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I HEARD THE LORD SAY "DO NOT FEAR, I AM BUILDING GOSHEN!"

Nate Johnson

I HEARD THE LORD SAY "DO NOT FEAR, I AM BUILDING GOSHEN!"

I HEARD THE LORD SAY "DO NOT FEAR, I AM BUILDING GOSHEN!"

Earlier in the year, I had a dream where I was being pursued and chased by a demonic principality and in its wake, it was stirring up the earth into chaos, famine, financial recession, and tormenting fear. I was running but It was hot on my tail and I was doing everything I could to dodge its grasp. I felt surrounded and hopeless, and everything inside of me was feeling like this was the end, and life—as we knew it—was over.


Suddenly I heard the voice of the Lord say, “what are you running from? Do you not see what I am doing in the earth right now? Do you not see through the storm? Do you not see through the chaos, and even in the war being waged at your doorstep, I am giving you eyes to see. The hour that is upon the Church is not an hour of fear, nor is not an hour to run, but it is an hour to turn around, pursue the enemy on your tail, crush him under your feet, and reveal My glory in the earth!”


And that's when I heard this unusual word, the Lord said, “For many would say that this is the apocalypse, but this is not the apocalypse of the world, but the apocalypse of My revealing. This is the apocalypse of the revealing of My presence and My glory, and of My sons and daughters in the earth.” 


(The Greek Apocalypto means the revealing of Jesus - to uncover, lay open what has been veiled or covered up; to disclose, make bare: to make known, make manifest)


“For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed” (Romans 8:19)


THREE CYCLES OF SEVEN & THE SHMITA


When I woke up I was praying into what I had just seen in the dream when the Spirit came upon me and I saw three 7-year periods of time. The number seven (7) in Hebrew is She'vah and means perfection, completion, and the divine will of God. It’s a cycle of time where things come to an end and new things begin again. I believe what I was seeing was the 7-year cycles that would begin and end on Rosh Hashanah (the head of the year or the first of the year) which is the time of contemplation and celebration of a new Jewish year. 


Interestingly right now we have two events colliding which are both the ending of a Jewish year and the end of a Shmita cycle. A Shmita is the “year of release,” which is more widely known as the sabbatical year—six years of toil (both spiritually and physically) followed by the shmita which is a year of rest and completion readying for the new. 


"For six years you are to sow your land and to gather its produce, but in the seventh year, you are to let it go [tishm’tenah] and to let it be [u’nitashta], that the needy of your people may eat, and what remains, the wildlife of the field shall eat. Do thus with your vineyard, with your olive grove” (Exodus 23:10-11)


In the Shmita year, debts are to be forgiven, agricultural lands to lie fallow, private land holdings to become open to the commons, and staples such as food storage and perennial harvests to be freely redistributed and accessible to all. I believe the Shmita prophetically speaks of the Lord's protection from the devourer and His provision no matter what is taking place in the world. 


PROPHETIC CYCLES BROKEN DOWN


The first 7-year period I saw was from 2015 to 2022, starting at Rosh Hashanah 2015 and ending on Rosh Hashanah 2022. 


During this seven-year period;


  • I saw that it was a period of the church being shaken. 
  • It was a period of everything that could be shaken would be shaken. 
  • It was a time of intense resistance and delay against the new.
  • A time of exposure of the demonic assignments of Jezebel, witchcraft, and religion. 
  • It was a time of the wineskin bursting, and it was a seven-year period of the Church beginning to be sifted and purified. 
  • It was a seven-year period where God was shaking every false thing from the Church and revealing the true Church and the remnant that had been waiting for this moment. 
  • It was a time of pioneering and the Church shifting out of old mindsets and into a new way of thinking. 
  • It’s was a time when the heads of many snakes being exposed - snakes that have kept the Church in a box, but God was revealing them to cut them off once and for all. 


The second 7-year period I saw was from 2022 to 2029. 


  • This cycle was a seven-year season of repositioning, reawakening, engagement, mobilization, and preparation. 
  • I felt it was for the government of God and the Church stepping into its governmental role in the earth in many mountains of influence. 
  • It was a seven-year period of the Church pulling its head out of the sand and becoming a voice in the earth—which is why it began in 2022, the year of the voice, the voice of the Church being awoken in the earth. 
  • It was a seven-year season of blueprints being revealed and strategies. 
  • It was a seven-year season of building and constructing what God had given the Church to build and construct—the vision and plans for coming years.
  • It was a season for the church to step into a time of unity where brands would be dissolved and the powerless Church would crumble. Empires would fall during this seven-year period making way for the Spirit-yielded Church to emerge with a powerful voice and roar in the earth.


The third cycle of the 7-year periods that I saw was what the two previous cycles of seven years had been leading up to. 


  • This final cycle was the seven-year period of the clashing of kingdoms. 
  • It was both a time of great enforcement of the enemy's agenda in the earth and a time of greater glory. 
  • It was the time when things that have been hidden and done in secret could no longer be kept hidden. 
  • A time where the plots and plans by men possessed by the enemy would emerge and be attempted to be enforced and brought into effect but it was also a time of amazing favor, provision, and ridiculous harvest. 
  • This was the cycle that God was going to show off His Bride in a powerful way and we would not be in fear of the intimidation of the enemy because while it looked menacing I saw clear as day these giants and their plans falling. 
  • It will be a time when the plans of the enemy come undone and he overplays his hand which will lead right into the harvest of harvests. 


THE MANTLE OF JOSEPH


Then a few days later the Lord began to speak to me about the mantle of Joseph. And He said to me, “Nate, in this hour, the mantle of Joseph is going to be released over My Church and over My Bride. I'm going to call people into many different places of strategic influence. There are those that I'm going to use to prepare the Body of Christ for these times of great global shaking. These are those that will build and construct and gather for these times. And just like Joseph was in the prison and then was suddenly called to the palace, I'm going to do the same thing for many of those that I'm calling into this mantle; those that have been in a place of imprisonment, a place of dormancy, a place of being stifled, and have been shut down and muzzled.


“But in a moment, I'm going to call them to strategic influence because the Pharaohs' of the earth (while not godly) recognize that they need something and they need someone who carries the Spirit of the living God, and the wisdom to be able to get them out of the bind that they're in. And just like Pharaoh called Joseph to the palace, I'm going to press on the hearts of Pharaohs' and earthly kings, and they will search out these "Josephs" and bring them into a place of influence in the earth.


“And these Josephs, they will carry the wisdom for this time. They will carry the insight and they will carry the know-how to build and construct what needs to be built and constructed to defy and counteract the plans of the enemy—just as Joseph did in Genesis. He was able to interpret the dream of Pharaoh and see the seven years of plenty coming and the seven years of famine coming—the seven skinny cows and the seven fattened calves.


“I'm going to use these Josephs to be able to prepare for what is coming and they will build Goshen," says the Lord. "For right now, many around the world are in fear, and the Body of Christ has been pushed into a corner and have been confused, have lost their future, and have lost the fight. They have been burying their heads in the sand and waving their white flag but they need to know there is nothing to fear because their future is Goshen!”


"Have I not already prepared it?" says the Lord, "have I not already called these people into places of influence? You do not have anything to fear!”


And the Lord would say, “You need to keep going forward—you need to not stop. Why did your dreaming stop? Why did your plans stop? Why did you drop your mantle? Why did you drop your instrument? Why did you drop your pen? For you need to keep going forward unafraid, I am paving and clearing the way right now, I'm shaking off and breaking off the fear and the survival mentality. That mentality that has been over the Church that entered through years of shaking, the years of chaos and unrest. And I'm putting on them the mantle of praise and they're going to forfeit the spirit of heaviness," says the Lord.


For the Lord would say, “Right now I am building Goshen!” So pick up your tools and your mantle and step back into hope for the days ahead are your best days!”


WHAT IS GOSHEN?


Goshen was a plot of land given to the Israelites from Egypt that bordered Canaan which is prophetic of how we are in the world but not of it. It’s the promise of kingdom immunity and protection even amidst worldly systems and famine, and the fruit of sin. The name Goshen means “drawing near” and is a call to come out of the world, mixture, and compromise and create a greater connection and dwelling with God. 


“You shall live in the region of Goshen and be near me—you, your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all you have” (Genesis 45:10)


Goshen is your promise of finally settling in the land God has given you after being nomads for so long. 


"Now the Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number” (Genesis 47:27) 


Goshen is the promise of being fruitful and increasing no matter what is taking place around you. Goshen was the place where God made Israel into a great nation and its where God will establish and plant you and build you. Goshen was protected from the plagues of Egypt which speaks prophetically of how we will be protected from the storms and fluctuations of earthly governments and systems. 


Goshen is a heart posture of intimacy and being set apart unto the Lord. Goshen speaks prophetically of territory and occupation in the enemy's camp. Goshen is an anointing to be blessed and flourish in all seasons. 


I AM BUILDING GOSHEN! 


And lastly, I just wanna share what I keep seeing throughout this year. There has been this strong sudden cry and call on the hearts of God's people to build and establish "out of the box" gatherings, hubs, and places. There has been a strong cry to get up, pack, and leave to find these places. People are readying their families to physically move locations so that they can sow their lives into these places God is calling many to build. Relocation is taking place—God is pulling people out of dead environments and into Goshen environments. They are being pulled out of places that are void of the prophetic decree, future and a hope (Jeremiah 29:11) and putting them into places of vision, movement, and action. They are coming out of the false and into authenticity. 


Feet are stirring and beginning to move!


Because of this many have had blueprints drop in their lap and have been feeling the pull to establish communities and places of God's presence, and to those people, the Lord would say, “This is what I want you to build, I want you to build storm houses which will be a place safe from any storm.” They will be like Joseph's storehouses, but they will be storm houses because they'll provide protection for many from the storm. And they will be the ones that not only prepare the Church in terms of financial provision, food and shelter, and safety from the things that the enemy would try to shake in the days to come but they would be the ones that would disciple and raise up people to know how to be effective during these times. There would be those who would raise up an army of people who would fight back against the kingdom of darkness and raise up a people that were effective in the times that they were living in. 


LET HOPE FILL YOUR HEART ONCE AGAIN


At the beginning of this new Jewish year of 5783 Goshen is your promise of stepping into a epoch to be excited about not dread like the news, media, and many fear mongering believers are doing. Fear has not helped you but has BOUND you but right now the Lord is breaking the yoke of heaviness and despair that has been over you for so long. 


It’s time to let hope fill your heart once again and fill your sails with fresh wind to break out of the confinement you have been in. 


It’s time to embrace the protection and provision of the Lord and confidently move forward knowing He is your breaker leading the way for you (Micah 2:13) and your rear guard. 


Soon you are going to look back on the last few years and not see confusion, painful heart healing, awkward confrontation, and the failure and standstill in your previous plans, but you will see how much God was sneakily delivering you from wrong situations and relationships, outdated assignments, idolised doors and vision, limited mindsets, heart issues and trauma, and untangled you from every web that has been wrapped around you for years. 


“Can’t you see that I have been REBUILDING you?” says the lord. “Now watch as from this place I lay the bricks of the movement I have always longed for you to see but that you couldn’t while you still had your hand on the old plow. So pick up fresh hope, shed the fear, and build the years of Goshen with me!” 


Sow a seed

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THE COMMISSIONING OF WILD HORSES

By Nate Johnston • 15 Oct, 2024
This past weekend, I was walking down the National Mall in Washington, D.C., during the Million Women event, when I heard the sound of hooves—galloping, fast, and almost deafening. It was so loud in my spirit that it stopped me in my tracks. As I stood there, I heard the phrase: “Heaven’s gates opened, and the horses were released.” Just a few days earlier, in a meeting with Lou Engle, he shared about how the Lord had woven all the threads of his life together for this event. Lou said, “This one is different—it’s a mass commissioning service for God’s daughters.” As he spoke, I saw seeds flying out from D.C., scattering across the earth and becoming wildfires. I knew this moment was significant—one of release, calling, and awakening. This wasn’t my first prophetic encounter in D.C. Years ago, on a trip to Washington, the Lord gave me a dream saying, “Go to the eastern gate of D.C. and pray.” From that moment on, I’ve always seen Washington, D.C., not just as a place of governmental authority, but as a spiritual gateway—a place of intercession, heavenly legislation, and divine release. Psalm 24 says, “Lift up your heads, you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.” But what if these ancient gates are not just places for the King to enter? What if they are also the gates releasing the horses of heaven—wild, unrestrained, and sent on divine assignment? And now, I say to you—God’s daughters, and the Mordecais standing with them—RUN. Christy and I were sent to D.C. years ago as God’s Lighthorsemen from Australia, joining the fight at America’s doorstep. But now, the time has come for you to rise as the wild horses commissioned for this moment in history. We must rise as God’s wild ones, unrelenting and unstoppable. God’s horses are wild, uncontainable, and bold, and that is exactly what you were made to be. The gates of heaven have swung open, and you have been commissioned to run. Don’t hold back. Run with abandon, knowing that the fire of the Spirit burns within you. Run, carrying seeds of awakening that will spread across nations. The time is now. The gates are open. The King of Glory is riding with you. It’s time to chase out Goliath’s brothers, to break the strongholds, and to take back what the enemy has tried to steal. You were born for this moment in history—wild, free, and unstoppable. So I say to you once more: Run, wild horses. Run. The race ahead is not for the faint of heart, but the King is with you, and the victory is already assured. This is your commissioning. This is your moment. Now is the time—run.

