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A ZIKLAG MOMENT: IT ALWAYS LOOKS HOPELESS BEFORE BREAKTHROUGH
Hey friends, yesterday I shared this;
“Things look the most hopeless just before major breakthrough. It’s normally when you want to give up and you start trying to find a way to retreat. It’s when hope-deferred feels like it’s closing in on you and screaming at you in surround sound. It’s normally when you feel tempted to turn the stone into bread and end the madness. It’s at the pinnacle of exhaustion and contending when you start to put your sword in its sheath and get under your sheets that suddenly it comes. I feel this for so many right now.. HOLD ON.. IT IS COMING! Though It tarries IT SHALL COME!”
I feel like I needed to speak on this a little and REVIVE some tired hearts.
THE WAR IS AGAINST YOUR DUE SEASON
A few days ago we were facing some opposition and I could feel discouragement trying to settle in when the Lord spoke to me and said “Don’t be fooled, breakthrough is so close. It’s due time!” and it shook me out of that train of thought.
In fact, it started to get me excited because I was suddenly aware that this opposition was a sign that something big was coming.
Due time? Due means owed or owing as a debt, and having reached the date at which payment is required.
The enemy could see it. Sense it. Smell it. God was preparing something and he didn’t know what it was but he could tell it was going to be a game-changer. THAT is exactly what the enemy is seeing over your life right now and exactly why he is playing his games on you.
It’s why he is trying to create diversions and distractions around you.
It’s why he is trying to mess up your relationships, marriages, and family.
It’s why he is trying to bombard you with so many situations so you lose focus.
He is trying to knock the wind out of you.
TENSION & BATTLE against what God has told you and promised you is a sign that IT IS COMING!
THE DELAYED BIRTHING GRIEF
As I sat with the Lord over this I suddenly went into intercession for those who have been under this relentless warfare because of the massive and held-up breakthrough that was coming to them. Their breakthrough was in contention because of the magnitude of it.
Their coming breakthrough was the culmination of decades of warfaring and contending for the promise and many of them after not seeing it were at the point of intense grief, hope deferred, or feeling numb and no longer in faith.
They felt barren and no longer fought for what was owed to them. They were in survival.
Have you felt like this? Soul-sick and visionless? Barren and grief-stricken? I know we have in many times in the last few years. We have battled what I have seen few people battle and there has been many opportunities to give up and run. We get it!
For many of you, It has felt like the enemy has won but he hasn’t. Something is coming my friends.
It is a birthing season and you can feel it. Something has shifted.
THE DREAM OF THE PRINCE OF PERSIA
A few weeks ago I woke in a dream to see a principality staring at me from the end of my bed that I instantly discerned as the prince of Persia. I began to yell at it “THIEF! LIAR! YOUR TIME IS UP! YOU MUST REPAY!”
“Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house” Proverbs 6:31
When I woke up I went to the story of Daniel 10;
“Then he continued, “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them. But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia” Daniel 10:12-13
We have been in a season of time where the assignment against us, the church has been simply to prevent and delay what God is wanting to do through us. It’s personal and corporate. The enemy has been wanting to defer the due date of his own demise but also the church rising up and stepping into their harvest and the harvest. Like the scripture, I can even see a cycle of 21 months that has been a time of even more extreme delay. But this is breaking.
This principality is being exposed. The red tape covering and entwined around us and our missions is being untangled.
Interestingly the name Persia means: divided or division which reveals the enemy's plans to cut your dreams down the middle and put you in two minds about what God has said is yours. But no longer. Repayment is coming. Delay is breaking.
WE ARE IN ZIKLAG
As I was in this intercessional and conversational moment with God I began to feel a song rising in my spirit and I began to sing;
I can feel the earth shaking where the seed fell and died.
I can see the sun peaking over the horizon of my midnight.
I can taste resurrection coming on the tide
This is a Ziklag moment.
This is a turning moment.
We know the story of where David and his men returned to Ziklag to find their camp had been robbed by the Amalekites including their families and all their possessions. David’s men were so upset they became soul-sick and wanted to stone David but David’s response was to get away and strengthen himself in the Lord. That’s when God gave David an instruction that changed everything.
“And David inquired of the LORD, “Shall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?” “Pursue them,” he answered. “You will certainly overtake them and succeed in the rescue.” 1 Samuel 30:8
We are in that same moment right now! We are in an hour where God is saying to you and I and the church “It is to RECOVER ALL!”
I know you have been in Ziklag and you feel like you have lost everything and maybe you feel soul-sick and like you have died. Your very family has come under fire. Your marriage has come under fire. Your home has been robbed. I know for many their actual physical home has been robbed. Stability is gone. Many have been wandering around and have cried out to the Lord to establish them again.
Everything that has been lost and stolen from you MUST come back! You need refreshing. You need recompense. It’s time!
WE NEED TO EXIT DESPONDENCY & ENTER RECOVERY
Then the Lord dropped more..
He led me to the scripture whew David acquired Ziklag in the first place. Its purpose was to raise and train an army. God is going to use your Ziklag that robbed to be what launches you out!
The roots of the name Ziklag come from the words that mean to be; pressed, put under pressure, distress, and under siege. It also means the process of smelting metal. Do you get the connection?
God is going to use this season of distress we have been through to smelter us like steal that will be used as a weapon against the enemy!
It’s all coming back. I feel it. We have been in a drought of miracles, signs, and wonders. So much has been held back like a pent-up flood but watch now as it begins to flow! First a trickle then a flood. This is not just personal, this is something God is doing globally. Nations are going to feel it. We are going to see the to robbery on a national level come to a head. It’s time!
“When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him” Isaiah 59:19
Know we are praying for you today whatever you are going through. Know we are surrounding you in prayer and in agreement that the breakthrough that is yours comes swiftly in Jesus' name!
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By Nate Johnston
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January 14, 2025
GUARD YOUR HEART The first thing I want to share is a scripture that I heard the Lord repeating over and over the last few days; “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it” Proverbs 4:23 And as i was thinking about what this could relate to this week apart from the obvious I heard the word “triggered” and knew right away that this week we must guard our hearts and be vigilant because the enemy may try to trigger you and bait you into warfare, conflict, or unnecessary drama, fear, worry, and doubts. Guard your hearts! Don’t be pulled left and right this week. Stay grounded and focussed. WHISPERING CYCLONES The second thing I want to share with you this week is to look out for the whispering cyclones. The Lord showed me there would be an increase, especially on social media and in the news, of chatter wars, slander, and witchcraft. The phrase the Lord gave me was “whispering cyclones.” These whispers seem innocent, pure, and some will even parade as righteous, but they are spiritual cyclones releasing witchcraft and sliming people. The Lord said “Tell them not to engage, for it is a distraction method of the enemy to get you off course to focus on your accuser rather than your Savior. Don’t engage with the cyclones. Don’t engage with the conversation of demons!” The Lord wants you this week to focus on prayer in the secret place and releasing the sound you were meant to release. When you focus on these whispering cyclones, it robs you of your purity and taints the sound you were meant to carry. WARNING DREAM SURGE The third thing I want to share with you this week is that dreams are going to increase. The Lord is going to release warning dreams and intercessory assignment dreams. The scripture that came to mind was Job 5:12: “He thwarts the plans of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.” The Lord is releasing warning dreams but is also releasing dreams that show your authority to thwart and prevent tragedies in the spirit. Do not think that what He reveals is beyond you just because it may involve governmental matters or nations. The Lord has called you to pray. When you receive these warning dreams: Write them down. Pray them through with friends. And remember that your prayers avail much. God is looking for a new breed of watchmen in this hour, those who will rise with a fresh mantle to release the strategies of heaven, evict principalities and powers, and stop the plans of darkness. That’s you! HOPE DEFERRED CROSSROAD I heard the Lord say that this week, God is continuing to clear out areas of hope deferred. The phrase I heard was “hope deferred crossroads.” I believe we are in a process where the Lord is doing a deep soul work in His people and breaking hope deferred that has been sitting in the recesses of peoples souls like hardened concrete. This week, look out for moments where the Lord surfaces areas of your life that feel like barriers or unresolved issues. I saw them as shrines to past seasons, places where you had built a monument to disappointment. The Lord is asking you to lay them down so you can pick up fresh hope and new promises. This week will be a time of surrender. The Lord may lead you into healing moments where He asks for full access to those wounded places so He can break off the weight of disappointment. As you confront hope deferred, you’ll begin to notice a crossroad where things shift and areas that once felt blocked will suddenly open up. 4 YEAR CYCLES ENDING The next thing the Lord showed me was that He is clearing out old cycles from the last four years. There were specific cycles of attack that began in 2020, assignments of the enemy meant to hinder, delay, and assassinate you, not to mention tire you out and burn you out. The Lord is bringing restitution and restoration as we come to this 4 year mark. This will manifest in situations where you will finally see conclusions to struggles that have persisted since 2020. What this means is that you will notice a side release in places you have become accustomed to endless tediousness and difficulty. BUILDING THE UNUSUAL The Lord said to me, “This will be a year of building, but not according to what you’ve known.” God is calling His people to build the unusual. It won’t look like the typical ministry models but will mirror the Acts 2 model: family, not empires. Then the Lord spoke to me about 5 unusual expressions that he is right now calling people to break away from the norm to build. Spiritual Hospitals — refuge centers for the sick, broken, and addicted, demon possessed and hurting. Houses of healing and divine restoration. Adoption Centers — places where true spiritual mothers and fathers will Impart identity to the next generation and release the spirit of adoption over spiritual orphans. Launch Pads — places to train, equip, ignite and send people into their callings. Fellowship Tables — where the rejected and isolated can go to find true family. Prophetic Dream Teams — where there are no hidden group agendas, but rather war eagles who simply gather to pray, share dreams, and move on them. But there will also be many other unusual expressions that get awoken this week. Ideas and blueprints for raising powerful and healthy families and children. The question is, will you say yes to the unusual? STRATEGIC RELOCATIONS The Lord is relocating many people right now for strategic assignments. Dreams, visions, and supernatural direction will increase as God speaks to those who have felt silenced or stifled and stuck for a long time. The Lord is releasing a call to move, shift, and inherit territories for His Kingdom purposes. He is calling us into a Psalm 2:8 “Ask of Me, and I will give you the nations.” God is putting cities and nations on people’s hearts. He is searching for obedient ones who will rise as movers, shakers, and waymakers that will GO and do what He says to do. THE LION & THE TRUMPET As I was praying over this week I saw a vision of a timid lion, and this lion was walking around growling, but it was almost like the growl of a lion that was incredibly sick. Suddenly, I saw the Spirit of the Lord come upon this lion, and the lion began to roar in power. I knew it was the Lord showing me what is happening in the body of Christ right now. I then saw a trumpet in the spirit coming from the mouth of the lion. It was the sound of a trumpet blaring, and I believe that this week there is a shift taking place in the body of Christ. The Lord is restoring the trumpet back to the Church. It will start small but the sound will begin to grow louder. It’s the unapologetic cry of David in the land that will take down giants and evict principalities and powers in the land. The Lord is doing something new, and it carries the weight of the moment when you’ve been pressed and pushed into a corner for so long. Suddenly, there comes an unction, a fresh moment when the Spirit of the Living God comes upon you. Out of that place of suppression, oppression, being tied down and held back, suddenly from deep within you comes the fresh cry and sound of the worshiper you were called to be - the eagle of war. Look out this week for a fresh unction of the Holy Spirit that will open the mouths of those who have been canceled by the Church and canceled by the world. PRAY OVER THE INAUGURATION Lastly, as I have been praying over the United States and the inauguration on the 20th we have felt strongly that the enemies plans are still to continue to derail it in some way shape or form and to continue to use demonic and divisive propaganda to create havoc. This week we must pray for our leaders and pray for no terror or calamity to come against them. Also pray for all plots and plans of harm and terror around the nation to be overturned in Jesus name. In a dream recently I saw President Trump stand to speak when the microphone was cut. Then I saw blood stained hands and knew the Lord was revealing the hidden plans that have brought pain and bloodshed in the name of political gain and demonic agendas. Let’s pray people of God! LET JESUS BE YOUR ONLY REWARD Finally, let Jesus be your reward. Seek Him above all other voices. Talk with Him more than you scroll on social media. Be in His presence instead of being pulled by all the constant distractions. If you haven’t felt His presence for a while, I encourage you to linger until you recover what was lost. Stay focussed. Stay surrendered. God is moving!
By Nate Johnston
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January 13, 2025
I hear the Lord saying: “Collect oil in the time of oil. Collect oil while there is time to collect oil,” says the Lord. Yes, the Lord is saying over this year: “It is a year to reserve oil, for there are days coming when you’ll need the oil. There are days coming when you will need the wine. Come, buy wine and milk without price,” says the Lord. “For I will fill your vats and I will fill your storehouses,” says the Lord. “Come into My presence, come into My throne room, come into My glory,” says the Lord. “For many are chasing that which is like vapor, it disappears, for it is temporal. But those who would seek Me in this shall find Me. Those who would come into My presence and linger in this shall find Me. Linger, linger, linger,” says the Lord. “Where are those who would linger? Where are those who would come for more than just goosebumps? Where are those who would come and minister unto Me? Who would come as a friend meets his friend? For I long to give My secrets, I long to give out the secrets of My heart,” says the Lord. “I long to reveal the mysteries of heaven. I long to reveal the hour that is at hand. I long to give the language. I long to show what is to come and to pour out foresight upon a people who would know My heart, and know the hour they live in. Where are those who would come and linger and receive from Me? Where are those who would empty themselves out before Me like a water jug so I can refill them over and over and over again? For the hour we are living in is short, and I am looking for a people who would sacrifice everything just to be in My presence.” “For you have been through many years where the enemy sought to puncture you and deplete you. He has sought to crack you like an expensive water jug. Yet I am here to overflow, even the most broken of vessels. I am here to restore, to pour out, and to bring you into overflow again. Even the most damaged, the most broken, the most hope-deferred, the sick, and the wounded of My people, I long to restore them because of my great compassion for you,” says the Lord. “If only you would humble yourself and turn to me. If only you would come before Me. If only you would come into the threshing floor and allow Me to be your Boaz. Allow Me to be your kinsman redeemer,” says the Lord. “For I would be He who would eclipse every single heartache you have ever endured. I will buy it all. I will take your past, your present, and your future. I will take it all, and I will turn your life around,” says the Lord. “If you would come and be married unto Me again, says the Lord. If you would leave your other lovers behind and be married unto Me, I will restore you, says the Lord. “ I do not just want to restore your heart. I want to turn your family’s life around, the destiny of your children and even redeem your family line,” says the Lord. “For I am your Boaz and your kinsman redeemer. And this year, I am looking for a people who would choose the private place again over the stage. I am looking for a people who choose My plans over their own plans. I am looking for a people who choose My ways over their own ways. I am looking for a people who would sacrifice comfort and what they think makes sense, just to be obedient to the instructions I give them. For I am raising up a Waymaker people. I am raising up a Joshua people who will be Waymakers in the desert in this hour. For I need, I need a people who see differently, and you will only see differently when you linger. You will only see differently when you come into My presence and lay everything down.” “Lay it down, lay it down, lay it down,” says the Lord. “Where are you, Joshua? Where are you, Caleb? Where are My Waymakers? For you would say, ‘But I need to know the way! I need to know the way! I’m lost, Lord!’ But I say to you today, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. And it is time to fully come back to Me. For in this season of battle, it has been easy to take refreshment from other things, but I am restoring you now unto Myself. And in that restoration, you shall find your footing again. You shall find your way again. You shall find the path again. For I am that Way, and you are coming back to the Way. And as you come back to the Way, you shall, in My presence, begin to birth the Way. And you shall be known as My Waymakers in the desert, My Waymakers in a shifting season, shifting My people from the sands of the desert and from the exodus of their religious toxification, and I will lead them into their promise.” “But I need you this year to lay at My feet,” says the Lord. “I need you to lay at My feet,” says the Lord. “Will you linger? Will you linger? Will you linger? Come to Me, My laid-down lovers. Come to Me, My burning ones. Consecrate yourselves unto Me afresh. Let go of everything that has entangled you, everything that has smothered your heart and tried to make it stony and hard, and I will give you a heart of flesh again. I will pour out honey upon the deepest of wounds. I will close up the gaping wounds of trauma from the past where every spirit that has been after you to assassinate you has left infested wounds. I am sealing them up now,” says the Lord. “And I am restoring your heart from the places of Sheol and the death you have been wandering in during this season. For you have lost hope and found despair, and you have laid your mantle in the dust. But as you lay in My presence, you will pick it up again. You will find your language. You will find your unction. You will find your flow. You will find your joy again. Just when the enemy thought he had taken you out for good, I am restoring you. I am restoring you. And I am standing you to your feet with fresh strength, power, and might with a new song and a new sound that shall now bubble up from your belly,” says the Lord. “Waymakers, this week, this year, linger!”
By Nate Johnston
•
January 14, 2025
GUARD YOUR HEART The first thing I want to share is a scripture that I heard the Lord repeating over and over the last few days; “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it” Proverbs 4:23 And as i was thinking about what this could relate to this week apart from the obvious I heard the word “triggered” and knew right away that this week we must guard our hearts and be vigilant because the enemy may try to trigger you and bait you into warfare, conflict, or unnecessary drama, fear, worry, and doubts. Guard your hearts! Don’t be pulled left and right this week. Stay grounded and focussed. WHISPERING CYCLONES The second thing I want to share with you this week is to look out for the whispering cyclones. The Lord showed me there would be an increase, especially on social media and in the news, of chatter wars, slander, and witchcraft. The phrase the Lord gave me was “whispering cyclones.” These whispers seem innocent, pure, and some will even parade as righteous, but they are spiritual cyclones releasing witchcraft and sliming people. The Lord said “Tell them not to engage, for it is a distraction method of the enemy to get you off course to focus on your accuser rather than your Savior. Don’t engage with the cyclones. Don’t engage with the conversation of demons!” The Lord wants you this week to focus on prayer in the secret place and releasing the sound you were meant to release. When you focus on these whispering cyclones, it robs you of your purity and taints the sound you were meant to carry. WARNING DREAM SURGE The third thing I want to share with you this week is that dreams are going to increase. The Lord is going to release warning dreams and intercessory assignment dreams. The scripture that came to mind was Job 5:12: “He thwarts the plans of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.” The Lord is releasing warning dreams but is also releasing dreams that show your authority to thwart and prevent tragedies in the spirit. Do not think that what He reveals is beyond you just because it may involve governmental matters or nations. The Lord has called you to pray. When you receive these warning dreams: Write them down. Pray them through with friends. And remember that your prayers avail much. God is looking for a new breed of watchmen in this hour, those who will rise with a fresh mantle to release the strategies of heaven, evict principalities and powers, and stop the plans of darkness. That’s you! HOPE DEFERRED CROSSROAD I heard the Lord say that this week, God is continuing to clear out areas of hope deferred. The phrase I heard was “hope deferred crossroads.” I believe we are in a process where the Lord is doing a deep soul work in His people and breaking hope deferred that has been sitting in the recesses of peoples souls like hardened concrete. This week, look out for moments where the Lord surfaces areas of your life that feel like barriers or unresolved issues. I saw them as shrines to past seasons, places where you had built a monument to disappointment. The Lord is asking you to lay them down so you can pick up fresh hope and new promises. This week will be a time of surrender. The Lord may lead you into healing moments where He asks for full access to those wounded places so He can break off the weight of disappointment. As you confront hope deferred, you’ll begin to notice a crossroad where things shift and areas that once felt blocked will suddenly open up. 4 YEAR CYCLES ENDING The next thing the Lord showed me was that He is clearing out old cycles from the last four years. There were specific cycles of attack that began in 2020, assignments of the enemy meant to hinder, delay, and assassinate you, not to mention tire you out and burn you out. The Lord is bringing restitution and restoration as we come to this 4 year mark. This will manifest in situations where you will finally see conclusions to struggles that have persisted since 2020. What this means is that you will notice a side release in places you have become accustomed to endless tediousness and difficulty. BUILDING THE UNUSUAL The Lord said to me, “This will be a year of building, but not according to what you’ve known.” God is calling His people to build the unusual. It won’t look like the typical ministry models but will mirror the Acts 2 model: family, not empires. Then the Lord spoke to me about 5 unusual expressions that he is right now calling people to break away from the norm to build. Spiritual Hospitals — refuge centers for the sick, broken, and addicted, demon possessed and hurting. Houses of healing and divine restoration. Adoption Centers — places where true spiritual mothers and fathers will Impart identity to the next generation and release the spirit of adoption over spiritual orphans. Launch Pads — places to train, equip, ignite and send people into their callings. Fellowship Tables — where the rejected and isolated can go to find true family. Prophetic Dream Teams — where there are no hidden group agendas, but rather war eagles who simply gather to pray, share dreams, and move on them. But there will also be many other unusual expressions that get awoken this week. Ideas and blueprints for raising powerful and healthy families and children. The question is, will you say yes to the unusual? STRATEGIC RELOCATIONS The Lord is relocating many people right now for strategic assignments. Dreams, visions, and supernatural direction will increase as God speaks to those who have felt silenced or stifled and stuck for a long time. The Lord is releasing a call to move, shift, and inherit territories for His Kingdom purposes. He is calling us into a Psalm 2:8 “Ask of Me, and I will give you the nations.” God is putting cities and nations on people’s hearts. He is searching for obedient ones who will rise as movers, shakers, and waymakers that will GO and do what He says to do. THE LION & THE TRUMPET As I was praying over this week I saw a vision of a timid lion, and this lion was walking around growling, but it was almost like the growl of a lion that was incredibly sick. Suddenly, I saw the Spirit of the Lord come upon this lion, and the lion began to roar in power. I knew it was the Lord showing me what is happening in the body of Christ right now. I then saw a trumpet in the spirit coming from the mouth of the lion. It was the sound of a trumpet blaring, and I believe that this week there is a shift taking place in the body of Christ. The Lord is restoring the trumpet back to the Church. It will start small but the sound will begin to grow louder. It’s the unapologetic cry of David in the land that will take down giants and evict principalities and powers in the land. The Lord is doing something new, and it carries the weight of the moment when you’ve been pressed and pushed into a corner for so long. Suddenly, there comes an unction, a fresh moment when the Spirit of the Living God comes upon you. Out of that place of suppression, oppression, being tied down and held back, suddenly from deep within you comes the fresh cry and sound of the worshiper you were called to be - the eagle of war. Look out this week for a fresh unction of the Holy Spirit that will open the mouths of those who have been canceled by the Church and canceled by the world. PRAY OVER THE INAUGURATION Lastly, as I have been praying over the United States and the inauguration on the 20th we have felt strongly that the enemies plans are still to continue to derail it in some way shape or form and to continue to use demonic and divisive propaganda to create havoc. This week we must pray for our leaders and pray for no terror or calamity to come against them. Also pray for all plots and plans of harm and terror around the nation to be overturned in Jesus name. In a dream recently I saw President Trump stand to speak when the microphone was cut. Then I saw blood stained hands and knew the Lord was revealing the hidden plans that have brought pain and bloodshed in the name of political gain and demonic agendas. Let’s pray people of God! LET JESUS BE YOUR ONLY REWARD Finally, let Jesus be your reward. Seek Him above all other voices. Talk with Him more than you scroll on social media. Be in His presence instead of being pulled by all the constant distractions. If you haven’t felt His presence for a while, I encourage you to linger until you recover what was lost. Stay focussed. Stay surrendered. God is moving!
By Nate Johnston
•
January 13, 2025
I hear the Lord saying: “Collect oil in the time of oil. Collect oil while there is time to collect oil,” says the Lord. Yes, the Lord is saying over this year: “It is a year to reserve oil, for there are days coming when you’ll need the oil. There are days coming when you will need the wine. Come, buy wine and milk without price,” says the Lord. “For I will fill your vats and I will fill your storehouses,” says the Lord. “Come into My presence, come into My throne room, come into My glory,” says the Lord. “For many are chasing that which is like vapor, it disappears, for it is temporal. But those who would seek Me in this shall find Me. Those who would come into My presence and linger in this shall find Me. Linger, linger, linger,” says the Lord. “Where are those who would linger? Where are those who would come for more than just goosebumps? Where are those who would come and minister unto Me? Who would come as a friend meets his friend? For I long to give My secrets, I long to give out the secrets of My heart,” says the Lord. “I long to reveal the mysteries of heaven. I long to reveal the hour that is at hand. I long to give the language. I long to show what is to come and to pour out foresight upon a people who would know My heart, and know the hour they live in. Where are those who would come and linger and receive from Me? Where are those who would empty themselves out before Me like a water jug so I can refill them over and over and over again? For the hour we are living in is short, and I am looking for a people who would sacrifice everything just to be in My presence.” “For you have been through many years where the enemy sought to puncture you and deplete you. He has sought to crack you like an expensive water jug. Yet I am here to overflow, even the most broken of vessels. I am here to restore, to pour out, and to bring you into overflow again. Even the most damaged, the most broken, the most hope-deferred, the sick, and the wounded of My people, I long to restore them because of my great compassion for you,” says the Lord. “If only you would humble yourself and turn to me. If only you would come before Me. If only you would come into the threshing floor and allow Me to be your Boaz. Allow Me to be your kinsman redeemer,” says the Lord. “For I would be He who would eclipse every single heartache you have ever endured. I will buy it all. I will take your past, your present, and your future. I will take it all, and I will turn your life around,” says the Lord. “If you would come and be married unto Me again, says the Lord. If you would leave your other lovers behind and be married unto Me, I will restore you, says the Lord. “ I do not just want to restore your heart. I want to turn your family’s life around, the destiny of your children and even redeem your family line,” says the Lord. “For I am your Boaz and your kinsman redeemer. And this year, I am looking for a people who would choose the private place again over the stage. I am looking for a people who choose My plans over their own plans. I am looking for a people who choose My ways over their own ways. I am looking for a people who would sacrifice comfort and what they think makes sense, just to be obedient to the instructions I give them. For I am raising up a Waymaker people. I am raising up a Joshua people who will be Waymakers in the desert in this hour. For I need, I need a people who see differently, and you will only see differently when you linger. You will only see differently when you come into My presence and lay everything down.” “Lay it down, lay it down, lay it down,” says the Lord. “Where are you, Joshua? Where are you, Caleb? Where are My Waymakers? For you would say, ‘But I need to know the way! I need to know the way! I’m lost, Lord!’ But I say to you today, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. And it is time to fully come back to Me. For in this season of battle, it has been easy to take refreshment from other things, but I am restoring you now unto Myself. And in that restoration, you shall find your footing again. You shall find your way again. You shall find the path again. For I am that Way, and you are coming back to the Way. And as you come back to the Way, you shall, in My presence, begin to birth the Way. And you shall be known as My Waymakers in the desert, My Waymakers in a shifting season, shifting My people from the sands of the desert and from the exodus of their religious toxification, and I will lead them into their promise.” “But I need you this year to lay at My feet,” says the Lord. “I need you to lay at My feet,” says the Lord. “Will you linger? Will you linger? Will you linger? Come to Me, My laid-down lovers. Come to Me, My burning ones. Consecrate yourselves unto Me afresh. Let go of everything that has entangled you, everything that has smothered your heart and tried to make it stony and hard, and I will give you a heart of flesh again. I will pour out honey upon the deepest of wounds. I will close up the gaping wounds of trauma from the past where every spirit that has been after you to assassinate you has left infested wounds. I am sealing them up now,” says the Lord. “And I am restoring your heart from the places of Sheol and the death you have been wandering in during this season. For you have lost hope and found despair, and you have laid your mantle in the dust. But as you lay in My presence, you will pick it up again. You will find your language. You will find your unction. You will find your flow. You will find your joy again. Just when the enemy thought he had taken you out for good, I am restoring you. I am restoring you. And I am standing you to your feet with fresh strength, power, and might with a new song and a new sound that shall now bubble up from your belly,” says the Lord. “Waymakers, this week, this year, linger!”
By Nate Johnston
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January 10, 2025
When you go through seasons of witchcraft, slander, and constant entanglements around you that are toxic, when you experience betrayal, become involved in other people’s messes, sin, and areas of compromise—without realizing it, you’ve entangled yourself and your soul in something that can feel difficult to shake off. This entanglement can create and produce situations around you that are toxic. You often wonder, “Why, God? Why is this happening to me? Why am I going through this situation? Why am I waking up feeling anxious, tired, worn out, burnt out, scattered, and frustrated? Why does it feel like I have creative block? Why have I lost my vision? Why am I feeling this sudden heaviness, not wanting to wake up, not wanting to step into my purpose and calling?” Many of these are signs that we’ve been through a season where slime and poison have been slung at us, and inadvertently, they have entered into our spiritual bloodstream. This has affected our emotional state, our soul state, and even our mental state. I believe this month the Lord is extracting that poison. He’s been doing this for a few months now, but I believe that this month, it’s coming to a head. The last two nights, I’ve had very similar dreams. In the first dream, a snake was trying to bite my hand, and as I grabbed the snake to prevent it from biting my other hand, venom began to drip down its teeth. In the second dream, I placed my hand on a tree when a spider crawled down and began to shoot out some kind of poison that landed on my leg. I began to feel the burning sensation until I washed it off. These two dreams only confirmed what the Lord has been showing me. We must wash off the poison. We must extract the poison. We must step out of situations and circumstances where poison and venom have been entering the bloodstream of our lives and calling, poisoning us for what is ahead. That is the ultimate plan of the enemy. If he cannot assassinate you just as you’re about to step into something powerful, then he will try to poison you. If he can’t stop what God has for you, he will try to poison you so that you enter into your next season weakened, without the mental, emotional, or spiritual capacity to handle what is coming. His plan is to weaken you bit by bit until you are in your sickbed. His plan is to get you in the wrong headspace, heart space, and spiritual space so you actually run from the new day dawning rather than embrace it. It’s this interesting space where the very breakthrough you’ve been praying for, when it finally comes, becomes difficult to seize because of the poison you’ve endured. That is why, right now, the Lord