Morning by Morning, August 13, 2025 - Flourish Like a Tree Planted by the Waters

 

Morning by Morning, August 13, 2025 - Flourish Like a Tree Planted by the Waters Good morning, Lord Jesus. Be at the center of my heart and every moment of my day. ... “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit” (Jeremiah 17:7-8). Keep my faith and hope grounded in You, like a tree planted by the waters. Those who trust in You, who keep trusting in You, even through the times of sweltering heat of hardships, even through the times of dryness and drought, will continue to flourish and thrive in their hearts. They will continue to yield fruit, the fruit of the Spirit of God. “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control” (Galatians 5:22-23). Let Your fruit be produced through my life, with my heart near to You, “like a tree planted by the waters.” You are the Living Water (John 4:10). Your Spirit fills me up to nourish me and flow through me as Living Water that bears Your fruit as You develop Your heart, Your character in me. As You said, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water” (John 7:37-38). “This He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive” (John 7:39). Thank You, my Heavenly Father. Come, Holy Spirit of God. Keep my heart planted in my deeply personal relationship with Jesus, that I may flourish and thrive, no matter what season I’m in or challenges I go through. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays My friend, may you be joined and united with the Lord is every area of your life, as His Holy Spirit makes you more like Him every day, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day! Click Here to Listen to Today's Prayer: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2375760 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 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 You to Join Us as You're Led to Fulfill our Vision and Calling with Your Prayers and Financial Support https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute Every Tuesday Night Starting Again September 9 We will begin again my 9 Month Equipping Course Free to Be Like Jesus! at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas. 6:00PM Central Time  Zoom link available by request to my email.  Based on My Book, Free to Be Like Jesus:  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays  tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org Every Morning in Pakistan except Sunday Morning Messiah Ministries Christian School in Tara Garth, Pakistan with children from the Brick Kilns and village. Let me know if you're led to help support our school with Christian and Muslim students and teachers. tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org Every Saturday Morning in Pakistan through Zoom Messiah Ministries Discipleship Training School in Pattoki, Pakistan August 10 Joining with the Gillespie County Ministerial Association in our home community of Fredericksburg, Texas to Go School to School, praying over the schools, teachers, students, and administrators August 18-25 Preaching Crusades and Ministry in return ministry to Cartagena, Colombia  September 21  Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas October 21 Speaking at Around the Table Monthly Faith Based Social Gathering at Yee Haw Ranch Fredericksburg, Texas 6:30pm. All are Welcome.  November Prayers for Returning for ministry in Pakistan in Karachi, Pattoki, and Lahore 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

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Morning by Morning, August 12, 2025 - One Spirit

 

Morning by Morning, August 12, 2025 - One Spirit Good morning, Lord Jesus. You are One with the Father, One with the Holy Spirit; and by the mystery of faith and grace of God, You also desire to be one with me and all who would welcome You into their hearts and lives as Lord and Savior. ... “But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him” (1 Corinthians 6:17). By Your grace, may my heart be joined with Your heart, my thoughts joined with Your thoughts, my desires joined with Your desires, my words joined with Your words, my actions joined with Your actions, my ways joined with Your ways, my will joined with Your will. Not my will, but Yours be done. Not my way, but Yahweh. As Your Word reminds me and realigns my thinking and perspective and understanding of who You are in me and who I am in You: “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16) “Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?” (1 Corinthians 6:19) Fill Your temple, Holy Spirit of God. Consume with Your Holy Fire all that is not yet like You, as You join me with You to make me more like You each day, by the power of Your mercy and grace at work within me. “For God is working in (me), giving (me) the desire and the power to do what pleases Him” (Philippians 2:13). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays My friend, may you be joined and united with the Lord is every area of your life, as His Holy Spirit makes you more like Him every day, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day! Click Here to Listen to Today's Prayer: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2375760 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 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 You to Join Us as You're Led to Fulfill our Vision and Calling with Your Prayers and Financial Support https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute Every Tuesday Night Starting Again September 9 We will begin again my 9 Month Equipping Course Free to Be Like Jesus! at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas. 6:00PM Central Time  Zoom link available by request to my email.  Based on My Book, Free to Be Like Jesus:  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays  tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org Every Morning in Pakistan except Sunday Morning Messiah Ministries Christian School in Tara Garth, Pakistan with children from the Brick Kilns and village. Let me know if you're led to help support our school with Christian and Muslim students and teachers. tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org Every Saturday Morning in Pakistan through Zoom Messiah Ministries Discipleship Training School in Pattoki, Pakistan August 10 Joining with the Gillespie County Ministerial Association in our home community of Fredericksburg, Texas to Go School to School, praying over the schools, teachers, students, and administrators August 18-25 Preaching Crusades and Ministry in return ministry to Cartagena, Colombia  September 21  Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas October 21 Speaking at Around the Table Monthly Faith Based Social Gathering at Yee Haw Ranch Fredericksburg, Texas 6:30pm. All are Welcome.  November Prayers for Returning for ministry in Pakistan in Karachi, Pattoki, and Lahore 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

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Morning by Morning, August 11, 2025 - “School to School” Prayer

 

