messiah Ministries Events

July 7-8
Leading a Spiritual Retreat for the South Texas Aglow Leaders at South Padre Island.

July 17
Prayer Ministry Team for One Church - Citywide Worship in Boerne, Texas, 6:00 PM at Boerne Main Plaza hosted by Rebecca Harris of Reflection of Christ Ministry

July 21
Preaching at San Antonio, Texas Aglow Ministries Evening Gathering

July 23-31
Evangelist and Keynote Speaker for the Nova Scotia Camp Meeting at Fundy Bay
I'm excited to be the Evangelist and Keynote Speaker at the Camp Meeting at Fundy Bay Camp in Nova Scotia, Canada. During the morning sessions, we will have Prophetic Roundtables led by fellow MorningStar Fellowship of Ministries member Sylvain Gauthier. All are Welcome! Come join us!

Fundy Bay Camp Meeting
1224 Baxter’s Harbour Road; Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Contact: Wade Marshall or ask me for details

August 18-30
Our Next Ministry Trip to Central Mexico in Torreon, Morelia, Patzcuaro, and San Miguel with Pastor Fernando Tovar and our ministry partners at Morelia House of Prayer and Rey de Reyes Iglesia!

Partner with us by Prayer and Financial Support for This Ministry Trip to Mexico:

September 1-3
Teaching our Level 1 Weekend Intensive School of Ministry, in Lampasas, Texas for interdenominational, city-wide teams of healing and deliverance prayer ministry.
Based on the principles of my books:
Free to Be Like Jesus! — Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance and
First the Spirit — Right Alignment of Spirit, Soul, and Body

September 10
Celebration Fundraiser for Messiah Ministries
Hosted in Fredericksburg, Texas
Please consider being a sponsor!
Let me know if you, your church, or your company are able to:

September 11
Starting a 6 Weeks Teaching Series at Bridge Church same time as the 9:00 Service as part of the discipleship plan at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas.
Also Starting a New Class of the Freedom Equipping Course at Bridge on Tuesday Nights at 6:00

October 7-8
Revival at the Barn! at Yee Haw Ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas

October 21-23
Mens' Retreat in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, where I'll be teaching and equipping on Freedom Prayer Ministry.

November 17-19
Teaching our Level 2 Weekend Intensive School of Ministry in Lampasas, Texas

Monday Nights
Rocio and I lead an Online Connect Group for MorningStar Ministries

Wednesday Mornings
Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Inner Healing and Deliverance Ministry Sessions for the Online Connect Groups from around the world.

Personal Ministry Appointments
Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment and as the Holy Spirit leads. Please keep us in prayer for spiritual breakthrough and transformation! Let us know if you'd like to set up a session: 

Sessions are without cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries.

Sign up Here for this Free Video Series for Inner Healing and Spiritual Freedom in Christ:

Wednesday, July 06, 2022

“Called and Chosen and Faithful” to Jesus - July 6, 2022

 

Morning by Morning, July 6 - “Called and Chosen and Faithful” to Jesus
 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. King of kings, come rule and reign in my heart and my thoughts and every moment of my day. ...
 
“They will wage war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with Him are called and chosen and faithful” (Revelation 17:14).
 
There’s much about the unfolding of these days and the days to come that I don’t yet understand. But this I do: You win! And because You win, so do we -- we who are “called and chosen and faithful” to You!
 
You’re the Lamb of God who willingly surrendered Your life as the eternal Sacrifice for all our sin (Revelation 5:6). And at the same time, You’re the Lion of Judah who has victoriously conquered and eternally overcome all that will try to oppose the Kingdom of God through the kingdoms of this world (Revelation 5:5). For one day Your Word will be completely fulfilled and forever sealed: “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!” (Revelation 11:15 NKJV)
 
So between this day and that day to come, I pray for Your grace to guide my heart and my thoughts -- to keep creating in me a clean heart and renewing in me a right spirit (Psalm 51:10), to keep transforming me by the renewing of my mind (Romans 12:2), to keep conforming me into the image of the Son of God (Romans 8:29). By the power of Your grace, I want to be one of Yours who are “found faithful” (1 Corinthians 4:2), faithful to the One who is forever “called Faithful and True” (Revelation 19:11), to the One who is forever declared “King of Kings and Lord of Lords” (Revelation 19:16).
 
