Morning by Morning, September 2, 2025 – As We Think in Our Hearts, So Are We

 

Morning by Morning, September 2, 2025 – As We Think in Our Hearts, So Are We Good morning, Lord Jesus. I speak out Your name and listen for Your leading (John 10:27). ... “As he thinks in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7). What’s going on in our hearts usually determines what’s going on with our words and actions. Even if we try to mask our intentions or hide our motives, our hearts know the truth. And You know our hearts. You said it this way: “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man” (Mark 7:20-23). Lord, I need Your cleansing of my heart every day. Yes, I am a “new creation” in Christ and “all things have become new” in You (2 Corinthians 5:17). You poured out Your Blood on the Cross through Your mercy and love “that we might become the righteousness of God in (You)” (2 Corinthians 5:21). In You, “we have the mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16). And at the same time, we live every day in a broken and fallen world full of thoughts and ideas, full of emotional temptations and spiritual attacks, that can defile our hearts and minds if we allow it. So we need Your Holy Spirit to cleanse us in Your Blood, to purify us in Your Fire, to sanctify us from the defilements of the world, the flesh, and the devil (1 Thessalonians 5:23). Not just in a one-time prayer but in an everyday lifestyle—all by the power of the grace of God at work within us. “For it is God who works in (us) both to will and to do for His good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13). Yes, “we have the mind of Christ” and at the same time, we must be continually “transformed by the renewing of (our) mind” (Romans 12:2) and obey the Command of Your Word to “cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God” (2 Corinthians 7:1). Let David’s humble prayer be the cry of my heart day by day, morning by morning, even moment by moment: “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me” (Psalm 51:10). You’ve put Your “right Spirit” within me, Your Holy Spirit. With my spirit open to Your Spirit, with my will surrendered to Your will, You keep cleansing my heart from every defilement and You keep renewing my mind so that as I think in my heart is what I am, what You are causing me to become, as I continue to grow in spiritual maturity in You. “Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in (me) will complete it” (Philippians 1:6). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays My friend, may you be continually cleansed from every defilement of the world, the flesh, and the devil, as the Lord continually creates in you a cleans heart and renews a right spirit within you, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day! Click Here to Listen to Today's Prayer: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2375760 Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries 502 North Milam Street Fredericksburg, Texas 78624 Please share this word to encourage a friend! Anyone can sign up for free at: https://messiah-ministries.org My Books on Inner Healing, Spiritual Freedom and Spiritual Intimacy with God are Available on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays “Setting hearts free to be all they were created to be —Free to Be Like Jesus— secure in your identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling your destiny" We Welcome Your Financial Support to Fulfill our Vision and Calling https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute

Please Keep us in Prayer for These Messiah Ministries Events and We Welcome You to Join Us as You're Led to Fulfill our Vision and Calling with Your Prayers and Financial Support https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute Every Tuesday Night Starting Again September 9, 2025 We will begin again my 9 Month Equipping Course Free to Be Like Jesus! at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas. 6:00PM Central Time  Zoom link available by request to my email.   tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org Based on My Book, Free to Be Like Jesus:  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays Every Morning in Pakistan except Sunday Morning Messiah Ministries Christian School in Tara Garth, Pakistan with children from the Brick Kilns and village. Let me know if you're led to help support our school with Christian and Muslim students and teachers. tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org September 3 Worship and Witness Gathering to share all God has done through our Ministry Travels this Summer in Kenya, Colombia, Pakistan and the US. Hosted at our Messiah Ministries Home Base at 502 North Milam Street; Fredericksburg, Texas at 6:30 pm. All are welcome. We know everyone can't join us in person, but please join us in prayer. Please let me know if you are coming: tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org September 21  Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas at 9am adn 11am https://www.bridgefbg.com/live-stream  September through December, 2025 Blocks of time when I can writing my next book. Welcoming your prayers for the inspiration and flow of the Holy Spirit. Thank you, friends! October 21 Speaking at Around the Table Monthly Faith Based Social Gathering at Yee Haw Ranch Fredericksburg, Texas 6:30pm. All are Welcome.  November Prayers for Returning for ministry in Pakistan in Karachi, Pattoki, and Lahore Personal Ministry Appointments Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment in Person and Online through Zoom. tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org  Sessions are without set cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries. https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute

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Morning by Morning, September 1, 2025 – Labor Day Prayer—“Come to Me All You Who Labor”

 

