Morning by Morning, February 5 - Godly Boundary Lines

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Let Your Word come alive in my spirit; let my spirit come alive in the communion of prayer in these first moment of my morning with You. ...

"The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; You hold my lot. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; I have a goodly heritage" (Psalm 16:5-6).

My Daddy Abba, my Father God, You know best where to set the boundaries. And I believe You want the very best for me - for me and for all Your children, for You are our perfect Father.

Your "Yes" is to bless me and Your "No" is to protect me. Your conviction keeps my conscience clear and Your comfort keeps my heart full. So help me trust You and trust Your boundaries. When I see Your boundaries from the perspective of Your heart of love, I'm strengthened in my sense of security and encouraged in my sense of identity. Your boundaries are pleasant because they express Your purpose of establishing Your best for me and calling forth Your best from me (Hebrews 12:5-11).

So let me never take for granted the goodly heritage I have from my good God and perfect Father, who loves me so and has given me so much - "abundantly far more than all (I) can ask or image" (Ephesians 3:20). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

My Friend, may you know the exceeding, abundant goodness of God in the Godly boundaries He has set for you in pleasant places. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Please keep us in prayer and come join us if you can this Wednesday Night, Feb 6 at 7pm when I'll be speaking on The Healing Nature of Jesus during "An Evening of Healing" with Max Lucado at Oak Hills Church, at the main Crownridge Campus in San Antonio (www.oakhillschurch.com). Our Prayer Ministry Team from Rapha God Ministries will be joining the elders and prayer ministry team from Oak Hills Church to pray for spiritual, emotional, and physical healing as the Holy Spirit leads. And I pray for God's healing in every area of your life, my friend!

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.messiah-ministries.org

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Bldg 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com

Morning by Morning, February 4 - "A New Thing"

Good morning, Lord Jesus. You said if I would hear You knock and open the door, You would come in (Revelation

"Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?" (Isaiah 43:18-19)

Lord, let me perceive what You are doing today, what You are doing now. For now, it springs forth. For now, the former things have passed away. "Behold, all things have become new" (2 Corinthians 5:17, NKJ).

Don't let me look back. Don't let me get stuck. Don't let my expectations of what is to come be defined or restricted by what has already come to pass. Indeed, the best is yet to come. Indeed, "'Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.' But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God" (1 Corinthians 2:9-10, NKJ).

These are exciting days. And we've never been this way before. So keep me close to You, keep me leaning into You, that my spirit may be one with Your Spirit and my steps may follow Your lead. In the power of Your grace, my Father God, You have raised me up in Christ and filled me up with Your Spirit, that I "might walk in newness of life" - not just on the day I was saved, but every day I awaken and arise to follow You into the next adventure You've planned (Romans 6:4). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

My friend,  I pray the Holy Spirit will reveal to you the deep things of God the Lord is doing in these exciting days, as you embrace Him in newness of life today and every day. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Please keep us in prayer and come join us if you can this Wednesday Night, Feb 6 at 7pm when I'll be speaking on The Healing Nature of Jesus during "An Evening of Healing" with Max Lucado at Oak Hills Church, at the main Crownridge Campus in San Antonio Wednesday Night, February 6 at 7pm (www.oakhillschurch.com). Our Prayer Ministry Team from Rapha God Ministries will be joining the elders and prayer ministry team from Oak Hills Church to pray for spiritual, emotional, and physical healing as the Holy Spirit leads. And I pray for God's healing in every area of your life, my friend!

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.messiah-ministries.org

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Bldg 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com

Morning by Morning, February 1 - "Not in Word, but in Power"

Good morning, Lord Jesus. You are my Lord and Savior, my Healer and Deliverer, my Good Shepherd and Best Friend. I love You, Lord, because You first loved me. ...

"For the Kingdom of God is not in word but in power" (1 Corinthians 4:20, NKJ).

You never intended the proclamation of Your Word to be separated from the power of Your Word. You never intended us to settle for the Word of God to be a just a historical Book of empty promises for our lives today.

In the Kingdom of God, the Word of God is manifested by the power of God. And Your power on behalf of us is an expression of Your love for us - Your power to save us with eternal life, healing, deliverance, and all the wholeness and freedom You provided for us to have through the sacrifice of the Blood of the Lamb (Isaiah 53:4-5, fulfilled in Christ, Matthew 8:16-17). "The Lord has made known His power to save!" (Psalm 98:2, NCV)

Yes, Lord. Let Your Kingdom come! Let Your will be done! Here on earth, as it is in heaven, with the promises of the Word of God manifested in the demonstration of the power of God. You are the Word made flesh; and You are alive and mighty, displaying the power and the glory of Your Word in our lives and throughout the earth. This is the Gospel of the Kingdom of God - "it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who has faith" (Romans 1:16). And there is no salvation - no eternal life, no healing or deliverance, no wholeness or freedom - in no other name but the name of Jesus (Acts 4:12).

Praise You, Lord God Almighty - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - for Your Word and for Your power. You are "mighty to save!" (Isaiah 63:1) In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

My friend, may you experience the full power of the Word of God as He manifests His Kingdom in your life. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

An Astounding Night! Thank you for praying for us last night. We ran out of notebooks when over 80 people came for our first night of our first School of Ministry forLevel 1 Sozo Inner Healing Prayer Ministry Training through Rapha God Ministries in San Antonio (www.raphagodministries.com). And we were so encouraged and overwhelmed by the Lord's favor when Max Lucado came up to speak kind and powerful words of affirmation and encouragement over us, like a father's blessing as a spiritual father of this city. Praise God!

I'm really excited to be speaking on The Healing Nature of Jesus during "An Evening of Healing" with Max Lucado at Oak Hills Church, at the main Crownridge Campus in San Antonio Wednesday Night, February 6 at 7pm. Please come join us if you can (www.oakhillschurch.com).

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.messiah-ministries.org

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Bldg 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com

Morning by Morning, January 31 - Honestly Humble in the Presence of God

Good morning, Lord Jesus. As I speak those words every morning, my spirit comes to attention. Here I am, Lord - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Speak, for Your servant, Your son, is listening. ...

"When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars that You have established; what are human beings that You are mindful of them, mortals that You care for them?" (Psalm 8:3-4)

Who am I, that You care for me? Who am I, that You invite me into Your Presence? Who am I, that You want to give me the desires of my heart?

You are the Creator of all things. You are not limited by time or space. You are infinitely mighty, infinitely wise, infinitely good. You are perfect and holy. And Yet, You deeply care for me. And Yet, I truly matter to You. ...

When I take the time to truly consider these things, I am overwhelmed and undone. I am humbled. But then in that place of honest humility before You, Your grace comes rushing over me, Your Holy Spirit infuses me, Your Fatherly arms embrace me, and Your Living Word awakens me. "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.... Draw near to God and He will draw near to you" (James 4:6-8).

Thank You, Father God, for reminding me how holy and mighty You are. Thank You, Lord Jesus, for reminding me how self-sacrificing and infinitely loving You are. Thank You, Holy Spirit of the Living God, for reminding me how tender and intimate You are. And so much more than I can every imagine or comprehend. O Lord, You are my God. Help me keep honestly humble before You always. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

My Friend, I pray you will will remember and ponder just how great our God is and what an honor we have to be invited and able to draw humbly near to Him. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

We are thrilled and expectant that over 60 people have signed up to join us for our 6 Week Level 1 School of Ministry for Sozo Inner Healing Prayer Ministry Training, through Rapha God Ministries in San Antonio, starting this Thursday Night, January 31. Please keep us in prayer for this course for equipping and training in healing prayer ministry! (www.RaphaGodMinistries.com)

I'm really excited to be speaking on The Healing Nature of Jesus during "An Evening of Healing" with Max Lucado at Oak Hills Church, at the main Crownridge Campus in San Antonio Wednesday Night, February 6 at 7pm. Please come join us if you can (www.oakhillschurch.com).

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.messiah-ministries.org

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Bldg 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com

Morning by Morning, January 30 - "Completely One"

Good morning, Lord Jesus. You are One with the Father, One with the Holy Spirit. And in the intimacy and mystery of the communion of prayer, I ask You to draw me closer to the place of being one with You. Your Word expresses Your will for us all to be one with You by Your Spirit abiding in us-"that they may all be one. As You, Father are in Me and I am in You, may they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me" (John 17:21). ...

