Monday, November 13, 2017

Morning by Morning, November 13 - Honoring Our Veterans and Our Greatest Veteran
 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. I speak out Your name and listen for the leading of Your Spirit, here in the embrace of my Father to begin my day in the intimacy of prayer.  ...
 
"No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends" (John 15:13).
 
This weekend our nation honored the men and women who have been willing to fight and die for our freedom and our honor as our Veterans. We're thankful for their service. We're thankful for their sacrifice. We're thankful that they answered the call with courage and conviction to willingly lay down their lives for us. We owe them our respect and honor them with our gratitude -- "respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due" (Romans 13:7).
 
And as I honor them, I honor You. You set aside the glory of heaven to humble Yourself in the likeness of human flesh and blood to lay down Your life for me -- "even death on a cross" (Philippians 2:5-11). You are the Veteran of the greatest war ever fought -- the war between heaven and hell, between good and evil, between forgiveness and sin. The battle scars You bear are the jagged nail wounds upon Your hands and feet forever for us (John 20:27).  
 
Through Your sacrifice of love -- a sacrifice we really can't even begin to fully grasp -- our world condemned to die will experience a new heavens and a new earth through the sufferings of Your cross and the glory of Your resurrection (John 3:16). "Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him" (John 3:17). We honor You and thank You. Thank You for Your service and Your sacrifice. "Thanks be to God who gives us the victory through Jesus Christ!"  -- our Greatest Veteran! (1 Corinthians 15:57)

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




I pray you're filled with gratitude and respect in honor of our veterans and our Greatest Veteran, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same of me. God bless you, my friend!




I invite you to join with me on the spiritual journey of hungering and thirsting for more with a couple of my books I believe I've been led to write and to share:

A Deeper Journey to Healing and Freedom
 
 
 
A Deeper Journey to Intimacy in Prayer
 
 


God bless you and thank you for joining with me in the journey!

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Friday, November 10, 2017

Morning by Morning, November 10 - Rend Open Our Hearts and Your Heavens with Revival!
 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Be at the center of my heart and every moment of this day.  ...
 
"'Now, therefore,' says the Lord, 'Turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.' So rend your heart, and not your garments; return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm (Joel 2:12-14 NKJV).
 
Repentance prepares the way of the Lord for revival -- in our hearts and in our land. When we rend open our hearts, You rend open Your heavens:  "Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your Presence -- as fire burns brushwood, as fire causes water to boil -- to make Your name know to Your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at Your Presence! When You did awesome things for which we did not look, You came down, the mountains shook at Your Presence. For since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eyes seen any God besides You, who acts for the one who waits for Him!" (Isaiah 64:1-4 NKJV)
 
Come, Holy Spirit. Stir in our hearts to rend them before God. May we return to You, O Lord, our God, in our land and our generation to be a people who are called by Your name, pursuing Your will, to walk in Your ways. Set us ablaze with Your holy fire! Awaken us! Revive us! Display Your glory through us again! "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord!" (Psalm 33:12 NKJV) In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays




I pray the Holy Spirit of the Living God stirs in your spirit and your land for a great awakening a revival in His holy fire and power, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same of me. God bless you, my friend!
I invite you to join with me on the spiritual journey of hungering and thirsting for more with a couple of my books I believe I've been led to write and to share:

A Deeper Journey to Healing and Freedom
 
 
 
A Deeper Journey to Intimacy in Prayer
 
 


God bless you and thank you for joining with me in the journey!

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Thursday, November 09, 2017


Morning by Morning, November 9 - Groaning for Greatness
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Make me more like You today.  ...
"We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies" (Romans 8:22-23).
We're groaning for greatness. We're yearning to be all You created us to be -- forgiven for our sins, filled with Your Spirit, and fulfilling our destiny as the sons and daughters of the King we are. May we settle for nothing less. May we hunger and thirst for more -- more of You, more of Your love, more of Your grace, more of Your nature in our hearts and Your power in our lives. 
"Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised!" (Psalm 145:3) And in Your greatness, You long to do great things in us. "Be glad and rejoice, for the Lord has done great things" and will continue to do even more (Joel 2:20).  "Thus says the Lord who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to establish it -- the Lord is His name:  Call to Me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known... I am going to bring (you) recovery and healing; I will heal (you) and reveal to (you) abundance of prosperity and security.... And (you) shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for (you); they shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for (you)!" (Jeremiah 33:2-9)
Lord, let it be so. Set us free from complacency and give us fresh passion. Deliver us from the poverty of lacking a zeal for You and the fulfillment of Your Word and Your will in our lives. With an increasing, insatiable hunger for Your kingdom and Your righteousness, we're groaning for greatness in You (Matthew 6:33). And as we do, Your Word will be fulfilled:  "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled!" (Matthew 5:6) In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays







I pray you will be filled with a hunger and thirst for righteousness, that you groan for greatness, and that the Lord will do great and awesome things in you and through your life, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same of me. God bless you, my friend!

      

I invite you to join with me on the spiritual journey of hungering and thirsting for more with a couple of my books I believe I've been led to write and to share:

A Deeper Journey to Healing and Freedom


 
A Deeper Journey to Intimacy in Prayer

 


God bless you and thank you for joining with me in the journey!

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Wednesday, November 08, 2017

Morning by Morning, November 8 - "The Path of Life"
 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Help me start this day embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with the Holy Spirit in the communion and intimacy of prayer with You.   ...
 