Morning by Morning, September 1, 2025 – Labor Day Prayer—“Come to Me All You Who Labor” Good morning, Lord Jesus. I look to You and rest in You—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of God. ... “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light” (Matthew 11:28-30). On this Labor Day, we honor those work and labor across our land, who have worked and labored to make our land one where all are free to work hard and pursue their dreams as each is led and as each desires. And it’s also a day to rest from our labors. Whether we’re laboring or resting, may we each rest in You each day. Trusting in Your provision, in Your strength, in Your guidance in all we do. Resting is a form of trusting. Resting is a form of expressing our faith and hope in You first, rather than primarily depending upon ourselves first. And resting is a form of remembering that You supply all our needs according to Your riches in glory (Philippians 4:19) and that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us (Philippians 4:13). Your yoke is easy and Your burden is light, if we will first “Come to (You)” and “rest” in You. Thank You for the gift of “rest” in You and the gift of trusting in You. May this Labor Day be a day of remembering and resting in You, ready to rise up tomorrow morning to continue our mission and fulfill our dreams in every way You lead each of us. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays My friend, may you rest in Jesus, trusting in the Lord to provide all you need and all in the power of His strength, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day! Click Here to Listen to Today's Prayer: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2375760 Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries 502 North Milam Street Fredericksburg, Texas 78624 Please share this word to encourage a friend! Anyone can sign up for free at: https://messiah-ministries.org My Books on Inner Healing, Spiritual Freedom and Spiritual Intimacy with God are Available on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays “Setting hearts free to be all they were created to be —Free to Be Like Jesus— secure in your identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling your destiny" We Welcome Your Financial Support to Fulfill our Vision and Calling https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute

Please Keep us in Prayer for These Messiah Ministries Events and We Welcome You to Join Us as You're Led to Fulfill our Vision and Calling with Your Prayers and Financial Support https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute Every Tuesday Night Starting Again September 9, 2025 We will begin again my 9 Month Equipping Course Free to Be Like Jesus! at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas. 6:00PM Central Time  Zoom link available by request to my email.   tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org Based on My Book, Free to Be Like Jesus:  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays Every Morning in Pakistan except Sunday Morning Messiah Ministries Christian School in Tara Garth, Pakistan with children from the Brick Kilns and village. Let me know if you're led to help support our school with Christian and Muslim students and teachers. tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org September 3 Worship and Witness Gathering to share all God has done through our Ministry Travels this Summer in Kenya, Colombia, Pakistan and the US. Hosted at our Messiah Ministries Home Base at 502 North Milam Street; Fredericksburg, Texas at 6:30 pm. All are welcome. We know everyone can't join us in person, but please join us in prayer. Please let me know if you are coming: tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org September 21  Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas at 9am adn 11am https://www.bridgefbg.com/live-stream  September through December, 2025 Blocks of time when I can writing my next book. Welcoming your prayers for the inspiration and flow of the Holy Spirit. Thank you, friends! October 21 Speaking at Around the Table Monthly Faith Based Social Gathering at Yee Haw Ranch Fredericksburg, Texas 6:30pm. All are Welcome.  November Prayers for Returning for ministry in Pakistan in Karachi, Pattoki, and Lahore Personal Ministry Appointments Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment in Person and Online through Zoom. tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org  Sessions are without set cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries. https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute

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Morning by Morning, August 29, 2025 – Thoughts and Prayers

 

