I have a word for the nation of Australia, but I also speak prophetically about what many are experiencing personally. For this purpose, I have split this word into two parts to ensure the two are distinct. You can find the second word here at: https://nateandchristy.co/for-those-in-a-ground-zero-moment
The night after we flew into Australia, I had a dream. In the dream, I saw two towers in the middle of the Outback of Australia, towering through the clouds, when suddenly they came crashing down, one after the other.
Then, I was taken into another scene. In the place where the towers were, people were weeping at the site—then I heard "ground zero." This felt the same as the ground zero site in New York City, and like the physical site, I saw masses gathering around the destruction and weeping and travailing over the fall of these towers.
But then I yelled out, "The days of weeping are over, Australia. The time of mourning has come to an end. For now, out of the ashes shall come the great end-time move of God that was prophesied!"
Australia, you have been in a great shaking, and the towers of man's movements have come crashing down. The days of empires have come to an end, and the era of the ecclesia has come. When I woke up, I began thinking about how this could represent actual empires or movements that had crashed and fallen, but then two words came into my spirit—religion and apathy.
The two towers that are falling are the towers of religion and apathy. Two demonic assignments that have been given a high place in our nation.
Religion, to enslave us and make us feel that we are doing the Lord's work when it's the taming of the wild horses called to be a spearhead in the nations. And apathy, so we don't rise up in the power and awakening of the spirit, and so the nation called to be a breaker and forerunner of revival stays in slumber.
In the last four years, I have seen Australians battle these principalities, but the towers are falling.
THE FALL OF THE EMPIRE ERA IN AUSTRALIA
Yes, the Lord is raising up the warrior bride in this nation in a time of holy war. The family is coming back. The institution has lost its hold over Australia.
Self-seeking empires no longer hold a monopoly or sway over the nation. "For in this hour, I am leading my church back to her roots, says the Lord."
"I am waking Lazarus up, and he is taking off the grave clothes of an era of oppression and spiritual death."
Australia, the enemy, tried to make you a laughing stock in the nations. Muzzling you, shutting you up in your homes, enforcing the most legalistic laws upon you, and bringing the Church into subjugation.
The enemy tried to send you into a coma. But I prophesy that Your hibernation is over! The days of only barely surviving are over. For you have said, "We are Aussie battlers, and when times get tough, we know how to hunker down, but your days of hiding and surviving are over.
The Aussie battler mindset is breaking, and you are becoming the Aussie warriors that I called you to be, says the Lord. It's time to wake up from your sleep, Lazarus.
It's time to shake off the death sentence the enemy gave you, your health, your marriage, and your calling. You must leave the pews of environments that have kept you asleep at a time when you are meant to come alive.
YOU ARE IN A GROUND ZERO MOMENT
Many Australians feel that we are at ground zero as a nation and personally. The Lord showed us the depths of pain, anguish, and loss many have been carrying. We have felt the depths of loss and grief surrounding people. Loss of loved ones. Financial ruin. Bad reports over health. Marriages in crisis. Prodigal children, and death to many destinies and callings.
You are indeed at a ground zero moment, but I feel like I have a booming message in my spirit—Australia, you have never been more riper than you are now. People have their eyes fixed on America, but Australia is the secret weapon the enemy and other nations were not expecting. Convict nation. Easily controlled. Followers. The enemy has said.
Wild and free. Potent. Pioneers. The tip of the spear. Underestimated. The apple of my eye. My David company, The Lord says.
You have been knocked down many times, but you keep getting back up again. This season marks the dawning of a new day and a new beginning.
Do not grieve that you are at ground zero because this is where the Lord rebuilds you just as he rebuilds this nation. Your seed has fallen to the ground and died. Your promises have fallen to the ground.
And now you are left feeling soul sick and hopeless, but now says the Lord, I will TURN this nation around and turn your life around. For in the place of death and destruction shall come the greatest breakthrough season and outpouring.
THE BATTLE OF "BRANDS" DAYS ARE OVER
Australia, The days of battling each other and building your own kingdoms are over. The days of being a collective voice - many different parts as one are here.
It's the wild horses running together as one, not separately, where we are open to error, attack, and the narcissistic kingdom approach. We can't do franchise Christianity anymore. We can't do Saul's ways of kingdom where covering is elevated over covenant, all the while killing our own.
Pyramid scheme church is not the building method of the future.
As I was praying recently, I saw ACC turn into ACTS. The Lord is saying to the ACC-movement that a fresh wind is here if you will receive it. Will you choose my spirit over church-building methods? Will you lay down your plans like Samuel again for what I want to give you?
For if you do, you will become the Church of acts again and lead my Church forward. Will you Transition into the new or stay stuck in the old?
REVIVAL IS KINDLING
For many have said, "Australia, you are asleep. You aren't ready for revival. But there have been a remnant who have been filling up their lamps with oil and have contended. They have not relented or fallen asleep but are waiting for their moment. People have said Australia is dry, but all the dry wood needs is a spark, and it becomes a wildfire.
And I see wildfires sweeping this nation—homes of gatherings where the topic of Jesus and the most broken are invited to the table. Yes, true revival is kindling even in the midst of so much headache and brokenness. I'll say it again - Australia you are more ready than you know.
THERE IS A NEW WAVE HITTING THE SHORES
Look, do you see it? In the midst of the greatest season of shaking, there is a new wave approaching the shores of Australia. You felt like you missed the last one. But this one, you won't.
This is the wave of the fresh move of the spirit that is coming to usher in the greater glory season. Church, as usual, won't be possible ever again.
Leaders will have to choose between old manna and the humility and surrender that invites His glory.
THE DEATH OF THE TALL POPPY SPIRIT
Australia, this is a season in which I am rebranding you both personally and as a nation, the Lord says. For too many decades, you have had to battle the tall poppy spirit that has sought to cut you down and enlisted you to cut down your brothers and sisters, but those days are over.
For now, I am going to end that assignment once and for all by raising a generation of mothers and fathers who will break the orphan spirit that has kept this land bound. Aussies, it's time to REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE!
Other believers are not your enemy. You can stir up so much strife and witchcraft against each other through minor disagreements of methods or territorial mindsets that you can be pulled away from doing real kingdom. Battling each other is not doing kingdom. It's an orphan spirit.
You can't keep getting swept up into a leviathan agenda that twists words against each other and Brings a brassed heaven in your city.
Do you want revival? Bless each other. Pour into each other.
PROPHETS - THIS IS NOT YOUR NAZARETH
When we left Australia years ago, I said to the Lord, Australia is my Nazareth; it has chewed me up and spat me out. Then I said, "When will true apostles and prophets be welcome in their homeland? And the Lord said to me, "When their ships of religion run aground, they will no longer reject my prophets, but they will seek them out."
So the prophets had been in hiding here, silenced here, or taken their voices overseas. But recently I had a dream where I saw an American Eagle and an Australian Eagle together. And the Lord said to me, "Your days of speaking just to America are over. I am raising an Eagle company in Australia because the ship has RUN AGROUND."
The next day, Therese Engle gave me a painting of two eagles, one of which was given to her by a First Nations woman in New Mexico. One was the American bald eagle, and the other was the Australian wedge-tailed eagle.
Prophets in the house, you need to rise. War eagles, this is your time.
Shake off the muzzle of Jezebel!
The Church needs your voice!
First Nations voices rise up!
And watch as even pharaohs seek you out to interpret the dream that saves a nation from famine. I heard the Lord say OWN IT JOSEPH. STOP APOLOGIZING FOR IT JOSEPH!
You keep dumbing down your voice and apologizing for what I give you. But it's time to shake off the fear of man once and for all and be the voice I have called you to be.
WILD BRUMBIES
I have a word for the wild brumbies... It's time to leave obscurity. Brumbies are the descendants of escaped or lost horses, dating back in some cases to those belonging to the early European settlers. You have escaped a religious environment, been rejected from one, and lost yourself along the way..
But it's now time to join the fight for our nation.
Like the light horseman of the battle of Beersheba in 1917, you know there is a call in you to push through the opposition both internally and globally and be the breaker God has called you to be. Just as those 800 lighthorsemen charged over the desert plains that early morning, breaking the defense of the city and taking it back, you have a calling to go before the rest of the Church and take back what has been stolen personally and globally.
Take back the wells.
You can't be tamed anymore. You can't hide anymore. You can't apologize anymore. When we bumped into Lou in 2018 he told us how Australians go ahead of the pack to clear the way. Australia you are the wild brumbies called to rise up and clear the road preceding this great move of God.
Will you rise up, or will you hide?
Will you appease the current system or build the new? Will you be silent or be the voice of the one crying in the wilderness?
No more compromises.
No more selling your birthright for acceptance.
You are Jeptha from Judges 11, who was the captain of a band of outcasts who saved a nation. This is your moment.
A NEW ANZAC ALLIANCE
For in this hour, I am breaking the illegitimate handshakes that have been made by people in power and leadership that I didn't ordain, and I am setting a new alliance of a pure-hearted company that seeks only to build my house, says the Lord. This is the alliance of the new Anzacs - the remnant in our nations coming together as one again.
It's time for my wild horses to rise again and the nation of Australia to leave the tomb and be the fresh song and sound that rides the wave of revival and impacts the nations.
