Monday, February 21, 2022

Seeking the Face of God - February 21, 2022

 

Morning by Morning, February 21 - Seeking the Face of God

Good morning, Lord Jesus. As I take time to seek Your face, to listen for Your heart, You’re changing me and making me more like You: “And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit” (2 Corinthians 3:18). As stated in the New Living Translation: “So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord--who is the Spirit--makes us more and more like Him as we are changed into His glorious image” (2 Corinthians 3:18 NLT). ...

I was forever changed on the day You saved me by Your grace and mercy and love (Ephesians 2:5). And I’ll be forever changed when You return at Your second coming, “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet” when “we will all be changed” (1 Corinthians 15:51-52). 

And every day between the day of my salvation and the day of Your return, You are changing me and making me more like You each day, as I keep lifting my eyes to You, seeking You, beholding You, allowing You to make me more like You. As stated in the New King James Version:

“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Corinthians 3:18 NKJV).

Yes, Lord. Face to face, “from glory to glory,” keep removing the “veil” from my face, the blinders from my eyes, the hardness from my heart, so I can see You as You are. Then I can see myself as I am -- a child of God, led by the Spirit of God, being changed into the image of the Son of God, day by day, morning by morning, from glory to glory:

“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. For (we) did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but (we) have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’ it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ--if, in fact, we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him” (Romans 8:14-17).

Come, Holy Spirit. Spirit of the Living God, come fall afresh on me today. Come stir up within me today a fresh passion for Jesus, as I turn my eyes to intentionally look to Jesus today. Open the eyes of my heart, to behold the Lord (Ephesians 1:18).

Embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, filled with the Holy Spirit, help me begin my day and live out this day, “looking to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of (my) faith” (Hebrews 12:2), as You keep conforming me into the image of the Son of God (Romans 8:29). As He is, so am I to be (1 John 4:17). As He is, so am I to become, “from glory to glory,” seeking Him spirit to Spirit, heart to Heart, from deep to Deep, “face to face” (1 Corinthians 13:12). As David declared as a man after God’s own heart, “‘Come,’ my heart says, ‘seek His face!’ Your face, Lord, do I seek” (Psalm 27:8). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may you be stirred up in your spirit to seek the face of the Lord today -- here at the beginning of your day and throughout the moments of your day -- looking to Jesus in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Tommy & Rocio Hays | Messiah Ministries

Messiah Ministries Mailing Address:
412 S. Adams Street #148
Fredericksburg, Texas 78624

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Photo from worship in The Philippians several years ago, with the passionate follows of Jesus in that land, crying out for the Presence of the Lord, hungering and thirsting for more of Him. (Before my beard).
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April 1-2
Spiritual Retreat - Messiah Ministries' Freedom Encounter Weekend at Mo Ranch in the Texas Hill Country. All are Welcome! Send someone who needs it, if you can't come!
Send me an email if you're interested in joining us for a weekend of worship, teaching, and healing prayer ministry in a beautiful Texas Hill Country Setting at Mo Ranch. Write for Details:

(This Retreat is separate from our Retreat
for my Bridge Church Freedom Equipping Class in June)

February 24
Meeting with a Gathering of Pastors in Lampasas, Texas to plan for our Citywide School of Ministry for Training and Equipping in Inner Healing & Deliverance Prayer Ministry.

March 18-19
Speaking at the Cowhead Creek Ranch Mens' Retreat outside Kerrville, Texas

Teaching Deliverance Prayer Ministry Module as part of the Bible College of Christian Family Church, San Antonio, Texas. https://www.christianfamilychurchsa.com

April 1-2
Spiritual Retreat - Messiah Ministries' Freedom Encounter Weekend at Mo Ranch in the Texas Hill Country. All are Welcome! Please s
Send me an email if you're interested in joining us for a weekend of worship, teaching and healing ministry in a beautiful Texas Hill Country Setting at Mo Ranch.

