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Nate Johnston

DEAR PIONEERS...

Nate Johnston

DEAR PIONEERS...

DEAR PIONEERS...

Dear Pioneers,


Honest post - Earlier this year, I felt shipwrecked. 


Outwardly, you wouldn’t have known—I was still pouring out, but my heart just felt tired. 


I have always been committed to giving everything to follow Jesus and lead my family in this pioneering journey. But the only way I can explain it is that deep inside, I was worn down and spread thin. 


Many years ago God asked us to move to the United States, following the call of God across nations, but it wasn’t until we returned to Australia for a trip in April that I slowed down enough to face the reality: I was burnt out. 


Not from ministry, but from the constant movement—traveling from place to place, house to house, season to season, assignment to assignment. The pioneering life had become a rhythm of relentless transition, with no place of stability, no home, and no grounding community. 


I longed for rest. I longed for something to settle my soul. But instead, I felt shipwrecked. 


Shipwrecked: That place where you have followed the Lord’s voice to the best of your ability, but somehow, it feels like it’s led you to a barren shore with nothing in sight. It’s the unsettling realization that despite all your obedience, you feel stranded, exhausted, and unsure if you’ll ever find solid ground again.


Maybe you’ve been there, too.


The Lord began to speak to me about what it means to be shipwrecked in this way. It’s the place where we are stripped of all we once leaned on. It’s where we confront the brokenness and fatigue of having given everything, yet wondering if it was worth it. But here’s what He also showed me: The shipwreck is not the end—it’s where God revives you and puts a fresh wind in your sails again! 


Pioneers, I believe many of you are in this same place right now. You’ve been faithful, you’ve sacrificed, you’ve given your “yes” over and over again. But it feels like you’ve reached a point where the waves have carried you to a place you didn’t expect. You feel stranded, weary, and questioning how you got here.


But the Lord is saying to you today, “This is not the end. I’m not done with you, and this place is not where your story finishes.”


In the wreckage, He is showing you what was never meant to sustain you in the first place. He’s dismantling the crutches of self-reliance, unhealthy alignments, and the illusions of stability that were built on shifting sands.


And He is using it to set you free from activity that is burning you out and leading you off course. 


You may feel empty right now, but this is where He fills you anew. This is the divine pause before the great resurgence. This is where the old mindsets and methods break off, and the raw, pure faith that you’ve been called to as a pioneer rises up.


Listen to what He’s saying to you now:


You haven’t failed. This feeling of being shipwrecked is the precursor to something greater. I’m stripping away what no longer serves you so I can establish you in a new way.


You’re not lost. I am the anchor in this season, and I’m repositioning you for what’s ahead.


This place of desolation is actually the place of rebirth. Where you feel abandoned and exhausted, I am pouring out My strength and renewing your vision.


Pioneers, the shipwreck is a setup. It’s where everything that was dead weight is left behind, and you emerge lighter, freer, and more aligned with the Spirit of God than ever before.


Even now, the Lord is saying, “I’m turning this shipwreck into a launching pad.” 


You’re not stranded—you’re being set up for a new journey, one where you’ll move with greater purpose, clarity, and authority than ever before. 


What you thought was lost in the wreckage is actually being restored in ways you cannot yet imagine.


It may feel like you’ve been led nowhere, but God is positioning you for something greater. 


So, take heart. The storm didn’t win. The waves didn’t take you out. And the shipwreck wasn’t your end—it was the beginning of something much bigger.


With you on this journey, 

—Nate




Sow A Seed

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By Nate Johnston February 25, 2025
Last week, I shared this short post on social media: “God sees your process, and He isn’t rushing you right now. You have walked through a lot and seen a lot. Your heart has been through 20 years in 4 years, so give yourself space to let Him revive and reinvent you. Give Him room to clean out the hope deferred and the cobwebs of past seasons. Right now, it’s all coming to the surface, and He is tenderly scooping it out and breathing life back into your lungs. Soon, you’ll wake up no longer feeling heaviness, anxiety, or deep, unshakable weariness. Instead, it will feel like a valve has been flipped inside you, and out of your belly, rivers will flow again. You’ll feel the pain and hardship of this past season—the toll it took on you mentally, emotionally, physically, and even spiritually—begin to lift as God overhauls you in a short period of time. It’s an Ezekiel 37 ‘army of dry bones’ moment, and it’s necessary so you don’t stay in your sick bed but are revived back to full health.” But I wanted to share more in-depth about this and where it came from. Earlier that morning, before I posted it, the Lord spoke to me and said, “The heart process can’t be rushed or ignored.” He said there was another layer of healing and deliverance He was bringing through leaning into this process. We know that process is often where the Lord leads us into deeper levels of heart healing, character refining, and maturity—enabling us to walk in the increasing anointing He’s releasing. He always takes us from glory to glory, right? But what I’m highly aware of is that when we walk through difficult seasons—battle seasons, hardship, but also seasons where God is advancing us—our spirit tends to move and advance quickly, while our hearts, souls, and emotions tend to lag behind. They take longer to adjust. And that, to me, is what true process is. It’s the intentional focus on not just what God is doing spiritually, but how it affects me personally—and the walk I need to take with Him to adjust in all areas of my life. Far too many ministers and believers in the past have bypassed this step. They’ve embraced what’s happening spiritually—the advancements, shifts, and transitions—while suppressing their emotions and soul state. Eventually, it crushed them because they weren’t stewarding the heart process or valuing it as much as the spiritual process. So when the Lord spoke this word to me, it felt like permission—if not more. It felt like a summoning to lean even deeper into the process than ever before. Now, if you know my writings, you know I always talk about heart process—how our transitions and spiritual walk parallel our personal journey. But this felt different. This felt deeper. It felt like a moment where the Lord was saying: I know there are things I’m leading you into. I know there are parts of your calling I’m about to reveal to you. I know there are incredible kairos destiny moments ahead, open doors, and divine opportunities. But right now, this moment is sacred, holy, and special. And it cannot be whitewashed by Christian clichés. We can’t just view this process through the lens of: • “Oh, God is getting me ready for the next battle.” • “Oh, God is cleaning me up for the next assignment.” No, this is so much more than that, friends. This is where the Lord is asking us to lean into the process because He wants us. He knows we need Him. This is simply about relationship and intimacy. This is about recognizing that this process is needed for reconnection with Him. I’m not saying you’ve fallen away. I’m not saying He’s not your first love. I’m saying that much of what you’ve walked through in recent years—the battles, distractions, noise, and endless swinging of your sword—has had an assignment behind it: To get your gaze off Him. To reduce your marriage with the Bridegroom to a friendship or roommate status—when He wants to be your everything. So no, we can’t rush this moment. We can’t rush this process. This process needs to become the main meal again. Our morning, daily heart surrendering needs to become our everything again. Letting the rays of the Son penetrate the deep places of our hearts—healing us, restoring us to full health. Right now, there are layers of the onion being peeled back. The Lord is graciously exposing them so we can step into health, clarity, and peace. Because He never desired for us to live this Christian life broken or in bondage. He didn’t go to the cross for us to still experience the pain and effects of separation from the Father. There is no more separation. There is no condemnation for those in Christ, yet many have still been living as if there is. So for those of you who have felt lost in the swirl of pressure— the do this, go there, get that done mentality —I get it. I know it’s a tension. I know we can’t disregard the mission. But maybe we just switch up our meals this week. Maybe we reorganize the buffet. Instead of making the mission the main meal, maybe it can be the dessert—and let this process, this daily relationship, this being in His presence, become the main meal again. God is reordering our lives right now. Because He wants us to last the distance. He doesn’t want you living in survival mode anymore. He wants you to thrive. He wants you to go from glory to glory. And I believe that leaning into this process won’t just reveal the oil that has come from these past years of pressing, but it will also reveal the closeness—the fragrance, the perfume of our King Jesus—and what He provided for us at the cross. So that you begin to live daily in the victory He has already provided. That you step out of the shadows, out of the veils that have tried to overshadow the finished work of the cross—And step back into the limitless victory that He secured for you. So yes, this is permission for you to: • Lean into the process. • Lean into this moment. • Lean into healing. • Lean into rest. And watch as your dry bones come back to full health. People won’t understand it. Those who have built their faith around action over intimacy won’t understand it. But as you obey—leaning into rest, refreshing, and deep reset—it will become the spring of life that erupts within you again. One day, you’ll look back and say: That was the moment I chose Him over the doing… and yet, it accomplished so much more. Let me end with this: Bill Johnson once said, " There are lovers and workers, and lovers will always get more work done than the workers." This week, I prophesy over you: You are stepping out from under the yoke of work—and stepping into the rhythm of His rest and refreshing—In Jesus’ name. 
By Nate Johnston February 21, 2025
Last night I had an intercessory dream where I began to say "Lord, bring them out. Bring them out of the wilderness! Lord, bring them out. Bring them out of the wilderness! God, bring out the wild ones who have been in hiding. Bring out those who have been in death, those who feel like it's all over for them. Those who have been counted out, those who have been assassinated, those who have been robbed, plundered, and destroyed. God, bring out those who feel like they are being decommissioned. Bring out those who feel unclean. Bring out those who feel cast out and rejected from the church. Bring out those who have been silenced, muzzled, and voiceless, God, and anoint them! Put hot coals on their tongues!" Suddenly, the scripture Luke 4:14 came before me - “He came out of the wilderness in the power of the Spirit." And I knew in my spirit that this intercession was for the changing of the guard, for those who feel disqualified and broken because of what they’ve walked through, for those who feel like they’ve lost their anointing and strength, like Samson after his hair was cut. Then I continued to pray: "God, bring them out. Bring out the Nazarites! Bring out the new watchmen on the walls for the nations. Bring out the prophets and the intercessors, the apostles, the evangelists, those who have been in hiding, bring them out!" And I felt the Lord say that it was time for these hidden ones to come out of their season of wilderness warfare and torment, and they were going to come out with a fresh, hot coal on their tongues, to speak a fresh word of the Lord into this current moment in time. Suddenly, the dream shifted, and I began to hear the intercession of the saints. I could hear the tongues - a mighty roar rising from a generation that had been silenced and quenched for so long. I began to feel the birth pangs of the nations coming to a finality - a tipping point. This intercession felt like the midwife prayers of an impending birth of the nations in the earth. It was a prayer over the church, calling her to become the pure, spotless bride she was meant to be. I could feel the intercession of agreement with long forgotten words spoken over nations, cities, and regions, for revival, for reformation, for Jesus to be revealed in the earth. Then I began to cry out: "Lord, come! Lord Jesus, come!" Then suddenly, the prayers of the saints rose up in unity, crying out together: "Yes, Lord Jesus! Come, Lord Jesus, come!" I believe i had this dream because God is raising up a battlecry from the John the baptist, wilderness voices that are coming out of hiding to take thier post as the watchman of the hour and the fresh sound in the earth declaring “Prepare ye the ay of the Lord! So to the wilderness voices, maybe you’re feeling this. Maybe you've been through a season of robbery and wilderness - a season where it feels like you've been removed from your calling. But this is the season where God is bringing you back! He is placing a hot coal on your tongue! So if that is you today, I want to speak and prophesy over you: The hot coals are coming. You're about to feel a fresh unction. You're about to feel a fresh flow. And out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water in Jesus’ mighty name!
By Nate Johnston February 25, 2025
Last week, I shared this short post on social media: “God sees your process, and He isn’t rushing you right now. You have walked through a lot and seen a lot. Your heart has been through 20 years in 4 years, so give yourself space to let Him revive and reinvent you. Give Him room to clean out the hope deferred and the cobwebs of past seasons. Right now, it’s all coming to the surface, and He is tenderly scooping it out and breathing life back into your lungs. Soon, you’ll wake up no longer feeling heaviness, anxiety, or deep, unshakable weariness. Instead, it will feel like a valve has been flipped inside you, and out of your belly, rivers will flow again. You’ll feel the pain and hardship of this past season—the toll it took on you mentally, emotionally, physically, and even spiritually—begin to lift as God overhauls you in a short period of time. It’s an Ezekiel 37 ‘army of dry bones’ moment, and it’s necessary so you don’t stay in your sick bed but are revived back to full health.” But I wanted to share more in-depth about this and where it came from. Earlier that morning, before I posted it, the Lord spoke to me and said, “The heart process can’t be rushed or ignored.” He said there was another layer of healing and deliverance He was bringing through leaning into this process. We know that process is often where the Lord leads us into deeper levels of heart healing, character refining, and maturity—enabling us to walk in the increasing anointing He’s releasing. He always takes us from glory to glory, right? But what I’m highly aware of is that when we walk through difficult seasons—battle seasons, hardship, but also seasons where God is advancing us—our spirit tends to move and advance quickly, while our hearts, souls, and emotions tend to lag behind. They take longer to adjust. And that, to me, is what true process is. It’s the intentional focus on not just what God is doing spiritually, but how it affects me personally—and the walk I need to take with Him to adjust in all areas of my life. Far too many ministers and believers in the past have bypassed this step. They’ve embraced what’s happening spiritually—the advancements, shifts, and transitions—while suppressing their emotions and soul state. Eventually, it crushed them because they weren’t stewarding the heart process or valuing it as much as the spiritual process. So when the Lord spoke this word to me, it felt like permission—if not more. It felt like a summoning to lean even deeper into the process than ever before. Now, if you know my writings, you know I always talk about heart process—how our transitions and spiritual walk parallel our personal journey. But this felt different. This felt deeper. It felt like a moment where the Lord was saying: I know there are things I’m leading you into. I know there are parts of your calling I’m about to reveal to you. I know there are incredible kairos destiny moments ahead, open doors, and divine opportunities. But right now, this moment is sacred, holy, and special. And it cannot be whitewashed by Christian clichés. We can’t just view this process through the lens of: • “Oh, God is getting me ready for the next battle.” • “Oh, God is cleaning me up for the next assignment.” No, this is so much more than that, friends. This is where the Lord is asking us to lean into the process because He wants us. He knows we need Him. This is simply about relationship and intimacy. This is about recognizing that this process is needed for reconnection with Him. I’m not saying you’ve fallen away. I’m not saying He’s not your first love. I’m saying that much of what you’ve walked through in recent years—the battles, distractions, noise, and endless swinging of your sword—has had an assignment behind it: To get your gaze off Him. To reduce your marriage with the Bridegroom to a friendship or roommate status—when He wants to be your everything. So no, we can’t rush this moment. We can’t rush this process. This process needs to become the main meal again. Our morning, daily heart surrendering needs to become our everything again. Letting the rays of the Son penetrate the deep places of our hearts—healing us, restoring us to full health. Right now, there are layers of the onion being peeled back. The Lord is graciously exposing them so we can step into health, clarity, and peace. Because He never desired for us to live this Christian life broken or in bondage. He didn’t go to the cross for us to still experience the pain and effects of separation from the Father. There is no more separation. There is no condemnation for those in Christ, yet many have still been living as if there is. So for those of you who have felt lost in the swirl of pressure— the do this, go there, get that done mentality —I get it. I know it’s a tension. I know we can’t disregard the mission. But maybe we just switch up our meals this week. Maybe we reorganize the buffet. Instead of making the mission the main meal, maybe it can be the dessert—and let this process, this daily relationship, this being in His presence, become the main meal again. God is reordering our lives right now. Because He wants us to last the distance. He doesn’t want you living in survival mode anymore. He wants you to thrive. He wants you to go from glory to glory. And I believe that leaning into this process won’t just reveal the oil that has come from these past years of pressing, but it will also reveal the closeness—the fragrance, the perfume of our King Jesus—and what He provided for us at the cross. So that you begin to live daily in the victory He has already provided. That you step out of the shadows, out of the veils that have tried to overshadow the finished work of the cross—And step back into the limitless victory that He secured for you. So yes, this is permission for you to: • Lean into the process. • Lean into this moment. • Lean into healing. • Lean into rest. And watch as your dry bones come back to full health. People won’t understand it. Those who have built their faith around action over intimacy won’t understand it. But as you obey—leaning into rest, refreshing, and deep reset—it will become the spring of life that erupts within you again. One day, you’ll look back and say: That was the moment I chose Him over the doing… and yet, it accomplished so much more. Let me end with this: Bill Johnson once said, " There are lovers and workers, and lovers will always get more work done than the workers." This week, I prophesy over you: You are stepping out from under the yoke of work—and stepping into the rhythm of His rest and refreshing—In Jesus’ name. 
By Nate Johnston February 21, 2025
Last night I had an intercessory dream where I began to say "Lord, bring them out. Bring them out of the wilderness! Lord, bring them out. Bring them out of the wilderness! God, bring out the wild ones who have been in hiding. Bring out those who have been in death, those who feel like it's all over for them. Those who have been counted out, those who have been assassinated, those who have been robbed, plundered, and destroyed. God, bring out those who feel like they are being decommissioned. Bring out those who feel unclean. Bring out those who feel cast out and rejected from the church. Bring out those who have been silenced, muzzled, and voiceless, God, and anoint them! Put hot coals on their tongues!" Suddenly, the scripture Luke 4:14 came before me - “He came out of the wilderness in the power of the Spirit." And I knew in my spirit that this intercession was for the changing of the guard, for those who feel disqualified and broken because of what they’ve walked through, for those who feel like they’ve lost their anointing and strength, like Samson after his hair was cut. Then I continued to pray: "God, bring them out. Bring out the Nazarites! Bring out the new watchmen on the walls for the nations. Bring out the prophets and the intercessors, the apostles, the evangelists, those who have been in hiding, bring them out!" And I felt the Lord say that it was time for these hidden ones to come out of their season of wilderness warfare and torment, and they were going to come out with a fresh, hot coal on their tongues, to speak a fresh word of the Lord into this current moment in time. Suddenly, the dream shifted, and I began to hear the intercession of the saints. I could hear the tongues - a mighty roar rising from a generation that had been silenced and quenched for so long. I began to feel the birth pangs of the nations coming to a finality - a tipping point. This intercession felt like the midwife prayers of an impending birth of the nations in the earth. It was a prayer over the church, calling her to become the pure, spotless bride she was meant to be. I could feel the intercession of agreement with long forgotten words spoken over nations, cities, and regions, for revival, for reformation, for Jesus to be revealed in the earth. Then I began to cry out: "Lord, come! Lord Jesus, come!" Then suddenly, the prayers of the saints rose up in unity, crying out together: "Yes, Lord Jesus! Come, Lord Jesus, come!" I believe i had this dream because God is raising up a battlecry from the John the baptist, wilderness voices that are coming out of hiding to take thier post as the watchman of the hour and the fresh sound in the earth declaring “Prepare ye the ay of the Lord! So to the wilderness voices, maybe you’re feeling this. Maybe you've been through a season of robbery and wilderness - a season where it feels like you've been removed from your calling. But this is the season where God is bringing you back! He is placing a hot coal on your tongue! So if that is you today, I want to speak and prophesy over you: The hot coals are coming. You're about to feel a fresh unction. You're about to feel a fresh flow. And out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water in Jesus’ mighty name!
By Nate Johnston February 21, 2025
While the nations are in the pangs of birth right now, upheaval, chaos, and major transition, so is the church and so are you... True revival requires messy. It’s the oxen in the stable that disrupts man’s tidy plans that exclude the move of the Spirit, and shatters the veils of culture’s desensitization. And you are there right now. In the messiest of messy seasons, not because you failed but because you ASKED FOR IT. You cried out for breakthrough. You cried out for restoration. You cried out for the more of the Lord. Messy personal revival upsets the rhythms of your life that are no longer moving you forward but instead are keeping you stuck. Messy revival breaks ties and contracts and bondages you have been under that have been putting a ceiling over you and quenching your fire. Messy revival exposes the snakes in the grass and the places of robbery that have been depleting you and shifting your focus. Messy revival moves you out of limiting environments and causes you to long for wide open fields again. Messy revival brings a discontent for any sliver of complacency and religion you have tolerated. Messy revival brings death to everything in your life that is an obstruction to the “greater” God is wanting to pour out. Messy revival confronts and administers healing balm to places to deep seated trauma and pain keeping you in “medication” mode and staying in your sick bed. Messy revival redirects, corrects your steps, recalibrates, and sets your feet on the right path. Messy revival opens your eyes to where you have even in survival mode and going through the motions. Because messy revival comes primarily to set you on fire so you BURN again after years of warfare and walking through endless battlefields. And messy revival is here because God knows who you really are and what you are called to step into in this new season. It re-mantles you, leads you to surrender old manna and burn the old plow, renews your youth like the eagles, and restores the joy of your salvation. Do you feel it?
By Nate Johnston February 20, 2025
I woke up with John 11:11 on my heart this morning; “After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.” I’m highly aware that God is awakening many right now that have been through the intensity of years of hard battle. It can break you. Dismantle your faith. Crush your courage and distinguish your fight and fire for the Lord over time. It can even feel like it’s de-commissioned you. But right now in a short period of time the Holy Spirit is dealing with the past seasons STUFF.. I wrote this, this morning; God sees your process and he isn’t rushing you right now. You have walked through alot and seen alot. Your heart has been through 20 years in 4 years so give yourself space to let Him revive you and reinvent you. Give Him room to clean out the hope deferred and cobwebs of the past seasons. Right now it’s all coming to the surface and He is tenderly scooping it out and breathing life back into your lungs. Soon you’ll wake up no longer feeling heaviness, anxiety, and deep unshakeable weariness, but it will feel like a valve was just flipped on the inside of you and out of your belly rivers will flow again. You’ll feel the pain and hardship of this past season and the toll it took on you mentally, emotionally, physically, and even spiritually begin to lift as God OVERHAULS you in a short period of time. It’s an Ezekiel 37 - army of dry bones moment and it’s necessary so you don’t stay in your sick bed but are revived back to full health. Is this what is going on in you? There are great days ahead for you.. lean in and let the finished work complete the job. Can we pray for you this week? This is what He is doing; “who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s” Psalms 103:5 Lord I pray that you would renew their youth like the eagles! Restore the joy of their salvation! Bring that back into full health and joy in Jesus name! 
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