Friday, September 18, 2020

Biblical New Year Begins Tonight - September 18, 2020

 Morning by Morning, September 18 - Biblical New Year Begins Tonight

 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. King of Kings and Lord of Lords, be King of my heart and Lord of my life today. ...
 
"O sing to the Lord a new song,
    for He has done marvelous things.
His right hand and His holy arm
    have gotten Him victory!
The Lord has made known His victory;
    He has revealed His vindication in the sight of the nations.
He has remembered His steadfast love and faithfulness
    to the house of Israel.
All the ends of the earth have seen
    the victory of our God.
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth;
    break forth into joyous song and sing praises.
Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre,
    with the lyre and the sound of melody.
With trumpets and the sound of the horn
    make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord!" 
(Psalm 98:1-6)
 
Tonight begins the Jewish New Year on the Biblical Calendar -- Rosh Hashanah. "With trumpets and the sound of the horn" joyful songs of praise will fill the atmosphere. This is "the day of sounding the shofar!" (Leviticus 23:24) This is the day "to sound the trumpets!" (Numbers 29:1)
 
Every feast and festival is fulfilled in You, Lord Jesus -- the appointed times fulfilled in the Appointed One (Colossians 2:16-17). And Your voice is a "voice like a trumpet" (Revelation 1:10).
 
As the shofars blast, as the trumpets sound, here at the head of a New Year on the Biblical Calendar, let the sound of Your voice go forth in our spirits and all the earth! Break down dividing walls and bring down enemy strongholds, as when the trumpets sounded over Jericho and the people let out a shout of victory on the day of battle! (Joshua 6:20) Call Your people together as one, in humility and faith, in repentance and prayer, as when You sent forth Your word to "Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on (Your) holy mountain!" (Joel 2:1) "Pour out (Your) Spirit on all flesh" again in our days, with expectant faith of great revival and a massive harvest of souls, as we enter into this New Year! (Joel 2:28) "The Lord roars from Zion, and utters His voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shake. But the Lord is a Refuge for His people, a Stronghold for the people of Israel!" (Joel 3:16)
 
Behold, the old has passed away and You're making all things new!
 
"See, the former things have come to pass,
    and new things I now declare;
before they spring forth,
    I tell you of them" (Isaiah 42:9).
 
"So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!" (2 Corinthians 5:17)
 
"And the One who was seated on the throne said, 'See, I am making all things new.' Also He said, 'Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true'" (Revelation 21:5).
 
As we enter this New Year, this New Season and Era of all You have in Your heart to do, let hope arise in our hearts from all we've been going through. Let faith arise in our spirits that Your Words are coming to pass, even in ways we don't yet see: "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? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.... For I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people, the people whom I formed for Myself so that they might declare My praise" (Isaiah 43:18-21).
 
We do declare Your praise, O God! With shofars and trumpets and shouts of praise, we thank You for Your Presence and we long with expectant faith for a great manifestation of Your Glory -- even in the midst of what has seemed like such wilderness and desert times. Even in the midst of such ominous signs of such horrendous days to come unless Your people repent and return with all our hearts to You, we believe it's Your heart to make all things new (Isaiah 65:17). We believe You make all things beautiful, in Your time (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
 
Lord, let this New Year give us new hope for good things yet to come, for greater things yet to be done! In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may you see God's waters break forth in your wilderness and rivers in Your desert, with great hope and expectant faith for all He has for you in this new season, in Jesus name. Please pray the same for me. And I join with you in repentance and prayer for our nation and the people of the earth to turn to God, that He may pour out His Spirit upon all flesh in this new day. God bless you, my friend!

  
  
October 1st Meeting at Kendall Inn in Boerne, Texas.
Friends, please come join us if you're in the area for an evening of worship and ministry of the Word in a deep atmosphere of the presence of the Holy Spirit, hosted by Aglow Ministries at 7:00 PM at the Kendall Inn, behind Peggys-on-the-Green in Boerne, Texas. All are welcome, so please come and bring a friend!


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New Mailing Address for Messiah Ministries:

Tommy & Rocio Hays
Messiah Ministries
17503 La Cantera Parkway, Suite 104407
San Antonio, Texas 78257

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Thursday, September 17, 2020

"Live in Love" Like Jesus - September 17, 2020

 Morning by Morning, September 17 - "Live in Love" Like Jesus

 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Put Your thoughts in my mind and Your desires in my heart to lead me in Your ways today -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God. ...
 
"Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God" (Ephesians 5:1-2). 
 