is saying, “Look away from the distractions and look to Me. Untangle yourself from the swirl leading you into decay and fragmentation. Come back to My face. Come back to My presence.” Because in His presence is the healing and deliverance you need to extract the last bits of poison that have been wreaking havoc on your system. Now, I know there are many out there who are facing even physical symptoms, and you’re probably wondering, “Does this include me as well? I’ve literally had toxins, parasites, and other things wrong with my blood, my body, my system.” I believe in many cases what is taking place in people’s bodies right now is connected to what is taking place in the spirit. It’s not all the time, but it can happen. What occurs in the spiritual realm often creates effects in our physical bodies. As I’m sharing this word, I want you to grab this by faith that the Lord would not only cleanse you spiritually, emotionally, and mentally, but He would cleanse your body as well. He will extract the poison, the heavy metals, parasites, disease, and issues affecting your body, and remove the parasites of this past season. Amen? I love the scripture where Jesus said to the leper; Be clean!” (Matthew 8:3) And I believe that right now, He is saying this over the church: “Be clean! Be made whole! Come out from the poison!” Many of us have spiritualized being involved in messes, but not all messes around us are ours to engage with. When God leads you into places where there is poison or venom, He anoints you for it. But when He has not given you the instruction, you will only reap the effects of being involved in something there is no grace for. So God is untangling you from those places right now. So be made whole. Be cleansed in the name of Jesus. I command all venom and all poison that have been in your system, affecting you emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and physically, to be broken off your life now, in the name of Jesus!
By Nate Johnston
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January 7, 2025
Can you hear the sound of water flooding desert plains where the weary and tired have gathered in their season of deep detox and religious exodus? They are no longer the wise. They are no longer the arrived. They are no longer adorning gold-studded garments and speaking the eloquent words that cause people to marvel. They are broken. They are on their knees, desperate for the living water once again. For they tried to drink the water of the Pharisee for many years, but it only left them sick and parched. And now, here we are in a season of the wilderness washing, the deep cleansing that can only come from departing from the shores we’ve become accustomed to. The shores of convenience and comfort. The shores of our ambition and the American dream. Once green, then we ripened, and then the rot began to set in because we grew fruit apart from the Vine. We looked for a savior in ourselves instead of the Savior. We built monuments to our achievements instead of constantly looking for ways to give Him every part of ourselves, constantly emptying, constantly dependent for every breath. We have been full. We have been fat. We thought we knew everything. And then we leveled out because we lost Him in the process. But now, here we are in the season of the wilderness washing. Many are departing and leaving the place of man’s towers and breath-taking babels. The place we crashed for the sake of building kingdom. Burning ourselves out. Leaving ourselves spent. Cutting ourselves up for the masses like manna. “Look at God’s anointed” we said. “Look at my crowns” All the while, blocking out the Son. But we are in the days of great humbling and coming back to the place where it all started, the brokenness, the repentance, and the washing. And I can hear it now. I can hear the water rippling like a ravine filling to overflow. The river of the Lord is looking for the people who are parched and dry just as much as they are looking for Him. And it’s time for a fresh baptism of repentance and cleansing once again. (Acts 3:19) Because we need it. We’ve all felt like Naaman, leprous, covered in sores, feeling like our own decisions and vain ambitions have led us to this point. “God, why would You rescue me? Why would You show me mercy?” Yet in His mercy, He’s leading us to the washing. “Go down to the river and wash.” He is saying (2 Kings 5:10) Nine times, up and down. “But It’s not doing anything, Lord.” “Go down again.” Then we emerge cleansed, pure, wholly set apart once again. We’ve all felt like Peter, who denied Him. Yet Jesus still calls, “Peter, feed My sheep.” The Lord is restoring us back to our first encounter, to the place where it all began. The church is headed for a wilderness washing. We’re not going to see it in the synagogues. We’re not going to see it where the cameras can broadcast it, where we can yet again marvel at our cleverness. There is a grassroots movement beginning, leading the church out from the whitewashed tombs, festering with dead manna and maggots. And He’s leading us back to sonship. Back to the voice of the Dove declaring: “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” (Matthew 3:17) So right now, if you’re looking at the wilderness your path leading into the wilderness and not understanding why you’re being led here again, it is because He’s delivering us. It’s not because you were lost but because you are on track. It’s the road to Emmaus where you feel like crying, “Jesus, where are You?” (Luke 24:13-35) Not knowing He was there with you the whole time. He’s leading us back to the beginning. This, my friends, is the wilderness washing. Are you ready?