May 22-23
Moravian Falls, NC Retreat with Online Connect Group leaders of Morningstar Ministries.

June 9-11
Spiritual Retreat for my Bridge Church Freedom Equipping Class at Mo Ranch. Current Students and Alumni Welcome!
Email me to sign up: TommyHays@Messiah-Ministries.org

June 17-18
Leading a Spiritual Retreat with South Texas Aglow Leadership at South Padre Island.

July
Planning our Next Ministry Trip to Central Mexico!

Watch our Weekly Episodes of Healing From the Inside Out on our Messiah Ministries YouTube Channel:
More Episodes being added every month! Please share it with anyone who needs to encounter the Healing Love of God!

Freedom Equipping Class every week as part of the discipleship plan at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas
Tuesday Afternoons (1:30 - 3:30)
Tuesday Nights (6:00 - 8:00)

Based on the principles of my book
Free to Be Like Jesus! — Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance

Monday Nights
Rocio and I lead an Online Connect Group for MorningStar Ministries

Wednesday Mornings
Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Inner Healing and Deliverance Ministry Sessions for the Online Connect Groups from around the world.

Personal Ministry Appointments
Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment and as the Holy Spirit leads. Please keep us in prayer for spiritual breakthrough and transformation! Let us know if you'd like to set up a session: 

Sessions are without cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries.

Sign up Here for this Free Video Series for Inner Healing and Spiritual Freedom in Christ:

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Worthy of the Surrender of All My Heart - February 16, 2022

 

Morning by Morning, February 16 - Worthy of the Surrender of All My Heart

Good morning, Lord Jesus. King of Kings and Lord of Lords, be exalted on high, here in my heart and every moment of my day (Revelation 19:16). ...

As I wait for the leading of Your Spirit this morning, You’re writing a new song of trust and praise in my spirit, that I’m singing to You now in spirit and truth:

I seek to live for You
I long to adore You
You are my heart and soul

I need to be with You
I sing to exalt You
You set me free and make me whole

I know You are for me
I know that You love me
You are my all in all

The One who gave it all
The One on whom I call
So worthy of it all

So I surrender all to You
Yes, Lord. I surrender all to You. 

“(I) seek (You) with all (my) heart” (Jeremiah 29:13). I “trust in (You) with all (my) heart” (Proverbs 3:5). I “rejoice and exult (in You) with all (my) heart” (Zephaniah 3:14). I “sanctify (You) as Lord” in all my heart (1 Peter 3:15). And I love You, Lord -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God -- “with all (my) heart, and with all (my) soul, and with all (my) mind, and with all (my) strength” (Mark 12:30).

I “let the word of Christ dwell in (me) richly ... and with gratitude in (my) heart (I) sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs to God (Colossians 3:16; Ephesians 5:19).

I’m holding nothing back from You, because You have held nothing back from me. I surrender all to You, because You have sacrificed all for me. “In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins” (1 John 4:10) -- “not for ours only but for the sins of the whole world” (1 John 2:2).

You are worthy of all my heart and all my trust, for You are worthy of it all-- all glory and honor and power and blessing, forever and ever (Revelation 5:13). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may you be filled up and overflowing with gratitude in your heart and full surrender to our God, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs from your heart to His as you go about your day, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Tommy & Rocio Hays | Messiah Ministries

Messiah Ministries Mailing Address:
412 S. Adams Street #148
Fredericksburg, Texas 78624

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April 1-2
Spiritual Retreat - Messiah Ministries' Freedom Encounter Weekend at Mo Ranch in the Texas Hill Country. All are Welcome! Send someone who needs it, if you can't come!
Send me an email if you're interested in joining us for a weekend of worship, teaching, and healing prayer ministry in a beautiful Texas Hill Country Setting at Mo Ranch. Write for Details:

(This Retreat is separate from our Retreat
for my Bridge Church Freedom Equipping Class in June)

February 17-19
Attending monthly School of the Prophets led by Chris Reed and Rick Joyner at Morningstar Ministries.

February 24
Meeting with a Gathering of Pastors in Lampasas, Texas to plan for our Citywide School of Ministry for Training and Equipping in Inner Healing & Deliverance Prayer Ministry.

March 18-19
Speaking at the Cowhead Creek Ranch Mens' Retreat outside Kerrville, Texas

Teaching Deliverance Prayer Ministry Module as part of the Bible College of Christian Family Church, San Antonio, Texas. https://www.christianfamilychurchsa.com

April 1-2
Spiritual Retreat - Messiah Ministries' Freedom Encounter Weekend at Mo Ranch in the Texas Hill Country. All are Welcome! Please s
Send me an email if you're interested in joining us for a weekend of worship, teaching and healing ministry in a beautiful Texas Hill Country Setting at Mo Ranch.

May 22-23
Moravian Falls, NC Retreat with Online Connect Group leaders of Morningstar Ministries.

June 9-11
Spiritual Retreat for my Bridge Church Freedom Equipping Class at Mo Ranch. Current Students and Alumni Welcome!
Email me to sign up: TommyHays@Messiah-Ministries.org

June 17-18
Leading a Spiritual Retreat with South Texas Aglow Leadership at South Padre Island.

July
Planning our Next Ministry Trip to Central Mexico!

Watch our Weekly Episodes of Healing From the Inside Out on our Messiah Ministries YouTube Channel:
More Episodes being added every month! Please share it with anyone who needs to encounter the Healing Love of God!

Freedom Equipping Class every week as part of the discipleship plan at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas
Tuesday Afternoons (1:30 - 3:30)
Tuesday Nights (6:00 - 8:00)

Based on the principles of my book
Free to Be Like Jesus! — Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance

Monday Nights
Rocio and I lead an Online Connect Group for MorningStar Ministries

Wednesday Mornings
Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Inner Healing and Deliverance Ministry Sessions for the Online Connect Groups from around the world.

Personal Ministry Appointments
Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment and as the Holy Spirit leads. Please keep us in prayer for spiritual breakthrough and transformation! Let us know if you'd like to set up a session: 

Sessions are without cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries.

Sign up Here for this Free Video Series for Inner Healing and Spiritual Freedom in Christ:

 

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Who We Are and What We’re Living For - February 15, 2022

 

Morning by Morning, February 15 - Who We Are and What We’re Living For

Good morning, Lord Jesus. What’s on Your heart today? I watch and wait for the leading of Your Spirit -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God. ...

“It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, He had His eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose He is working out in everything and everyone” (Ephesians 1:11-12 The Message).
You have an “overall purpose” You are “working out in everything and everyone.” “For we are (Your) masterpiece. (You have) created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things (You) planned for us long ago” (Ephesians 2:10 NLT).

You give us the grace to discover who we are, to live into who we are. You use every battle we fight and every challenge we face. You use every stronghold we overcome and every lie we renounce, as we come to understand Your Words of Truth, “Apart from Me, you can do nothing” (John 15:5) and at the same time, “Remember, I AM with you always, even to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:20).

You make us who we are. You empower us to live into our identity and fulfill our destiny in You. And You take everything we endure and overcome to melt us and mold us, to strengthen us and shape us for Your purposes. And one of Your greatest purposes is to make us more like You every day -- to be conformed into the image of the Son of God (Romans 8:29), to change us into Your image from glory to glory (2 Corinthians 3:18), to empower us to participate in Your nature (2 Peter 1:4). For as You are, so are we to be in our world (1 John 4:17).

