Thursday, May 09, 2024

News of Awakening and Revival on the College Campuses - May 9, 2024

 

Morning by Morning, May 9 - News of Awakening and Revival on the College Campuses

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I set my eyes on You as I lift up my heart to You to begin my day deliberately, consciously looking to You. ...

 

 “And with many other words (the Apostle Peter) testified and exhorted them, saying, ‘Be saved from this perverse generation.’ Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them” (Acts 2:40-41).

 

While the word is spreading about students on the college campuses in America being caught up in chaos and protest, word is finally beginning to spread about students on college campuses in America getting saved and baptized and connected with the local churches in a new wave of revival! We hear plenty about the chaos in the news and hardly anything about the hearts being changed and the souls being saved in this burgeoning move of the Holy Spirit. But it is happening! Asbury, Auburn, Florida State, University of Alabama, Texas A&M, University of Georgia, now the University of Tennessee and more! Praise God!

 

Come, Holy Spirit. Move in the midst of “this perverse generation” where we find ourselves in our land in our day. Throughout history, revival breaks out in the darkest, most desperate times. And these are dark and desperate times! But Your Light always overcomes the darkness (John 1:5). You are moving in our days through the messengers of Your Word by Your Spirit to bring a generation of desperate hearts to God through faith in Jesus Christ

 --“to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in (Jesus Christ)" (Acts 26:18).

 

Yes, Lord. Let the revival of Your Spirit begin in us and spread across our land--not only in our colleges but in every community. Turn “this perverse generation” trapped and confused in darkness into a passionate, pure generation pursuing You with all our hearts, that Your Light may break forth in the darkness in this mighty move of Your Spirit! They may not be talking about it yet on the news of our nation, but all Heaven is rejoicing in celebration of what Your Holy Spirit is doing in our generation! In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.


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


My friend, may you join in celebration with all Heaven for this new wave of revival and join in prayer for it to continue and increase in our hearts and across our land and throughout all the earth, 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. First Wednesday of Every Month at 7PM.



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 08, 2024

Seeking the Face of the Lord “in Time of Trouble” - May 8, 2024

 

Morning by Morning, May 8 - Seeking the Face of the Lord “in Time of Trouble”

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. In these moments of my morning, I seek You, I listen for You, I wait for You--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God. ...

 

“When You said, ‘Seek My face,’

My heart said to You, ‘Your face, Lord, I will seek’” (Psalm 27:8).

 

David wrote these words to express his heart to You “in time of trouble” (v. 5). He said, “The wicked came against me” (v. 2). An army of his enemies had “encamped against (him)” and he knew that “war may rise against (him)” (v. 3). “False witnesses” and “violence” came against him (v. 12). He even felt forsaken by some of those in his own family (v. 10).

 

But in the midst of it all, through it all, “(his) heart said to You, ‘Your face, Lord, I will seek’” (v. 8). He lifted the eyes of his heart to “behold the beauty of the Lord” in “the secret place of (Your) tabernacle” (v. 4-6).

 

He knew in his heart You were “(his) Help” and “(his) Salvation” (v. 9). He knew You would “not deliver (him) to the will of (his) adversaries” (v. 12). Instead, You would use all he was going through to “teach (him) Your way” and “lead (him) in a smooth path, because of (his) enemies” (v. 11). He knew that no matter what he was going through, no matter how he felt at the time, You would “set (him) high upon a rock” (v. 5). In Your time and in Your way, “(his) head would be lifted up above (his) enemies all around (him);” and he would “offer sacrifices of joy in (Your) tabernacle” and “sing praises to the Lord” (v. 6).

 

For us, in Christ, our enemies are not flesh and blood, but are spiritual enemies of the kingdom of darkness seeking “to steal, and to kill, and to destroy” whatever they can in our lives” (John 10:10). “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 6:12).

 

So in our battles against our enemies, like David, we turn to You, we wait for You, we cry out to You, we seek Your face and trust in Your grace. As we read the words of David inspired and written on his heart by Your Spirit and even pray the prayers of the Psalms of David with our hearts led by Your Spirit, we can trust in You through it all. We can even worship and praise You through it all. We can believe and embrace the final words of David expressed through that “time of trouble”--

 

“I would have lost heart, unless I had believed

That I would see the goodness of the Lord

In the land of the living.

Wait on the Lord;

Be of good courage,

And He shall strengthen your heart;

Wait, I say, on the Lord!” (Psalm 27:13-14).

 

I wait on You today, Lord. I trust in You today, Lord. I trust in You through every “time of trouble.” I say, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.” In Jesus’ name I pray.


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


My friend, may you wait on the Lord, trust in the Lord, seek the face of the Lord through any time of trouble you ever have to go through, knowing He is your Help and your Salvation and He will lift your head and bring you through, 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. First Wednesday of Every Month at 7PM.



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

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