Help me "live in love" like You, Lord. As a child of God, I want to grow up to be like You, Daddy -- my "Abba, Father" (Romans 8:15). You revealed Yourself in Jesus Christ. You showed us how to "live in love" through all He did and all He said as He walked this earth. And now His Spirit lives in us and loves through us (Romans 8:9).
 
So help me watch and learn. Help me learn to love, so I can "live in love." Help me grow up and become an expression of Your Father heart of love through my life, as an "imitator of God" whose core essence and abiding nature is love. "God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them" (1 John 4:16).
 
Sometimes, living in love meant speaking the truth in love when the truth was pretty hard for some to hear (Matthew 12:34). Sometimes, living in love meant speaking words of spirit and life that were hard to receive by some (John 6:63). And sometimes, living in love meant not speaking at all with words but speaking volumes through the obedient surrender of Your will and sacrifice for us, even the face of insult and injustice (Mark 14:61). So whether speaking or silent, whether through surrender or sacrifice, You set before us an example of how to "live in love" like You, Lord Jesus.
 
As said in the Message, "Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with Him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of Himself to us. Love like that" (Ephesians 5:1-2 MSG).
 
So by the power of Your Spirit at work within me, teach me and empower me to "love like that," to "live in love" today -- unselfishly and extravagantly, but more consistently like You. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may you be empowered by the Holy Spirit, abiding in your spirit, to live in love like Jesus today, in Jesus name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

 
 

Free to Be Like Jesus!
Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance 
 


New Mailing Address for Messiah Ministries:

Tommy & Rocio Hays
Messiah Ministries
17503 La Cantera Parkway, Suite 104407
San Antonio, Texas 78257

Tommy & Rocio Hays | Messiah Ministries

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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Nothing But Jesus... - September 16, 2020

 Morning by Morning, September 16 - Nothing But Jesus...

 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. I'm listening for Your leading, to begin my day embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with the Holy Spirit. ...
 
Higher,
Deeper,
Wider,
More than I've ever known.
 
Longer, 
Farther,
Way out yonder,
Beyond where I've ever gone.
 
Holding nothing back.
Never turning back.
Allowing nothing to hold me back.
 
No religious rules.
No traditions of men.
No conformity to the controlling culture of these times.
No compromise with the corruption of this world.
 
Nothing but Jesus abiding in me,
And my life abounding in Him.
 
"Who the Son sets free is free indeed!" (John 8:36) "It is for freedom that Christ has set (me) free" -- free to follow You, free to surrender my life completely to You and become more like You, more every day -- step by step, morning by morning, day by day (Galatians 5:1). Free to be like Jesus (Romans 8:29; 1 John 4:17). "Beloved, we are God's children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when He is revealed, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is" (1 John 3:2).
 
Nothing but Jesus abiding in me,
And my life abounding in Him.
 
"When Christ who is (my) life is reveled, then (I) also will be revealed with Him in glory.... And whatever (I) do, in word or in deed, (I) do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him" (Colossians 3:4-17).
 
I want nothing more. I'll settle for nothing less.
 
Nothing but Jesus abiding in me,
and my life abounding in Him.
 
In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.


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

My friend, may you be free to be like Jesus -- nothing but Jesus abiding in you and your life abounding in Him, in Jesus name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

 

Healing Academy.
Friends, thank you so much for your prayers for us at our Healing Academy in Fredericksburg, Texas last night at the Bridge Church. Every week, we're experiencing more healing and freedom in the deep presence of the Lord, as His Holy Spirit equips us for ministering the healing love of God in spirit, soul, and body. I pray the same for you!

I'm teaching from the Biblical Principles of my book:
Free to Be Like Jesus!
 

 

New Mailing Address for Messiah Ministries:

Tommy & Rocio Hays
Messiah Ministries
17503 La Cantera Parkway, Suite 104407
San Antonio, Texas 78257

Tommy & Rocio Hays | Messiah Ministries

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Tuesday, September 15, 2020

My Savior and Source of All I Need - September 15, 2020

 Morning by Morning, September 15 - My Savior and Source of All I Need

 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. My Lord and Savior -- and all that means through every moment of my day. ...
 
My Light when I am lost,
My Hope when I'm afraid,
My Help when I am hurt,
My Voice when I can't speak,
My Rock when I can't stand,
My Rope when I'm in deep,
My Sail when I can't move,
My Shield when I can't duck,
My Friend when I'm alone,
My God when no one else and nothing less could ever be.
 
You're my All in All when I'm all out of all my options and I'm all done with trying to do it all myself in my own way (Colossians 3:11).
 