Come, Holy Spirit of the Living God. As the old spiritual song of personal revival declares, “Make me, mold me, fill me, use me” to display Your glory through my life today -- “Christ in (me), the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27). Secure in the Truth and the hope of my calling, my identity, and my destiny in You, “I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us!” (Romans 8:18) In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

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

My friend, may you be melted and molded, strengthened and shaped by the Holy Spirit into the image of Jesus by the love of Your Father to live into your identity and destiny in Christ through the power of God's grace for y, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Tommy & Rocio Hays | Messiah Ministries

Messiah Ministries Mailing Address:
412 S. Adams Street #148
Fredericksburg, Texas 78624

Please share this word to encourage a friend!
Anyone can sign up for free to receive them at:
Please Keep us in Prayer for These 
Messiah Ministries Events


April 1-2
Spiritual Retreat - Messiah Ministries' Freedom Encounter Weekend at Mo Ranch in the Texas Hill Country. All are Welcome! Send someone who needs it, if you can't come!
Send me an email if you're interested in joining us for a weekend of worship, teaching, and healing prayer ministry in a beautiful Texas Hill Country Setting at Mo Ranch. Write for Details:

(This Retreat is separate from our Retreat
for my Bridge Church Freedom Equipping Class in June)

February 17-19
Attending monthly School of the Prophets led by Chris Reed and Rick Joyner at Morningstar Ministries.

February 24
Meeting with a Gathering of Pastors in Lampasas, Texas to plan for our Citywide School of Ministry for Training and Equipping in Inner Healing & Deliverance Prayer Ministry.

March 18-19
Speaking at the Cowhead Creek Ranch Mens' Retreat outside Kerrville, Texas

Teaching Deliverance Prayer Ministry Module as part of the Bible College of Christian Family Church, San Antonio, Texas. https://www.christianfamilychurchsa.com

April 1-2
Spiritual Retreat - Messiah Ministries' Freedom Encounter Weekend at Mo Ranch in the Texas Hill Country. All are Welcome! Please s
Send me an email if you're interested in joining us for a weekend of worship, teaching and healing ministry in a beautiful Texas Hill Country Setting at Mo Ranch.

May 22-23
Moravian Falls, NC Retreat with Online Connect Group leaders of Morningstar Ministries.

June 9-11
Spiritual Retreat for my Bridge Church Freedom Equipping Class at Mo Ranch. Current Students and Alumni Welcome!
Email me to sign up: TommyHays@Messiah-Ministries.org

June 17-18
Leading a Spiritual Retreat with South Texas Aglow Leadership at South Padre Island.

July
Planning our Next Ministry Trip to Central Mexico!

Watch our Weekly Episodes of Healing From the Inside Out on our Messiah Ministries YouTube Channel:
More Episodes being added every month! Please share it with anyone who needs to encounter the Healing Love of God!

Freedom Equipping Class every week as part of the discipleship plan at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas
Tuesday Afternoons (1:30 - 3:30)
Tuesday Nights (6:00 - 8:00)

Based on the principles of my book
Free to Be Like Jesus! — Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance

Monday Nights
Rocio and I lead an Online Connect Group for MorningStar Ministries

Wednesday Mornings
Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Inner Healing and Deliverance Ministry Sessions for the Online Connect Groups from around the world.

Personal Ministry Appointments
Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment and as the Holy Spirit leads. Please keep us in prayer for spiritual breakthrough and transformation! Let us know if you'd like to set up a session: 

Sessions are without cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries.

Sign up Here for this Free Video Series for Inner Healing and Spiritual Freedom in Christ:

Monday, February 14, 2022

“Live Like Jesus” - February 14, 2022

 

Morning by Morning, February 14 - “Live Like Jesus”

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Let me see with Your eyes, hear with Your ears, love with Your heart, as You live Your life through mine today. “For (I) have died, and (my) life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is (my) life is revealed, then (I) also will be revealed with Him in glory” (Colossians 3:3-4). ....

In the mystery of faith and the power of grace, You move in my heart by Your Spirit to make me more like You each day, with my life hidden with Christ in God each day. My part is to choose; Your part is to move -- to move in my mind, to move in my heart, to move in my thoughts and move in my desires, so that I desire what is right and do what is right, by the power of Your 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 NLT).