"The glory that You have given Me I have given them, so that they may be one, as We are One, I in them and You in Me, that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that You have sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that those also, whom You have given Me, may be with Me where I am, to see My glory, which You have given Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world" (John 17:22-24).

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as best as I can and all by Your grace, I willingly choose to completely yield my will to Your will, my thoughts to Your thoughts, my desires to Your desires, my ways to Your ways, my plans to Your plans. I entrust my life to the life You've chosen for me from before the foundation of the world - "just as He chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before Him in love" (Ephesians 1:4). In this way, make me one with You, one with each other in the Body of Christ, one in ministry to all the world, so that the world may believe that the Father has sent His Son to embrace us all in the intimacy and communion of His love through the bonds of His Spirit. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

My Friend, may you be one with Father, one with the Son, and one with the Holy Spirit, completely one with the Lord our God in every way, all by His grace. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

We are thrilled and expectant that over 50 people have signed up to join us for our 6 Week Level 1 School of Ministry for Sozo Inner Healing Prayer Ministry Training, through Rapha God Ministries in San Antonio, starting this Thursday Night, January 31. Please keep us in prayer for this course for equipping and training in healing prayer ministry! (www.RaphaGodMinistries.com)

I'm really excited to be speaking on The Healing Nature of Jesus during "An Evening of Healing" with Max Lucado at Oak Hills Church, at the main Crownridge Campus in San Antonio Wednesday Night, February 6 at 7pm. Please come join us if you can (www.oakhillschurch.com).

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.messiah-ministries.org

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Bldg 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com

Morning by Morning, January 29 - Give, Do Good, and Love

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I look and listen; I watch and wait. Come Holy Spirit, draw me near to my Father's heart in my Savior's name. ...

"If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful" (Luke 6:32-36).

Give, expecting nothing. Do good, even when no one is looking or even when the ones who are looking are doing evil. Love, even at the risk of rejection, even in the face of misunderstanding or outright hatred. Though Your grace is free, Your calling is high. And clear - if I truly want to choose to live my life like a son of God. The children of the Most High are called to embrace the heart of the Most High.

Lord, I don't think my heart is that high yet. I think there's still too much of me that wants to insist on being right, on being treated right, on all things being just and fair, neat and tidy, even-handed and sure-footed. But Your Word and Your Spirit call me live from a deeper place, where my responses are not determined by someone's actions and my actions are not determined by the responses I desire.

That deeper place is an invitation to live in a deeper level of spiritual maturity. That deeper place is called the Kingdom of God. It's the Kingdom of God abiding inside my heart and expressed through my life. "For, in fact, the Kingdom of God is within (me)" (Luke 17:21). And through the mercy of Your grace, I am a son of the King, a child of the Most High, empowered by God to give and do good and love with my Father's heart. Help me desire it more deeply, so I can live it more fully, as best as I can and all by Your grace. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

My friend, I pray the Kingdom of God within you will arise and flow out of you today with the heart of God, giving, doing good, and loving everywhere you go and with everyone you're with. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Over 45 people have signed up to join us for our 6 Week Level 1 School of Ministry for Sozo Inner Healing Prayer Ministry Training, through Rapha God Ministries in San Antonio, starting this Thursday Night, January 31. Please register and come join us; seating is limited, but we've been able to move our School over to Oak Hills Church for our classes to accommodate everyone. Please keep us in prayer for this course for equipping and training in healing prayer ministry! (www.RaphaGodMinistries.com)

I'm really excited to be speaking on The Healing Nature of Jesus during "An Evening of Healing" with Max Lucado at Oak Hills Church, at the main Crownridge Campus in San Antonio Wednesday Night, February 6 at 7pm. Please come join us if you can (www.oakhillschurch.com).

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.messiah-ministries.org

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Bldg 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com

Morning by Morning, January 28 - "The Path of Life"

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Lead me beside Your still waters, as I start my day in the depths of Your Presence and the communion of prayer. ...

"I keep the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.... You show me the path of life. In Your Presence there is the fullness of joy; in Your right hand are pleasures forevermore" (Psalm 16:8-11).

With the eyes of my heart set upon You and the ears of my spirit open toward You, I am steady and secure, deeply at peace and full of joy. Here in this holy place of Your Presence in the communion of prayer, You ground me in Your Word and fill me with Your Spirit. This is the path of life You've shown me.

And You've taught me to start down this path every day. It's wise - and maybe even necessary - to first spend the first moments of my morning in the deliberate and deep place of abiding in Your Presence. Seeking Your face, listening for Your voice, watching and waiting for Your leading, worshipping You in Spirit and truth, resting in the embrace and confidence of Your tender mercies and steadfast love before anything else is my way of offering to You the first fruits of my day. And then in the power of Your grace, You help me keep You always before me throughout the moments of my day.

This is a good path - the path that leads to life, abundant life in You. Thank You, Lord, for teaching me this path. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

My friend, may the Holy Spirit draw you into the deliberate and deep place of abiding in the Presence of God every day on your path of life. May you be at peace and full of joy, confident in our Father's love and grace for you. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

43 people have signed up to join us for our 6 Week Level 1 School of Ministry for Sozo Inner Healing Prayer Ministry Training, through Rapha God Ministries in San Antonio, starting this Thursday Night, January 31. Please register and come join us; seating is limited, but we've been able to move our School over to Oak Hills Church for our classes to accommodate everyone. Please keep us in prayer for this course for equipping and training in healing prayer ministry! (www.RaphaGodMinistries.com)

I'm really excited to be speaking on The Healing Nature of Jesus during "An Evening of Healing" with Max Lucado at Oak Hills Church, at the main Crownridge Campus in San Antonio Wednesday Night, February 6 at 7pm. Please come join us if you can (www.oakhillschurch.com).

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.messiah-ministries.org

Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries

4 Dominion Drive, Bldg 1

San Antonio, Texas 78257

www.RaphaGodMinistries.com

Morning by Morning, January 25 - Power, Provision, Protection, and Purpose in the Name of Jesus

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Your name is powerful and mighty. And I speak it out as my praise to You and declaration of Your authority over my life and over this day. ...

"You Israelites, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk? The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our ancestors has glorified His Son Jesus.... And by faith in His name, His name itself has made this man strong, whom you see and know; and the faith that is through Jesus has given him this perfect health in the presence of all of you" (Acts 3:12-16).

Not by our own power or piety, not by our doing the right things or saying the right words, not by anything we've earned or deserved, but by the powerful and mighty name of Jesus does the God of heaven display His glory on earth. "There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among mortals by which we must be saved" - "saved" to the uttermost with the eternal life, healing, freedom, wholeness, and peace that comes through Christ alone in the power of the name of Jesus (Acts 4:12).

"Therefore God highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Philippians 2:9-11).

Jesus, You are my Lord and Savior. "Jesus Christ-He is Lord of all" (Acts 10:36). I declare Your name to glory of God my Father over my "spirit and soul and body" (1 Thessalonians 5:23). I declare Your name over my past, present, and future. I declare Your name over my identity and destiny, my gifts and calling, my hopes and dreams, my thoughts and desires. I declare Your name over my sins and failures, my missed opportunities and disappointments, my fears and regrets. I declare Your name over where I live, where I work, where I minister, everywhere I go. I declare Your name over every cell in my body, every provision for my finances, every means of Your protection, every dimension of my life. I declare Your name over every relationship, strategic alignment, and bond of trust. I declare Your name over every plan, scheme, strategy, temptation, means of influence and means of access of the enemy of my soul and the weakness of my flesh. And I declare Your name over every victory through the power of the cross of Jesus Christ in my life and my world, throughout all time and space and every dimension. As best as I can and all by Your grace, I declare to You and all heaven and earth, that I desire to leave nothing out from under the covering of the name of Jesus over every area of my life. I believe there's power, provision, protection, and purpose in the name of Jesus. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

My Friend, I pray for and delcare in agreement with you the power, provision, protection, and purpose of the name of Jesus over every area of your life! Please pray and declare the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

I'm really excited to be speaking on The Healing Nature of Jesus during "An Evening of Healing" with Max Lucado at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio Wednesday Night, February 6 at 7pm. Please come join us if you can (www.oakhillschurch.com).