Through whatever days to come, through whatever challenges to overcome, no matter what’s happening among the kingdoms of this world, I thank You that I’m already a “citizen” of the Kingdom of God through my faith by Your grace in You (Ephesians 2:19). “For our citizenship is in Heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that is may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able to subdue all things to Himself” (Philippians 3:20-21). In that way and all by the power of that grace, I am and will be among those from every generation, from every tongue and tribe and nation, who are “called and chosen and faithful” to You (Revelation 7:9 and 17:14). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may you be confident by the power of God's grace in your identity and destiny as one called and chose and faithful to Jesus, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Messiah Ministries Mailing Address:
412 S. Adams Street #148
Fredericksburg, Texas 78624

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Please Keep us in Prayer for These
Messiah Ministries Events

July 7-8
Leading a Spiritual Retreat for the South Texas Aglow Leaders at South Padre Island.

July 17
Prayer Ministry Team for One Church - Citywide Worship in Boerne, Texas, 6:00 PM at Boerne Main Plaza hosted by Rebecca Harris of Reflection of Christ Ministry

July 21
Preaching at San Antonio, Texas Aglow Ministries Evening Gathering

July 23-31
Evangelist and Keynote Speaker for the Nova Scotia Camp Meeting at Fundy Bay
I'm excited to be the Evangelist and Keynote Speaker at the Camp Meeting at Fundy Bay Camp in Nova Scotia, Canada. During the morning sessions, we will have Prophetic Roundtables led by fellow MorningStar Fellowship of Ministries member Sylvain Gauthier. All are Welcome! Come join us!

Fundy Bay Camp Meeting
1224 Baxter’s Harbour Road; Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Contact: Wade Marshall or ask me for details

August 18-30
Our Next Ministry Trip to Central Mexico in Torreon, Morelia, Patzcuaro, and San Miguel with Pastor Fernando Tovar and our ministry partners at Morelia House of Prayer and Rey de Reyes Iglesia!

Partner with us by Prayer and Financial Support for This Ministry Trip to Mexico:

September 1-3 (Tentative)
Teaching our Intensive School of Ministry, Level 1, in Lampasas, Texas for interdenominational, city-wide teams of healing and deliverance prayer ministry.
Based on the principles of my books:
Free to Be Like Jesus! — Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance and
First the Spirit — Right Alignment of Spirit, Soul, and Body

September 10
Celebration Fundraiser for Messiah Ministries
Hosted in Fredericksburg, Texas
Please consider being a sponsor!
Let me know if you, your church, or your company are able to:

September 11
Starting a 6 Weeks Teaching Series at Bridge Church same time as the 9:00 Service as part of the discipleship plan at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas.
Also Starting a New Class of the Freedom Equipping Course at Bridge on Tuesday Nights at 6:00

October 7-8
Revival at the Barn! at Yee Haw Ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas

October 21-23
Mens' Retreat in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, where I'll be teaching and equipping on Freedom Prayer Ministry.

Monday Nights
Rocio and I lead an Online Connect Group for MorningStar Ministries

Wednesday Mornings
Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Inner Healing and Deliverance Ministry Sessions for the Online Connect Groups from around the world.

Personal Ministry Appointments
Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment and as the Holy Spirit leads. Please keep us in prayer for spiritual breakthrough and transformation! Let us know if you'd like to set up a session: 

Sessions are without cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries.

Sign up Here for this Free Video Series for Inner Healing and Spiritual Freedom in Christ:

Tuesday, July 05, 2022

Tragedies into Testimonies, Challenges into Character, Griefs into Glory - July 5, 2022

 

Morning by Morning, July 5 - Tragedies into Testimonies, Challenges into Character, Griefs into Glory
 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. I need You -- here in my heart and every moment of my day -- God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit -- three Persons of One God and One God who is always with me and even abiding within me (Romans 8:9). ...
 
In these days of such tragedy and loss, so many battles and challenges, ever-increasing darkness in which to shine with the Light who lives within us, I’m mindful of how You are at work in it all and despite it all (Romans 8:28). You don’t “will” it all, but You certainly “use” it all. And You “use” it all to make us all more like You (Romans 8:29).
 
You’re developing our character. You’re teaching us to love, helping us learn to trust. You’re empowering us to overcome and equipping us to help others overcome on our life-long, but one-time journey through this broken and fallen world where we grow in the grace to “walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7).
 
“Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us” (Romans 5:1-5).
 
How great our Father’s love for us. How amazing our Savior’s grace for us. How deeply our Comforter cares for us.
 
You turn our tragedies into testimonies, our challenges into character, and our griefs into glory. “Christ in (us), the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27).
 
