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TIME’S UP! NO LONGER WILL YOU FIGHT IN THE TRENCHES, BUT YOU WILL THUNDER FROM THE HEAVENS!

nateandchristy2018

TIME’S UP! NO LONGER WILL YOU FIGHT IN THE TRENCHES, BUT YOU WILL THUNDER FROM THE HEAVENS!

TIME’S UP! NO LONGER WILL YOU FIGHT IN THE TRENCHES, BUT YOU WILL THUNDER FROM THE HEAVENS!

This is an hour that God is calling the body of Christ up out of the trenches of defeat. We have exited Egypt and are crossing over into new territory that is unlike anything we have ever seen or have experienced but there has been MAJOR turbulence in the crossing and opposition at the threshold. Many have been deep in the trenches for an extended season and needing refreshing and fresh perspective.

As I write this word I’m feeling the strong weighty glory of God upon me and I pray you feel it too. Receive it! I pray this word is not just information or stories to you but becomes burning revelation that marks you deeply and an invitation into your own encounters with Jesus. I pray you will be encouraged that you are not alone in this and that you’ll discover the deeper riches of your inheritance that causes you to see with new eyes and causes your heart to soar in Jesus name! 

THE SHOWDOWN AT THE CROSSING

“Why am I constantly fighting Lord?” I have said for years now. Ever since we entered the Jewish new year 5777 there was a commission to take dominion and territory from the enemy. It has been the “seeing” season of the church realizing more and more what we are meant to possess. The battle and fight increased and many have been warring for their promise and new legacy and acquiring it at a rapid rate. The church has been awakening. We are no longer the slaves of an evil tyrant master, blind and unaware of the kingdom at our disposal. No, we have awoken. 

But the battle has increased. It hasn’t felt like lower level warfare anymore but it’s been an all-out war to assassinate the rising sons and daughters that are crossing over. This always happens at the crossing. It’s the enemy’s last attempt to take you out before your destiny moment. It’s been a war against marriages, homes, children, dreams, relationships, ministries, and callings. It’s been so intense many have stood at the crossover wanting to give up because the battle has been so great. Can you relate? 

Recently as we were facing some intense opposition the Lord reminded me of Jacob who at his crossover place(the Jabbok brook) fought an angel of the Lord until daybreak. At the end of the long night, Jacob said “I’m not letting go til you bless me!” and the angel said, “because you have fought God and man and overcome, your name is now Israel”. At that moment his legacy of striving and fighting changed. Can’t you see it? This is your greatest showdown but you aren’t walking away empty-handed from this fight. It feels like all your chips are in the middle and it’s make or break but YOUR LEGACY IS CHANGING! Don’t give up now! 

THE THIEF & THE CLOCK

It was a crazy night. Both my children woke up crying from nightmares and I was on the warpath, walking up and down the hallway in prayer before bed, then I had a dream too. In the dream I heard a noise in the house like someone trying to break in. I would hear a bedroom window being pounded or being smashed in then I would run to where I heard the noise to find no one there. Then I hear it again in another room and run there and again, no one was there. In the dream it seemed to go on for so long that I was exhausted to the point I felt tired and even tormented by the endless stress. Then finally I came to my bedroom window to find it wide open. Sitting on the window was a ticking clock whose alarm suddenly began to chime loudly and I woke up. 

When I woke up it was still dark and my instant reaction was to walk around the house and check that all the windows were closed and locked. Just being honest -  I did this for half an hour taking the dream as literal before I asked the Lord “Ok what are you saying?”

Then the Lord said something very clear; TIME IS UP!”

“The time is up for my people being robbed and pillaged for lack of knowledge. For not knowing who they are and the power that flows through them. I am declaring that the TIME IS UP of my church being robbed and powerless, battered and bruised, defenseless and defeated!”

“Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house” Proverbs 6:31

God has declared war on the thief stealing from you any longer. He is putting a zero tolerance on the plans of the enemy and ushering in a season of repayment for every wrong that has come against you. Those two always go hand in hand. God is prophesying over your life and situation today that the TIME IS UP of being continually bullied and thieved from entering into your promise and dreams fulfilled! This is also a season that marks the fulfilment of time for us fighting in “our own” strength. We have not fully understood or seen the full manifestation of power available to combat the enemy so we have been blindly swinging our swords in the darkness. This is changing. 

A BATTERED BRIDE

The next day the Lord woke me up again to speak to me and I felt such a heavy burden on his heart for the battered bride. The church that has become so accustomed to being powerless that they no longer fought but had laid their swords down. This was the broken and battered bride that had accepted they would no longer be victorious. They were happy to read about theoretical victory and sing songs of power and resurrection but because they hadn’t seen it had camped around defeat and doubt. The Lord called it “the poison of the Philistines”, that is buying the lie that obstacles are unconquerable. 

In this season many mighty ones have slowly become poisoned against faith and power and have been increasingly swayed by the Goliath of culture and pressure to adapt to the giants of our day Instead of realising we are alive to be a change in that very area. 

Pastors and leaders, don’t bend just because you haven’t seen a win in your city’s culture yet. Prophets don’t let fear rob you anymore and cause you to write diluted, weak words. Has warfare become the lens you see kingdom through or do you still live from victory? God is pulling you out of the mud and stench of the trenches right now and replacing mindsets of hopelessness for triumph! It’s a new day! 

FOLLOW ME UP!

Three days ago I had an encounter with Jesus as I was worshiping and I’ve been wrecked ever since. In this encounter, I was having a vision that felt real, like I was in it. I was standing on a side of a large hillside and looking up a mountain in front me. It was green and beautiful and reminded me of the Scottish highlands. Jesus then appeared in front me. Not Jesus in a traditional robe Jesus. Jesus in jeans and shirt with his long hair tied back Jesus. He looks at me and my heart is undone with his big smile and he says excitedly “Come on! Follow me!”. We begin to scale the side of this hill together and he is fast and fit. He is laughing and singing and I feel like I’m witnessing the happiest and freest person I have ever met. That alone was hard to deal with. It confronted me deeply. 

Then the strangest thing happened. As I continued to follow Him I began to hear scriptures like 1 Peter 5:7 and Philippians 4:6-7. The higher I went I began to feel like burdens and weight were falling away from me and I was laughing like Jesus! 

THE POWERLESS ARROWS

Then we came to a clearing. We were pretty high up at this stage but we would still see down. As I looked I could see that far down were angry people like an army yelling but I couldn’t quite hear them more than a bunch of faint whispers on the wind. But they were also shooting arrows at us and I was a bit concerned they would get us. Then Jesus sensing what I was thinking walks over calmly and grabs an arrow from the sky. It wasn’t until that moment that I realized that we were so high up that these arrows had lost their velocity by the time they came close to us! Jesus held it out to me and just laughed almost unimpressed by their attempts. It reminded me of the scripture that says;

“The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them” Psalm 2:4

FROM GLORY TO GLORY

Shortly after a large thick cloud began to descend upon us and were standing there in the cloud of Gods glory now unable to see down to the ground and those below were unable to see us! His Glory is our defense and as we ascend higher into His presence we become untouchable! 

The glory in this encounter can’t be understated. I have experienced the Glory of God many times in my life and I treasure them all, but this felt different. It felt like I could no longer or at least no longer wanted to leave that atmosphere. The air was clear. 

I started seeing creativity, color, blueprints, and solutions. This cloud was the manifest presence of God but it was also the very realm of Gods intentionality for mankind. It is our lost inheritance for it says that “all have sinned and fallen short of the “glory” but through the blood of Jesus we now have access and have been restored back into glory. In the beauty and wonder of His splendor, my mind began to revelate effortlessly and my thinking was clear and sharp. 

My spirit kept saying over and over “we go from Glory to Glory” and I was reminded of 2 Corinthians 3 where Paul speaks about the greater glory of the new covenant. The greater glory of the new covenant is the glory that comes from being in union with Jesus and hidden IN Him. He is our ultimate defense and our wrap around shield from every arrow and attack of the enemy. Jesus has not only given us access to live above the arrows but he has given us access to the limitless realm of Gods arsenal and protection to constantly soar above any storm we face. 

My heart cry in that moment was “Lord how do we live here as continually rather than just have moments in your glory?”

THE CLOUD-THUNDERERS

The next and final part to this encounter affected me the most probably because I was able to witness the interaction of Jesus with the Father. As we walked up to the highest pinnacle of the mountain Jesus stood there in conversation with someone I couldn’t see. I knew it was the Father. I could feel His heart for me. Then Jesus leaned in as if hearing a secret then leant down facing the ground and released a sound but what came out sounded like thunder and lighting. Then this scriptures came to mind;

“After it, a voice roars; He thunders with His majestic voice, And He does not restrain the lightnings when His voice is heard. "God thunders with His voice wondrously, Doing great things which we cannot comprehend” Job 37:4-5

Instantly I knew that the earth below was being affected by whatever just happened. The thunder and Lightning’s of his voice were calling things into alignment and bringing judgement and ruin to principalities and powers below. 

My vision ended there but I was so greatly stirred. What if God is commissioning us as cloud thunderers? Who will be those ones? Who will be those who are willing to ascend the mountain of the Lord and dwell in his cloud and hear his heart then thunder it into the earth? 

What if the the call to the church in this hour was to not just have moments in His glory for instance when we are in a great church service and the temperature is up, but learning to live from Mt Zion as a lifestyle. What if we learnt to never leave that altitude? What would happen as a corporate church if that became our norm? How would that affect homes, communities, cities and nations? 

“A warrior filled with wisdom ascends into the high place and releases regional breakthrough, bringing down the strongholds of the mighty” Proverbs 21:22

HEAVEN RAIDED & THE SOUND OF TESTIMONY 

As I was processing this more with the Lord I couldn’t shake the sound I heard from the mountain. It felt more than just a single moment or act. It was a new sound being released into the earth. It was the sound of testimony according to Revelation 12:11;

“They triumphed(overcome) over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death”

This is a season of OVERCOMING!

People are beginning to discover the sound that comes forth as they are leaving their long and weary seasons in the battlefield. They are standing to their feet and releasing such a shout that is not just sending demons running but is realigning what is out of alignment and calling things out of darkness into the light. It’s the sound that comes forth as sons and daughters are unveiled to the truth of who they are and what they really have access to. 

We are entering a season where God is bringing exposure to false security and identity that has been keeping people bound and fire-less. We are going to see a new wave of heaven being raided as people once living in bondage and under lies are suddenly awoken to their identity in Christ. We are going to see people shake off their prison clothes and old war armour step onto their righteousness and begin to live “seated in Christ in heavenly places”

The roar of breakthrough stories filling the earth is going be like a grand symphony that will make the enemies chatter and noise futile. That is you and I! That is the time we are living in right now! God is stirring up your song, your testimony, your shout in this hour!

THE CALL HIGHER ABOVE THE STORM

Something is shifting right now in the heavens. Your greatest showdown, your seasons of fighting and persistently pressing forward through opposition, demonic assignments, witchcraft, and mind wars and attack haven’t been in vain. Your spiritual muscles have been built up, but now the Lord is revealing a better tactic for a rising victorious church. It is to come up higher above the storm and live from heaven. God is inviting you and I to live from victory and watch as He FLIPS THE SCRIPT on every powerless circumstance you lay your eyes upon. 

I prophesy that your history of hangups is being turned into HOPE fulfilled, and your story of woe is turning into your testimony of WOAH that is going to UNLOCK the prison doors and set people, families, and regions free. This is the season you are coming up higher and learning how to wield your sword with ease and use your mouth to CREATE as you thunder from the heavens. 

“Now he moves Zion’s mountains by the might of his voice, shaking the snowy peaks with his earsplitting sound! The lightning-fire flashes, striking as he speaks. This is the one who gives his strength and might to his people. This is the Lord giving us his kiss of peace” Psalm 29:6, 7, 11

WARFARE KEYS FOR THIS SEASON

  • Remember you don’t fight people. This is never about a person but a spirit. Don’t get caught talking trench gossip - this will only keep you stuck.
  • Armor up where you need it most. If your mind is under fire, then spend more time speaking the word (truth) over your mind. 
  • Don’t sell out for second best. There will always be sneaky trade posts and temptations moments before the breakthrough. Be wise and discerning. 
  • Break out of the victim role. Easier said than done but many of us need to detox from the war zone. This will happen naturally as you are intentional to leave the trenches.
  • Talk to Jesus and involve Him in your journey. The good, the bad, the really hard moments. This will set you up for some amazing encounters. 
  • ASCEND! Worship and begin to explore the other realm you have citizenship to. You are seated in Christ in the heavens, and no it’s not some kooky place super-spiritual people go to on lunch break. It’s a place you and I are designed to interact with so we can be earthly good! 
  • Become reacquainted with what God says about you and how awesome you are. Identity and worth are almost always half of the battle. If the enemy can get you focussed on how unworthy and useless you are, you are no longer climbing, you are descending. 
  • Pick up your sword again and start seeing yourself as victorious. Stop going into battle already anticipating defeat. That may have been your past but it isn’t your future. 
  • Prophesy more, declare more, speak, yell, shout, THUNDER more in this season. Put your whisper on the bench and stir up your voice and begin to get territorial about the promise in your hands. 
  • AND DON'T GIVE UP!

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By Nate Johnston February 21, 2025
Last night I had an intercessory dream where I began to say "Lord, bring them out. Bring them out of the wilderness! Lord, bring them out. Bring them out of the wilderness! God, bring out the wild ones who have been in hiding. Bring out those who have been in death, those who feel like it's all over for them. Those who have been counted out, those who have been assassinated, those who have been robbed, plundered, and destroyed. God, bring out those who feel like they are being decommissioned. Bring out those who feel unclean. Bring out those who feel cast out and rejected from the church. Bring out those who have been silenced, muzzled, and voiceless, God, and anoint them! Put hot coals on their tongues!" Suddenly, the scripture Luke 4:14 came before me - “He came out of the wilderness in the power of the Spirit." And I knew in my spirit that this intercession was for the changing of the guard, for those who feel disqualified and broken because of what they’ve walked through, for those who feel like they’ve lost their anointing and strength, like Samson after his hair was cut. Then I continued to pray: "God, bring them out. Bring out the Nazarites! Bring out the new watchmen on the walls for the nations. Bring out the prophets and the intercessors, the apostles, the evangelists, those who have been in hiding, bring them out!" And I felt the Lord say that it was time for these hidden ones to come out of their season of wilderness warfare and torment, and they were going to come out with a fresh, hot coal on their tongues, to speak a fresh word of the Lord into this current moment in time. Suddenly, the dream shifted, and I began to hear the intercession of the saints. I could hear the tongues - a mighty roar rising from a generation that had been silenced and quenched for so long. I began to feel the birth pangs of the nations coming to a finality - a tipping point. This intercession felt like the midwife prayers of an impending birth of the nations in the earth. It was a prayer over the church, calling her to become the pure, spotless bride she was meant to be. I could feel the intercession of agreement with long forgotten words spoken over nations, cities, and regions, for revival, for reformation, for Jesus to be revealed in the earth. Then I began to cry out: "Lord, come! Lord Jesus, come!" Then suddenly, the prayers of the saints rose up in unity, crying out together: "Yes, Lord Jesus! Come, Lord Jesus, come!" I believe i had this dream because God is raising up a battlecry from the John the baptist, wilderness voices that are coming out of hiding to take thier post as the watchman of the hour and the fresh sound in the earth declaring “Prepare ye the ay of the Lord! So to the wilderness voices, maybe you’re feeling this. Maybe you've been through a season of robbery and wilderness - a season where it feels like you've been removed from your calling. But this is the season where God is bringing you back! He is placing a hot coal on your tongue! So if that is you today, I want to speak and prophesy over you: The hot coals are coming. You're about to feel a fresh unction. You're about to feel a fresh flow. And out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water in Jesus’ mighty name!
By Nate Johnston February 21, 2025
While the nations are in the pangs of birth right now, upheaval, chaos, and major transition, so is the church and so are you... True revival requires messy. It’s the oxen in the stable that disrupts man’s tidy plans that exclude the move of the Spirit, and shatters the veils of culture’s desensitization. And you are there right now. In the messiest of messy seasons, not because you failed but because you ASKED FOR IT. You cried out for breakthrough. You cried out for restoration. You cried out for the more of the Lord. Messy personal revival upsets the rhythms of your life that are no longer moving you forward but instead are keeping you stuck. Messy revival breaks ties and contracts and bondages you have been under that have been putting a ceiling over you and quenching your fire. Messy revival exposes the snakes in the grass and the places of robbery that have been depleting you and shifting your focus. Messy revival moves you out of limiting environments and causes you to long for wide open fields again. Messy revival brings a discontent for any sliver of complacency and religion you have tolerated. Messy revival brings death to everything in your life that is an obstruction to the “greater” God is wanting to pour out. Messy revival confronts and administers healing balm to places to deep seated trauma and pain keeping you in “medication” mode and staying in your sick bed. Messy revival redirects, corrects your steps, recalibrates, and sets your feet on the right path. Messy revival opens your eyes to where you have even in survival mode and going through the motions. Because messy revival comes primarily to set you on fire so you BURN again after years of warfare and walking through endless battlefields. And messy revival is here because God knows who you really are and what you are called to step into in this new season. It re-mantles you, leads you to surrender old manna and burn the old plow, renews your youth like the eagles, and restores the joy of your salvation. Do you feel it?
By Nate Johnston February 21, 2025
Last night I had an intercessory dream where I began to say "Lord, bring them out. Bring them out of the wilderness! Lord, bring them out. Bring them out of the wilderness! God, bring out the wild ones who have been in hiding. Bring out those who have been in death, those who feel like it's all over for them. Those who have been counted out, those who have been assassinated, those who have been robbed, plundered, and destroyed. God, bring out those who feel like they are being decommissioned. Bring out those who feel unclean. Bring out those who feel cast out and rejected from the church. Bring out those who have been silenced, muzzled, and voiceless, God, and anoint them! Put hot coals on their tongues!" Suddenly, the scripture Luke 4:14 came before me - “He came out of the wilderness in the power of the Spirit." And I knew in my spirit that this intercession was for the changing of the guard, for those who feel disqualified and broken because of what they’ve walked through, for those who feel like they’ve lost their anointing and strength, like Samson after his hair was cut. Then I continued to pray: "God, bring them out. Bring out the Nazarites! Bring out the new watchmen on the walls for the nations. Bring out the prophets and the intercessors, the apostles, the evangelists, those who have been in hiding, bring them out!" And I felt the Lord say that it was time for these hidden ones to come out of their season of wilderness warfare and torment, and they were going to come out with a fresh, hot coal on their tongues, to speak a fresh word of the Lord into this current moment in time. Suddenly, the dream shifted, and I began to hear the intercession of the saints. I could hear the tongues - a mighty roar rising from a generation that had been silenced and quenched for so long. I began to feel the birth pangs of the nations coming to a finality - a tipping point. This intercession felt like the midwife prayers of an impending birth of the nations in the earth. It was a prayer over the church, calling her to become the pure, spotless bride she was meant to be. I could feel the intercession of agreement with long forgotten words spoken over nations, cities, and regions, for revival, for reformation, for Jesus to be revealed in the earth. Then I began to cry out: "Lord, come! Lord Jesus, come!" Then suddenly, the prayers of the saints rose up in unity, crying out together: "Yes, Lord Jesus! Come, Lord Jesus, come!" I believe i had this dream because God is raising up a battlecry from the John the baptist, wilderness voices that are coming out of hiding to take thier post as the watchman of the hour and the fresh sound in the earth declaring “Prepare ye the ay of the Lord! So to the wilderness voices, maybe you’re feeling this. Maybe you've been through a season of robbery and wilderness - a season where it feels like you've been removed from your calling. But this is the season where God is bringing you back! He is placing a hot coal on your tongue! So if that is you today, I want to speak and prophesy over you: The hot coals are coming. You're about to feel a fresh unction. You're about to feel a fresh flow. And out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water in Jesus’ mighty name!
By Nate Johnston February 21, 2025
While the nations are in the pangs of birth right now, upheaval, chaos, and major transition, so is the church and so are you... True revival requires messy. It’s the oxen in the stable that disrupts man’s tidy plans that exclude the move of the Spirit, and shatters the veils of culture’s desensitization. And you are there right now. In the messiest of messy seasons, not because you failed but because you ASKED FOR IT. You cried out for breakthrough. You cried out for restoration. You cried out for the more of the Lord. Messy personal revival upsets the rhythms of your life that are no longer moving you forward but instead are keeping you stuck. Messy revival breaks ties and contracts and bondages you have been under that have been putting a ceiling over you and quenching your fire. Messy revival exposes the snakes in the grass and the places of robbery that have been depleting you and shifting your focus. Messy revival moves you out of limiting environments and causes you to long for wide open fields again. Messy revival brings a discontent for any sliver of complacency and religion you have tolerated. Messy revival brings death to everything in your life that is an obstruction to the “greater” God is wanting to pour out. Messy revival confronts and administers healing balm to places to deep seated trauma and pain keeping you in “medication” mode and staying in your sick bed. Messy revival redirects, corrects your steps, recalibrates, and sets your feet on the right path. Messy revival opens your eyes to where you have even in survival mode and going through the motions. Because messy revival comes primarily to set you on fire so you BURN again after years of warfare and walking through endless battlefields. And messy revival is here because God knows who you really are and what you are called to step into in this new season. It re-mantles you, leads you to surrender old manna and burn the old plow, renews your youth like the eagles, and restores the joy of your salvation. Do you feel it?
By Nate Johnston February 20, 2025
I woke up with John 11:11 on my heart this morning; “After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.” I’m highly aware that God is awakening many right now that have been through the intensity of years of hard battle. It can break you. Dismantle your faith. Crush your courage and distinguish your fight and fire for the Lord over time. It can even feel like it’s de-commissioned you. But right now in a short period of time the Holy Spirit is dealing with the past seasons STUFF.. I wrote this, this morning; God sees your process and he isn’t rushing you right now. You have walked through alot and seen alot. Your heart has been through 20 years in 4 years so give yourself space to let Him revive you and reinvent you. Give Him room to clean out the hope deferred and cobwebs of the past seasons. Right now it’s all coming to the surface and He is tenderly scooping it out and breathing life back into your lungs. Soon you’ll wake up no longer feeling heaviness, anxiety, and deep unshakeable weariness, but it will feel like a valve was just flipped on the inside of you and out of your belly rivers will flow again. You’ll feel the pain and hardship of this past season and the toll it took on you mentally, emotionally, physically, and even spiritually begin to lift as God OVERHAULS you in a short period of time. It’s an Ezekiel 37 - army of dry bones moment and it’s necessary so you don’t stay in your sick bed but are revived back to full health. Is this what is going on in you? There are great days ahead for you.. lean in and let the finished work complete the job. Can we pray for you this week? This is what He is doing; “who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s” Psalms 103:5 Lord I pray that you would renew their youth like the eagles! Restore the joy of their salvation! Bring that back into full health and joy in Jesus name! 
By Nate Johnston February 18, 2025
This week's prophetic insight speaks to the current clash of kingdoms between those warring for legacy and the Jezebel spirit trying to hold onto its ground in a time of exposure and eviction on all levels. It’s a word of hope for those who have been on the journey with the Lord to break into a greater level of authority and victory over the enemy's schemes in this time we are living in. So let me start here: I believe this is a season in which the Lord is calling us into a higher place of spiritual intelligence and to take back the reins on the earth. They have been in the wrong hands. I believe this is a season when the Lord is giving back His power to the Church, but right now, God is dealing with the house of Ahab. The house of Ahab has robbed the Church of power and authority, which is why we have seen a recession of signs and wonders. The Church has been run by Ahab, but God is removing Ahab, and the drought will break over our lands. We will enter a season of glory once again. In an atmosphere of glory, power will return to the church. Signs, wonders, and miracles will be restored because, in an Ahab system, there is a brass-ed heaven. In this season, we have seen this brass covering over the Church, a ceiling caused by what we have allowed to rule there. But God is now dealing with the house of Ahab, and as He does, the Church will enter a realm of supernatural clarity and flow we haven’t seen in years. But how does this happen? FOR THE BLOODLINE BREAKERS There are people God has been raising up - His bloodline breakers. A generation - young to old whom God has called to break generational curses in their own lives, marriages, and families in a culture of acceptable Jezebel-ic influence and narcissistic dominance. But the purpose of God calling you, your family, and your marriage into this isn't just for your sake. While God is certainly working in your life, the most integral part of your divine calling is LEGACY. How do we establish legacy? We establish a legacy by breaking the dysfunctions and toxic patterns of the past that have seeped into our family lines, shaping the way we think, act, and engage with life. These dysfunctions are inherited not only from biological parents but also from spiritual influences. God has been working in your life, but there is a far greater reason: He is doing this for the church. God knew you could not break a corporate bloodline unless you first broke a personal one. You could not be a Jehu for a generation unless you were first a Jehu for your family. Does this make sense? Right now, I believe God is bringing decades of battling the Jezebel and Ahab spirits to a head. Many of you have been fighting this war in your personal lives, which is manifesting in various circumstances. Some of these may make you feel you have lost as if you've been through a warzone and have come out worse for wear. But let me assure you, it all will be worth it. This year, you will begin to notice that the battles you once fought are losing their steam. Why? Because whether you see it or not, you have stepped into your role as a Jehu for your family. Your strength has increased, and your spiritual muscles have grown. The Word of God says in Leviticus 21:15, "So that he does not corrupt his bloodline among his people, for I am Yahweh who sets him apart." You have been set apart for this! Do you see it? Well done for battling all these years because it’s now coming to a head! Well done for being a Jehu for your family. You are now stepping into a season where you will witness the fruit of what God has done through your life, not only personally but in a corporate context. Did you know that the word of the Lord came to Jehu to annihilate Ahab and his sons? (2 Kings 10) We are witnessing this unfold. It wasn’t just about Jezebel; it was about dismantling an entire system. Jezebel created a subtle but powerful force, not only through her daughter Athaliah but also through an Ahab army, a mindset that would permeate the culture of the Church and dominate the world stage. In 1 Kings 21, Jezebel killed Naboth to get his vineyard for Ahab. When I think of the vineyard, I think of revival, the Jesus People Movement, and the place Lonnie Frisbee called a refuge. But Naboth’s name means "prophecies and words." Jezebel knew that if she could steal the prophetic voice of the Church, she could take the vineyard, and we would have to lean on man’s ways. That is where Ahab stepped in—a palatable form or derivative of Jezebel that would infiltrate the Church and establish idols of compromise and error. This is what the Church has seen for so long. That's why you've been on a take-back mission in your own life: to restore your bloodline from Jezebel and Ahab so you can be ready to be a Jehu, slaying the Ahab spirit and regaining the prophetic voice in your life and the Church. I’m saying this because right now, look at the battle in your family and the Church. It’s a battle for the future of our families and the future of the Church. Breaking out of the dysfunctions of Ahab’s system and beginning the vineyard again. By the way, this doesn't mean coming against people. It's coming against a spirit that has permeated culture. And that's been your take-back mission, to restore your bloodline and also to step into a place of being a Jehu that will restore the Bloodline of the Church. I want to be bold and say you're about to step into your shoes as a Jehu for your generation. You have pioneered well, and you have walked the hard road of not tolerating Jezebel. You are taking back your voice in the places it's been muzzled. This is why you have been on a mission to restore your bloodline from Jezebel and Ahab. First, to reclaim the prophetic voice in your own life, and then, to be a Jehu to restore the prophetic voice in the Church. LEAVING THE ESCAPE ROOM Now, let me speak to you about inheritance for a moment. Many of us have inherited the fruit of Ahab in our families and churches. It's permeated culture, and we've inherited its fruit. Yet we have been given the task of stepping out of that culture, stepping out of that mindset, and beginning to replace the fruit, replacing the root systems in every area of our lives that we've become used to. It's even been normalized in the Church. But let me say this very clearly: The Lord is bringing us out of our imprisonment. God is giving us the true inheritance that we are meant to have received through the finished work of the cross of Jesus Christ. Just a few days ago, the Lord spoke to me while I was driving, “It’s time to leave the escape room.” There is a very popular activity that people do called an Escape Room. They are locked in this room and must look for clues and keys to help them ‘escape’ before an allotted period of time. What was God saying? He wanted to paint the picture to me that our generation, young and old, have been on a quest to find the keys to break this demonic culture that has been killing our families and society. For us to unlock the prison doors once and for all! We've been pioneers of this revolution to break the bloodlines of what's been acceptable and normal in the nations and our families and bring it back to a biblical standard in our churches. God gave me this phrase because we have been in an escape room. We've been in this place that has felt contained, this place that's felt like a war room, a battleground. It's like we've been in this place where we've been contending for so long because we know there HAS TO BE MORE than what we have seen or been handed! It’s where people have said, “I’m tired of seeing suicide and addiction rob my family! I’m tired of seeing divorce! I’m over seeing moral failures and perversion!” So we're looking for keys, we're looking for clues. We're looking for those things to break out of that place. And in our nations, we see abortion-to-birth laws passed and gender confusion, to name a few. All these different things that are constantly going against God's plan and design. And there's a generation who were born right now to say, “God, that is not your plan or design for my nation or my city. Give me the key. Give me the key!” And I want to prophesy to you that we are in a season that the Lord is giving us the keys to break out of that escape room for our families and for this generation!
 We are in a period of time where God has given the keys to the house of David back to the Church. That is why God had to shift the Ahab culture that has been permeating every facet of our lives. It's so that David can get back the keys. And when David takes back the keys, the door of that escape room swings wide open. And we are no longer receiving the inheritance of that confinement and imprisonment. We're no longer receiving the inheritance of an Ahab culture but rather the inheritance of the Davidic line and the finished work of the cross of Christ. So let me say this again: you are coming out of that place; you are coming out of the escape room right now. Do you see it in all the things God's been doing in your life? He has been confronting all areas of bondage in your life. He's been pulling, prodding, and shaking things upside down because he wants to set you free in you r finances and your health. We have to leave the escape room of man's methods where we are constantly trying to do things to break ourselves out of what God can only break us out of and what the blood of Jesus could only break us out of. And right now, the Blood is speaking a better word over us. We are in a revolution of the blood of Jesus where it's breaking that which has felt unbreakable and where you've said, “God, you could never heal that person of that Jezebel spirit. You could never set them free of that addiction.” But in this season, because of your contending and your prayer, God is breaking them free, setting you free, and setting your nation free right now. Can you see it on a global scale right now, too? Where there is shaking, things are coming to the surface; things are being resolved and exposed on high levels because God is shaking the earth upside down. The glory is revealing that which needs to be broken out and exposed, and the light of God is shining; it’s shining into those places because God is bringing the gold to the surface. In this hour, the glory of God is being revealed to us and through us. LANDING PADS & OPEN DOORS So, in this season where the Lord is leading and summoning the Church out of dysfunction and out of those escape rooms, he's revealing greater revelation on what we have been battling for so long. What we're going to see in the days ahead is essentially a lot of spiritual assignments unmasked. And what this is going to look like in many ways is even doctrine and areas of beliefs that we've had that have sadly, for many, been foundational and cornerstone beliefs that we, as Christians, have believed; certain things that we've accepted and ingested. We're going to see many of these things unmasked as counterfeits and demonic assignments. The smoke and mirrors battle of our age has been demonic assignments trying to lead us to false virtues, false fathering, false comforts, false accountability, false covering, all those things that look like the right and authentic thing, but they're just counterfeits. They fall short. They're plastic. And so, we're about to see the revealing of these spirits for what they truly are, and in that, the Lord will then bring the Church up to a higher place of understanding who they are and their authority. That can only come by experiencing the genuine and authentic thing. So, as these spirits are unmasked, it will help us understand, and we'll have a greater awareness of the spiritual realm, the mechanics of the spiritual realm, and an understanding of what we are dealing with. We can't keep going into a church, sitting in the pews, and having a cushy Christian experience when there's a dying world out there. And you can't keep being robbed in your marriage, your finances, and your health on a weekly basis, paying your tithes, and going home to brokenness and chaos. No, those days are coming to an end. But the area that I want to highlight to you in this unmasking is what the Lord's been speaking to me as: landing pads and open doors. He's highlighting to us through all this shaking, where we ourselves have actually been landing pads to the enemy's plans, keeping us in further bondage personally and corporately. In 1 John 14:30, Jesus said this powerful scripture: “I don’t have much more time to talk to you because the ruler of this world approaches. He has no power over me.” Some other versions say, “he has nothing in common with me.” You see, when there's nothing inside you that resembles or looks like the enemy, he has no power over you. That means you are no longer a landing pad for the enemy. And so, the Lord said to me last week, “Nate, I am removing the landing pads in your life from the enemy!” What I'm seeing is that we're coming out of an era of battling that Jezebel spirit and the Ahab spirit, but in that, God is actually revealing the landing pads and open doors in our lives, enabling them access. I'm talking personally about where we have things in common with that spirit, where we have things that actually cause us to be landing pads for those things. We are coming to a place of complete victory over those spirits. But in order for that to happen, God had to expose the commonality in us with those spirits and reveal the other faces of how this has manifested in culture in the Church and the world around us. For instance, to make this practical right now, we are seeing two faces of Jezebel. For so long, we've said, Jezebel wants to silence you. Jezebel wants to muzzle you. Jezebel wants to intimidate you. Jezebel wants you to be in fear for your life because we look at the passage of scripture about Elijah running into the cave. But did you know there's another face to Jezebel? That there's also the side of Jezebel that wants to lure you into speaking out of turn? Into being a bitter, angry, venom-spitting voice? It’s where Jezebel puts on a different face and, instead of muzzling voices, seeks to raise up voices with the wrong spirit. It’s sneaky because it looks like God’s heart... from a certain angle. It’s cunning because it plays on the pain and experiences of the hurting Church. But it doesn’t carry His heart. That is why Elijah had to go into the cave and be refreshed in his awareness of the voice of God and the mantle that he carried; otherwise, his pain and his fear would've sent him out of that place and deviated from his calling. Does this make sense? God, right now, is dealing with the landing pads and the triggers and the open doors we've had in our lives. He's destroying the commonality that we've had so we can step out of pioneering and contending for breakthroughs and legacy and finally taste it! So even right now, give the Lord any areas in your life, the landing pads and the places of commonality that you've had with the enemy, forgive those you need to forgive, and give God the pain and the wounds of the past. And lastly, let me say this. THANK YOU for walking this narrow road. It’s not been easy, and it’s been costly when so many are choosing to walk in the dysfunctions they  inherited and have leveled oj, choosing not to fight to break free. But you have stood and contended, like Hannah who was barren...you stood. Like Ruth, you stood. Like Jacob, you have wrestled with the promise even when it looked bleak or as if it had failed. But now, you will see the fruit of this long battle and lead others into the same legacy.
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