nateandchristy2018

5782 - FROM THE TOMB, THE GIANT KILLERS ARE EMERGING

nateandchristy2018

5782 - FROM THE TOMB, THE GIANT KILLERS ARE EMERGING

5782 - FROM THE TOMB, THE GIANT KILLERS ARE EMERGING

I’ve been stuck on the theme of giant-killers for most of this year and unable to move from it, as if there was something God was trying to speak to me about the church and where we’re heading. It’s no surprise though, look around you right now and you’ll see that there are indeed giants before us. Whether you choose to see them as your problem to defeat or not, they are there and in this next year God is doing a massive work to engage the church more than ever before to contest the assignments of these giants and serve them an eviction notice going forward.

A VALLEY OF DECISION MOMENT - THE WRESTLE AT ELAH

I felt the thread of this word begin to come when one morning in June this year I had a vision of 1 Samuel 17:40 which says:

“Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine”

In the vision I saw myself (representative of the church) picking up the stones and could feel the flurry of emotions as David even semi-wrestled this moment between righteous fiery passion and raw, risky faith. I knew then that God wanted to have a longer conversation with me about the moment we are in and how we are right now, as a church, at the place of decision. Will we stand idly by to the shouts of the giants in the land, or will we go and collect our stones?

The fact is, we, the church, like the Israelites of that day are at a crossroad. Our promise is straight ahead, and we are surrounded by obstacles and seemingly menacing giants in our path. But the decision we need to make is “Will we cave in defeat, or will we take our inheritance?” Just like the place where Goliath stood to defy God’s people - the valley of Elah - we too are in what looks like a low place, a narrow passage, but a place where we must pass through to further establish the kingdom of God and advance.

DREAM OF THE RESET CHURCH

As I constantly faced daily news headlines like the taunts of Goliath, I kept asking the Lord the question, “Where are we and where are we going?” but I didn’t expect Him to show me what He did. 7 weeks ago, I had a dream where the Lord showed me three scenes and walked me through each of them like a tour-guide.  I have personally wrestled how to share this, but for the sake of revealing where God wants us to go, I need to share this dream very candidly.

In the first part of the dream, I was in a busy marketplace or shopping mall and the Lord was with me. At first, we just simply stood and watched people coming and going in and out of different stores and vendors. Who were these people? I thought, and knowing what I was asking He replied, “This is the church.”

I noticed them going into nail salons and other beautification services, hairdressers, and fashion stores and while none of those things were bad, I felt the grief on the Lords heart that something was amiss. I tried to figure out what I was sensing it was, and the word came to me “Comfort”.  This was the comfortable church, who had created a lifestyle out of comfortability over the cause of Christ. This was the church who couldn’t hear the cries of the lost, or the broken, because they were distracted.

Then what happened next took me by surprise. Suddenly one by one each store shut their doors and asked their patrons to leave. These comfortable believers were instantly cutoff from their comforts and unable to access them.

This part of the dream was sobering but it spoke so loudly of these things God is doing:

  • The church is heading into a greater shaking and separation from our dependence on earthly things.
  • We are going to see doors shut to areas that make us numb to what is taking place around us.
  • God is going to highlight our dependence on Him more than the systems of man, more than ever before.
  • It spoke to me about a coming RESET to the church that resulted in the RISING of THE CHURCH.
  • The reset is the shutting of doors of commonality with the world, contractual fear, and comforts that keep us in apathy and inaction when the world is needing the children of God to arise and shine. (Romans 8:19, Isaiah 60:1).
  • The doors shutting was like the grace period for towing the line between loving both God and the world being over. The pews will no longer be a hiding place, a feeding place, or a fattening place but a place of travail and prayer, equipping the saints, and encounter.
  • This reset is a “eyes wide open” moment.

THE EMPTYING, THE TRAVAIL, & THE RESURRECTION

In the next scene of the dream, I just hear the Lord audibly ask me “Does my church have to be empty before they will rise? Is it only in crisis and when all is removed that they step up to the frontlines?”

Then I saw a scene flash before me of bloodshed, cries and screams in the street, murder, abortion, injustice... I was grieved and I wanted to wake up but couldn’t. I looked for the church to go and help but they ignored the cries. “Go and help the babies in the street!” I yelled. Then I realized I was doing nothing either. I fell to my knees and cried until it felt like I couldn’t cry anymore. When I opened my eyes, I was surrounded by the church who were on their faces too, in travail. “Heal us and heal our land!!” they cried out.

Then I felt the ground beneath my feet begin to shake like the very earth was speaking...  It reminded me of Romans 8:22:

“To this day we are aware of the universal agony and groaning of creation, as if it were in the contractions of labor for childbirth”

A mass move of repentance was taking place. People were taking their brands and idols and throwing them into a fire. They were taking their distractions and other loves and heaping them up onto the altar. A true reformation had taken place. Unity out of brokenness. Suddenly nothing to prove. Nothing to throw at one another. No more chips on shoulders. No more points of separation and demonic agendas to buy into. Veils had come off and eyes were opened. A true movement had begun...

A LAZARUS CHURCH IS IN REBIRTH!

This part of the dream was similar to a vision I had in the same week. The Lord showed me a vision as I was at church one Sunday morning. I couldn’t shake this intense grief and didn’t know why. Then the Lord spoke to me so clearly “Don’t be sad, this isn’t what you think it is - this is the new beginning!”

Then I went into a vision, and I saw people gathering around a tomb all mourning in sadness. Then I heard the words of Jesus from John 11:43 “Lazarus come forth!”

Then suddenly I saw a man come out and stand at opening of the tomb; and bandages were unravelling from him. As the bandages were coming off, I could see/discern that they were bandages from the world and demonic assignments that had sought to BURY the church and send it to an early grave. The bandages continued to unravel, and I began hearing words such as “defeat”, “powerlessness”, “unworthiness”, “dreams unfulfilled” and then even things like “Culture”, “progressive Christianity” and other evil blindfolds that the church has had wrapping around her, choking the life from her.

But as I witnessed this, I no longer felt sad but relieved. It looked like death, but it was actually brand-new life. It looked like death, but it was a deliverance…

I could see the church in all her beauty, she was radiant, glowing, and full of love for Jesus and nothing else. No other lovers. This was not just an awakening I had witnessed - this was a rebirth… a resurrection! Sometimes we have to go through seasons where it feels like death, the dark night of the soul, and the emptying to really be able to go where God is leading us. The pure bride is in process right now and her best days are ahead!

I THEN HEARD HIM SAY “GOLIATHS BROTHERS ARE GOING TO FALL!”

In the last scene of my dream, I felt the joy of the Lord all over me and around me. The Lord was still standing with me, and I could sense His excitement like this was the part of the book He was waiting for. He then looks at me and says very nonchalant “Goliaths brothers are going to fall!”

Now those last few moments before I came out of the dream were very significant to me, and I’m still unpacking them with the Lord because it was as if I was seeing David’s stones, all the way back then, as a prophesy of current day giants. What was the connection? I thought. Was it five nations that would rise up? Was it 5 leaders in the earth, that would be like the giants of old, that we would see fall? That is still unfolding because I believe there are many layers to this. But what I did feel strongly as I processed this statement, was that these giants were somehow linked or they were a prophetic snapshot of 5 demonic strongholds, or principalities in the earth.

LORDS OF THE PHILISTINES

Goliath’s brothers were called “The Lords of the Philistines” meaning they were the elite of their people. The word “Philistine” reveals the root nature of the enemy’s plan for these principalities to accomplish. It means:

  • Destroyers and grievers.
  • Burrowers and weakeners.
  • Dividers and splitters.
  • Multipliers.

These “Lords”- or principalities - have been tasked by the enemy to destroy and cause grief, burrow and hide themselves deep in cities and regions, weakening the church, causing mass division, and multiplying. Let’s look the individual giants too.

GIANT 1 - GOLIATH

Goliath means “Exposer, uncovered” Goliath as a modern principality would be likened to the assignment of the enemy to keep a victorious church in captivity and bondage. As an exposer, Goliath is an accuser of the brethren, and this causes much of the mockery of the church we see today; in the same way Goliath mocked the people of God back in David’s day. Goliath is also what keeps the church in fear and held back from pursuing the inheritance and territory God has given to them. On another note, the name Goliath represents both the uncovering of the mind and mental warfare, as well as insinuating minds being opened or exposed to sinful thoughts and beliefs. Goliath today has still been standing trying to obstruct the church and keep us bound, but God is raising up a remnant who will say like David “You are coming to fight against me with a sword, a spear and a javelin. But I’m coming against you in the name of the Lord who rules over all. He is the God of the armies of Israel. He’s the One you have dared to fight against. This day the Lord will give me the victory over you. I’ll strike you down. I’ll cut your head off!” (1 Samuel 17:45-46)

I also believe it’s not a mistake who took down each of these giants. Just as these giants represent some of the current giants we face in the earth, so too, do the heroes who defeated them reveal a facet of the army that is rising up. Who defeated Goliath? Well, we know David did. His name has a contrasted meaning of both infirmity, sickness, and weakness, and beloved. It reminds me of the scripture in 2 Corinthians 12:10 that says, “when I am weak, then I am strong!”; which speaks of the church who feels week, sick, and disabled actually being the beloved and approved of God, to take down even the greatest and most menacing of enemies.

GIANT 2 - ISHBEBINOB

The name has a few parts to it, but the main conclusion of this name is that it means to: backslide, settle, retreat, detour from destiny, and be inactive. The second part of the name means to be from, or sits in a high place, called Nob. The city of Nob was not a Philistine city but a Benjamite city. So, this name could actually be seen as a mockery of God’s people and also a counterfeit to our inheritance and occupation of the high places (as we are the Benjamin generation called to be seated in Christ in heavenly places).

This principality today can be seen in a myriad of ways, but firstly it is the cultural pressure and influence on the church to settle, and retreat from the mission and calling to occupy until Jesus comes - which is a forward moving and militant stance. Secondly this principality is a counterfeit to the call of sons and daughters to occupy the high places of influence in the earth, and in our absence sadly it empowers the wrong thing to fill those seats. We can also see this principality in the elitist agenda of power and control who have occupied usurped authority and taken the steering wheel from the church.

Interestingly the hero who defeated this giant was Abishai whose name means “father of gifts” and we are in a time where the Father is empowering the church to rise up and take His kingdom back off the usurping principalities. We need to know we have authority and access to the “Kings Domain” - the Father’s house - and step into our roles again. The other significant thing to note is that this name means “many gifts” which speaks of the church God has handed out many gifts to, so they can occupy their unique roles in the many metros of influence in the earth. As we rise up and occupy these spaces again, we will see this elitist giant fall.

GIANT 3 - SAPH

Goliath’s brother Saph has a name of multiple layered meanings such as: territory border, a marked line or boundary, a threshold, a violent storm or tornado, defending a border, fence-keeper, outside of the borders, breaching the walls, to enter someone’s personal space, the bite of a snake, to attack then swiftly hiding.

To me, Saph, as a current demonic principality, would be the invasive demonic influence in nations and culture. It is violent, nasty, and bitter in nature, and it will cut anything down that opposes it. We see this right now in so many evil narratives and ideologies. We see this in the media and the censoring on platforms. It’s like a storm, or a tornado, and it will destroy and discredit anyone who stands in its path. It occupies a place it actually has no right to occupy, and it exerts its dominance and expects compliance. It’s the principality of “me”. My ways, my truth, my body, and my experience. It defends the borders of these lies ruthlessly and will attack swiftly, secretly, and stealthily, hiding in plain sight. It inflicts witchcraft wounds by employing the twisted tongues of those caught up in the game.

The mighty hero who defeated Saph was David’s warrior Sibbechai, whose name means simply, “weaver”; which to me is indicative of the counter response of the church to be IN the world but not of it. Meaning we are called to be interwoven into the fabric of society but not in a handshake with evil. It’s our role to be the yeast worked into the dough, and the church occupying all places of influence. Also, from a militant perspective, the word weaver speaks to me of the skill of battle and clever strategies to outwit and outsmart the enemy. There is a Godly wisdom we possess that carries the presence of heaven on it, that when it spoken to these ideologies and narratives, it begins to disarm and destroy the fabric of them. We are the giant killers who will pull the loose thread until it’s all unraveled in a heap.

GIANT 4 - LAHMI

The name Lahmi comes from the verb ( laham ), meaning both: to eat (bread) or to wage war. This giant, as a modern principality, is multi-purposed but with the same goal in mind - to rob the church. Bread is sustenance - it is supply - it’s your means to accomplish the call of God on your life. The enemy wants to eat your bread, drain your supply, and rob you of your inheritance. He wants to steal our seed, so we have no fruit to show for anything! This giant, as a modern-day principality, is at war with the effective and thriving church, and our produce. It wants barrenness. It wants stillborns. It’s after our babies in the womb, so that we are robbed of a generation to bring in the end time harvest. It’s after our finances and to own and manipulate the financial systems of the world. This giant’s name also mockingly means “bethlemite”; which is where Jesus was born. It wants to rob the earth of the knowledge of the very seed that would die and become the bread of life to the world!

The hero that defeated this giant was Elhanan whose name means: “God is gracious” and grace and favor. This name is the promise of Gods favor and supply system. It’s Gods provision and manifestation of promises that will confound the wise and all those who think we are under their system. This giant will fall in Jesus name!

GIANT 5 - THE ONE WITH 6 FINGERS & TOES

Now the last giant had a name, but it was not recorded. It simply said that:

“Yet again there was war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also was born to the giant. So when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David's brother, killed him " (2 Samuel 21:20-21)

The little that we do know about this giant speaks volumes. 6 is the number of man. Man’s ways. Man’s systems. Man’s intellect. But to me it also speaks of perversion of God’s design. This principality is responsible for every vile and perverted thing on the planet and this giant must fall!

The hero that defeated this giant was Jonathan, whose name means “God has given” and firstly speaks directly into the humanistic mentality of this principality. “GOD gives. No one else… GOD”. The name Jonathan to me points back to God. Like a chiropractic adjustment, to see this principality fall we must be a people that align ourselves with the heart of God and untangle ourselves from the mixture and perversion we see around us.

The main takeaway from this part of the dream is, that God is right now preparing us to take down every giant in our path in the days to come. There has been a lie that has been damaging - that darkness is incontestable, but we are called to be the light! Church, you are anointed and appointed to take down the giants of this hour!

5782 & 2022- THE VOICE OF THE CHURCH UNSILENCED & RESTORED

As I was unpacking this with the Lord, the year 5782 of the Jewish calendar that we have just stepped into, and the Gregorian calendar year 2022 came to mind.

What spoke the most to me was firstly breaking down each number simply and finding their meanings then as a whole:

5 - “Heh” Grace, redemption, speech, and action. (Pictograph of man with arms raised).

7 - “Zayin” Crown, sustenance, and weapons. (Pictograph of sword).

8 - “Chet” Doorway, community, & life (pictograph of a door and people linking arms).

2 - “Bet” House of God, tent, family of God, covenant, and tabernacle. (Pictograph of a house or tent).

In that sense you could say that 5782 speaks of the grace to speak, act, and slay what stands in our way entering into a new season/rebirth, where the church is baptized in the spirit and reacquainted with Jesus. Wow!

As we moved into 5782 it’s important to remind you that 80 - which in Hebrew is “Pey” representing the mouth, the voice, the roar, and the testimony - initiated what has been a major focus for the church, to be a prophetic voice for the world to look to and see Jesus. Now in 5782 the focus is on “pey - 80” and “bet - 2” which reveals the voice of the church but in the context of the house, or the family of God, and personal revival. To me this is the Lord saying that in this next year there will be a focus on: 

  • The church coming back to the heart of worship.
  • God purifying the heart motives of the church.
  • A new and pure sound of worship emerging from the church, not the polished radio songs that don’t carry the oil.
  • God is dealing with the fear of man and where the Church has been silenced.
  • He is dealing with where we have rejected the prophetic from the house.
  • We will see the tent of meeting be the focus again because It’s time for the church to not just be a voice but to HEAR and know the voice of Jesus in a new way.

What will this accomplish? Well, mainly fresh intimacy and connection but secondly, it’s going to expose the counterfeit Christs’ being accepted by the church.

Regarding 2022, these are the scriptures that came to my spirit:

“As they began to sing and praise, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated” 2 Chronicles 20:22.

“Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites this: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven” Exodus 20:22.

This will be a year of the revived and unadulterated voice of the Lord in our midst so that it reminds the church who we are so we can defeat and scatter the enemy.

THE RAW WORSHIP MOVEMENTS RISING

In terms of the pure worship I see flowing from the church: In a dream I saw a riot breaking out in a street with millions of people in uproar. But then my attention was drawn to a building, and I knew instantly it was Abbey Road studios in Westminster UK, where some of the most famous albums of all time have been recorded. God has shown me visions of this place before, but this felt different. I felt like it represented the Church. They were hidden or separate from the chaos outside, insulated, and not really part of it or influencing it. It grieved me.

Inside though they were all busy and focused. As I listened to what the orchestras and bands in each studio were busy doing, I heard them say that they were wanting to write hit songs that would put them on the map... They needed the songs that would win them awards and how that would help the world see Jesus in this time. But then I said “No, we need the raw cry for revival again!” As I said this everyone fell on their faces and begin crying out to the Lord, and soon a sound of messy intercession could be heard. Singing, tongues, and loud travail.

Then they started singing and grabbing their instruments and all these many songs and cries began to form one powerful song together, that was unlike anything I had ever heard. The volume seemed to increase to the point that it seemed to break through the walls of the building and then what I saw next was chilling. I was drawn once again to the streets and could hear the new sound of the church beginning to disrupt the chaos outside. People stopped and were listening and then started singing the same tune.

It was reviving cold, hard, and angry hearts. It was bringing peace to the fearful and anxious, it was restoring hope and a future to those who have only seen doom and gloom, and most of all people could see the heart of the Father for them in this time. A fresh sound of worship and new soundtrack for revival had been birthed and broken out of the walls and had disrupted the enemy’s agenda and drawn the world to the feet of Jesus once again!

I believe this is already happening. God is stirring up the raw cry of the church to release the fresh sounds and cry of a bride that is present and active and a voice in these times. For the last 4 years there has been a cap, or a ceiling, that has prevented the most anointed songs from being written and has brought a creative block and frustration over the psalmists of the earth. They have felt stopped up, and shut up, and shut down, yet they are bottling up the most anointed songs and prophetic anthems that we have yet to hear. But they are coming!

This dream also speaks to me of the church breaking out of the four walls in a greater way and being the public sound instead of the private symphony. I believe we are going to see not just worship movements birthed, but movements of all types, that simply carry the pure heart of worship, and focus on Jesus, that the earth needs right now.

THE HEAVYWEIGHTS & THE WILDCARDS

Just as it was David’s mighty men that defeated these giants, out of the fires of affliction are arising some pure hearted warriors who God is right now refreshing and readying for what’s ahead. They have They have only seen loss and defeat but in this next chapter they will ride the wave of triumph as God turns the page into this new chapter. I kept hearing these two words, heavyweights and wildcards.

Who are the heavyweights? They won’t look like heavyweights on the outside, but they have been through the fires of hell and the season of crushing and are now weighty glory carriers for this season.

The heavy weights of religion - aka Saul’s armor - just won’t cut it for this battle. We can’t fight these giants with our man made and institutionalized weapons. We can’t fight them with our intellect and knowledge, but with engaging our spirit. These heavyweights will move offensively using methods that will confront the stale and powerless methods of religion.

Heavyweights are weighty because they have been laying in the glory in heavenly realms. We have to fight this next season from our position IN CHRIST in heavenly places and quit battling personalities and flesh and blood. We have to come higher.

Heavyweights don’t rely on their own abilities, but God’s, and they don’t run from their posts but rest in the power that is inside of them. We have to stop evading and running from the reality of the enemy’s plans and the things taking place in the earth. We have a role, and we can’t hide from it.

And from the painful process of the past few years a remnant has risen up, who are the wildcards of heaven, who are those who have zero filter and zero motivation outside of loving Jesus. When He says go, they go. No questions asked. They are the ones the enemy is most afraid of because where most see giants, they simply see another opportunity to hurl their stones into a problem.

They are wildcards because God will use them to torment the enemy in the years to come. Just when situations look bleak and hopeless, and the enemy begins to laugh, God will flick his wrist and send these wildcards into impossible situations and expose the enemy’s hand.

THE FULL HOUSE, FIVE STONES, & THE SHIFT OF THE BATTLE

As I end this word, I want to just paint one last picture. The last word I heard for the year was “Full house”; which in a game of poker is a superior hand but even more than that spoke to me that the church is moving into its greatest days. We are going to see a full house. This is revival. This is harvest. This is fruit. What also came to me was that this year will be an awakening of the five-fold like we have never seen it before. The FULL expression of the house will be seen. The whole bride beginning to emerge.

God is looking for those, who despite the rapid darkness seeming to spread, will hear the laughter of heaven booming in their spirit because they know that regardless of the way the match seems to be going, it isn’t a match for God Almighty; who right now is pouring out His fiery Spirit upon a generation fed up with watching the narrative and story go the wrong way and are rising up as bold as lions to see history written according to heaven.

What if when David went down to the stream that day, he wasn’t just collecting stones for his battle, but what if he was inadvertently prophesying? He had 5 stones. 5 is the number of grace. 5 is the whole bride in unity. 5 is the five-fold church rising.

What if it was God speaking through him into this hour of history saying “Church, the giants look huge, but you have got this... it isn’t over, pick up your stones and take the land!” And the cry of my heart for you and I, is a resounding “Yes we will!”

Church our best days are ahead!

PRACTICAL GIANT KILLING TIPS FOR THE HOUR

  • Keep your knees in the throneroom no matter what. That way you will be sharp, discerning, and connected. You won’t buy into the lies around you.
  • Be reacquainted with the voice of the Lord. Invest time with Him more than social media time.
  • Refuse to stay still, inactive, and uninvolved in this hour. If you are unsure what to do then pray.. and ask Holy Spirit to reveal his heart to you.
  • Be in constant surrender.
  • Let the Holy Spirit untangle you from the veils and webs of your dark tomb season.
  • Let go of your disabling comforts and be desperate to know “the comforter” Holy Spirit.
  • Allow the worlds events to make you feel grieved so you can no longer stand back as a spectator but like David step up to your post.
  • Desire to know how God feels about issues and injustices around the earth but rooted in HIS solutions.
  • Let go of the fear of man and pick up your courage. Stand up for righteousness. Bold lions arise!
  • Refuse to be a sheep that does what they are told without applying your own wisdom and processing with the Lord.
  • Decide that you will be a voice for what matters - and know that this hour of history hinges on you and I.
  • Know that you are more than a conqueror through Christ Jesus and that the victory is sure!
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FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BATTLED & SURVIVED JEZEBEL

By Nate Johnston • April 23, 2025
I have a prophetic word for those who have grown up under the demonic agenda of Jezebel, and for those raised in narcissistic environments and battled it their entire lives. Yes, the spirit of Jezebel has always had a target on your back because of who you are... Like Agent Smith from The Matrix, Jezebel keeps showing up, manifesting through different people, personalities, seasons, assignments, and alignments to take you out. It’s been the greatest battle of your life: figuring out how to steward your calling, how to be a voice in the midst of relentless attacks and constant attempts to cancel your calling. This spirit has tried to silence you, shut down your voice, reject you, belittle you, isolate you, and keep you in a cave. She’s tempted you to sugarcoat your words, dilute your message, and shrink your fire so you didn’t keep getting in her cross fire. I know the price many of you have paid for pioneering through this—for choosing health for your families, your marriages, and your future. I know the cost of refusing to tolerate her, season after season, and what you’ve walked through for the sake of not giving up on your calling. But in the hardest moments, you chose legacy again and again, yet it’s been costly. Recently, I was praying into this, especially in my own life, because I’ve battled this spirit for as long as I can remember, I asked the Lord, “Will it always be this way? Will I always have to fight Jezebel?” As I was reading through 1 Kings 19 - 2 Kings 10, the Lord highlighted the story of Jehu, the one who took out Jezebel (2 Kings 9:30–37). And the Lord said: “You are the Jehu. This generation is the Jehu generation, rising to confront and take out this spirit.” But here’s the thing: Jehu overthrew Jezebel, but he didn’t reform the land. “But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord… he did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam…” 2 Kings 10:31 He overthrew the person, but not the pattern. He tore down the idol, but didn’t restore the altar. He left a void, and that void became an open door. Right now, the test of our generation isn’t just about calling out what’s wrong. It’s about restoring the priesthood, rebuilding the altar, and leading the Church back into true worship. Because without worship, Jezebel returns. I’ve seen it in dreams repeatedly, Jezebel overthrown, only to be welcomed back through broken, unhealed, and unprotected spaces. Because where there is no priesthood, no purity, and no presence, she comes back to rule. So I asked the Lord, “What is the key?” He said: “Joash.” The name Joash means “The Lord has given.” The Lord said: “The generation of Joash and Jehoiada is now upon you.” Here’s what that means: Jehu may have exposed Jezebel but it was Joash and Jehoiada who removed her legacy. Athaliah, Jezebel’s daughter, rose to power in Judah after Jezebel’s death (2 Kings 11:1–3) . She was a generational extension of her mother’s spirit. But Jehoiada the priest preserved Joash, hiding him in the temple for six years. When the time was right, they overthrew Athaliah in the temple (2 Kings 11:13–16). That was so prophetic because they didn’t just confront the fruit of Jezebel they killed it in the place of worship, as a declaration: “We are taking this place back for the Lord.” They then led a revival of covenant and worship in the land (2 Kings 11:17–18), restoring God’s people to their true identity. And this is the battle we have today. We are not just confronting Jezebel, we are confronting her legacy, her influence, her strongholds in families, marriages, churches, and systems. But we can’t stop at exposure. We must rebuild the altar, restore the presence, and model the priesthood again. But here’s the word for you overcomers - the pioneers, the forerunners, the ones who refused to bow: You are not doomed to fight Jezebel your whole life. God is raising up a Joash generation, sons and daughters the Lord has given who will see and walk in the fruit from your persistence in battle, because you refused to tolerate Jezebel and have prevailed! Now because of you the next generation won’t face what you faced, because you confronted it, took it down, and established healthy! But here’s the key: You must restore your home, your marriage, your inner world into a lifestyle of worship and the right affections. You must refill the void with presence and priesthood. When we do that, we not only evict Jezebel, we close the door for good. And that’s Joash - living in the fruit of victory with no landing pads for the enemy. No more idols. Compromise. Other lovers. Just Jesus again. So the promise over you is this: You’re stepping out of the weariness. You’re stepping out of the endless fight. You’re stepping out of the cave. And you’re stepping into the fruit of obedience. You’re about to see legacy break forth in your children and those around you. You’ve walked through rejection, isolation, intimidation, and endless assassination as this spirit that tried to shut you down at every turn. But you didn’t bow. You didn’t break. And you prevailed. And now the Lord says - You’re stepping out of the fight and into the fruit. Because you chose wholeness over generational dysfunction. Because you confronted what others tolerated. And because you refused to shut down and be walked over. Your children will know peace where you knew warfare. They’ll grow up in safety, freedom, and peace because you tore up the contract you were born into and started a new bloodline. You were the target, but now you have become the testimony.  You’re going to watch a generation walk in peace where you’ve known warfare. Because you chose to fight, they will be free. So in the days to come watch as you begin to see FRUIT where you only encountered the FIGHT because the tide is shifting mighty ones and you have overcome! “You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world” —1 John 4:4

IT'S TURNING AROUND!

By Nate Johnston • April 22, 2025
I want to release a word of faith and authority over you as we begin this week. As I was praying over this week, I kept seeing this image in front of me of a person that was stuck in a corner with no way out, and arrows were flying at them from all sides. I instantly discerned that what I was seeing was someone who had been in a season where they felt very much like their calling had somehow made them feel like they’ve just been through constant assailing by the enemy, with constant arrows from all sides. Thats where you have felt exposed. That’s where you have felt bombarded. You felt like you’ve just been attacked from every single angle. Then I began to really feel like it was similar to the scripture that says: “But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say, ‘Restore!’” — (Isaiah 42:22, NIV) I began to feel authority rise up in my voice. I began to feel an authority saying, “No! This is injustice. This cannot happen. This must turn around now!” Then I began to prophesy: “Restore in the name of Jesus! Restore in the name of Jesus! Restore in the name of Jesus!” As soon as I said that, Deuteronomy 23:5 came to mind, where it says that every curse turns into a blessing. So I began to prophesy: “Lord, every curse will turn into a blessing. Every curse will turn into a blessing. Every single assignment of the enemy will turn into a blessing. Every area of robbery, every area of financial hardship, every area where the enemy has come after finances, after health - God is going to turn it all around.” And that’s when it hit me - THIS IS UNCTION OF A TURNAROUND! It’s the sensing that things had to shift! I began to prophesy: “Turnaround now in the name of Jesus! Turnaround now in the name of Jesus!” As I began to declare this, I began to see things beginning to shift in the atmosphere. Then suddenly I began to hear all this chatter in the spirit of people who had been worn down mentally to the point where they no longer believed that God could turn these situations around. And I suddenly realized the key: God is wanting to shift and turn around situations right now, but the enemy has worn down your authority and your faith to the point that you no longer believe He can do it. Hope deferred has crept in to such a degree that it’s made it feel impossible that God could move. And so I feel that even right now, God is coming against those mindsets. He’s coming against the fear. He’s coming against the intimidation of the army. He’s coming against the hope deferred that constantly makes you feel like nothing will be able to shift or turn around. He is restoring in you a boldness and authority to begin to speak to the things around you and cause them to be removed and those mountains around you to be cast into the sea. And that’s what God is doing this week. He is hitting up against your mind and the foreboding keeping you captive. You’ve been looking at the obstacles you’re facing right now in your finances, health, marriage, and everything else, and they look like mountains. The Lord says, “Where has your faith gone? Where has your authority gone? Where has your boldness gone? I am your protector. I am your provider. I am looking after you and watching over you. Yes, the war has been constant against you. Yes, the enemy has been trying to wear you down. But He says to you “this week, I want you to do what David did - and strengthen yourself in me!” “I want you to step out of the place of faithlessness and cowering, out of begging for the crumbs under the table” “I want you to shift your mindset, and as you shift your mindset, I’ll shift your circumstances!” “Even right now, begin to break every agreement with fear” “Break every agreement with hopelessness and despair that’s caused you to stop dreaming” “It’s caused you to drop your vision in the dust” “It’s caused you to stop wearing your mantle and slip back into survival mode in a time where I want you to thrive and dream with Me” Then I was reminded of something so special to us. Over the years we’ve experienced this strange but beautiful phenomenon in our lives. Whenever we’re in the thick of spiritual warfare, when we feel like we’re being preached at by our circumstances - that’s when God brings us a sign of His nearness. It happens like clockwork. But it’s so simple that you could miss it if you aren’t childlike. We see ducks in twos and they show up in odd places, at odd times. It’s always just when we’re beginning to feel overwhelmed or discouraged. It’s God’s subtle reminder: “I see you. I’m with you. It’s not over.” But this year, on our anniversary, it was different. Two doves appeared on our back fence and they stayed for a full week. It was as if God was saying: “Watch ME turn this around! Not by night nor by power!” And even though we were still in the middle of the storm the breakthrough hadn’t come yet His goodness showed up as a downpayment. Sometimes, the sign isn’t the full breakthrough, but it’s the reminder that He hasn’t forgotten you, and that the turnaround is closer than you think. There are many right now trying to ask God, “Where are my next steps?” but you’re not thinking with faith, you’re thinking with fear. And the Lord says: “It’s time to break that off. I’m reversing everything that’s come against you, and I’m turning it. And some would say, ‘Could this turn in a day?’ Yes, it can turn in a day. And the Lord says “you will watch in this season, as you partner with Me again not with the accuser, not with fear, not with lack but as you choose to partner again with Me, “You will see every single obstacle and every mountain around you crumble into the sea” But you need to partner with Me again. Will you partner again with My Spirit and reject the patterns and mindsets of this world? It is time to step back into a mind-renewal season that actually brings about the shifting of circumstances. Because the fruit of worry is actually causing that which you fear to come to you. But as you shift out of that, It will cause the fruit of your renewed mind to be that you see the kingdom of heaven invade your world, your lifestyle and you’ll see things shift around in a short period of time.” So give me your heart and mind and I’ll turn around the things around you that have tried to do in your strength and failed, and silence the storm” 

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BATTLED & SURVIVED JEZEBEL

By Nate Johnston • April 23, 2025
I have a prophetic word for those who have grown up under the demonic agenda of Jezebel, and for those raised in narcissistic environments and battled it their entire lives. Yes, the spirit of Jezebel has always had a target on your back because of who you are... Like Agent Smith from The Matrix, Jezebel keeps showing up, manifesting through different people, personalities, seasons, assignments, and alignments to take you out. It’s been the greatest battle of your life: figuring out how to steward your calling, how to be a voice in the midst of relentless attacks and constant attempts to cancel your calling. This spirit has tried to silence you, shut down your voice, reject you, belittle you, isolate you, and keep you in a cave. She’s tempted you to sugarcoat your words, dilute your message, and shrink your fire so you didn’t keep getting in her cross fire. I know the price many of you have paid for pioneering through this—for choosing health for your families, your marriages, and your future. I know the cost of refusing to tolerate her, season after season, and what you’ve walked through for the sake of not giving up on your calling. But in the hardest moments, you chose legacy again and again, yet it’s been costly. Recently, I was praying into this, especially in my own life, because I’ve battled this spirit for as long as I can remember, I asked the Lord, “Will it always be this way? Will I always have to fight Jezebel?” As I was reading through 1 Kings 19 - 2 Kings 10, the Lord highlighted the story of Jehu, the one who took out Jezebel (2 Kings 9:30–37). And the Lord said: “You are the Jehu. This generation is the Jehu generation, rising to confront and take out this spirit.” But here’s the thing: Jehu overthrew Jezebel, but he didn’t reform the land. “But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord… he did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam…” 2 Kings 10:31 He overthrew the person, but not the pattern. He tore down the idol, but didn’t restore the altar. He left a void, and that void became an open door. Right now, the test of our generation isn’t just about calling out what’s wrong. It’s about restoring the priesthood, rebuilding the altar, and leading the Church back into true worship. Because without worship, Jezebel returns. I’ve seen it in dreams repeatedly, Jezebel overthrown, only to be welcomed back through broken, unhealed, and unprotected spaces. Because where there is no priesthood, no purity, and no presence, she comes back to rule. So I asked the Lord, “What is the key?” He said: “Joash.” The name Joash means “The Lord has given.” The Lord said: “The generation of Joash and Jehoiada is now upon you.” Here’s what that means: Jehu may have exposed Jezebel but it was Joash and Jehoiada who removed her legacy. Athaliah, Jezebel’s daughter, rose to power in Judah after Jezebel’s death (2 Kings 11:1–3) . She was a generational extension of her mother’s spirit. But Jehoiada the priest preserved Joash, hiding him in the temple for six years. When the time was right, they overthrew Athaliah in the temple (2 Kings 11:13–16). That was so prophetic because they didn’t just confront the fruit of Jezebel they killed it in the place of worship, as a declaration: “We are taking this place back for the Lord.” They then led a revival of covenant and worship in the land (2 Kings 11:17–18), restoring God’s people to their true identity. And this is the battle we have today. We are not just confronting Jezebel, we are confronting her legacy, her influence, her strongholds in families, marriages, churches, and systems. But we can’t stop at exposure. We must rebuild the altar, restore the presence, and model the priesthood again. But here’s the word for you overcomers - the pioneers, the forerunners, the ones who refused to bow: You are not doomed to fight Jezebel your whole life. God is raising up a Joash generation, sons and daughters the Lord has given who will see and walk in the fruit from your persistence in battle, because you refused to tolerate Jezebel and have prevailed! Now because of you the next generation won’t face what you faced, because you confronted it, took it down, and established healthy! But here’s the key: You must restore your home, your marriage, your inner world into a lifestyle of worship and the right affections. You must refill the void with presence and priesthood. When we do that, we not only evict Jezebel, we close the door for good. And that’s Joash - living in the fruit of victory with no landing pads for the enemy. No more idols. Compromise. Other lovers. Just Jesus again. So the promise over you is this: You’re stepping out of the weariness. You’re stepping out of the endless fight. You’re stepping out of the cave. And you’re stepping into the fruit of obedience. You’re about to see legacy break forth in your children and those around you. You’ve walked through rejection, isolation, intimidation, and endless assassination as this spirit that tried to shut you down at every turn. But you didn’t bow. You didn’t break. And you prevailed. And now the Lord says - You’re stepping out of the fight and into the fruit. Because you chose wholeness over generational dysfunction. Because you confronted what others tolerated. And because you refused to shut down and be walked over. Your children will know peace where you knew warfare. They’ll grow up in safety, freedom, and peace because you tore up the contract you were born into and started a new bloodline. You were the target, but now you have become the testimony.  You’re going to watch a generation walk in peace where you’ve known warfare. Because you chose to fight, they will be free. So in the days to come watch as you begin to see FRUIT where you only encountered the FIGHT because the tide is shifting mighty ones and you have overcome! “You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world” —1 John 4:4

IT'S TURNING AROUND!

By Nate Johnston • April 22, 2025
I want to release a word of faith and authority over you as we begin this week. As I was praying over this week, I kept seeing this image in front of me of a person that was stuck in a corner with no way out, and arrows were flying at them from all sides. I instantly discerned that what I was seeing was someone who had been in a season where they felt very much like their calling had somehow made them feel like they’ve just been through constant assailing by the enemy, with constant arrows from all sides. Thats where you have felt exposed. That’s where you have felt bombarded. You felt like you’ve just been attacked from every single angle. Then I began to really feel like it was similar to the scripture that says: “But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say, ‘Restore!’” — (Isaiah 42:22, NIV) I began to feel authority rise up in my voice. I began to feel an authority saying, “No! This is injustice. This cannot happen. This must turn around now!” Then I began to prophesy: “Restore in the name of Jesus! Restore in the name of Jesus! Restore in the name of Jesus!” As soon as I said that, Deuteronomy 23:5 came to mind, where it says that every curse turns into a blessing. So I began to prophesy: “Lord, every curse will turn into a blessing. Every curse will turn into a blessing. Every single assignment of the enemy will turn into a blessing. Every area of robbery, every area of financial hardship, every area where the enemy has come after finances, after health - God is going to turn it all around.” And that’s when it hit me - THIS IS UNCTION OF A TURNAROUND! It’s the sensing that things had to shift! I began to prophesy: “Turnaround now in the name of Jesus! Turnaround now in the name of Jesus!” As I began to declare this, I began to see things beginning to shift in the atmosphere. Then suddenly I began to hear all this chatter in the spirit of people who had been worn down mentally to the point where they no longer believed that God could turn these situations around. And I suddenly realized the key: God is wanting to shift and turn around situations right now, but the enemy has worn down your authority and your faith to the point that you no longer believe He can do it. Hope deferred has crept in to such a degree that it’s made it feel impossible that God could move. And so I feel that even right now, God is coming against those mindsets. He’s coming against the fear. He’s coming against the intimidation of the army. He’s coming against the hope deferred that constantly makes you feel like nothing will be able to shift or turn around. He is restoring in you a boldness and authority to begin to speak to the things around you and cause them to be removed and those mountains around you to be cast into the sea. And that’s what God is doing this week. He is hitting up against your mind and the foreboding keeping you captive. You’ve been looking at the obstacles you’re facing right now in your finances, health, marriage, and everything else, and they look like mountains. The Lord says, “Where has your faith gone? Where has your authority gone? Where has your boldness gone? I am your protector. I am your provider. I am looking after you and watching over you. Yes, the war has been constant against you. Yes, the enemy has been trying to wear you down. But He says to you “this week, I want you to do what David did - and strengthen yourself in me!” “I want you to step out of the place of faithlessness and cowering, out of begging for the crumbs under the table” “I want you to shift your mindset, and as you shift your mindset, I’ll shift your circumstances!” “Even right now, begin to break every agreement with fear” “Break every agreement with hopelessness and despair that’s caused you to stop dreaming” “It’s caused you to drop your vision in the dust” “It’s caused you to stop wearing your mantle and slip back into survival mode in a time where I want you to thrive and dream with Me” Then I was reminded of something so special to us. Over the years we’ve experienced this strange but beautiful phenomenon in our lives. Whenever we’re in the thick of spiritual warfare, when we feel like we’re being preached at by our circumstances - that’s when God brings us a sign of His nearness. It happens like clockwork. But it’s so simple that you could miss it if you aren’t childlike. We see ducks in twos and they show up in odd places, at odd times. It’s always just when we’re beginning to feel overwhelmed or discouraged. It’s God’s subtle reminder: “I see you. I’m with you. It’s not over.” But this year, on our anniversary, it was different. Two doves appeared on our back fence and they stayed for a full week. It was as if God was saying: “Watch ME turn this around! Not by night nor by power!” And even though we were still in the middle of the storm the breakthrough hadn’t come yet His goodness showed up as a downpayment. Sometimes, the sign isn’t the full breakthrough, but it’s the reminder that He hasn’t forgotten you, and that the turnaround is closer than you think. There are many right now trying to ask God, “Where are my next steps?” but you’re not thinking with faith, you’re thinking with fear. And the Lord says: “It’s time to break that off. I’m reversing everything that’s come against you, and I’m turning it. And some would say, ‘Could this turn in a day?’ Yes, it can turn in a day. And the Lord says “you will watch in this season, as you partner with Me again not with the accuser, not with fear, not with lack but as you choose to partner again with Me, “You will see every single obstacle and every mountain around you crumble into the sea” But you need to partner with Me again. Will you partner again with My Spirit and reject the patterns and mindsets of this world? It is time to step back into a mind-renewal season that actually brings about the shifting of circumstances. Because the fruit of worry is actually causing that which you fear to come to you. But as you shift out of that, It will cause the fruit of your renewed mind to be that you see the kingdom of heaven invade your world, your lifestyle and you’ll see things shift around in a short period of time.” So give me your heart and mind and I’ll turn around the things around you that have tried to do in your strength and failed, and silence the storm” 

