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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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THE BANDAID IS COMING OFF! WE ARE AT A GENERATIONAL DELIVERANCE THRESHOLD

By Nate Johnston • July 1, 2025
I have a few prophetic words that I need to release over the next few days that are all different parts of the same prophetic word that is burning in my spirit right now. Now, if you have spent your life waging war against dysfunction and spiritual mess from your upbringing and family, yet still feel like there are blockages and wounded areas in your life, this word is going to really hit home. I want to start with a very personal encounter I had once with God. I was in a season where I was experiencing mental bombardment and some unresolved torment in my mind, and I began really seeking the Lord and asking Him what the root of this issue was in my life. The Lord had been speaking to me for weeks before this encounter, telling me I was about to cross a threshold, another level of freedom and healing. Not just for my own peace and freedom, but because of something I was stepping into in the kingdom that required me to have a greater capacity of freedom and to be whole, not hindered by the things that I was dealing with. And I believe that’s where many of us are right now. Things are coming to the surface. Pain. Mindsets. Your soul in anguish. These are all the signs of this.. So at the height of the torment, I cried out to the Lord, begging Him to set me free. I went to sleep then woke up a few hours later hearing the Lord say, “The Band-Aid’s coming off.” There in the dark of my room, the presence of God swept in like I hadn’t felt in a long time. It enveloped me. I knew instantly the Lord was about to do something, so I said, “Lord, speak to me. What are you doing?” He said, “I want to show you something that’s been hanging over you your whole life, but you’ve not known. And you’ve actually been fighting this particular area of freedom.” “Ouch. What is it, Lord?” The Lord began to speak to me about my childhood and my upbringing. He said, “You’ve dealt with your mother’s side and the healing there, but you’ve never dealt with your father’s side.” You see, my dad left when I was four. He committed adultery, had another family in another city, and he chose them over me. It’s true, I had walked through a lot of healing and freedom from the things connected to my mother’s side, but I never really paid attention to what my father had done and how it had affected me. Exodus 20:5 says “For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations” So what I was experiencing was because I hadn’t dealt with this? The fruit/effects of my father’s sin - pain, adultery, and divorce had been hanging over me my whole life. I had never walked in the same weaknesses as my dad, but yet it was still there as a wound and a stumbling block of sorts in the background. But that doesn’t make sense, right? Aren’t we new creations in Christ? “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” 2 Corinthians 5:17 Yes, we are. But there was pain and unforgiveness and things there that were tethering me to this dysfunction, tethering me to the fruit of that disobedience. Instantly, I heard the Lord say, “The breaking of covenant brings a curse.” “Wow.” He took me to Genesis. The breaking of covenant in the garden brought a curse: “To Adam he said, ‘Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, “You must not eat from it,” cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life” Genesis 3:17 But then He led me to Hebrews 12:24; “To Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.” He said, “I need you to forgive, renounce, and submit this under the blood.” So I sat there in the dark that night, and I renounced anything that had been trying to carry over into my life: the spirit of rejection, the orphan spirit, the spirit of poverty and lack, and anything perverse that had also come from it. I gave it to the Lord. I covered it in the blood. And I stepped into a level of freedom that has so deeply impacted my life ever since. What am I trying to say? I’m trying to say that right now, we’re in moments, not just one, but major moments where God is bringing massive trajectory changes and shifts, as we lean into these opportunities for deliverance and healing. I’ll be really real and please don’t be offended but let me say this - most of the Church is in bondage. Most of the Church needs deliverance. Most of the Church is struggling with torment and mental illness and yet FEW are saying it and doing anything about it! Hence why I am sharing this with you today. This is one of the epidemics we face in the Body. We know how to walk in the gifts. We know how to do all the things, but we’ve shoved down our soul health, our spiritual health, for the sake of looking good on a Sunday. Marriages are falling apart. Lives are falling apart. What if, right now, God is getting us free and whole so we can be a stable and firm Church, a pure Bride so that we can actually be the healers in this next season? What if this is we the recession of the waves before the tsunami of Gods glory hits and ushers in the harvest? What would happen if we stepped out to be labourers for the harvest, but our foundations were faulty? We would crumble and fall. Do you see the importance of the hour that’s in front of us and why it’s here? A THRESHOLD MOMENT After this encounter, the Lord led me to the passage about Jacob. He was about to cross over the brook Jabbok and wrestle with the angel of the Lord and become Israel, but something else happened first. His brother Esau who he had deceived years earlier, was coming to meet him. Jacob had carried the burden and the pain of that situation his whole life and then, in a moment, God brought it to head before he crossed over. What if we’re in a moment right now where God is bringing generational deliverance to you and me? What if He’s clearing our names and putting the axe to the roots of things we didn’t even realize were trying to hang over us? These things shouldn’t be hanging over us. The blood of Jesus speaks a better word. But we’ve been resisting it. We want to be free but we also want to keep our pain. We want to be whole but we also want to keep our vendettas and our victimhood. We want to be free but we just don’t know how to step out of the habits and dysfunctions we grew up in. But those days are over. God is saying over you today that He wants to bring lasting and full wholeness and freedom to you. If this word resonated with you, I want you to ask the Lord to come and heal you. Ask Him to bring deliverance to those areas of your life, even as you’re reading this. Ask Him to show you the root. In fact, if you are feeling the Holy Spirit working right now, put on a worship track and sit in this for a moment and ask Him, “Show me what I need to uncovenant from.” Right now, God is exposing the roots and showing us what’s been wrong so we can get it fixed. Body of Christ, it’s time to step out of that mixture of covenants and be covenanted to Jesus for the days to come. Pray with me, “Jesus, you are the Lord and Saviour of my life, and right now I un-covenant with anything unholy. I un-covenant with the sins of my father and mother and generations before me. I uncovenant with pain, with victimhood, with witchcraft, divination, and anything in my past. And I covenant with you today. I step into a fresh relationship with you for the sake of me, my wife, my husband, my kids, and my family. I give you permission to guide and lead my life. I step out of the driver’s seat. Come and do what you want to do. Make me whole, in body, in mind, in spirit. In Jesus’ name! Now let me prophesy over you, it’s time to exit generational bondage and enter generational INHERITANCE in Jesus' name! Instead of bondage, you are entering freedom and being yoked only to Jesus. Instead of mental instability, you will have the mind of Christ! Instead of poverty and lack, you will walk in abundance and be a resource to build the Kingdom! Instead of failure and breakdown, you will flourish in everything you do and build healthily! Instead of spending your days battling demons oppressing your mind, you will set others free! The threshold is here!  Get ready for part 2 coming in the next few days.

FOR THOSE IN THE 11TH HOUR

By Nate Johnston • June 30, 2025
(The word below is the transcript of the word I shared live on Friday morning, which you can watch here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tcj1uyGOoM&t=6s )  This morning, I woke up with such an intense sense of intercession. I could feel it so strongly that many people are in an eleventh-hour moment right now. It’s that place where you feel like something has to shift… or you’re not sure how you’re going to keep going. Who’s felt that? Like you’re being pressed on every side, and you’re just exhausted? You’ve been crying out, “God, I can’t take much more.” Maybe you’re in that Gethsemane place, or your own dark night of the soul. Or maybe it doesn’t feel that dramatic, but it’s still heavy, and it’s still real. This morning, I could feel the Lord saying, “Tell them it’s not the end. It’s the transition. It’s the birth.” The enemy is trying to make you think this is where everything collapses. But actually, this is where everything shifts. It reminds me of Daniel, where his prayer was heard the moment he prayed it, but there was resistance in the spirit. The angel told him, “From the first day that you set your heart to understand… your words were heard, and I have come because of your words.” (Daniel 10:12). But the enemy tried to block the answer. That’s what it feels like for many right now. Your promise is on the way, but there’s been a delay. And the delay has tried to wear you out. But I believe we’re in an eleventh hour in the best kind of way. God is about to deliver something. You’re on the edge of birthing something new. And I want to declare this over you: “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is about to be revealed in us.”Romans 8:18 That’s not just a nice verse to quote. I prophesy that over you today. The glory of God is coming into the very places where you’ve been crushed. The breaking is about to turn into breakthrough. We come against every delay. Every assignment that’s tried to make you give up. Every lie that says this is where it all ends, we break that right now in Jesus’ name. This is not the moment you fall apart. This is the moment you step into fulfillment. Yes, there’s been suffering. But you’re about to see glory. Yes, there’s been pain. But you’re about to see purpose. I’ve been seeing it too, so much witchcraft, slander, chatter, narcissistic and Jezebelic assignments coming against people’s callings. But listen: this is the moment it shifts. This is the moment God turns it around. Some of you have had voices around you saying, “Just lay it down. Just give up. Stop fighting, it’s not worth it.” But that’s not the Lord. That’s a demonic spirit trying to get you to stop short of your breakthrough. This is a moment where you will have to war on your face. If you’ve got a bill you can’t pay, take it into the secret place. If it’s a diagnosis, a court case, a crisis, take it to the Lord and say, “This shifts today.” Don’t wrestle in your flesh, wrestle in the Spirit. Say this “I’m in an eleventh hour moment, but God is about to shift this.” You’re not crazy for feeling the pressure. You’re being set up for glory. And right now, I pray over you - strength over your body, strength over your mind, strength over your spirit in Jesus’ name. Someone’s legs are being healed. Inner ear issues, vertigo is being healed right now. Adrenal fatigue, broken in Jesus’ name. We break every discouragement, every insecurity, every trigger that’s been flaring up. You are anointed. You are called. You are the head and not the tail (Deuteronomy 28:13). You are not going under, you’re ascending higher. I break every word curse, every false prophetic word that’s come from the accuser of the brethren. I see someone standing at a cliff, saying, “God, I can’t fix this.” And the Lord says, “You don’t have to fix it. I will. Will you trust Me?” This is where we stop trying to figure it out in the flesh and let Him step into the mess. He’s not intimidated by what you’re facing. Surrender it. Die on that spot. Say, “God, I let go.” Because this is where He lives through you. Some of you have lost hope because of what’s going on in the world, or in the church, or in your life. But God says: “Get your eyes off of them. Put your eyes back on Me.” He’s not finished. Your best days are not over. I cancel weariness. I cancel lethargy. I cancel every assignment trying to pull you back into addictions or mindsets from old seasons. I see prescription meds - don’t go back to them. Don’t go back. The Lord wants to show you that He is mighty. Let Him move. Let Him fight. Let Him show you His strength. And I declare again: “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed in us.” Romans 8:18 Put your hand on your spirit. Step out of the flesh. Speak in tongues. Prophesy. Activate your spirit again. I’ve been through battles these last few years that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. But every time I hit that breaking point, I get on my face. I die on that spot. And He fights for me. And He’ll fight for you. Lord, show them today. Show them Your goodness. Your favor. Your mercy. Put your hands on your ears and say, “God, deliver me from every lie I’ve believed. Every bit of poison that’s stolen my joy and hope.” Restore marriages, Lord. Restore prodigals. Restore families. Break every yoke in Jesus’ name. That spirit of heaviness it lifts right now. I see people feeling fire on their shoulders. That lightness, that’s the anointing breaking the yoke.. Fire of the Holy Ghost, come. Burn out every assignment. Every oppressive weight. Every unclean spirit, leave now in Jesus’ name. Migraine, go. Shoulders, be released. Pressure in the head lift, In the name of Jesus. I want to pray one more thing. This is bold. I break every demonic assignment especially those rooted in Jezebelic control and witchcraft that have tried to shut down your voice and bring sickness into your body. Be broken now in Jesus’ name. I release boldness over you to rise up and see that spirit for what it is. It’s not welcome anymore. Where it’s tried to shut down your marriage, your calling, your family it breaks now. Some of you have been under this thing for years. But the last six months? It’s intensified. That means it’s about to break. Let’s do this together. Start prophesying. Even if it starts as a whisper. Just say, “I’m not under this anymore. I’m reclaiming my voice.” This spirit has been welcomed in too many churches, families, and leadership teams—but no more. It doesn’t belong. You’re taking your voice back. You’re taking your fire back. You’re stepping into your authority. We need the wild ones. The remnant. The truth-tellers. The revivalists to rise up again. So step into it. In Jesus’ mighty name. I know I got fired up, but I needed to come on and release this. Holy Spirit is doing something powerful. Now go shake that stuff off. Walk your house, put on worship, prophesy out loud. Fight back with the Word of God. And remember: this is the eleventh hour… but it’s not too late. It’s right on time.

THE BANDAID IS COMING OFF! WE ARE AT A GENERATIONAL DELIVERANCE THRESHOLD

By Nate Johnston • July 1, 2025
I have a few prophetic words that I need to release over the next few days that are all different parts of the same prophetic word that is burning in my spirit right now. Now, if you have spent your life waging war against dysfunction and spiritual mess from your upbringing and family, yet still feel like there are blockages and wounded areas in your life, this word is going to really hit home. I want to start with a very personal encounter I had once with God. I was in a season where I was experiencing mental bombardment and some unresolved torment in my mind, and I began really seeking the Lord and asking Him what the root of this issue was in my life. The Lord had been speaking to me for weeks before this encounter, telling me I was about to cross a threshold, another level of freedom and healing. Not just for my own peace and freedom, but because of something I was stepping into in the kingdom that required me to have a greater capacity of freedom and to be whole, not hindered by the things that I was dealing with. And I believe that’s where many of us are right now. Things are coming to the surface. Pain. Mindsets. Your soul in anguish. These are all the signs of this.. So at the height of the torment, I cried out to the Lord, begging Him to set me free. I went to sleep then woke up a few hours later hearing the Lord say, “The Band-Aid’s coming off.” There in the dark of my room, the presence of God swept in like I hadn’t felt in a long time. It enveloped me. I knew instantly the Lord was about to do something, so I said, “Lord, speak to me. What are you doing?” He said, “I want to show you something that’s been hanging over you your whole life, but you’ve not known. And you’ve actually been fighting this particular area of freedom.” “Ouch. What is it, Lord?” The Lord began to speak to me about my childhood and my upbringing. He said, “You’ve dealt with your mother’s side and the healing there, but you’ve never dealt with your father’s side.” You see, my dad left when I was four. He committed adultery, had another family in another city, and he chose them over me. It’s true, I had walked through a lot of healing and freedom from the things connected to my mother’s side, but I never really paid attention to what my father had done and how it had affected me. Exodus 20:5 says “For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations” So what I was experiencing was because I hadn’t dealt with this? The fruit/effects of my father’s sin - pain, adultery, and divorce had been hanging over me my whole life. I had never walked in the same weaknesses as my dad, but yet it was still there as a wound and a stumbling block of sorts in the background. But that doesn’t make sense, right? Aren’t we new creations in Christ? “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” 2 Corinthians 5:17 Yes, we are. But there was pain and unforgiveness and things there that were tethering me to this dysfunction, tethering me to the fruit of that disobedience. Instantly, I heard the Lord say, “The breaking of covenant brings a curse.” “Wow.” He took me to Genesis. The breaking of covenant in the garden brought a curse: “To Adam he said, ‘Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, “You must not eat from it,” cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life” Genesis 3:17 But then He led me to Hebrews 12:24; “To Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.” He said, “I need you to forgive, renounce, and submit this under the blood.” So I sat there in the dark that night, and I renounced anything that had been trying to carry over into my life: the spirit of rejection, the orphan spirit, the spirit of poverty and lack, and anything perverse that had also come from it. I gave it to the Lord. I covered it in the blood. And I stepped into a level of freedom that has so deeply impacted my life ever since. What am I trying to say? I’m trying to say that right now, we’re in moments, not just one, but major moments where God is bringing massive trajectory changes and shifts, as we lean into these opportunities for deliverance and healing. I’ll be really real and please don’t be offended but let me say this - most of the Church is in bondage. Most of the Church needs deliverance. Most of the Church is struggling with torment and mental illness and yet FEW are saying it and doing anything about it! Hence why I am sharing this with you today. This is one of the epidemics we face in the Body. We know how to walk in the gifts. We know how to do all the things, but we’ve shoved down our soul health, our spiritual health, for the sake of looking good on a Sunday. Marriages are falling apart. Lives are falling apart. What if, right now, God is getting us free and whole so we can be a stable and firm Church, a pure Bride so that we can actually be the healers in this next season? What if this is we the recession of the waves before the tsunami of Gods glory hits and ushers in the harvest? What would happen if we stepped out to be labourers for the harvest, but our foundations were faulty? We would crumble and fall. Do you see the importance of the hour that’s in front of us and why it’s here? A THRESHOLD MOMENT After this encounter, the Lord led me to the passage about Jacob. He was about to cross over the brook Jabbok and wrestle with the angel of the Lord and become Israel, but something else happened first. His brother Esau who he had deceived years earlier, was coming to meet him. Jacob had carried the burden and the pain of that situation his whole life and then, in a moment, God brought it to head before he crossed over. What if we’re in a moment right now where God is bringing generational deliverance to you and me? What if He’s clearing our names and putting the axe to the roots of things we didn’t even realize were trying to hang over us? These things shouldn’t be hanging over us. The blood of Jesus speaks a better word. But we’ve been resisting it. We want to be free but we also want to keep our pain. We want to be whole but we also want to keep our vendettas and our victimhood. We want to be free but we just don’t know how to step out of the habits and dysfunctions we grew up in. But those days are over. God is saying over you today that He wants to bring lasting and full wholeness and freedom to you. If this word resonated with you, I want you to ask the Lord to come and heal you. Ask Him to bring deliverance to those areas of your life, even as you’re reading this. Ask Him to show you the root. In fact, if you are feeling the Holy Spirit working right now, put on a worship track and sit in this for a moment and ask Him, “Show me what I need to uncovenant from.” Right now, God is exposing the roots and showing us what’s been wrong so we can get it fixed. Body of Christ, it’s time to step out of that mixture of covenants and be covenanted to Jesus for the days to come. Pray with me, “Jesus, you are the Lord and Saviour of my life, and right now I un-covenant with anything unholy. I un-covenant with the sins of my father and mother and generations before me. I uncovenant with pain, with victimhood, with witchcraft, divination, and anything in my past. And I covenant with you today. I step into a fresh relationship with you for the sake of me, my wife, my husband, my kids, and my family. I give you permission to guide and lead my life. I step out of the driver’s seat. Come and do what you want to do. Make me whole, in body, in mind, in spirit. In Jesus’ name! Now let me prophesy over you, it’s time to exit generational bondage and enter generational INHERITANCE in Jesus' name! Instead of bondage, you are entering freedom and being yoked only to Jesus. Instead of mental instability, you will have the mind of Christ! Instead of poverty and lack, you will walk in abundance and be a resource to build the Kingdom! Instead of failure and breakdown, you will flourish in everything you do and build healthily! Instead of spending your days battling demons oppressing your mind, you will set others free! The threshold is here!  Get ready for part 2 coming in the next few days.

FOR THOSE IN THE 11TH HOUR

By Nate Johnston • June 30, 2025
(The word below is the transcript of the word I shared live on Friday morning, which you can watch here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tcj1uyGOoM&t=6s )  This morning, I woke up with such an intense sense of intercession. I could feel it so strongly that many people are in an eleventh-hour moment right now. It’s that place where you feel like something has to shift… or you’re not sure how you’re going to keep going. Who’s felt that? Like you’re being pressed on every side, and you’re just exhausted? You’ve been crying out, “God, I can’t take much more.” Maybe you’re in that Gethsemane place, or your own dark night of the soul. Or maybe it doesn’t feel that dramatic, but it’s still heavy, and it’s still real. This morning, I could feel the Lord saying, “Tell them it’s not the end. It’s the transition. It’s the birth.” The enemy is trying to make you think this is where everything collapses. But actually, this is where everything shifts. It reminds me of Daniel, where his prayer was heard the moment he prayed it, but there was resistance in the spirit. The angel told him, “From the first day that you set your heart to understand… your words were heard, and I have come because of your words.” (Daniel 10:12). But the enemy tried to block the answer. That’s what it feels like for many right now. Your promise is on the way, but there’s been a delay. And the delay has tried to wear you out. But I believe we’re in an eleventh hour in the best kind of way. God is about to deliver something. You’re on the edge of birthing something new. And I want to declare this over you: “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is about to be revealed in us.”Romans 8:18 That’s not just a nice verse to quote. I prophesy that over you today. The glory of God is coming into the very places where you’ve been crushed. The breaking is about to turn into breakthrough. We come against every delay. Every assignment that’s tried to make you give up. Every lie that says this is where it all ends, we break that right now in Jesus’ name. This is not the moment you fall apart. This is the moment you step into fulfillment. Yes, there’s been suffering. But you’re about to see glory. Yes, there’s been pain. But you’re about to see purpose. I’ve been seeing it too, so much witchcraft, slander, chatter, narcissistic and Jezebelic assignments coming against people’s callings. But listen: this is the moment it shifts. This is the moment God turns it around. Some of you have had voices around you saying, “Just lay it down. Just give up. Stop fighting, it’s not worth it.” But that’s not the Lord. That’s a demonic spirit trying to get you to stop short of your breakthrough. This is a moment where you will have to war on your face. If you’ve got a bill you can’t pay, take it into the secret place. If it’s a diagnosis, a court case, a crisis, take it to the Lord and say, “This shifts today.” Don’t wrestle in your flesh, wrestle in the Spirit. Say this “I’m in an eleventh hour moment, but God is about to shift this.” You’re not crazy for feeling the pressure. You’re being set up for glory. And right now, I pray over you - strength over your body, strength over your mind, strength over your spirit in Jesus’ name. Someone’s legs are being healed. Inner ear issues, vertigo is being healed right now. Adrenal fatigue, broken in Jesus’ name. We break every discouragement, every insecurity, every trigger that’s been flaring up. You are anointed. You are called. You are the head and not the tail (Deuteronomy 28:13). You are not going under, you’re ascending higher. I break every word curse, every false prophetic word that’s come from the accuser of the brethren. I see someone standing at a cliff, saying, “God, I can’t fix this.” And the Lord says, “You don’t have to fix it. I will. Will you trust Me?” This is where we stop trying to figure it out in the flesh and let Him step into the mess. He’s not intimidated by what you’re facing. Surrender it. Die on that spot. Say, “God, I let go.” Because this is where He lives through you. Some of you have lost hope because of what’s going on in the world, or in the church, or in your life. But God says: “Get your eyes off of them. Put your eyes back on Me.” He’s not finished. Your best days are not over. I cancel weariness. I cancel lethargy. I cancel every assignment trying to pull you back into addictions or mindsets from old seasons. I see prescription meds - don’t go back to them. Don’t go back. The Lord wants to show you that He is mighty. Let Him move. Let Him fight. Let Him show you His strength. And I declare again: “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed in us.” Romans 8:18 Put your hand on your spirit. Step out of the flesh. Speak in tongues. Prophesy. Activate your spirit again. I’ve been through battles these last few years that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. But every time I hit that breaking point, I get on my face. I die on that spot. And He fights for me. And He’ll fight for you. Lord, show them today. Show them Your goodness. Your favor. Your mercy. Put your hands on your ears and say, “God, deliver me from every lie I’ve believed. Every bit of poison that’s stolen my joy and hope.” Restore marriages, Lord. Restore prodigals. Restore families. Break every yoke in Jesus’ name. That spirit of heaviness it lifts right now. I see people feeling fire on their shoulders. That lightness, that’s the anointing breaking the yoke.. Fire of the Holy Ghost, come. Burn out every assignment. Every oppressive weight. Every unclean spirit, leave now in Jesus’ name. Migraine, go. Shoulders, be released. Pressure in the head lift, In the name of Jesus. I want to pray one more thing. This is bold. I break every demonic assignment especially those rooted in Jezebelic control and witchcraft that have tried to shut down your voice and bring sickness into your body. Be broken now in Jesus’ name. I release boldness over you to rise up and see that spirit for what it is. It’s not welcome anymore. Where it’s tried to shut down your marriage, your calling, your family it breaks now. Some of you have been under this thing for years. But the last six months? It’s intensified. That means it’s about to break. Let’s do this together. Start prophesying. Even if it starts as a whisper. Just say, “I’m not under this anymore. I’m reclaiming my voice.” This spirit has been welcomed in too many churches, families, and leadership teams—but no more. It doesn’t belong. You’re taking your voice back. You’re taking your fire back. You’re stepping into your authority. We need the wild ones. The remnant. The truth-tellers. The revivalists to rise up again. So step into it. In Jesus’ mighty name. I know I got fired up, but I needed to come on and release this. Holy Spirit is doing something powerful. Now go shake that stuff off. Walk your house, put on worship, prophesy out loud. Fight back with the Word of God. And remember: this is the eleventh hour… but it’s not too late. It’s right on time.

I CAN HEAR THE SOUND OF RAIN!

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

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

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