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I SAW THE HIDDEN SPIRITUAL ASSIGNMENT TRYING TO THWART THE TRUE MOVE OF THE SPIRIT & AWAKENING

nateandchristy2018

I SAW THE HIDDEN SPIRITUAL ASSIGNMENT TRYING TO THWART THE TRUE MOVE OF THE SPIRIT & AWAKENING

I SAW THE HIDDEN SPIRITUAL ASSIGNMENT TRYING TO THWART THE TRUE MOVE OF THE SPIRIT & AWAKENING

Before I share this word I want to make it clear that this word is in no way speaking against the needed justice and restoration in the black American community, but this is a word to reveal and expose the work of the enemy that is trying to move against the healing and restoration that God is wanting to see right now and the work of the Holy Spirit to to mobilize a generation for harvest. This is a word of exposure to the tactics of the enemy that seeks to keep us divided, suppressed, oppressed, powerless, and yet again controlled and manipulated to his agenda and a call to step into our shoes as sons and daughters in this difficult and messy time of humanity.

THE SNAKE & THE DRAGON

I went to bed a few nights ago troubled and I asked the Lord two questions; “What is swirling in the spirit that I cannot see?” and “What are you doing that I cannot see?”

As soon as I fell asleep I went into a dream. In the dream I saw two figures moving amongst a crowd of people that were hidden from them. I looked more closely until I saw it, it was a snake crouching low in the grass and it was busy wrapping its tail around people’s legs and laughing as they tripped and fell. Many people began fighting and accusing each other all the while the snake was moving around incognito causing mischief and mayhem.

That’s when my eyes adjusted to the second figure of a dragon that was standing further back watching over what the snake was doing. The dragon was doing something in the atmosphere, like a swirling of wind and fog and creating a sense of confusion. It seemed like it was governing the weather patterns and creating turmoil and perpetuating the chaos atmospherically. At first I was annoyed at the snake for causing such problems, but then I realized that the snake was also sent as a distraction so we wouldn’t see the plans of the dragon that was being released.

After I had the dream, I woke up still feeling troubled because now I felt like God was speaking to me about what was spiritually taking place that many couldn’t see.

In the Bible the snake obviously reveals the enemy who in the garden deceived Adam and Eve to cause them to act outside of their identity and purpose. Right now the enemy is causing chaos and snaring people into fighting, bickering, and arguing, it’s diverting their calling and purpose! It was also interesting that it was the snake's tail wrapping around them because the enemy wants us to act like the tail not the head right now. It’s so subtle that we don’t even recognize when we have started reacting out of victimhood and anger instead of responding out of who the Father has called us to be. The other tactic of the snake is to DIVERT people away from being a mouthpiece of truth and cause them to be a messenger of the enemies gossip and propaganda. We are supposed to live above the snake-line, above the chatter, and the noise, and be in tune to the heart of God especially in moments of turmoil.

CAUGHT IN HIS GAME

The dragon was busy at work swirling the atmosphere and I could see in different parts on the horizon were tornadoes he had created but it was the fogginess and confusion that was the worst. So what is the dragon? The dragon in the bible is generally associated with the spirit of leviathan.

“In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea” Isaiah 27:1

The main role of Leviathan is that it works against the move of the spirit and the power of God by provoking fear, intimidation, harshness, bitterness, and operating out of pride or soulish strength. This spirit is a twisting serpent so it twists and turns things for it’s agenda and seeks to keep people caught up in a fight they will not be able to win outside of the spirit of God! Over the years when I have sensed this spirit in operation it normally manifests itself in religious wars between churches or people that instead of being a move of God they begin to war against each other and it stifles the move of God. What  is necessary to point out though is that this dragon was not down in the grass doing the small and aggravating acts against people, but it was operating globally and trying to shroud the nations and pull the wool over its eyes. This spirits purpose is to counter the move of the spirit but turning people on people and nation upon nation. It’s counterproductive to a move of God, a move of repentance, and a move of the spirit that ushers in real change. It wants the revolution to be man's way and not God's way. It wants to pour fuel on the fire of national crisis instead of the healing balm to heal the land. This spirit has been operating for months now trying to subtly recruit people to turn on each other instead of turning TO each other and that’s not the wave we are wanting to join.

IN THE FIRE OF THE FRESH BAPTISM

So as I woke up processing what I had just seen in the dream I suddenly heard a scripture loud and clear and I knew it was God replying to me from my other question; “What are you doing right now?”

“Those who repent I baptize with water, but there is coming a Man after me who is more powerful than I am. In fact, I’m not even worthy enough to pick up his sandals. He will submerge you into union with the Spirit of Holiness and with a raging fire!He comes with a winnowing fork in his hands and comes to his threshing floor to sift what is worthless from what is pure. And he is ready to sweep out his threshing floor and gather his wheat into his granary, but the straw he will burn up with a fire that can’t be extinguished!” Matthew 3:11-12

Right now we are in a time of history where God is shaking the earth for His glory and baptizing the earth in the Holy Ghost and fire. It’s been the most intense refining we have ever experienced, why? Because God wants us to be the pure bride He can use mightily in the greatest harvest we have ever seen, but we haven’t been ready. He wants us to be the bride who have their oils topped up and fill ready for the bridegroom not the bride with a flickering flame trying to borrow some oil from their neighbor. What I have noticed about God is that he doesn’t cause chaos but He uses it to bring healing where the enemy only wants to incite chaos. Around the earth during this pandemic we have seen so much arguing, fighting, and disunity and while the enemy is snickering, God is laughing too because it only exposed the root. It only revealed what was hidden that was preventing what we have been crying out for. The Holy Spirit just keeps pouring out himself on His people and using his winnowing fork to untangle us and detach us from old things and fleshy ways. Things that keep opposing the move of God and revealing our true need for a CHANGE, a TURNING, and a CONVERSION from death to life, under to above, and victimhood to overcomes. This is where we are right now. Can you see the difference? Do you have eyes to see? God wants healing and true repentance in areas of injustice. Racism grieves him, abortion grieves him, political games grieve him, but without the shaking and the fire we would keep brushing it under the carpet for another 20 years. It’s being revealed for a reason. At the same time, we can’t lose our discernment and let the enemy piggy-back onto a true move of justice but adding evil and hidden agendas that do not result in healing and true change. He only wants to stir the pot and keep making it messier and for the division to increase. That’s not a move of God. That’s a move of revenge and will not achieve any measure of justice.

HOW YOU DRINK RIGHT NOW DETERMINES THE OUTCOME

My third question to God came yesterday as I was processing everything, I said “Ok so what do I do right now?” and instantly I felt like I was looking up the story of Gideon and his men.

“So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the Lord told him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel down to drink.” Three hundred of them drank from cupped hands, lapping like dogs. All the rest got down on their knees to drink . The Lord said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hands. Let all the others go home.” Judges 7:5-7

I believe God is asking us to look to him right now more than anything. It doesn’t mean we ignore issues, no, but unless we drink right now we will only regurgitate the fear and hysteria of the media that sounds wise but it’s the twisting tongue of leviathan that places a veil over those who aren’t discerning it. It’s a call to intimacy and seeking the heart of God when most are wanting to raise their hands to fight. This is the secret. We are called to raise our voices right now more than ever before. We are called to war and to be the restorers of the streets and injustices but if we go to war without drinking, empty, and without oil, we fall into the trap of enlisting for a diversion of the fight we were created for. It’s less popular but let me ask you, who will drink right now? What sources of sustenance will you drink from in this time? Media, or heaven? Trending tags, or Jesus? One has solutions, restoration, justice, peace, and power, and the others don’t.

Today I encourage you to look to Jesus because He never stopped being the solution. Every idea, strategy, and method of resolution outside of or separate of Jesus won’t have the desired outcome. Remember it is JESUS that put's his foot on leviathan and slays him, not us. We just have to stand in authority and pray. Right now we need to hear heavens report, hear what the Holy Spirit is saying and doing. Are you speaking from His heart? Are you trying to process on your own? Jesus, we invite you into this moment of history because that is where you work best!

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WE ARE IN A ROOTS MOVEMENT MOMENT

By Nate Johnston • May 21, 2025
I heard the Lord say: This is a roots movement. This is a moment where I have humbled my Church not to punish her, but to heal her. To purify her. To prune her for the coming harvest. My Church had grown accustomed to the bloom, the fruit, the outward beauty and what man sees, celebrates, and calls success. But right now, my glory is resting on what looks ordinary. What looks unpopular. Even what appears ugly or overlooked. Man says it’s about charisma. About the lights and smoke machines. About loud worship and grandeur. But my glory in this hour is resting on the grassroots, the simple, the foolish. On that which looks like a seed, small, buried, and unseen yet saturated by My glory. I’ve looked into the hearts of My people. I’ve seen a deep longing for what is real. For what is authentic. For what draws them back to Me not a performance, but an encounter. Not hype, but holy. For too long, My name was exalted in systems that celebrated man’s wisdom, man’s comforts, and man’s movements. But now, their brokenness is leading them back on unfamiliar paths toward what looks small, humble, and unthreatening. And yet it is pregnant with promise. That place you’ve overlooked is where I’ve hidden the seeds of My next great outpouring. A place people will say, “Surely revival can’t come from there.” But that is exactly where My Spirit is about to be poured out. I’ve chosen a people who have chosen the low road. Those who refuse to chase platforms or prestige. If you choose the low road, My Spirit will get the glory. If you humble yourself in this season if you choose the way few choose you will experience personal revival. You will see the fulfillment of the promises I made over nations. But it starts with the roots. Can you not see? I’ve been cutting back the tree. I’ve been stripping away the opulence because it came, and My glory lifted. The spectacle increased, but signs and wonders diminished. Man became too familiar with My anointing, relying on giftings instead of My Spirit. He who has ears, let him hear: I am doing a new thing in this hour, but it won’t look like what you’re used to. I’m bringing My Church back to its roots. Back to Acts. Back to the place of birth where it was messy, but it was beautiful. And right now, many are feeling the tension. You can feel the pull into something new, but it feels like your branches are being cut back. Some feel like nothing more than a stump, a root in the ground. But from that root will grow something powerful if you let Me water you. If you let Me tend to you. I’m uprooting the weeds and tares from past seasons things that have choked your family, your calling, your mind, your marriage. I’m clearing the soil so that what grows next will be healthy, sustainable, and lasting. I’ve brought My Church low so that what is planted now will remain for generations. This is not the end. This is a rebirthing. You will experience My glory again, says the Lord. So if you feel lost…if the doors are closing…if your resources are drying up…if you’re staring at impossible debt or deep lack… know that I am there. -I am in the midst of your marriage. -I am in the midst of that prodigal child. -I am in the midst of your finances. -I am in the midst of your health. The enemy has lied to you, but I am taking an ax to the root of those lies. Not to destroy your life but to prune it. To cut back what was killing you. To free you from generational cycles and mindsets that have left you worn out and barely holding on. I am bringing you into wholeness. I am bringing you into freedom. Can you not see it? And here is My call to the Church: -If you will prepare a place for Me to dwell… -If you will come low… -If you will humble yourself… I will come. And the people will come. The broken will come. The world that is truly searching for Me will come. Roots movements are beginning to burst forth across the earth. They look like Davids in the field unnoticed, uninvited, seemingly insignificant. Yet they carry My glory. Soon, they will grow. And the world will recognize their fruit and like the pearl in the field many will give away everything to buy the field. The hidden ones will emerge to join the song of the lamb. And they will become dispensaries of My presence where healing, signs, wonders, and the fresh and mighty outpouring of my spirit will flow! 

I'M GOING TO TURN IT AROUND!

By Nate Johnston • May 21, 2025
Are you facing a bleak situation right now? A bad report? I feel an unction from the Holy Spirit to prophesy over those standing in the middle of what looks like impossible right now. It might be health issues, financial breakdown, family chaos, mental exhaustion and more. Let me prophesy….It’s going to turn around. You know those moments in life where you’re under pressure, crushed, confused, out of options? You’ve prayed, fasted, cried… and still, nothing shifts? And then out of nowhere, God speaks. We had one of those moments today. A family member was in surgery and everything began falling apart. It didn’t look good. In fact, it looked hopeless. Panic hit me at first so I cried out, “Lord, I need you. I don’t know what to do.” And suddenly I heard the voice of the Lord thunder in my spirit “It’s going to turn around!” At that exact moment, I glanced at my phone - it was 11:11. The Holy Spirit reminded me of John 11:11: “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.” Notice that J esus didn’t call Lazarus “dead” even though everyone else did. He called him asleep because He saw the turnaround before it came. He spoke life into a situation everyone had already given up on. In the natural, Lazarus was gone. But in the spirit, heaven had a different word. And I believe God is saying to many of you; “What looks dead is only sleeping and I’m about to wake it up.” Just like the young girl in Mark 5, when they told Jesus she was dead, and He said, “She is not dead, she is only sleeping.” He spoke a word that contradicted the room. And I feel right now that heaven is interrupting your crisis with a contradictory word: “It’s going to turn around.” Like in Zephaniah 3:19–20 which declares: “In the end I will turn things around for the people… I’ll get rid of all those who’ve made your life miserable. I’ll heal the maimed; I’ll bring home the homeless… On Judgment Day, I’ll bring you back home—a great family gathering!” This is your Psalm 126 moment: “When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter…” — Psalm 126:1–2 That moment when sorrow turns to laughter. Tears to testimony. Confusion to clarity. But here’s the truth: I know many of you are weary. You’ve been through years of warfare, setbacks, disappointments. And you have had some unexpected situations rise and you’re wondering, “Do I even have the strength to stand in this one?” You feel like you’re out of fight. You’re tired of pushing. Tired of prophesying with no fruit. Tired of trying to make things move In your own strength. You’ve thought, “Maybe I should just roll over. Maybe I should stop contending. It’s too much.” But I feel the Lord tell me to send this word out to hold up your arms today. This word is not just encouragement. It’s a prophetic act. Like Aaron and Hur holding up Moses’ arms in battle (Exodus 17:12), I’m lifting yours right now in the Spirit and I am declaring over you: The battle is shifting. Remember 2 Kings 6, when Elisha’s servant woke up and saw their city surrounded by enemy armies? Fear took over. But Elisha prayed: “Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. —2 Kings 6:17 I pray the same for you today: Lord, open their eyes. Let them see what You’ve already released on their behalf. Let them see that heaven is fighting for them. This is a midweek arm-lifting moment. I declare boldness is returning to your voice. Fire is coming back to your bones. And faith is rising again in your heart. Watch it turn around. Not by might, not by power but by My Spirit, says the Lord. —Zechariah 4:6 But God is not just fixing surface-level problems. He is resetting your foundations. Where the enemy has robbed, God is restoring. Where the locusts have eaten, He is repaying. This is Joel 2:25; “I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten…” So let me say it again - It’s turning around. Even in a short amount of time the suddenly of the Lord is about to visit your situation. That assignment that’s been hovering over you is breaking. That heaviness is lifting. And God will get all the glory In Jesus’ mighty name! 

WE ARE IN A ROOTS MOVEMENT MOMENT

By Nate Johnston • May 21, 2025
I heard the Lord say: This is a roots movement. This is a moment where I have humbled my Church not to punish her, but to heal her. To purify her. To prune her for the coming harvest. My Church had grown accustomed to the bloom, the fruit, the outward beauty and what man sees, celebrates, and calls success. But right now, my glory is resting on what looks ordinary. What looks unpopular. Even what appears ugly or overlooked. Man says it’s about charisma. About the lights and smoke machines. About loud worship and grandeur. But my glory in this hour is resting on the grassroots, the simple, the foolish. On that which looks like a seed, small, buried, and unseen yet saturated by My glory. I’ve looked into the hearts of My people. I’ve seen a deep longing for what is real. For what is authentic. For what draws them back to Me not a performance, but an encounter. Not hype, but holy. For too long, My name was exalted in systems that celebrated man’s wisdom, man’s comforts, and man’s movements. But now, their brokenness is leading them back on unfamiliar paths toward what looks small, humble, and unthreatening. And yet it is pregnant with promise. That place you’ve overlooked is where I’ve hidden the seeds of My next great outpouring. A place people will say, “Surely revival can’t come from there.” But that is exactly where My Spirit is about to be poured out. I’ve chosen a people who have chosen the low road. Those who refuse to chase platforms or prestige. If you choose the low road, My Spirit will get the glory. If you humble yourself in this season if you choose the way few choose you will experience personal revival. You will see the fulfillment of the promises I made over nations. But it starts with the roots. Can you not see? I’ve been cutting back the tree. I’ve been stripping away the opulence because it came, and My glory lifted. The spectacle increased, but signs and wonders diminished. Man became too familiar with My anointing, relying on giftings instead of My Spirit. He who has ears, let him hear: I am doing a new thing in this hour, but it won’t look like what you’re used to. I’m bringing My Church back to its roots. Back to Acts. Back to the place of birth where it was messy, but it was beautiful. And right now, many are feeling the tension. You can feel the pull into something new, but it feels like your branches are being cut back. Some feel like nothing more than a stump, a root in the ground. But from that root will grow something powerful if you let Me water you. If you let Me tend to you. I’m uprooting the weeds and tares from past seasons things that have choked your family, your calling, your mind, your marriage. I’m clearing the soil so that what grows next will be healthy, sustainable, and lasting. I’ve brought My Church low so that what is planted now will remain for generations. This is not the end. This is a rebirthing. You will experience My glory again, says the Lord. So if you feel lost…if the doors are closing…if your resources are drying up…if you’re staring at impossible debt or deep lack… know that I am there. -I am in the midst of your marriage. -I am in the midst of that prodigal child. -I am in the midst of your finances. -I am in the midst of your health. The enemy has lied to you, but I am taking an ax to the root of those lies. Not to destroy your life but to prune it. To cut back what was killing you. To free you from generational cycles and mindsets that have left you worn out and barely holding on. I am bringing you into wholeness. I am bringing you into freedom. Can you not see it? And here is My call to the Church: -If you will prepare a place for Me to dwell… -If you will come low… -If you will humble yourself… I will come. And the people will come. The broken will come. The world that is truly searching for Me will come. Roots movements are beginning to burst forth across the earth. They look like Davids in the field unnoticed, uninvited, seemingly insignificant. Yet they carry My glory. Soon, they will grow. And the world will recognize their fruit and like the pearl in the field many will give away everything to buy the field. The hidden ones will emerge to join the song of the lamb. And they will become dispensaries of My presence where healing, signs, wonders, and the fresh and mighty outpouring of my spirit will flow! 

I'M GOING TO TURN IT AROUND!

By Nate Johnston • May 21, 2025
Are you facing a bleak situation right now? A bad report? I feel an unction from the Holy Spirit to prophesy over those standing in the middle of what looks like impossible right now. It might be health issues, financial breakdown, family chaos, mental exhaustion and more. Let me prophesy….It’s going to turn around. You know those moments in life where you’re under pressure, crushed, confused, out of options? You’ve prayed, fasted, cried… and still, nothing shifts? And then out of nowhere, God speaks. We had one of those moments today. A family member was in surgery and everything began falling apart. It didn’t look good. In fact, it looked hopeless. Panic hit me at first so I cried out, “Lord, I need you. I don’t know what to do.” And suddenly I heard the voice of the Lord thunder in my spirit “It’s going to turn around!” At that exact moment, I glanced at my phone - it was 11:11. The Holy Spirit reminded me of John 11:11: “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.” Notice that J esus didn’t call Lazarus “dead” even though everyone else did. He called him asleep because He saw the turnaround before it came. He spoke life into a situation everyone had already given up on. In the natural, Lazarus was gone. But in the spirit, heaven had a different word. And I believe God is saying to many of you; “What looks dead is only sleeping and I’m about to wake it up.” Just like the young girl in Mark 5, when they told Jesus she was dead, and He said, “She is not dead, she is only sleeping.” He spoke a word that contradicted the room. And I feel right now that heaven is interrupting your crisis with a contradictory word: “It’s going to turn around.” Like in Zephaniah 3:19–20 which declares: “In the end I will turn things around for the people… I’ll get rid of all those who’ve made your life miserable. I’ll heal the maimed; I’ll bring home the homeless… On Judgment Day, I’ll bring you back home—a great family gathering!” This is your Psalm 126 moment: “When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter…” — Psalm 126:1–2 That moment when sorrow turns to laughter. Tears to testimony. Confusion to clarity. But here’s the truth: I know many of you are weary. You’ve been through years of warfare, setbacks, disappointments. And you have had some unexpected situations rise and you’re wondering, “Do I even have the strength to stand in this one?” You feel like you’re out of fight. You’re tired of pushing. Tired of prophesying with no fruit. Tired of trying to make things move In your own strength. You’ve thought, “Maybe I should just roll over. Maybe I should stop contending. It’s too much.” But I feel the Lord tell me to send this word out to hold up your arms today. This word is not just encouragement. It’s a prophetic act. Like Aaron and Hur holding up Moses’ arms in battle (Exodus 17:12), I’m lifting yours right now in the Spirit and I am declaring over you: The battle is shifting. Remember 2 Kings 6, when Elisha’s servant woke up and saw their city surrounded by enemy armies? Fear took over. But Elisha prayed: “Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. —2 Kings 6:17 I pray the same for you today: Lord, open their eyes. Let them see what You’ve already released on their behalf. Let them see that heaven is fighting for them. This is a midweek arm-lifting moment. I declare boldness is returning to your voice. Fire is coming back to your bones. And faith is rising again in your heart. Watch it turn around. Not by might, not by power but by My Spirit, says the Lord. —Zechariah 4:6 But God is not just fixing surface-level problems. He is resetting your foundations. Where the enemy has robbed, God is restoring. Where the locusts have eaten, He is repaying. This is Joel 2:25; “I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten…” So let me say it again - It’s turning around. Even in a short amount of time the suddenly of the Lord is about to visit your situation. That assignment that’s been hovering over you is breaking. That heaviness is lifting. And God will get all the glory In Jesus’ mighty name! 

WE ARE IN A TIME OF TURNING TABLES & SETTING TABLES

By Nate Johnston • May 19, 2025
For so long the only tables to sit at came with control, compromise, and oppression, and the cost was greater than we knew. It shut you down. It put a cap on your calling and a limit switch on your voice. But worst of all - it opened doors in your life that have taken years to close and stole your fire and oil. But you left those tables so God could flip them, and He is right now even if it looks slow. He is overturning what has become muddy and diseased and removing their lamp stand and giving it to another. But God has been flipping something inside you too - the beggar mentality that constantly led you to false fathers, false belonging, false kingdoms, and drinking at poisoned wells. No more hanging out by the swamps when you were called to be in the RIVER! But watch how out of this God is setting new kingdom tables of health and purity. Tables where the rejected come and are healed and restored. Tables where the voice of the Lord is released again in purity where the round tables of the past put Jezebel at the head. And she turned it into a pig pen in the name of the Lord. Those days are over. But I know that many are in grief. We don’t want green rooms and to be in the who’s who, we just want family and belonging. But God is setting you a table and pouring fresh oil over your head in front of those who used and despised you. And I prophesy that SUDDENLY you will come into a family and a safe place where you can get healed up and have your arms lifted up. For right now God is setting many new tables around the world that come with no strings attached. Apostolic safe houses and hospitals that are also launching pads. Places where the spirit of Saul cannot be found and no lions are lying in wait to crush your passion and hijack your movement. But places where you put your roots down deep and grow without fear. For the Lord says today It’s time to be watered and it’s time to flower again after being in survival and defense mode. But in this next season you won’t need to defend what I have given to you or have to keep hiding it out of fear of being robbed or squashed. But I am leading you into a family where it will be celebrated and surrounded by those carrying similar callings it will finally take root, grow, and flourish without the weeds you have had to deal with in the past. And you will find rest again and not have to move and constantly feel uprooted and feeling like a leaf in the wind. No, watch now as I bring you into a season of establishing and belonging, says the Lord. And to those who’ve felt the call not just to walk away from broken tables but to set new ones: this is your moment. We aren’t just here to flip what’s toxic we’re here to build what’s holy. We’re not just called to call out dysfunction we’re called to model something pure. Something healthy. But the days of hiding are over. The isolation, the wandering, the wondering if you’ll ever find your people is breaking. There’s been a shift. Healthy tables are rising, and you’re not just invited, you’re called to help set them. Tables where voices are restored. Where oil flows. Where family is real and the fire never goes out. “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.” — Psalm 23:5 Even this week, I prophesy that God is beginning to pluck you out of isolation and disconnection. You’ll feel the shift—even if it’s uncomfortable—because it’s time. He’s leading you out of survival mode and into divine connection with those who carry the same DNA and heart. The birth pangs have gone out and the hidden remnant is being called out of the caves and into the company of the called. Just like Acts 2, upper rooms are forming again. Spaces of fire. Family. Outpouring. Let’s build it together.

FOR THOSE FEELING THE SWIRL & STRETCH RIGHT NOW

By Nate Johnston • May 16, 2025
God is peeling back another layer of the onion right now... That’s right. Not because He didn’t heal you the first time but because there’s greater levels of freedom to explore. You are still learning what the blood did to set you free because sometimes what you saw and walked through preaches loud and it needs to be kicked out of your head. Especially if you grew up around narcissism and extreme dysfunction and abuse. You have been made clean but your head needs reminding. Triggers can still happen. So the enemy looks for landing pads and entry points of agreement. Did God really set me free? Because you see the fruit that is unexplainable, but in vulnerable moments you feel like a failure. And right now the deeply uncomfortable shaking is not God exposing you but He is addressing truth to cancel the lies hiding in the cracks of thoughts and mindsets. It’s the Father reintroducing Himself to you in places you have avoided and releasing the power of the Spirit to redeem painful moments and memories. Why? Because you are stepping out of frustrating limitations and cycles that will keep robbing you beyond this point. That’s why you are wrestling. What you are feeling is not just a SHIFT moment but a STRETCH! It’s where the Holy Spirit puts pressure on the inside of you to increase your capacity and prepare you for the MORE He called you to be. It’s where He pulls you up higher in a moment and in the natural it looks like you are suddenly missing the mark because you now have room to grow and shoes to fill. It reveals the shortfalls, pitfalls, and blind spots. But it’s only growth. Not failure. It’s the fruit of healing and saying yes. But yes, at first it feels like pressure on all sides and God confronting limiting mindsets and old things trying to sneak into your new chapter. And right now many pioneers are trying to figure out their next steps but at first this is what it looks like. Heart process. Then the waiting suddenly begins to turn into the emerging but with it comes the INNER OVERHAUL and adjustment to the light outside of the cocoon of the past season. But know this - this is not to harm you but to get you ready. The enemy spent so long in the last 5 years squashing your confidence and passion that you keep interpreting this moment as assault when it’s you leaving the wilderness and seclusion and being brought into a wide open space of dreaming again. It’s you letting go of the pauper and becoming a general. It’s you coming out from under the table begging for scraps and sitting at the feast. It’s you breaking past constantly being broke, broken, and attacked. It’s tiring to live that way and it’s draining time meant to be dreaming and slaying giants. And today the Lord needs you to know that this stretch is not to add pressure to you but to CUT YOU LOOSE! This is a balm of gilead moment where God doesn’t want to bandaid you up, He wants the balm to go deep and make you whole for the days ahead. Fortify you. Make you bulletproof against the enemies schemes and constant arrows you have had every single day of your life. He is shifting something generationally and that’s why it feels so deep. It’s a marking moment and it’s designed with only freedom in mind. And I’m here to prophesy not over you, but to you.. Like the prophet Gad said to David when he was in the cave of Addullum feeling beat up and worn down.. “Leave the stronghold!” “Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah.” - 1 Samuel 22:5 It’s time for you to GET OUT OF THE CYCLE you have been in! It’s time to leave the going around the mountain! And right now God is leading you out! The things coming to the surface right now is the dysfunction LEAVING! And I prophesy come out from the discouragement and swirl the enemy has sent to you right now to lie to you about where you are at and your circumstances. I prophesy you are not going backwards. You are increasing. You are not falling behind. You are advancing. And this uncovering and nakedness you feel is only the uncovering and exposing of the demonic assignments that have been robbing you your whole life and siphoning off your joy! Now today Lord I am asking you show them a sign of your goodwill and evident favor. Reveal to them the future and a hope you have for them. Because the tide has shifted over your life so don’t let the enemy lie to you for another moment. Now, you prophesy with me: I am coming out of the dysfunction! I'm coming out of the cycles! I’m coming out of victim hood. Out of the swirl. Out of the limited mindsets and generation swamp I was handed, and i am coming into wholeness where attack and triggering no longer affects me or even shows up on my radar. Starting today my family are stepping out of feeling lost, under fire, and broken and starting our legacy as a set apart new bloodline holy priesthood family marked by the Holy Ghost and branded with destiny and to set captives free in Jesus name!!