Morning by Morning, August 29, 2025 – Thoughts and Prayers Good morning, Lord Jesus. Awaken my heart to begin my day embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with Your Holy Spirit. ... “Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,     and He brought them out of their distress. He stilled the storm to a whisper;     the waves of the sea were hushed. They were glad when it grew calm,     and He guided them to their desired haven. Let them give thanks to the Lord for His unfailing love     and His wonderful deeds for mankind” (Psalm 107:28). To cry out to You in our trouble is prayer. To call upon Your name when we don’t have the words to say is prayer. To allow You to embrace us in our grief, draw near to us in our questions, comfort us in our sorrows is prayer. The heart of prayer is not begging You to do something You don’t want to do. The heart of prayer is not using some king of spiritual manipulation to get want we want. The heart of prayer is primarily communion with God. It’s opening our heart to Your Heart, opening our mind to Your Mind, allowing You to infuse us with Your Spirit. Prayer is agreeing with God, seeking the moving of the Spirit of God in the love and power of God, surrendering to and embracing the will of God in the Presence of God and with one another. As You said: “Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in My name, there am I with them” (Matthew 18:19-20). “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened” (Matthew 7:6-8). That’s what stills the storms in our hearts because You’re with us in our hearts. That what hushes the waves, because You’re with us in our hearts. Trusting in You, embracing You, allowing You to embrace us through all the tragedies and travesties we go through in this broken and fallen world is what brings us into our desired haven, because You are our Desired Haven. Through this deeply personal communion with You where heart cries out to Heart, spirit cries out to Spirt, deep cries out to Deep, You embrace us, You comfort us, and You change us. And then in Your way and Your time, You begin to motivate us to pray and to speak and to act as You lead. Not out of our own desires, but Your Desires. Not our will, but Your Will. Not in our time, but Your Time. So if anybody says thoughts and prayers have no meaning, thoughts and prayers are passive, thoughts and prayers make no difference, they probably don’t know anything about prayer. They probably desperately need the One who is the Object and Answer to all true prayer. So I pray for them. That they may know You. And as they know You, they will come to learn just how meaningful and powerful is this gift of prayer and the Person who is at the heart of all true prayer. I’m asking that You would give them revelation and understanding of who You are. I’m seeking a moving of Your Spirit in their heart that they would find You. I’m knocking on the doors of Heaven that the door of their heart would be open to You and find out just how much You love them and desire to use their voice and their actions to make a difference in their world, if they would humble themselves to cry out to You in prayer. And I pray the same for myself, as I seek to keep growing in our deeply personal communion of prayer. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays My friend, may you never stop crying out the Lord, never stop offering up your thoughts and prayers to God, never stop reaching out to those suffering through tragedies and travesties of this world, and never back down from your God-given heart and right to pray, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day! Click Here to Listen to Today's Prayer: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2375760 Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries 502 North Milam Street Fredericksburg, Texas 78624 Please share this word to encourage a friend! Anyone can sign up for free at: https://messiah-ministries.org My Books on Inner Healing, Spiritual Freedom and Spiritual Intimacy with God are Available on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays “Setting hearts free to be all they were created to be —Free to Be Like Jesus— secure in your identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling your destiny" We Welcome Your Financial Support to Fulfill our Vision and Calling https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute

Please Keep us in Prayer for These Messiah Ministries Events and We Welcome You to Join Us as You're Led to Fulfill our Vision and Calling with Your Prayers and Financial Support https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute Every Tuesday Night Starting Again September 9, 2025 We will begin again my 9 Month Equipping Course Free to Be Like Jesus! at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas. 6:00PM Central Time  Zoom link available by request to my email.  Based on My Book, Free to Be Like Jesus:  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays  tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org Every Morning in Pakistan except Sunday Morning Messiah Ministries Christian School in Tara Garth, Pakistan with children from the Brick Kilns and village. Let me know if you're led to help support our school with Christian and Muslim students and teachers. tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org September 3 Worship and Witness Gathering to share all God has done through our Ministry Travels this Summer in Kenya, Colombia, Pakistan and the US. Hosted at our Messiah Ministries Home Base at 502 North Milam Street; Fredericksburg, Texas at 6:30 pm. All are welcome. We know everyone can't join us in person, but please join us in prayer. Please let me know if you are coming: tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org September 21  Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas at 9am adn 11am https://www.bridgefbg.com/live-stream  September through December, 2025 Blocks of time when I can writing my next book. Welcoming your prayers for the inspiration and flow of the Holy Spirit. Thank you, friends! October 21 Speaking at Around the Table Monthly Faith Based Social Gathering at Yee Haw Ranch Fredericksburg, Texas 6:30pm. All are Welcome.  November Prayers for Returning for ministry in Pakistan in Karachi, Pattoki, and Lahore Personal Ministry Appointments Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment in Person and Online through Zoom. tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org  Sessions are without set cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries. https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute

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Morning by Morning, August 28, 2025 – “For the King Trusts in the Lord” – Praying for Our Nation and Leaders

 

