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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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By Nate Johnston 26 Mar, 2024
(Before you read this word it's important you know how weighty this felt to me. Waking up from an audible dream and trying to write down everything feels like a flood breaking out and trying to be the pen keeping up. I woke up beyond moved. I felt so raw I could barely function for hours. If I'm honest I don't think I have done this word justice, so I am praying that you too have your own revelation concerning this in the days to come) Grassroots: “not adapted from or added to an existing facility or operation : totally new” “of, relating to, or involving the common people, especially as contrasted with or separable from an elite” Recently the Lord spoke to me in a dream “Nate you are going back to “grassroots” to birth what is coming” “You are going back to the simple, the uncluttered, and the untethered from the systems and methods of man” “My remnant are going to peel back the layers of religion and lead the church back to simplicity again” “For many been living grieved by the compromise, apathy, and mixture of the current institution” “They have been set aside for this purpose but have been deeply discouraged to see that the empires of man still seem to be thriving in a time where the real church needs to rise up” “But In a moment the castles of sand shall fall that are not built upon me” “And in that moment I shall raise up a “faithful priest” a people who aren’t about status and building the tallest tower, but a people who worship me and truly love me” THE TIRED BRIDE “For I have seen my bride, tired, burnt out by the spirit of religion that has taken over the pulpit for decades, enslaved to something that was meant to make her come alive” “But they made it about control and toil for a vision that was not mine” “They made it about bricks and mortar and put families, marriages, and destinies on the altar to achieve it” “And now we have a tired bride that are bitter, in bondage, and need deliverance from a narrative they have been fed their whole lives” “Oh I long to see her rise up, full of joy and free!” “And in this next season I am leading her back to a fresh slate and I will restore joy to her and unshackled purpose will be found there” “I will lead her from the battlefield and heal her wounds” says the Lord. THE CALL OF THE WILD “For many have felt the pull away from the major franchises that have put me in a box and the shift of desire deep inside them” “It’s been uncomfortable and almost unnatural” “But It’s the call of the wild, to the untamed life, the lifestyle of encounter, my voice, and to the fresh beginning again” “It’s the reviving of hearts and the stripping away of the shrouds of religion stealing our childlike passion” “It’s the call back to simple and free” “Simple relationship” “Uncluttered” “Undistracted” “Whole, and no longer scattered, fractured, broken, and battered” OFF THE HAMSTER WHEEL “For many are right now leaving the hamster wheel they have been on for years and decades” “They are leaving the cages of building what no longer sounds like me, and their eyes are opening and following my voice again against the multitude of noise from false fathers and Pharisees” “Yes many right now are feeling the pull away to build what is organic and untainted” “They are still in the wrestle of this step because it looks small and insignificant but what starts out small will soon be a movement of epic proportions” “For it will stir up the suppressed hunger and longing of my people and they will recognize that I am no longer moving upon the systems of man” “What they once saw as rebellion they will recognize is a movement of that which is pure” “And my Glory will do the talking as I show up in power and restore a people that have been shipwrecked and tossed around by the seas of culture” DON’T FIGHT IT ANY LONGER “So don’t fight it any longer” “You feel this way because you have responded to my call” “I know you feel naked and raw” “I know you feel unstable and unsure how to step into this fully” “I know you are struggling to see what is ahead but as you surrender daily to the leading of my spirit you will keep choosing what i am building through you” “For this is not only your deliverance but the deliverance of my people who have been put in Ursula’s music box, silenced, tamed, and caged to something she was never meant to be” “It’s time for my Martha church to become Mary again” “Yes, this is a legacy moment for the church” “Her true inheritance awaits. The pure call I gave her and the power and authority she was meant to wield” “So, today I give you permission to rest in me” “To be still” “To untangle yourself from that which brings unnecessary warfare and constant mental bondage”  “I give you permission to go back to grassroots with me” “And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh” Ezekiel 36:26 “So it will be in that day, that his burden will be removed from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken because of fatness” Isaiah 10:27 “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert” Isaiah 43:18-19 “But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint” Isaiah 40:31
By Nate Johnston 21 Mar, 2024
I had a dream last night that was so simple yet powerful. In the dream I was with a group of people standing at a large bronze gate waiting to inspect and survey this dream property. “What are we waiting for?” I ask. “The keys to the gate” someone next to me said. Then out of nowhere discouragement broke out and they began to say “This won’t work. It’s past its due date. It didn’t happen and it’s now time to let it go” Suddenly a man in a tattered jacket takes out a thick document and throws it on the ground and walks away In utter despair. They all left In a broken-down truck together leaving me standing there at the gate wondering what I had just witnessed. I felt grieved because it seemed like they had poured their lives into this vision but they just felt done with believing for something that hadn’t come to pass. They were over pioneering and stewarding prophetic words that didn’t come to any level of fruition. I know the feeling. It can be painful and perplexing. As I stood there at the gate I began to have my own moment of despair as it brought up some unfinished dreams and gates that had not been “UNLOCKED” that I had felt that God wanted us to pursue over the years. “Yeh Lord didn’t you say………” “Didn’t you give me all those dreams?” “What about all the prophetic puzzle pieces over the years that lead to this? Now the gate just remains shut?” I slumped to the ground feeling overwhelmed with the feeling of failure and like I had bought a lie and I knew this is what that group that left felt too. Deep hope deferred and soul sickness.. But then the Lord began to speak; “Get up! Get up! Shake off the dust! Pick up your building plans! Pick up the vision that you dropped!” “For I am not a man that I should lie, and I am not one who gives false hope” “I do not give dreams to string you along but to keep you fixed on the vision that I PROMISE TO FULFILL!” “And just as despair and delay is causing my people to let go of what I gave them because the gate seems locked shut, Watch now as I BUST IT WIDE OPEN!” “And this will be a season of SUDDEN PROVISION & DIRECTION to bring to pass what I gave you long ago” “And you will see what has felt at arms reach come into your grasp so you can finally BUILD THE BLUEPRINTS I PUT INSIDE YOU” “For you have said “I can’t go beyond this point without the keys and provision” “And this is why the enemy has assaulted you on every side with lack, loss, debt, red tape and closed doors - so you would go back to survival mode and FORFEIT FAITH” “But you aren’t empty handed and I am not late” “Now watch me FINISH IT!” When I woke up these scriptures came to mind; "I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living. Wait for the LORD; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the LORD" Psalms 27:13-14  “This is what the Lord says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him so that gates will not be shut: will go before you and will level the mountains[ a ]; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron. I will give you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, who summons you by name” Isaiah 45:1-3 PRAYER Lord today I am choosing to FIGHT instead of FORFEIT the vision you have given me. Today I am picking them up again and choosing to believe that they are YOUR plans more than mine and that you will fulfil and FINISH them in Jesus' name!
