How To Dwell in “The Secret Place” and “Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty” - April 30, 2024

 

Morning by Morning, April 30 - How To Dwell in “The Secret Place” and “Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty”   Good morning, Lord Jesus. Be at the center of my heart and in the middle of every moment of my day. ...   “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, ‘He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust’” (Psalm 91:1-2).   Show me how to dwell in Your secret place. Teach me how to abide under Your shadow. Help me believe undoubtedly and to know unwaveringly that You are my Refuge and my Fortress, my God in whom I trust. ...   As I wait for the leading of Your Holy Spirit to bring Your Word to life to me today, these words come into my spirit and rise up to my mind:   “Ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened to you.” ...   Yes, Lord. I know these words. I haven’t read them in a while, but as I search for them in Your Word, I find them in the Gospel of Matthew:   “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened” (Matthew 7:7-8).   And these words are followed by words to encourage me not to doubt that You hear, not to doubt that You answer, but to trust that it is Your will and Your heart for me to ask and receive, to seek and find, to knock and see that the door will be opened:   “Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or is he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent. If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him” (Matthew 7:9-12).   These are Your Words, Lord Jesus. And what comes to me as Your Spirit is speaking Your Words into my spirit this morning is this:   “It’s good for you to ask. It’s good for you to pursue. It’s good for you to be expectant of My answer as you press into My Presence. I look at the heart. And for those who are hungry for Me and My Presence in their hearts, I embrace you and cover you and surround you in the love and power and shelter of My Presence. This is the secret place of My Presence. This is the shadow of the Almighty. This is how you allow Me to be your Refuge and your Fortress, as you trust in Me as your God.” ...   Yes, Lord. Another Word from Your Scripture comes immediately to mind to confirm what I believe is Your word in my heart:   “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled” (Matthew 5:6). And now this: “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you” (Matthew 6:33).   I choose to receive this gift of Your grace. And by the power of Your grace, I choose to embrace this attitude of my heart, this perspective of my spirit, that I believe You’re speaking to me. These are keys of the kingdom of God, a means of Your grace, a way that leads to life in You--day by day, morning by morning, moment by moment--in my deeply personal relationship with You, as I consciously choose to abide in You and consciously choose to allow you to abide in me.   Lord, let it be so in me now and throughout the moments of my day--this day and every day. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays My friend, may you dwell in the Secret Place and abide in the Shelter of the Almighty, choosing this attitude of your heart and perspective of your spirit, abiding in the Lord as He abides in you, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day! Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries New Mailing Address: 502 North Milam Street Fredericksburg, Texas 78624 Please share this word to encourage a friend! Anyone can sign up for free at: https://messiah-ministries.org My Books on Inner Healing, Spiritual Freedom and Spiritual Intimacy with God are Available on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays “Setting hearts free to be all they were created to be —Free to Be Like Jesus— secure in their identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling their destiny"

Please Keep us in Prayer for These Messiah Ministries Events May 1 New Wine Worship at Messiah Ministries in Fredericksburg, Texas 7PM All are welcome to come drink deeply from the Well of the Holy Spirit! May 3-5 Attending Rick Joyner's Christian Writer's Seminar at Moravian Falls, NC May 28-June 2 Ministry in Cali, Columbia with Rocio and speaking at the Citywide Pastors Association Monthly Meeting in Cali on Inner Healing and Deliverance Prayer Ministry and other Pastors' and Strategic Meetings. Huge Open Doors of Invitation for this Kingdom Message! Praise God!  June 5-7 MorningStar Fellowship of Ministries Retreat at Fort Mill, SC June 23 Preaching 3 Services at Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas July 27 Speaking at the Aglow International Ministries Gathering for Interest to start of a citywide Prayer Lighthouse in Fredericksburg, Texas. All are welcome. July 30-August 1 Teaching the Healing Academy at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries, Goodlettsville, TN in the Nashville, Tennessee area Tuesday Nights at 6PM Teaching our 9 Month Equipping Course on Tuesday Nights at 6PM at The Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas based on my books Free to Be Like Jesus! and First the Spirit.  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays Wednesday Mornings Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Restoration Ministry Sessions for 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:  tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org  Sessions are without cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries. https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute

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Celebrating Our Personal Passover as We Apply the Blood of the Lamb to the Doorposts of Our Hearts - April 29, 2024

 

