Nate Johnston

THE ENEMY CAN'T KEEP YOUR MOVEMENT BOUND ANY LONGER

Nate Johnston

THE ENEMY CAN'T KEEP YOUR MOVEMENT BOUND ANY LONGER

I was in worship when I had a series of simple visions and revelations that I felt pertained to the next 2 months.

THE BREAKING OF CHAINS THAT HAVE KEPT PEOPLE STUCK IN TIME:

In the first vision, I saw feet in chains and I was wondering why no one was freeing them when I heard Psalm 25:15;

"My eyes are ever on the LORD, for only he will release my feet from the snare” Psalm 25:15

I knew this was not only the deliverance and freedom to those who were bound but the redirecting of those who had been going in the wrong direction and wrong path.

This was course correction and feet learning to walk on the right path.

So many have been stuck for so long. There have been many diversions and so many distractions and mind games keeping people bound and afraid of trying to move forward.

“But this is a people robbed and plundered;
All of them are snared in holes,
And they are hidden in prison houses;
They are for prey, and no one delivers;
For plunder, and no one says, “Restore!” Isaiah 42:22

I feel like many have been stuck in a time loop because of disappointment and fear of the future. Many are stuck in a moment of time when they felt like they crashed because they can’t understand why the last season ended the way it did.

But there is coming such freedom to those called to MOVE with the Holy Spirit and the shattering of all limitations.

SUDDEN VISION:

Then the Lord spoke to me loud and clear “I am pouring out vision where there has been a drought and instruction where there has been no clear guidance forward. There will be a sudden surge of vision that will cause My people who have been feeling like they are dying without purpose to come back alive”.

"Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law." Proverbs 28:19

“And it’s time for My heralds to rise up and reveal what’s to come! So write the vision and make it plain and run with it!”

Then the Lord replied:

“Write down the revelation

and make it plain on tablets

so that a herald may run with it." Habakkuk 2:2

After hearing this I felt like this will be a season of overflowing revelation where there has been such a hold-up and where many have had zero maps or guides to lead their families forward into the unknown.

It’s been a blind trusting season but now we are going to see all the aligning, the intertwining, and the dots connecting.

So open up your mouth and let Him fill it! Fresh vision is coming!

CONTRACTS BEING SIGNED FOR LAND AND TERRITORY:

In the next vision, I saw contracts laid out that were being signed and these contracts were for the acquisition of land and territory for the Kingdom of God, both in the natural and in the spiritual.

Then I saw a pen signing these contracts and there was a sigh of relief that there would no longer be any hold-ups or red tape stopping the acquiring of the promise God gave to you many years ago.

"For now, rapidly these delayed movements will be built, the 'dead in the water' movements will be resurrected because they had no expiry date, and now they will all spring up again", says the Lord.

It’s time for the planting—it's time to drive your stake down deep in the earth. “Make your claim” is what I keep hearing.

Harvest centers need to be built! The wave is coming and the Harvest needs to be in our sights. For the world is fearing food shortages but God is preparing places to be like Joseph’s food storage in the famine; this will be both in the natural and the spiritual.

It’s time to birth mobilization centers that would be the hubs of revival around the earth; the Lord is saying that this is the time.

This is a time for the contracts that have been held up to finally be released. And the Lord says, "this is a time for those things that have been in limbo to finally come into being".

And the Lord says, "this is a time for My people to inherit locations and to occupy, to occupy, to steward, and to take back regions from the enemy"

BLUEPRINTS TURNING INTO ACTIONS:

In the fourth vision, I saw blueprints and they were actual architectural drawings. There were things that the people had been stewarding with the Lord and dreaming with the Lord for such a long period of time. And I saw that some of these blueprints were actually quite old—some of them were 5 to 18 years old. And some of these blueprints had never actually been used to build anything yet.

I felt like many people had dropped these blueprints because it had felt like such a long period of time that they hadn't been used and there was no point holding onto them any longer.

But this is a season where the Lord is taking these blueprints and He's turning them into action plans.

This is a season where He is taking what has been lifeless and dead and causing it to come back to life.

There is an anointing that's coming to be able to turn blueprints into action plans and to be able to walk them out.

Yes, this will be a season of physical steps and movement to make up for the years of being stuck and stationery.

This is a season of seeing the promise with your very own eyes and the season of manifestation. You’ll say “I didn’t think I would see it in the natural but here it is in front of me!”.

THE SAFETY SWITCH & THE BULLSEYE:

Then I had a vision of a safety switch in front of me and heard “It's time to turn off the safety switch and hit the mark!".

I believe this is for the Church at large where we have elevated safety, the neat and tidy, and having our ducks in a row over the pursuit of the Spirit which often takes us on a messy yet fruitful route.

I also feel this is for the prophetic community right now who aren't called to stay in the shallow end of the pool—we must keep exhorting but there are also global matters we are supposed to be part of and deliver strategies and solutions for.

We must turn off the fear of man—and any other thing that has a hold on us—and hit the mark!

And I felt like this safety switch turning off was the Body of Christ breaking out of apathy, engaging in the hour at hand, and stepping into its weighty mantle in the Nations.

We are in a time where acting safe and not stepping out in risk to protect our reputations will cost us the next generation.

But as we engage we will see the loosing of the fear of man and a courageous Church mobilized for an hour of history where we would see the turning of Nations back to the feet of Jesus.

I HEARD “NATIONS RAGING HAVE SET THE STAGE!”

And then I heard the Lord say, "where the nations have raged, I'm now setting the stage". And I instantly heard Psalms two where it says,

"How dare the nations plan a rebellion.

Their foolish plots are futile!” Pslams 2:1

The enemy thinks he has the Church cornered but this will be a season of his plans coming unstuck and overplayed, which will actually bring the ball back into our court. The raging of the Nations has only set up the next play and caused God's people to awaken and move into position.

“Ask me to give you the nations and I will do it,

and they shall become your legacy.

Your domain will stretch to the ends of the earth.

And you will shepherd them with unlimited authority,

crushing their rebellion as an iron rod smashes jars of clay!’ Psalm 2:8

And I feel like the call to the Church in this hour is to stand up, to ask the Lord for the Nations. It is now time to step into the vacuum—the space that when the Nations are raging has created—all this chaos and turmoil has actually created a vacuum for the Kingdom of God to enter in.

And God is looking for those who would stand up and boldly and courageously occupy those regions and those places for the Kingdom of God. And we're going to see in this next season, such an incredible time of fruit, we're going to see such an incredible win for the Kingdom of God. As we begin to take back and occupy the territory that has looked like the enemy has won, but he has not. It's been a few times now that his rebellion has failed and the Body of Christ is rising up.

FIND YOUR FELLOWSHIP:

Then the last thing I heard was the word “fellowship” but spoken like fellow-ship. God is leading you to the people—your people—that are on the same mission as you.

You will be led to the ship that is embarking on this same mission and you will find the people that are running in the same direction and called to occupy the same places that you are called to occupy.

This is a season of synergy where you will find that God brings you kindred friends that speak the same language as you and are ready to storm the gates.

It’s also a season of the refining of your current company as God reveals who is able to go forward with you. It will feel like the testing of hearts and relationships but ultimately God is leading you into a season of being supported and sharpened.

As I write this I see a Roman tortoise formation and I believe this speaks of the season of the protection that this company will bring.

The Roman Tortoise, or Testudo, formation is the interlocking of shields to form a shell-like barrier to protect from any enemy projectiles.

The purpose of this formation was for either one, or both, of these reasons:

Allow soldiers to advance toward the enemy safely,
Frustrate the enemy enough by their ineffectiveness in the long-range battle to force them to charge into the shield wall.

This will be a season of advancing confidently into the place God has for you with family by your side.

So be encouraged that your stuck and grounded season is shifting right in this very moment! We may have been through a dark night season and feeing like our wings were clipped but now it's time to soar!

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FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BATTLED & SURVIVED JEZEBEL

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

IT'S TURNING AROUND!

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”

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WHEN THE OLD WINE RUNS OUT..

By Nate Johnston • April 19, 2025

I have a word for those who feel like they have come to the end of themselves. The end of direction. The end of their past blueprints and vision. The end of revelation and insight. The end of an old assignment. Maybe even community.. It’s like the wedding at Cana when the wine ran out. The barrels are empty. You feel empty. “God where from here?” “Jesus bring new wine out of me!” But there’s a silence. Almost a sense of being completely alone and even abandoned. It’s the scary place of being in between what was and what is to come. You know the new wine is coming. You know it because you know that’s what God does. But right now, it doesn’t feel like anything is on the horizon and it feels like everything is falling apart. Warfare has increased. Robbery has increased. And with a lack of vision and clarity and direction you feel like you are just “existing” or floating. WAITING for the next step or instruction. Yes, the old wine has ran out. You can’t drive that car anymore. You can’t wear those shoes anymore. You can’t hold onto that tattered jacket anymore. The old won’t sustain you for another day and you can’t bring it with you into tomorrow. Then comes the discontent. “Is this bitterness? “Lord is my heart sick? Am I in rebellion?” “Or is this you leading me somewhere new?” You are looking at the empty wine pots of your life and just feel strangely “used” Burned out. Flat. Exhausted. Old manna rotting on the ground. Trying to reconcile what you gave your life for that has seemingly only led you to this “nothingness” Yes, you ran out with the wine. You died with the last drops. You had to, so He could now do what you couldn’t do. And so he could lead you into a new chapter you would never step into still carrying the old. It’s Jesus in gethsemane crying tears of blood, like they were the last drops of the old way of life. Old mindsets. Old covenants. Dysfunctions. Pain. Trauma. Addictions. Lack. Rejection. Fear. Torment. Knowing He was going to the cross so that the real new wine could be poured out upon the generations to come and break the bondage of the past. Knowing you right now would need a promise and a signpost of Gods goodness when you were experiencing your own “lost” and unknown season. And this resurrection weekend, I know this is a prophetic reminder for those still in a “death” to the old season. SUNDAY IS COMING! I know the second day is painful and confusing. But resurrection is coming. But not the old you. The weighed down you. The new you. The new wine. The new manna. I know you feel like everything has died but on the third day the tomb was found empty! Yes empty is not the sign of death, but of new life coming!!! So today can I invite you with me to give Jesus our last drops of the old? Let’s give him this moment of “in between” Let’s give him our fears, expectations, worries, and mindsets from our last chapter and ask Him for the new wine to start flowing in our lives. The new wine - the blood of Jesus that SPEAKS a better word. That breaks and annuls bad contracts and soul ties and shuts demonic doors. Yes the blood that overrides all! And I prophesy that you will shift from trying to figure this out in your own strength to seeing the new wine break through for you in Jesus name! This weekend Christy and I are taking communion over every one of you and praying for the blood of Jesus over you and your families! Join us! "and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel" Hebrews 12:24

PROPHETIC LIVE - APRIL 29!

By Nate Johnson • April 18, 2025

Movements are being birthed all across the nations, ministries that are pure in heart and motive, are about to take flight! This is a sign, that the WAVE OF AWAKENING is about to crash upon the shores of the nations whose hearts are ready and open! I want to invite you to a prophetic live, where we will cast prophetic vision, do some personal ministry, and pray as a community! Everyone is invited. Join me live on zoom— April 29, at 6pm PST. See you there! —NATE