Think Fast

Its not just a coincidence that your mom makes your favorite meal and strawberry shortcake for desert on the day you start a fast. Push through by asking God for strength. Its going to be worth it. How much do you desire God?

Where your treasure is there your heart will be also.

BTW - Mom, you make the best strawberry shortcake dessert. Love ya!

Brad

Intercessory Missionary @IHOP JAX

Just wanted to post this blog as an UPDATE of what the Lord has been doing in my life, and i'm excited to share it and the Vision He has given to me.

Over the summer i decided to go on a spare of the moment trip to IHOP KC with my new friend Ami and my friend Josh who blessed me with a plane ticket. I spent a good week out there while the Lord did some real work in my heart. He brought to remembrance a lot of things that i had honestly lost a zeal for, just some heart stuff that need to be revealed in me and brought back to life. And He really did reawaken a cry for more of Him. The groan of intercession that i forgot about was given back to me.

If you haven't been to IHOP KC, i encourage you to take a week off of work/school/whatever and go spend time in prayer room. That place is a seasoned prayer hub, 10+years of non-stop worship and intercession brought to the Lord, theres grace to pray there and you will enjoy it if you seek Gods face. - side note

Anyhow. I got back to Jacksonville with a lot of things on my heart. I wanted to do them all at once but it just seemed overwhelming and so i just decided i was going to pray and just enjoy God. So for the past two months the Lord has been dealing with my heart about how much time i am willing to literally stand before God and just talk to him. Its a tough question if the devil knows your thinking it because of all the shame he throws at you of "I'm a bad Christian, I don't pray enough." SO i just fought through the lies with grace and the Lord keeps on reminding me of how much He enjoys being around me.

After seeking the Lord on the issue of my jumbled heart He led me to begin a 6 month Internship at the International House of Prayer in Jacksonville (IHOPJax) where He will begin a work of organizing! I will be an Intercessory Missionary starting November 1st 2010 for the next 6 months. Now i know what your thinking. How is being a missionary going to help me be before the Lord and organize my heart?....you might not have asked that and thats OKAY! But i will answer it. I will not be going over seas to help orphans or even required to minister on the streets to the lost. I will be required to spend 16 hours in the PR standing before our God and 4 hours serving/office work every week! Thus, equaling 20 hours of week. Jesus Christ will certainly be my focus for the next months ahead. As i seek the Lord He will be redefining my life and really emphasizing my biggest Vision of all: To seek the Lords face and never stop...EVER!

I am not ditching my dream to be a film maker. As i do this prayer internship i will also be carrying two other priorities in my heart. I have recently received a new job working as a cinematographer and editor. The Lord blessed me with the job in a very powerful way and i don't want to despise his gifts, i really enjoy the job too. I will also be taking classes at FSCJ working on getting my AA to eventually transfer to a film college out in Savannah GA. called SCAD to get my BFA in Film Studies. It has always been my dream to make films inspired by the Holy Spirit to bring many to salvation through Jesus. I wont give that dream up lightly. This internship in prayer will only grow my passion in loving the Lord and push that dream to eventually become reality.

I would be honored if you guys would keep me in your prayers as i take this next step in life. I feel like its a big one. It's one i've always wanted to make and here i Go!

Pray that the Lord would keep me faithful to my commitment and that the Lord would pour out the Unspeakable Joy he has for me while He gives me a heart to Stand before him.

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Psalms 24:3 ~ Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may STAND in His holy place?

Malachi 3:2 ~ But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can STAND when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire...

2 Chronicles 29:11 ~My sons, do not be negligent now, for the LORD has chosen you to STAND before Him, to SERVE Him, and that you should MINISTER to Him and BURN incense.

STAND|SERVE|MINISTER|BURN

~BRADLEY HAYES

I'm back in Jax

Just sitting up late on my bed. Work in the morning. Oh well. Gods worthy. Everytime. So just an update. The last night in Kansas City was a monday. We had "Monday Night Prayer Meeting!!!!!" It was one of those nights that happens a few times a year. Where your heart experiences God in power. I cried. I wept as the love of the Lord came over me and He gave me new eyes. His hands touched my hands. He came and he delivered me. He pulled out the sickle that was stuck in my heart and he replaced it with His Love! He loves me. He delights in me. Wow!

