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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

Teaching, Equipping and Making Disciples of Jesus - Morning by Morning, September 10, 2025

September 10, 2025 • Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries

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“Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check” (James 3:1-2).

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Morning by Morning, September 10, 2025 – Teaching, Equipping and Making Disciples of Jesus

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I’m listening for Your leading, as I begin my day embraced by Father, centered in Christ, and filled with Your Holy Spirit (John 10:27). ...

Last night, I began teaching my annual 9 Month discipleship and equipping course at The Bridge, our homebase church in Fredericksburg, Texas, called Free to Be Like Jesus. I began with excitement and passion, but also with a measure of fear and trembling, remembering this Verse and the high standard that goes with this high calling to teach Your Word and the principles of Your Kingdom in the power and authority of Your Spirit. I know I “stumble in many ways” and am always in need of Your forgiveness and grace, as well as Your wisdom and anointing, as I try to share and impart what I’ve learned along the way, including both the confirmations and the mistakes, in nearly 30 years of ministry now (Romans 1:11).

There are things I teach now that I didn’t teach when I prepared this curriculum out of the book I believe You led me to write many years ago. And there are things I don’t teach now that I did teach then, as You’ve corrected me and redirected me through Your loving discipline and holy conviction, helping me and empowering me to teach and speak the truth in love (Ephesians 4:15).

None of us have it all figured out. And I know I don’t. But I am on a journey to learn and to grow, to share what I’ve learned and to keep learning in what I share. Learning and teaching is part of Your plan to disciple us as we “go and make disciples” (Matthew 28:20). It’s part of Your plan to “equip the saints for the work of ministry” as You’re “building up the body of Christ” on our journey to spiritual “maturity” in You:

“(Jesus) Himself granted that some are apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.

“We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every ligament with which it is equipped, as each part is working properly, promotes the body’s growth in building itself up in love” (Ephesians 4:11-16).

You’re setting us all Free to Be Like Jesus. You’re setting us free from all that would hold us back from being all You created us to be. You’re setting us free to be like You in our world (1 John 4:17), free to be the “body of Christ” in our world (1 Corinthians 12:27), free to be “ambassadors for Christ” in our world (2 Corinthians 5:20). In the love of our Father, in the name of Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit, we are on a spiritual journey through everything we go through and everything we learn to overcome, as You are saving us, healing us, freeing us, discipling us, while conforming us into the image of the Son of God (Romans 8:29). As we pursue You and behold You, “we are being transformed into (Your) image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Corinthians 3:18). “For this is the will of God, (our) sanctification” (1 Thessalonians 4:3 and 5:23).

Like You, I want to be one who teaches with authority (Matthew 7:29). And I want You to be the Source of all I teach and all I do, all I am and all I am becoming on my journey, with all Your disciples, seeking to be more like You each day. “To this (we) were called, because Christ suffered for us, leaving us an Example, that (we) should follow in His steps” (1 Peter 2:21). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

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