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TO THOSE IN THE SWIRL, WATCH AS GOD ISSUES A RESTRAINING ORDER ON THE ENEMY!

nateandchristy2018

TO THOSE IN THE SWIRL, WATCH AS GOD ISSUES A RESTRAINING ORDER ON THE ENEMY!

TO THOSE IN THE SWIRL, WATCH AS GOD ISSUES A RESTRAINING ORDER ON THE ENEMY!

For months now the air has been swirling with interference because we are in a “birthing the new” season. From new and fresh blueprints and ideas, strategies, out of the box revelation, to direction and clarity, creativity, messages, and movements that all need to be BROUGHT FORTH. From dreams and downloads to the church breaking out of old mindsets, wineskins, and tired and “stuck” ways. 

The enemy knows how Important this PUSH is and so in this critical moment he has been trying to hit us on all sides to DELAY or STOP the birth. 

It’s like when you begin to feel contractions begin but then suddenly you are hit with an unexpected emergency that snaps you out of that rhythm.

The interruptions have been endless and nonstop. If you are birthing then you know what I am talking about. 

So many have been experiencing spiritual bullying and assault for months now because the enemy is afraid of what you are stepping into and birthing. 

He sees that you haven’t backed down when he tried to take you out in 2021 and now you are ripe and ready to step into your COMEBACK season so he has doubled down to crash your victory. 

His tactic has been simple - to SURROUND you and DISTRACT you with multiple assignments and diversions, and in the last few months and increasingly in the last few weeks this has gone to another level.

SOME SIGNS OF THE SWIRL

These are some of the things we have discerned taking place;

  • Witchcraft and chatter - The enemy prodding people to talk about you, assume your motives and character, or be jealous of you/competition.
  • Character assassination - The enemy stirring people to curse you in the spirit which unleashes a firestorm of problems to come your way. 
  • Strife and relational disconnect - This comes at core relationships and intimacy/communication in marriage and wars against you being on the same page. 
  • Fear-bombing - hitting you with foreboding and Irrational worries and outcomes. 
  • Warfare dreams and night disruption - Causing sudden issues with sleep in your house from sleeplessness, anxiety, tormenting thoughts at the same time every night, and warfare dreams. 
  • Repetitive dreaming - God may actually highlight the direction the words are coming from by showing you over and over. 
  • Territorial confrontations - This is when the enemy wants you to step back by enlisting threatened and insecure people to come at you marking their zone and giving you the verbal shove-back into your box.
  • Narcissistic encounters & gaslighting - When you get hit with encounters with people suddenly belittling you and cutting you down to cause you to give up. 
  • Random people popups- In times like this we notice that people who have been famous for speaking against you will suddenly contact you out of nowhere trying to engage in relationship or conversation.
  • Information requests - This is where you will suddenly get bombarded with random messages and people who aren’t in your inner circle wanting information about your life, what you are doing, and where you are going. Don’t give it to them! Witchcraft operates on information!
  • Information overload - This is where you are bombarded by information, news, opinions, bad reports, and unnecessary information that seems to affect your ability to think clearly and spiritually discern and see correctly.
  • Surveillance spirits - In the same way, that information fuels spiritual chatter the enemy sends spirits to surveil you and often through people scrolling and secretly searching for information about you. Shut them out! Ask God to show you who are the lookers. 
  • Soulish claims made on you - This may sound strange but I have discerned where people believe they own you or have some claim owing by you in some way. This can often be family, parents, or past leaders. This is a demonic contract you need to tear up!
  • Prayers of harm - This is where people straight-up pray words of harm and sickness coming to you and blindly feel justified in their conviction to do so. 
  • Favor doors shutting - People praying and speaking that God would humble you and close doors but it comes from a place of insecurity, not protection like they believe. 
  • Opportunities and sideshows - Great opportunities appearing out of nowhere that are sent to get your eyes off what you are birthing. 
  • Wrong partnerships - When the enemy uses manipulative people to convince you to partner with them but they are just there to steal your ointment and ride your the blessing you went through hell for. 
  • Jobs friends - When the enemy sends friends that are earthly wise, fickle, and will backstab your when you are away so you feel like you can’t trust anyone. So instead of having the right people in the delivery room you have none and step out lonely. 
  • Pressures and expectations - Unexpected pressure and expectations coming at you from every angle to burn you out and steal your energy. 
  • The silent treatment - Where you can feel a muzzling over your mouth. You have much to say but feel somehow like there is something in the way or preventing you from speaking up. 
  • Creative block and confusion - Where your spirit is brimming and ripe with revelation and creativity but the words and ideas just aren’t connecting. It feels like you are under a cloud of confusion and heaviness and are getting more and more frustrated as time goes on. 
  • Red tape and messes - Where simple processes seem to get held up, tied up, or delayed. It’s where you feel like you have twenty messes around you and other time-consuming tasks to do. 
  • Tech crashes and cyber warfare - Where computer crashes, website crashes, constant tech problems, trolls, bots, and online situations occur that you don’t normally have. This is cyber warfare and is a war against your voice. 
  • Strange health issues - Back, neck, and nerve pain, headaches, vertigo, and nausea out of nowhere. 
  • Financial hold-ups - Where for no reason you have payment, bank, and financial hold-ups.
  • The dogs are barking around you - The enemy is stirring up strife nearby in multiple places and trying to tempt you to throw a rock in. 
  • The checkout - Where the enemy convinces you that it’s time to pay the check and run. It’s been too hard and too long and you just want to settle and forfeit the call. 

Do any of those seem familiar to you? Did you recognize them at the time? 

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

A few days ago as I was listening to a crisis phone call conversation the Holy Spirit interrupted the interruption and said “Enough is enough! I am issuing a restraining order on the enemy! I am tying his hands!”

“I will save you from the hands of the wicked and deliver you from the grasp of the cruel.” Jeremiah 15:21

A restraining order is a protective order used by a court to protect a person in a situation involving violence, abuse, harassment, stalking, or assault. 

As he said these words I felt the justice and judgment of the Lord against the enemy and felt strongly that we were about to see every single area of demonic violence, harassment, bullying, abuse, and assault rectified by the spirit of God personally and globally. 

God is going to shut down every single access point and blind every single demon oppressing you so they are unable to again. 

Then I sensed that this was not just for this particular battle but justice for those who have been fighting the same warfare for many years even decades. The enemy has been playing this hand for a long time and the Lord is right now moving in His power but He is also equipping us to understand how this operates in the spiritual realm better. 

I asked Him for more understanding on how to overcome these attacks and He said three things; 

  1. BINDING THE STRONG MAN

“Bind the strongman!” Mark 3:27 says;

“But no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house”

The enemy is mad because we are taking back our inheritance and territory so we must bind him, RESTRAIN him as we take back what is ours. The word “bind” here means to tie, fasten, and declare to be prohibited and unlawful. This is speaking for us to CONFRONT the enemy instead and disarm his plans. Also in a legal context, we are to restrain him according to this scripture and many others such as James 4:7 and Mathew 18:18.

2) WE OVERCOME BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB

Next i heard “My people need to know the covenant I made with them!” - referring to the blood of the lamb at Calvary. We know that we overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony(Revelation 12:11) but we do far less remembering this by taking communion as often as we should before and even through crazy times. Secondly, we need the testimony. We need the prophetic pure decree to break through the air when it feels thick. 

3) KEEP YOUR GATES UP!

The next thing He said was “Your gates are down oh Judah!” and I had to look up what he was meaning when I found this;

“Stand at the gate of the LORD’s house and there proclaim this message: “’Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the LORD” Jeremiah 7:2

Judah which means praise is our worship, and during times of onslaught we tend to praise less but it’s praise that ensures the victory! Also when our gates are down we are susceptible to the enemy moving in our land and homes. 

CHANGING OUR STANCE MOVING FORWARD 

Lastly, let’s shake this off. These attacks are a violation and should never be endured or tolerated. God is stirring up that justice in us to push it back when we sense it. I feel as though in this hour that God is asking us to take a different stance than we have before. He is arming us to not be as taken out by these attacks. I believe we are entering a time where the church will laugh at these feeble attempts to take us off course. We are coming up higher and understanding our authority more and more.

Also, this just screams one massive huge announcement- you and I are a threat. The church may look messy right now but we are a threat even when we look like a hot mess. The truth is we are only getting started and these are just the signs that we just stepped on new ground and birthing has begun.

Lord, I pray for every person reading this who has been facing these tactics of the enemy. We partner with you now Lord to place a restraining order on the enemy in every area he has been assaulting them and causing them harm. We bind you, strongman, in Jesus' name, and you are bound! We are taking ground and we will not be stopped. Lord we ask for recompense for time lost, finances lost, joy lost, peace lost, and everything else that was had been lost in the crossfires of this time in Jesus' name. Witchcraft and demonic interference we disarm you now, surveilling spirits, familiar spirits, and tormenting spirits we bind you now, blind you, and send you into utter darkness now in the name of Jesus. Attacks on the home must stop and doors to the enemy we close. We forgive those who have partnered with the enemy because we know we don’t wrestle flesh and blood and we keep in mind who the real enemy is. Lord we Thank you that your presence surrounds us and your angels are commissioned about us and that greater are you that is in us than he that is in the world! We cover our families in the blood of Jesus today and we remind the enemy that in the courts of heaven he has no claim on us in Jesus' name! 

Jesus, we are learning, this is our worship. Show us and teach us and may you get your full reward. 

Sow a seed

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I Heard the Lord Say, “I Will Smash the Rocks of Transition Anxiety”

By Nate Johnson • 12 Nov, 2024
This week, as I was praying over the pioneers, I received a vision that spoke powerfully of where many of us are right now. In this vision, I saw people standing in a tight path surrounded by mountains that seemed to press in on them from all sides. Their faces showed a mix of confusion and uncertainty, as though they were struggling to discern which way to go. As I watched, I felt the Lord impress upon me that this was a picture of those in transition, a season marked by movement, yet filled with questions and unknowns. Thrust into Transition Right now, many pioneers have been suddenly thrust into this season of transition, where everything seems to be shifting around them. Assignments that once brought purpose have come to a close. Relationships that once felt secure have faded or ended. It’s as though God is clearing the slate, changing everything to prepare each person for the next assignment, the new thing He has in store. The Lord’s heart for us in this moment is to rest in Him and not be overwhelmed by the movement and change. We’re not to stress, strive, or hustle our way through this season, nor are we to lose the peace He has given us. But in the vision, as I continued to look at these pioneers, suddenly, I saw rocks being hurled at them from seemingly nowhere. These rocks were not large or threatening enough to cause real harm, but the pioneers responded as if they were deadly. Rocks in scripture often represent obstacles, burdens, or even accusations in the spirit. During transition, the enemy uses these rocks as tools to create distraction and unrest, seeking to chip away at the confidence, joy, and hope we are meant to carry in these times of change. In this case, these rocks were more than just small irritations—they symbolized deeper issues at play. Anxiety, Fear, and the Battle of the Mind As I asked the Lord what these rocks represented, He revealed that they were fear, anxiety, and foreboding. Many pioneers have endured difficult seasons of transition in the past, seasons where they faced hardship, uncertainty, and unresolved pain. Now, in this current transition, the enemy is stirring up those old anxieties and fears, seeking to trigger feelings of insecurity and foreboding. These small rocks are reminders of past seasons that the enemy is using to create turmoil in the mind. And that’s what this is right now - a battle of the mind. A relentless onslaught of thoughts that pull us back to survival mode, and that old wilderness mentality. The enemy wants us to believe that this transition will be like the painful ones we’ve endured before. But the Lord is saying that this time, it’s different. He wants us to resist the temptation to dwell on fear and instead press into the peace He’s offering. Breaking the Rocks of Anxiety and Fear In the vision, as I continued to see the rocks pelting these pioneers, I heard the Lord say: “I am going to break the rocks and stones of anxiety and foreboding that have been over my people.” He brought to my mind Jeremiah 23:29, which says: “Is not my word like fire,” declares the Lord, “and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?” God’s word is a hammer that shatters the rocks that have burdened His people, breaking every lie, every doubt, and every foreboding thought that the enemy has tried to use against them. Where anxiety has felt like a constant assault, God is declaring that His word will bring freedom and clarity. He is removing the remnants of past traumas and resetting His people for the joy, purpose, and victory that lie ahead. The key right now - THE WORD The key right now to breaking free from these rocks of fear and anxiety is to immerse ourselves in the Word of God. This is a practical word for us in this season. We are called to take out the Word, meditate on it, and let it transform our minds. Let it be as the hammer that breaks through the lies and distortions the enemy has used to cloud our vision. The enemy has been waging war over our minds because he knows that if he can capture our thoughts, he can keep us flustered, anxious, and unable to discern God’s direction. But as we root ourselves in the Word, we reclaim our authority over our minds. We’re not to dwell on fear, but instead to anchor ourselves in the promises God has spoken over us. TAKE BACK GROUND As we reclaim our peace and mental clarity, the fog of confusion will begin to lift. Where we have felt flustered, we will find renewed focus and calm. As God smashes the rocks of transition anxiety, He will release fresh strategies and wisdom. Our minds will be free to hear His voice clearly, to move forward without fear, and to embrace this new season with joy. The Lord is leading us into a place of freedom, not bondage. He is guiding us to a place where we can dream with Him again, where transition is not marked by survival but by excitement for what lies ahead. As we allow God to break the rocks and restore our peace, we will receive the strategies we need to move forward boldly, and unafraid. This is His promise over us in this season. He is breaking the rocks of anxiety and foreboding. He is restoring clarity and peace. And as we walk in this, we will see the fullness of His plans unfold before us, unafraid and with great expectation for what He has prepared. Let me pray for you; Lord, we come before You, surrendering every fear, anxiety, and foreboding that has tried to cling to us in this season of transition. We thank You, Lord, that You are the God who goes before us, who sees every obstacle, every challenge, and every unknown. You know the depths of our hearts and the wounds we’ve carried from past seasons. Today, we release those burdens to You, knowing that You desire to heal and restore us. Father, we invite Your Word to be the hammer that breaks every rock of fear and anxiety in our lives. We ask that You shatter every lie, every doubt, and every foreboding thought that the enemy has used to cloud our minds. Let Your truth replace every anxious thought and fill us with clarity and peace. Holy Spirit, we welcome You to fill the places in our minds and hearts that have been disturbed by transition. Give us the strength to resist fear, to move out of survival mode, and to embrace the new season with confidence and joy. We ask for a reset in our spirits, for fresh vision, and for the excitement of dreaming with You again. Lord, we declare that You are breaking the rocks that have tried to hinder us. We receive the strategies, wisdom, and direction You are releasing. Let our minds be clear and our hearts be at peace, so we can walk forward unafraid, knowing that You have prepared the way of this transition and we no longer have to fear in Jesus name! 

WE ARE IN A RESTART

By Nate Johnston • 09 Nov, 2024
I believe we are in a restart moment. Many have been in survival mode for so long feeling like they were in life support, lost their fire, vision, and hope. The last 4 years have been the the darkest and hardest and many have felt like they internally died. Heart and soul sick. Plagued with pioneering trauma and bruised faith. The enemy has raged against you to kill you. But what he didn’t know and you may not have known was that God was using it for your advantage! How? Yes God knew that if you died to what was plaguing you, you would finally enter the breakthrough you have been praying for. I believe what we’ve been going through in these last few years is the Lord bringing so much of what we’ve called kingdom, our pursuits, and fleshly assignments—He’s been killing them. Like I shared recently, God has wanted for the oxen that you’ve been on to die. Those yokes you were under looked like great religious activity but they were driving you into burnout and mental exhaustion. There’s been so much activity, mindsets, and belief systems created around those activities for so long that they have been keeping us in destructive, tiresome, and weary patterns, leading us back into bondage over and over and over. And so, the purging that we’ve been in during 2024 is the Lord asking: “Will you come up the mountain so I can free you?” “Will you leave behind the thing you think you’re meant to be doing to come back to the only thing that I have asked of you?“ That’s right… intimacy. Connection. Friendship. “Will you leave all those things behind?” So many of us have been in such a purging season and it’s been painful. The tension has never been greater because we’ve been in a place where it’s felt like we’ve had to wrestle so much of what we thought we were meant to be doing with the deep longing and sense that the Lord was wanting us to finally let it go. We’ve also been battling the fact that we’ve seen so many doors close this year and so many things come to a very painful closure and death that we loved and genuinely believed He was on. Many people have been looking at their hands emptied, feeling like there was nothing of themselves left. Feeling completely depleted. But while this has looked negative according to our standards of success and fruitfulness, this was the Lord. This was the Lord’s hand. This truly has been a Lazarus moment for the church. In John 11:11, Jesus said, “My friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; I must wake him up.” I feel like the Lord has allowed the church to go into the tomb season because there are some things that you cannot get rid of unless you kill them. Just as we came to Christ and our old man died, the church has still been resurrecting old-nature concepts, values, ideas, and idolatries that the Lord has needed to kill off completely. It’s interesting how Jesus came into Bethany and wept with Lazarus’s sisters, knowing that He turned up late. I feel like it’s been a moment that’s felt like, “God, where are you? I don’t even know where you’ve been.” But the Lord has not abandoned you. He’s needed for those dependencies on so many comforts and things that we’ve relied on for so long to die. We’ve needed to lose our codependent relationship with the spirit of religion and institution to find ourselves fully alive in Christ again. THE SEISMIC SHIFT IN NATIONS Now, before I go any further, let me say this as well: This has not just been on a personal level. The nations have had to enter into dark days where it looked like the hand of the Lord was not present so they could reveal our need for Him. The nations have had to fall into a certain level of disrepair so that we would begin to cry again for the living God rather than depending on our own abilities. God has wanted the church to cry out for Him again instead of other Gods and idols. Even in western nations founded on Christianity have fallen for other Gods and priorities. They have been worshipping a “me” gospel and a “my truth” ideology and lost the fear of the Lord. But this week during the US election there has been a shift in the spirit—a seismic shift, as I called it—that I felt rippled out to the nations of the earth. It was a twofold process. First, it was a message to the enemy: God is not done with America and the nations, and He’s not done with the church. Second, it was a seismic shockwave broadcasting that we’ve entered a new chapter and a restart that begins now. Let me prophesy: Just as when Jesus died on the cross, He said, “It is finished,” and darkness spread out over the earth, and there was a deep earthquake, in that same way, an old chapter ended, and a new one began. There was a restart in the Spirit that began to take place. LET THE REPAIR-RATIONS BEGIN This week we entered into a Nehemiah moment where after the tomb and the demolition comes the rebuilding.. The enemy has been slowly dismantling people and nations through ideologies, agendas, and lies, but there is a great revealing speeding up that will bring about a great repentance, and a rebuilding. The light is on families, and nations. And I heard the word “REPARATIONS!” It’s the justice and recovery of the Lord personally and globally! Watch and see the hand of the Lord people of God! So, body of Christ, let me say this to you and prophesy this clearly: You’ve been through closure. You’ve been through the season of things falling to the ground and dying. You’ve been through the darkest nights of the soul in these last three to four years. But we are entering the greatest resurrection moment and restart that we’ve ever seen. The greatest comeback we have seen in our lifetime. You and I, the Church, and humanity are coming out of the tomb. We’re unwinding the bandages and looking our Savior in the eyes again and following Him and no one else. This is the restart... 

I Heard the Lord Say, “I Will Smash the Rocks of Transition Anxiety”

By Nate Johnson • 12 Nov, 2024
This week, as I was praying over the pioneers, I received a vision that spoke powerfully of where many of us are right now. In this vision, I saw people standing in a tight path surrounded by mountains that seemed to press in on them from all sides. Their faces showed a mix of confusion and uncertainty, as though they were struggling to discern which way to go. As I watched, I felt the Lord impress upon me that this was a picture of those in transition, a season marked by movement, yet filled with questions and unknowns. Thrust into Transition Right now, many pioneers have been suddenly thrust into this season of transition, where everything seems to be shifting around them. Assignments that once brought purpose have come to a close. Relationships that once felt secure have faded or ended. It’s as though God is clearing the slate, changing everything to prepare each person for the next assignment, the new thing He has in store. The Lord’s heart for us in this moment is to rest in Him and not be overwhelmed by the movement and change. We’re not to stress, strive, or hustle our way through this season, nor are we to lose the peace He has given us. But in the vision, as I continued to look at these pioneers, suddenly, I saw rocks being hurled at them from seemingly nowhere. These rocks were not large or threatening enough to cause real harm, but the pioneers responded as if they were deadly. Rocks in scripture often represent obstacles, burdens, or even accusations in the spirit. During transition, the enemy uses these rocks as tools to create distraction and unrest, seeking to chip away at the confidence, joy, and hope we are meant to carry in these times of change. In this case, these rocks were more than just small irritations—they symbolized deeper issues at play. Anxiety, Fear, and the Battle of the Mind As I asked the Lord what these rocks represented, He revealed that they were fear, anxiety, and foreboding. Many pioneers have endured difficult seasons of transition in the past, seasons where they faced hardship, uncertainty, and unresolved pain. Now, in this current transition, the enemy is stirring up those old anxieties and fears, seeking to trigger feelings of insecurity and foreboding. These small rocks are reminders of past seasons that the enemy is using to create turmoil in the mind. And that’s what this is right now - a battle of the mind. A relentless onslaught of thoughts that pull us back to survival mode, and that old wilderness mentality. The enemy wants us to believe that this transition will be like the painful ones we’ve endured before. But the Lord is saying that this time, it’s different. He wants us to resist the temptation to dwell on fear and instead press into the peace He’s offering. Breaking the Rocks of Anxiety and Fear In the vision, as I continued to see the rocks pelting these pioneers, I heard the Lord say: “I am going to break the rocks and stones of anxiety and foreboding that have been over my people.” He brought to my mind Jeremiah 23:29, which says: “Is not my word like fire,” declares the Lord, “and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?” God’s word is a hammer that shatters the rocks that have burdened His people, breaking every lie, every doubt, and every foreboding thought that the enemy has tried to use against them. Where anxiety has felt like a constant assault, God is declaring that His word will bring freedom and clarity. He is removing the remnants of past traumas and resetting His people for the joy, purpose, and victory that lie ahead. The key right now - THE WORD The key right now to breaking free from these rocks of fear and anxiety is to immerse ourselves in the Word of God. This is a practical word for us in this season. We are called to take out the Word, meditate on it, and let it transform our minds. Let it be as the hammer that breaks through the lies and distortions the enemy has used to cloud our vision. The enemy has been waging war over our minds because he knows that if he can capture our thoughts, he can keep us flustered, anxious, and unable to discern God’s direction. But as we root ourselves in the Word, we reclaim our authority over our minds. We’re not to dwell on fear, but instead to anchor ourselves in the promises God has spoken over us. TAKE BACK GROUND As we reclaim our peace and mental clarity, the fog of confusion will begin to lift. Where we have felt flustered, we will find renewed focus and calm. As God smashes the rocks of transition anxiety, He will release fresh strategies and wisdom. Our minds will be free to hear His voice clearly, to move forward without fear, and to embrace this new season with joy. The Lord is leading us into a place of freedom, not bondage. He is guiding us to a place where we can dream with Him again, where transition is not marked by survival but by excitement for what lies ahead. As we allow God to break the rocks and restore our peace, we will receive the strategies we need to move forward boldly, and unafraid. This is His promise over us in this season. He is breaking the rocks of anxiety and foreboding. He is restoring clarity and peace. And as we walk in this, we will see the fullness of His plans unfold before us, unafraid and with great expectation for what He has prepared. Let me pray for you; Lord, we come before You, surrendering every fear, anxiety, and foreboding that has tried to cling to us in this season of transition. We thank You, Lord, that You are the God who goes before us, who sees every obstacle, every challenge, and every unknown. You know the depths of our hearts and the wounds we’ve carried from past seasons. Today, we release those burdens to You, knowing that You desire to heal and restore us. Father, we invite Your Word to be the hammer that breaks every rock of fear and anxiety in our lives. We ask that You shatter every lie, every doubt, and every foreboding thought that the enemy has used to cloud our minds. Let Your truth replace every anxious thought and fill us with clarity and peace. Holy Spirit, we welcome You to fill the places in our minds and hearts that have been disturbed by transition. Give us the strength to resist fear, to move out of survival mode, and to embrace the new season with confidence and joy. We ask for a reset in our spirits, for fresh vision, and for the excitement of dreaming with You again. Lord, we declare that You are breaking the rocks that have tried to hinder us. We receive the strategies, wisdom, and direction You are releasing. Let our minds be clear and our hearts be at peace, so we can walk forward unafraid, knowing that You have prepared the way of this transition and we no longer have to fear in Jesus name! 

WE ARE IN A RESTART

By Nate Johnston • 09 Nov, 2024
I believe we are in a restart moment. Many have been in survival mode for so long feeling like they were in life support, lost their fire, vision, and hope. The last 4 years have been the the darkest and hardest and many have felt like they internally died. Heart and soul sick. Plagued with pioneering trauma and bruised faith. The enemy has raged against you to kill you. But what he didn’t know and you may not have known was that God was using it for your advantage! How? Yes God knew that if you died to what was plaguing you, you would finally enter the breakthrough you have been praying for. I believe what we’ve been going through in these last few years is the Lord bringing so much of what we’ve called kingdom, our pursuits, and fleshly assignments—He’s been killing them. Like I shared recently, God has wanted for the oxen that you’ve been on to die. Those yokes you were under looked like great religious activity but they were driving you into burnout and mental exhaustion. There’s been so much activity, mindsets, and belief systems created around those activities for so long that they have been keeping us in destructive, tiresome, and weary patterns, leading us back into bondage over and over and over. And so, the purging that we’ve been in during 2024 is the Lord asking: “Will you come up the mountain so I can free you?” “Will you leave behind the thing you think you’re meant to be doing to come back to the only thing that I have asked of you?“ That’s right… intimacy. Connection. Friendship. “Will you leave all those things behind?” So many of us have been in such a purging season and it’s been painful. The tension has never been greater because we’ve been in a place where it’s felt like we’ve had to wrestle so much of what we thought we were meant to be doing with the deep longing and sense that the Lord was wanting us to finally let it go. We’ve also been battling the fact that we’ve seen so many doors close this year and so many things come to a very painful closure and death that we loved and genuinely believed He was on. Many people have been looking at their hands emptied, feeling like there was nothing of themselves left. Feeling completely depleted. But while this has looked negative according to our standards of success and fruitfulness, this was the Lord. This was the Lord’s hand. This truly has been a Lazarus moment for the church. In John 11:11, Jesus said, “My friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; I must wake him up.” I feel like the Lord has allowed the church to go into the tomb season because there are some things that you cannot get rid of unless you kill them. Just as we came to Christ and our old man died, the church has still been resurrecting old-nature concepts, values, ideas, and idolatries that the Lord has needed to kill off completely. It’s interesting how Jesus came into Bethany and wept with Lazarus’s sisters, knowing that He turned up late. I feel like it’s been a moment that’s felt like, “God, where are you? I don’t even know where you’ve been.” But the Lord has not abandoned you. He’s needed for those dependencies on so many comforts and things that we’ve relied on for so long to die. We’ve needed to lose our codependent relationship with the spirit of religion and institution to find ourselves fully alive in Christ again. THE SEISMIC SHIFT IN NATIONS Now, before I go any further, let me say this as well: This has not just been on a personal level. The nations have had to enter into dark days where it looked like the hand of the Lord was not present so they could reveal our need for Him. The nations have had to fall into a certain level of disrepair so that we would begin to cry again for the living God rather than depending on our own abilities. God has wanted the church to cry out for Him again instead of other Gods and idols. Even in western nations founded on Christianity have fallen for other Gods and priorities. They have been worshipping a “me” gospel and a “my truth” ideology and lost the fear of the Lord. But this week during the US election there has been a shift in the spirit—a seismic shift, as I called it—that I felt rippled out to the nations of the earth. It was a twofold process. First, it was a message to the enemy: God is not done with America and the nations, and He’s not done with the church. Second, it was a seismic shockwave broadcasting that we’ve entered a new chapter and a restart that begins now. Let me prophesy: Just as when Jesus died on the cross, He said, “It is finished,” and darkness spread out over the earth, and there was a deep earthquake, in that same way, an old chapter ended, and a new one began. There was a restart in the Spirit that began to take place. LET THE REPAIR-RATIONS BEGIN This week we entered into a Nehemiah moment where after the tomb and the demolition comes the rebuilding.. The enemy has been slowly dismantling people and nations through ideologies, agendas, and lies, but there is a great revealing speeding up that will bring about a great repentance, and a rebuilding. The light is on families, and nations. And I heard the word “REPARATIONS!” It’s the justice and recovery of the Lord personally and globally! Watch and see the hand of the Lord people of God! So, body of Christ, let me say this to you and prophesy this clearly: You’ve been through closure. You’ve been through the season of things falling to the ground and dying. You’ve been through the darkest nights of the soul in these last three to four years. But we are entering the greatest resurrection moment and restart that we’ve ever seen. The greatest comeback we have seen in our lifetime. You and I, the Church, and humanity are coming out of the tomb. We’re unwinding the bandages and looking our Savior in the eyes again and following Him and no one else. This is the restart... 

THE FOURTH MAN IN THE FIRE

By Nate Johnston • 05 Nov, 2024
As I was praying over this week, I saw a clear vision of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego cast into the fiery furnace for standing for righteousness when King Nebuchadnezzar ordered them to bow, and they would not bow. I feel this word is for the whole body of Christ right now, as many are going through personal struggles and battles. But I believe that what I was seeing was even more specifically for those who are standing for righteousness in their nation, in a time of division, high tension, and where people are easily triggered. The spirit of this age is raging, causing people to act in anger, to lash out at others, even within the body of Christ. There is a remnant of people who’ve been standing for righteousness and standing on the word of the Lord, who’ve come under intense slander, attacks against their reputation, their future opportunities, and even their livelihoods. Let me say this to you - Your stand for righteousness has caused a demonic surrounding warfare around you. This whole year, you’ve been living in a constant state of backlash because you’ve stood for righteousness. And it feels like, at this moment in time, you’ve been under so much pressure, so much intense scrutiny, surveillance, and warfare, that your mind, heart, and soul can hardly bear anymore. It’s felt like you’ve been cast into the fire of judgment and adversity, with battles and opposition swirling around you on a personal level, not to mention what you feel in your own nation and community. The war has been against your health. It’s been against your finances. It’s been against your relationships. It’s been against every part of your life. And you’re wondering, “God, what are you doing? Why am I suddenly in this place when I’ve stood for You? I’ve stood for righteousness.” And the Lord says to you this week, I am the fourth man standing in the fire. Let me say this again. The Lord says, I am the fourth man standing in the fire. I am the fourth man standing in the fire. And you will walk out of this not even smelling like smoke. For those who put Me first above man, for those who have not bowed to Baal, I will deliver, and I will bring recompense, says the Lord. Stand and watch My deliverance. Even in the next few months, when it looks impossible, even if your future looks bleak—but I will rescue you from that which has been after you, says the Lord. 

WILL YOU SPEND THIS WEEK IN THE THRONE-ROOM OR THE MEDIA ROOM?

By Nate Johnston • 04 Nov, 2024
I hear the Lord saying over the body of Christ: “Where is your peace? This week, you must come up higher. This week, you must gather around the throne room and hear what I have to say. “For the propaganda of the enemy is raging, and the media room is loud, broadcasting false hopes and false prophecies over the nations. But do you hear what I have to say? Can you hear My voice amidst the multitude of noise? I need you to come up higher. I need you to hear what I have to say. I need you to be delivered from the words, the accusations, the slander, and the things swirling in the spirit that have caused you to lose your footing and your peace. Step back into the throne room. Find that place of rest in Me again—despite what you see, despite what you hear.” As the Lord spoke, I went into a vision and saw people laid out in the throne room, wailing as if being purged of the pains of the times. Wars, rumors of wars—all the things swirling in the natural. These were realities, but they had failed to hear what the Lord was saying for this time. “You’ve only been listening to one side of the story,” the Lord said. “Do you know what I’m about to do? Do you know what I’m unleashing in the earth? Do you know the answers I’m releasing as an antidote to the wickedness of the times? Or have you lost sight of My heart for My people in this critical moment in history? Do you feel like I have been silent? Do you feel like My hand has been distant from the problems you face? You’ve been in survival mode, already accepting the outcomes the news and propaganda have delivered, drinking their poison that steals your hope and your future. But this week, I want you to anchor yourself again in the throne room, in My presence, in My abiding glory. “My presence will detox you, ridding you of the lies that have crushed your soul, made it sick, and caused you to backpedal on the faith and authority I’ve given you to wield in this hour.” “I know the storm is raging around you right now. I know the personal battles, the battles for your family, and the battles for your nation have left you feeling unsafe and unsettled. But I need you to hear what I am saying to My people in this unsettling time: I am Yahweh. I am God Almighty on the throne. I am the fourth man standing in the fire with you today.” “I am still your refuge. Though the winds blow, and the ground feels unsteady, I am your firm foundation. I am here to cover you, to uphold you, and to shelter you. I need you to know that I am in control. Do not lose sight of who I am or of My love for you. Anchor yourself in Me and you will not be shaken.” Then, in the vision, I saw people stand and walk to a table with scrolls and pens. They began to legislate in the spirit, as if at a table of heavenly strategy—releasing and decreeing the values of heaven into the earth. From a place of peace and presence, they were able to truly legislate and intercede for nations in crisis. But many have been battling intellect with intellect and fires with fires. “In this hour, I need My people to come up higher,” says the Lord. “I need them to battle from a different place and perspective. Get out from behind your keyboards and begin to release My will into the earth.” In the third part of the vision, I saw Jesus come and sign the scrolls that had been written and legislated. Then runners and heralds took these scrolls, opening them and singing their words. A song was released—a frequency and sound so powerful that it silenced the demonic realm raging like a fire across the earth. It shut them down. A clarion call sounded through worship, bringing things into divine order. The Lord said, “My people, have you forgotten your sound? Have you forgotten your voice? Have you forgotten the frequency I placed within you? Have you forgotten the authority I’ve given you? It’s time to rise with My strategies, My solutions, and release them as a song into the earth. “The earth has been in drought. It has been long since the church has seen My signs, wonders, and glory, and they have begun to fall for a counterfeit. But this will be the hour that I release you as a song into the earth, a song of uncompromising truth and glory that will shatter the blindfolds and veils that have covered My people, causing them to walk in dark deception and to fall for another savior, another outcome, another solution that seems right to man but leads to destruction. But you will lead them out. This week, get into My presence and reclaim your peace. I want you to see hope again. I want you to see that this is the hour you were born for—a time with reason and purpose, for you hold the keys to unlock those who are bound, and nations that are bound. “So this week, step out of the vitriol and back into My presence and glory. Celebrate from a place of victory that I have already won. My blood is enough. I am turning back the tide that has come against you, your family, and the nations.” 
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