 Hello David Digger Hernandez here and welcome to Spirit Church today. I'm talking about the four realms of prayer I believe that as you listen to this lesson today as you receive from the word of God as we talk about prayer That you're going to receive a tremendous breakthrough in your prayer life I believe with all my heart these four realms once you understand them I believe will bring about a greater understanding of prayer and the breakthrough that you've been hoping for But before I get into that lesson Stephen Mark the zoom is going to lead us in a worship song And renew a right spirit within me and renew a right spirit within me and cast me And cast me not away from thy presence, oh Lord Take not the Holy Spirit from me Restore unto me The joy of thy salvation and renew a right spirit within me We sing and cast me not away and cast me not away from thy presence, oh Lord Take not the Holy Spirit from me Restore unto me The joy of thy salvation And renew a right spirit within me and renew a right spirit within me Renew a right spirit within me I'll just swear every I just begin appraise him and renew a right spirit within me Now I want you to prepare your heart for this lesson Because I believe that as you listen to this today That God the Holy Spirit is going to bring about a greater understanding of prayer for you And as you come into the greater revelation of what prayer truly is and how to truly enter into the deep places of prayer That you're going to experience a breakthrough some of you you're going to reclaim your prayer life Some of you have not been praying you said Lord. I I don't pray like I used to pray I don't seek you like I used to seek you I don't I don't even know how to manage my schedule to seek you like I used to seek you But God is going to help you today and you're going to receive that breakthrough and some of you Though you've been praying consistently you've been you've been desiring and hungering you say Lord I want to enter into the depths of prayer like I never have before well Whether you're someone who's fighting to reclaim your prayer life or someone who's desiring to go deeper Who's been faithful with this prayer life? I want to encourage you today to receive from the word of God go with me John chapter 14 verse 26 This is what the scripture says. Thank you Stephen But when the father sends the advocate as my representative that is the Holy Spirit He will teach you everything and will remind you of everything that I have told you I love the way the King James puts it. He talks about the Holy Spirit Reminding us and revealing to us the truth. He reminds us of the truth and he reveals to us the truth So the Holy Spirit has a two-fold job He reminds and he reveals He reminds you of the truths that you know and he reveals the depths of God in prayer and the word in worship as We begin to seek the Lord as we begin to find those places of prayer where we're connecting with God on a deeper level And truly fellow shipping with the Holy Spirit. That's where the Holy Spirit can teach us things I believe that God entrusts Secrets because the scripture says that the secret of the Lord is with those who fear him I believe that God entrusts secrets to the faithful. God gives revelation to the faithful. God gives understanding to the faithful He is as he said to Abraham are exceeding and great Reward often we pray to try to get something or pray to try to get somewhere or pray to try to get a breakthrough And so on not realizing that prayer itself is not a process. It is a relationship Prayer isn't traveling to somewhere prayer is the destination prayer in it of itself is heaven on earth Prayer in it of itself is all that you could ever desire prayer in it of itself is the connection of God that you want It's enjoying that fellowship for which Jesus died to give you so when we pray we're not just speaking words amiss We're not just saying random things when we pray. We're not just babbling. We're not just going in and fulfilling some religious ritual When we pray we are entering into the realm of the spirit and we can only get there led by the spirit John chapter 14 verse 26 as he reminds and he reveals it is by the Holy Spirit that we truly pray It is by the Holy Spirit that we truly understand it is by the Holy Spirit that we receive Revelation that ignites our heart of flame with passionate love for Jesus It is by the Holy Spirit that we love Romans 5 5 says that the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit It is by the Holy Spirit that we experience the miraculous It is by the Holy Spirit that we proclaim the word it is not by power It is not by my but it is by my spirit says the Lord so understanding Prayer and I'm gonna get into the four realms of prayer in just a few minutes We have to first understand that it is the Holy Spirit who truly inspires us to pray It is only by the Holy Spirit. Let me put it this way. You cannot be spiritual without the Holy Spirit We know that but not only could you not be spiritual without the Holy Spirit You couldn't even desire to be spiritual without the Holy Spirit So he is the one who draws us to the prayer room. He is the one who draws us to the throne of God He is the one who beckons us who rolls out the carpet who presents the royal invitation You know as you carry on throughout your day, you'll notice this drawing. You'll notice this this pooling on your heart on your mind Maybe you pick up the word and you read for a few minutes And then you put it down and then you walk away or you go into your prayer room you get on your knees You seek God you pray for a few minutes, then you're tired of it you get up you move on and Then you're drawing back to it that drawing is by the Holy Spirit Even as I'm talking right now. I know that there is a hunger that's coming over you There's a desire that's coming over you say Lord I want nothing more than to know you more and Experience the very depths of your presence the richness of your glory the splendor that is the person of Christ I want to know you more. I want to love you more. I want to obey you more I want to understand you from every possible perspective. I want to know every revelation There is about you in the scripture God teach me to walk closely with you and he's gonna help you do that But the way we connect the way that the Holy Spirit takes us in so it's by the Holy Spirit that we enter into prayer It's by the Holy Spirit that we're drawn to prayer and it's by the Holy Spirit that we understand how to pray But as the Holy Spirit draws us in he teaches us to do two things or I should say he teaches us to find Two things the Holy Spirit as we pray teaches us to find Silence and stillness now. I know I talk about this a lot But it's it's foundational to almost every Spiritual message that I can bring to you if you know me my topics are pretty much the Holy Spirit the presence of God Prayer spiritual warfare and you know things like that but when it comes to all of those topics when you understand silence and stillness when you understand things like The body the soul in the spirit when you understand things like the inner fellowship of the spirit of God when you understand those basic Fundamental truths that are foundational to you understanding of every revelation that he might give you it brings some Greater revelation it brings more application in your everyday life So I want you first to know that the key to prayer the true keys to prayer are Silence and stillness if you cannot find silence and stillness you'll never find the gateway that leads to the presence of God if You cannot find silence and stillness you'll never find your way in sure Jesus paid the way. That's true Jesus paid the way, but the Holy Spirit shows the way and he cannot show the way unless we're listening Jesus paid the price to connect us with God So God the Father speaks, but the Holy Spirit cannot speak to you if you're not listening The Holy Spirit can't speak to you if there's too much clutter. So silence and stillness are key. Let me tell you what they are Silence is easy because it's practical. It's simple Silence is the putting away of outer distractions. I'm talking about Facebook. I'm talking about television I'm talking about entertainment. I'm talking about all of the worldly things that bring about the inner clutter of life And they distract us that can be done by doing as Jesus said when he said when you pray go to your private place Go into a closet pray privately and your father who sees you praying privately will reward you openly private prayer is revealed in public power So private prayer brings about silence it brings about quietness now in this day and age That may be very difficult to find because everything is so fast-paced so rushed so Chaotic, but I want to encourage you that whether it's for five minutes or ten minutes or twenty minutes Find that time to pray and I have another lesson by the way on Spirit Church about how to spend more time in prayer But I won't address that today, but it is important that we learn how to spend more time in prayer But when we do finally find that silence and we put things away We'll find that there's something else that needs to be done because you'll put away outer distraction You'll shut off your phone your computer your Facebook your social media your entertainment You'll disconnect with people for maybe four or five minutes to an hour or two hours three hours Whatever your prayer time may be and then you go to pray you're saying Lord, okay. I'm ready to seek you You've done all of the practical things around you. You're saying Lord. I'm coming in to pray. I'm coming in to seek you I want to know you more your hunger is being stirred your passions being stirred and you come in ready to receive from God And then you'll notice something else You'll notice that though it's quiet on the outside It's very noisy on the inside You'll go to pray and the first thing that will come across your mind or all the mistakes that you've made All of your worries all of your concerns all of your troubles all of your relationship issues You worry about finance you worry about relationships you worry about people you worry about your ministry your business Whatever it may be you feel guilt you feel worry you feel shame you feel anger you feel you feel resentment You feel unforgiveness you feel chaotic you feel cluttered and all of these things disrupt the inner peace that the Holy Spirit wants to give to you And we say things like well, I was perfectly fine until I went to pray But that's not true that inner chaos is Ongoing and the only reason you found it was because you silenced yourself long enough to hear it You see when you go to pray, it's not always though the enemy does attack It's not always that the enemy is trying to distract you It's that you're already distracted on the inside and you just didn't realize it until you put aside the noise It's not until you slow down and reflect that you begin to see what it's like on the inside of your heart It's not until you slow down and find a quiet place that you begin to hear all the inner chatter of the heart and the chaos and the clutter So when we pray the Holy Spirit helps us find silence through the practical and discipline But stillness through the word now there are two ways that the Holy Spirit helps us find stillness And they're actually the first two realms of prayer. So let's get into that The first realm of prayer is number one Requesting now this may get a bad rap because people say things like well I don't want to ask God for anything because he's already done enough for me. Oh, well, I'm not looking to receive from God I'm just looking for God and trying to sound spiritual We have actually avoid a very key realm of prayer that really helps us to enter into silence and stillness. So number one The first realm is requesting and the scripture says this Philippians chapter 4 verse 6 to 7 It says don't worry about anything instead pray about everything Tell God what you need and thank him for all he has done. Here's what I love about that verse a couple things is Number one anything that causes me to worry is a topic. I'm allowed to bring into prayer So if it worries you know that it's not going to bother God if you bring it up If you're worried about the bills if you worried about your job if you're worried about your kids if you're worried about your clothes If you're worried about your food if you're worried about the insignificant or the significant if you're worried about What others might deem important and what others might deem unimportant if you're worried about something if you're concerned about something if You're desiring something know that your heavenly father welcomes you to bring it to his attention anything that worries you is Perfectly okay to take before your father Anything that causes you worry is Also cause for prayer So God is not going to reject you and say oh that's unspiritual and it's funny because even sinners know how to pray in this way When they get into a bind they pray when someone dies they pray when they have trouble they pray when they need God They pray and so because it's it's a basic part of Humanity Within all of us There's this great desire to connect with God whether we realize it or not And so men when they're praying in their trouble they don't realize they're participating in this first realm because it's so basic It's so intrinsic. It's so fundamental and it is the fundamental nature of the prayer request That causes us to deem it as somewhat carnal or selfish or immature But believer understand it's not immature or carnal or selfish to ask God for things You may say well I feel bad asking for a job promotion when there are children starving in Africa Well, why don't you pray for the job promotion get a better pay and then send over some money to help those children in Africa? You see God blesses and saves and touches, but he blesses saves and touches through people So God doesn't have to take from someone else to give to you God doesn't have to remove the food off someone else's plate in the third world country to bless you with a good job That's not the way it works. Your God is not broke. Don't feel guilty to ask him for things So number so verse number six tells us tell God what you need and thank him for all he has done So that tells me also in that verse not only do the things that worry me count as prayer requests But it also tells me that I can ask God for things while still being thankful It doesn't mean I am I'm unthankful just because I ask God for things That's according to verse six then verse seven and I hope this is giving some of you break because some of you are just so Afraid to ask because in your heart you feel like a hypocrite or whatever the enemy is lying to you That that's not of God He wants you to ask Matthew seven seven says asking you shall receive seeking you'll find knocking it shall be open God Encourages you to ask verse seven says this and I love this because it's conditional It's conditional and it's the word then Has to do with when So when is it okay? Or when does it happen? When does the peace of God flood your heart? Well, let's start at verse six again Don't worry about anything Instead pray about everything tell God what you need and thank him for all he has done Then you will experience God's peace Which exceeds anything we can understand His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus So when is the peace of God flood your soul after you make your prayer requests? God wants you see God gave us the prayer request as a gift To rid us of our worries to rid us of our our fears and That's the first realm of prayer. So you enter through requesting You can come in you can say Lord here. I am here's my needs and he allows you to get that out of the way So this is the problem though Because prayer starts with the prayer requests often it does some you can skip that this is not any You know rigid order, but often if you have that inner chaos It's okay to ask God for things so that your heart can be still but it takes faith You have to ask in faith. Otherwise it won't work So you give them your prayer requests and God takes up the task of accomplishing those prayer requests So you can trust him to decide what to do from there You can trust that if he says no it's for a reason that if he says yes, it's for a reason if he says later It's for a reason so he takes up our prayer requests and the peace of God floods our hearts The problem comes when we present our prayer request to God Fill the peace and then leave the throne room believer you need to stay Because that's just the beginning that piece you feel is not just so you can go about your day feeling good That piece that you feel is so that you can walk in stillness and go deeper into the depths of God I that I need energy to understand this. This is important that piece that you feel after you make your prayer requests Isn't just so that you can go about your day and experience peace that piece that you feel Is so that you could be in the proper state to enter into deeper realms That's powerful. That's a powerful truth that the scripture gives us so asking is not bad It doesn't make you an immature Christian. It doesn't make you a carnal Christian ask him for things anything that worries you just lay it on him And then after he takes up the task and you trust that it's in his hand. He's capable He's able and he's willing you leave it to him you move on the next realm of prayer is reverencing John chapter 4 verse 23 says this but the time is coming indeed. It's now here When true worshipers will worship the father in spirit and in truth The father is looking for those who will worship him that way Just like true prayer is only by the Holy Spirit true worship can only come by the Holy Spirit Because all worship is a response to a revelation. This is why in a worship service. You'll see people They'll be your hands will be uplifted your tears will be flowing. You'll be singing the song you're getting into it You know though you fill the presence of God everyone around you and then you look around in the room And you'll see someone in the back just sitting there like this They're unmoved they don't want to worship They're just angry or bored or whatever or they're on their phone texting during worship. I Don't condemn those people. I don't look down on those people, but you we can't get angry at them The reason they can't worship is because God hasn't been revealed to them Because all worship is a response to revelation This is why the scripture says that only those who are that that God is gonna have those who worship in spirit and in truth Because truth only comes by the spirit Spiritual things are received by the Holy Spirit in no other way. So the second realm is reverencing and People ask me and I honestly I think though requesting is good and that's that's part of it because I Believe that as you mature in your walk with God in your spirituality You do less requesting and more reverencing in other words less prayer requests more worship and So here in this second realm of reverencing This is where beautiful things really begin to happen Because it moves from being focused on me and my needs to being focused on God So people ask me, you know, what's the key to the anointing or the power of God? Well the key to the anointing or the power of God is Prayer and the key to prayer is silence and stillness and the key to silence and stillness is worship And the key to worship is revelation and the key to revelation It's the word Coupled with the spirit. So if you're in the word, the spirit will reveal if the spirit reveals you have a revelation if you have a revelation You can worship if you can worship you can be silent and steal if you can be silent and still you can truly pray So all of this connects but it's found in where I mean that's how I begin my prayer every day when I pray I'll be I don't start with the prayer requests I give those throughout throughout the day to God when they come up and then I just forget about them or work hard to accomplish with his help but for the most part my prayer life begins with just worship just I just lift my hands they Lord you're beautiful songs like oh Lord you're beautiful your face is all I see as Steven saying here created me a clean heart oh God cast me not away from life presence of Lord take not by Holy Spirit from with me as the dear pants for the water so my soul longs after the and I do some of the new ones to Holy Spirit you are welcome here I give myself away there's all of the songs that we can sing and when they're Christ-centered when they're focused on God they steal the heart now here's what the Holy Spirit does this is beautiful the Holy Spirit has been is and will always be the one who reveals the son the Holy Spirit is the one who took the Son of God and made him into a man that that's a whole different lesson for another time that's power right there but the Holy Spirit is the one who caused Christ to become real so as you worship as you focus on the revelation that you've received so if you know I'm as healer savior you don't have to know a deep deep truth to capture a relation but whatever you've come to know about God focus on that and then begin to worship God in response to that oh and it something will just stir up within you if he got you out of a bind worship as your provider just the fact that he saved you worship as your savior think about how he how marvelously and magnificently and how completely he saved you think about that and focus on that and begin to worship and that revelation inspires that true worship and when that worship begins to take place here's what happens this is beautiful as it begins to happen the Holy Spirit begins to reveal more to your heart and you focus on that revelation and the Holy Spirit causes that revelation as he caused the word to become flesh John 1 1 and then John 1 14 the word became flesh the Holy Spirit did that but the Holy Spirit flesh is out the Son of God before the eyes of your heart so that as you're worshiping Jesus is becoming more of a vivid reality in front of the eyes of your heart within you let me tell you something in these moments the presence of Jesus can become so vivid intensely real that it's terrifying I've been in prayer times where I thought that if I would open my eyes I would see Jesus standing right there in front of me I thought that if I'd reach my hand out I might touch the hem of his garment and fill it in my head that's how real has become when I'm ministering to God's people when I'm ministering at a miracle service or at a church I'm trying to become aware of Jesus and the more aware I am of him the more powerful the service will be in fact I pray Lord be more real to me now than the people I'm ministering to when Jesus becomes more real than your sickness you're healed when Jesus becomes more real than your bondage you're set free when Jesus becomes more real than your depression you'll find joy when Jesus becomes more real than your fear you'll find peace when Jesus becomes more real than your problem he becomes your solution and the Holy Spirit does this through worship as you worship him he becomes a vivid intense tangible reality that you feel like you can touch and then that revelation inspires more worship that worship inspires more revelation and it's this reciprocal effect that begins to intensify in a moment and you'll never want to leave that prayer room because you're experiencing and touching God that's the second realm of prayer and I can go on more and more on that but there's more in this lesson so number one is requesting number two is reverencing number three is resisting this is spiritual warfare now you know there are all sorts of things you can pray for in spiritual warfare so the scripture says resist the devil and he'll flee it doesn't say engage him it doesn't say go after him I've seen people casting out demons and it's almost silly I think some of the deliverance ministries get very silly I mean what is your name how did you get in there and you know I I'm I don't want to sound critical but that's just not how I do it I what's I mean as most Jesus ever asked demons what's your name once the name was told said okay well leave you know so I don't really need to know all this information but really we do need to realize that we're in a very real warfare there is such a thing as angels there is such a thing as demons there is such a thing as God there is such a thing as heaven there is such a thing as hell all of that is real it's not an analogy it's not a metaphor they exist their actual demonic beings that seek to devour the believer but anything that the enemy can do can be undone through resistance prayer you resist the enemy let me show you just a few things Romans 10 one tells us that we can pray for others salvation we can pray for the salvation of others according to Romans 10 1 we can pray for the safety of others according to 2nd Corinthians 111 we can pray for cities Jeremiah 29 7 we can pray for the strengthening of the faith of others Luke 22 32 we can pray for authority figures 1st Timothy 2 2 through 3 we can pray for the blessing of a nation 2nd Chronicles 7 14 we can pray for miracles Acts chapter 19 verse 11 through 12 we can pray for these things because we have the power of prayer we resist the enemy when you pray for a loved one don't stop praying for your loved ones don't stop praying for your family you may not see it now you may not think your prayer is working but it is when you pray for your loved ones I feel like this is for someone watching when you pray for your loved ones the enemy tries to tell you that your prayer isn't working but see the only real weapon that the enemy has is the weapon or the lie that keeps you from using yours the only weapon that the enemy has is the weapon that keeps you from using yours I'll put it this way it's like you have a military tank and the enemy has a pistol and the only way he's gonna win that war is if he convinces you that your tank will not work that your tank is powerless that your tank isn't gonna do anything and so he just needs to get inside your head and once you're convinced that the tank doesn't work he can take you out with the pistol that's what it's like with prayer and his lie is telling you your prayers not working your prayers not working only because he knows if he can get you to stop praying that's the only way he can defeat you that's why he works so hard at convincing you that your prayer isn't working but whether you see it or not know this it is impossible to accomplish nothing in prayer if you are praying you are growing if you are praying you are changing if you are praying you are transforming if you are praying you are resisting the enemy if you are praying you are defeating darkness for every moment you are praying you are accomplishing spiritually every moment in prayer something is happening every moment you spend in the presence of God you're becoming more like Christ whether you see it manifest immediately or not every moment you are praying you are destroying the kingdom of hell and you need to be convinced of that and stop letting the enemy lie to you and stop he's trying to get you out of your tank stay in your tank that's number three resisting number four the fourth realm of prayer is reading and by the way I have some teachings coming up on spiritual warfare I know I've been promising them but I've been working really hard on these teachings on spiritual warfare and I believe they're going to set people free Steve we went out to dinner the other day I gave you a little sample what do you think of the the spiritual warfare stuff oh man it's it's so deep more than more than what people realize and how deep you go into it it's great and I'm really excited I'm I'm sure that with you at dinner several about two months ago and I'm gonna share it with you soon but I've been very prayerfully approaching it I'm talking hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours of studying these topics and so I'm gonna bring you a brand new teaching on I don't even know what we're gonna call you I got a lot of information we're still trying to structure it into a teaching but keep watching spiritual we're gonna get to that in the coming months but so so again if you feel kind of cheated on the on the resistance here on the spiritual warfare just know that I'm working on more okay number four the fourth realm of prayer is reading reading the Bible now I'm gonna share something with you that I get really excited about every time I teach it and it's found in John chapter 6 and this will be the last real point I'm gonna make and then after this will probably matter another 10 15 minutes and then we're gonna close this up so get there's silence and stillness is the way you enter and that's only by the Holy Spirit you can find silence and stillness through prayer request or requesting and reverencing or worshiping those first two realms of prayer really help us get through to silence and stillness so John chapter 6 let's go begin at verse 33 John chapter 6 verse 33 now Jesus is teaching a crowd of people and you have to imagine at this point people are starting to follow the teachings of Christ well I shouldn't say to start to follow him most people that crowded around him were there for the miracles or for the food they didn't really want any transformation in fact when he would turn to them and say you know sell this or give up that or deny yourself people would start to flee so this is one example the movement is starting to gain momentum people are starting to follow Christ John chapter 6 verse 33 says this the true bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world so this statement is coming after he correlates this with the manna from heaven that came in from Moses that itself is an entire lesson we'll get in another time but again verse 33 listen very carefully now he says I'm gonna read it again he says the true bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world and the people responded sir they said give us that bread every day Jesus replied I am the bread of life whoever comes to me will never be hungry again whoever believes in me will never be thirsty it's a powerful verse actually I want to read the next two verses he says but you haven't believed in me even though you have seen me however those the father has given me will come to me and I will be never never reject them verse 38 for I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent me not to do my own will remember John chapter 1 verse 1 in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God John chapter 1 verse 14 and the word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory full of grace and truth the word became flesh in fact the the word incarnations when I want to bring to you so number one we see here Jesus talking about his incarnation the word becoming flesh incarnation think of carnivore you know carnaes aria some of us Hispanics would know or carnaeus saw this so it's me it's flesh so the incarnation is the in carnation it's the coming into the flesh of Christ it's the process by which Christ the Spirit the Spirit of God the Son of God the Word of God became flesh so he says I'm the bread now this is powerful because he starts off talking about his incarnation now for the sake of time we have to skip down several verses go to verse 53 Jesus starts to elaborate on this and the scripture says this in verse 53 so Jesus said again now he's trying to reiterate to these people because they're just not getting what he's saying he says I tell you the truth unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood you cannot have eternal life within you okay that's not something I would say if my movement was beginning to grow when people started crowded you know nowadays in many churches they'd be like Jesus don't say that you're gonna lose the people you're gonna weird them out you can't be too spiritual Jesus just wants to preach the truth and so he tells him again read in verse 54 now but anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise that person at the last day that's very key the way he words it he says at the last day now this is interesting here because a lot of people think that when he's talking about eating my flesh and drinking my blood that he's talking about transubstantiation that's a fancy word for the communion that we take that when we actually take it drink it that that actually becomes his flesh or actually becomes a blood that's not what he's saying I'm gonna show that to you in a scripture that actually says that the flesh accomplishes nothing in other words nothing in this physical world can bring salvation and that's what Jesus overall messages here about the bread of life but he talks about the flesh and the blood because he's making reference to his crucifixion to take part in his crucifixion take part in his death so number one his incarnation number two his crucifixion gets it gets even deeper here and you gotta realize he hadn't died resurrected ascended none of that he hadn't done any of that yet so everybody listening is getting really confused then verse 54 again I'll read it but anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise that person at the last day keep that word in mind keep that phrasing in mind at the last day this is I'm telling you this is gonna bless you this is going somewhere at the last day keep that word in mind now that he's talking about his resurrection now what day is he talking about John 14 20 this is what the scripture says in John chapter 14 verse 20 and Jesus using the same terminology here says when I am raised to life again you will know that I am in my father and you are me and I am in you when will he be raised to life he'll be raised to life after the after obviously after the crucifixion but when he is raised to life then you'll know that you're in the father and in me and that there's that oneness that takes place so you will know that I am in my father you are in me and I am in you there's that entangling that oneness that is taking place now I want to be very careful about the way I read that because he phrases it a certain way just just so so Jesus is saying that at some point there's gonna be this oneness that point is after he's raised to life again now read again verse 54 but anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise that person at the last day verse 55 says for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him there's that oneness again that he's talking about so John chapter 14 and John chapter 6 he's talking about the same oneness so when does all this take place well he was incarnated crucified resurrected then we become one with him we participate in his death and we become one with him in the resurrection that's death unto self John 3 30 I must decrease but he must increase so Jesus is talking about the incarnation the crucifixion and now the resurrection when I'm raised to life again this is powerful now skip down to verse 60 and now now the disciples say the scripture says in verse 60 many of his disciples said this is very hard to understand how can anyone accept it and then I love this I mean here they are getting kind of stirred up saying wait a minute this is this is odd this doesn't make any sense Jesus instead of saying oh well let me explain it to you or all well let me be a little more sensitive all this is what Jesus says I love the way he responds remember big crowd there he turns around and says Jesus answers Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining so he said to them does this offend you then what will you think if you see the Son of Man ascend to heaven again so he's saying oh you know that you think that's odd we'll wait till you hear this Jesus keeps pushing it further because he doesn't care that he's offending them he wants to communicate the truth so he says what will you think if you see the Son of Man ascending to heaven again there it is ascension so here in John chapter 6 already Jesus has talked about his incarnation his crucifixion his resurrection now his ascension now I'm going somewhere with this on the reading being the fourth realm of prayer this is important you're going to understand reading the Bible on a whole different level here so that ascension is the fourth thing he mentions but then we see in verse 63 a sudden turn watch this let's read verse 62 again then what will you think if you see the Son of Man ascending to heaven again the spirit alone gives eternal life the flesh accomplishes nothing there you see why it wasn't transubstantiation and the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life but some of you do not believe me this is powerful Jesus goes from talking about the Holy Spirit or it goes from talking about himself himself himself incarnation crucifixion resurrection ascension spirit he goes from talking about the Son of God to the Spirit of God just a sudden turn what happened there well first Corinthians chapter 15 man I love teaching this one this one is one of my favorite lessons first Corinthians chapter 15 verse 45 I believe says this yes verse 45 the scripture says is the scripture tells us the first man Adam became a living person but the last Adam that is Christ is a life giving spirit incarnation crucifixion resurrection ascension translation this is powerful John chapter 16 verse 7 says and this is Jesus talking but in fact it is best for you that I go away because if I don't the advocate won't come if I do will go away then I will send him to you Jesus said the Holy Spirit can't come unless I go and I was thinking about this I said Lord what is what is all this about because this transfiguration takes place after the ascension after Jesus has gone back the transfiguration of the Son of God becoming the Spirit of God took place after Jesus ascended now crisis still in bodily form as we know it but here's the way I look at it you see on my phone I have pictures of me and my wife on vacations I have pictures of my nephews laughing smiling moments that I'll never get back I take pictures of them I love there's a missionary I know by the name of Billy Hall who says that pictures are great because it's it's almost as if you can freeze time with them and I've always thought that was an interesting thought but if I should lose my phone or it should shatter or break then the information that's on this phone the pictures is gone forever however there's a software on my phone it's called the cloud and it stores my pictures not just on the phone but on an internet server so that if my phone should become broken that the pictures are still on the cloud you see when Jesus walked here on earth people pulled him this way or that way the woman with the issue of blood came in and touched the hem of his garment at the same time it was only moments earlier that Jairus had gone and said Jesus my daughter is dying please help her and then the moment he turned to help the woman with the issue of blood Jairus's daughter died and he had to go and visit the dead girl and he had to kick the mourners out because they were mocking him and then he had to cross over here and cross over there and they called him here and the centurion servant was sick and the centurion said help my servant and Jesus sent the word and people were having to touch him and claim that the blind man said Jesus Son of David have mercy on me people had to reach from grab for him and get his attention but he was only in a bodily form and he could only do one thing at a time really he limited himself he did it on purpose Jesus was only able to be accessed from one point at a time now I watched a commercial the other day about this new technology that that I forgot what the company was and they're calling it the cloud I can't say it's too new but they said from the cloud we can send information up and receive information we can communicate to one another we can store information and and they started listing all of these benefits of the cloud you know Jesus ascended on a cloud and I think though that's not I wouldn't say theologically that that's exactly what the scripture meant by it I can say that it represents a great analogy that Jesus ascending on the cloud was just as important as us storing our information on the cloud Jesus said I have to go so the Holy Spirit can come it was as if again this is just an analogy it was just it was as if Jesus the information was uploaded onto the servers of heaven and came back and downloadable information by the Holy Spirit and now Jesus can be accessed anywhere at any time by anyone the Holy Spirit is Jesus on the cloud and he says this in the same verse verse 63 and the very words I have spoken to you our spirit in life when you read the Bible you're not just reading a historical account or poetry or a narrative or an epistle you are reading and you are receiving the information of the Son of God and you're downloading Christ in you so in essence we as believers do believe in reincarnation for Christ was become incarnate and he becomes reincarnate in you and the process starts up again just as the Holy Spirit caused the word to become flesh so the Holy Spirit causes this word to become flesh in you the Holy Spirit causes this word to come alive in you the Holy Spirit causes this word to become the incarnation of Christ in you this is prayer this is fellowship when you read these words you're spending time with Jesus and becoming more like him so then prayer is not just an upload but it's a download and the issue is not just my hardware it's my software when I connect with God my software is being upgraded because I'm downloading the Christ in the mean the word is becoming flesh in me the process begins again incarnation crucifixion resurrection ascension translation I mean that's us that salvation was our incarnation death to self is our crucifixion the ascension is the times of worship and prayer the translation is our glorification when we spend time in the word we're actually fellow shipping with Jesus himself and the Holy Spirit is taking this word he's the spirit this is the life and it's causing that life to come alive in you well that is the four realms of prayer I pray that that has been a blessing to you I I know I get stirred every time I see it in Scripture I just each one of those points could be a full three-hour teaching in and of itself I know this spirit church has gone a little long but I wanted to get all four originally this was going to be a two-part in the two different but I wanted to get all four realms to you right away and just bless you with that night I pray that you were blessed with that but now let's pray I want to pray for one thing and I want to pray that the Holy Spirit would begin to touch your heart and whether you're someone who's praying and you're you're pursuing the depths of prayer and you want to go deeper or you're someone who you say I need to reclaim that prayer life I want to believe God that there's gonna be a stirring on your heart let's pray right now father in Jesus name let the fire so stir them today that the Holy Spirit would begin to work in their hearts Lord I pray for that one watching who is asking for a move of your spirit who is asking for a fresh stirring who is asking for the heart to be set ablaze for Jesus Lord set their hearts ablaze with a passionate fiery love for Jesus a commitment to his person let them hunger for the word let them hunger for worship let them hunger for the deeper places of prayer let them desire to fellowship with you Lord and I pray today that desire would be kindled right now we reclaim our prayer lives in Jesus name now there's a woman watching who you're you're deaf in your left ear you're deaf in your left ear and I want to pray for you right now and you've had that deafness it's been an issue that's caught come about and you've had that issue for three years now but I believe that God is setting you free right now in the name of Jesus I command that ear open in the name of Jesus we give you the glory Lord there's a young man watching me you're 16 years old you haven't told anybody about this but you're suicidal in fact you I originally had saw you writing in a notepad the Lord corrected me said no he wrote it in his phone notes I see like a yellow screen and you're writing words in and you're writing a suicide note you're working on it but God does not want you to commit suicide God does not want you to give it to that spirit that's a spirit that's come on you and I command today that you be loose from that demonic spirit in the name of Jesus now as Steven continues to pray I want to talk to you about supporting this ministry don't don't don't close the tab don't close the video listen I need you to hear me on this this ministry has grown over I mean I've been in ministry and we've been doing ministry for over 10 years I mean there there are three guys in this room right now I just realized who've been with me since I mean Anthony Hodges been with me since 16 Gabriel since 16 Steve since nine ten years old but I went in the ministry when I was 13 and you know it's been over 10 years now that I've been an evangelist preaching the gospel I've never stopped it's been constant and God has just been faithful every step of the way God's favor has been with us and that's partly because of you supporters like you but now we're entering into a place where the ministry is growing things are great but man it's time to expand it's time to step out in faith now there are people watching me you can sell a thousand dollars or more and there are people who you're watching you have it within your hand and you're withholding I don't know why maybe you don't feel connected because it's online maybe you feel I'm talking to everyone else because you see several hundred views on this video or however many they may be whatever the disconnect may be let me tell you you hear of these these ministries that God uses in the nations of the world I believe this because God showed it to me this ministry is going to become one of the most effective ministries in the entire world one of the most effective evangelistic ministries in the entire world I know you can see it because God God showed it to me and people on the outside looking in they can see it we know they can see I know you can see it I want you to be in on the ground level I want you to say I was a part of that ministry when they were just doing low you know not local television but when they were just getting started on television for a couple years when they were just doing spiritual when they were just doing fundraisers let me tell you something you're gonna be part of something that I believe will help bring in a great sweeping in of souls but I challenge you as a brother in Christ to step out of faith you say Lord I want to sew into that ministry but this this and this has to be in order no no no no no it's not about waiting for the right opportunity it's about creating the right opportunity to faith you say God bless me and I'll give but God says you give and I'll bless you watch and see if God doesn't pour it out upon you now ultimately when you give it's going to the gospel I preach and I'm going to continue to preach the full uncompromised clear and compelling gospel message of Jesus Christ Christ Jesus will save you from sin and hell if you'll repent of your sins turn to him and follow him the rest of your life here on earth that's what I preach the gospel I'm not being moved by the modern-day grace heresies that are starting to inflict its its demonic hold on the church none of that we are preaching Christ Jesus though it might not be politically correct it's biblically correct and that's what I'm going to continue to preach now here's where I need you there are thousands of you that watch I mean not every video gets all of you watching but we get tens of thousands of views every single month different viewers now I need I need you spirit church members especially if you're spirit church memory it's time to start sewing again some of you you were faithful with your ties and offerings and you've stopped continue to sew you're a member of this church you need to you need to still faithful if you're someone who just watches and receives I don't mind that you just watch and receive if you don't count yourself a member but we also need people to start sewing in this ministry we're ready to go to the next level we're ready to start doing more than there's ever been done for ready to start doing events we've done some events on the scale of few thousand people showing up we want to even multiply that it's time we start reaching for more so it's look the world is gathering around its agendas the world it's supporting its political cultural agendas we the church need to do that because we're the light in the dark place so I want to challenge you you're watching your wrestling in your heart whatever me you have a thousand dollars you could so it time to so it God's speaking to you right now there are some people that's you you stop fighting it look I used to be intimidated to do this with offering because I thought people might think I'm this or that you know I the Holy Spirit convicted me he says enough of that because if you truly believe that he will be blessed when they give them tell them so and I'm telling you so and and this is not for me this is for the gospel this is for the gospel this is for the ministry so I'm challenging you today step out of faith become a monthly supporter I need at least a thousand new thirty dollar a month partners if we're going to enter into the next phase of ministry that we have planned we're talking major major things that are opening up to us and I want to challenge you to come on board with us now and stay faithful in supporting this ministry so you can go ahead and do that by clicking on the link on these YouTube videos there's a link that comes up there's a little eye in the top right hand corner you click that you click on the donate button it'll take you right to the page where you can do it now if you're watching this on the mobile app the ministry mobile app that features not available the app disables that feature for the plug-in purposes but you can go to our website and do so so that's my heart I need I need your support I need you I need you you see these things don't just happen these ministries don't just grow out of nowhere and spring up on nowhere it's people like you who say I'm going to support that ministry because I believe it can make an impact and you come in and you help make history let's do it let's touch the world I challenge you to do that today I pray that you're blessed I pray that you're inspired I pray that you're stirred until next time remember this I really do mean it I know I say it every time we close it's not just a cliche until next time I want you to remember that nothing is impossible