Morning by Morning, April 29 - Celebrating Our Personal Passover as We Apply the Blood of the Lamb to the Doorposts of Our Hearts   Good morning, Lord Jesus. I draw near to Your to listen for Your leading in these first moments of my day with You. ... “For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth” (1 Corinthians 5:7-8).   On the cycles of the Biblical calendar, the week of Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, will end at sundown tonight. The first Passover was when the spirit of death passed over the homes of the people of Israel who had applied the blood of the lamb over their doorposts during the last plague upon Pharoah and Egypt, that he would finally let Your people go:   “Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, ‘Pick out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover lamb. And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning. For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you. And you shall observe this thing as an ordinance for you and your sons forever’” (Exodus 12:21-24).   They were then commanded to keep this Feast of Unleavened Bread in remembrance of this Passover, remembering Your deliverance of Your people from out of Egypt with such haste that there was no time for the bread to leaven (Exodus 12:14-15). That Feast is now fulfilled in “Christ, our Passover Lamb” (1 Corinthians 5:6-8). In Christ, our Passover Lamb, we celebrate our deliverance from sin and death through the Blood of the Lamb and the cleansing of our souls from the leaven of sin (1 John 1:7).   You celebrated Your last Passover Meal of the Feast of Unleavened Bread when You gathered with Your disciples on the night You were betrayed and handed Yourself over to be crucified, dead, and buried for us (Luke 22:14-20). You were eternally destined to be for us “the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29).   So I do remember all You’ve done for us. I celebrate the first Passover and I celebrate every day of my personal Passover, when You caused death to pass over me and deliver me from the curse of the law of sin and death, as the Blood of the Lamb was applied to the doorposts of my heart:   “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:1-2).   Thank You, Lord Jesus, my Passover Lamb, my Lord and Savior, my Healer and Deliverer and Sanctifier of my soul! I celebrate the Feast by embracing the One has fulfilled it--forever fulfilled in Your Blood through the Sacrifice in Your Love for me and for every soul who would apply Your Blood to their hearts by saying Yes to Your Sacrifice. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays My friend, may you celebrate every day your personal Passover by the power of the Blood of Jesus applied to the doorposts of your heart, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day! Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries New Mailing Address: 502 North Milam Street Fredericksburg, Texas 78624 Please share this word to encourage a friend! Anyone can sign up for free at: https://messiah-ministries.org My Books on Inner Healing, Spiritual Freedom and Spiritual Intimacy with God are Available on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays “Setting hearts free to be all they were created to be —Free to Be Like Jesus— secure in their identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling their destiny"

Please Keep us in Prayer for These Messiah Ministries Events April 26-27 Thank You So Much for All Your Prayers for a beautiful, powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit in our community at our citywide gathering! We pray the same for revival in the Holy Spirit in your community! 3rd Annual Revival at the Barn!  May 1 New Wine Worship at Messiah Ministries in Fredericksburg, Texas 7PM All are welcome to come drink deeply from the Well of the Holy Spirit! May 3-5 Attending Rick Joyner's Christian Writer's Seminar at Moravian Falls, NC May 28-June 2 Ministry in Cali, Columbia with Rocio and speaking at the Citywide Pastors Association Monthly Meeting in Cali on Inner Healing and Deliverance Prayer Ministry and other Pastors' and Strategic Meetings. Huge Open Doors of Invitation for this Kingdom Message! Praise God! June 5-7 MorningStar Fellowship of Ministries Retreat at Fort Mill, SC June 23 Preaching 3 Services at Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas July 27 Speaking at the Aglow International Ministries Gathering for Interest to start of a citywide Prayer Lighthouse in Fredericksburg, Texas. All are welcome. July 30-August 1 Teaching the Healing Academy at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries, Goodlettsville, TN in the Nashville, Tennessee area Tuesday Nights at 6PM Teaching our 9 Month Equipping Course on Tuesday Nights at 6PM at The Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas based on my books Free to Be Like Jesus! and First the Spirit.  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays Wednesday Mornings Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Restoration Ministry Sessions for 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:  tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org  Sessions are without cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries. https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute

Free On-line Video Series: Setting Hearts Free!  My Core Teaching and Ministry https://messiah-ministries.org/resources

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Consuming Revival Fire of God - April 26, 2024

 

Morning by Morning, April 26 - Consuming Revival Fire of God   Good morning, Lord Jesus. All is well with my soul because my soul is in Your hands. ...   “For our God is a consuming fire!” (Hebrews 12:29)   Fire of God, burn in me. Burn through me. Burn until You consume me from all that’s not yet like You and until You consume me with a fiery passion for all stirs You.   The same Fire of God that empowers us is the same Fire of God that purifies us. And we need both. We need it all. We need Your empowering, purifying Fire to consume us--spirit, soul, and body.   Tonight in our little community of Fredericksburg, Texas, I’ll be preaching and ministering at the first night of our Revival at the Barn. Lord, let it be Your Word and Your Spirit that’s released in our hearts with Your consuming Fire. Let there be salvations, healing, deliverance, and revival! Let there be an atmosphere of awakening as You fan the flames of revival in us! Not only here, but across this land and throughout this world in the hearts of all who are called by Your name.   You are the Revival! And Your heart is to set our hearts ablaze with Your revival Fire! So come and burn, Holy One! Come and burn with Your Holy Fire to purge us and purify us, to empower us and consume us! Consuming revival Fire of God come burn in us. “For our God is a consuming Fire!” In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays My friend, may you be set ablaze with the consuming revival Fire of God, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day! Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries New Mailing Address: 502 North Milam Street Fredericksburg, Texas 78624 Please share this word to encourage a friend! Anyone can sign up for free at: https://messiah-ministries.org My Books on Inner Healing, Spiritual Freedom and Spiritual Intimacy with God are Available on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays “Setting hearts free to be all they were created to be —Free to Be Like Jesus— secure in their identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling their destiny"

