THE FOURTH MAN IN THE FIRE
As I was praying over this week, I saw a clear vision of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego cast into the fiery furnace for standing for righteousness when King Nebuchadnezzar ordered them to bow, and they would not bow.
I feel this word is for the whole body of Christ right now, as many are going through personal struggles and battles.
But I believe that what I was seeing was even more specifically for those who are standing for righteousness in their nation, in a time of division, high tension, and where people are easily triggered.
The spirit of this age is raging, causing people to act in anger, to lash out at others, even within the body of Christ.
There is a remnant of people who’ve been standing for righteousness and standing on the word of the Lord, who’ve come under intense slander, attacks against their reputation, their future opportunities, and even their livelihoods.
Let me say this to you - Your stand for righteousness has caused a demonic surrounding warfare around you.
This whole year, you’ve been living in a constant state of backlash because you’ve stood for righteousness.
And it feels like, at this moment in time, you’ve been under so much pressure, so much intense scrutiny, surveillance, and warfare, that your mind, heart, and soul can hardly bear anymore.
It’s felt like you’ve been cast into the fire of judgment and adversity, with battles and opposition swirling around you on a personal level, not to mention what you feel in your own nation and community.
The war has been against your health.
It’s been against your finances.
It’s been against your relationships.
It’s been against every part of your life.
And you’re wondering, “God, what are you doing? Why am I suddenly in this place when I’ve stood for You? I’ve stood for righteousness.”
And the Lord says to you this week, I am the fourth man standing in the fire.
Let me say this again.
The Lord says, I am the fourth man standing in the fire.
I am the fourth man standing in the fire.
And you will walk out of this not even smelling like smoke.
For those who put Me first above man, for those who have not bowed to Baal, I will deliver, and I will bring recompense, says the Lord.
Stand and watch My deliverance.
Even in the next few months, when it looks impossible, even if your future looks bleak—but I will rescue you from that which has been after you, says the Lord.
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By Nate Johnston
•
May 19, 2025
For so long the only tables to sit at came with control, compromise, and oppression, and the cost was greater than we knew. It shut you down. It put a cap on your calling and a limit switch on your voice. But worst of all - it opened doors in your life that have taken years to close and stole your fire and oil. But you left those tables so God could flip them, and He is right now even if it looks slow. He is overturning what has become muddy and diseased and removing their lamp stand and giving it to another. But God has been flipping something inside you too - the beggar mentality that constantly led you to false fathers, false belonging, false kingdoms, and drinking at poisoned wells. No more hanging out by the swamps when you were called to be in the RIVER! But watch how out of this God is setting new kingdom tables of health and purity. Tables where the rejected come and are healed and restored. Tables where the voice of the Lord is released again in purity where the round tables of the past put Jezebel at the head. And she turned it into a pig pen in the name of the Lord. Those days are over. But I know that many are in grief. We don’t want green rooms and to be in the who’s who, we just want family and belonging. But God is setting you a table and pouring fresh oil over your head in front of those who used and despised you. And I prophesy that SUDDENLY you will come into a family and a safe place where you can get healed up and have your arms lifted up. For right now God is setting many new tables around the world that come with no strings attached. Apostolic safe houses and hospitals that are also launching pads. Places where the spirit of Saul cannot be found and no lions are lying in wait to crush your passion and hijack your movement. But places where you put your roots down deep and grow without fear. For the Lord says today It’s time to be watered and it’s time to flower again after being in survival and defense mode. But in this next season you won’t need to defend what I have given to you or have to keep hiding it out of fear of being robbed or squashed. But I am leading you into a family where it will be celebrated and surrounded by those carrying similar callings it will finally take root, grow, and flourish without the weeds you have had to deal with in the past. And you will find rest again and not have to move and constantly feel uprooted and feeling like a leaf in the wind. No, watch now as I bring you into a season of establishing and belonging, says the Lord. And to those who’ve felt the call not just to walk away from broken tables but to set new ones: this is your moment. We aren’t just here to flip what’s toxic we’re here to build what’s holy. We’re not just called to call out dysfunction we’re called to model something pure. Something healthy. But the days of hiding are over. The isolation, the wandering, the wondering if you’ll ever find your people is breaking. There’s been a shift. Healthy tables are rising, and you’re not just invited, you’re called to help set them. Tables where voices are restored. Where oil flows. Where family is real and the fire never goes out. “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.” — Psalm 23:5 Even this week, I prophesy that God is beginning to pluck you out of isolation and disconnection. You’ll feel the shift—even if it’s uncomfortable—because it’s time. He’s leading you out of survival mode and into divine connection with those who carry the same DNA and heart. The birth pangs have gone out and the hidden remnant is being called out of the caves and into the company of the called. Just like Acts 2, upper rooms are forming again. Spaces of fire. Family. Outpouring. Let’s build it together.
By Nate Johnston
•
May 16, 2025
God is peeling back another layer of the onion right now... That’s right. Not because He didn’t heal you the first time but because there’s greater levels of freedom to explore. You are still learning what the blood did to set you free because sometimes what you saw and walked through preaches loud and it needs to be kicked out of your head. Especially if you grew up around narcissism and extreme dysfunction and abuse. You have been made clean but your head needs reminding. Triggers can still happen. So the enemy looks for landing pads and entry points of agreement. Did God really set me free? Because you see the fruit that is unexplainable, but in vulnerable moments you feel like a failure. And right now the deeply uncomfortable shaking is not God exposing you but He is addressing truth to cancel the lies hiding in the cracks of thoughts and mindsets. It’s the Father reintroducing Himself to you in places you have avoided and releasing the power of the Spirit to redeem painful moments and memories. Why? Because you are stepping out of frustrating limitations and cycles that will keep robbing you beyond this point. That’s why you are wrestling. What you are feeling is not just a SHIFT moment but a STRETCH! It’s where the Holy Spirit puts pressure on the inside of you to increase your capacity and prepare you for the MORE He called you to be. It’s where He pulls you up higher in a moment and in the natural it looks like you are suddenly missing the mark because you now have room to grow and shoes to fill. It reveals the shortfalls, pitfalls, and blind spots. But it’s only growth. Not failure. It’s the fruit of healing and saying yes. But yes, at first it feels like pressure on all sides and God confronting limiting mindsets and old things trying to sneak into your new chapter. And right now many pioneers are trying to figure out their next steps but at first this is what it looks like. Heart process. Then the waiting suddenly begins to turn into the emerging but with it comes the INNER OVERHAUL and adjustment to the light outside of the cocoon of the past season. But know this - this is not to harm you but to get you ready. The enemy spent so long in the last 5 years squashing your confidence and passion that you keep interpreting this moment as assault when it’s you leaving the wilderness and seclusion and being brought into a wide open space of dreaming again. It’s you letting go of the pauper and becoming a general. It’s you coming out from under the table begging for scraps and sitting at the feast. It’s you breaking past constantly being broke, broken, and attacked. It’s tiring to live that way and it’s draining time meant to be dreaming and slaying giants. And today the Lord needs you to know that this stretch is not to add pressure to you but to CUT YOU LOOSE! This is a balm of gilead moment where God doesn’t want to bandaid you up, He wants the balm to go deep and make you whole for the days ahead. Fortify you. Make you bulletproof against the enemies schemes and constant arrows you have had every single day of your life. He is shifting something generationally and that’s why it feels so deep. It’s a marking moment and it’s designed with only freedom in mind. And I’m here to prophesy not over you, but to you.. Like the prophet Gad said to David when he was in the cave of Addullum feeling beat up and worn down.. “Leave the stronghold!” “Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah.” - 1 Samuel 22:5 It’s time for you to GET OUT OF THE CYCLE you have been in! It’s time to leave the going around the mountain! And right now God is leading you out! The things coming to the surface right now is the dysfunction LEAVING! And I prophesy come out from the discouragement and swirl the enemy has sent to you right now to lie to you about where you are at and your circumstances. I prophesy you are not going backwards. You are increasing. You are not falling behind. You are advancing. And this uncovering and nakedness you feel is only the uncovering and exposing of the demonic assignments that have been robbing you your whole life and siphoning off your joy! Now today Lord I am asking you show them a sign of your goodwill and evident favor. Reveal to them the future and a hope you have for them. Because the tide has shifted over your life so don’t let the enemy lie to you for another moment. Now, you prophesy with me: I am coming out of the dysfunction! I'm coming out of the cycles! I’m coming out of victim hood. Out of the swirl. Out of the limited mindsets and generation swamp I was handed, and i am coming into wholeness where attack and triggering no longer affects me or even shows up on my radar. Starting today my family are stepping out of feeling lost, under fire, and broken and starting our legacy as a set apart new bloodline holy priesthood family marked by the Holy Ghost and branded with destiny and to set captives free in Jesus name!!
By Nate Johnston
•
May 19, 2025
For so long the only tables to sit at came with control, compromise, and oppression, and the cost was greater than we knew. It shut you down. It put a cap on your calling and a limit switch on your voice. But worst of all - it opened doors in your life that have taken years to close and stole your fire and oil. But you left those tables so God could flip them, and He is right now even if it looks slow. He is overturning what has become muddy and diseased and removing their lamp stand and giving it to another. But God has been flipping something inside you too - the beggar mentality that constantly led you to false fathers, false belonging, false kingdoms, and drinking at poisoned wells. No more hanging out by the swamps when you were called to be in the RIVER! But watch how out of this God is setting new kingdom tables of health and purity. Tables where the rejected come and are healed and restored. Tables where the voice of the Lord is released again in purity where the round tables of the past put Jezebel at the head. And she turned it into a pig pen in the name of the Lord. Those days are over. But I know that many are in grief. We don’t want green rooms and to be in the who’s who, we just want family and belonging. But God is setting you a table and pouring fresh oil over your head in front of those who used and despised you. And I prophesy that SUDDENLY you will come into a family and a safe place where you can get healed up and have your arms lifted up. For right now God is setting many new tables around the world that come with no strings attached. Apostolic safe houses and hospitals that are also launching pads. Places where the spirit of Saul cannot be found and no lions are lying in wait to crush your passion and hijack your movement. But places where you put your roots down deep and grow without fear. For the Lord says today It’s time to be watered and it’s time to flower again after being in survival and defense mode. But in this next season you won’t need to defend what I have given to you or have to keep hiding it out of fear of being robbed or squashed. But I am leading you into a family where it will be celebrated and surrounded by those carrying similar callings it will finally take root, grow, and flourish without the weeds you have had to deal with in the past. And you will find rest again and not have to move and constantly feel uprooted and feeling like a leaf in the wind. No, watch now as I bring you into a season of establishing and belonging, says the Lord. And to those who’ve felt the call not just to walk away from broken tables but to set new ones: this is your moment. We aren’t just here to flip what’s toxic we’re here to build what’s holy. We’re not just called to call out dysfunction we’re called to model something pure. Something healthy. But the days of hiding are over. The isolation, the wandering, the wondering if you’ll ever find your people is breaking. There’s been a shift. Healthy tables are rising, and you’re not just invited, you’re called to help set them. Tables where voices are restored. Where oil flows. Where family is real and the fire never goes out. “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.” — Psalm 23:5 Even this week, I prophesy that God is beginning to pluck you out of isolation and disconnection. You’ll feel the shift—even if it’s uncomfortable—because it’s time. He’s leading you out of survival mode and into divine connection with those who carry the same DNA and heart. The birth pangs have gone out and the hidden remnant is being called out of the caves and into the company of the called. Just like Acts 2, upper rooms are forming again. Spaces of fire. Family. Outpouring. Let’s build it together.
By Nate Johnston
•
May 16, 2025
God is peeling back another layer of the onion right now... That’s right. Not because He didn’t heal you the first time but because there’s greater levels of freedom to explore. You are still learning what the blood did to set you free because sometimes what you saw and walked through preaches loud and it needs to be kicked out of your head. Especially if you grew up around narcissism and extreme dysfunction and abuse. You have been made clean but your head needs reminding. Triggers can still happen. So the enemy looks for landing pads and entry points of agreement. Did God really set me free? Because you see the fruit that is unexplainable, but in vulnerable moments you feel like a failure. And right now the deeply uncomfortable shaking is not God exposing you but He is addressing truth to cancel the lies hiding in the cracks of thoughts and mindsets. It’s the Father reintroducing Himself to you in places you have avoided and releasing the power of the Spirit to redeem painful moments and memories. Why? Because you are stepping out of frustrating limitations and cycles that will keep robbing you beyond this point. That’s why you are wrestling. What you are feeling is not just a SHIFT moment but a STRETCH! It’s where the Holy Spirit puts pressure on the inside of you to increase your capacity and prepare you for the MORE He called you to be. It’s where He pulls you up higher in a moment and in the natural it looks like you are suddenly missing the mark because you now have room to grow and shoes to fill. It reveals the shortfalls, pitfalls, and blind spots. But it’s only growth. Not failure. It’s the fruit of healing and saying yes. But yes, at first it feels like pressure on all sides and God confronting limiting mindsets and old things trying to sneak into your new chapter. And right now many pioneers are trying to figure out their next steps but at first this is what it looks like. Heart process. Then the waiting suddenly begins to turn into the emerging but with it comes the INNER OVERHAUL and adjustment to the light outside of the cocoon of the past season. But know this - this is not to harm you but to get you ready. The enemy spent so long in the last 5 years squashing your confidence and passion that you keep interpreting this moment as assault when it’s you leaving the wilderness and seclusion and being brought into a wide open space of dreaming again. It’s you letting go of the pauper and becoming a general. It’s you coming out from under the table begging for scraps and sitting at the feast. It’s you breaking past constantly being broke, broken, and attacked. It’s tiring to live that way and it’s draining time meant to be dreaming and slaying giants. And today the Lord needs you to know that this stretch is not to add pressure to you but to CUT YOU LOOSE! This is a balm of gilead moment where God doesn’t want to bandaid you up, He wants the balm to go deep and make you whole for the days ahead. Fortify you. Make you bulletproof against the enemies schemes and constant arrows you have had every single day of your life. He is shifting something generationally and that’s why it feels so deep. It’s a marking moment and it’s designed with only freedom in mind. And I’m here to prophesy not over you, but to you.. Like the prophet Gad said to David when he was in the cave of Addullum feeling beat up and worn down.. “Leave the stronghold!” “Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah.” - 1 Samuel 22:5 It’s time for you to GET OUT OF THE CYCLE you have been in! It’s time to leave the going around the mountain! And right now God is leading you out! The things coming to the surface right now is the dysfunction LEAVING! And I prophesy come out from the discouragement and swirl the enemy has sent to you right now to lie to you about where you are at and your circumstances. I prophesy you are not going backwards. You are increasing. You are not falling behind. You are advancing. And this uncovering and nakedness you feel is only the uncovering and exposing of the demonic assignments that have been robbing you your whole life and siphoning off your joy! Now today Lord I am asking you show them a sign of your goodwill and evident favor. Reveal to them the future and a hope you have for them. Because the tide has shifted over your life so don’t let the enemy lie to you for another moment. Now, you prophesy with me: I am coming out of the dysfunction! I'm coming out of the cycles! I’m coming out of victim hood. Out of the swirl. Out of the limited mindsets and generation swamp I was handed, and i am coming into wholeness where attack and triggering no longer affects me or even shows up on my radar. Starting today my family are stepping out of feeling lost, under fire, and broken and starting our legacy as a set apart new bloodline holy priesthood family marked by the Holy Ghost and branded with destiny and to set captives free in Jesus name!!
By Nate Johnston
•
May 15, 2025
I have spoken about this topic alot lately, but I feel to encourage you again today... 10 years ago we birthed in a wilderness. I had nonstop calls from old friends saying it was illegitimate. It was uncovered. It was rebellion. I honestly believed them. I had never felt more isolated and alone. We were out of community at the time. Our old church friends would run a mile when they saw us at the mall. Just because we chose to step into our calling.. I wrestled it more nights than I can count. Kept trying to give it back to God and created so many excuses of why I should just let it all go and fall back in line. But as much as my head was telling me I was in error, my spirit was burning and the Father kept saying “Keep going, I have led you this way!” I could feel his delight in the midst of so much internal battle and daily messages and judgement. And I decided that was enough. We kept going. Then fruit started erupting. Yes, it was like streams in the desert. A wasteland season by religious standards was our personal revival. I can’t even tell you how much of a mental battle that season was though. I was unlearning while I was leaning into the voice of the Lord. The pressure was on all sides and the Jezebel spirit kept flaring up around us to make us cave in and shut up but we decided we have tolerated that long enough. And ten years later, it feels Iike another wilderness birthing season. But this time it’s not just us, but many. It’s grassroots. Building from the secret place up. It’s where you look around and see a wilderness but yet you also feel a fresh wind blowing. And while you could go with your head and wait til the weather changes and conditions feel more right and you have all the things in place, God says “NOW…” And as in writing this I keep feeling the grief of some of you reading this who have come to this moment many times before but fear and pressure around you has made you forfeit it over and over. It’s the grief of feeling like you missed it on one hand and also the grief of knowing if you choose it you will be letting go of the familiar. And right now the giants in the land are screaming loudly at you and telling you to sit down and shut up. “Get back to your seat!” They say. That’s the mental torment you have been feeling. It makes you feel double minded. But you know what breaks it? Saying yes even when it doesn’t make sense… John’s voice cried out in the wilderness and a movement was birthed. The battle has been so intense because the enemy knows that if you step into this it will turn not just your wilderness into a garden, but it will bring so many right now who are lost into a super bloom. It doesn’t add up. But it’s just what God does. So if this is you today, stop fighting it and giving God all the reasons you can’t. You weren’t created for the Gucci ministry model, you are called to the messy… And watch God do what you have been trying to do but has failed in your own strength and your own methods. Watch him take the ashes of your striving and trying to fit a honey and locust vision into a white-washed tomb, and use it to confound the wise. So today I prophesy - no more wandering confused and conflicted. It’s time for you to see the fruit of radical obedience and placing the fear of man on the altar. No more barrenness and feeling like a cursed fig tree. For you will feel a fresh wind and anointing to step into Gods plan for your life and the weighty mantle and call ONLY YOU can wear in Jesus name.
By Nate Johnston
•
May 13, 2025
What if Orange County became a sending ground for revival? That's what we believe God is building and we want to invite you into it. We're establishing an apostolic hub in Orange County. Not a church service. Not a ministry brand. But a KINGDOM GREENHOUSE designed to train, heal, equip, and send. Think of it like an air traffic control tower: helping people hear clearly from God, align with their assignments, and land on the right runways, churches, cities, ministries, nations. This is for the leaders, intercessors, creatives, and reformers who are asking, “Where do I fit in this new move of God?” We're building on Ephesians 4:11–13 , apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers working together to equip the saints for ministry and maturity. What's Next? We're preparing to launch the foundation of this hub by: • Rallying the hungry • Equipping the Church • Calling out reformers • And inviting pioneers to build with us But we can't do this alone… WE'RE ASKING FOR TWO THINGS AS WE TAKE THIS BOLD STEP: 1. Prayer – for protection, provision, and clarity. 2. Financial Partnership – one-time or monthly partnerships, every seed helps us build. Would you pray about joining us either in intercession, generosity, or both? Click below to read more and give! Thank you for linking arms with us as we contend for a new wineskin in this hour. With hearts burning, Nate + Christy