WHEN THE OLD WINE RUNS OUT..

By Nate Johnston • April 19, 2025
I have a word for those who feel like they have come to the end of themselves. The end of direction. The end of their past blueprints and vision. The end of revelation and insight. The end of an old assignment. Maybe even community.. It’s like the wedding at Cana when the wine ran out. The barrels are empty. You feel empty. “God where from here?” “Jesus bring new wine out of me!” But there’s a silence. Almost a sense of being completely alone and even abandoned. It’s the scary place of being in between what was and what is to come. You know the new wine is coming. You know it because you know that’s what God does. But right now, it doesn’t feel like anything is on the horizon and it feels like everything is falling apart. Warfare has increased. Robbery has increased. And with a lack of vision and clarity and direction you feel like you are just “existing” or floating. WAITING for the next step or instruction. Yes, the old wine has ran out. You can’t drive that car anymore. You can’t wear those shoes anymore. You can’t hold onto that tattered jacket anymore. The old won’t sustain you for another day and you can’t bring it with you into tomorrow. Then comes the discontent. “Is this bitterness? “Lord is my heart sick? Am I in rebellion?” “Or is this you leading me somewhere new?” You are looking at the empty wine pots of your life and just feel strangely “used” Burned out. Flat. Exhausted. Old manna rotting on the ground. Trying to reconcile what you gave your life for that has seemingly only led you to this “nothingness” Yes, you ran out with the wine. You died with the last drops. You had to, so He could now do what you couldn’t do. And so he could lead you into a new chapter you would never step into still carrying the old. It’s Jesus in gethsemane crying tears of blood, like they were the last drops of the old way of life. Old mindsets. Old covenants. Dysfunctions. Pain. Trauma. Addictions. Lack. Rejection. Fear. Torment. Knowing He was going to the cross so that the real new wine could be poured out upon the generations to come and break the bondage of the past. Knowing you right now would need a promise and a signpost of Gods goodness when you were experiencing your own “lost” and unknown season. And this resurrection weekend, I know this is a prophetic reminder for those still in a “death” to the old season. SUNDAY IS COMING! I know the second day is painful and confusing. But resurrection is coming. But not the old you. The weighed down you. The new you. The new wine. The new manna. I know you feel like everything has died but on the third day the tomb was found empty! Yes empty is not the sign of death, but of new life coming!!! So today can I invite you with me to give Jesus our last drops of the old? Let’s give him this moment of “in between” Let’s give him our fears, expectations, worries, and mindsets from our last chapter and ask Him for the new wine to start flowing in our lives. The new wine - the blood of Jesus that SPEAKS a better word. That breaks and annuls bad contracts and soul ties and shuts demonic doors. Yes the blood that overrides all! And I prophesy that you will shift from trying to figure this out in your own strength to seeing the new wine break through for you in Jesus name! This weekend Christy and I are taking communion over every one of you and praying for the blood of Jesus over you and your families! Join us! "and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel" Hebrews 12:24

PROPHETIC LIVE - APRIL 29!

By Nate Johnson • April 18, 2025
Movements are being birthed all across the nations, ministries that are pure in heart and motive, are about to take flight! This is a sign, that the WAVE OF AWAKENING is about to crash upon the shores of the nations whose hearts are ready and open! I want to invite you to a prophetic live, where we will cast prophetic vision, do some personal ministry, and pray as a community! Everyone is invited. Join me live on zoom— April 29, at 6pm PST. See you there! —NATE