By Nate Johnston 26 Mar, 2024
(Before you read this word it's important you know how weighty this felt to me. Waking up from an audible dream and trying to write down everything feels like a flood breaking out and trying to be the pen keeping up. I woke up beyond moved. I felt so raw I could barely function for hours. If I'm honest I don't think I have done this word justice, so I am praying that you too have your own revelation concerning this in the days to come) Grassroots: “not adapted from or added to an existing facility or operation : totally new” “of, relating to, or involving the common people, especially as contrasted with or separable from an elite” Recently the Lord spoke to me in a dream “Nate you are going back to “grassroots” to birth what is coming” “You are going back to the simple, the uncluttered, and the untethered from the systems and methods of man” “My remnant are going to peel back the layers of religion and lead the church back to simplicity again” “For many been living grieved by the compromise, apathy, and mixture of the current institution” “They have been set aside for this purpose but have been deeply discouraged to see that the empires of man still seem to be thriving in a time where the real church needs to rise up” “But In a moment the castles of sand shall fall that are not built upon me” “And in that moment I shall raise up a “faithful priest” a people who aren’t about status and building the tallest tower, but a people who worship me and truly love me” THE TIRED BRIDE “For I have seen my bride, tired, burnt out by the spirit of religion that has taken over the pulpit for decades, enslaved to something that was meant to make her come alive” “But they made it about control and toil for a vision that was not mine” “They made it about bricks and mortar and put families, marriages, and destinies on the altar to achieve it” “And now we have a tired bride that are bitter, in bondage, and need deliverance from a narrative they have been fed their whole lives” “Oh I long to see her rise up, full of joy and free!” “And in this next season I am leading her back to a fresh slate and I will restore joy to her and unshackled purpose will be found there” “I will lead her from the battlefield and heal her wounds” says the Lord. THE CALL OF THE WILD “For many have felt the pull away from the major franchises that have put me in a box and the shift of desire deep inside them” “It’s been uncomfortable and almost unnatural” “But It’s the call of the wild, to the untamed life, the lifestyle of encounter, my voice, and to the fresh beginning again” “It’s the reviving of hearts and the stripping away of the shrouds of religion stealing our childlike passion” “It’s the call back to simple and free” “Simple relationship” “Uncluttered” “Undistracted” “Whole, and no longer scattered, fractured, broken, and battered” OFF THE HAMSTER WHEEL “For many are right now leaving the hamster wheel they have been on for years and decades” “They are leaving the cages of building what no longer sounds like me, and their eyes are opening and following my voice again against the multitude of noise from false fathers and Pharisees” “Yes many right now are feeling the pull away to build what is organic and untainted” “They are still in the wrestle of this step because it looks small and insignificant but what starts out small will soon be a movement of epic proportions” “For it will stir up the suppressed hunger and longing of my people and they will recognize that I am no longer moving upon the systems of man” “What they once saw as rebellion they will recognize is a movement of that which is pure” “And my Glory will do the talking as I show up in power and restore a people that have been shipwrecked and tossed around by the seas of culture” DON’T FIGHT IT ANY LONGER “So don’t fight it any longer” “You feel this way because you have responded to my call” “I know you feel naked and raw” “I know you feel unstable and unsure how to step into this fully” “I know you are struggling to see what is ahead but as you surrender daily to the leading of my spirit you will keep choosing what i am building through you” “For this is not only your deliverance but the deliverance of my people who have been put in Ursula’s music box, silenced, tamed, and caged to something she was never meant to be” “It’s time for my Martha church to become Mary again” “Yes, this is a legacy moment for the church” “Her true inheritance awaits. The pure call I gave her and the power and authority she was meant to wield” “So, today I give you permission to rest in me” “To be still” “To untangle yourself from that which brings unnecessary warfare and constant mental bondage”  “I give you permission to go back to grassroots with me” “And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh” Ezekiel 36:26 “So it will be in that day, that his burden will be removed from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken because of fatness” Isaiah 10:27 “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert” Isaiah 43:18-19 “But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint” Isaiah 40:31
By Nate Johnston 21 Mar, 2024
I had a dream last night that was so simple yet powerful. In the dream I was with a group of people standing at a large bronze gate waiting to inspect and survey this dream property. “What are we waiting for?” I ask. “The keys to the gate” someone next to me said. Then out of nowhere discouragement broke out and they began to say “This won’t work. It’s past its due date. It didn’t happen and it’s now time to let it go” Suddenly a man in a tattered jacket takes out a thick document and throws it on the ground and walks away In utter despair. They all left In a broken-down truck together leaving me standing there at the gate wondering what I had just witnessed. I felt grieved because it seemed like they had poured their lives into this vision but they just felt done with believing for something that hadn’t come to pass. They were over pioneering and stewarding prophetic words that didn’t come to any level of fruition. I know the feeling. It can be painful and perplexing. As I stood there at the gate I began to have my own moment of despair as it brought up some unfinished dreams and gates that had not been “UNLOCKED” that I had felt that God wanted us to pursue over the years. “Yeh Lord didn’t you say………” “Didn’t you give me all those dreams?” “What about all the prophetic puzzle pieces over the years that lead to this? Now the gate just remains shut?” I slumped to the ground feeling overwhelmed with the feeling of failure and like I had bought a lie and I knew this is what that group that left felt too. Deep hope deferred and soul sickness.. But then the Lord began to speak; “Get up! Get up! Shake off the dust! Pick up your building plans! Pick up the vision that you dropped!” “For I am not a man that I should lie, and I am not one who gives false hope” “I do not give dreams to string you along but to keep you fixed on the vision that I PROMISE TO FULFILL!” “And just as despair and delay is causing my people to let go of what I gave them because the gate seems locked shut, Watch now as I BUST IT WIDE OPEN!” “And this will be a season of SUDDEN PROVISION & DIRECTION to bring to pass what I gave you long ago” “And you will see what has felt at arms reach come into your grasp so you can finally BUILD THE BLUEPRINTS I PUT INSIDE YOU” “For you have said “I can’t go beyond this point without the keys and provision” “And this is why the enemy has assaulted you on every side with lack, loss, debt, red tape and closed doors - so you would go back to survival mode and FORFEIT FAITH” “But you aren’t empty handed and I am not late” “Now watch me FINISH IT!” When I woke up these scriptures came to mind; "I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living. Wait for the LORD; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the LORD" Psalms 27:13-14  “This is what the Lord says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him so that gates will not be shut: will go before you and will level the mountains[ a ]; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron. I will give you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, who summons you by name” Isaiah 45:1-3 PRAYER Lord today I am choosing to FIGHT instead of FORFEIT the vision you have given me. Today I am picking them up again and choosing to believe that they are YOUR plans more than mine and that you will fulfil and FINISH them in Jesus' name!
By Nate Johnston 19 Mar, 2024
I woke up yesterday hearing the Lord say “ I am DIS-ARMING the STORM!" “And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross” Colossians 2:15 Then I heard the Lord say; “Tell them that it is now time to enter into the era called TRIUMPH, for I have marked this next season not with relentless losses but with VICTORY” “For in the last season the enemy warred at the church to see if she would fight or run, rise or hide, so he could STOP THEM using the keys I have given them” “But right now I am shaking the church out of the tomb of powerlessness and defeat and giving her back her keys!” “For I have seen my people defeated and feeling like they could never overpower or shift the warfare storm at thier doorstep” “I have seen them so lost in the daily swirl of chatter, witchcraft, and battling low level demons that they haven’t been able to see beyond it” “Have you forgotten that you are the head and not the tail? Above only and not beneath?” “Have you become so accustomed to the view from under the table that you have forgotten that you were given a seat at it?” When did the taunts of Goliath make you lose your victory? “For I have seen your hope dashed in the battle as you have felt like your prayers have fallen and were unheard” “You have felt so beat up that you began to doubt my power and my ability to shift the tide against you” “But in this hour I am DISARMING every assignment against at your mind, your family, finances, and destiny and setting the record straight” “But even better, I am going to do it THROUGH YOU! So get ready as I begin to shake the chains loose and RESTORE YOUR FIGHT!” THE KEYS UNLEASHED “And I am going to teach you how to use the keys I have given you” “And I am going to give you different eyes and a higher perspective to see BEYOND the storm” “And I am going to show you how to effectively disarm the attacks that have come at you daily” “And I am going to give you discernment to see the dynamics, mechanics, reason, and sources of these assignments so you counteract them” “I am giving you the keys to live victorious in a world of many storms and you will learn to soar above them all” TAKING BACK GROUND “It’s time to get back your fight because in your battle weariness you have tolerated the swirl and the attack” “You have tolerated the witchcraft and left your warrior stance in the spirit. Get it back!” “You have begun to hide under your blankets instead of opposing the assignments against you” “So wake up mighty warriors because what you have endured is not the way it will always be” “I know you have become accustomed to a heavy atmosphere and skies of drama but I have called you to clear the air!” “It’s time to release the sound of victory and take back ground!” THE TRUMP CARD OF THE BLOOD “I know the war against you has been next level and has been close to taking you out completely” “I know it has been tempting to give up and hang up your mantle, but now I am going to reveal my hand of victory in your life” “I am going to expose and make a public spectacle of every assignment sent to rob and strip you, uncover you, shame you, and leave you bloodied and beat by the side of the road” “In this season called TRIUMPH I am going to reveal my church as victors and you as my prized champion” “But you have said “How could I possibly come back from this level of loss and defeat?” “And I would say to you “It’s time to see the POWER OF THE BLOOD at work in your life!” “Even right now it’s bringing things into order and delivering you from every plan, attack, tie, demon, and principality sent to kill you before your time. “The blood is the trump card that causes every other power to bow” “So watch now as I begin to turn the tide and clear the storm over your life. 
By Nate Johnston 17 Mar, 2024
This is a word for the remnant who have been set apart for many years and still have little understanding of: Why you have been set apart. Why you have been rejected and do not fit the current box. Why you are carrying blueprints and language that doesn’t have a place to land yet. In fact even in what many are calling “the new wineskin” you have felt displaced and like you still don't fit. Many of you have been discouraged because you have been waiting for a moment to belong and finally find your kinsmen who carry the same heart and DNA as you. “Lord where are the other remnant?” you have cried out. It has felt like you have entered into 2024 feeling like God is even further SEPARATING you from the pack. “Set apart again? Really?” Yes, we have entered into a season where God is sifting even His remnant, to ready us for the years to come. For even at the tables of the new breed there has been compromise, mixture, and OLD WINE dressed up as new gourds, and the Lord is PROTECTING you from that. Does this mean you will be isolated again? NO! For this is a season where God is rallying and banding the remnant TOGETHER! They will come out of their wildernesses and find those who will not bow to the FAUX WINE MOVEMENTS. It may be a season of greater separation from the old order and the pure, but this time… YOU WILL NOT DO IT ALONE. This will be a season where God is dividing the sheep from the goats, but the sheep won’t be alone anymore. You will find your true herd again. THE NEW GUARD IS BEING APPOINTED I woke up at 2:12 am a few nights ago and felt to look up the book of Micah. “I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob; I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men” Micah 2:12 This was the Lord saying these clear points to us: He is assembling and gathering us - bringing us together as one herd. We will be a LOUD VOICE like a noisy multitude. 2 represents the prophetic house he is building and the division of true and false, old and new. 12 represents Government and the kingdom God is building Then I heard the Lord say, “I am right now choosing my cabinet for the years to come!” “But don’t look to those who look the part, sound the part, and have the credentials, for they did that with Saul, but i will not allow another era of mans government, for i am right now establishing MY KINGDOM built upon the house of David!” Right now we are in a time where God is calling and appointing His movers and shakers for the days to come. He is standing down those who have not stewarded their role well or have been sold out for earthly rewards. He is revealing the cracks in the pavement and bringing in a people who will repair them and build the new thing. And remnant, He is choosing you for this. This is why you have been set apart and God would not allow you to sit at those tables. This is why He kept you in the fire over and over because it was not only the safest place to be but also the place where you would be readied for the summoning to the palace like Joseph. A SAMUEL MOMENT Then the Lord said to me “Tell them that this is a Samuel moment where I call upon them and anoint them for a new post and role” And like Samuel who was born into a time of compromise and where the word of the Lord was scarce, the remnant are being commissioned in an hour where the enemy has tainted the ointment and they will restore the priesthood and the purity of the prophetic office once again. So remnant get ready for dreams. Get ready to be awoken in the night hours as the glory of the Lord visits you and His voice stands you to your feet. And may your response be “Speak Lord for your servant is listening”
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