Starting Thursday Night, January 31, we will begin a 6 Week Level 1 School of Ministry for Sozo Inner Healing Prayer Ministry Training, at our ministry office at Rapha God Ministries in San Antonio. Please come join us; seating is limited. We are excited that 20 people have already signed up for this course for equipping and training in healing prayer ministry! (www.RaphaGodMinistries.com)

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

www.messiah-ministries.org

Morning by Morning, January 24 - "All Things are Possible"

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I lift up my eyes, open up my heart, and welcome You into my day. ...

"Jesus said to him, 'If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes. Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, 'Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' " (Mark 9:23, NKJ).

When I hear this Scripture quoted or prayed, most of the time the emphasis is upon the man's unbelief. It's usually expressed by someone who finds it hard to belief, usually because of doubt and unbelief, rooted in repeated disappointments and discouragement of the past. And of course, we've all felt disappointed and discouraged at times. It's part of the journey of life through a world where we live between the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth and into our lives from the first coming of Christ but not yet fully manifested on earth as it is in heaven until the second coming of Christ. So our part is to continue to pray and believe for Your Kingdom to come, for Your will to be done, here on earth as it is in heaven.

So it seems Your point in the story of this Scripture is to emphasis belief, not unbelief. And it seems to me You want the emphasis of our belief to be primarily on You and Your nature, not primarily on our belief in the thing we are asking of You. "With God all things are possible" (Mark 10:27). You encourage us to seek first the Kingdom of God and Your righteousness, then all these things we feel we need and all these things we ask of You will be given unto us (Matthew 6:33).

Lord, help my belief. Help me grow in my understanding of You and Your nature. Help me trust You more every day, trusting that You are a good God and You want the very best for Your children as our perfect and holy Father. Help me know that You are at work in all things - even the things intended for harm and that break Your heart, even the things that seem to be taking too long to come to pass, even the things that seem impossible for man and sometimes even seem impossible for God. Help me be one choosing to live my life from the perspective of embracing Your invitation, "Only believe" (Mark 5:36). From that perspective and attitude of heart, "all things are possible." So that's what I choose to believe, as best as I can and all by Your grace. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

Friends, may the Holy Spirit stir in your heart to help your belief in our good God for whom all things are possible. May He increase expectant hope in your spirit for all our perfect and holy Father has in His heart for your life. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

I'm really excited to be speaking on The Healing Nature of Jesus during "An Evening of Healing" with Max Lucado at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio Wednesday Night, February 6 at 7pm. Please come join us if you can (www.oakhillschurch.com).

Starting Thursday Night, January 31, we will begin a 6 Week Level 1 School of Ministry for Sozo Inner Healing Prayer Ministry Training, at our ministry office at Rapha God Ministries in San Antonio. Please come join us; seating is limited. We are excited that 20 people have already signed up for this course for equipping and training in healing prayer ministry! (www.RaphaGodMinistries.com)

In this new season, I will still be leading Messiah Ministries, but also joining in leadership as the Pastoral Director of Rapha God Ministries based in San Antonio, Texas, continuing my calling of equipping and ministry of inner healing -- healing from the inside out -- to see God's people set from from their past and awakened to their identity and destiny in Christ. I'll also continue to share these morning prayers, teach our 4 Day Schools in Kentucky and elsewhere, and still travel to speak and minister as the Lord leads with the relationships we've established and the new ones to be formed, at home and abroad.

For a few months of transition, the Messiah Ministries mailing address in Lexington will remain the same, but I will be moving into my new office and the new base for ministry will be at: 4 Dominion Drive, Building 1; San Antonio, Texas 78257 www.RaphaGodMinistries.com

God bless you and thank you for all your prayers and friendship!

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

2800 Tates Creek Road

Lexington, Kentucky 40502

www.messiah-ministries.org

Morning by Morning, January 23 - After 40 Years, Let Abortion "Come to a Full End"

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, You are One and You are holy and You are here. I welcome You, Lord, in every dimension of Your Being into every dimension of my being. ...

Yesterday marked the forty-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade, where abortion of our children became the law of our land. I'm sure some celebrated; but the heaviness of my heart and stirring in my spirit as I think on these things cause me to believe that heaven did not.

