Nate Johnston

"PIONEERS, I AM ESTABLISHING YOU, I AM ESTABLISHING YOU, I AM ESTABLISHING YOU!" SAYS THE LORD

Nate Johnston

"PIONEERS, I AM ESTABLISHING YOU, I AM ESTABLISHING YOU, I AM ESTABLISHING YOU!" SAYS THE LORD

"PIONEERS, I AM ESTABLISHING YOU, I AM ESTABLISHING YOU, I AM ESTABLISHING YOU!" SAYS THE LORD

I was in worship when the word of the Lord spoke to me;


“In the next six months you’re gonna wake up settled in the land that I promised to give you long ago.


“You will wake up and realize that all the battles that you've been through, the fires that you've walked through, and all the wildernesses that you survived are no longer ahead of you, or around you, but behind you.


“You’ll breathe deep and see no sign of the pain or trauma that has been following you around for years.


“The hope deferred that has been like poison, sitting in the very recesses of your soul, is already beginning to evaporate from your life, never to be seen of again.


“I am establishing you, says the Lord. I’m establishing you! I'm establishing you! I'm taking your feet and I'm planting them firmly and deeply.


“I’m strengthening you and I'm giving you the land that I promised that I would give you.


“I will move suddenly and quickly to get you to where you need to be, and I will give you rest.


“Yes, your nomadic days will finally be over.


“Just moments ago, everything that I said that I would give you was out of reach. Just moments ago you were at the door and it looked like there was nothing on the other side but now you’ll step through the door and see what I've been building for you. You’ll see what I've been orchestrating for you, that you did not even know I was orchestrating, and you’ll see what I have been building that you had no clue of.


“It’s been a season that has felt like you were falling into despair and into the depths of darkness, but you’ll soon see that I was building for you, I was establishing you, I was getting you ready to step into your promised land.


“But I know it looked like you would never reach it, and it looked like you would never get to the other side, but you'll soon see that I have been leading you through, holding your hand to make sure you did not miss it. You’ll see that I have been freeing your feet from every trap, loosing your hand from the basket, and removing every yoke from your shoulders.


“Yes I'm establishing you! I’m giving you the land that is attached to your new assignment, and you will step into a season of building.


“You’ve had to surrender your plans and old assignment, surrender everything that you've been birthing, and everything that you were building. You’ve had to burn the old oxen, remove the old mantle from your shoulders, and let everything in your hands drop, but now I'm giving you your assignment that is attached to the land. I'm giving to you now, says the Lord, what I have been storing up for you for years.


(We have been in an Ecclesiastes 3:3 season “a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build”)


“And as you begin to see what I have been storing up, that is when you will start to experience the restoring. I will restore every single thing that was lost, every single thing that was broken, and every single thing that was torn down in this past season and it will come back with interest.


“Soon you'll see that your season of the hardest ground became the place of the most fruitful outpouring you've ever seen in your whole entire life.


“Soon you'll see the place of your greatest trial, and your greatest assassination attempt, become the very location that I will pour out My Spirit without measure. Don’t you see that I have been preparing you? I've been preparing you to birth a new movement that wasn’t on your radar.


“I have been preparing to establish a movement through you that would drive down deep into the earth and shake your nation, and extend from you into the nations of the earth.


“I’ve been shaking you upside down and inside out, but now get ready to see everything that's been on the inside of you, that I've been depositing. Get ready to see the fullness of the mantle upon your life. Get ready to see the fresh oil and anointing that I've been depositing in you.


“I’m going to use you to establish families of revival; places of My presence. I've been looking to and fro, looking intently to find those who would prepare a place for me to dwell.


’Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be?’ Isaiah 66:1


“And I've seen you on your face and I said ‘This is the servant that is giving Me room—this is one who says “You, Lord and nothing else. You, Lord and nothing else. There shall be no other lover other than you!”’


“And in a time of mixture, and in a time of great compromise, these ones have chosen the low road, the road to My throne, the secret place, the private place, the place of My gaze and nothing else. The place where everything has gone to die. The place where every man-made achievement just evaporates.


“Now from this surrender, I am giving them the keys to this fresh move of My Spirit, all around the earth. And the sign shall be that I will plant and establish them. And the sign shall be that I will gather My remnant from the nations and I will call them to the place that I have preserved for them. And the sign shall be that I will finish, and I will accomplish, everything I said that I would do through them. And the sign shall be that every single loose end will begin to come together. The sign shall be that hearts will come alive in a way that they've never ever known. 


“The tired and the weary, the battered from battle and the assassinated, and the ones who have been taken out. The ones who have been deactivated—I am restoring them, says the Lord. I am giving them a fresh wind and putting My Spirit upon them, without measure. I'm bringing so many back from the brink of death in this season. You’ll be so surprised who I restore to their former glory but with so much more. New names—names, that's right—names are going to change. Names are going to be changed, new robes, and new running shoes.