And what pleases You, Lord? ... That I allow You to live Your life in me. That I allow Your nature to become my nature, as I allow Your thoughts in my mind, Your desires in my heart, Your ways to become my ways. That I take hold of the Truth and let the Truth take hold of me -- that You are “the Way and the Truth and the Life” (John 14:6) and that You desire to be my Way, my Truth, and my Life.

By the power of Your grace at work within me, bring me to the place of surrender and trust where I can truly say, “I live for God” (Galatians 2:19 NLT), where I can truly say, “My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me” (Galatians 2:20 NLT).

This is the will of God according to the Word of God for me and all who would fully surrender and fully trust their whole lives to You by the power of Your grace: “And as (I) live in God, (my) love grows more perfect. So (I) will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but (I) can face Him with confidence because (I) live like Jesus here in this world” (1 John 4:17 NLT). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

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

Friends, may you be empowered by the grace of God and transformed by the Spirit of God to live like Jesus today, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!

Tommy & Rocio Hays | Messiah Ministries

Messiah Ministries Mailing Address:
412 S. Adams Street #148
Fredericksburg, Texas 78624

Please share this word to encourage a friend!
Anyone can sign up for free to receive them at:
Please Keep us in Prayer for These 
Messiah Ministries Events


April 1-2
Spiritual Retreat - Messiah Ministries' Freedom Encounter Weekend at Mo Ranch in the Texas Hill Country. All are Welcome! Send someone who needs it, if you can't come!
Send me an email if you're interested in joining us for a weekend of worship, teaching, and healing prayer ministry in a beautiful Texas Hill Country Setting at Mo Ranch.

February 17-19
Attending monthly School of the Prophets led by Chris Reed and Rick Joyner at Morningstar Ministries.

February 24
Meeting with a Gathering of Pastors in Lampasas, Texas to plan for our Citywide School of Ministry for Training and Equipping in Inner Healing & Deliverance Prayer Ministry.

March 18-19
Speaking at the Cowhead Creek Ranch Mens' Retreat outside Kerrville, Texas

Teaching Deliverance Prayer Ministry Module as part of the Bible College of Christian Family Church, San Antonio, Texas. https://www.christianfamilychurchsa.com

April 1-2
Spiritual Retreat - Messiah Ministries' Freedom Encounter Weekend at Mo Ranch in the Texas Hill Country. All are Welcome!
Send me an email if you're interested in joining us for a weekend of worship, teaching and healing ministry in a beautiful Texas Hill Country Setting at Mo Ranch.

May 22-23
Moravian Falls, NC Retreat with Online Connect Group leaders of Morningstar Ministries.

June 9-11
Spiritual Retreat for my Bridge Church Freedom Equipping Class at Mo Ranch. Current Students and Alumni Welcome!
Email me to sign up: TommyHays@Messiah-Ministries.org

June 17-18
Leading a Spiritual Retreat with South Texas Aglow Leadership at South Padre Island.

Watch our Weekly Episodes of Healing From the Inside Out on our Messiah Ministries YouTube Channel:
More Episodes being added every month! Please share it with anyone who needs to encounter the Healing Love of God!

Freedom Equipping Class every week as part of the discipleship plan at Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas
Tuesday Afternoons (1:30 - 3:30)
Tuesday Nights (6:00 - 8:00)

Based on the principles of my book
Free to Be Like Jesus! — Transforming Power of Inner Healing & Deliverance

Monday Nights
Rocio and I lead an Online Connect Group for MorningStar Ministries

Wednesday Mornings
Joining with MorningStar Ministries to Lead Online Inner Healing and Deliverance Ministry Sessions for the Online Connect Groups from around the world.

Personal Ministry Appointments
Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment and as the Holy Spirit leads. Please keep us in prayer for spiritual breakthrough and transformation! Let us know if you'd like to set up a session: 

Sessions are without cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries.

Sign up Here for this Free Video Series for Inner Healing and Spiritual Freedom in Christ: