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THIS WEEK GOD IS SHATTERING CEILINGS, cutting RED TAPE, & CLEARING YOUR PATH!

nateandchristy2018

THIS WEEK GOD IS SHATTERING CEILINGS, cutting RED TAPE, & CLEARING YOUR PATH!

THIS WEEK GOD IS SHATTERING CEILINGS, cutting RED TAPE, & CLEARING YOUR PATH!

Can I prophesy over your week? In the last few days I have felt such a burning desire to partner with you in prayer to see your “stuck” places become places of movement. Many of us are "pioneering change" as I like to call it, and embarking on new adventures with God in the open seas but many are not feeling the joy and freedom of the open seas simply because we do feel "stuck". This Is one of the strategies of the enemy to frustrate you into giving up or settling for second best. I felt strongly to release this prophetic word and prayer over your week sharing some of the things God has been speaking to me about in the past few days that I know will be a “rhema” for your situation and bring breakthrough as you partner with the word of the Lord.

BREAK OPEN THE CEILING, THERE WILL BE NO MORE BRASSED HEAVENS!

In worship the other night I saw a vision of people surrounded by many obstacles that were closing in like walls an inch at a time, suddenly the roof broke open and the Lord said to me “I am shattering the ceilings many have felt like they are living under!” This has been a season that has felt like unrelenting pressure pressing on from every side, but in the middle of that God is going to bring breakthrough to you. I kept being reminded of the lame man from Luke 5 that was lowered through the roof so Jesus could heal Him. There will be OUT-OF-THE-BOX ways that God brings breakthrough to you in this season. It will be a left of field counter-move from heaven that will outsmart the enemy and bring SWIFT deliverance to your situation.

“There was no way in the natural I could break free from that?” many will say. “I was trapped and cornered!” Yet the Lord is coming to set you free from every enslaving spirit and intimidator at your doorstep. “I feel like God isn’t hearing me?” many are also saying as though the heavens are brassed and in a time of needed wisdom and strategy there seems to be a drought of directional revelation. God is shattering ALL ceilings that have tried to limit INTIMACY, REVELATION, & CLARITY. The assignment of the enemy was to keep you in bed but this is where you begin to see sudden breakthrough. Watch now as God does whatever necessary to bring you the breakthrough you need. You have felt lame but God is calling you to get back to your feet, you have felt trapped, but FREEDOM is coming to your house, your marriage, your finances, your relationships, your ministry and destiny!

"For as in the day of Midian's defeat, you have shattered the yoke that burdens them, the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor"

Isaiah 9:4

CUTTING THROUGH THE TAPE

At the end of last week I kept hearing the Lord say he was cutting through “red-tape” which refers to excessive regulation that hinders or prevents action or in simple it is the unnecessary delay of an outcome. I then asked the Lord how this was specifically affecting people and He said that there has been an assignment of delay sent against those who God was calling into new projects, new ministries, new businesses, and those relocating geographically. Many of these people have been experiencing an unusual slow pace to the process and have even begun to question it all. I also felt strongly that this also applied to those awaiting an outcome, a settlement, or for the finalisation and closure in situations. Let me prophesy - God is breaking through the bureaucracy and red-tape that has been delaying your launch into new ventures, places, and promise. Watch in the next week as intimidating and tedious obstacles move effortlessly. 

"Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: None of my words will be delayed any longer; whatever I say will be fulfilled, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

Ezekial 12:28

CLEARING THE MINE-FIELD

We were praying for friends who have been in a dire situation when suddenly the Lord began to show me a few things corporately. He reminded me that we were in the Hebrew year 5779 which represented among many things the year of both “birthing” and the exposing of the enemy. As I was thinking about this I went into a vision and saw a minefield stretched out before me and in the distance was a lush oasis which I knew was the promise God was leading us all to. Then suddenly the Lord moved His hand and all the mines began to come up out of the dirt and reveal themselves, so people were able to walk safely to the other-side. I asked the Lord what these mines were and He told me they were all distractions and diversions of the enemy. They were situations and messes that the enemy was tempting us into to cause the road to where we were going to be long and hazardous. They were assignments of the enemy to lure Gods people into situations so damaging it would be hard to recover from. This week God is exposing the plots sent to assassinate you before you even arrive at your destiny, but IT WILL NOT PROSPER! God is giving you greater discernment and insight to see what is hidden to derail you. I pray today that God is clearing the minefield and disarming all distractions in Jesus name!

Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted; propose your plan, but it will not stand, for God is with us.

Isaiah 8:10

EQUALLY YOKED OR YOU’LL CHOKE

Late last week I kept seeing umbrellas all day long. In the morning while I was driving I saw two people carrying umbrellas and it was sunny! “What is going on?” I thought, and sure enough all day I kept hearing or seeing the word umbrella, then the Lord spoke. “I am taking people out from oppressive coverings and alignments that have held them back”. Finally it made sense. Only days earlier a good friend of mine was saying how God is doing such a remarkable thing in many of our lives by bringing us into relationship with people that we are “equally yoked” with, and this stirred in my spirit as I have been talking about this for months now. Who you run with determines the speed by which you run, the timing, and the destination. If you are running with people who don’t know your heart it can cause you to miss what God wants to do in and through you. Many have been through an extended season of feeling so oppressed, squashed, and limited not even knowing that its simply the umbrella they are sitting under! It may snug and cozy, protective and safe, but its actually been a barrier to blessing and causing you to stay put and stagnate!  I pray that this week all expired and oppressive alignments will be exposed in Jesus name! Who the son sets free is free indeed!

RAISE A HALLELUJAH!

There will never be anyone who fights for you like our warrior King Jesus. His blood has purchased everything you could ever long for. His resurrection brought life to your bones and POWER instead of a defeated life. His ascension gave you permission to access heaven and legislate from the realm you belong to. Now filled with the Holy Spirit you are an unstoppable force! I say that because I feel like the Lord is stirring up a shout of VICTORY on the inside of you right now. Yes you have been surrounded but let your shout be the final say in unison with Jesus’ decree over your situation; “It is finished!” 

Just like Paul and Silas who released their praise that caused the prison doors to open, may this be a week you let out your hallelujah that shakes the earth beneath your feet shattering every obstacle and insubordinate situation to be removed in Jesus name! Stir up your strength! Stir up your victory! Stir up your hope, for the battle is not lost, the battle belongs to the Lord! 

 

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WE ARE IN A TIME OF TURNING TABLES & SETTING TABLES

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.

FOR THOSE FEELING THE SWIRL & STRETCH RIGHT NOW

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!! 

WE ARE IN A TIME OF TURNING TABLES & SETTING TABLES

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.

FOR THOSE FEELING THE SWIRL & STRETCH RIGHT NOW

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!! 

BIRTHING IN A WILDERNESS SEASON

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.

A KINGDOM HUB IS RISING IN ORANGE COUNTY!

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