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PROPHETIC WORD - JUNE & JULY ARE THE MONTHS OF EMERGING FROM THE TOMB & CROSSING OVER
PROPHETIC WORD - JUNE & JULY ARE THE MONTHS OF EMERGING FROM THE TOMB & CROSSING OVER
A few days ago during worship, I went into a vision and I saw a person wrapped up in bandages standing in a tomb. I perceived this to be Lazarus because my spirit begin to say, “Lazarus, come forth, Lazarus, come forth!”
Then the spirit of God came upon me, and I begin to prophesy;
“People of God it is time to emerge. It's time to leave the place that you have been in. It's time to leave the place of death that you have been dwelling in, for the season of death is over! The season of your seeds falling to the ground and dying is over!”
“The season of doors closing and things ending, the season of barrenness, the season where it's felt like there's been no fruitfulness. The season where it felt like every single thing that I placed inside of you came to, its better end, is over! You are exiting that place”
“You are coming out of the place that you've been in, where you've been acquainted with the death of my burial. You've been acquainted with Gethsemane. You've been acquainted with grief and suffering, but now I'm calling you out. I'm calling you from that place. That is not the place that I destined for you to be in."
THE BATTLE OVER YOUR DESTINY AT IT’S PINNACLE
“I've seen the enemy raging on your every side. I've seen him trying to barter with you for the promise I gave you. I've seen him trying to rob you of the things that I placed upon your life and promised I was leading you into. I’ve seen the deep grief you have been carrying where you have felt like you didn’t see the fruition of what I promised. I have seen you trying to navigate what looked like ruins and dreams dying before their time. The disappointment has been deep and having to surrender in the midst of so many questions and unknown has felt like having to let go of everything you held dear to your heart”
“For the enemy of your soul has been warring to prevent you from entering into the place of the promise I have prepared for you. He has been trying to wrap you up in the grave clothes of deep disappointment and send you to an early death, but It did not work!”
THE FRESH DAY DAWNING AFTER THE DARK NIGHT
“For even now a new day dawns, can you not see it? Can you not see the fresh ray of hope dawning around you, bringing you back to life? For what now feels like you are further unraveling is only me unraveling you from the grave clothes that have been around you where it feels like right now you are descending further into disarray. I'm untangling you from the demonic assignments and the warfare that has been on your every side, and I'm leading you out of that place that you have felt stuck in. Even right now, I'm leading you through your dark night of the soul into a new day of hope”
“Can you feel my spirit brooding over you? Do you feel your womb beginning to leap even in what feels like your greatest season of hopelessness? Can you feel me leading you out of soul sickness, heart numbness, and emotional trauma?”
THE SECOND WIND MAKING ALL THINGS NEW
“Right now, I'm causing you to come alive in the places of your greatest grief and loss and in the days to come you're going feel fresh strength come upon you and a fresh wind blowing upon the deep caverns of your soul, and you’ll feel my spirit resurrecting the dry bones of your life and family. Yes, I have seen the war against families and the destiny of families, but watch as I lead your family out of the wilderness and into a new day of hope and fulfillment.”
“You're going to feel fresh life coming upon you for I am making all things new. And people will say, “But didn't they fall into ruin? Didn't God forsake them? But no, that is not the place I destined for you to live in. For though you have walked through the valley of the shadow of death - I am with you, my rod and my staff comforted you”
“You have not been forsaken, but I have been shepherding you through this time. I've been leading you through the dark night of the soul. I've been leading you through the place of your greatest battle. But now you will emerge with the keys to victory. You will emerge with a fresh anointing and a fresh conviction. And then the days to come, you'll see that what looked like a season of death, a season of the tomb was actually your greatest birthing”
“For even now, resurrection life is coming upon you. resurrection life is encompassing you”
“Now, watch what blooms from the desert. Watch as I lead your feet onto a new path, watch as I begin to connect the dots that you felt could never be connected. Watch as I take a season of chaos and I weave it into a season of your greatest fruitfulness. For in the days to come you'll look back and you'll see my faithfulness weaved even through your darkest moments”
“Afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted,
I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise,
your foundations with lapis lazuli.
I will make your battlements of rubies,
your gates of sparkling jewels,
and all your walls of precious stones”
-Isaiah 54:11-12
“Oh come forth mighty church, my bride, come forth! This is a new day. This is a new day. This is a new day. Now shake off the old clothes, shake it off, shake it off, shake it off, and step into the new day that is dawning upon you!”
THE CROSSING OVER MONTHS
“Now my mighty bride, crossover. For in the months to come, you'll begin to feel the tiredness and weariness that you've been carrying leaving. You'll begin to feel the old mantle and raggedy garment begin to leave you, and you'll feel a fresh fire come upon your spirit and cause you to come alive. And you will cross over from death into life, and you will cross over from that which has been decayed into that which is blossoming forth, and you will cross over from an old way of thinking into a new mindset and perspective”
“You'll cross over from a limited way of seeing and perceiving and enter into an eagle-eyed season of knowing what I am doing in the earth. You will cross over into a new day. Your whole family will step into the new door that I have ordained for you and you'll step out of the old season, the old wine, the old methods, the old thing that has been trying to keep you contained and limited and under a ceiling - a brassed heaven”
“I'm leading you out of that place and you will begin to burn with fulfillment as you begin to realize that you've crossed into your Canaan, you've crossed into your promised land, and you've come out of your days of survival. You've come out of your days of weariness. You've come out of your days of constantly having to fight the giants of the past, and you will for the first time in many years look forward and see what I have for you. You will hold in your very hands the promise that I have given you from many years ago”
“People of God get ready, get ready, get ready. Get ready to see the promise. Get ready to step into the land that I have given you. Get ready to sign contracts to own and possess what the enemy has been afraid of you possessing. You're going to begin to see the very fulfillment that I have ordained for you before your very eyes”
“Get ready to cross over. For people who have said “The forecast is bleak. The months ahead will be full of turmoil and great battles” but I have ordained for these months to be a reminder of my goodness in the land of the living despite what the world is saying”
PROVISION & FRESH VISION
“Get ready to see the provision. Get ready to dream with me in greater ways than you have before. For I want you to forfeit your old vision. I want you to forfeit your old limitations on my provision and my faithfulness, and I want you to believe with me for that which looks impossible. Get ready to see the camels of provision coming. Get ready to see that which I've laid up for you - the treasures, riches stored in secret places will come to you, the wealth of the wicked laid up for you so that you can fulfill the promises that I've given you upon your life”
"I will give you the treasures of darkness
and the hoards in secret places,
that you may know that it is I, the Lord,
the God of Israel, who call you by your name."
- Isaiah 45:3
“For just as Moses was fully satiated, you are exiting the season of death and crossing over into a season being fully satiated in the calling on your life and knowing that your greatest days are yet to come” says the Lord.
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By Nate Johnston
•
January 1, 2025
Right now we are in a new beginning. Both macro and micro. The church. Nations. You and I personally. The world we once knew is gone. Something else has begun. The clock ticked over. The old epoch expired. The guard changed. The old wine ran out. Your seed fell to the ground the last few years. 2024 was a year of death and burnout to the old thing. Old methods. Thinking. The hamster wheel fell off its hinges. Sandcastles crumbled. Hearts of stone are becoming hearts of flesh again. Desperation and brokenness are leading us back to the source. Man’s regime found itself outdated. Irrelevant. Powerless. We left the pews and began longing for the upper room again. “Rubble! I’m surrounded by rubble and ruin!” many cried out. Steeped in seeming failure and painful years of pioneering, we have come to the end of the road and yet a new unmarked path has begun. But now watch for what comes next. For in the midst of so much coming to a painful end, something new is erupting. Grassroots. Honest. Pure. Without guile. Thrones falling. Our eyes are back on the manger. That’s right. A manger season is upon us. Unexpected birthing in places no one imagined. And an unexpected timing. We had to die so we could experience what is it like to truly live again. Old mantles falling. Scales being wiped away. Hearing the beat of the lion of Judah once again. The parade and the fanfare of man’s movements are already becoming the sideshow and noise we are blocking our ears to. We don’t want shiny. We want desert dust if it comes with throne-room fire. We will eat locusts if it means we taste honey once again. Baptized and cleansed. We can hear the page turn awkwardly and slowly yet it’s music to our ears and lifting grief and hope deferred with it. A blank slate? Back to the beginning? Yes we have to. We have to become small and He greater. On our pilgrimage back to the still small voice and the good news that has been lost in the years of the machine age. Back to the narrow road and uninterrupted visitation. So while you are feeling the discomfort of this moment. Let deliverance come to anything and everything you are grieving behind you. For this is not a death but a new beginning. let the last few feet of grave clothes fall to the ground. Shake off the lies that you have let settle into your heart like a poison. And lean in. For life is ahead of you. The unknown calls you. What you are really born for is in the years ahead of us. This is a birthing.. War eagles are being hatched as we speak. For this new beginning is going to be the tension of peace and chaos. Revival and reformation. Establishing and movement. Greater glory and the clashing of kingdoms. But is what we were created for. Well done for making it through the crucible years and welcome to the days of kingdom occupation. A laid down people and a big God. The Acts 2 church and the greatest move of God we have yet seen. Let’s turn the page together.
By Nate Johnston
•
December 26, 2024
A PROPHETIC NOW WORD FOR THE CHURCH IN 2025 Since we crossed over into 2024 I have noticed a massive shift in my dreams from the Lord. One of the common themes I keep dreaming about is healing and deliverance, but in every dream, it’s not just happening individually but in masse. It’s become quite common for me to dream where I am seeing people encountering freedom and deliverance on such a scale and level of power and glory that I will wake up feeling it still lingering. It’s captured my heart. The longing and desire of Jesus to see His people truly free. I feel it in my bones: we are crossing over. We have bound the church for too long. The pews have been places where sickness has thrived and we have normalized issues that Jesus healed people from in the Bible. We have celebrated dysfunctions, mental illness, and given the enemy our high places instead of casting out the snake, defying Jezebel, and calling out strongmen for what they are. They have sat at our tables for too long, poisoning pulpits, compromising the bride, killing marriages, and raising prodigals. We have band-aided what has plagued us instead of driven it out with the power of the spirit. We have been sick with nowhere to go and no doctors, nurses, or healers to lead us to wholeness. But yes, those days are over. We are crossing over. TURN OFF THE ENTERTAINMENT Recently in a dream, I heard the Lord say “My church shall be a hospital for the sick again, and no longer the concert” This shook me deeply and broke me realising the current state of the church where we have become more about entertainment, performance worship, big screens and smoke machines, celebrity speakers, cleverly crafted motivational messages, and emotionally charged atmospheres. They give you goosebumps and those moments of temporary emotionalism but are often void of the presence of God and His power to save, heal, and transform the broken. People come because they are deeply broken and they leave…still broken. Instead, they got a show and a self-help bandaid that lasted days if not hours. That’s not hope. That’s not the gospel. That’s not Jesus. That’s another Jesus. That's not evangelism if no one is being changed. That’s not prophecy if it’s enabling dysfunction. We need the power of the spirit again in our churches not gimmicks. We need true connection and community, not a false sense of belonging in exchange for our 10 percent. We have been going to concerts all along and have been paying the price of admission. But no longer, because the concert days are coming to an end and the days of the hospital church are coming back again. THE TOUCH OF HIS HEM And I hear the cry of the world and the church in bondage; “If I could just experience peace!” “If I could just be freed of this pain!” “If I could just get rid of this addiction!” “If I could just silence the tormenting voices!” “If I could just be WHOLE!” And right now there is a longing rising like a deep groan. It’s a birth pang resounding in the earth of a people craving true freedom - the kind that only Jesus can bring. It’s the cry of humanity like the woman with the issue of blood, desperate to be free. That’s why people flocked to Jesus. They were bound and he made them free. He didn’t give them a spiritualised theatre performance and then let them stay oppressed. He set the oppressed free. Jesus was so focused on delivering the oppressed that He would go out of his way to do it. The woman at the well in Samaria was not on Jesus’ intended path but He changed His route just to MAKE HER WHOLE. And right now He is doing the same thing to the church: changing our route to set as many free as possible. We are detouring away from the powerless self-help, inspirational quote Christianity and merging back onto the road of raw power and deliverance. And to those who think I am saying that creativity and the arts are wrong. Please listen to what the Holy Spirit is saying. The arts are worship and are powerful and necessary if they are coupled with the power of the spirit, but on their own, they are a feast in a prison cell. WE CAN’T PLAY SAFE It’s time to break the ceilings of man we have placed over our churches. They have desensitised us to the miracles, signs, and wonders that are meant to be commonplace. It has weakened our confidence in the blood of Jesus. It has reduced the power of the gospel down to goosebumps during worship and that’s a mockery to the spotless lamb that was slain. Pastors and leaders, you can’t play it safe anymore! Bring in the bound! Bring in those facing impossibilities that only Jesus can fix! Repent for your lack of faith and being double-minded. Ask God to remind you again of His mighty power and exploits. Then by faith, open your doors and call for the sick and oppressed and watch what God does I dare you. IT’S COMING BACK! 4 months before Jeff Jansen passed away he called me out of the blue with a word. “Nate you are going to see the anointing of A.A Allen break out again around you. Get ready because what has been lost is being restored!” I believe this. In fact, it’s been happening more frequently and unexpectedly. It’s been stirring me deeply and breaking any desire to be safe and enjoy a tidy meeting anymore. We need the messy meetings again, where the holy spirit is moving in such a way that there isn’t a still person in the room. It’s where you have one section experiencing the joy of the lord, laughing uncontrollably as the Holy Spirit breaks off years of deep-seated depression and oppression. It’s where you have another section going into visions, encountering the glory of God and being irreparably changed. It’s where people begin manifesting without hands even being laid on because strongmen who have been there for decades suddenly get evicted in the weight of the glory in the room. It’s where God touches the minds of those who have been mentally bound and in moments coming into peace and their right minds again. It’s where the worst failures in human standards get baptised in fire and step into a new beginning. It’s where addicts hand over their drugs and pipes. It’s where we begin to see the dead raised normalized again. The blind seeing. The deaf hearing. And the mantle of Jesus, Isaiah 61 falls upon the church again, and we experience the GREATER WORKS Jesus said we would do. That’s the hospital church, and it’s coming back. “The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning. and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor. They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated, they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations. Strangers will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your fields and vineyards. And you will be called priests of the Lord, you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of nations and in their riches you will boast. Instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheritance. And so you will inherit a double portion in your land, and everlasting joy will be yours” - Isaiah 61:1-7 RECEIVE THE POWER Now for those reading this who are experiencing impossibilities and this word felt like both an uncomfortable confrontation and a soothing balm, please read this last part. Jesus wants you healed and whole. Hope deferred has sunken into the church like a slow-releasing poison. It’s the result of years of the enemy delaying breakthroughs and seeing sickness thrive instead of decrease, financial issues abounding, dreams being smashed on the rocks of disappointment, mental wars flourishing, and demonic strongholds getting stronger. The narrative the enemy has wanted you to believe is that you are powerless and God has no interest in setting you free. Right now break that lie! Lay your frustration, and hope deferred down. Shake off the lies of the enemy! Let me pray over you. Jesus, according to your word SET THEM FREE! Every demonic spirit oppressing them GO in Jesus' name! Every strongman of sickness and infirmity GO in Jesus' name! Every assignment of lack leaves now in Jesus' name! Jesus make them WHOLE in the mighty name of Jesus! Now mantle them with power from in high again, and raise your end-time church as the surgeons and healers you called us to be. “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost comes upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth” - Acts 1:8
By Nate Johnston
•
January 1, 2025
Right now we are in a new beginning. Both macro and micro. The church. Nations. You and I personally. The world we once knew is gone. Something else has begun. The clock ticked over. The old epoch expired. The guard changed. The old wine ran out. Your seed fell to the ground the last few years. 2024 was a year of death and burnout to the old thing. Old methods. Thinking. The hamster wheel fell off its hinges. Sandcastles crumbled. Hearts of stone are becoming hearts of flesh again. Desperation and brokenness are leading us back to the source. Man’s regime found itself outdated. Irrelevant. Powerless. We left the pews and began longing for the upper room again. “Rubble! I’m surrounded by rubble and ruin!” many cried out. Steeped in seeming failure and painful years of pioneering, we have come to the end of the road and yet a new unmarked path has begun. But now watch for what comes next. For in the midst of so much coming to a painful end, something new is erupting. Grassroots. Honest. Pure. Without guile. Thrones falling. Our eyes are back on the manger. That’s right. A manger season is upon us. Unexpected birthing in places no one imagined. And an unexpected timing. We had to die so we could experience what is it like to truly live again. Old mantles falling. Scales being wiped away. Hearing the beat of the lion of Judah once again. The parade and the fanfare of man’s movements are already becoming the sideshow and noise we are blocking our ears to. We don’t want shiny. We want desert dust if it comes with throne-room fire. We will eat locusts if it means we taste honey once again. Baptized and cleansed. We can hear the page turn awkwardly and slowly yet it’s music to our ears and lifting grief and hope deferred with it. A blank slate? Back to the beginning? Yes we have to. We have to become small and He greater. On our pilgrimage back to the still small voice and the good news that has been lost in the years of the machine age. Back to the narrow road and uninterrupted visitation. So while you are feeling the discomfort of this moment. Let deliverance come to anything and everything you are grieving behind you. For this is not a death but a new beginning. let the last few feet of grave clothes fall to the ground. Shake off the lies that you have let settle into your heart like a poison. And lean in. For life is ahead of you. The unknown calls you. What you are really born for is in the years ahead of us. This is a birthing.. War eagles are being hatched as we speak. For this new beginning is going to be the tension of peace and chaos. Revival and reformation. Establishing and movement. Greater glory and the clashing of kingdoms. But is what we were created for. Well done for making it through the crucible years and welcome to the days of kingdom occupation. A laid down people and a big God. The Acts 2 church and the greatest move of God we have yet seen. Let’s turn the page together.
By Nate Johnston
•
December 26, 2024
A PROPHETIC NOW WORD FOR THE CHURCH IN 2025 Since we crossed over into 2024 I have noticed a massive shift in my dreams from the Lord. One of the common themes I keep dreaming about is healing and deliverance, but in every dream, it’s not just happening individually but in masse. It’s become quite common for me to dream where I am seeing people encountering freedom and deliverance on such a scale and level of power and glory that I will wake up feeling it still lingering. It’s captured my heart. The longing and desire of Jesus to see His people truly free. I feel it in my bones: we are crossing over. We have bound the church for too long. The pews have been places where sickness has thrived and we have normalized issues that Jesus healed people from in the Bible. We have celebrated dysfunctions, mental illness, and given the enemy our high places instead of casting out the snake, defying Jezebel, and calling out strongmen for what they are. They have sat at our tables for too long, poisoning pulpits, compromising the bride, killing marriages, and raising prodigals. We have band-aided what has plagued us instead of driven it out with the power of the spirit. We have been sick with nowhere to go and no doctors, nurses, or healers to lead us to wholeness. But yes, those days are over. We are crossing over. TURN OFF THE ENTERTAINMENT Recently in a dream, I heard the Lord say “My church shall be a hospital for the sick again, and no longer the concert” This shook me deeply and broke me realising the current state of the church where we have become more about entertainment, performance worship, big screens and smoke machines, celebrity speakers, cleverly crafted motivational messages, and emotionally charged atmospheres. They give you goosebumps and those moments of temporary emotionalism but are often void of the presence of God and His power to save, heal, and transform the broken. People come because they are deeply broken and they leave…still broken. Instead, they got a show and a self-help bandaid that lasted days if not hours. That’s not hope. That’s not the gospel. That’s not Jesus. That’s another Jesus. That's not evangelism if no one is being changed. That’s not prophecy if it’s enabling dysfunction. We need the power of the spirit again in our churches not gimmicks. We need true connection and community, not a false sense of belonging in exchange for our 10 percent. We have been going to concerts all along and have been paying the price of admission. But no longer, because the concert days are coming to an end and the days of the hospital church are coming back again. THE TOUCH OF HIS HEM And I hear the cry of the world and the church in bondage; “If I could just experience peace!” “If I could just be freed of this pain!” “If I could just get rid of this addiction!” “If I could just silence the tormenting voices!” “If I could just be WHOLE!” And right now there is a longing rising like a deep groan. It’s a birth pang resounding in the earth of a people craving true freedom - the kind that only Jesus can bring. It’s the cry of humanity like the woman with the issue of blood, desperate to be free. That’s why people flocked to Jesus. They were bound and he made them free. He didn’t give them a spiritualised theatre performance and then let them stay oppressed. He set the oppressed free. Jesus was so focused on delivering the oppressed that He would go out of his way to do it. The woman at the well in Samaria was not on Jesus’ intended path but He changed His route just to MAKE HER WHOLE. And right now He is doing the same thing to the church: changing our route to set as many free as possible. We are detouring away from the powerless self-help, inspirational quote Christianity and merging back onto the road of raw power and deliverance. And to those who think I am saying that creativity and the arts are wrong. Please listen to what the Holy Spirit is saying. The arts are worship and are powerful and necessary if they are coupled with the power of the spirit, but on their own, they are a feast in a prison cell. WE CAN’T PLAY SAFE It’s time to break the ceilings of man we have placed over our churches. They have desensitised us to the miracles, signs, and wonders that are meant to be commonplace. It has weakened our confidence in the blood of Jesus. It has reduced the power of the gospel down to goosebumps during worship and that’s a mockery to the spotless lamb that was slain. Pastors and leaders, you can’t play it safe anymore! Bring in the bound! Bring in those facing impossibilities that only Jesus can fix! Repent for your lack of faith and being double-minded. Ask God to remind you again of His mighty power and exploits. Then by faith, open your doors and call for the sick and oppressed and watch what God does I dare you. IT’S COMING BACK! 4 months before Jeff Jansen passed away he called me out of the blue with a word. “Nate you are going to see the anointing of A.A Allen break out again around you. Get ready because what has been lost is being restored!” I believe this. In fact, it’s been happening more frequently and unexpectedly. It’s been stirring me deeply and breaking any desire to be safe and enjoy a tidy meeting anymore. We need the messy meetings again, where the holy spirit is moving in such a way that there isn’t a still person in the room. It’s where you have one section experiencing the joy of the lord, laughing uncontrollably as the Holy Spirit breaks off years of deep-seated depression and oppression. It’s where you have another section going into visions, encountering the glory of God and being irreparably changed. It’s where people begin manifesting without hands even being laid on because strongmen who have been there for decades suddenly get evicted in the weight of the glory in the room. It’s where God touches the minds of those who have been mentally bound and in moments coming into peace and their right minds again. It’s where the worst failures in human standards get baptised in fire and step into a new beginning. It’s where addicts hand over their drugs and pipes. It’s where we begin to see the dead raised normalized again. The blind seeing. The deaf hearing. And the mantle of Jesus, Isaiah 61 falls upon the church again, and we experience the GREATER WORKS Jesus said we would do. That’s the hospital church, and it’s coming back. “The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning. and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor. They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated, they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations. Strangers will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your fields and vineyards. And you will be called priests of the Lord, you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of nations and in their riches you will boast. Instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheritance. And so you will inherit a double portion in your land, and everlasting joy will be yours” - Isaiah 61:1-7 RECEIVE THE POWER Now for those reading this who are experiencing impossibilities and this word felt like both an uncomfortable confrontation and a soothing balm, please read this last part. Jesus wants you healed and whole. Hope deferred has sunken into the church like a slow-releasing poison. It’s the result of years of the enemy delaying breakthroughs and seeing sickness thrive instead of decrease, financial issues abounding, dreams being smashed on the rocks of disappointment, mental wars flourishing, and demonic strongholds getting stronger. The narrative the enemy has wanted you to believe is that you are powerless and God has no interest in setting you free. Right now break that lie! Lay your frustration, and hope deferred down. Shake off the lies of the enemy! Let me pray over you. Jesus, according to your word SET THEM FREE! Every demonic spirit oppressing them GO in Jesus' name! Every strongman of sickness and infirmity GO in Jesus' name! Every assignment of lack leaves now in Jesus' name! Jesus make them WHOLE in the mighty name of Jesus! Now mantle them with power from in high again, and raise your end-time church as the surgeons and healers you called us to be. “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost comes upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth” - Acts 1:8
By Nate Johnston
•
December 24, 2024
I believe we are entering the era of the rebirth of the church after being in painful labor for many years and a year of contractions. Recently, the Lord gave me two dreams that tied together and painted a picture of what He is doing right now. THE SNAKE IN THE PIPE In the first dream, I saw a large pipe, almost like a garden hose, and people standing around it saying, “Something is stuck in the pipe.” As I looked closer, I saw the tail of a snake clogging up the pipe. I knew we had to get the snake out so the water could flow freely...so we gathered around the pipe and shook it violently. For what felt like forever, nothing happened. The snake wouldn’t budge. Then, suddenly, it started to come out, and as it attempted to get away the Lord crushed it and cut it in many pieces. This dream represents the church and the flow of the Spirit. For the snake to be dislodged, we had to get uncomfortable and not only allow the shaking but PARTNER with it. We had to stop tolerating what had been clogging up the Spirit’s flow and desperately want the flow more than being comfortable or ignoring the problem. This is what the Lord is doing in the church right now. He’s removing every blockage, every contaminant, and every area of complacency. He’s exposing and dealing with the demonic influences we’ve allowed and getting us uncomfortable and craving freedom so badly we will partner with His delivering work. The Lord is saying to us that we cannot move forward with a clogged pipe. We cannot extend the borders of His kingdom until every contaminant is removed. Where we’re going, the river of the Lord has to flow freely once again. The snake represents the serpent in the garden, the one who lied to Adam and Eve and led them away from the Tree of Life. That same serpent has lied to the church, leading us into reliance on our own understanding, our own methods, and even our own version of the gospel. It’s made us weak and powerless as we suffer under the false covering of another gospel and serving a counterfeit saviour. But the Lord is dealing with the snake again. He’s clearing out every lie, every hindrance, and everything that’s been blocking the flow of His Spirit. THE WOMAN IN DELIVERY In the second dream, I saw a woman on a birthing table, giving birth to what I knew in the dream was the church. This was a rebirth. But here’s the strangest part: under her foot, I saw the head of a snake crushed. It immediately reminded me of the scripture that says; “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” Genesis 3:15 The Lord is saying that the church is in a season of refining for rebirth. We are entering a fresh flow of the Spirit, a move of God unlike anything we’ve seen before. But in this rebirth we are being awakened to WHO WE ARE & WHOSE WE ARE. We are in days where we will no longer tolerate the snake but we will crush him underfoot. This is a season of great victory and authority. We will see the finished work of Jesus come to life in the church, and we’ll rise up in purity, power, and dominion as Gods conduits in a time of history where true disciples are needed more than ever before. BACK TO SIMPLICITY We are stepping back into the simplicity of the gospel. The church is returning to the days of Acts, where signs, wonders, and miracles follow those who believe. We’re moving away from man-made methods, celebrity Christianity, and empty religion, and following the Holy Spirit wherever He leads. We’re about to see the greatest move of God the world has ever known. The harvest is coming, and God is raising up builders who will prepare for it. As the pipe is unclogged, there will be a hunger from the world for what God is pouring out. People will come running from the darkest places just to get a taste of the waters that flow out. THIS IS ALSO YOUR REBIRTH But this isn’t just a corporate word, it’s also personal. Where has the enemy been clogging up the flow of the Spirit in your life? Has he been lying to you? Surrounding you with fear, hopelessness, or constant battles that make you feel stuck? The Lord is exposing the snake in your life, too. He’s pulling it out of every place where it has been coiled around your joy, your freedom, and your peace. That snake that’s been trying to suffocate you is being removed. The delays, the heartbreak, the hope deferred, that have created strongholds and have made your heart sick are being broken. The Lord is uncoiling every bit of it. He’s unclogging the pipe and removing every remnant of the enemies assignments from your life. This is your season of rebirth. And today the Lord is saying, “In this rebirth watch as I’m redoing what you thought passed you by. I’m reshaping you, reviving you, and breathing fresh life into you.” Where you’ve felt stuck, you’re about to move forward. Where you’ve felt powerless, you’re about to rise up in authority. This next season will not only be one of rebirth but also one where you crush the serpent under your heel and begin to take back the ground that has been robbed from you in the last 4 -7 years. THE BRIDE IS RISING The body of Christ is stepping into the authority and simplicity of what God always intended. We’re coming back to the Acts 2 days, a place of joy, power, and the purity of the gospel. The Lord is lifting the weight off your shoulders and leading you into His presence again where there is FULLNESS OF JOY. Let Him free you. Let Him refresh and renew you. Let Him begin the rebirth in your life. And I see it. I see the waters crashing upon the shores and the church are running towards it. Many who are thirsty are quenching their thirst. Many who have been sick like naaman are running into the waters for healing. The flow is increasing and the church are running towards it again. This is our rebirth..
By Nate Johnston
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December 19, 2024
Next year is going to be an Acts 2 Year because we’re going back to simplicity. We’re leaving behind the hustle and bustle of institutions and empires for the basics once again. We’re choosing the humble over the proud and lofty. We’re choosing the private over the public stage. We’re choosing connection over club mentality or even shallow community. We’re choosing fellowship over programs. We’re choosing true worship over performance. We’re choosing the nameless and faceless over celebrity Christianity. And we’re choosing the pure over the convoluted and tainted. This is going to be an Acts 2 year because God is rebuilding our definition of the church, and He’s rebuilding us in the process. We’re coming back to the true foundations of the church again. We’re coming back to the simplicity and power of the fivefold, where people are built up into who God has called them to be. We’re going to see the breakdown of man’s hierarchies and systems. We’re coming back to the simple foundation of people gathering not around a man, but around Jesus and the finished work of the cross. We’re coming back to signs, wonders, and miracles again. We’re coming back to daily salvations and the pursuit of souls instead of preaching to the choir. We’re coming back to baptisms and lives being transformed, rescued from darkness and addiction. We’re coming back to being the hospital church again, instead of a museum or a palace. We’re coming back to what looks small and insignificant but carries immense weight in the spirit. We’re coming back to experiencing His face and His glory once again, instead of simply coming to a service to hear a cool cliché quote to take home. We’re leaving behind the goosebumps of man’s religion and trading them for true encounters and visitations with God. So, this next year, watch as God leads you in a new direction. Watch as your appetites begin to change. Watch as the Lord leads you away from systems and places that look good on the outside but have brought you into bondage. For many, this will mean breaking away from what you’ve been part of for years. It may mean relocation. Shifting. Migrating. It may mean leaving behind compromises, false coverings, and shallow accountability in communities that resemble but are far from the Acts 2 church God has destined for you. It will mean stepping out of isolation to find the people God has for you. It will mean leaving behind dead works and performance to discover the fire of His Spirit and a fresh baptism that overhauls your life. And it will mean closing the door on Act 1 so that we, as the church, can step into Acts 2—a season of power and baptism in the Holy Spirit that empowers us to walk in the fullness of everything Jesus made available to us at the cross. It’s going to be a year of departing from the flesh and man’s pursuit of building Babel and stepping into a year of building what looks simple but reaps eternal fruit. It’s going to transform your family, marriages, and every area of your life as you realign with God’s purpose and His original blueprint for the church. Watch, friends, as we leave behind decades, even centuries, of dysfunction and as the Lord begins to build His house. This is why you have felt the discontent in the last few years that has grown inside you. It’s the desire to go back to the original plan. It’s the longing for true connection with God and His people. And build something pure and not of man’s hands. If this is you, pray this dangerous prayer with me “Lord do Acts 2 in my life in 2025 onwards in Jesus name! And lead me to my Acts 2 people!” “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved” Acts 2:42-47