Morning by Morning, August 28, 2025 – “For the King Trusts in the Lord” – Praying for Our Nation and Leaders Good morning, Lord Jesus. King of Kings and Lord of Lords, rule and reign in my heart and every moment of my day (Revelation 19:16). ... “The king rejoices in Your strength, Lord.     How great is his joy in the victories You give! You have granted him his heart’s desire     and have not withheld the request of his lips. You came to greet him with rich blessings     and placed a crown of pure gold on his head. He asked You for life, and You gave it to him—     length of days, for ever and ever. Through the victories You gave, his glory is great;     You have bestowed on him splendor and majesty. Surely You have granted him unending blessings     and made him glad with the joy of Your Presence.  For the king trusts in the Lord;     through the unfailing love of the Most High     he will not be shaken” (Psalm 21:1-7). Early this morning, I joined prayer warriors from across our nation on the daily prayer call led by Apostle Leon Benjamin from the White House Faith Office and Coalition of Leaders to pray for the governmental leadership and people of our country. What a humbling honor to be invited to join in leading prayer today with my good friend, Karen Young. Lord, hear our prayers. That our leaders would be led by Your Spirit, that we would be “One Nation Under God” for “In God We Trust.” For “Righteousness exalts a nation” (Proverbs 14:34). And we are to pray “for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior” (1 Timothy 2:1-3). As we began, I felt led to pray out and personalize Psalm 21, a Psalm of encouragement written for King David in his leadership of his nation over our President and the leadership of our nation: You are the One who gives strength and joy and victory. You are the One who grants the desires of our leaders’ hearts when their hearts are joined with Yours, with Your will, grounded in Your Word and led by Your Spirit. You are the One who grants the crown of leadership that brings rich blessings, when our leaders lay their crowns down at Your feet as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. You are the One who grants life, rebukes death and violence, and establishes long life and victory to fulfill Your purposes for Your leaders, Your people and the nation whose God is the Lord. You are the One who grants unending blessings, cancelling the curses and plans of the enemies of righteousness to make our leaders and our people glad with joy of Your Presence. And You are the One who gives grace to trust in You, to seek You, to honor You, to obey You, so that through Your unfailing love, our leaders and our nation “will not be shaken” but will stand firm in the strength You supply and fulfill the purpose and destiny of Your heart for our land and for our people. “How great is (our) joy in the victories You give” (Psalm 21:1), as You advance Your Kingdom, hear from Heaven and heal our land, through a people and a nation who humble themselves to pray (2 Chronicles 7:14). May our leaders and our people humble ourselves in Your sight, that You may lift us up in Your power for Your purposes to fulfill our calling of Your vision in our generation (James 4:10). “Righteousness exalts a nation” and You alone are our Righteousness. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. Be encouraged today. In the love of Jesus, Tommy Hays My friend, may you be stirred in your spirit to pray for your leadership and the people of your nation, that the Kingdom of God may advance in the heart of your people and your country, in Jesus' name. Please pray for us in America as well. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day! Click Here to Listen to Today's Prayer: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2375760 Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries 502 North Milam Street Fredericksburg, Texas 78624 Please share this word to encourage a friend! Anyone can sign up for free at: https://messiah-ministries.org My Books on Inner Healing, Spiritual Freedom and Spiritual Intimacy with God are Available on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays “Setting hearts free to be all they were created to be —Free to Be Like Jesus— secure in your identity, growing in maturity, fulfilling your destiny" We Welcome Your Financial Support to Fulfill our Vision and Calling https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute

Please Keep us in Prayer for These Messiah Ministries Events and We Welcome You to Join Us as You're Led to Fulfill our Vision and Calling with Your Prayers and Financial Support https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute Every Tuesday Night Starting Again September 9, 2025 We will begin again my 9 Month Equipping Course Free to Be Like Jesus! at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas. 6:00PM Central Time  Zoom link available by request to my email.  Based on My Book, Free to Be Like Jesus:  https://www.amazon.com/author/tommyhays  tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org Every Morning in Pakistan except Sunday Morning Messiah Ministries Christian School in Tara Garth, Pakistan with children from the Brick Kilns and village. Let me know if you're led to help support our school with Christian and Muslim students and teachers. tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org Every Saturday Morning in Pakistan through Zoom Messiah Ministries Discipleship Training School in Pattoki, Pakistan August 28 7am Leading in Prayer on the prayer conference call with Karen Young hosted by Apostle Leon Benjamin of the White House Faith Office and Coalition of Leaders to pray for our Governmental Leadership and Nation September 3 Worship and Witness Gathering to share all God has done through our Ministry Travels this Summer in Kenya, Colombia, Pakistan and the US. Hosted at our Messiah Ministries Home Base at 502 North Milam Street; Fredericksburg, Texas at 6:30 pm. All are welcome. We know everyone can't join us in person, but please join us in prayer. Please let me know if you are coming: tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org September 21  Preaching the Sunday Morning Services at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas September through December, 2025 Blocks of time when I can writing my next book. Welcoming your prayers for the inspiration and flow of the Holy Spirit. Thank you, friends! October 21 Speaking at Around the Table Monthly Faith Based Social Gathering at Yee Haw Ranch Fredericksburg, Texas 6:30pm. All are Welcome.  November Prayers for Returning for ministry in Pakistan in Karachi, Pattoki, and Lahore Personal Ministry Appointments Spiritual Direction Sessions and Personal Prayer Ministry Sessions of Inner Healing & Spiritual Freedom by Appointment in Person and Online through Zoom. tommyhays@messiah-ministries.org  Sessions are without set cost and all contributions help support the calling and vision of Messiah Ministries. https://messiah-ministries.org/partner/contribute

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