“These are the days that I will build and I will establish My covenant afresh with them. And I will plant them in the midst of the ruins of the nations, the ruins of government, the ruins of the empires of church, and I will position them in the rubble to be those who will be the restorers of the breach, says the Lord. They will dance upon injustice and rule the land rightfully where others have failed.


“They will see plenty, where the world finds lack, and they will thrive, where the world sinks further into survival. I will give them My counsel in these days—wisdom and insight to know how to navigate the hour at hand—and they will not become prey for lions or go hungry. I will protect them and uphold them for their faithfulness.


“I am bringing My people back to the drawing board right now—back to the beginning—so I can course correct them into a greater future than they were heading towards. This is a season where every ceiling of man is breaking, every ceiling that has been exalted and idolized is breaking, and every single throne that has been exalted above Me is crumbling.


“And I've called you in this hour to establish what only comes from My heart, for I have been looking for those with a heart after My own heart, that would worship only Me and build only My house; who would say only what I am saying and do what only what I am doing, regardless of what people say around them.


“They are the ones that I'm going to use and they are the ones that I'm establishing in this season, says the Lord.


“And the Glory of the latter house shall be greater than the former and I will pour out My Glory in such a magnitude that the earth has not seen. I'm about to pour out My Glory in places of extreme darkness, places that look impossible to be turned around, and where it it looks impossible for any fruit to come from—out of those places I am going to pour at my Glory.


“And in this season I'm going to use My people to do unusual and unexpected exploits, and those who follow Me into places where does not make sense, I will use them as instruments of My Glory.”


Then I heard the Lord say;


“So don’t retreat! Don’t run backwards in fear because of the unknown future ahead of you, because I have already gone before you! I am your breaker!


‘The One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate and go out. Their King will pass through before them, the Lord at their head.’ Micah 2:13


“For many would say that there is hardship coming but no matter what the enemy constructs, I will be your safety and your provision. I will give you wisdom to work around the obstacles”.


“In famine, I have designed for you to be fruitful. And in chaos, I have designed for you to be a place of peace for the hurting"


“Yes, you will build safe-houses and places of protection from the storm. They will be greenhouses, where what I pour out will multiply rapidly, because the hour is at hand and the workers are few for the harvest.


“And you will build refuges, homes, and raise up families who will be mighty in the earth, who will restore the places of desolation. And my church will leave the pews of apathy and become warriors and watchmen, of this new era.


“And it will be said: ‘Build up, build up, prepare the road! Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.’ Isaiah 57:14


“And I will draw the outcasts to you—the isolated and the lonely without family—and you will restore the brokenness that a fatherless culture has created.


“And some will say ‘But what do I have in my hand to build with? I am emptied?’ 

And I would answer them, ‘Your eyes are about to be opened to see everything that has been increasing in this season of extreme opposition and seeming loss. You will see just how sharp the sword in your hand has become and the axe in your other hand to tear down.’ 

This will be a time of the opening of eyes of the blind and the resurrection of the fallen soldiers in combat.


“Do you see yet? Do you see the sparks around the earth forming? Do you see the stifled smoking wicks beginning to burst into flame? I will do what I said I would do, and I will finish what I started.”


BUILDING WORSHIP FAMILIES


As I was still in this prophetic flow I saw a vision of something on the Lords heart - worship houses lighting up the map. They were physical properties, land that were being transformed into places of encounter and true belonging. 


I could sense that these were healing centers where people would come to detox from religious systems and encounter the King of Glory. 


They will be places to cultivate real family not just meaningful community, and they will be hubs for the harvest, training and sending places. 


I want to end this word by encouraging those who dropped their building plans in the last season because the warfare become just too much or the opposition from other believers stole your joy. 


It’s time to pick up your blueprints and build again. It’s time to leave the messy transition and long season of feeling lost and homeless and be established and thriving for the days to come. 



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By Nate Johnston April 26, 2025
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By Nate Johnston April 23, 2025
I have a prophetic word for those who have grown up under the demonic agenda of Jezebel, and for those raised in narcissistic environments and battled it their entire lives. Yes, the spirit of Jezebel has always had a target on your back because of who you are... Like Agent Smith from The Matrix, Jezebel keeps showing up, manifesting through different people, personalities, seasons, assignments, and alignments to take you out. It’s been the greatest battle of your life: figuring out how to steward your calling, how to be a voice in the midst of relentless attacks and constant attempts to cancel your calling. This spirit has tried to silence you, shut down your voice, reject you, belittle you, isolate you, and keep you in a cave. She’s tempted you to sugarcoat your words, dilute your message, and shrink your fire so you didn’t keep getting in her cross fire. I know the price many of you have paid for pioneering through this—for choosing health for your families, your marriages, and your future. I know the cost of refusing to tolerate her, season after season, and what you’ve walked through for the sake of not giving up on your calling. But in the hardest moments, you chose legacy again and again, yet it’s been costly. Recently, I was praying into this, especially in my own life, because I’ve battled this spirit for as long as I can remember, I asked the Lord, “Will it always be this way? Will I always have to fight Jezebel?” As I was reading through 1 Kings 19 - 2 Kings 10, the Lord highlighted the story of Jehu, the one who took out Jezebel (2 Kings 9:30–37). And the Lord said: “You are the Jehu. This generation is the Jehu generation, rising to confront and take out this spirit.” But here’s the thing: Jehu overthrew Jezebel, but he didn’t reform the land. “But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord… he did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam…” 2 Kings 10:31 He overthrew the person, but not the pattern. He tore down the idol, but didn’t restore the altar. He left a void, and that void became an open door. Right now, the test of our generation isn’t just about calling out what’s wrong. It’s about restoring the priesthood, rebuilding the altar, and leading the Church back into true worship. Because without worship, Jezebel returns. I’ve seen it in dreams repeatedly, Jezebel overthrown, only to be welcomed back through broken, unhealed, and unprotected spaces. Because where there is no priesthood, no purity, and no presence, she comes back to rule. So I asked the Lord, “What is the key?” He said: “Joash.” The name Joash means “The Lord has given.” The Lord said: “The generation of Joash and Jehoiada is now upon you.” Here’s what that means: Jehu may have exposed Jezebel but it was Joash and Jehoiada who removed her legacy. Athaliah, Jezebel’s daughter, rose to power in Judah after Jezebel’s death (2 Kings 11:1–3) . She was a generational extension of her mother’s spirit. But Jehoiada the priest preserved Joash, hiding him in the temple for six years. When the time was right, they overthrew Athaliah in the temple (2 Kings 11:13–16). That was so prophetic because they didn’t just confront the fruit of Jezebel they killed it in the place of worship, as a declaration: “We are taking this place back for the Lord.” They then led a revival of covenant and worship in the land (2 Kings 11:17–18), restoring God’s people to their true identity. And this is the battle we have today. We are not just confronting Jezebel, we are confronting her legacy, her influence, her strongholds in families, marriages, churches, and systems. But we can’t stop at exposure. We must rebuild the altar, restore the presence, and model the priesthood again. But here’s the word for you overcomers - the pioneers, the forerunners, the ones who refused to bow: You are not doomed to fight Jezebel your whole life. God is raising up a Joash generation, sons and daughters the Lord has given who will see and walk in the fruit from your persistence in battle, because you refused to tolerate Jezebel and have prevailed! Now because of you the next generation won’t face what you faced, because you confronted it, took it down, and established healthy! But here’s the key: You must restore your home, your marriage, your inner world into a lifestyle of worship and the right affections. You must refill the void with presence and priesthood. When we do that, we not only evict Jezebel, we close the door for good. And that’s Joash - living in the fruit of victory with no landing pads for the enemy. No more idols. Compromise. Other lovers. Just Jesus again. So the promise over you is this: You’re stepping out of the weariness. You’re stepping out of the endless fight. You’re stepping out of the cave. And you’re stepping into the fruit of obedience. You’re about to see legacy break forth in your children and those around you. You’ve walked through rejection, isolation, intimidation, and endless assassination as this spirit that tried to shut you down at every turn. But you didn’t bow. You didn’t break. And you prevailed. And now the Lord says - You’re stepping out of the fight and into the fruit. Because you chose wholeness over generational dysfunction. Because you confronted what others tolerated. And because you refused to shut down and be walked over. Your children will know peace where you knew warfare. They’ll grow up in safety, freedom, and peace because you tore up the contract you were born into and started a new bloodline. You were the target, but now you have become the testimony.  You’re going to watch a generation walk in peace where you’ve known warfare. Because you chose to fight, they will be free. So in the days to come watch as you begin to see FRUIT where you only encountered the FIGHT because the tide is shifting mighty ones and you have overcome! “You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world” —1 John 4:4
By Nate Johnston April 22, 2025
I want to release a word of faith and authority over you as we begin this week. As I was praying over this week, I kept seeing this image in front of me of a person that was stuck in a corner with no way out, and arrows were flying at them from all sides. I instantly discerned that what I was seeing was someone who had been in a season where they felt very much like their calling had somehow made them feel like they’ve just been through constant assailing by the enemy, with constant arrows from all sides. Thats where you have felt exposed. That’s where you have felt bombarded. You felt like you’ve just been attacked from every single angle. Then I began to really feel like it was similar to the scripture that says: “But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say, ‘Restore!’” — (Isaiah 42:22, NIV) I began to feel authority rise up in my voice. I began to feel an authority saying, “No! This is injustice. This cannot happen. This must turn around now!” Then I began to prophesy: “Restore in the name of Jesus! Restore in the name of Jesus! Restore in the name of Jesus!” As soon as I said that, Deuteronomy 23:5 came to mind, where it says that every curse turns into a blessing. So I began to prophesy: “Lord, every curse will turn into a blessing. Every curse will turn into a blessing. Every single assignment of the enemy will turn into a blessing. Every area of robbery, every area of financial hardship, every area where the enemy has come after finances, after health - God is going to turn it all around.” And that’s when it hit me - THIS IS UNCTION OF A TURNAROUND! It’s the sensing that things had to shift! I began to prophesy: “Turnaround now in the name of Jesus! Turnaround now in the name of Jesus!” As I began to declare this, I began to see things beginning to shift in the atmosphere. Then suddenly I began to hear all this chatter in the spirit of people who had been worn down mentally to the point where they no longer believed that God could turn these situations around. And I suddenly realized the key: God is wanting to shift and turn around situations right now, but the enemy has worn down your authority and your faith to the point that you no longer believe He can do it. Hope deferred has crept in to such a degree that it’s made it feel impossible that God could move. And so I feel that even right now, God is coming against those mindsets. He’s coming against the fear. He’s coming against the intimidation of the army. He’s coming against the hope deferred that constantly makes you feel like nothing will be able to shift or turn around. He is restoring in you a boldness and authority to begin to speak to the things around you and cause them to be removed and those mountains around you to be cast into the sea. And that’s what God is doing this week. He is hitting up against your mind and the foreboding keeping you captive. You’ve been looking at the obstacles you’re facing right now in your finances, health, marriage, and everything else, and they look like mountains. The Lord says, “Where has your faith gone? Where has your authority gone? Where has your boldness gone? I am your protector. I am your provider. I am looking after you and watching over you. Yes, the war has been constant against you. Yes, the enemy has been trying to wear you down. But He says to you “this week, I want you to do what David did - and strengthen yourself in me!” “I want you to step out of the place of faithlessness and cowering, out of begging for the crumbs under the table” “I want you to shift your mindset, and as you shift your mindset, I’ll shift your circumstances!” “Even right now, begin to break every agreement with fear” “Break every agreement with hopelessness and despair that’s caused you to stop dreaming” “It’s caused you to drop your vision in the dust” “It’s caused you to stop wearing your mantle and slip back into survival mode in a time where I want you to thrive and dream with Me” Then I was reminded of something so special to us. Over the years we’ve experienced this strange but beautiful phenomenon in our lives. Whenever we’re in the thick of spiritual warfare, when we feel like we’re being preached at by our circumstances - that’s when God brings us a sign of His nearness. It happens like clockwork. But it’s so simple that you could miss it if you aren’t childlike. We see ducks in twos and they show up in odd places, at odd times. It’s always just when we’re beginning to feel overwhelmed or discouraged. It’s God’s subtle reminder: “I see you. I’m with you. It’s not over.” But this year, on our anniversary, it was different. Two doves appeared on our back fence and they stayed for a full week. It was as if God was saying: “Watch ME turn this around! Not by night nor by power!” And even though we were still in the middle of the storm the breakthrough hadn’t come yet His goodness showed up as a downpayment. Sometimes, the sign isn’t the full breakthrough, but it’s the reminder that He hasn’t forgotten you, and that the turnaround is closer than you think. There are many right now trying to ask God, “Where are my next steps?” but you’re not thinking with faith, you’re thinking with fear. And the Lord says: “It’s time to break that off. I’m reversing everything that’s come against you, and I’m turning it. And some would say, ‘Could this turn in a day?’ Yes, it can turn in a day. And the Lord says “you will watch in this season, as you partner with Me again not with the accuser, not with fear, not with lack but as you choose to partner again with Me, “You will see every single obstacle and every mountain around you crumble into the sea” But you need to partner with Me again. Will you partner again with My Spirit and reject the patterns and mindsets of this world? It is time to step back into a mind-renewal season that actually brings about the shifting of circumstances. Because the fruit of worry is actually causing that which you fear to come to you. But as you shift out of that, It will cause the fruit of your renewed mind to be that you see the kingdom of heaven invade your world, your lifestyle and you’ll see things shift around in a short period of time.” So give me your heart and mind and I’ll turn around the things around you that have tried to do in your strength and failed, and silence the storm”