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God -- with every Dimension of Your Being, You are at work in every dimension of our being (Philippians 2:13). You’re taking all we go through to draw us nearer to You (James 4:6), and taking all we face to bring us “face to face” with You (1 Corinthians 13:12). For You’re the God who loves us, who is always with us, and who is always at work within us and working with all that comes against us to make us more like You each day (2 Corinthians 3:18). In Jesus’ name I pray.
 
In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may you embrace the God who is with you and developing His character within you through all you endure and overcome, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Messiah Ministries Mailing Address:
412 S. Adams Street #148
Fredericksburg, Texas 78624

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Please Keep us in Prayer for These
Messiah Ministries Events

Pakistan Ministry Report from our Last Outdoor Crusade Last Week:
We praise God for this exciting Praise Report of salvations, healing, and deliverance, with a few testimonies from our ministry partners in Pakistan, Pastor Rizwan and Mehwish Fazal:

“Thank the Lord 295 Souls are Saved! One boy around 17 years had much shoulder pain from one and half years but after your prayer no more pain. One lady had a condition of fluid coming out from her chest but after prayer she has no more. One 55 year old person had heart problem with 50 percent heart working but after prayer and check up reports next day to doctor thank the Lord 90 percent of his heart is working very well. Thank the Lord Jesus and thank you for your prayers!”

We Praise God for all He is doing in Pakistan! Keep joining us in prayer for Revival in Pakistan! Each month we try to go to a different village and set up a projector screen for me to preach through Skype, with Pastor Rizwan interpreting for me and then he and his wife and the team follow up with ministry and discipleship.

Thank you so much, friends, for all your prayers and support that make this evangelistic part of our ministry possible! 

"And this Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come" (Matthew 24:14).

July 7-8
Leading a Spiritual Retreat for the South Texas Aglow Leaders at South Padre Island.

July 21
Preaching at San Antonio, Texas Aglow Ministries Evening Gathering

July 23-31
Evangelist and Keynote Speaker for the Nova Scotia Camp Meeting at Fundy Bay
I'm excited to be the Evangelist and Keynote Speaker at the Camp Meeting at Fundy Bay Camp in Nova Scotia, Canada. During the morning sessions, we will have Prophetic Roundtables led by fellow MorningStar Fellowship of Ministries member Sylvain Gauthier. All are Welcome! Come join us!

Fundy Bay Camp Meeting
1224 Baxter’s Harbour Road; Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Contact: Wade Marshall or ask me for details

August 18-30
Our Next Ministry Trip to Central Mexico in Torreon, Morelia, Patzcuaro, and San Miguel with Pastor Fernando Tovar and our ministry partners at Morelia House of Prayer and Rey de Reyes Iglesia!

September 1-3 (Tentative)
Teaching our Intensive School of Ministry, Level 1, in Lampasas, Texas for interdenominational, city-wide teams of healing and deliverance prayer ministry.
Based on the principles of my books:
Free to Be Like Jesus! — Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance and
First the Spirit — Right Alignment of Spirit, Soul, and Body

September 10
Celebration Fundraiser for Messiah Ministries
Hosted in Fredericksburg, Texas
Please consider being a sponsor!
Let me know if you, your church, or your company are able to:

September 11
Starting a 6 Weeks Teaching Series at Bridge Church same time as the 9:00 Service as part of the discipleship plan at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas.
Also Starting a New Class of the Freedom Equipping Course at Bridge on Tuesday Nights at 6:00

October 7-8
Revival at the Barn! at Yee Haw Ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas

October 21-23
Mens' Retreat in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, where I'll be teaching and equipping on Freedom Prayer Ministry.

Monday Nights
Rocio and I lead an Online Connect Group for MorningStar Ministries

Wednesday Mornings
Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Inner Healing and Deliverance Ministry Sessions for the Online Connect Groups from around the world.

Personal Ministry Appointments
Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment and as the Holy Spirit leads. Please keep us in prayer for spiritual breakthrough and transformation! Let us know if you'd like to set up a session: 

Sessions are without cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries.

Sign up Here for this Free Video Series for Inner Healing and Spiritual Freedom in Christ:

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

“The Word of Truth” - June 29, 2022

 

Morning by Morning, June 29 - “The Word of Truth”
 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. I welcome You here in my heart and every moment of my day -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God. ...
 
As I wait and listen for Your leading this morning, what comes into my spirit and up to my mind is this: “The word of truth.” ...
 
Yes, Lord. What are You speaking to me about “the word of truth?” ...
 
I hear in my heart:
 
“Open your heart to hear My word. My words are true and they can be trusted. My words are spirit and they are life. My words challenge you, correct you, and change you. My words guide you, inspire you, encourage you. My words love you and let you know that you are loved. My words shape your sense of identity and let you know that you are Mine.” ...
 
Yes, Lord. You are the very “Word of God” (John 1:1). You are the Living Word made flesh (John 1:14). And the words that You speak “are spirit and life” (John 6:63).
 
Your words are faithful and true, because that’s who You are. Your Identity is the One who “is called Faithful and True” and whose “name is called The Word of God” (Revelation 19:11-13).
 
So I do open my heart to hear Your word of truth. I do trust You to submit my life to be formed and transformed by Your word of truth. As Your written Word declares of the power of Your spoken word:
 
“In fulfillment of His own purpose He gave birth to us by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of His creatures” (James 1:18).
 
“In Christ we 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 we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, might live for the praise of His glory. In Him (we) also, when (we) had heard the word of truth, the gospel of (our) salvation, and had believed in Him, were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit; this is the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God’s own people, to the praise of His glory” (Ephesians 1:11-14).
 
Your “word of truth” is “the gospel of (my) salvation.” “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17).
 
I thank You for saving me and speaking Your word to me. I thank You for continuing to make me more like You, that I can “live for the praise of (Your) glory” by the power of Your word and the grace of Your gospel at work within me.
 
Let Your word of truth keep penetrating my heart and sanctify my soul to grow up into the maturity of who You created me and called me to be. Let it be to me according to Your word: Let Your word of truth challenge me, correct me, and change me. Let Your word of truth guide me, inspire me, encourage me. Let Your word of truth love me and let me know that I am loved. Let Your word of truth shape my sense of identity and let me know that I am Yours.” In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
 
In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may you hear and embrace "the word of truth" from God's heart to yours, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Messiah Ministries Mailing Address:
412 S. Adams Street #148
Fredericksburg, Texas 78624

Please share this word to encourage a friend!
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Please Keep us in Prayer for These
Messiah Ministries Events

June 28 Thank you for your prayers!
Monthly Pakistan Ministry Crusade through our Internet Ministry. Excited to hear the reports of what God has done!

July 7-8
Leading a Spiritual Retreat for the South Texas Aglow Leaders at South Padre Island.

July 21
Preaching at San Antonio, Texas Aglow Ministries Evening Gathering

July 23-31
Evangelist and Keynote Speaker for the Nova Scotia Camp Meeting at Fundy Bay
I'm excited to be the Evangelist and Keynote Speaker at the Camp Meeting at Fundy Bay Camp in Nova Scotia, Canada. During the morning sessions, we will have Prophetic Roundtables led by fellow MorningStar Fellowship of Ministries member Sylvain Gauthier. All are Welcome! Come join us!

Fundy Bay Camp Meeting
1224 Baxter’s Harbour Road; Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Contact: Wade Marshall or ask me for details

August 18-30
Our Next Ministry Trip to Central Mexico in Torreon, Morelia, Patzcuaro, and San Miguel with Pastor Fernando Tovar and our ministry partners at Morelia House of Prayer and Rey de Reyes Iglesia!

September 1-3 (Tentative)
Teaching our Intensive School of Ministry, Level 1, in Lampasas, Texas for interdenominational, city-wide teams of healing and deliverance prayer ministry.
Based on the principles of my books:
Free to Be Like Jesus! — Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance and
First the Spirit — Right Alignment of Spirit, Soul, and Body

September 10
Celebration Fundraiser for Messiah Ministries
Hosted in Fredericksburg, Texas
Please consider being a sponsor!
Let me know if you, your church, or your company are able to:

September 11
Starting a 6 Weeks Teaching Series at Bridge Church same time as the 9:00 Service as part of the discipleship plan at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas.
Also Starting a New Class of the Freedom Equipping Course at Bridge on Tuesday Nights at 6:00

October 7-8
Revival at the Barn! at Yee Haw Ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas

October 21-23
Mens' Retreat in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, where I'll be teaching and equipping on Freedom Prayer Ministry.

Monday Nights
Rocio and I lead an Online Connect Group for MorningStar Ministries

Wednesday Mornings
Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Inner Healing and Deliverance Ministry Sessions for the Online Connect Groups from around the world.

Personal Ministry Appointments
Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment and as the Holy Spirit leads. Please keep us in prayer for spiritual breakthrough and transformation! Let us know if you'd like to set up a session: 

Sessions are without cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries.

Sign up Here for this Free Video Series for Inner Healing and Spiritual Freedom in Christ: