David Diga Hernandez - The 4 Realms of Prayer

Well, I truly do believe that the key to experiencing more of what God has for you is prayer. I believe that God is redigging the wells in the church, and we’re going to move into a time of deeper things. How many of you in this place say, «I want God to move in my prayer life»? God’s going to touch your life; He really is. But I want to talk to you about the four realms of prayer. When I say «realms, ” I’m not talking about different dimensions or moving to different worlds; I’m talking about four realities of prayer. When you understand these four realms, you will see that categorically speaking, all prayer will find itself under one of these.

Now, there are many different facets of prayer: there’s praying in tongues, praying in your mind, praying privately, and praying corporately. But everything, no matter what it is, can fall—categorically speaking—under these four, and if you can understand these four as they pertain to all prayer, I believe you can receive a breakthrough in your prayer life. I believe you’re going to hear the voice of God more clearly. We’ve kind of accepted, just in the church world, the idea that the voice of God is not to be heard with clarity. I know if I ask how many believe you can hear the voice of God, I would get a resounding „Amen, ” right?

But the truth is that most believers, when they talk about the voice of God, describe it in a way that’s unclear. They say, „I’m still trying; I’m still working; I’m still waiting to hear God.“ We’ve accepted that it’s difficult to hear God, but you can hear the voice of God with such clarity that when He whispers in the spirit, you can hear Him. You can hear the voice of God with such confidence that when He speaks, everything within you says, „I know that’s Him! This is God speaking to me, ” and you move on it by faith.

I’m talking about this kind of prayer life that can cultivate the voice of God. So, the four different realms of prayer I’m going to list—I’m going to go through them here. The first realm we’re going to talk about is requesting; this is the prayer request. The second one is reverencing, which is worship. Worship is an aspect of prayer because it’s communication with God. The third one is resisting, which is spiritual warfare. The fourth one may not sound as mysterious, but it is very much as much prayer as the others, and that is reading. You read the Word; it’s prayer. As you pray this way and enter into the deeper realms of the Spirit through prayer, what’s going to happen is you’re going to hear the voice of God more clearly. The power of God is going to intensify in your life; your witness, your evangelism is going to transform. Why? Because it’s Holy Spirit-empowered prayer.

When I first began to seek the Lord, as some of you may have heard in the interview—I don’t know how many of you watched that episode—but if you haven’t, check it out with Sid Roth on the It’s Supernatural episode. In that episode, I talked about this season of my life that was very different for me; it’s a well that I still draw from today. In that season, I began to seek the face of God, and I’m telling you, as an 11-year-old kid who just received Jesus, I was passionate. I was fascinated with the person of Jesus, and I said, „Lord, everything in me has to know the depths and riches that are in Christ.“ I gave my all—my heart, my being—to seek His face.

We talked about this experience I had where I was baptized in the Holy Spirit, where I experienced something more that many believers look for. But I had made an ultimatum with God: I went into my room. Jesus says in Matthew 6:6 that when you pray, you should go away quietly and close the door. Why? Number one, it’s so there are no distractions; number two, it’s so that God can reward you publicly for what you do privately. There’s something in what’s hidden and what’s exposed, and what has power and what doesn’t.

What God did for me in that season of my life was found in a moment where I said, „Lord, I’m not leaving this room until you touch me.“ I feel the anointing of the Holy Spirit when I start talking about this. How many of you sense His presence here? I said, „Lord Jesus, you know why? Because when I talk about it, you say, ‘I want that, ’ and when you say you want that, that desire draws Him closer. That desire is a form of worship.“

So, I was in the room, I shut the door, and I said, „I’m not leaving, Jesus, until you touch my life, until something happens.“ I remember my fan was on because it got very warm in that room. My fan was on, my Bible was open, my light was on so I could read the Bible, and I had music playing in the background—soft worship music. I had set the atmosphere, and I was ready to do everything I knew to do to seek the face of God. I went in and started praying, and I remember I began with excitement and zeal. I had made that…