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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 24 Apr, 2024
Opposition to the deeper REST/RESET This is where the enemy wars against you entering the secret place, bombarding you with busyness, striving, pressure to get things done, and sudden overwhelming distractions. The healing and heart clearing is so important right now and for some God is doing a complete makeover, cutting hidden ties, and removing wounds and trauma you didn’t even know you were carrying. Opposition of CLARITY to receive revelation/blueprints This is where the enemy sends chatter and words against you, where the atmosphere feels foggy and confusion tries to set in, and while God is always speaking it feels like the pieces don’t connect or seems unclear. For many this is manifested in the battle of the mind coming against them right now and the temptation to fall back into old mindsets, fears, and panic, but has been mainly been coming through peoples words of mockery and judgement. The war against you to RECEIVE is because the delivery is vital right now. Opposition on your VOICE In a time that the pure and clear prophetic has never been needed more there has been an obvious assignment to shut down voices rising up. Often disguised as wisdom, safe-guarding, and protecting purity (which are all necessary) this imposter spirit wants to shut down the prophetic by causing division, fault-finding/critical spirit, and instead of broadcasting hope - broadcasting opinions and agendas. This causes true voices of hope to shut down and hide. Opposition on what God is BUILDING in you This is where the enemy very directly hits you in the very area God is really adding favor, anointing, conviction, and vision in. He wants to sabotage it by making you second guess yourself, bring in controlling people and measures to taint it, or cause delays and setbacks/closed doors in the places God has promised. Opposition to your MANTLE and new mission/appointment Very much the same as what God is building in you but specifically the opposition that comes as a direct result of the noticeable increase you have stepped into and the office/appointment you have before you. The enemy sees the new mantle, your sudden fire and rising authority and has been warring against that appointment with weariness and disappointment. This is where you need wisdom and discernment to know that you aren’t taking on yokes, wrong armour, or peoples stuff, but only what God anoints and mantles you with. WHY AM I DEALING WITH OPPOSITION RIGHT NOW? - God is taking you from GLORY TO GLORY. - Your story is changing. Your track history is changing. - God is LIFTING you out of a whole way of living you got way too used to, administering his healing balm, restoration, and justice from many years ago. It’s the line in the sand so you can move into this season FULLY. - New blueprints and VISION are coming to you! You are in a new unknown era and God is giving you clear GPS directions, coordinates, and mission details for you to steward and walk out. - Your once hidden, squashed, silenced, and timid voice is suddenly ROARING from within you and making its way to the surface. You have no agenda, no territory to selfishly protect, and no motives or self-promotion and the earth needs the pure sound of your voice to cut through the noise. - God is BUILDING you, ESTABLISHING you, ANOINTING you afresh, and moving through you in a way you have not seen Him do! - You have been commissioned by God in the wilderness and now you are coming out of that season with a weighty governmental mantle and call to the nations to see them come to Jesus! SO HOW DO I RESPOND? - Take higher ground. PURSUE the secret place. FIGHT for it. It says in Hebrews 4:11 “Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest” It can be difficult in pressure but it's the only place you can get free/clear. - Be armored up. Take communion regularly. - Rebuke the wind and waves. This is your offensive stance. Get out the word and bind up what is coming at you. Clear the atmosphere. Tell the opposition to STOP in Jesus name. - SHAKE IT OFF & MOVE ON! In Acts 18:6 it says “But when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.” Don’t let it stop you, hold you back, or slow you down. - Keep your vision before you regardless of what you see. Write down the vision, prophesy it, steward your promises, and guard them with your life. Look at what GOD is doing! We must keep our eyes on Jesus more than the storm that surrounds us, more than any pandemic. What is God doing and saying over you right now ?
By Nate Johnston 23 Apr, 2024
Today, as we were traveling I had a vision of a bloodline painted on the ground that looked like the border of states or nations. Then I saw people approach the line and put things in a trash can before they then JUMPED over the line. Instantly I thought of the Australian border security and how it is illegal to bring seeds from other nations that can harm our habitat. Then I said out loud “Old seeds have had to die in order to crossover” Then the Lord said, “Gethsemane is still a garden” and it hit me. We have been in a season where the Lord has been bringing us through the greatest purging season we have yet seen. It feels like death. But it’s not to us, but to the old place we have been in. But something has shifted. You have crossed over and haven’t even realized it. You spent so long praying and contending for a shift and it’s right now upon you. It always begins spiritually before it begins to show up in the natural, but it’s happened. This Passover was a crossover into an internal shift of epic proportions. Your appetite and affections have changed. Your vision is updating rapidly in real time. You can’t explain how you feel because you are still trying to get your bearings but you know your feet are about to move and you are feeling the winds of change and the quaking of a good kind of transition beneath you. You have felt so lost especially in the last few months but you can begin to taste the rain in the air after the drought and sense that it’s all about to connect. The emptying and the heartache are all part of the process that inevitably lead to a brand new day and a fresh wind... The enemy has raged and sought to rob, steal, and destroy you from every angle but NOTHING can stop what the Lord is about to do in your life. NOTHING! Does he know that pressing and crushing only increases you after some time? Do you know that? Now let me prophesy: You are coming back into your fullness. You are coming back from the brink of death and out of the dark chasm you have been living in and there will not only be a comeback but there will be INTEREST paid for everything that was robbed and stolen from you! The blood of Jesus has spoken over you and it has declared “Passover!” but now the Lord is declaring over you “Your crossover is here!” So get up off your sickbed and shake off the defeat and misery and prophesy again son/daughter because it’s here in Jesus name!
By Nate Johnston 24 Apr, 2024
Opposition to the deeper REST/RESET This is where the enemy wars against you entering the secret place, bombarding you with busyness, striving, pressure to get things done, and sudden overwhelming distractions. The healing and heart clearing is so important right now and for some God is doing a complete makeover, cutting hidden ties, and removing wounds and trauma you didn’t even know you were carrying. Opposition of CLARITY to receive revelation/blueprints This is where the enemy sends chatter and words against you, where the atmosphere feels foggy and confusion tries to set in, and while God is always speaking it feels like the pieces don’t connect or seems unclear. For many this is manifested in the battle of the mind coming against them right now and the temptation to fall back into old mindsets, fears, and panic, but has been mainly been coming through peoples words of mockery and judgement. The war against you to RECEIVE is because the delivery is vital right now. Opposition on your VOICE In a time that the pure and clear prophetic has never been needed more there has been an obvious assignment to shut down voices rising up. Often disguised as wisdom, safe-guarding, and protecting purity (which are all necessary) this imposter spirit wants to shut down the prophetic by causing division, fault-finding/critical spirit, and instead of broadcasting hope - broadcasting opinions and agendas. This causes true voices of hope to shut down and hide. Opposition on what God is BUILDING in you This is where the enemy very directly hits you in the very area God is really adding favor, anointing, conviction, and vision in. He wants to sabotage it by making you second guess yourself, bring in controlling people and measures to taint it, or cause delays and setbacks/closed doors in the places God has promised. Opposition to your MANTLE and new mission/appointment Very much the same as what God is building in you but specifically the opposition that comes as a direct result of the noticeable increase you have stepped into and the office/appointment you have before you. The enemy sees the new mantle, your sudden fire and rising authority and has been warring against that appointment with weariness and disappointment. This is where you need wisdom and discernment to know that you aren’t taking on yokes, wrong armour, or peoples stuff, but only what God anoints and mantles you with. WHY AM I DEALING WITH OPPOSITION RIGHT NOW? - God is taking you from GLORY TO GLORY. - Your story is changing. Your track history is changing. - God is LIFTING you out of a whole way of living you got way too used to, administering his healing balm, restoration, and justice from many years ago. It’s the line in the sand so you can move into this season FULLY. - New blueprints and VISION are coming to you! You are in a new unknown era and God is giving you clear GPS directions, coordinates, and mission details for you to steward and walk out. - Your once hidden, squashed, silenced, and timid voice is suddenly ROARING from within you and making its way to the surface. You have no agenda, no territory to selfishly protect, and no motives or self-promotion and the earth needs the pure sound of your voice to cut through the noise. - God is BUILDING you, ESTABLISHING you, ANOINTING you afresh, and moving through you in a way you have not seen Him do! - You have been commissioned by God in the wilderness and now you are coming out of that season with a weighty governmental mantle and call to the nations to see them come to Jesus! SO HOW DO I RESPOND? - Take higher ground. PURSUE the secret place. FIGHT for it. It says in Hebrews 4:11 “Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest” It can be difficult in pressure but it's the only place you can get free/clear. - Be armored up. Take communion regularly. - Rebuke the wind and waves. This is your offensive stance. Get out the word and bind up what is coming at you. Clear the atmosphere. Tell the opposition to STOP in Jesus name. - SHAKE IT OFF & MOVE ON! In Acts 18:6 it says “But when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.” Don’t let it stop you, hold you back, or slow you down. - Keep your vision before you regardless of what you see. Write down the vision, prophesy it, steward your promises, and guard them with your life. Look at what GOD is doing! We must keep our eyes on Jesus more than the storm that surrounds us, more than any pandemic. What is God doing and saying over you right now ?
By Nate Johnston 23 Apr, 2024
Today, as we were traveling I had a vision of a bloodline painted on the ground that looked like the border of states or nations. Then I saw people approach the line and put things in a trash can before they then JUMPED over the line. Instantly I thought of the Australian border security and how it is illegal to bring seeds from other nations that can harm our habitat. Then I said out loud “Old seeds have had to die in order to crossover” Then the Lord said, “Gethsemane is still a garden” and it hit me. We have been in a season where the Lord has been bringing us through the greatest purging season we have yet seen. It feels like death. But it’s not to us, but to the old place we have been in. But something has shifted. You have crossed over and haven’t even realized it. You spent so long praying and contending for a shift and it’s right now upon you. It always begins spiritually before it begins to show up in the natural, but it’s happened. This Passover was a crossover into an internal shift of epic proportions. Your appetite and affections have changed. Your vision is updating rapidly in real time. You can’t explain how you feel because you are still trying to get your bearings but you know your feet are about to move and you are feeling the winds of change and the quaking of a good kind of transition beneath you. You have felt so lost especially in the last few months but you can begin to taste the rain in the air after the drought and sense that it’s all about to connect. The emptying and the heartache are all part of the process that inevitably lead to a brand new day and a fresh wind... The enemy has raged and sought to rob, steal, and destroy you from every angle but NOTHING can stop what the Lord is about to do in your life. NOTHING! Does he know that pressing and crushing only increases you after some time? Do you know that? Now let me prophesy: You are coming back into your fullness. You are coming back from the brink of death and out of the dark chasm you have been living in and there will not only be a comeback but there will be INTEREST paid for everything that was robbed and stolen from you! The blood of Jesus has spoken over you and it has declared “Passover!” but now the Lord is declaring over you “Your crossover is here!” So get up off your sickbed and shake off the defeat and misery and prophesy again son/daughter because it’s here in Jesus name!
By Nate Johnston 21 Apr, 2024
Since we crossed over into 2024 I have noticed a massive shift in my dreams from the Lord. One of the common themes I keep dreaming about is healing and deliverance, but in every dream, it’s not just happening individually but in masse. It’s become quite common for me to dream where I am seeing people encountering freedom and deliverance on such a scale and level of power and glory that I will wake up feeling it still lingering. It’s captured my heart. The longing and desire of Jesus to see His people truly free. I feel it in my bones: we are crossing over. We have bound the church for too long. The pews have been places where sickness has thrived and we have normalized issues that Jesus healed people from in the Bible. We have celebrated dysfunctions, mental illness, and given the enemy our high places instead of casting out the snake, defying Jezebel, and calling out strongmen for what they are. They have sat at our tables for too long, poisoning pulpits, compromising the bride, killing marriages, and raising prodigals. We have band-aided what has plagued us instead of driven it out with the power of the spirit. We have been sick with nowhere to go and no doctors, nurses, or healers to lead us to wholeness. But yes, those days are over. We are crossing over. TURN OFF THE ENTERTAINMENT Recently in a dream, I heard the Lord say “My church shall be a hospital for the sick again, and no longer the concert” This shook me deeply and broke me realising the current state of the church where we have become more about entertainment, performance worship, big screens and smoke machines, celebrity speakers, cleverly crafted motivational messages, and emotionally charged atmospheres. They give you goosebumps and those moments of temporary emotionalism but are often void of the presence of God and His power to save, heal, and transform the broken. People come because they are deeply broken and they leave…still broken. Instead, they got a show and a self-help bandaid that lasted days if not hours. That’s not hope. That’s not the gospel. That’s not Jesus. That’s another Jesus. That's not evangelism if no one is being changed. That’s not prophecy if it’s enabling dysfunction. We need the power of the spirit again in our churches not gimmicks. We need true connection and community, not a false sense of belonging in exchange for our 10 percent. We have been going to concerts all along and have been paying the price of admission. But no longer, because the concert days are coming to an end and the days of the hospital church are coming back again. THE TOUCH OF HIS HEM And I hear the cry of the world and the church in bondage; “If I could just experience peace!” “If I could just be freed of this pain!” “If I could just get rid of this addiction!” “If I could just silence the tormenting voices!” “If I could just be WHOLE!” And right now there is a longing rising like a deep groan. It’s a birth pang resounding in the earth of a people craving true freedom - the kind that only Jesus can bring. It’s the cry of humanity like the woman with the issue of blood, desperate to be free. That’s why people flocked to Jesus. They were bound and he made them free. He didn’t give them a spiritualised theatre performance and then let them stay oppressed. He set the oppressed free. Jesus was so focused on delivering the oppressed that He would go out of his way to do it. The woman at the well in Samaria was not on Jesus’ intended path but He changed His route just to MAKE HER WHOLE. And right now He is doing the same thing to the church: changing our route to set as many free as possible. We are detouring away from the powerless self-help, inspirational quote Christianity and merging back onto the road of raw power and deliverance. And to those who think I am saying that creativity and the arts are wrong. Please listen to what the Holy Spirit is saying. The arts are worship and are powerful and necessary if they are coupled with the power of the spirit, but on their own, they are a feast in a prison cell. WE CAN’T PLAY SAFE It’s time to break the ceilings of man we have placed over our churches. They have desensitised us to the miracles, signs, and wonders that are meant to be commonplace. It has weakened our confidence in the blood of Jesus. It has reduced the power of the gospel down to goosebumps during worship and that’s a mockery to the spotless lamb that was slain. Pastors and leaders, you can’t play it safe anymore! Bring in the bound! Bring in those facing impossibilities that only Jesus can fix! Repent for your lack of faith and being double-minded. Ask God to remind you again of His mighty power and exploits. Then by faith, open your doors and call for the sick and oppressed and watch what God does I dare you. IT’S COMING BACK! 4 months before Jeff Jansen passed away he called me out of the blue with a word. “Nate you are going to see the anointing of A.A Allen break out again around you. Get ready because what has been lost is being restored!” I believe this. In fact, it’s been happening more frequently and unexpectedly. It’s been stirring me deeply and breaking any desire to be safe and enjoy a tidy meeting anymore. We need the messy meetings again, where the holy spirit is moving in such a way that there isn’t a still person in the room. It’s where you have one section experiencing the joy of the lord, laughing uncontrollably as the Holy Spirit breaks off years of deep-seated depression and oppression. It’s where you have another section going into visions, encountering the glory of God and being irreparably changed. It’s where people begin manifesting without hands even being laid on because strongmen who have been there for decades suddenly get evicted in the weight of the glory in the room. It’s where God touches the minds of those who have been mentally bound and in moments coming into peace and their right minds again. It’s where the worst failures in human standards get baptised in fire and step into a new beginning. It’s where addicts hand over their drugs and pipes. It’s where we begin to see the dead raised normalized again. The blind seeing. The deaf hearing. And the mantle of Jesus, Isaiah 61 falls upon the church again, and we experience the GREATER WORKS Jesus said we would do. That’s the hospital church, and it’s coming back. “The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning. and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor. They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated, they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations. Strangers will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your fields and vineyards. And you will be called priests of the Lord, you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of nations and in their riches you will boast. Instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheritance. And so you will inherit a double portion in your land, and everlasting joy will be yours” - Isaiah 61:1-7  RECEIVE THE POWER Now for those reading this who are experiencing impossibilities and this word felt like both an uncomfortable confrontation and a soothing balm, please read this last part. Jesus wants you healed and whole. Hope deferred has sunken into the church like a slow-releasing poison. It’s the result of years of the enemy delaying breakthroughs and seeing sickness thrive instead of decrease, financial issues abounding, dreams being smashed on the rocks of disappointment, mental wars flourishing, and demonic strongholds getting stronger. The narrative the enemy has wanted you to believe is that you are powerless and God has no interest in setting you free. Right now break that lie! Lay your frustration, and hope deferred down. Shake off the lies of the enemy! Let me pray over you. Jesus, according to your word SET THEM FREE! Every demonic spirit oppressing them GO in Jesus' name! Every strongman of sickness and infirmity GO in Jesus' name! Every assignment of lack leaves now in Jesus' name! Jesus make them WHOLE in the mighty name of Jesus! Now mantle them with power from in high again, and raise your end-time church as the surgeons and healers you called us to be. “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost comes upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth” - Acts 1:8
By Nate Johnston 16 Apr, 2024
(The Lord gave me this word a week before we had our first gathering in Colorado Springs on March 31st 2024) I heard the lord say, “The eagles have been looking for a place to gather and have found none." Alone in their nests. Hidden in crooks and caves they have felt restless and looking for their people. A company who aren’t about building the next empire or setting the next exclusive table of elite celebrity Christians, but a people with no agenda but Jesus. But they have been nomads and vagabonds, looking at their wings molting and feeling like their greatest days were behind them. But the lord says “My eagles, now is the time to gather! For your Lone Ranger days are over. Your days of longing for the new wine and not seeing it are over” In exchange for your hunger and desperation I am giving you what you have been longing for. I am now gathering my eagles in their nests across the globe and they will experience my latter glory says the Lord. For I have marked you as my new breed. A set apart people created for this kairos moment. To lead the charge at the turning of the the tide. Many have said “What is the point? Our nation and nations have decided their fate!” And the lord would say “Josiah generation rise up. Esther generation rise up!” For I am raising up new kings and deposing bad stewards!” (Daniel 2:21-22) You are the kings I am raising up for this hour. My remnant who I have reserved who have not bowed their knee to Baal. You are here at the turning of a tide because I have anointed you to lead the church into the new You have said “We are done with the old manna!” We are done with compromise and mixture and culture telling us what we can and can’t do and can and cannot say. "We are the voice of the one crying in the wilderness. Prepare ye the way of the lord!” You are the ones that won’t bow, won’t relent, and wont hide in caves anymore. You thought your flame had burned out after years of going through valley after valley and battle after battle and dark night after dark night but you have only grown in the dark. You have only increased. In the dirt you died and now the Lord says “In this moment I am now anointing you fresh for this hour of mighty exploits!” “I am mantling you with the double portion of my spirit to rise up as my pure mouthpieces, to confront the compromise and mixture in the current house, and build the new.” You will dethrone kings and evict principalities. You will tear down ideologies and lies cast like a veil of blindness over the nations. And you will see my righteousness exalted over this nation and you will establish my kingdom. So stop running and stop hiding. You are here because you can’t do the old thing anymore. “In fact, this is a moment that you must lay down the last remnants of the old season. It’s time to be emptied so I can fill you, mantle you, and robe you for the days to come” My eagles now is your time. For even now I am breaking the assignments of frustration and chaos that have been sent against you and your family. Fires that have erupted over the years to keep you grounded in a season I have called you to fly, to soar and hear what I am saying. This is a new day and the turning of the tide. “Now!” The Lord says; “Get ready for the new epoch - a season of the diminishing of man’s systems and empires and the era of the remnant. It is now upon you!” We are in the hour of the convocation of eagles and the gathering of those who seek only my face and nothing added. Then I heard the lord say “You have only been in the birth pangs up until now but get ready because the birthing is coming” It is the birthing of my pure and spotless bride that will emerge and set things right. “So my eagles, it’s time to go from flying solo to gathering.” “Where the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom and where my people are in unity together as one voice there is an anointing that looses chains of wickedness and bandage.” For just as there was a purpose to the prophets in Elijah’s day being hidden, there has been a purpose to your season of hiddenness. But that hour is over.” “I am calling you forth and unravelling you from the bonds of the past battles.” “I am breaking off the deeply embedded weariness and trauma that has been sitting like a poison in your soul.” “Like a demonic fatigue it has rested on you and stolen your strength and vision, but NOW you shall rise up on eagles wings again and walk and not faint!” “For how can you fly without strength? And know where to fly without my direction?” “This is why I have responded to your cries and have answered.” This is the turning of the tide that has been against you. This is where I rebuild you. Restore you. Rejuvenate you. Resurrect you. “And set you loose for your next season of flight” Yes the tide has turned. Don’t believe the reports. The tide has turned. “Let it be remembered that at this crossover I strategically had you emerge and soar that the voice of my church would once more crash the chatter of the airwaves and lead my church forward.” Let it be remembered that at the turning of the tide I raised up a remnant of a different dna and cloth that would be the new standard of the new day I am leading them into. And I am right now shaking up the lone nests of the burned out and isolated. Now it’s time to find the eagles and set the table for the convocation. “Yes, once there was only few but now you are many. Once on the fringe now you are coming back to the center again." There has been a great exodus from man made places of bondage but now you have been assigned to be a safe place for those seeking refuge and needing to be rebuilt. “For I am bringing my church back to the book of acts once again and clearing her heart of the idols of her own making.” “So break out of the restraints that have held you, the fears that have shut you down, and the defeat that has choked you, and take fight for the greatest chapter of your life and odyssey with me!” Says the Lord."
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