The lord is teaching me still. because i didn't make it to a place to stay. I've always been on a journey and ill always be on a journey. Jesus is a shoreless ocean. And i was made to seek him out forever.

on a side note. I am back in Jacksonville Florida. I get to go surfing with my brother Leo! I am happy to be in this place. Its awesome to know that theres waves to ahah!

Surfing! Hopefully Leo teach me how to elbow drop a tiger shark?! Jesus!

Jesus has also been putting on my heart the desire for Godly kids. Even though i have no relationship with any women right now that could lead to marriage, the Lord is just making me joyful as i think about and pray for my children. Right now there a dream in the Lords heart and he is placing his dream in my heart. (Ps 126. and Ps 127. and Ps 128. over my family)

Jesus teach me to pray. I wana be like those who dream.

Brad

Healing at the Awakening

As i was getting ministry at the IHOPU Awakening meetings, someone went up on stage to give a testimony of a back healing. Wes Hall felt strongly that the Lord wanted to heal more backs in the room that night. He asked all those that had back problems to raise their hands and that everyone else would see those hands and go pray for them using faith that they would be healed. So i thought, "why not". The last time i prayed for someone and they got completely healed was, well i cant remember, its been a while. I went to up a lady who had a hand raised and I laid a hand on her with a couple others gathered around as well and we all started releasing the Kingdom over her. "I release the power of the Kingdom over you" "By the blood of Jesus, be healed." I also said "Fire" a few times! haha! And this lady also began praying for herself out loud believing for her healing. So then very happily she asked if she could lay on the ground to see if her legs were even. She went down, we lined her feet up as straight as possible and her feet were even. When we told her she flipped out! She was in so much awe. Apparently she was recently in car accident which caused her back to be twisted in a weird way and that caused her feet to come out of alignment about 1 inch and a half, is what she said. But those feet were the same length when we got done praying for her! WOOOO Praise God! The Lord really likes his children!

More stepping out in faith for the sake of the Lord! Shaba!

Like Him who dreams!

Bradley Hayes

IHOPU Awakening

Recently, a few friends and I flew up to Kansas City to go to the awakening meetings and spend time in the Prayer Room. Its been about 2 days so far and we have about 5 days left. People keep asking me what the Lords doing in my heart while in the PR. Honestly, the only reason i came was to stretch my heart to Love God more. That's exactly whats He has been doing. Wrecking my heart on His worthiness, on His holiness. I believe a lot more is going on in my spirit than i can see being made manifest in the flesh. Its tough at times to sit before God. The hardest thing for me is not falling asleep while meditating on Him. And so even through this lack of fascination for the Lord, the Lord is delighting in my soul and allowing me the grace to keep pressing in. I'm believing for more fascination than i have yet to receive from my Abba Father! There is an eternal well spring of glory and Love that i have yet to touch its depths. I am asking that the lord teach me how to swim on this trip, so that i can go deep in his heart and be fascinated by Him alone.

At the 1st awakening service, i received prayer for the stirring of revival in my city. That through Jesus, my college and city would be transformed and that i would simply be a hungry vessel. A lot of people came by, laid hands on my speaking "Fire" or "More Lord" or "Wine" and the Lord touch my heart. I was laid out a couple times quite violently by the intense influence of the Holy Spirit.

The Lord spoke these words to me. "All I need is one man"

Lord, rest in my heart. Have a place that You can dwell in all the time. Give me the gift of weepings and the heart to comfort your heart on the future salvation of Israel, for a revival in Jacksonville Florida and all through out the nations. Lord i want to be like those who dream.

Make me like those who dream!

Brad

FIRE

The fire in His eyes reveals His desire for us and tenderizes us to love Him. His eyes see our failures causing us to walk in the fear of God. He sees our immature longings to love Him, giving us confidence. He sees, remembers and rewards all that we do in serving Him, giving relevance to each day. His sees our burdens and walks with us in an intimate way. He knows our future, giving us direction and hope and knows all our enemies causing us to have great security.

3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on…evil and the good. (Prov. 15:3)

Woops

I never talked about why i titled that last one Buy in the Currency of Time. Just read isaiah 55. and spend a good amount of time just meditating there and i bet you’ll get somethin!

Mediation: (go deep) Encounter Jesus through this word!

Read it!

Write it!

Sing it!

Say it!

Pray it!

Buy in the currency of time.

Man oh man! What an awesome day. God has been wrecking me by how much he loves me. Everyone knows that Jesus “loves the little children” but the revelation of it is so much better than head knowledge. Or at least receiving the revelation and then receiving depths of knowledge of His love. Its a wonderful thing. Its better to taste with the heart and then understand in the head in that order. Gods love doesn’t make sense to our head until our hearts encounter his and he transforms our minds.

Most christians know Jesus has love for them. But do they know that he likes them?

My worship team and I were going after the Lord today on our 2oclock worship set at IHOP Jax. I just want to say how much my singers are growing in their hearing from the Lord and singing it back to him. Prophecy is flowing! The flow of the sets have become so smooth these past few times. Even today my voice was all messed up from singing the night before and my fingers from playing to much were killing me. The Lord lead us through a very powerful presence and we didn’t stop. So anyways, while we were starting the set we go into a time prophetic worship. Right when Erika started singing about the joy and peace of God it came sooooo much and fast to. It made me happy. Something is on that girl when she sings.

So then a bit later on we go into a focus time of reading and singing Isaiah 55:1-3! Great verses to sing about btw. The lord will come!

Anyways we went after that for a while and then Erika starts singing about the rain and that God would pour out the rain in the spirit.

(((Just so you can have a little picture, our IHOP is right on the St Johns River and the stage looks out over the river through the back window over looking the whole city of Jacksonville.)))) and it was sunny outside today.

She starts singing about the rain and it starts to rain. And it rained hard. Haha. So i just want to say that its proof that Jesus likes her. And he likes me and my whole team. He likes you to. but he delights in those who put their trust and fear in Him.

Be blessed and ask for the rain. He will pour it out!

Brad Hayes

Divided Flames

Two places in scripture where flames of fire are divided! Psalms 29 and Acts 2. Psalms 29 is know as the Seven Thunders of God or the Seven Voices of God. If one of these voices were released on the day of pentecost, how much more is the Lord wanting to pour in the these last days?

In the last days I will POUR out my Spirit on ALL flesh! There is a great blessing coming to those who minister to the Lord, Glory and Strength. Everyone in the temple cry Glory!

Filming w/ the HS.

Today, i went out to film an interview for the Jacksonville House of Prayer Promotional Video. We get to the interviewees house and begin setting up lights and the camera and everything else. Before we get going with the film we decide to go into a time of just worshiping the Lord and asking for his presence to come as we film the video. Sure enough the HS came and wrecked us. Tears and prophetic words along with a real since of peace in the room. Jesus was in our midst.

I’ve always wanted to film and invite the holy spirit to be creative with us. And today we did for the first time ever! Praise God! He came and touched us deeply. Afterwords we filmed the interview and it went so smoothly. Usually there is so much tension and warfare, but all we had to do was invite the lord in. He tears down all the un-creativity and brings in fresh joy and creative ingenuity. It was awesome!

The best part was hearing what our interviewee had to say. Not knowing what he was going to talk about before hand he sat down and just unloaded what the Lord had given him in such clarity and power it was unreal. His words weren’t being anointed by the Lord one by one as the came out.

Can’t wait to see what else the lord is going to do with this film and the many more to come.

Pray if you would that Jesus would be lifted up and that this film would be anointed to bring people to know Jesus in a deeper way! Pray that the creativity of HS would fall on us as we make this film.

Blessings!
-Brad

(pre)Face In The Sand.

Tomorrow night (May 23, 2010), Pentecost! A group of us will be going to the beach at 8pm to worship the Jesus and invite the HS to change the atmosphere. I am believing for a great awakening in my city. I know Jesus wants to touch so many hearts with his love. I want to see salvation tomorrow and i will provoke God to shift the atmosphere that many would come to know him as their Father.

Should be cool to see the fruit of this journey.

Every Sunday night at 8 we will be on the beach worshiping Jesus. Pray for us as we venture into this. Come with us if your free!

“In the latter days I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh” …Lord, like you did Act’s, show us your glory and awaken our city! Set watchman on the wall! Raise up those burning ones who will worship you Spirit and in Truth…AMEN!

Adopted Sons

I please my Father every time i consider him. He desires my love. He Judges my heart in righteousness and it is Just. He is a Just Judge! He is faithful to my heart. Every single time there is doubt in my mind i am graciously stirred by His judgments and his lovingkindness. and his mercy. He puts me in the wilderness, only to find rivers.

He’s teaching me that jealousy isn’t a bad thing as long as its righteous. That breaks so many false teachings. He created me to be beautiful. So many times we are worried about being genuine with Christ…or with others. We teach our brothers not to be prideful in their holiness. The problem is that holiness is something completely other than pride. In other words if your truly beautiful, then you cant be prideful. Its impossible to be prideful if your beautiful. And I’m not talking beauty in the eyes of man. Our perception of beauty and holiness is so tainted. Gods perception is the only truth we should allow in our hearts. Gods prescription is beauty. His whole plan is that Christ would be glorified by the presentation and manifestation of His beautiful, holy children.

How do you become beautiful?

Gaze on his beauty until you understand that you were made in his likeness. Meditate and revelate. There’s an endless ocean of attributes in this mans heart and you can easily marvel over just one of them for eternity. The point is…Start. Set yourself apart as beautiful. Let the word wash your heart of its filth. There’s a cleansing that will take place if you sit and just meditate on Him. The highest calling a man can get is to wait before the lord. When we wait, He moves. He will give you strength to wait because we all know how much not doing anything is the hardest thing to do.

Its cool that we can be beautiful even when we seem to be the scum of the earth in the eyes of man. I want a heart like David. Even though his own family thought he was a wretch he knew that he was the beloved of God.

Even the angles look at us marvel over us. Why? Because God chose us to be his best creation. Because we get to fight! The last battle is gonna be the most epic because the sons and daughters of the living God are fighting in it. Jesus Christ will have the reward of his suffering. We owe it to Christ to offer ourselves even unto death as His alone. As sloppy as it may look to us, Gods Heart is undone by our gazing.

Burn for this man! Set your heart ablaze for the Christ. Its going to be sloppy!

I used to not be apart of his family…i was an orphan without a father. And then PAPA called me by name and i entered into his house with great Joy. My old man died and my new man is alive forever.

Daniel 12:3 Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.

LIFE

Heres to the God who makes me die to myself so that he can live in me. I love him so. I want to love him like a child again. Like a kid loves his dad. Recently i drove to Kansas City to visit some friend’s and go to the prayer room. I met some awesome people. I also met up with the Lord and he brought me back to the calling he set on my life. I was reminded of how i used to go after him. It was over all an awesome trip. I had so much encouragement coming at me everyday up there. I felt refreshed, almost like a new person. I get on the plane to go home and see my family in Jacksonville. I was stoked to see them but it was different than KC for sure. It felt like a shifted environment. All that encouragement i felt in KC was just not the same in Jax. Almost as if it wasn’t there. Im working and going to school and doing the routine again, but i want to fight through all the darkness and bring light to Jax. Im going to get my life in a schedule because i know that what Mike Bickle would say. I need to give my time to the lord and focus on his mercy. And not just that but also keep my self occupied doing things, like reading working out, jogging, leading worship at the hop, and also treasure hunts and start revivals in Jax! Those are the top things on my list right i want to do. I believe if my schedule is set up then i can do all these things including school and work ad still have time for the lord. I also need to set how much free time i spend on the internet. Its almost become an idol for me. any ways i could go on but i just wanted to share some of my heart. Gods really blessing me with favor.

If i could give any encouragement it would be this. Never stop learning about God. be in his presence often. Pray with out ceasing( always in mind ) you will learn about his continual grace that he pours out to his children. He is asking the question right now, Who do you say that I AM? The more you consider him the better you can answer that question. Your destiny in him is to huge for you to give up hope. Take heart and fight the fight of perfect love.

I'm one of those...

i will go fishing and then go make a fire.

i will go sleep well and be awake without sleep!
i don’t want to be wanting but i will will will!

here is the open wounds of brad.
his beard is slow to grow #hope
his heart is fast to think
his mind is usually sane but unusually insane.
his love is driven by a man!
his emotions swell like the ocean tides!
his inner man is like a lion. duh
his joy is almost there but thankful for the almost. just wants more.
his patience is lacking
his god is patient
his god is fire
his god is in the fishing and in the fire
his god is in the dreams and in the eyes of his heart
his god is in the wounds of his soul
his god is in the sane and in the insane
his god is in the love with him
his god thinks his darkness is lovely
his god thinks his poverty is beautiful

im broken but being helped! i live by the flesh by my sprit groans in me to live by the spirit!
pray i will gaze on the son has he shines from zion!

Stop asking questions and be a good christian!

no thanks. where is the wonder?

i need wonder! i really need it to survive till the end of the age!
My heart has to be ready with the wooin of the spirit! It has to be alive in yearning to know the great things i dont know #jer 33:3

i wonder, i wonder!
to be a sign and a wonder!

im the wonderful thing god made
to be made makes me wonder,…why

to wonder the awesomeness of the creator! to love the endless the perfect the power of god!

i wonder becuase i come alive!

i was flesh and he was god and now im sprirt and he is still god!
i wonder what my glorious body will be like
i wonder what the swelling of my joy will be like when he pours out his joel 2

i wonder how much more wonderful the kings garden will be comapred to the nature around the world as we know it…i dont know but my heart gets excited to wonder about that.

Jesus is still a man and still god 100 percent!

Jesus came to die!
i wonder what he was feeling and how close he was to the heart of the father when he came so low. i want to know

Never tell someone they should just accept christianity. then the point of the fathers heart has been taken away and chritiantiy is no longer what it was supposed to be. he said ask. ask ask, you will recieve…call unto me and i will show great and mysterious things which you dont know. what have the 4 living creature been crying out around gods throne for eternity? crying out HOLY HOLY HOLY…having eyes all over there bodys to see god and nothing else…they still cry the phrase, i still dont under stand you i still dont understand you i stilll dont understand…and they dont stop becuase there wonder is full.

we should model this since we are christs prize posesion.. and will contiually cry out becuase he is holy! he is so beyond our thoughts. without this wonder of “Who do you say I am” our hearts will die.

without the revalation of the HOLY GOD we will be dull.

RAISE UP! AND BURN WITH THE FATHERS HEART! HE loves for us to gaze on his beauty and loves to provoke his bride to come closer. He longs for the intensity of fellowship between us and him. No longer shall we cry out less of us and more of him less we be swept away with the wicked…he wants all of us to be consummed by all of him. he had less of us before and then he created us…i believe he had a purpose.

So Chirst raise up the nazerites! Raise up the levites! Raise up the wariors! raise up your sons! raise up your bride!

Sound of War

What is that rumbling?

What is the noise? They cry.

The sound of the underground

Coming forth from on high.

This is the sound of war.

They march forward,

No one is out of line,

Born from above,

Singing their war songs,

Holy, Holy, Holy.

Waves of men give waves of glory

To a King who is worthy.

They fight with victory in their hearts

For the battle is already won

Death has already been conquered.

They fight for innocent and free the oppressed.

To the poor and the needy

They give more than silver and gold.

They would lay down their lives for the sake of the weary and broken

At any minute and at any cost.

They are sons and daughters,

Kings and Priests,

Nasserites and Levites,

Yet they have no names,

Except what their King says of them.

Their King is like no other.

Some say that his voice is like many rushing waters

Or like the sky’s as they groan with thunder.

He judges and makes war along side His warriors,

For His Bride and for His glory

He marches forth with His sword upon His thigh.

His garments have been dipped in the streams of blood.

He loves His mercy and does His justice

And of His faithfulness He cannot change,

Of His righteousness He can only be faithful.

Whom shall we fear, but Him,

The one who comes on the clouds.

Don’t look in those jealous eyes of fire,

Less you be swept into the ocean of His love.

For who can stand when this man comes?

We do our best to stand our ground,

To fight with this man,

But when His glory comes near

We fall to our faces.

This is how we fight!

This is how we fight,

Faces in the sand.

We train in weakness,

To be strong in righteousness.

Beholding the one thing needed.

Who is this man,

First born from the dead?

He did not come to live,

But He came to die,

To be raised in the fullness of Life.

Just as he died and just as he lives,

We will take up our cross as he once did,

To enter in to this momentary light affliction,

To come out on the other side

With the omnipotent God.

Surly He has born the deepest grief.

He is acquainted with sorrows.

He is familiar with sufferings,

Despised and rejected among the people.

They esteemed Him not.

He is the One who conquered death,

The One who gave us victory and life.

Intercession proceeds from his throne for his bride

Until the day they see Him in his glory,

The day splits the sky.

In that day the beloved will stand

And look into those fiery eyes.

Face to face and they will sing

All glory and honor and praise

Be unto You, The Lamb that was slain.

So Here's an Update

So here’s an update. I feel like testifying what Jesus has been doing to me lately! He is so good! I’m in this place where I’ve been hungry and thirsty for more of Him. Thankfully He gives himself to me in small portions. I’ve, pretty much, set in my heart that I wont stop until I see all of Him when He returns. It’s the glory of my life to glorify Jesus. One of what I think is a biggest struggle in my life is being a burnt stone. I have had so much doubt that I don’t think God can do certain things for me or through me. I so badly want Jesus to help me be like a child again. In my times of worship by myself iv been feeling this eternal feeling if you will, like I’m breaking through to new realms in heaven. As I just think of Jesus and pray to him I feel him pushing through my spirit with his holy spirit. This I believe is the way to that childlike faith that I badly want. So, I’m definitely not going to stop going after this eternal God.

He’s also been telling me how proud He is of me, which really lightens up my heart. I am the kind of guy that wants to hear kind and encouraging words especially when they are from God. So it was Wednesday and I was leading worship at the house of prayer. I felt like that wasn’t my best set vocally. My voice couldn’t do anything that day and I felt like I didn’t quite touch Gods heart. After the set I was about to leave and a girl stopped me and told me the she heard Jesus say “ I’m so proud of my boy” over and over again. Just hearing those words spoken and knowing they were from God made me soooooo happy. So that phrase has really been lightening up my days lately, when I have so much to do, so much on my plate, make sure I get good grades, get a good job, make the parents happy. Its good to get away and hear God say, “I’m so proud of my boy”…. meditating on how God delights in me has filled me with a joy I have never experienced.

I encourage you to meditate on it. Jesus loves you and he is so proud of you. There’s a lie going around that God is disappointed in some of you. I’m a living testimony, that God is not mostly angry. He doesn’t look down at you and frown. He looks at you and says “This is my Beloved Son in whom I am well pleased” He is such a happy God and awesome to talk to. When is the last time you really fellowshipped with God. Jesus says “I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your betrothal, the way you went after me in the wilderness” and he is calling you back to this intense relationship, instead of boring, dry, it’s a burden to do type prayer. I’m telling you from an honest heart. If you think prayer is boring, you are so wrong. God is not boring, you are. You don’t know what true pleasure is yet. And God is calling us all into it with so much joy! If you haven’t tried it or haven’t fellowshipped with Holy Spirit before, even if its been a long time, I encourage you, ASK! Jesus said, “If you being an evil man know how to give good gifts to your children, how much MORE will your Heavenly Father Give the HOLY SPIRIT to those who ASK?” I’m telling you, this is the season in our lives that we need to start asking for Holy Spirit to fill us. Its something we desperately need to enter into.

Jesus wants to set you free from the enemy tricking you into thinking your worthless and you will never amount to anything. Its time realize and stop praying prayers like “God less of me and more of You” God had less of you at one point in eternity and He didn’t like it, so He created you! Don’t you know that He wants to partner with you? You my friend are a saint a high priest, a king! Let the saints be joyful in glory as we fellowship with the Father! There’s nothing better than ALL of you being covered by ALL of God. That’s what God wants for you. You are his inheritance and He is yours! So come to the table and eat what He sets before you. Drink the new wine that he pours into the new wineskins. Your mind will blow up and your heart will be enlarged and swollen with every gift of the spirit you can think of, but most of all His beautiful love for you as you fall madly in love with Him! He’s madly in love with you!

Mighty Men Of Valor

http://etpv.org/2010/mmov.html