nateandchristy2018

THE ERA OF FAMILY & NATIONS, THE WHOLE BRIDE, & THE RISING OF A HOLY ARMY

nateandchristy2018

THE ERA OF FAMILY & NATIONS, THE WHOLE BRIDE, & THE RISING OF A HOLY ARMY

THE ERA OF FAMILY & NATIONS, THE WHOLE BRIDE, & THE RISING OF A HOLY ARMY

There are some words God gives that are words for months, or even seasons, and others that are more. Words that you carry with you because you were branded by them and you know they won’t just be something you pour out for a season but for a lifetime. The word I’m about to share feels personal to me, and I’ve been processing it and wrestling it, and while part of a much larger conversation and deeper revelation I feel this is a word for the hour to the church because He is readying his bride for incredible and crucial days to come. Get ready church, God is getting us into shape because our greatest days are truly ahead of us!

A NEW ERA & A CALL HIGHER

Two words that have been burning in my spirit for months now is FAMILY & NATIONS as God has been downloading the most glorious heavenly blueprints of the churches “Isaiah 60” era in action. It has caused a new hunger and passion to rise up in me for what God showed me is coming. God kept saying to me that this is the time of family and nations as if they were the same entity. I think we as the body of Christ have always put family on one spectrum and the call to nations on the other but He was saying to me to stitch them back together where religion tore them apart. This is an hour of FAMILY & NATIONS and God is both breathing fresh upon families and the family of God (the church), bringing maturity, healing, and authenticity back, and He is also igniting the call of the ECCLESIA to the NATIONS!

In my heart this call is the one and the same. Imagine if the same presence and glory that we experience around the kitchen table gets released to the nations and affects whole cities? What if the conversations with our kids to God at bedtime become prayers that spark global movements? What if the nights of laying on our backs in the lounge rooms and church floors worshiping become the revival that sends the lost to their knees?

There is a commissioning happening right now but there is also a deep preparation-taking place to ready us for the days ahead. That’s what all the warfare and opposition you have faced has been over! This is the commodity that is worth so much and this is why you as a child of God, a royal priesthood and holy nation, royalty, and heir of nations have been in the battle of your life and the greatest preparation season we have known!

God is calling the lost home, the orphan home, the exiles home, the outcasts home, and He has been bringing great reformation to the family of God to accomodate them. The harvest will need a home to belong to! But equally God has been arming the ecclesia, readying the troops, and calling us higher from a local “metron” mindset to a global one. From discipling communities to preparing to disciple and influence nations.

This is not just the hour of the family unit but also the hour of unity in the churches where God is healing divides and causing the family of God to come together which will unleash a blessing so we will see the nations come to Jesus!

THE RULING SWORD & THE RENDING SWORD

A month ago I was in worship in my room when I went into a vision and saw myself holding a sword out as you would do in battle. Instantly I thought “Wow this is the reigning sword for the nations!” and I felt the power and authority in it. This was the ruling sword God was placing in the hands of the church to bring nations into alignment and see injustices fall. But then I watched as in the vision the sword began to turn anti-clockwise towards me until the point was pressed up against my heart. Suddenly I felt like the fire of heaven was hot on me and God began speaking” Will this generation be a lover of themselves or will they be a people set apart unto me?” “Who will be my Holy ones, my separated ones? Who will defy the culture of today and stand apart? Who will choose my mountain over the mountain of man's achievements? Who will be my Holy ones?”

After this night I truly haven’t been the same since. This deep cry of the Lord's desire this generation was revealed as plain as day. God wants to use this generation for great governmental and cultural change, walking in power and miracles, signs, and wonders, but first He is looking for a people who will say yes to the RENDING sword of Holiness. Those who will choose to make themselves low so he could be made great.

“Rend your heart and not your garments and return to the Lord!” Joel 2:13

So let the cry of this hour be “God rend our hearts! Have your way in us!”

THE GREATER GLORY & THE WHOLE BRIDE

Two weeks ago I was in church when I had an encounter that was unlike any other I have ever had. I had my eyes closed when I saw in a vision the king of glory walking through the middle aisle of the building. It was the King in all of His majesty and glory. The train of His robe was filling the temple and it was majestic, and for a moment I was just in awe and wonder over what I was seeing. His presence was so thick and weighty. Then my awe and wonder began to turn to this incredible fear of the Lord and reverence that I haven’t experienced like that before. I could barely breathe. It was more than I could handle.

I remember similar moments back in 2007 and 2008 when I was working for Pastor Benny Hinn and the Glory of God was so thick and weighty and the reverential fear of the Lord was so intense in the room you didn’t want to move a finger and all you could do was weep in his presence. This was like that. As I was kneeling on the floor all I could do was sing “Holy, holy”, I kept hearing these two passages of scripture resounding in my spirit;

“In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke” Isaiah 6:1-4

“And to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless” Ephesians 5:27

I went home that night and I was a mess, and felt the cry of the Fathers heart to see a WHOLE bride, a spotless bride, one that was not in bondage to this world and one that was deeply and madly in love with the bridegroom, not the things of this world. Since that night I have been experiencing the reverential fear of the Lord on a daily basis and daily hearing the song “I’m coming back to the heart of worship” as God right now calls us back to a deeper place of intimacy and shedding of the war wounds and the contaminants of the past. I knew what I experienced that night was a holy moment but it was also a declaration over the season that God was coming in might and power and glory to ready us for the days to come where we need to be whole.

God is bringing great deliverance to the house of God right now because we can’t keep being the broken, battered, down and out bride, beat up by the enemy and more experienced with defeat than in victory. No, that’s changing in Jesus name!

THE SHAKING AND THE RISING

“This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. I will shake all nations, and what is desired by all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘The silver is mine and the gold is mine,’ declares the Lord Almighty. ‘The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,’ declares the Lord Almighty.” Haggai 2:6-9

Many have been prophesying for a while now that this is a greater glory season in the same way this is a new wine season. But in the same way the new wine ruptures the old wineskin, the greater glory not only causes us to arise and shine as Gods glorious church but it reveals the lesser glory we have been building upon. His greater glory in this season is coming to reveal faulty foundations and give us strong foundations for us to build upon in the days to come. Just like the verse above says “the doorposts and thresholds shook”, God is shaking, shaking, shaking all that needs to be shaken so that all that remains is what is beneficial for us as His bride to see His kingdom done on earth as it is in heaven! It’s a tall order if you are comfortable and complacent but right now God is releasing the invitation and stirring up his church to abandon the safety of the shore and choose Him at all costs.

We have to divorce our love with self, with this world, even with our consumerist Christianity and worship of celebrities. We can’t keep making golden calves out of people. God wants to be our only love and focus and He is calling us to leave the burning ship of religion behind for the greater glory - for the KING of glory. But this shaking is only causing a TSUNAMI OF GLORY to fill your life as you have allowed God access and full abandon to the process. The same goes for the nations; there has been a shaking but His Glory is flooding the earth in a way we have not seen before. It’s a shaking that has caused false or weak structures to fall, a major changing of the guard, and the restoration of the simplicity and power of the gospel, but the fruit is that the nations are beginning to the taste of the majesty of Jesus!

The greatest export of this shaking season is the refinement of Gold, the purity, and the rising of an army of holy lovers, a whole and free bride, and an ecclesia with fire in their eyes with their eyes set on their inheritance. NONE of the shaking has gone to waste but has only produced in you the fruit you are about to see. This is a new era, and you can either be bedazzled and distracted by the chaos of the shaking or you can fix your eyes on Jesus and celebrate what He is doing in the earth. It’s time for the greater glory!

RISE UP HOLY ONES, RISE UP MIGHTY ARMY, RISE UP FAMILY OF GOD, THIS IS YOUR HOUR OF COMMISSIONING! THIS IS YOUR ERA TO ARISE & SHINE!

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I CAN HEAR THE SOUND OF RAIN!

By Nate Johnston • June 27, 2025
I have a short word of hope and encouragement to share with you today.. I woke up earlier this week and I felt something I haven’t felt in years.. Like the fresh smell of rain in the distance. I could actually smell it and my spirit began to burn with excitement yet it didn’t make sense. Like Elijah’s servant seeing the cloud the size of a man’s hand on the horizon. What’s coming? I didn’t feel fear. I felt hope. Change. Courage. A new chapter rolling in. Drought turning into a downpour. Jezebels curse breaking off the land after a showdown on the heights. Whooooooooooosh… the sound of wind rolling in over the desert plains and the four winds rushing around the decommissioned and those in spiritual death. It doesn’t make sense. Wars. Rumors of wars. What is coming Lord? I can hear the sound of rain. Coming to wash the land and usher in revival. I feel the morning dew on my feet of a new day dawning after being in midnight for so long… And I feel like we are coming out of a dark winter. Winters death. And right now I can see the tired old casing that had been spiritually resting on us lifting. The old mantle. The old cocoon. The wandering in the desert. The long and hard battle that has seeped into our skin and worn us down little by little. Burnt out. Used up. Exhausted… dead even. But I could see for the first time a muscle coming to the surface. A fight and a stamina I haven’t felt in years. A ferocity humming under the surface of the deep. Brrrrrrrrrr. Like tremors unsettling the debris, ashes, and rubble that we have collected. Old warriors rising.. The disillusioned rising with new eyes and un-yoked from the past. Yes, winter has passed. Springtime has come. A ripening is here. Hunger is here. Awakening is here in the worst of moments for it to come by natural standards. But that’s when it rolls in and does the most damage against darkness. Like Jesus waking up Lazarus who was 4 days dead, God right now is waking up his church. Chaos surrounds us in the earth but if you’ll ascend the hill of the Lord you’ll see it - the season has changed. You are coming into a new day, out of defeat, apathy, robbery, and putting on strength, hope, and clarity in Jesus name, and God is turning dead bones army back into an army of hope carriers and storm breakers again!

FIREBRANDS, GOD IS PLACING FRESH FIRE ON YOUR HANDS AND FEET!

By Nate Johnston • June 26, 2025
The hour of the nameless and faceless has come.

I CAN HEAR THE SOUND OF RAIN!

By Nate Johnston • June 27, 2025
I have a short word of hope and encouragement to share with you today.. I woke up earlier this week and I felt something I haven’t felt in years.. Like the fresh smell of rain in the distance. I could actually smell it and my spirit began to burn with excitement yet it didn’t make sense. Like Elijah’s servant seeing the cloud the size of a man’s hand on the horizon. What’s coming? I didn’t feel fear. I felt hope. Change. Courage. A new chapter rolling in. Drought turning into a downpour. Jezebels curse breaking off the land after a showdown on the heights. Whooooooooooosh… the sound of wind rolling in over the desert plains and the four winds rushing around the decommissioned and those in spiritual death. It doesn’t make sense. Wars. Rumors of wars. What is coming Lord? I can hear the sound of rain. Coming to wash the land and usher in revival. I feel the morning dew on my feet of a new day dawning after being in midnight for so long… And I feel like we are coming out of a dark winter. Winters death. And right now I can see the tired old casing that had been spiritually resting on us lifting. The old mantle. The old cocoon. The wandering in the desert. The long and hard battle that has seeped into our skin and worn us down little by little. Burnt out. Used up. Exhausted… dead even. But I could see for the first time a muscle coming to the surface. A fight and a stamina I haven’t felt in years. A ferocity humming under the surface of the deep. Brrrrrrrrrr. Like tremors unsettling the debris, ashes, and rubble that we have collected. Old warriors rising.. The disillusioned rising with new eyes and un-yoked from the past. Yes, winter has passed. Springtime has come. A ripening is here. Hunger is here. Awakening is here in the worst of moments for it to come by natural standards. But that’s when it rolls in and does the most damage against darkness. Like Jesus waking up Lazarus who was 4 days dead, God right now is waking up his church. Chaos surrounds us in the earth but if you’ll ascend the hill of the Lord you’ll see it - the season has changed. You are coming into a new day, out of defeat, apathy, robbery, and putting on strength, hope, and clarity in Jesus name, and God is turning dead bones army back into an army of hope carriers and storm breakers again!

FIREBRANDS, GOD IS PLACING FRESH FIRE ON YOUR HANDS AND FEET!

By Nate Johnston • June 26, 2025
The hour of the nameless and faceless has come.

THERE’S BEEN A MIND-BLINDING SPIRIT WARRING!

By Nate Johnston • June 25, 2025
We are right now in the greatest mind war of our time. The Lord spoke to me recently and said, “I’m coming against the mind-blinding spirit that has come over My people.” You see, right now we’re looking at the potential of World War III between Israel and Iran. We’re also facing the possibility of civil war breaking out in multiple areas of the U.S. over controversial issues. But the real World War III has already begun, and that is the world war of the mind. The spirit of this age has crept in deceptively through fear, culture, and media to hit the Body of Christ from so many angles, for so long, that we have become a people being pillaged and plundered in our minds on a daily basis. Recently, the Lord led me to the scripture in John 11:16 when Jesus was going to return to Jerusalem; “Then Thomas said to the rest of the disciples, ‘Let us also go, that we may die with him.’” Thomas, whose name [Didymus] means “twin,” also represents the double-minded. I asked, “Lord, what are you trying to show me?” And He showed me: there is a double-mindedness, a spirit of confusion that has come upon the Church. It’s leading people away from the Gospel, away from the narrow path, and trying to reason the Church out of its calling and destiny, even in the midst of chaos. It’s a mind-blinding spirit that has come against the Church, cloaked in wisdom and common sense, to lead her into deception. It’s leading the Church away from truth under the guise of love, tolerance, and acceptance. It’s a mind-blinding spirit that speaks fear, gloom, and doom over these times when we are called to speak hope and redemption, and lead the Church into her greatest days. It’s a mind-blinding spirit that says, “Your greatest days are over,” simply because we’re in a season of storms and battles. It’s trying to shut down the Church and make her powerless, when this is a time we are called to wield the power of the Holy Spirit. This spirit is trying to lead the Church into a false sense of safety, when we are meant to be called into discomfort to see the greatest move of God hit the earth. This mind-blinding spirit has created a chatter of witchcraft. It has warred against believers, created factions, and caused us to rise up against one another, tearing each other down. It’s created confusion to such a degree that many are coming into agreement with the accuser of the brethren, with the enemy, on many fronts. But this is not the heart of the Lord. The Lord said to me, “I am warring against this spirit right now.” There is a war, and the Lord is actively warring against the mind-blinding spirit. I believe He is saying over us: He’s bringing us back into peace and clarity. He’s bringing us back into oneness, into single-mindedness. It says in Matthew 6:22: “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy [single], your whole body will be full of light.” This reminds me of when Elisha’s servant was gripped by fear because he could not see what was really happening in the spirit. “Don’t be afraid,” the prophet answered. “Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” And Elisha prayed, “Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha (2 Kings 6:16–17). This is our prayer today: Lord, open our eyes! We must see what’s happening spiritually and naturally. We must stop interpreting life from the ground level and begin to see from the throne room. The blindfolds are being removed. The fog is lifting. It’s time to come out of earthly thinking. We are seated with Christ in heavenly places. Ephesians 2:6 says, “And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.” We are not victims of the news; we are the watchmen of the hour, the voices that declare from the heights what God is doing in the valleys. Right now, the Lord is delivering the Church. He’s going to use situations around us to deliver us from our own deception where we have partnered with the enemy, with the accuser, with fear, with compromise, with lukewarmness, and with false wisdom. So even now, if you’ve felt like you’ve come under torment, confusion, or compromise, if you feel the weight of heaviness, and it’s brought conflict or distance between you and the Lord, and the pure call on your life, reject it now. Renounce it. Tear up any vows or agreements you’ve made with it. Lay your hands upon your head and pray: “Lord, as an act of my will, I come out of double-mindedness. I repent for double-mindedness. Deliver me from witchcraft, from chatter, and from this mind-blinding spirit and its assignment. I rebuke it now in the mighty name of Jesus. I declare that my dreams will be restored. My visions will be restored. Revelation will be restored. I come back into sync with Heaven, with hope, and I will see clearly in the days ahead.” Because the real war, the real purpose behind this battle, is that the enemy knows if the Church is blind, we will be unable to see in this critical hour. We will be walking with blindfolds when we are called to see, declare, and prophesy what God is doing in the midst of so much unrest and chaos. We are the news, my friends. We are the beacons of hope, the bell ringers of a new day. No matter what’s going on in the world, we carry hope, strategy, and redemption. Step back into clarity and peace in the name of Jesus. “The god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” — 2 Corinthians 4:4

JULY IS THE MARKER - WE ARE ENTERING THE GREAT CONTRADICTION

By Nate Johnston • June 23, 2025
Christy and I have this saying: that after a day, a week, or a season of warfare, watch because suddenly the snake’s head is revealed. It’s happened like clockwork over the years, where after intense seasons of warfare, or even just a crazy day of warfare, like clockwork, the next day or in a short period of time, the snake’s head would be revealed. It might be that email that comes in, revealing what’s been spoken about you. It might be that intimidation, that threat. Whatever it may be, it’s the snake’s head revealing itself. And it reveals that the enemy has been warring against you. And why? I say that to get to this point. I believe we’ve been in a window of time of tests, trials, and warfare. When we stepped into January 2025, I felt it: it was going to be a faith test. It was going to be a test of whether I’d stick out my calling, stick to the plan, whether I would stay on mission, the one God gave me. Whether I would remain strong, or crumble and fall. Because you see, there’s been an attack against believers since January that has been on another level. And that attack has been designed to surround you on every single side until you crumble. It’s like when Jesus was led into the wilderness and had to battle in His mind, to combat the enemy’s tactics over and over. We’ve been in a season where the enemy’s been relentlessly trying to give us easy way outs, second options, off-ramps at every turn, trying to get us to back out of the call of God, choose the easy thing, or create Ishmaels along the way. Have you felt this? The warfare has been intense. The shadow has increased. The slander has increased. Robbery has come from every single side. Health issues. Bank accounts depleted. Doors shutting. It has been relentless. Yet at the same time, I believe God wants to see what we would do in this moment because He knows what’s coming. It’s been a Romans 8:18 moment, where we’ve seen a whole new level of pain, but it’s going to be followed by glory. So, what I want to share with you is what I believe God is doing from July onwards. In Luke 4:14, it says, “that after He came out of the wilderness, He returned in the power of the Spirit.” I believe that as we step into July, we’re about to see the glory revealed in the very areas where there’s been robbery. We’re about to see the glory revealed in the very places that were tests. We are coming out of that place. And you might be thinking, “Well, this doesn’t make sense. The world’s in chaos. Things are going crazy.” Yes, those things will continue. But I’m speaking to you as a believer about what God is doing in your life, and in the life of the Church. I believe we are entering a shift. A turning of the tide. I believe that starting in July, we’re turning a spiritual corner. For those who have said, “Okay, God, I’m not going to fight against You. I’m not going to resist this process, because in it, there’s protection. In it, You’ve been breaking me out of comforts, breaking me out of mindsets and mentalities I’ve carried, that only warfare could have confronted.” I believe we’re now beginning to see the glory that He has been wanting to reveal and showcase in our lives this whole time. I believe the next six months will be a strange contradiction. I believe in the next six months things will look wild and chaotic in the natural. We’re going to see things happen and erupt in the financial markets and on the world stage. Things will continue to intensify and look debilitating, even hopeless. Yet the strange contradiction will be this: somehow, you’ll feel like your role has flipped. Whereas before, you felt safer in the natural while everything was falling apart spiritually, now it’s like the reverse. You’ll feel an internal strength and clarity in the Spirit, even while the world’s systems shake around you. God is beginning to reveal Himself on your behalf. I believe we’re in a massive turnaround season for those who will reach out and say, “Yes, okay, God.” There is going to be a massive turnaround financially for the Church. We are entering into days where God is bringing in a billion-soul harvest. Things are ripening. Revival is breaking out in messy ways, but glorious ways. And in these next six months, the Lord is declaring over you: You’re turning a corner. You’re going to see the glory now. Where you’ve seen shaking, where you’ve seen suffering, you will now experience My goodness, My mercy, My favor. It’s the Psalm 23 moment where the Lord seats you at the table in the presence of your enemies and anoints your head with oil. So get ready, Body of Christ, because we are entering into the days of the great contradiction. The shaking will continue, but now it will begin to reveal the glory in your life. These are the days of leaving the wilderness endued with power. And just like I said at the beginning, watch for the snake’s head. Because in this moment, God is not just exposing it, He’s empowering you to crush it. The very thing that’s come after you is about to be under your feet. The warfare has been real, the pressure has been intense, but now comes the revealing. The snake’s head is exposed, and it will not have the final word. You will.