Our Guest David Hernandez
SID: You know, we were talking before the show, something that’s so important. The Holy Spirit wants to be sought.
DAVID: Right.
SID: Comment on that.
DAVID: And I think there are several reasons why he wants to be sought. One of the ones I want to focus on is the Holy Spirit wants to be sought because it purifies you. In the seeking, the flesh begins to weaken and the spirit begins to grow. Why? Because the flesh doesn’t like to wait. And when you go into prayer and begin to seek the Lord in silence, which I’m going to talk about in a moment, when you do that the flesh has to be still. Otherwise you find yourself squirming and wanting to get out of prayer. But this is where the power is at, because let me put it this way, noise does not equal power. There are some people who are making a lot of noise, but there’s not a lot of demonstration. And so the power of the Holy Spirit comes when I weaken, then he is strong. Silence is the easy part. All of this is real simple, but not all of it is easy. Silence is the putting away of outer distraction.
Stillness is the quieting of the soul and that is the difficult part, because the moment we begin to pray we have fears crossing our mind. We have our apprehensions crossing our mind, we have our responsibilities and those things that make us feel inadequate and shame. All of those things I call inner chaos. And what the Holy Spirit wants to do is teach you to trust him. You see, the Holy Spirit wants to take you into the depths of God, but he waits for you at the gate of stillness. And so at the gate of stillness we lay down our burdens. We give him all that we carry and we say with hearts full of trust, I’m going to trust you, I’m going to follow you into the presence of God. We have to learn to subject the flesh and place our minds upon what the Holy Spirit is showing to us rather than what is taken place on the outside. This is living from the inside out rather than the outside in. I’m not letting what’s outside me affect what’s inside. I’m keeping that reservoir and I’m tapping that for peace and joy, and love. And the way you do that is by meditation on the Word. The way you do that is by meditation on the person of Jesus. And if you can capture a revelation that the Holy Spirit has given to you and you meditate on that revelation that brings about the stillness of the soul, which enables the Holy Spirit to work in you.
SID: Now you said to me that when you originally started this, it would take you like four hours to get in the spirit, but now it’s just minutes.
DAVID: Well it was very fleshly and it was the flesh getting in the way, and I had to learn to trust.
SID: Part of being human.
DAVID: Yes. I needed to be delivered from that. Right? And so I’m there and I remember there were times where it would take me three, four hours and now I’m telling you, and this is not just me that can do it, this is every believer. I can enter in like that where I can just go from, I mean, talk about average, everyday things which I do like to talk about. You know, I’m not completely gone, but you know, there are also, from talking about average things, I go right into the spirit to where the Holy Spirit can start speaking to me. I can see visions where I can see sickness on people sometimes, and you can move right into that if you practice stillness. The first time you do it, I’ll put it to you this way, when you’re digging a well every shovel is full of dirt until you hit water. And soon you find that the flesh, the dirt, moves out of the way and there’s less of it each time you go back.
SID: Okay. Give me a couple of practical things to the person that’s going to do exactly what you originally did. You have a quiet place, you go there, what do you do next?
DAVID: Well you know one of the reasons we close our eyes is not because God can’t hear us if we don’t. It’s that it puts out the distraction. We close our eyes because it removes more distraction and that really is the key. You remove distractions in the natural. That allows you to focus on the internal. Jesus said, “Out of inner man shall flow rivers of living water.” First Thessalonians 5:23 tells us that “There is the body of the soul and the spirit.” So I put away the body, I retreat further away from my soul and I retreat into the spirit. The way you do that is by meditation. I’ll give this one nugget so that they can just go and start, if they start there and get this, the other ones will come naturally. You get, capture a revelation of Jesus. He’s revealed as deliverer, as healer. I like to say his revelation reveals him with eyes of fire. And you capture that revelation and you meditate on the Word, not on your imagination and what you, because that would be constructing an idol or an image, but sort of like what they do at the Tabernacle. In Hebrews it tells us that this was an image in Heaven and they copied that image because it was given by God. So because the revelation is given by God, I can focus on that. And so I focus on this revelation of Jesus and I quiet my soul. I put everything else aside.
A great man of God taught me that if you have an hour, to pray and worship for 45 minutes, and you just get in, and you just begin to worship. And you just, on that revelation, Jesus, I adore you. Jesus, you’re so precious and I love you. You’re the healer, you’re the deliverer. See, even as I’m doing that now I can sense him coming in because you capture that revelation. The Holy Spirit breathes upon the Word and causes creation to take place. The Word without the Spirit is information. The Spirit without the Word is inspiration. Together, they bring about creation and that causes something to transpire in you. And so the Word starts to take hold of you. You begin to become transformed and changed, and it really is as simple as meditating on the Word.
SID: You know, one of the things that I’m very excited about is David did research, every book of the Bible, the Holy Spirit. I want you to read a few of those and then break in to pray for us.
DAVID: Okay. Well I was going into the scripture and he really, I did find something about him in every book of the Bible. But in Genesis, he’s the spirit who hovered above the face, the deep, and I love the words there, is “He brooded like a bird or like a dove. He incubated over creation.” And in Exodus, “He is the fire in the bush.” I call him the fire evangelism igniting the heart of Moses that caused him to go and seek after a people. In Leviticus, “He’s the sovereign fire that could only be started by God.” God told the priests, “You are to keep the fire burning.” But he never told them to start it. The fire came from Heaven. We’re to stew with the fire, not start it. In Numbers, “He is the spirit that separated men of faith from men of fear.” The scripture calls him “a different spirit.” In Deuteronomy, “He is the cloud by day and the fire by night that guides us in all seasons of our lives.” In Joshua, “He is the spirit of breakthrough.” What was it that brought down the walls? They released shouts, they blew the trumpets. It was the breath of God that was released that brought down those walls. And it goes on and on all the way to Revelation.
SID: Pray, one minute.
DAVID: Father, in the name of Jesus, I ask you, precious Holy Spirit, that you would begin to stir in that one watching a hunger and a desire for the deeper things of God. Father, first of all, let them sense even now, some of you are sensing right now like a, I feel it, something like a heat come over you, some like electricity. There are sicknesses being healed. There are, oh my goodness, I’m seeing a lot right now, but Lord, I pray that you would begin to touch your people. I thank you for the anointing that is present to break every yoke. I thank you and Holy Spirit, we welcome you in our lives and in our ministries, and in our homes. Let your presence saturate all that we do. Father, I pray that we would not be people who are ashamed of the work of the Holy Spirit, that we would not think ourselves too clever that we would deny the one who built the church, but Father, that we would say in every aspect and with all that we are, welcome Holy Spirit, come and do as only you can do. Take over our churches, take over our ministries, take over our lives. Father, let every part of our being be surrendered to you, and we pray that you lift up the name of Jesus, magnify him, glorify him and make him more real to us than we ever imagined possible. In the name of Jesus we pray and we release it, and we agree in Jesus’s name.
SID: And real quick, somebody just told me there are people with arthritic fingers, the pain is gone in Jesus’s name.
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