Morning by Morning, August 11, 2025 - “School to School” Prayer Good morning Lord Jesus. Lead me by Your Spirit from this place of intimacy in my heart, as I seek to begin my day embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with the Holy Spirit. ... “Let the children come to Me” (Mark 10:14). Last evening, I joined with the other pastors, leaders, and prayer warriors of our community in Fredericksburg, Texas to go “school to school” to pray for our school children and all their parents, teachers, principals, administration and schoolhouses before the doors open this week for the new school year. We laid hands on the buildings and laid hands on the principals, teachers, students, and their families who came and all those they represent. We prayed for their education and protection, for their relationships and friendships, for their identities and destinies. From the bus drivers to the superintendent, from the janitors to the school board, we prayed for Your hand to be upon them all. And we prayed for Your Spirit to fill them all. I was so moved by the heart-felt prayers of one young student who cried out for revival on the campuses, that this school year would be unlike any other school year, with Your revival fire catching hearts ablaze in every school. Yes, Lord! Let it be so! Here with new laws going into effect all across the State of Texas, the Ten Commandments will be posted in the classrooms, prayer will be welcomed back in the schools, freedom of faith and religion will be honored in the hearts and hallways of educational system. Lord, let there be an eruption of Your Spirit in an atmosphere of security, education, honor, and respect! You declared long ago, “let the children come to Me.” Let them not be hindered or held back. And I thank You that they can come to You even as they go to school because You have been invited and welcomed into every place in their schools, from school to school, across our community. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays My friend, may the children in your community come to Jesus, feeling safe and secure in their schools, receiving an education grounded in Godly principles, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day! Click Here to Listen to Today's Prayer: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2375760 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 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 You to Join Us as You're Led to Fulfill our Vision and Calling with Your Prayers and Financial Support https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute Every Tuesday Night Starting Again September 9 We will begin again my 9 Month Equipping Course Free to Be Like Jesus! at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas. 6:00PM Central Time  Zoom link available by request to my email.  Based on My Book, Free to Be Like Jesus:  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays  tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org Every Morning in Pakistan except Sunday Morning Messiah Ministries Christian School in Tara Garth, Pakistan with children from the Brick Kilns and village. Let me know if you're led to help support our school with Christian and Muslim students and teachers. tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org Every Saturday Morning in Pakistan through Zoom Messiah Ministries Discipleship Training School in Pattoki, Pakistan August 10 Joining with the Gillespie County Ministerial Association in our home community of Fredericksburg, Texas to Go School to School, praying over the schools, teachers, students, and administrators August 18-25 Preaching Crusades and Ministry in return ministry to Cartagena, Colombia  September 21  Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas October 21 Speaking at Around the Table Monthly Faith Based Social Gathering at Yee Haw Ranch Fredericksburg, Texas 6:30pm. All are Welcome.  November Prayers for Returning for ministry in Pakistan in Karachi, Pattoki, and Lahore 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

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Morning by Morning, August 7, 2025 - First Things First

 

Morning by Morning, August 7, 2025 - First Things First Good morning, Lord Jesus. I speak out Your name and welcome You into every moment of my day. ... “Who has performed and done it, Calling the generations from the beginning? ‘I, the Lord, am the First; And with the last I am He” (Isaiah 41:4). Lord, You are “the First.” Be the First in my life. First Things first. Let Your name be the first word from my mouth every morning. Let Your face be the first thing I seek as I begin each day in the communion of prayer and the fellowship of Your Spirit. Let Your will be my first desire and Your ways be my first choice. Let everything else come second, as I seek You first, Your Kingdom of God, Your righteousness in my heart, where You set things right in me, right in my relationship with You, and right in my relationship with all others (Matthew 6:33). By the power of Your grace at work within me, may I have no other gods before You (Exodus 20:3). Let every idol that would try to rise up and take Your place in my heart as my priority be cast down. Let every “stronghold” that would try to hold on strongly to my thoughts and desires, to try to replace Your place of authority and priority in my life be pulled down, “casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God” (2 Corinthians 10:4-5). And let Your name be exalted. Let Your name be glorified. Let Your name and Your place be high and lifted up in my heart and life, right now in these first moments of my day and then throughout every moment of my day. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays My friend, may the Lord who is the First be first in you heart and life, right now and every moment of your day with First Things first, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day! Click Here to Listen to Today's Prayer: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2375760 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 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 You to Join Us as You're Led to Fulfill our Vision and Calling with Your Prayers and Financial Support https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute Every Morning in Pakistan except Sunday Morning Messiah Ministries Christian School in Tara Garth, Pakistan with children from the Brick Kilns and village. Let me know if you're led to help support our school with Christian and Muslim students and teachers. tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org Every Saturday Morning in Pakistan through Zoom Messiah Ministries Discipleship Training School in Pattoki, Pakistan August 10 Joining with the Gillespie County Ministerial Association in our home community of Fredericksburg, Texas to Go School to School, praying over the schools, teachers, students, and administrators August 18-25 Preaching Crusades and Ministry in return ministry to Cartagena, Colombia  September 21  Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas October 21 Speaking at Around the Table Monthly Faith Based Social Gathering at Yee Haw Ranch Fredericksburg, Texas 6:30pm. All are Welcome.  November Prayers for Returning for ministry in Pakistan in Karachi, Pattoki, and Lahore 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

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