"I keep the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices; my body rests secure.... You show me the path of life. In Your Presence there is fullness of joy; in Your right hand are pleasures forevermore" (Psalm 16:8-11).
 
May I not be moved by anything but You -- not moved by worry or wishful thinking, resentment or regret, selfishness or shame, or anything else that's anything less than Your Spirit moving in my heart. "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God" (Romans 8:14).
 
Put Your thoughts in my mind and Your desires in my heart. Motivate my actions and order my steps. Lead me in the way that leads to life in You. "Show me the path of life." In that path alone will my heart be glad and my soul rejoice. In that path alone will I find the "fullness of joy." In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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




I pray you will be moved by nothing but God, moving in your thoughts and desires by His Holy Spirit to lead you in the path of life and into the fullness of joy in Him, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same of me. God bless you, my friend!

      
 


I invite you to experience the path of life on a journey with me through a couple of my books I believe I've been led to write and to share:

A Deeper Journey to Healing and Freedom

 



 

 

 
A Deeper Journey to Intimacy in Prayer

 

  

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Tuesday, November 07, 2017

Morning by Morning, November 7 - Peace Through the Troubles and Tribulations
 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God -- You are One; and You are with me. I welcome You here within me and every moment of my day.  ...
 
"Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.... Rise, let us be on our way" (John 14:27-31).
 
Every morning, I can rise and be on my way with You because Your peace is within me. As You promised to Your first disciples, You continue to promise every disciple, "These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world" (John 16:33 NKJV).
 
When my world feels full of foreboding and fear, chaos and confusion, injustice and inhumanity, troubles and tribulations, You invite me to find my peace in You. You remind me You are the "Prince of Peace" -- my "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace" (Isaiah 9:6). You encourage me to overcome by embracing the One who has already overcome (Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 26; 3:5, 12, 21).
 
As I do, there's a shifting in me, long before there's any shifting in the world around me. It's a shifting of perspective that gives me peace in the confidence and assurance of Your Presence. You're with me through it all (Isaiah 43:2; Psalm 23:4). You never leave me, nor forsake me (Hebrews 13:5). You're with me "always" (Matthew 28:20). 
 
And when it's all been said and done, when I see with my eyes what I've known in my heart, that You've been with me to the end, I will look and see that none of the things of this world that tried to overwhelm me and overcome me to steal my peace had the last word or defined my life. You did. You always have and You always will. And Your word over me is always good (Jeremiah 29:11). You are the Living Word of God, who is always with me (John 1:14). And that's what gives me "the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, (which) will guard (our) hearts and (our) minds in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:7). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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




I pray you will know the peace that surpasses all understanding through every trouble and tribulation you ever endure, safe and secure, encouraged and overcoming in the One who is your Prince of Peace, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same of me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, I join with you in prayer for all those who are grieving and struggling with the tragic loss of life in the community of Sutherland Springs, Texas and everywhere the troubles and tribulations of this world seek to overwhelm and overcome us.
     
 

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Monday, November 06, 2017

Morning by Morning, November 6 - "In the Twinkling of an Eye"
 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Lord and Savior -- Lord of my life and Savior of my soul, lead my heart and my steps today.  ...
 
"Listen, I will tell you a mystery. We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled:  'Death has been swallowed up in victory.' 'Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?' ... Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Corinthians 15:51-57).
 
Yesterday morning, in the little town of Southerland Springs, Texas, not far from our home in San Antonio, a church full of mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, friends and family went home to be their Lord. They see You now "face to face" (1 Corinthians 13:12). "In the twinkling of an eye" their work on earth was done and they now rest forever in Your embrace. In the everlasting joy and eternal peace of Your resurrection power, they are "away from the body and at home with the Lord" (2 Corinthians 5:8).
 
Here on earth, we'll struggle to try to make sense of the senselessness of their horrific mass murders in the midst of their Sunday morning worship. We'll seek justice and seek to make adjustments to try to guard against the terror and tragedies of this kind of evil in our world. But for every one of them who had You in their hearts, their fight with the evil of this broken and fallen world is finished. Death has lost its sting; death has found no victory, for You snatched them out of the grip of death and delivered their souls into the arms of their Father forever.
 
One day the last trumpet will sound and all who have lived or are living in personal relationship with You as Lord and Savior "will be caught up in the clouds together ... to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever" (1 Thessalonians 4:17). But in a sense, the trumpet could sound just as suddenly, just as unexpectedly for any one of us or for any one of those we love any day. 
 
So whether we're the one going home to be with the Lord or whether we're among the ones left here to mourn and grieve through the sorrow and anger, we all need You. We need to know You're with us, You're for us, You'll love us and lead us through whatever death or devastation we may endure until it's our day for all to be changed in the twinkling of an eye. Thank You that You are (Matthew 28:20). "Now may the Lord of peace himself give (us) peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with (us) all" (2 Thessalonians 3:16). In Jesus' name I pray. Amen

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




I pray you will live every day with the peace of Christ in your heart, ready at any moment to be with Your Savior forever, leading those around you to live in that peace as well, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same of me. God bless you, my friend!

Friends, I join with you in prayer for all those who are grieving and struggling with this tragic loss of life in the community of Sutherland Springs, Texas.
     
 

Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
Healing from the Inside Out
  
Pastoral Director | Rapha God Ministries
4 Dominion Drive, Building 1
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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