Morning by Morning Daily Prayer Journey with Tommy Hays of Messiah Ministries
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Morning by Morning Daily Prayer Journey with Tommy Hays of Messiah Ministries
Chosen One. Beloved One. Heart-Open One. - Morning by Morning, March 6, 2025
“Chosen one. Beloved one. All who open their hearts to Me, I have chosen. All who would receive My love in their hearts by My grace, I have loved. I am willing to choose all because I love all. Pray that all would open their hearts to Me.”
“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).
“For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all...” (1 Timothy 2:3-6).
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16 KJV).
Written and sent out from the morning prayer time of Tommy Hays each day.
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Morning by Morning, March 6, 2025 - Chosen One. Beloved One. Heart-Open One.
Good morning, Lord Jesus. What a Father, what a Savior, what a Friend You are (John 15:15). So I begin my day calling on Your name and listening for the leading of Your Spirit (John 10:27). ...
As I wait, this is what I hear in my heart:
“Chosen one. Beloved one. All who open their hearts to Me, I have chosen. All who would receive My love in their hearts by My grace, I have loved. I am willing to choose all because I love all. Pray that all would open their hearts to Me.” ...
Yes, Lord. I do pray that all would open their hearts to You. Your Written Word comes to mind to confirm what I believe I hear in my heart as Your spoken word to me in my intercession with You:
“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).
“For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all...” (1 Timothy 2:3-6).
And of course, this Verse my praying Grandmother taught me to memorize before she taught me how to write my name on the chicken house wall out in the dusty fields of west Texas:
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16 KJV).
You’re not willing that any should perish. You are willing that all would believe, all would trust, all would come to a knowledge of the truth and turn to You and open their hearts to You and receive Your mercy and grace and love.
Just as You said to Your first disciples, You continue to speak to us as Your disciples today:
“Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!” (John 4:35) “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest” (Matthew 9:37-38).
Yes, Lord. I lift up my eyes to You. I lift up my prayers for the harvest and for the laborers You’re calling and sending out into Your harvest. Let none be left behind without a chance to hear and open their hearts to receive Your mercy and love that You desire for all.
“If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.... For ‘whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’
“How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written:
“How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace,
Who bring glad tidings of good things!”
(Romans 10:9-15)
By Your mercy and grace, I choose to believe I’m a chosen one, a beloved one, a heart open-one. I’m one who’s willing to pray for the harvest, to pray for the laborers of the harvest, to be one of Your laborers in Your harvest of hearts that will be saved and know the love of God through Jesus Christ. Here I am, Lord. Send me (Isaiah 6:8). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.