"...'But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and shall suffer for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. According to the number of days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for every year you shall bear your iniquity, forty years, and you shall know My displeasure.' I the Lord have spoken; surely I will do thus to this wicked generation gathered together against Me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die" (Number 14:32-35).

Lord, forgive us as a nation for engaging in this evil that we call freedom of will to do whatever we want with our right to choose, while rejecting our children's right to life. And for forty years, we have suffered and our children have suffered under the weight of our sin and the measures of withdrawn blessing and favor from Your displeasure. We truly have no idea of the death and devastation we've allowed to come into our nation and our generations through this open door of our national sin and shame. And apart from Your conviction that leads us to repentance so we can embrace Your mercy, we shall come to a full end.

In these fifteen years of inner healing prayer ministry, I've prayed with many mothers who aborted their children, many not even believing it was wrong at the time, who lived in deep regret and inner shame for choosing or participating in the death of their child. I've prayed with many fathers who were just as guilty as well, whether through their absence, insistence, or tolerance. And how beautiful to see, over and over again, Your forgiveness and mercy wash over their repentant hearts as You healed their hurts, forgave their sin, and cleansed their shame, allowing them the grace to give a mother or father's blessing to their child they were now willing to affirm as a life created by God.

According to Your judgment, it was a wicked generation that spied out the Promise Land but refused to enter it, gathered against You and Your word and Your will for their nation. They were judged to suffer for forty years under the burden of their national sin and defiance in rebellion against You. Yet there were also those among them who were of "a different spirit" who would not settle in their hearts for anything less than restoration to full blessings and favor of God that flows from obedience to the will of God by the power of the grace of God (v. 14:24). And though they suffered with their nation for those forty years, even as they prayed and longed for the day of repentance to come and the years of suffering to end, there came a day when they were allowed to enter in to the Promise Land with a new generation of a different spirit (v. 14:30-31).

O Lord, now that our forty years have passed, may You stir up a spirit of repentance in the heart of our nation. Make a way where there seems to be no way. Let it be the sin and evil of abortion that "shall come to a full end" so that our land and our hearts shall be free to enter in to all You've prepared and destined for us. Your plans and Your will is for our good and not for our harm, for a future with hope, if we will choose to seek Your face and call on Your name (Jeremiah 29:11).

As You spoke the nation of Israel at the end of their forty years, with the opportunity to enter in to the Promise Land, so I believe You are speaking to our nation today: "I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life, so that you and your descendants may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying Him and holding fast to Him; for that means life to you and length of days, so that you many live in the land that the Lord swore to give to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob" (Deuteronomy 30:19-20).

Lord, let us hear the call of Your Spirit, to not give up and to hold fast to You, in prayer and intercession, persevering in faith, contending in the Spirit, until we see our breakthrough come. As Your Word promises in Your eternal call and invitation to covenant for revival: "If My people who are called by My name humble themselves, pray, seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land" (2 Chronicles 7:14). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

Friends, will you join with me and those who are passionately praying for abortion to end? I admit I have not always been moved with passion and pray on this issue, but the more I see the deep devestation that comes from this sin and the power of the grace of God to heal and forgive all who are involved, the more passionate I become. I pray you will passionately follow the Holy Spirit's burdens on your heart for prayer and intercession. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

I'm really excited to be speaking on The Healing Nature of Jesus during "An Evening of Healing" with Max Lucado at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio Wednesday Night, February 6 at 7pm. Please come join us if you can (www.oakhillschurch.com).

Starting Thursday Night, January 31, we will begin a 6 Week Level 1 School of Ministry for Sozo Inner Healing Prayer Ministry Training, at our ministry office at Rapha God Ministries in San Antonio. Please come join us; seating is limited. We are excited that 20 people have already signed up for this course for equipping and training in healing prayer ministry! (www.RaphaGodMinistries.com)

In this new season, I will still be leading Messiah Ministries, but also joining in leadership as the Pastoral Director of Rapha God Ministries based in San Antonio, Texas, continuing my calling of equipping and ministry of inner healing -- healing from the inside out -- to see God's people set from from their past and awakened to their identity and destiny in Christ. I'll also continue to share these morning prayers, teach our 4 Day Schools in Kentucky and elsewhere, and still travel to speak and minister as the Lord leads with the relationships we've established and the new ones to be formed, at home and abroad.