You're all I ever need. And You're always here with me (Matthew 28:20; Hebrews 13:5-6).
 
I hear You saying in my heart, "Look to no one but Me. Seek no Source but Me. I provide and I supply through many means, but I am the Source of all You need. Trust and see that I am worthy of your trust and a rewarder of those who seek Me." ...
 
Yes, Lord. As I ponder Your words, this Word comes to mind: "Without faith it is impossible to please God, for whoever would approach Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who seek Him" (Hebrews 11:6).
 
For my nation that seems so out of control, I seek You. For my needs that seem out of my hands, I seek You. For the deepest longing of my soul, for the farthest reaches of my dreams, for all that I need and I all that I am and all that I'm created and called to be, I seek You. ...
 
And as I seek You, I find strength and courage and peace in the Promise of Your Word: "For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. Then when you call upon Me and come and pray to Me, I will hear you. When you search for Me, you will find Me; if you seek Me with all your heart, I will let you find Me, says the Lord..." (Jeremiah 29:11-13). There's restoration and redemption, forgiveness and mercy, faithfulness and fulfillment for all who humble themselves to call on Your name, to seek Your face, and embrace Your grace (Jeremiah 29:14).
 
For me and my house, for my nation and my world, as far as Your grace will go, I turn to You and trust in You as the only true Source of all we need. You alone are God and there is no other (Isaiah 45:5). "There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12). You are my Savior and my Salvation, my Source of all I need and all that means -- here in my heart and every moment of my day and for every struggling soul here in my world. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may you trust in the One who is your Savior and Source of all you need and the rewarder of all who seek Him, in Jesus name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!



Healing Academy Tonight.
Friends, please keep us in prayer as Rocio and I travel to Fredericksburg tonight to continue teaching our Healing Academy at the Bridge Church. Praying for anointed teaching and equipping, but also powerful encounters with the Holy Spirit! I pray those encounters for you!

I'll be teaching from the Biblical Principles of my book:
Free to Be Like Jesus!
 

 

New Mailing Address for Messiah Ministries:

Tommy & Rocio Hays
Messiah Ministries
17503 La Cantera Parkway, Suite 104407
San Antonio, Texas 78257

Tommy & Rocio Hays | Messiah Ministries

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Monday, September 14, 2020

Chaos and Anarchy Not the Character of God - September 14, 2020

 Morning by Morning, September 14 - Chaos and Anarchy Not the Character of God

 
Good morning, Lord Jesus. I lift up my heart and listen up for Your leading, seeking to begin my day embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with Your Holy Spirit. ...
 
"For thus says the Lord,
who created the heavens
    (He is God!),
who formed the earth and made it
    (He established it;
He did not create it a chaos,
    He formed it to be inhabited!):
I am the Lord, and there is no other.
I did not speak in secret,
    in a land of darkness;
I did not say to the offspring of Jacob,
    'Seek Me in chaos.'
I the Lord speak the truth,
    I declare what is right" (Isaiah 45:18-19).
 
You're not the author of chaos or confusion. It's not Your character to cause anarchy. You speak the truth; You declare what's right. You bring order, even as You allow freedom (1 Corinthians 14:39-40). You fulfill law and order, even as You lavish us with mercy and grace (Matthew 5:17).
 
So come and speak Light in the midst of our darkness. Come and speak Life in the midst of our destruction.
 
You alone are our Savior. You alone are our Hope. And You alone can bring order out of chaos, stability out of insecurity, to set things right when we let You write Your law on our hearts and guide our steps by Your Spirit. You stretch out Your hand to all who will take it and open up Your heart to all who will receive it, calling out to the nation who will hear:
 
There is no other God besides Me,
a righteous God and a Savior;
    there is no one besides Me.
Turn to Me and be saved,
    all the ends of the earth!
    For I am God, and there is no other.
By myself I have sworn,
    from My mouth has gone forth in righteousness
    a word that shall not return:
'To Me every knee shall bow,
    every tongue shall swear.'
Only in the Lord, it shall be said of Me,
    are righteousness and strength" (Isaiah 45:21-24).
 
Yes, Lord. We turn to You, in desperation and faith, in repentance and prayer, in humble trust in the goodness of Your character and the mercy of Your love. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may the law of the Lord be written on your heart and and the order of His ways be established in your life, in Jesus name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!




New Mailing Address for Messiah Ministries:

Tommy & Rocio Hays
Messiah Ministries
17503 La Cantera Parkway, Suite 104407
San Antonio, Texas 78257

Tommy & Rocio Hays | Messiah Ministries

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