WHAT IT REALLY MEANS WHEN YOU HAVE A TARGET ON YOUR BACK

By Nate Johnston • 15 Oct, 2024
You are moving mountains the enemy is occupying. Your obedience is shifting spiritual atmospheres, tearing down strongholds, and disrupting the enemy’s plans. You are taking ground the enemy thought he owned. Every step you take is reclaiming territory for the Kingdom of God, advancing into areas the enemy has long held captive. You are moving out of survival into the freedom of the Lord. You are breaking free from cycles of fear, lack, and striving, stepping into the abundant life Jesus promised. You are a threat to the enemy’s plans. The enemy is targeting you because your obedience carries divine strategies that dismantle darkness. You are undergoing promotion and elevation. This season of warfare is preparing you for greater authority and influence. God is refining you for new levels of leadership. You are about to give birth to a new move of God. The intensity you feel is the spiritual labor leading to a release of new life, new vision, and new assignments. The enemy is attacking your voice and confidence because it is powerful. Your words carry heaven’s authority, and the enemy fears what will happen when you speak out in boldness. The mental warfare is designed to distract you from your assignment. Confusion, doubt, and fear are weapons the enemy uses to divert you from the path God has laid out for you. You are on the verge of breakthrough. The enemy’s resistance is often greatest just before the fulfillment of God’s promises. Your breakthrough is imminent. You are being prepared to lead others into freedom. Your battle is not just about you—it’s about the people you are called to deliver and lead into wholeness. The battle is confirmation of your calling. The intensity of opposition reveals the significance of your assignment. You are marked by God for a great purpose. The target on your back is evidence that the enemy sees you as a threat. You are being attacked not because you are failing, but because the enemy knows you carry the power to win. The One who called you is faithful to finish what He started. God is with you in every battle. What He began in you, He will complete. He will see you through to victory. You are increasing in anointing. The pressing you feel is producing new oil—fresh anointing that will empower you to carry greater spiritual authority. You are about to enter a new season of visibility and influence. God is positioning you to be seen and heard in ways you have never experienced before. Your time to shine is near. You are about to build what the enemy has tried to hold back provision on. The resistance against your resources is because what you are building will dismantle darkness. But provision is being released. You are breaking through the ceilings of demonic holds. The limitations the enemy tried to place over you are being shattered. You are rising above the boundaries of fear, oppression, and control You are walking in obedience that terrifies the enemy. Your steps of faith are advancing God’s kingdom and disrupting the enemy’s plans, causing him to panic. You are breaking generational cycles and strongholds. You are confronting spiritual patterns that have held people captive for generations, becoming a pioneer of freedom. You are walking into promises the enemy tried to steal. What the enemy delayed, God is restoring. You are about to claim promises that have been held back. You are being transformed to carry new oil. The process you are in is producing fresh revelation, strength, and anointing for the next season. The enemy is trying to exhaust you so you give up. Fatigue and weariness are his tactics, but God’s grace is sufficient—He will renew your strength. Your mind is under attack because your thoughts shape your future and guide your steps. The enemy knows if he can influence your thinking, he can derail your destiny by leading you off course and creating Ishmaels, but God has given you the mind of Christ. You are facing opposition because your prayers are effective. The enemy fears your intercession because it releases heaven’s will on earth and shifts spiritual atmospheres. You are stepping into a new level of identity and authority. The attacks on your identity are attempts to keep you from fully stepping into who God has called you to be. The attack is proof of your influence in the spiritual realm. Your life carries spiritual weight, and the enemy’s resistance is proof that you are making an impact. God is using the pressure to reveal what cannot stay. The battle is exposing lies and fears that God is purging from your life to make room for His fullness. You are aligning with God’s timing, which the enemy hates. You are stepping into divine timing, and no force in hell can stop what God has ordained for you. The warfare will serve as a testimony to others. What you overcome will become a testimony that strengthens and guides others through their own battles. Hold your ground. The intensity of the warfare is not a sign of defeat but a sign of impending victory. What you carry is worth fighting for, and what God has promised you will come to pass. Stay faithful—breakthrough, provision, and freedom are on the horizon. So as you see the bullseye hovering over you begin to praise God because you are moving and shaking and evicting darkness. KEEP GOING!

THE COMMISSIONING OF WILD HORSES

By Nate Johnston • 15 Oct, 2024
This past weekend, I was walking down the National Mall in Washington, D.C., during the Million Women event, when I heard the sound of hooves—galloping, fast, and almost deafening. It was so loud in my spirit that it stopped me in my tracks. As I stood there, I heard the phrase: “Heaven’s gates opened, and the horses were released.” Just a few days earlier, in a meeting with Lou Engle, he shared about how the Lord had woven all the threads of his life together for this event. Lou said, “This one is different—it’s a mass commissioning service for God’s daughters.” As he spoke, I saw seeds flying out from D.C., scattering across the earth and becoming wildfires. I knew this moment was significant—one of release, calling, and awakening. This wasn’t my first prophetic encounter in D.C. Years ago, on a trip to Washington, the Lord gave me a dream saying, “Go to the eastern gate of D.C. and pray.” From that moment on, I’ve always seen Washington, D.C., not just as a place of governmental authority, but as a spiritual gateway—a place of intercession, heavenly legislation, and divine release. Psalm 24 says, “Lift up your heads, you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.” But what if these ancient gates are not just places for the King to enter? What if they are also the gates releasing the horses of heaven—wild, unrestrained, and sent on divine assignment? And now, I say to you—God’s daughters, and the Mordecais standing with them—RUN. Christy and I were sent to D.C. years ago as God’s Lighthorsemen from Australia, joining the fight at America’s doorstep. But now, the time has come for you to rise as the wild horses commissioned for this moment in history. We must rise as God’s wild ones, unrelenting and unstoppable. God’s horses are wild, uncontainable, and bold, and that is exactly what you were made to be. The gates of heaven have swung open, and you have been commissioned to run. Don’t hold back. Run with abandon, knowing that the fire of the Spirit burns within you. Run, carrying seeds of awakening that will spread across nations. The time is now. The gates are open. The King of Glory is riding with you. It’s time to chase out Goliath’s brothers, to break the strongholds, and to take back what the enemy has tried to steal. You were born for this moment in history—wild, free, and unstoppable. So I say to you once more: Run, wild horses. Run. The race ahead is not for the faint of heart, but the King is with you, and the victory is already assured. This is your commissioning. This is your moment. Now is the time—run.

WHAT IT REALLY MEANS WHEN YOU HAVE A TARGET ON YOUR BACK

By Nate Johnston • 15 Oct, 2024
You are moving mountains the enemy is occupying. Your obedience is shifting spiritual atmospheres, tearing down strongholds, and disrupting the enemy’s plans. You are taking ground the enemy thought he owned. Every step you take is reclaiming territory for the Kingdom of God, advancing into areas the enemy has long held captive. You are moving out of survival into the freedom of the Lord. You are breaking free from cycles of fear, lack, and striving, stepping into the abundant life Jesus promised. You are a threat to the enemy’s plans. The enemy is targeting you because your obedience carries divine strategies that dismantle darkness. You are undergoing promotion and elevation. This season of warfare is preparing you for greater authority and influence. God is refining you for new levels of leadership. You are about to give birth to a new move of God. The intensity you feel is the spiritual labor leading to a release of new life, new vision, and new assignments. The enemy is attacking your voice and confidence because it is powerful. Your words carry heaven’s authority, and the enemy fears what will happen when you speak out in boldness. The mental warfare is designed to distract you from your assignment. Confusion, doubt, and fear are weapons the enemy uses to divert you from the path God has laid out for you. You are on the verge of breakthrough. The enemy’s resistance is often greatest just before the fulfillment of God’s promises. Your breakthrough is imminent. You are being prepared to lead others into freedom. Your battle is not just about you—it’s about the people you are called to deliver and lead into wholeness. The battle is confirmation of your calling. The intensity of opposition reveals the significance of your assignment. You are marked by God for a great purpose. The target on your back is evidence that the enemy sees you as a threat. You are being attacked not because you are failing, but because the enemy knows you carry the power to win. The One who called you is faithful to finish what He started. God is with you in every battle. What He began in you, He will complete. He will see you through to victory. You are increasing in anointing. The pressing you feel is producing new oil—fresh anointing that will empower you to carry greater spiritual authority. You are about to enter a new season of visibility and influence. God is positioning you to be seen and heard in ways you have never experienced before. Your time to shine is near. You are about to build what the enemy has tried to hold back provision on. The resistance against your resources is because what you are building will dismantle darkness. But provision is being released. You are breaking through the ceilings of demonic holds. The limitations the enemy tried to place over you are being shattered. You are rising above the boundaries of fear, oppression, and control You are walking in obedience that terrifies the enemy. Your steps of faith are advancing God’s kingdom and disrupting the enemy’s plans, causing him to panic. You are breaking generational cycles and strongholds. You are confronting spiritual patterns that have held people captive for generations, becoming a pioneer of freedom. You are walking into promises the enemy tried to steal. What the enemy delayed, God is restoring. You are about to claim promises that have been held back. You are being transformed to carry new oil. The process you are in is producing fresh revelation, strength, and anointing for the next season. The enemy is trying to exhaust you so you give up. Fatigue and weariness are his tactics, but God’s grace is sufficient—He will renew your strength. Your mind is under attack because your thoughts shape your future and guide your steps. The enemy knows if he can influence your thinking, he can derail your destiny by leading you off course and creating Ishmaels, but God has given you the mind of Christ. You are facing opposition because your prayers are effective. The enemy fears your intercession because it releases heaven’s will on earth and shifts spiritual atmospheres. You are stepping into a new level of identity and authority. The attacks on your identity are attempts to keep you from fully stepping into who God has called you to be. The attack is proof of your influence in the spiritual realm. Your life carries spiritual weight, and the enemy’s resistance is proof that you are making an impact. God is using the pressure to reveal what cannot stay. The battle is exposing lies and fears that God is purging from your life to make room for His fullness. You are aligning with God’s timing, which the enemy hates. You are stepping into divine timing, and no force in hell can stop what God has ordained for you. The warfare will serve as a testimony to others. What you overcome will become a testimony that strengthens and guides others through their own battles. Hold your ground. The intensity of the warfare is not a sign of defeat but a sign of impending victory. What you carry is worth fighting for, and what God has promised you will come to pass. Stay faithful—breakthrough, provision, and freedom are on the horizon. So as you see the bullseye hovering over you begin to praise God because you are moving and shaking and evicting darkness. KEEP GOING!

Rise Up Wild Prophets: Blow the Trumpet and Clear the Air!

By Nate Johnson • 09 Oct, 2024
In a dream, I heard the Lord say over and over, “Blow the trumpet, clear the air. Blow the trumpet, clear the air.” When I woke up, there was a deep urgency in my spirit. The Lord is speaking to the wild prophets of this hour—those who have been called for such a time as this. Between now and January, there is a distinct charge for you: blow the trumpet and clear the air. Especially in the times leading up to the election and inauguration, we will see an intensification of political agendas and propaganda. Financial storms are going to arise from unexpected places. Natural disasters, distractions, and disturbances will dominate the atmosphere. But these are not just random events; they are storms of the enemy designed to overload the atmosphere with chaos and drama, pulling the eyes of God’s people away from the target—away from what He is doing in the earth. This is a simple word, but a critical one, for the wild prophets right now: Blow the trumpet and clear the air! “Again, if the trumpet does not sound a clear call, who will get ready for battle? So it is with you. Unless you speak intelligible words with your tongue, how will anyone know what you are saying? You will just be speaking into the air.” — 1 Corinthians 14:8-9 (NIV) “But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes someone’s life, that person’s life will be taken because of their sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for their blood.” — Ezekiel 33:6 (NIV) Just a week ago, I woke up with a deep frustration in my spirit. I asked the Lord, “What am I feeling?” And He said, “There is so much confusion in the air right now, even within the church. People’s arrows are landing near the target, but not on it.” My frustration was that, in my spirit, I sensed this question rising: Where are the accurate shooters? Where are the prophetic voices who are cutting through all the noise and debris and hitting the target? We are not called to be those who guess. We are not called to shoot in the dark. We are called to be precise, to hit the mark with clarity. But right now, there’s an increase in storms, an increase in drama, and the atmosphere feels overloaded. It’s difficult to see and perceive clearly because of all the noise. But here’s the key: When you blow the trumpet, it clears the air. It breaks through the confusion and unveils the truth. As you rise up and speak in this hour, it will clear the atmosphere. It will lift the veil that has settled over so many people, bringing them back to center. I believe that as we blow the trumpet, there will be a profound increase in discernment—discernment between light and darkness, and discernment to see the difference between what is manufactured by man, governments, and elites, and what is genuinely from the Lord. We will more easily distinguish the games being played in front of us and recognize the distractions that flood social media and the media at large. We’ll see the thing behind the thing because that is who we are called to be. We will discern between the lies, the slander, and that which is rooted in truth. So, wild ones, hear this: this is not a time to shrink back. This is not a time to protect your reputation or stay silent. It’s a time to stand and speak. It’s time to release truth, to sound the alarm. We’re not called to be background noise like a kazoo—we are trumpets, clear and loud. We are called to release the sound of God’s presence and glory into the atmosphere, and in doing so, we will disarm chaos and confusion. “You will thwart the plans of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.” (Job 5:12) As you blow the trumpet, you will disarm principalities and powers that have been wreaking havoc in regions. You will stir up the body of Christ to step into the boldness they’ve been called to walk in. The wild mantle you wear will awaken the church to move in power and clarity. Rise up, wild prophets! Blow the trumpet and clear the air in Jesus’ name.

THIS WEEK, DO NOT BELIEVE THE BAD REPORT!

By Nate Johnston • 09 Oct, 2024
Last week I received a warning from the Holy Spirit repeatedly saying, “Do not believe the report right now.” There is so much swirling—governmentally, politically, globally—but there’s also a personal battle against many of you. The enemy knows that if he can crush you with a bad report, it will cause you to shrink back in fear and prevent you from possessing the land that lies ahead. We are in a transition—a shift out of the old wineskin, old methods, and even an old season. Many of you have been transitioning out of assignments, locations, and relationships that have defined you for years. This transition has not only been difficult but, for some, traumatic. Not only because of what you’ve had to leave behind, but because it’s required you to shed long-held mindsets and ways of thinking that no longer serve where God is taking you. This year has been about surrender, forcing you to let go of what you’ve held tightly to over the past five, ten, or even twenty years. This transition is one of deliverance—a season of freedom where God is closing doors that have given the enemy access to rob you. In the midst of this, He is preparing you for increase. God is positioning you for a wide-open space where you can dream and run with Him in ways you’ve never experienced before. This next era is about you co-laboring with the Lord—free from religious control, false agendas, and systems that have kept you bound. But during this transition, the enemy has hit many of you with bad reports. It could be in your health, finances, or family—whatever it is, it’s a tactic of the enemy to distract and crush you, keeping you from crossing into the new space God has for you. The enemy knows that if he can convince you to focus on the bad report, you’ll be tempted to run back to your old place of bondage, simply because it feels safe and familiar. In times of transition, the unknown feels risky, and the temptation is to cling to what we know—even if it’s bondage—because at least it feels stable. But here’s the truth: Do not believe the bad report! These reports are lies from the enemy, smoke and mirrors designed to make you lose sight of what God is doing. They are meant to intimidate you and cause you to waste energy on battles that God has already won. This is not your moment to take the wheel—this is the time to surrender and rest, allowing God to fight on your behalf as He prepares you for the increase ahead. These bad reports are nothing more than false prophecies —poisonous words meant to discourage you, make you feel abandoned, and convince you that your journey with God has been in vain. They are designed to make you retreat, to abandon your calling, and to plant in the wrong land, building an Ishmael instead of the promise. People of God, do not believe the bad report! Right now, I expose these reports for the lies they are. The Lord has called you, and He will sustain you. The enemy has tried to convince you that your pioneering journey has been fruitless, but I break that lie in Jesus’ name. I declare that you will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. You will see Him clear away the distractions, expose every lie, and tear up those false reports for what they are—fiction, forged in darkness. Even now, I declare the release of the good report over your life. I prophesy hope, freedom, and breakthrough in Jesus’ name. Father, I ask that You turn around every area the enemy has targeted, and I pray for Your truth, Your increase, and Your promotion to be released over Your people in this hour. Amen. Lord we call forth the GOOD REPORT in Jesus name! “How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, ‘Your God reigns!’” — Isaiah 52:7 (NIV) 
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