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Morning by Morning Daily Prayer Journey with Tommy Hays of Messiah Ministries
“Hidden with Christ in God” - Morning by Morning, January 16, 2026
“For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3).
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Morning by Morning, January 16, 2026 — “Hidden with Christ in God”
Good morning, Lord Jesus. I entrust my life and this day to You as my Lord and Savior, both my Everlasting Father and my Best Friend, embracing Your Spirit within me and Your will before me. ...
“For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3).
In this sense, what does it mean to be both dead and alive, at the same time? ...
As I journal what I believe I hear back in my heart is this:
“To the degree that you entrust your life to Me, that you surrender your will to Mine, that you choose to follow Me by the guidance of My Spirit moving in your heart and your mind, you have died to yourself and are alive in Me. ‘To the degree’ is entirely dependent upon the measure of your willingness to surrender to Me. And your willingness to surrender to Me is entirely dependent upon your trust in Me. How much you trust Me will determine how must you surrender to Me. How much you surrender to Me will determine how much you are dead to your own will and alive to My will, how much you are insisting on your own way or choosing to embrace My way. Your life is ‘hidden with Christ in God’ to the degree you are dead to yourself in this way and alive in Me because you allow Me to live in you and live My life through you.” ...
Yes, Lord. As I test these words I sense I’m hearing against the Word of God, these Scriptures come to mind in confirmation:
“Then (Jesus) said to them all, ‘If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me’” (Luke 9:23).
“I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily” (1 Corinthians 15:31).
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me” (Galatians 2:20).
These Words are more than poetic language. They are Your calling to a lifestyle. A life that dies daily. Daily dying to myself and my will and my ways, apart from You and Your will and Your ways.
Lord, help me trust You more today than yesterday. Help me entrust more of me to more of You today than yesterday. Here at the beginning of my day and throughout the moments of my day, as best as I can and all by Your grace, I choose to die to myself and live in You—“hidden with Christ in God.” In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.