Thursday, June 05, 2025

Morning by Morning, June 5, 2025 - “Abide in Me”

 

Morning by Morning, June 5, 2025 - “Abide in Me”


Good morning, Lord Jesus. Put Your thoughts in my mind, Your desires in my heart, Your words in my mouth, as I begin my day abiding in 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” (John 15:4).


In a practical way, what is it to “abide in (You),” Lord Jesus? ...


As I watch and wait, what I hear in my heart is this:


“To abide in Me is to seek Me and find Me as the Source of all you are and all you need.” ...


Yes, Lord. You are “the True Vine” and I am one of Your “branches” (v. 1). As I seek to “abide in (You),” to seek You, to find You, to embrace You as my Source of all I am and all I need, my life will “bear much fruit” as one of “(Your) disciples” (v. 8). As You said, “He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing” (v. 5).


I do thank You that I never have to be “without (You). You’re with me every moment of every day. You’re with me “always” (Matthew 28:20). You “never leave (me) nor forsake (me)” (Hebrews 13:5). By the intimate, indwelling Presence of Your Spirit —“the Spirit of God,” “the Spirit of Christ”— here in my heart, You are in me and I am in You (Romans 8:9). “Christ in (me), the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27).


You are my “Secret Place” and the “Shadow of the Almighty” where I abide in the communion of my deeply personal, intricately intimate relationship with You, where I embrace the Promise of Your Word: “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty” (Psalm 91:1). “He shall abide before God forever” (Psalm 61:7). By Your Spirit, “(You) abide with (me) forever” (John 14:16).


To “abide” in You is to fully embrace, Your mercy and grace and the fullness of Your love. So by the power of Your grace, by the mercy and goodness of God, I choose this day to accept Your invitation and to obey Your command, “Abide in My love” (John 15:9). “And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love” (1 Corinthians 13:13). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen



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


My friend, may you be forever abiding in Jesus, seeking Him and finding Him as your Source of all you are and all you need, in the mercy and goodness of God by the power of His grace, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!


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502 North Milam Street

Fredericksburg, Texas 78624


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Every Morning in Pakistan except Sunday Morning

Messiah Ministries Christian School in Tara Garth, Pakistan with children from the Brick Kilns and village


Every Saturday Morning in Pakistan through Zoom

Messiah Ministries Discipleship Training School in Pattoki, Pakistan


June 4 - A Beautiful, Powerful Evening! Thank you for your prayers!

Apostle Gabriel Perez from Mexico City will be ministering our our Messiah Ministries home base at 502 North Milam Street, Fredericksburg, TX at 6pm. He carries a strong deliverance and prophetic anointing. The Lord sent him here to be with us this week! All are welcome. Walter Gerlach, who leads our local nursing home ministry will be leading worship.


June 5

Joining Apostle Gabriel Perez from Mexico City to minister at the Revival Meetings at the Spanish-Speaking Church, TABERNÁCULO DE AVIVAMIENTO 719 Mustang Street, Fredericksburg, TX 7pm. My wife Rocio will be interpreting


June 8- Rescheduled for Sunday July 6

Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas


June 21-29

Teaching on Spiritual Warfare at Selah Men's Ministry Retreat in Cloudcroft, New Mexico


July 4

Leading Prayer at the Patriotic Prayer Gathering at the 4th of July Parade at the County Courthouse Gazebo hosted by the Fredericksburg Tea Party 9am. All are welcome!


July 6

Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas


July 9

Speaking at San Antonio Day Aglow Lighthouse Meeting 10am. All are welcome!


July 11-13

Preaching at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries Regional Meeting at Grafton Methodist Church, St. Paris, Ohio


July 23-August 4

Returning to Preach Crusades and minister in Kenol, Kenya and Nyrie, Kenya with Pastor Jeff Bealmear and Team


August 18-26

Preaching Crusades and Ministry in return ministry to Cartagena, Colombia


September 21

Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas


Wednesday Mornings

Leading Online Restoration Ministry Sessions for Online Connect Groups of MorningStar Ministries from around the world by appointment.



Personal Ministry Appointments

Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment in Person and Online through Zoom.

tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org

 Sessions are without set 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

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Wednesday, June 04, 2025

Morning by Morning, June 4, 2025 - Look Up! to the One Who is High and Lifted Up

 

Morning by Morning, June 4, 2025 - Look Up! to the One Who is High and Lifted Up


Good morning, Lord Jesus. As I begin my day embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with Your Holy Spirit, be high and lifted up in my heart and throughout the moments of my day (John 12:32). ...


All that happened in the Old Testament in the experiences of the children of Israel were examples for us to learn spiritual principles and applications of the Kingdom of God in our lives: “These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down to instruct us, on whom the ends of the ages have come” (1 Corinthians 10:11). And all the Scriptures, all the Law, all the Prophets, are spiritually pointing to You and ultimately fulfilled in You: “Beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, (Jesus) interpreted to them the things about Himself in all the Scriptures” (Luke 24:27). As You said, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill” (Matthew 5:17).


As I begin my prayer today speaking of lifting You up in my heart and my life, Your Holy Spirit is reminding of the scene from the Old Testament in the journey through the wilderness of the children of Israel when many were suffering and even died through the attacks of poisonous serpents (Numbers 21:4-9). They had complained “against God and against Moses,” becoming “discouraged on the way,” doubting the goodness of God and the leadership of Moses. Their sin of grumbling and complaining, fueled by an attitude of ingratitude, forgetting and minimizing their salvation and deliverance from the bondage of their past, opened the door to the judgment of God and consequences of their actions (v. 4-6).


But despite their sins and hardened hearts, You reached out in Your mercy and love to deliver them from their distress and heal them from their afflictions, when they repented and turned back to You (v. 7). You told Moses to make “a serpent of bronze and put it on a pole, and whenever the serpent bit someone, that person would look (up) at the serpent of bronze and live” (v. 9).


There was nothing magic about the “serpent of bronze.” It was simply a means of Your grace, an example in their journey that points us to the You in our journey. When You are “lifted up from the earth, (You) draw all people to (Yourself)—when You were “lifted up” on the Cross and when You are lifted up in our hearts today (John 12:32). When we “lift up (our) eyes to the hills”—when we lift up our eyes to the One who died on the Cross on the hill of Calvary for the forgiveness of our sins, the healing of our wounds, the deliverance from our bondage—we remember “(our) help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth” (Psalm 121:1-2; Isaiah 53:4-5, fulfilled in Matthew 8:17).


As David cried out in a day of his trouble and affliction:


“Lord, how they have increased who trouble me!

Many are they who rise up against me.

Many are they who say of me,

‘There is no help for him in God.’ Selah

But You, O Lord, are a Shield for me,

My Glory and the One who lifts up my head.

I cried to the Lord with my voice,

And He heard me from His holy hill! Selah” (Psalm 3:1-4)


Thank You for reminding me to keep looking up to You—My Savior, My Healer, My Deliverer, the One who grants me Your “mercy to find grace to help in (my) time of need” (Hebrews 4:16). Today and everyday, I am looking up, for my redemption, my Redeemer, is drawing near! (Luke 21:28). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.


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


My friend, may you be looking up to Lord, your Shield and your Help, your Redeemer who is drawing near, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!


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Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

502 North Milam Street

Fredericksburg, Texas 78624


Please share this word to encourage a friend!

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


“Setting hearts free to be all they were created to be

—Free to Be Like Jesus—

secure in your identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling your destiny"


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Every Morning in Pakistan except Sunday Morning

Messiah Ministries Christian School in Tara Garth, Pakistan with children from the Brick Kilns and village


Every Saturday Morning in Pakistan through Zoom

Messiah Ministries Discipleship Training School in Pattoki, Pakistan


June 4

Apostle Gabriel Perez from Mexico City will be ministering our our Messiah Ministries home base at 502 North Milam Street, Fredericksburg, TX at 6pm. He carries a strong deliverance and prophetic anointing. The Lord sent him here to be with us this week! All are welcome. Walter Gerlach, who leads our local nursing home ministry will be leading worship.


June 5

Joining Apostle Gabriel Perez from Mexico City to minister at the Revival Meetings at the Spanish-Speaking Church, 719 Mustang Street, Fredericksburg, TX 7pm My wife Rocio will be interpreting


June 8- Rescheduled for Sunday July 6

Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas


June 21-29

Teaching on Spiritual Warfare at Selah Men's Ministry Retreat in Cloudcroft, New Mexico


July 4

Leading Prayer at the Patriotic Prayer Gathering at the 4th of July Parade at the County Courthouse Gazebo hosted by the Fredericksburg Tea Party 9am. All are welcome!


July 6

Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas


July 9

Speaking at San Antonio Day Aglow Lighthouse Meeting 10am. All are welcome!


July 11-13

Preaching at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries Regional Meeting at Grafton Methodist Church, St. Paris, Ohio


July 23-August 4

Returning to Preach Crusades and minister in Kenol, Kenya and Nyrie, Kenya with Pastor Jeff Bealmear and Team


August 18-26

Preaching Crusades and Ministry in return ministry to Cartagena, Colombia


Wednesday Mornings

Leading Online Restoration Ministry Sessions for Online Connect Groups of MorningStar Ministries from around the world by appointment.



Personal Ministry Appointments

Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment in Person and Online through Zoom.

tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org

 Sessions are without set 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

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

Tuesday, June 03, 2025

Morning by Morning, June 3, 2025 - What I Say and Pray through Inheritance with Authority

 

Morning by Morning, June 3, 2025 - What I Say and Pray through Inheritance with Authority


Good morning, Lord Jesus. Let Your Light arise and shine in me today (Isaiah 60:1). ...


“Jesus answered them, ‘Have faith in God. Truly I tell you, if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and if you do not doubt in your heart but believe that what you say will come to pass, it will be done for you. So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours’” (Mark 11:22-24).


Lord, let what I say and what I pray be filled with faith. Mountain-moving faith. Set me free from doubt. Anoint me and empower me with expectant faith, expecting “what (I) say will come to pass” to move every “mountain” that needs to go. Out of my life and out of every life of those You lead me to pray for by faith.


You’re the One who moves the mountains. And at the same time, in the sovereignty of Your will and Your ways, You choose to move mountains through us, when what we say and what we pray is filled with “faith in God.”


So align my heart with Your heart, my thoughts with Your thoughts, my will with Your will, and my words with Your words. It’s part of my inheritance as a child of God and my authority as a disciple of Jesus Christ. And by the grace of God, I receive my inheritance and embrace my authority—all in You and only because of You. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.



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


My friend, may you be anointed and empowered in your inheritance with authority, filled with faith in God, to see come to pass what you say and what you pray, with your heart and will lined up with God's heart and will, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!


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Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

502 North Milam Street

Fredericksburg, Texas 78624


Please share this word to encourage a friend!

Anyone can sign up for free at:

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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 your identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling your destiny"


We Welcome Your Financial Support to Fulfill our Vision and Calling

https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute


Please Keep us in Prayer for These

Messiah Ministries Events

and

We Welcome Your Financial Support to Fulfill our Vision and Calling

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Every Morning in Pakistan except Sunday Morning

Messiah Ministries Christian School in Tara Garth, Pakistan with children from the Brick Kilns and village


Every Saturday Morning in Pakistan through Zoom

Messiah Ministries Discipleship Training School in Pattoki, Pakistan


June 2 Thank you for your prayers! A powerful day in the Spirit!

Speaking with the Mason, Texas Intercessory Prayer Group at 10am on Pentecost


June 4

Apostle Gabriel Perez from Mexico City will be ministering our our Messiah Ministries home base at 502 North Milam Street, Fredericksburg, TX at 6pm. He carries a strong deliverance and prophetic anointing. The Lord sent him here to be with us this week! All are welcome. Walter Gerlach, who leads our local nursing home ministry will be leading worship.


June 5

Joining Apostle Gabriel Perez from Mexico City to minister at the Revival Meetings at the Spanish-Speaking Church, 719 Mustang Street, Fredericksburg, TX 7pm My wife Rocio will be interpreting


June 8- Rescheduled for Sunday July 6

Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas


June 21-29

Teaching on Spiritual Warfare at Selah Men's Ministry Retreat in Cloudcroft, New Mexico


July 4

Leading Prayer at the Patriotic Prayer Gathering at the 4th of July Parade at the County Courthouse Gazebo hosted by the Fredericksburg Tea Party 9am. All are welcome!


July 6

Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas


July 9

Speaking at San Antonio Day Aglow Lighthouse Meeting 10am. All are welcome!


July 11-13

Preaching at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries Regional Meeting at Grafton Methodist Church, St. Paris, Ohio


July 23-August 4

Returning to Preach Crusades and minister in Kenol, Kenya and Nyrie, Kenya with Pastor Jeff Bealmear and Team


August 18-26

Preaching Crusades and Ministry in return ministry to Cartagena, Colombia


Wednesday Mornings

Leading Online Restoration Ministry Sessions for Online Connect Groups of MorningStar Ministries from around the world by appointment.



Personal Ministry Appointments

Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment in Person and Online through Zoom.

tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org

 Sessions are without set 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, June 02, 2025

Morning by Morning, June 2, 2025 - Revival Fire that Consumes all “Complacency. Compromise. Cowardice.”

 

Morning by Morning, June 2, 2025 - Revival Fire that Consumes all “Complacency. Compromise. Cowardice.”


Good morning, Lord Jesus. Fill me with Your Spirit and lead me in Your way for You are “the Way and the Truth and the Life” (John 14:6). ...


“Sleeper, awake!

    Rise from the dead,

and Christ will shine on you!” (Ephesians 5:14)


As I was praying and preparing to speak on Revival at The Empty Cross Prayer Garden in Kerrville, Texas this weekend, these words came to my heart as hindrances to our personal revival and revival in our land:


“Complacency. Compromise. Cowardice.” ...


Forgive us and free us from our “complacency,” Lord. Wake us up from our spiritual slumber. Where we’ve grown weary, even in well-doing, refresh us and renew us. Like the ten virgins who were the bridesmaids who had all grown sleepy when the bridegroom was delayed, fill us up with the fresh oil of Your Holy Spirit, trim our lamps of the Word of God we hold in our hearts to burn brightly again with the Light of Your Glory and Revival Fire (Matthew 24:1-13). We must “Keep awake, therefore, for (we) know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming” (v. 13).


Forgive us and free us from our “compromise,” Lord. We’ve compromised too much with the ways of the world, with the desires of our flesh, with the influences of our culture. We’ve not fully heeded Your Command, “Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness; rather, expose them” (Ephesians 5:11). We’ve let too much darkness and defilements of the temptations of our world taint and turn our hearts from the purity and holiness of heart and life You desire as our God jealous for our affections alone, with sincere and pure hearts, wholly dedicated and consecrated to You (2 Corinthians 11:3).


Forgive us and free us from our “cowardice,” Lord. It’s a strong word. But it speaks of any degree that we’ve given into the spirit of fear and intimidation that would hold us back from the boldness of our faith and witness, demanding we sit back and shut up about our Lord and the hope we carry in our hearts for all who would put their faith and trust in You. You’ve not given us a spirit of fear, but rather the Spirit of Your love and power and sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7). As declared in the NKJV, “For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.” Let us not forget that the first to be cast into the lake of fire at the end of the age with be “the cowardly” along with “the faithless, the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars” (Revelation 21:8). Let us not be found “among those who shrink back and so are lost but among those who have faith and so preserve our souls” (Hebrews 10:39). Instead, let Your Perfect Love cast out all fear and fill us with fresh faith and fresh Fire, with Revival Fire! (1 John 4:18)


Yes, Lord. “For indeed our God is a Consuming Fire!” (Hebrews 12:29) Come consume everything in us that is not yet like You. Consume every measure of “complacency” and “compromise” and “cowardice.” Set us ablaze with Your Holy Fire, Your Revival Fire, as Your burning ones, burning with a passion for You and for the souls of those who desperately need You in our world (Daniel 12:3; Matthew 3:11; Acts 1:5). O Lord, let the Fire ablaze on the altar of our hearts never burn out, but burn forever brighter in us and all for You. As Your Word commands, “A perpetual Fire shall be kept burning on the altar; it shall not go out!” (Leviticus 6:12; 2 Timothy 1:6) In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.



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


My friend, may you be set ablaze with Revival Fire in your heart, set free from any complacency, compromise, and cowardice, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!


Click Here to Listen to Today's Prayer:

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Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

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

and

We Welcome Your Financial Support to Fulfill our Vision and Calling

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Every Morning in Pakistan except Sunday Morning

Messiah Ministries Christian School in Tara Garth, Pakistan with children from the Brick Kilns and village


Every Saturday Morning in Pakistan through Zoom

Messiah Ministries Discipleship Training School in Pattoki, Pakistan


May 31 - Thank you for your prayers! A powerful day in the Spirit!

Preaching at "The Hill Country for Jesus Revival" at The Empty Cross of The Coming King Prayer Garden in Kerrville, Texas. Worship, Testimonies and Teaching from 11-5pm, led by Minister Ruth Sebring. Information at: ruth1sebring@yahoo.com


June 2

Speaking with the Mason, Texas Intercessory Prayer Group at 10am on Pentecost


June 9 - Rescheduled for Sunday July 6

Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas


June 21-29

Teaching on Spiritual Warfare at Selah Men's Ministry Retreat in Cloudcroft, New Mexico


July 4

Leading Prayer at the Patriotic Prayer Gathering at the 4th of July Parade at the County Courthouse Gazebo hosted by the Fredericksburg Tea Party 9am. All are welcome!


July 6

Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas


July 9

Speaking at San Antonio Day Aglow Lighthouse Meeting 10am. All are welcome!


July 11-13

Preaching at Aldersgate Renewal Ministries Regional Meeting at Grafton Methodist Church, St. Paris, Ohio


July 23-August 4

Returning to Preach Crusades and minister in Kenol, Kenya and Nyrie, Kenya with Pastor Jeff Bealmear and Team


August 18-26

Preaching Crusades and Ministry in return ministry to Cartagena, Colombia


Wednesday Mornings

Leading Online Restoration Ministry Sessions for Online Connect Groups of MorningStar Ministries from around the world by appointment.



Personal Ministry Appointments

Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment in Person and Online through Zoom.

tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org

 Sessions are without set 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