Tuesday, May 07, 2024

“Think on These Things” - May 7, 2024

 

Morning by Morning, May 7 - “Think on These Things”

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. You are the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6); and You are the King of Kings (Revelation 19:16). Fill me with Your peace as I entrust myself to You and Your Kingdom to begin my day centered in You. ...

 

“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things” (Philippians 4:8 KJV).

 

As I begin my morning--before going forward into all the battles and challenges that are set before me in the circumstances of my life today--I first take time to look to You, listen for You, and “think on these things” that are true and honest and just and pure and lovely and of good report. And I allow virtue and praise to fill my heart and my mind, as I lift up my heart and direct my thoughts to You.

 

Coming into Your Presence, embracing Your Presence in my thoughts as I “think on these things,” I “enter (Your) gates with thanksgiving and (Your) courts with praise” (Psalm 100:4). I remember that “the Lord is good and His love endures forever” (Psalm 100:5).

 

Thank You for lifting my heart and my spirits. Thank You for filling my mind with good things as I “think on these things.” Keep putting Your good thoughts in my mind and Your right desires in my heart, as You lead me through the moments of my day. “For as (a person) thinks in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.


Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays


My friend, may you "think on these things" that are good and holy pure, letting the Lord put His thoughts in your mind and His desires in your heart, as you go about your day and through anything you have to face, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!


Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

New 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 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

New Wine Worship

Hosted at Messiah Ministries home base at 502 North Milam Fredericksburg, Texas. All are welcome to come drink deeply from the Well of the Holy Spirit to worship the Lord in Spirit and Truth



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

Monday, May 06, 2024

“My Redeemer Lives” - May 6, 2024

 

Morning by Morning, May 6 - “My Redeemer Lives”

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Be at the center of all I am and all I do, with me always in every moment of every day. ...

 

“For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He will stand at last on the earth” (Job 19:25).

 

You are my Redeemer.

 

You’re the One who causes all things to work together for good for me, as You keep giving me the grace to keep trusting in You. You’re the One who turns it all around and sets all things right--all in Your time and all in Your way--as I keep entrusting all things to You.

 

Even what was intended for evil, You turn it for good. Even what was hard and painful and challenging, You use it for Your purposes of changing me and conforming me into all You have for me. You don’t waste a moment of my sufferings. You don’t miss an opportunity to teach me how to learn to love, how to learn to trust, how to learn to rest in You and Your plans for me.

 

As I keep turning to You, keep trusting in You, there’s no sin You can’t forgive, no hurt You can’t heal, no chain You can’t break, no wall You can’t break through, no stronghold You can’t pull down, no life You can’t change. You can redeem it all.

 

You are my Redeemer. And I know my Redeemer lives. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.


Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays


My friend, may you know your Redeemer lives, as He keeps giving you the grace to keep trusting in Him, allowing Him to be at work in you and everything you go through, making you more like Him every day, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!


Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

New 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 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

New Wine Worship

Hosted at Messiah Ministries home base at 502 North Milam Fredericksburg, Texas. All are welcome to come drink deeply from the Well of the Holy Spirit to worship the Lord in Spirit and Truth



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

Friday, May 03, 2024

“One Body” Moved to Pray with “One Heart and One Soul” in Our Communities for Our Nation and Our World - May 3, 2024

 

Morning by Morning, May 3 - “One Body” Moved to Pray with “One Heart and One Soul” in Our Communities for Our Nation and Our World

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. As You took time to get away for prayer when You walked this earth, so I take time to get away for prayer with You now--for prayer brings me into communion with You--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God (Mark 1:35). ...

 

Yesterday, I joined a gathering for the National Day of Prayer out in the park at the center of our community to bow our hearts before You and lift up our voices to You. We came from different churches and different expressions of our Christian faith, but we were united in one Spirit in our prayer for our nation and community. We humbled ourselves to say we don’t know how to pray, but Your Spirit does, as You moved and interceded through us as Your church in our community (Romans 8:26-27).

 

“For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free--and have all been made to drink of one Spirit. For in fact the body is not one member but many” (1 Corinthians 12:112-14).

 

As much as Your Word speaks of the “many members” of “one body” in any particular local church, Your Word also speaks of the “many members” of “one body” of the city-wide church, the nation-wide church, the world-wide church. For we are one body in our world, throughout all our generations--past, present, and future. Together as one, we are “the body of Christ” (1 Corinthians 12:27)

 

“There is one body and one Spirit, just as (we) were called in one hope of (our) calling; one Lord, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in (us) all” (Ephesians 4:4-6).

 

Unite us in You, Lord. Free us from division, strife, jealousy, competition, criticism, judgment, resentment, self-righteousness, spiritual pride and arrogance, spiritual confusion and deception, and everything else that would seek to divide us instead of unite us with one heart for You--secure in our identity in You and fulfilling our destiny in You as Your body in our world.

 

Fill us afresh with Your Holy Spirit! (Ephesians 5:18). Move through us again in the power of Your love that displays Your glory through Your body in our hearts, our communities, and our world. In the unity of Your people, You command Your blessing--“Life forever more!” (Psalm 133:1-3).

 

As it was in the beginning of Your church, let it be ever more so in our day:

 

“And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness. Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul; neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all” (Acts 4:31-33).

 

Show us what that is to look like in our day, in our hearts, in our land, in our world. Unite us together as one in the Spirit and one in the Lord, that You may move in Your reviving, awakening power and love with “great power” and “great grace” in our day! We need You just as much today as ever. For You are same today as You were in the beginning of Your church--“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever!” (Hebrews 13:8). Come do it again, Lord Jesus--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God--here in us, here in our community, our nation, our world! In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.


Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays


My friend, may you be drawn by the Holy Spirit into the bonds of unity of the Holy Spirit as your part of the body of Christ in our world as one body with one heart and one soul to display God's glory through His power and love and grace, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!


Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

New 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 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

Thursday, May 02, 2024

“Unfailing Love” of God - May 2, 2024

 

Morning by Morning, May 2 - “Unfailing Love” of God

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Put Your thoughts in my mind and Your desires in my heart, as I seek Your face and listen for the leading of Your voice (John 10:27). ...

 

The Word of the Lord through the Prophet Hosea comes to mind this morning:

 

“Therefore, I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her” (Hosea 2:14).

 

You were speaking of Your unfailing love. Even though Your people had rejected Your love and compromised their faith and even though they had turned to false gods and false idols instead of turning to You, You still loved them. You still pursued them. You even brought them into a place of “wilderness” through what they would suffer as the consequences of their choices so they could hear You “speak tenderly” to their hearts, so they could turn their hearts to You again.

 

Much of the Book of this prophet is about Your calling to Hosea to be faithful and steadfast in unfailing love for his unfaithful wife as a prophetic picture of Your mercy and love for Your people. Despite the actions of Hosea’s wife and despite the actions of Your people, You always offered them “a door of hope” if they would return to You (Hosea 2:15).

 

You said to Your people there would come a day of redemption and restoration, of forgiveness and mercy, despite all their sin and rebellion--not because they deserved it, but because You loved them and never stopped loving them no matter what. You said:

 

“I will make you My wife forever,

    showing you righteousness and justice,

    unfailing love and compassion.

I will be faithful to you and make you Mine,

    and you will finally know Me as the Lord” (Hosea 2:19-20 NLT).

 

And these are Your words of unfailing love for every one of us, drawing us into Your heart and covenant of love for each of us. These are Your words for everyone whom You put on our hearts in our lives, praying they would come to know Your unfailing love for each of us--“For God so loved the world ...” (John 3:16).

 

Keep turning my heart to You, Lord. Keep showing me Your “unfailing love and compassion,” when I don’t deserve it or fail to appreciate it. And I pray the same for the hearts of those I know who are running away from You, who are resisting You, who question and doubt You, who have not yet come to fully know You and Your “unfailing love and compassion” for them.

 

“Let Your unfailing love surround us, Lord, for our hope is in You alone” (Psalm 33:22). “Your unfailing love, O Lord, is as vast as the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds” (Psalm 36:5). “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness” (Lamentations 3:22-23). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.


Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays


My friend, may you embrace the unfailing love of God for you, as I join you in prayer for everyone on your heart to know the unfailing love of God for them, 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 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

Wednesday, May 01, 2024

Alive in Christ by the Spirit of Christ in Us - May 1, 2024

 

Morning by Morning, May 1 - Alive in Christ by the Spirit of Christ in Us

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Take me by the heart and lead me by Your Spirit into all You have for me today--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God. “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God” (Romans 8:14). ...

 

“But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you” (Romans 8:9-11).

 

By Your mercy and love, by the power of Your grace and compassion of Your will that all who would turn to You and trust in You would be saved in You, I do know I “have the Spirit of Christ” living in me (v. 9). “Indeed the Spirit of God dwells in (me)” (v. 9). “The Spirit of Him who raised Christ from the dead dwells in (me)” (v. 11).

 

Lord, let these Truths be sealed in my spirit and confirmed in the mind of my soul. Help me see You and see myself with Your Spiritual perspective--now and as I go through the moments and challenges and opportunities of my day. As I mediate on Your Word and welcome Your Spirit to bring Your Word to life in me now, I’m looking at how The Message version of this Scripture brings these Words to life:

 

“But if God Himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of Him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won’t know what we’re talking about. But for you who welcome Him, in whom He dwells--even though you still experience all the limitations of sin--you yourself experience life on God’s terms. It stands to reason, doesn’t it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, He’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to Himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and He does, as surely as He did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With His Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ’s!” (Romans 8:9-11 The Message).

 

I’m alive in Christ! For the Spirit of Christ lives in me and everyone who has put their faith and hope and trust in You--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God. And I receive Your invitation and the power of Your grace to live out this day and all of my life from Your perspective of Spirit and Truth. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.


Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays


My friend, may you embrace the Spiritual perspective of God's Words of Spirit and Truth for you that the very Spirit of Christ lives in you so that you are truly alive in Christ, 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 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