For a few months of transition, the Messiah Ministries mailing address in Lexington will remain the same, but I will be moving into my new office and the new base for ministry will be at: 4 Dominion Drive, Building 1; San Antonio, Texas 78257 www.RaphaGodMinistries.com

God bless you and thank you for all your prayers and friendship!

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

2800 Tates Creek Road

Lexington, Kentucky 40502

www.messiah-ministries.org

Morning by Morning, January 18 – “Taught by the Spirit”

 

Good morning, Lord Jesus. You’re my Lord and Savior, my Healer and Redeemer, my Best Friend and Faithful Companion. Thank You for the beginning of another day of our great adventure in my journey of faith.  …

 

“But as it is written, ‘What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love Him’ — these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God…. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. And we speak of these things in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to those who are spiritual” (1 Corinthians 2:9-13).

 

Holy Spirit of God, teach me the deep things of God, the spiritual things that human wisdom can’t know, the spiritual things that eyes haven’t seen and ears haven’t heard. Teach me things that my God has prepared for me for God’s purposes through me. Teach me Spirit to spirit, as “Deep calls to deep” (Psalm 42:7).

 

I want to be a spiritual man, taught by the Spirit of God. I want to abide in You, as You abide in me, learning from Your Holy Spirit as I listen from my human spirit (John 15:4). Help me become fully developed in my spiritual life, always living and learning, growing up and maturing, “in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit” (2 Corinthians 13:14). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

Morning by Morning, January 17 - Friends Refresh My Spirit

Good morning, Lord Jesus. In these first moments of my morning, help me focus on You and press in to Your Presence. ...

"I rejoice at the coming of Staphanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they have made up for your absence, for they refreshed my spirit as well as yours. So give recognition to such persons" (1 Corinthians 16:17-18).

Thank You for my friends who refresh my spirit. By their words, they bless me; by their prayers, they cover me; by their thoughtfulness, they encourage me. Whether personally in their presence or more remotely through the nearly-infinite media of communication, I'm so grateful for the faithful friends of faith and joyful companions on the journey who inspire and challenge me, as they refresh and encourage me, to be all You've created me to be and called me to do. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays

My friends, thank you for your friendship and companionship with me in the journey of prayer. May you be refreshed in your spirit by those the Lord has called into your life and accross your path. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

This Weekend, I'll be back in Kentucky leading a Spiritual Renewal Weekend at Bagby Memorial United Methodist Church in Grayson, Kentucky, January 18-20 with my good friend Pastor Susan Elkow (http://bagbyumc.org/events.php). Come join us if you can!

I'm really excited to be invited to speak on The Healing Nature of Jesus during "An Evening of Healing" with Max Lucado at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio Wednesday Night, February 6 at 7pm. Please come join us if you can (www.oakhillschurch.com).

Starting Thursday Night, January 31, we will begin a 6 Week Level 1 School of Ministry for Sozo Inner Healing Prayer Ministry Training, at our ministry office at Rapha God Ministries in San Antonio. Please come join us; seating is limited (www.RaphaGodMinistries.com)

In this new season, I will still be leading Messiah Ministries, but also joining in leadership as the Pastoral Director of Rapha God Ministries based in San Antonio, Texas, continuing my calling of equipping and ministry of inner healing -- healing from the inside out -- to see God's people set from from their past and awakened to their identity and destiny in Christ. I'll also continue to share these morning prayers, teach our 4 Day Schools in Kentucky and elsewhere, and still travel to speak and minister as the Lord leads with the relationships we've established and the new ones to be formed, at home and abroad.

For a few months of transition, the Messiah Ministries mailing address in Lexington will remain the same, but I will be moving into my new office and the new base for ministry will be at: 4 Dominion Drive, Building 1; San Antonio, Texas 78257 www.RaphaGodMinistries.com

God bless you and thank you for all your prayers and friendship!

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

Healing from the Inside Out

2800 Tates Creek Road

Lexington, Kentucky 40502

www.messiah-ministries.org