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LETTER TO THE MUZZLED VOICES - IT'S TIME TO ENCOUNTER THE LION & SHAKE OFF THE FEAR OF MAN!

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LETTER TO THE MUZZLED VOICES - IT'S TIME TO ENCOUNTER THE LION & SHAKE OFF THE FEAR OF MAN!

LETTER TO THE MUZZLED VOICES - IT'S TIME TO ENCOUNTER THE LION & SHAKE OFF THE FEAR OF MAN!

Have you felt muzzled this year? We all stepped into 2020 hearing prophetic words about “The roaring 20’s” and the era of the decree but soon what was an expectant relief to those who had already been in hiding long enough turned into more frustration, isolation, and an overwhelming agenda to silence the rising voices. I felt it. It was clear the enemy was counteracting what God was birthing. Instead of megaphones we were wearing face masks, and instead of church services and gatherings raising our voices in worship we were in lockdown in our homes. We saw confusion hit the prophetic movement, extreme polarity in views and opinions, and what was meant to be one collective voice became a scattered sound in the darkness. The enemy is doing anything and everything he can to stop the voice of the bride being heard. But nothing has changed Gods heart.. you and I were born for this moment.

So this has been in my spirit all year. What you are about to read isn’t just a prophetic word but it’s a letter from my heart to those genuinely struggling right now in a time where they know God is raising them up as a voice to speak His heart. I want to release what I believe will help give language and permission to those in that tension, feeling silenced, controlled, or in hiding because of the time we live in and the overwhelming pressure to fit in and not stand out or offend. This is for you.

EXTREME POLARITY, CONFUSION, MAYHEM = THE PERFECT MOMENT

So I need to be real, cos I’ve been in this wrestle too. Not just now but many times in my walk with God and especially since stepping into ministry. There are times that I don’t even realize it but subtly we can start to pay more attention to the fear of man than the fear of the Lord. When quarantine began social media became inundated with church services and people doing a billion online conferences, Facebook lives, but for me.. I retreated. I wasn’t being rebellious I swear. My friend Aaron always says that If the world goes one way I’ll change direction and go the other.. which is kinda true, but this wasn’t like that. My spirit man felt attacked. The prophetic movement was in division with one camp prophesying grace and mercy and the other judgment and doom. New breed voices started to rise up and unknown faces stepping into the light but it was soon squashed by those pandering to the religious spirit who were saying we were in “holy hush” season and needed to be purified and silent. Let me just say that a “reset” season isn’t the same as being silent and being purified and refined does not always mean being dormant. It means we are in a posture of deep surrender and recalibration but this doesn’t always mean being silent and going into hiding. (I know someone in biblical history who liked scaring people into caves and submission, but let’s not bring Jezebel into this one  just yet 😉)

The bottom line is many have felt silenced so far in this new era not empowered, under fire, attacked, and confused about how they can be a voice in the time we live in. Many didn’t expect to leave the wilderness and be met with a world in crisis and chaos but isn’t that the perfect storm for the prophetic voice? Isn’t that the perfect moment and opportunity to be a voice that cuts through the noise?

AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE LION

Many years ago I was in a season where I was really struggling to navigate how to be a voice. It seemed that the more I shared what was on my heart I was told that I shouldn’t because I sounded anti-establishment, anti-church, and would only lead people away from God. My struggle was that this was not my heart at all but God had placed a weighty message on my heart that I couldn’t ignore, in fact, the more I fought it the more frustrated I would become.

But one Sunday I was in worship sitting at the back of the church feeling frustrated, misunderstood, and muzzled when I had a powerful encounter with the Lord.

I suddenly felt the breath of God over my shoulders like the Lord overshadowing me and releasing life and his very breath into my being and then the sound came. It was the loudest roar I have heard coming from all directions but again it was over me, overshadowing me, roaring over me and into my being. I know now that this was Jesus, the lion of the Tribe of Judah, like it is spoken about in Revelation 5:5;

“Then one of the elders said to me, “Stop weeping. Look! The mighty Lion of Judah’s tribe, the root of David—he has conquered! He is the worthy one who can open the scroll and its seven seals.”

It was an awakening for me in many ways because I felt so much fear of man lift off me where it has previously been choking the life out of me. I felt the fear of God at that moment so intensely that I was shaking.. a good shaking. Like the Lord was shaking all the fear and words off me that had been chaining me. A few days later I received a message by some people who were previously leaders in my life that didn’t approve of what I was doing and saying asking me to meet them. I instantly knew that I couldn’t meet them because it would only be an ambush. The fear of man I normally would face I didn’t. I said no, wiped the dust from my feet, blessed them, moved on, and the rest is history.

THE LIONS ROAR THROUGH YOU

I believe God is right now awakening your roar and the collective roar of a people called to speak into the darkness, into crisis and chaos, but without the roar, we will see NO REAL CHANGE.. the roar of the lion of Judah is both the BREATH of God and the SOUND of God. The breath is the empowerment and anointing of the Spirit and the sound is the weapon that both heals and restores, and breaks through and destroys principalities and powers. That roar is wanting to come through you but it isn’t tame. No, like a lion this roar is wild, or like David said “I will be so much more undignified than this!” He understood the wild nature of the lion of Judah roaring through him that doesn’t respond out of duty but out of worship and because of this it will never be clean and neat according to man's standards of religious customs/protocols but it will always carry an edge that stands out and “pierces through” the atmosphere you are in. That’s what the sound of the roar through you does. It’s not for show and it’s not for gain, but it is the natural response of those who have been intimate with God that they sound like the one they have been with. And right now that’s where God is calling us to inhabit. Imagine what it would like like if the church roared in crisis and adversity, in trial, famine, and calamity instead of responding or reacting to appease the world and watering down the message of the gospel?

SYMPTOMS OF BEING MUZZLED IN A ROAR SEASON

I want to share a few of the symptoms that many have encountered this year;

  • Excessive sensitivity to the fear of man/what people think
  • Fear of offending or saying the wrong thing/political spirit.
  • Fear of being wrong or not pure enough/religious spirit
  • Fear of your life, wanting to run and hide/Jezebel spirit
  • Comparison and insecurity of feeling insignificant
  • Feeling invisible and unheard
  • Unrealistic fear and foreboding of the future/no vision or unclear future
  • Wanting to give up/hard to get out of bed
  • Demonic dreams and warfare/attack on sleep
  • Demonic torment and heaviness against the mind
  • Confusion, scattered mind, mental and creative block
  • Unable or hard to receive revelation like you used to.
  • Physical attack on your voice/throat

HOW YOU CAN BE A VOICE IN THIS SEASON

So I want to give you some keys to help you be a voice in this season and encourage you to roar in a time the enemy wants you on the sidelines;

  • Spend time with Jesus - the Lion of the tribe of Judah
  • Make His louder than any other voice you hear and begin to let the sound of his voice and what he says become a greater reality than circumstances around you.
  • Let Him pour into you more than you pour out/keep your oil full and avoid running on empty.
  • Learn to be more aware of how loved you are and the fear will have less influence.
  • Rebuke fear, foreboding, anxiety, and depression that tries to come at you.
  • Stop ingesting the lies of the media and being influenced by how culture wants you to think, act, and believe.
  • Ask God for greater discernment and wisdom to be able to through what you see in the natural/being able to discern the heart, motives, and intentions of things.
  • Write down and journal what God shows you/keep a record of it. Study it. Let it simmer. Ask for greater clarity and instruction on what you do hear.
  • Decide that you are going to be a voice regardless of how you feel. Emotions and senses undeveloped can lie to you and cause you to move and live according to how you feel over what is.
  • Be responsible for your own destiny. No one can do it for you. No one can fight through the fog but you. You can do this!
  • Take authority over your life and voice. The only permission the enemy has to you is what you give him by complacency, apathy, or agreement. Decide to stand up and not let him keep robbing you of your greatest commodity.
  • Rebuke the enemy and be proactive with your spiritual armor according to Ephesians 6:10-19
  • Learn to be more aware of your atmosphere rather than just emotionally reacting to it. Ask God questions daily “what am I sensing?” “Why do I feel this way?”
  • Rebuke words, curses, judgment, and witchcraft chatter that comes at you. Isaiah 54:17 is a great defense.
  • Shake off the disapproval of others or those who don’t currently value or recognize your ministry or message. Bless them and keep your heart right.
  • Do not be muzzled or suppressed. Don’t tolerate jezebel in any shape, way, or form. Don’t partner with anything that shuts down the prophetic or is motivated by or uses fear, manipulation, or control to operate.
  • Stocktake your alliances, allegiances, alignments, and partnerships - are you in something that is shutting down your voice?
  • Believe better about yourself. Do you believe in your own voice?
  • Choose not to be popular but INFLUENTIAL
  • If you have been through previous rejection and any kind of church wound and have trauma - get healed, find some people who can sit with you and walk you through healing.
  • Be a son/daughter. You can’t be a voice thinking like an orphan or constantly feeling insignificant. Build yourself up in the word and begin to see yourself as a mighty powerful voice.
  • Value people’s opinions but don’t live by them or make decisions based on anything else than by what the spirit of God speaks.
  • Live tethered to the future you are speaking into not the present that struggles to accept what you speak. Soon they will!
  • Be a reformer if it’s in you. Just make sure to increase in your love as equally as you swing your hammer.
  • Live from eternity. Realize the afflictions and persecution you face are nothing compared to the glorious inheritance you have in Jesus. (2 Cor 4:17)
  • Find a prophetic tribe or bunch of undignified misfits that are lovers of God.
  • Realize that without your voice the enemy will put something else in that vacuum. You have a role to fill!
  • Wake up every day knowing that regardless of position, platform, or followers that you have a voice that is powerful and known in the heavenlies. It’s a new day to partner with heaven and see your message impact the earth!

OPEN YOUR MOUTH!

I believe we are in an Amos 3:8 commissioning moment where the Lord is ROARING over his sons and daughters and seeing who will rise up and roar with Him in response.

“The lion has roared—who will not fear? The Sovereign Lord has spoken— who can but prophesy?”

God is raising up a generation who will simply be His mouthpiece to the world. Those who will simply choose to open their mouths and let Him fill it with his heart. He is raising up pure voices that will break the lies and muzzles off a generation called to roar and cut through the noise in the atmosphere. It’s time we stopped coddling what needs to be exposed and became the new breed of voices for this new era and no longer the silenced just watching the world guide the rudder to the future. That’s our role.. So today I am prophesying over you that you would encounter the roar of the lion of Judah and feel him breathe life back into your voice in Jesus' name!

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A WORD FOR MY EAGLES - WE ARE IN THE TURNING OF THE TIDE

By Nate Johnston • 16 Apr, 2024
(The Lord gave me this word a week before we had our first gathering in Colorado Springs on March 31st 2024) I heard the lord say, “The eagles have been looking for a place to gather and have found none." Alone in their nests. Hidden in crooks and caves they have felt restless and looking for their people. A company who aren’t about building the next empire or setting the next exclusive table of elite celebrity Christians, but a people with no agenda but Jesus. But they have been nomads and vagabonds, looking at their wings molting and feeling like their greatest days were behind them. But the lord says “My eagles, now is the time to gather! For your Lone Ranger days are over. Your days of longing for the new wine and not seeing it are over” In exchange for your hunger and desperation I am giving you what you have been longing for. I am now gathering my eagles in their nests across the globe and they will experience my latter glory says the Lord. For I have marked you as my new breed. A set apart people created for this kairos moment. To lead the charge at the turning of the the tide. Many have said “What is the point? Our nation and nations have decided their fate!” And the lord would say “Josiah generation rise up. Esther generation rise up!” For I am raising up new kings and deposing bad stewards!” (Daniel 2:21-22) You are the kings I am raising up for this hour. My remnant who I have reserved who have not bowed their knee to Baal. You are here at the turning of a tide because I have anointed you to lead the church into the new You have said “We are done with the old manna!” We are done with compromise and mixture and culture telling us what we can and can’t do and can and cannot say. "We are the voice of the one crying in the wilderness. Prepare ye the way of the lord!” You are the ones that won’t bow, won’t relent, and wont hide in caves anymore. You thought your flame had burned out after years of going through valley after valley and battle after battle and dark night after dark night but you have only grown in the dark. You have only increased. In the dirt you died and now the Lord says “In this moment I am now anointing you fresh for this hour of mighty exploits!” “I am mantling you with the double portion of my spirit to rise up as my pure mouthpieces, to confront the compromise and mixture in the current house, and build the new.” You will dethrone kings and evict principalities. You will tear down ideologies and lies cast like a veil of blindness over the nations. And you will see my righteousness exalted over this nation and you will establish my kingdom. So stop running and stop hiding. You are here because you can’t do the old thing anymore. “In fact, this is a moment that you must lay down the last remnants of the old season. It’s time to be emptied so I can fill you, mantle you, and robe you for the days to come” My eagles now is your time. For even now I am breaking the assignments of frustration and chaos that have been sent against you and your family. Fires that have erupted over the years to keep you grounded in a season I have called you to fly, to soar and hear what I am saying. This is a new day and the turning of the tide. “Now!” The Lord says; “Get ready for the new epoch - a season of the diminishing of man’s systems and empires and the era of the remnant. It is now upon you!” We are in the hour of the convocation of eagles and the gathering of those who seek only my face and nothing added. Then I heard the lord say “You have only been in the birth pangs up until now but get ready because the birthing is coming” It is the birthing of my pure and spotless bride that will emerge and set things right. “So my eagles, it’s time to go from flying solo to gathering.” “Where the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom and where my people are in unity together as one voice there is an anointing that looses chains of wickedness and bandage.” For just as there was a purpose to the prophets in Elijah’s day being hidden, there has been a purpose to your season of hiddenness. But that hour is over.” “I am calling you forth and unravelling you from the bonds of the past battles.” “I am breaking off the deeply embedded weariness and trauma that has been sitting like a poison in your soul.” “Like a demonic fatigue it has rested on you and stolen your strength and vision, but NOW you shall rise up on eagles wings again and walk and not faint!” “For how can you fly without strength? And know where to fly without my direction?” “This is why I have responded to your cries and have answered.” This is the turning of the tide that has been against you. This is where I rebuild you. Restore you. Rejuvenate you. Resurrect you. “And set you loose for your next season of flight” Yes the tide has turned. Don’t believe the reports. The tide has turned. “Let it be remembered that at this crossover I strategically had you emerge and soar that the voice of my church would once more crash the chatter of the airwaves and lead my church forward.” Let it be remembered that at the turning of the tide I raised up a remnant of a different dna and cloth that would be the new standard of the new day I am leading them into. And I am right now shaking up the lone nests of the burned out and isolated. Now it’s time to find the eagles and set the table for the convocation. “Yes, once there was only few but now you are many. Once on the fringe now you are coming back to the center again." There has been a great exodus from man made places of bondage but now you have been assigned to be a safe place for those seeking refuge and needing to be rebuilt. “For I am bringing my church back to the book of acts once again and clearing her heart of the idols of her own making.” “So break out of the restraints that have held you, the fears that have shut you down, and the defeat that has choked you, and take fight for the greatest chapter of your life and odyssey with me!” Says the Lord."

IGNORE THE DRAMA & BUILD/BIRTH

By Nate Johnston • 09 Apr, 2024
I hear the Lord saying “Come up higher this week out of the swirl and drama being stirred up, for it is a distraction from what is coming” As He says this I see many whirlwinds swirling in the spirit then I hear; “The propaganda of the enemy has brought confusion and fear over the times but this week I am clearing the air!” “For I am exposing the enemies agenda to bring shipwreck to my people by bombarding them over and over with defeat and hopelessness” “This week the mental warfare against them must come to an end!” “And they will rise up higher and see clearly again” “And they will see what is true and what is false, what is swirl and what is peace, and what is my heart and what is the enemies games” “And I will lead them out of the endless drama and counterfeit missions and back into alignment with my heart again” “For there is a divine convergence moment coming upon the church where REVELATION meets MANIFESTATION” “It’s a moment where your journals of dreams and insight become the navigational manual for the days to come” “And you no longer just speak about where I am leading the church, but you will lead them” “And you will finally build what you have only dreamed about for years” “But can you see? The enemy does not want you to step into this fulfillment moment but wants you to go around the mountain again. “His slight of hand trick is right now distracting many from what is coming. Can you see it?” “The slander coming at you is a trick” “The opposition against your voice and mission is a trick” “The fires to put out and the sudden chaos is a trick. Can you see it?” “Keep your eyes fixed on me! Don’t lose your peace! Don’t be pulled to the right or to the left” “Push and birth this with me! You are in the final stages of a long pioneering journey and I want you to experience the joy of delivery” “It’s a moment of hopeful fulfilled for my church who have been lost in the process and heavy laden pregnancy” “But now it’s a birthing and building season” “So this week, ignore the drama, silence the fear, and build and birth with me” “fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God” Hebrews 12:2

A WORD FOR MY EAGLES - WE ARE IN THE TURNING OF THE TIDE

By Nate Johnston • 16 Apr, 2024
(The Lord gave me this word a week before we had our first gathering in Colorado Springs on March 31st 2024) I heard the lord say, “The eagles have been looking for a place to gather and have found none." Alone in their nests. Hidden in crooks and caves they have felt restless and looking for their people. A company who aren’t about building the next empire or setting the next exclusive table of elite celebrity Christians, but a people with no agenda but Jesus. But they have been nomads and vagabonds, looking at their wings molting and feeling like their greatest days were behind them. But the lord says “My eagles, now is the time to gather! For your Lone Ranger days are over. Your days of longing for the new wine and not seeing it are over” In exchange for your hunger and desperation I am giving you what you have been longing for. I am now gathering my eagles in their nests across the globe and they will experience my latter glory says the Lord. For I have marked you as my new breed. A set apart people created for this kairos moment. To lead the charge at the turning of the the tide. Many have said “What is the point? Our nation and nations have decided their fate!” And the lord would say “Josiah generation rise up. Esther generation rise up!” For I am raising up new kings and deposing bad stewards!” (Daniel 2:21-22) You are the kings I am raising up for this hour. My remnant who I have reserved who have not bowed their knee to Baal. You are here at the turning of a tide because I have anointed you to lead the church into the new You have said “We are done with the old manna!” We are done with compromise and mixture and culture telling us what we can and can’t do and can and cannot say. "We are the voice of the one crying in the wilderness. Prepare ye the way of the lord!” You are the ones that won’t bow, won’t relent, and wont hide in caves anymore. You thought your flame had burned out after years of going through valley after valley and battle after battle and dark night after dark night but you have only grown in the dark. You have only increased. In the dirt you died and now the Lord says “In this moment I am now anointing you fresh for this hour of mighty exploits!” “I am mantling you with the double portion of my spirit to rise up as my pure mouthpieces, to confront the compromise and mixture in the current house, and build the new.” You will dethrone kings and evict principalities. You will tear down ideologies and lies cast like a veil of blindness over the nations. And you will see my righteousness exalted over this nation and you will establish my kingdom. So stop running and stop hiding. You are here because you can’t do the old thing anymore. “In fact, this is a moment that you must lay down the last remnants of the old season. It’s time to be emptied so I can fill you, mantle you, and robe you for the days to come” My eagles now is your time. For even now I am breaking the assignments of frustration and chaos that have been sent against you and your family. Fires that have erupted over the years to keep you grounded in a season I have called you to fly, to soar and hear what I am saying. This is a new day and the turning of the tide. “Now!” The Lord says; “Get ready for the new epoch - a season of the diminishing of man’s systems and empires and the era of the remnant. It is now upon you!” We are in the hour of the convocation of eagles and the gathering of those who seek only my face and nothing added. Then I heard the lord say “You have only been in the birth pangs up until now but get ready because the birthing is coming” It is the birthing of my pure and spotless bride that will emerge and set things right. “So my eagles, it’s time to go from flying solo to gathering.” “Where the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom and where my people are in unity together as one voice there is an anointing that looses chains of wickedness and bandage.” For just as there was a purpose to the prophets in Elijah’s day being hidden, there has been a purpose to your season of hiddenness. But that hour is over.” “I am calling you forth and unravelling you from the bonds of the past battles.” “I am breaking off the deeply embedded weariness and trauma that has been sitting like a poison in your soul.” “Like a demonic fatigue it has rested on you and stolen your strength and vision, but NOW you shall rise up on eagles wings again and walk and not faint!” “For how can you fly without strength? And know where to fly without my direction?” “This is why I have responded to your cries and have answered.” This is the turning of the tide that has been against you. This is where I rebuild you. Restore you. Rejuvenate you. Resurrect you. “And set you loose for your next season of flight” Yes the tide has turned. Don’t believe the reports. The tide has turned. “Let it be remembered that at this crossover I strategically had you emerge and soar that the voice of my church would once more crash the chatter of the airwaves and lead my church forward.” Let it be remembered that at the turning of the tide I raised up a remnant of a different dna and cloth that would be the new standard of the new day I am leading them into. And I am right now shaking up the lone nests of the burned out and isolated. Now it’s time to find the eagles and set the table for the convocation. “Yes, once there was only few but now you are many. Once on the fringe now you are coming back to the center again." There has been a great exodus from man made places of bondage but now you have been assigned to be a safe place for those seeking refuge and needing to be rebuilt. “For I am bringing my church back to the book of acts once again and clearing her heart of the idols of her own making.” “So break out of the restraints that have held you, the fears that have shut you down, and the defeat that has choked you, and take fight for the greatest chapter of your life and odyssey with me!” Says the Lord."

IGNORE THE DRAMA & BUILD/BIRTH

By Nate Johnston • 09 Apr, 2024
I hear the Lord saying “Come up higher this week out of the swirl and drama being stirred up, for it is a distraction from what is coming” As He says this I see many whirlwinds swirling in the spirit then I hear; “The propaganda of the enemy has brought confusion and fear over the times but this week I am clearing the air!” “For I am exposing the enemies agenda to bring shipwreck to my people by bombarding them over and over with defeat and hopelessness” “This week the mental warfare against them must come to an end!” “And they will rise up higher and see clearly again” “And they will see what is true and what is false, what is swirl and what is peace, and what is my heart and what is the enemies games” “And I will lead them out of the endless drama and counterfeit missions and back into alignment with my heart again” “For there is a divine convergence moment coming upon the church where REVELATION meets MANIFESTATION” “It’s a moment where your journals of dreams and insight become the navigational manual for the days to come” “And you no longer just speak about where I am leading the church, but you will lead them” “And you will finally build what you have only dreamed about for years” “But can you see? The enemy does not want you to step into this fulfillment moment but wants you to go around the mountain again. “His slight of hand trick is right now distracting many from what is coming. Can you see it?” “The slander coming at you is a trick” “The opposition against your voice and mission is a trick” “The fires to put out and the sudden chaos is a trick. Can you see it?” “Keep your eyes fixed on me! Don’t lose your peace! Don’t be pulled to the right or to the left” “Push and birth this with me! You are in the final stages of a long pioneering journey and I want you to experience the joy of delivery” “It’s a moment of hopeful fulfilled for my church who have been lost in the process and heavy laden pregnancy” “But now it’s a birthing and building season” “So this week, ignore the drama, silence the fear, and build and birth with me” “fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God” Hebrews 12:2

I HEARD THE LORD SAY “WELL DONE FOR ENDURING THE PROCESS”

By Nate Johnston • 02 Apr, 2024
I had an audible dream last night where Father God spoke to me in a heart-to-heart way. I woke up and wrote down what I remembered and I knew this was a letter to all of us, an encouragement for making it through a long season, and a re-focus for the months to come. I pray this speaks directly to your heart and draws you into even deeper dialogue with Him this month. “WELL DONE FOR ENDURING THE PROCESS” Firstly I heard Him say “Well done. Well done for enduring the process I have taken you through even though at times it has felt more than you could handle. Well done for allowing my purifying fire to come into every facet of your life. It was never meant to expose you but to remove every contaminate that would trip you up down the road. Well done, I am so proud of you! I have been on a mission to bring you out of the dark ages of your faith where constant trials were sent to overwhelm you and steal your heart from me, but they didn’t succeed. I saw all the other affections and I’m a jealous God. I saw all the other distractions looking for a way into your world. I saw all the arrows of the enemy wanting to pierce you in the back and steal you from me and I knew I needed to alter the course of your life to finally bring you into the fullness you kept asking me for. Well done for clinging to me even when you doubted my methods. Well done for worshipping me in the waiting” “HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN WHAT HOPE FULFILLED LOOKS LIKE?” “My goodness never left you. It never waned even for a moment. I didn’t leave you or abandon you. But I saw you at times walking around defeated and lost, somehow convinced that hopelessness would always be a part of your life, believing that loss and settling for second best is the best life you can hope for. What happened? Have you forgotten what hope fulfilled looks like? Has it been so long? This month I am going to pull you out of defeat and seat you at the table. I am going to cause every root of hopelessness to be outnumbered by new springs of hope. I am going to remind and restore what you lost in the long road and process to where you are so you quit thinking that I don’t live up to what I promise. I DO NOT LIE, and you are about to be reminded that my promises for you are yes and amen. I’m removing the tiredness from your heart where you felt this was all on you. I am healing your heart from the toll the warfare and opposition had on you. I am taking away the slumber that kept tempting you to sleep away the season, and I am giving you back your strength and you will remember what it is to laugh and be genuinely happy and fulfilled. I will restore you and give you REST, so rest in me and watch what I do for you” “LOOK WHAT WE HAVE BUILT TOGETHER!” Then I heard Him say “Look what we built together! Can you see it! Can you see the beauty through all of the mess you have had surrounding you? It’s time to stop beating yourself up for how you have perceived you have navigated this difficult time and begin to celebrate that you have made it through some of life’s greatest obstacles and defeated the most intimidating giants. You stood well. You fought well. You have continued to hope even despite not seeing immediate change. Even when you only saw delay and discouragement crouched at your door. Now LOOK and see what we have built together. In the next month, you are going to see the fresh buds of life come from the most unexpected places and fruit where you never realized were producing for you. Seeds you have sown that died, DREAMS you once had are NOW going to be resurrected but with interest!” (When I woke up from this dream it was 4:20 am and I knew God was even speaking through that) “But the seed sown on good soil represents those who open their hearts to receive the Word and their lives bear good fruit—some yield a harvest of thirty, sixty, even one hundred times more than was sown!” Mark 4:20 “TAKE A LOOK AROUND, YOU ARE NOT WHERE YOU WERE!” “In the shaking, you have been fully awoken. In the wilderness and greatest battle of your life, you have been anointed with my oil. Yes, that’s right. I know it’s not what you expected. It’s not the destiny-package you were hoping for but you haven’t even seen the pages of your book yet to come. You have been stuck on the moment you are in and haven’t measured this transition next to eternity, but let me tell you, you haven’t just survived, you have been revived! It may not look like it yet but one day soon you will realize that this season of shaking was your set up, your preparation, your making! The enemy intended it to be your undoing but it didn’t work! Instead, it was your consecration, your knighting, your commissioning, and coronation. Now take a look around and see that you are not where you used to be. I have removed you from so many vices that once entangled you. I have loosed you from the places that kept you bound. Apathy and complacency are no longer suffocating the life out of you and you are no longer in a place of limitation. Can you see the wide-open space before you? Prepare your heart for this” “THIS YEAR YOU’LL KNOW ME AS PROVIDER & SUPPLIER!” “Stop asking for the scraps from under the table,” He said. “I want you to know my heart for you in this season regarding your finances and resources. You need to be fully and intimately acquainted with my goodness over your life and know that I not only desire for you to be looked after but I need you to grow in this area so I can grow you into the territory I have given you. You can’t keep having a poverty mindset when I’ve called you to the land of milk and honey. There are nations that need to be discipled and cities that need to be reached but if you keep not expecting me to provide for the vision that I gave you, how will the kingdom be released? This is a month that I am going to stretch you to believe beyond what you have before. I am calling you to ENLARGE and stretch out wider. Your vision has to get much bigger than it has been. I am breaking the survival mentality off the church and healing the wounds of lack of integrity and fear of failure. This will be a year you know me as provider and supplier. So ask me, what do you need? What does the destiny I have placed in you require? Dream with me again. Go back to the drawing board and believe beyond where you have and don’t stop til what you envision looks impossible. I am serving justice upon the assignments that have come to continually rob your bread and seed and caused my people to retreat. No, you will now advance and plant, move out of lack and into more than enough!” “PIONEER AGAIN WITH ME” It is time to finally move on from this place. It has served its purpose, but now the scenery must change just like everything else has. You mustn’t think your whole existence will be in the trenches. You are called to a war but that doesn’t mean you are meant to live in the valley of the shadow of death, no, I have been teaching you how to come up out of that place and live higher. I have been calling you up into new ways of viewing all that opposes you so you aren’t surrendering to the wrong thing. So now you are moving on from this place and we are going on a brand new adventure together. There will be many unknowns and many new roads we forge but you will find your passion again and know I am running with you. It will keep requiring courage and letting go of doing things how you once did, but it will be full of so much joy. Yes, the pages of history are before us and we are going to write them together. Will you join me? “Yet I totally trust you to rescue me one more time, so that I can see once again how good you are while I’m still alive!” Psalms 27:13 “Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever” Psalm 23:6

THE BLOOD SPEAKS A BETTER WORD!

By Nate Johnston • 31 Mar, 2024
I woke up this morning in intercession over many who have been given a bad report in the last 3 - 6 months. Whether it’s a bad health report, financial situation, issues in your family/marriage, or spiritually you just feel like you are in bondage and the lies and bad reports of the enemy are broadcasting daily of your life. Today I want to come into agreement in faith that whatever assignment the enemy has released over you, the demonic decree or failure and shipwreck, the word of hopelessness and defeat, and the bad and bleak report MUST BOW TO THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB! A few weeks ago we shared that we were going to hold a gathering in Colorado Springs. That same night I shared it I went into a powerful dream. I the dream I'm in a church building and the blood of Jesus is flowing down the altar and people are running desperately to get the blood. As they run to the blood, they begin getting delivered. They're getting set free. They're getting healed, and they're coming up completely new and whole. I knew the Lord was telling me two things; This is what we were going to see that night (and we did! Link in the email) We were in a time when the revelation of the blood of Jesus and the finished work of the cross was going to bring a SHIFT back to the church. You see, you and I have been through some battles the last few years and it’s easy to begin to forget the power of Jesus to turn impossible situations around. We almost begin to tolerate and normalize the enemy’s plans because we get tired. We get so disillusioned and weary that we stop fighting and begin to believe the bad news surrounding us. Right? But…. THE BLOOD SPEAKS A BETTER WORD! At the wedding at Cana when the old wine ran out, Jesus turned water into wine and served the best last! What if we were in the days of seeing the power of the Blood revolutionize the earth and raise Gods people to new life, hope, and power that shifts everything around us? It's the forgotten weapon that the church has forsaken and this Resurrection Sunday I feel strongly the Lord saying” Let my blood turn around what you are facing!” Many of you today are feeling bound. Many of you come feeling shackled. Many of you feel stuck and tormented by the bad report. But today - the bad report must now in Jesus' name! Are you in agreement with me? “To Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel”Hebrews 12:24 Today we felt to simply pray with you that the blood of Jesus would break the bad report. I feel like it’s a moment where the Lord wants to re-covenant with you and break all other covenants you may be in that is bringing you bondage. The lies you have agreed with. The condemnation screaming at you. Whatever word swirl and storm you are in today must be cleared by the power of the blood! So as you read this take communion and behold Jesus. Do it on your own, or with your family. Lay down everything that you have been in bondage to. Every lie, addiction, and issue. Lay down the bad report.. and come into agreement with the victory of the blood of Jesus and the finished work. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto the death. Rev 12:11 We decree today “IT IS FINISHED” over your life. Every plan of the enemy to take you out and rob you no longer have any power in Jesus' name! Addictions are breaking off your life. Loss and calamity are breaking. Religious holds are breaking Jezebelic muzzles and holds are breaking. Sickness, disease, and death is breaking. The war against your home is breaking. The war against your finances are breaking.. IN JESUS NAME! This resurrection Sunday we pray that you would feel the deepest, richest peace you have felt in years as you step out of the demonic decree that has been hanging over you and enter the fresh hope and amazing future God has for you In Jesus name!
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