Please Keep us in Prayer for These Messiah Ministries Events April 26-27 3rd Annual Revival at the Barn! at the Barn behind Yee Haw Ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas at 3915 US-290 6 PM Each Night. Come Expectant and Bring Friends for Salvation, Healing, Deliverance and Personal Revival! https://www.facebook.com/RevivalFBG  May 1 New Wine Worship at Messiah Ministries in Fredericksburg, Texas 7PM All are welcome to come drink deeply from the Well of the Holy Spirit! May 3-5 Attending Rick Joyner's Christian Writer's Seminar at Moravian Falls, NC May 28-June 2 Ministry in Cali, Columbia with Rocio and speaking at the Citywide Pastors Association Monthly Meeting in Cali on Inner Healing and Deliverance Prayer Ministry and other Pastors' and Strategic Meetings. Huge Open Doors of Invitation for this Kingdom Message! Praise God! June 5-7 MorningStar Fellowship of Ministries Retreat at Fort Mill, SC June 23 Preaching 3 Services at Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas July 27 Speaking at the Aglow International Ministries Gathering for Interest to start of a citywide Prayer Lighthouse in Fredericksburg, Texas. All are welcome. July 30-August 1 Teaching the Healing Academy at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries, Goodlettsville, TN in the Nashville, Tennessee area Tuesday Nights at 6PM Teaching our 9 Month Equipping Course on Tuesday Nights at 6PM at The Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas based on my books Free to Be Like Jesus! and First the Spirit.  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays Wednesday Mornings Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Restoration Ministry Sessions for 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:  tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org  Sessions are without cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries. https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute

Free On-line Video Series: Setting Hearts Free!  My Core Teaching and Ministry https://messiah-ministries.org/resources

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“Lord, I Need You” and You’re Always Meeting My Need - April 25, 2024

 

Morning by Morning, April 25 - “Lord, I Need You” and You’re Always Meeting My Need   Good morning, Lord Jesus. You’re my Vine and I’m one of Your branches--abiding in You, trusting in You, resting in You, finding my life in You, this day and every day. ...   “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.   “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.   “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples” (John 15:1-8).   My part is to keep my eyes on You, keep attached to You, keep close to You. Then Your Spirit and Your Life keeps flowing into me, keeps flowing through me, keeps bearing good fruit through me. I can’t do any of that on my own. Without You I can do nothing (v. 5).   Nothing good comes from failing to abide in You. So I never want to be without You. I never want to be detached from You or pulled away from You. But always actively, intentionally, deliberately choosing to abide in You.   As the worship song says, “Lord, I need You every hour.” And every hour, You’re always meeting my need, as You keep abiding in me and keep giving me the grace to keep abiding in You. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays My friend, may you be always actively, intentionally, deliberately choosing to abide in Jesus, as His Spirit and Life keeps flowing in you and through you, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day! Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries New Mailing Address: 502 North Milam Street Fredericksburg, Texas 78624 Please share this word to encourage a friend! Anyone can sign up for free at: https://messiah-ministries.org My Books on Inner Healing, Spiritual Freedom and Spiritual Intimacy with God are Available on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays “Setting hearts free to be all they were created to be —Free to Be Like Jesus— secure in their identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling their destiny"

Please Keep us in Prayer for These Messiah Ministries Events April 26-27 3rd Annual Revival at the Barn! at Yee Haw Ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas 6 PM Each Night. Come Expectant and Bring Friends for Salvation, Healing, Deliverance and Personal Revival! https://revivalatthebarnfbg.com/  May 1 New Wine Worship at Messiah Ministries in Fredericksburg, Texas 7PM All are welcome to come drink deeply from the Well of the Holy Spirit! May 3-5 Attending Rick Joyner's Christian Writer's Seminar at Moravian Falls, NC May 28-June 2 Ministry in Cali, Columbia with Rocio and speaking at the Citywide Pastors Association Monthly Meeting in Cali on Inner Healing and Deliverance Prayer Ministry and other Pastors' and Strategic Meetings. Huge Open Doors of Invitation for this Kingdom Message! Praise God! June 5-7 MorningStar Fellowship of Ministries Retreat at Fort Mill, SC June 23 Preaching 3 Services at Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas July 27 Speaking at the Aglow International Ministries Gathering for Interest to start of a citywide Prayer Lighthouse in Fredericksburg, Texas. All are welcome. July 30-August 1 Teaching the Healing Academy at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries, Goodlettsville, TN in the Nashville, Tennessee area Tuesday Nights at 6PM Teaching our 9 Month Equipping Course on Tuesday Nights at 6PM at The Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas based on my books Free to Be Like Jesus! and First the Spirit.  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays Wednesday Mornings Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Restoration Ministry Sessions for 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:  tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org  Sessions are without cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries. https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute

Free On-line Video Series: Setting Hearts Free!  My Core Teaching and Ministry https://messiah-ministries.org/resources

https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays