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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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WHEN JEZEBEL SENDS YOU INTO ISOLATION

By Nate Johnston • June 3, 2025
One of the greatest epidemics of the church is breaking right now. And as we start this week, I want to pray over you and prophesy into your life especially if you’ve been isolated by the enemy or been in a season of feeling very disconnected from other believers and from people. If you’ve seen attack and warfare on your relationships, marriages, your kids, and those around you… If you’ve gone through season-after-season of wrong alignments, unhealthy coverings, Sauls instead of fathers & mothers, all while being surrounded by wolves... Or if you’ve just been rejected over and over again, and it’s sent you into isolation. I believe the Lord is speaking to us all in this season. I believe we are seeing a spiritual movement both on a micro and a macro level right now to shift this tide. We’re seeing the Lord expose an assignment that has been allowed and tolerated in the body of Christ for too long. That assignment is isolation. It’s a tactic of the Jezebel spirit, one that has hidden easily within the institutional church paradigm and its thrived within the current culture of the church. But the Lord is weeding it out, exposing it, and bringing us back into the revelation of family and belonging. That truth is counteracting and unloosing the bonds of this demonic principality because people are no longer interested in a nice sermon if they have to go home and be alone in the week. This spirit has worked overtime on us. It’s a principality that hasn’t just broken apart the body of Christ into factions and denominations. It’s also stopped the most powerful voices, those carrying truth, and authority from rising into their place. It’s created a cancel culture within the church. An isolation culture. It’s created antisocial behavioral norms within the church, and we’ve accepted it for too long. But I prophesy today - That is all shifting. I prophesy it’s shifting over your life most importantly. As I was praying into this, I asked the Lord why Jezebel seems so invested in creating this kind of division and isolation. And He said that Jezebel recognizes the power and anointing that comes when the church walks in unity. That’s the macro. The Jezebel spirit knows that when believers support one another, when we link arms, there is an anointing that is unleashed. Because if it can isolate - it can assassinate. Let me say that again - If Jezebel can isolate, it can assassinate. Why do you think so many people can attend church on a Sunday and still feel utterly alone? Why is it accepted that we go to events and meetings and conferences, but still lack genuine connection? The church has often wrapped mission in religious activity, while relational connection, the very essence of family has been lost. It’s led us into pain and deep spiritual disconnection. And it’s time for this to shift. As I continued to pray, the Lord reminded me of the seasons in my own life where this spirit came after us again and again. I remembered being in churches where the nature of our calling led to sudden rejection, pushing us out of community. I remembered delivering a warning word to leaders, and immediately being outcast. I remembered being in a toxic work environment, where a Jezebel-influenced boss physically isolated me in a separate building so she could bully me. And I remembered the many times this happened in ministry spaces. It’s happened over and over again and we have all become used to it. We’ve learned to operate alone. And we’ve called it “normal” ministry life. We say the church is a family, but so many have lived as lone rangers even inside a church setting. But this is breaking now! Look at Elijah in 1 Kings 18. Jezebel threatens him. And he runs for his life. He hides in fear. He isolates. And even though God looks after him, there are a few things that take place in that moment that I believe the Lord is highlighting now as a blueprint for us. First, Elijah is fed. I see this in a few lights - one as the fresh manna from heaven and sustenance building him up again. Secondly, in light of the breaking bread of Acts 2 pointing to God leading him out of isolation. And thirdly as the bread of deliverance. Next he’s reminded of the still-small-voice because fear had drowned it out. In isolation and fear, the voice of the Lord pulls us out because we are so bombarded by lies and it’s the enemies lies that keep us there. Right now the lies that sent you there need to be broken. Then what happens? Elijah wraps his mantle around his face and leaves the cave which is prophetically representative of choosing to pick up what we dropped when we went through the pain of slander and accusation that led us to isolation in the first place. It’s picking up our calling again. Oh but it’s also more. It’s choosing to allow your heart to let people in after a season of being wounded. I believe this is the invitation from the Lord right now. To leave the cave. To leave the place of isolation. I know it’s easier said than done. I know many of you are afraid, and rightfully so. You’ve been burned. You’ve been rejected. But there is a grace right now to break this assignment of isolation and assassination that has put your gifting on pause and your purpose on the back burner. This is a season of finding your tribe. Finding the people who will lift your arms. It’s time to step out of religious, controlled environments and into true community. Into spiritual family. There is a remnant rising for this moment and we are linking arms while creating safe spaces. Pastors and leaders from all walks of life are laying their brands in the dust and choosing connection over control. It’s the Acts 2 core calling us back to breaking bread. This is the priority now. We are better together. Healthier together. Even COVID was a prophetic image of the enemy’s plan to isolate. But we’re saying no more. We will not let this spirit mute our voices or steal our destinies. We need each other. So I prophesy over you: This moment right now marks the breaking of isolation. Loneliness is breaking off of you. It’s time to find your people I prophesy this week you will feel something stirring on this front. A stirring. A longing. Your heart beginning to feel again. And bondages will break in the process. You’ll feel the shift inside and see it on the outside as God brings this into being. I prophesy - New environments, new rooms, new tables places you never imagined will open to you. God can do it in a short time. But I also challenge you , you need to step out. Start walking toward the community God has prepared for you. Because isolation is over In Jesus’ name. 

SOMEONE NEEDS TO HEAR THIS TODAY—TURN THE PAGE!

By Nate Johnston • May 27, 2025
Let go. Don’t get stuck because you can’t move on without the closure of answers to why things landed the way they did. Why things fell apart and why you were left holding the broken fragments of a dream you felt God led you to. Why you were attacked so relentlessly and lost so much. Why you were shipwrecked, slandered, and feel like you have only gone backwards not forwards. I know it’s cost you everything and you don’t see what it produced yet, but unless you turn the page it won’t allow God to connect the dots and reshuffle the pages that right now feel out of order. For isn’t he the orchestrator of your life? He knows what those dark nights produced even when you didn’t. He knows what those seasons were for even though right now all you see when you look behind is dead ends and wild goose chases. But unless you turn the page you’ll never get to see the rest of the story and see Him connect all the seasons like poetry. Yes, even the hard and most painful moments He has a way of turning around if you’ll let Him. So how do you do that today? Give up. It’s where you choose to close the chapter by giving Him the pieces and questions. It’s a faith thing and the deepest surrender when it feels unjust and you don’t understand. And I know many reading this feel bottled up with grief, but today refuse to keep rehearsing or trying to do this in your own strength. The floor is the only way forward and there’s a brand new chapter waiting to unfold. It’s a call to trust. To believe that even what you can’t understand has been seen, measured, and held by a God who doesn’t waste pain. But you have been living in a chapter that ended a long time ago. The ink dried, the door closed, but your heart stayed behind trying to rewrite what already happened. Let that go. The new is already here waiting for you to choose it over the tired tape of the past you have been watching. It’s here to show you that there’s so much more ahead for you than you knew. It’s waiting to breathe life into your lungs and bring clarity and vision after the fog. So turn the page, not because you understand but because you are choosing to trust the one who’s writing it. And watch what He does with the blank space. 

WHEN JEZEBEL SENDS YOU INTO ISOLATION

By Nate Johnston • June 3, 2025
One of the greatest epidemics of the church is breaking right now. And as we start this week, I want to pray over you and prophesy into your life especially if you’ve been isolated by the enemy or been in a season of feeling very disconnected from other believers and from people. If you’ve seen attack and warfare on your relationships, marriages, your kids, and those around you… If you’ve gone through season-after-season of wrong alignments, unhealthy coverings, Sauls instead of fathers & mothers, all while being surrounded by wolves... Or if you’ve just been rejected over and over again, and it’s sent you into isolation. I believe the Lord is speaking to us all in this season. I believe we are seeing a spiritual movement both on a micro and a macro level right now to shift this tide. We’re seeing the Lord expose an assignment that has been allowed and tolerated in the body of Christ for too long. That assignment is isolation. It’s a tactic of the Jezebel spirit, one that has hidden easily within the institutional church paradigm and its thrived within the current culture of the church. But the Lord is weeding it out, exposing it, and bringing us back into the revelation of family and belonging. That truth is counteracting and unloosing the bonds of this demonic principality because people are no longer interested in a nice sermon if they have to go home and be alone in the week. This spirit has worked overtime on us. It’s a principality that hasn’t just broken apart the body of Christ into factions and denominations. It’s also stopped the most powerful voices, those carrying truth, and authority from rising into their place. It’s created a cancel culture within the church. An isolation culture. It’s created antisocial behavioral norms within the church, and we’ve accepted it for too long. But I prophesy today - That is all shifting. I prophesy it’s shifting over your life most importantly. As I was praying into this, I asked the Lord why Jezebel seems so invested in creating this kind of division and isolation. And He said that Jezebel recognizes the power and anointing that comes when the church walks in unity. That’s the macro. The Jezebel spirit knows that when believers support one another, when we link arms, there is an anointing that is unleashed. Because if it can isolate - it can assassinate. Let me say that again - If Jezebel can isolate, it can assassinate. Why do you think so many people can attend church on a Sunday and still feel utterly alone? Why is it accepted that we go to events and meetings and conferences, but still lack genuine connection? The church has often wrapped mission in religious activity, while relational connection, the very essence of family has been lost. It’s led us into pain and deep spiritual disconnection. And it’s time for this to shift. As I continued to pray, the Lord reminded me of the seasons in my own life where this spirit came after us again and again. I remembered being in churches where the nature of our calling led to sudden rejection, pushing us out of community. I remembered delivering a warning word to leaders, and immediately being outcast. I remembered being in a toxic work environment, where a Jezebel-influenced boss physically isolated me in a separate building so she could bully me. And I remembered the many times this happened in ministry spaces. It’s happened over and over again and we have all become used to it. We’ve learned to operate alone. And we’ve called it “normal” ministry life. We say the church is a family, but so many have lived as lone rangers even inside a church setting. But this is breaking now! Look at Elijah in 1 Kings 18. Jezebel threatens him. And he runs for his life. He hides in fear. He isolates. And even though God looks after him, there are a few things that take place in that moment that I believe the Lord is highlighting now as a blueprint for us. First, Elijah is fed. I see this in a few lights - one as the fresh manna from heaven and sustenance building him up again. Secondly, in light of the breaking bread of Acts 2 pointing to God leading him out of isolation. And thirdly as the bread of deliverance. Next he’s reminded of the still-small-voice because fear had drowned it out. In isolation and fear, the voice of the Lord pulls us out because we are so bombarded by lies and it’s the enemies lies that keep us there. Right now the lies that sent you there need to be broken. Then what happens? Elijah wraps his mantle around his face and leaves the cave which is prophetically representative of choosing to pick up what we dropped when we went through the pain of slander and accusation that led us to isolation in the first place. It’s picking up our calling again. Oh but it’s also more. It’s choosing to allow your heart to let people in after a season of being wounded. I believe this is the invitation from the Lord right now. To leave the cave. To leave the place of isolation. I know it’s easier said than done. I know many of you are afraid, and rightfully so. You’ve been burned. You’ve been rejected. But there is a grace right now to break this assignment of isolation and assassination that has put your gifting on pause and your purpose on the back burner. This is a season of finding your tribe. Finding the people who will lift your arms. It’s time to step out of religious, controlled environments and into true community. Into spiritual family. There is a remnant rising for this moment and we are linking arms while creating safe spaces. Pastors and leaders from all walks of life are laying their brands in the dust and choosing connection over control. It’s the Acts 2 core calling us back to breaking bread. This is the priority now. We are better together. Healthier together. Even COVID was a prophetic image of the enemy’s plan to isolate. But we’re saying no more. We will not let this spirit mute our voices or steal our destinies. We need each other. So I prophesy over you: This moment right now marks the breaking of isolation. Loneliness is breaking off of you. It’s time to find your people I prophesy this week you will feel something stirring on this front. A stirring. A longing. Your heart beginning to feel again. And bondages will break in the process. You’ll feel the shift inside and see it on the outside as God brings this into being. I prophesy - New environments, new rooms, new tables places you never imagined will open to you. God can do it in a short time. But I also challenge you , you need to step out. Start walking toward the community God has prepared for you. Because isolation is over In Jesus’ name. 

SOMEONE NEEDS TO HEAR THIS TODAY—TURN THE PAGE!

By Nate Johnston • May 27, 2025
Let go. Don’t get stuck because you can’t move on without the closure of answers to why things landed the way they did. Why things fell apart and why you were left holding the broken fragments of a dream you felt God led you to. Why you were attacked so relentlessly and lost so much. Why you were shipwrecked, slandered, and feel like you have only gone backwards not forwards. I know it’s cost you everything and you don’t see what it produced yet, but unless you turn the page it won’t allow God to connect the dots and reshuffle the pages that right now feel out of order. For isn’t he the orchestrator of your life? He knows what those dark nights produced even when you didn’t. He knows what those seasons were for even though right now all you see when you look behind is dead ends and wild goose chases. But unless you turn the page you’ll never get to see the rest of the story and see Him connect all the seasons like poetry. Yes, even the hard and most painful moments He has a way of turning around if you’ll let Him. So how do you do that today? Give up. It’s where you choose to close the chapter by giving Him the pieces and questions. It’s a faith thing and the deepest surrender when it feels unjust and you don’t understand. And I know many reading this feel bottled up with grief, but today refuse to keep rehearsing or trying to do this in your own strength. The floor is the only way forward and there’s a brand new chapter waiting to unfold. It’s a call to trust. To believe that even what you can’t understand has been seen, measured, and held by a God who doesn’t waste pain. But you have been living in a chapter that ended a long time ago. The ink dried, the door closed, but your heart stayed behind trying to rewrite what already happened. Let that go. The new is already here waiting for you to choose it over the tired tape of the past you have been watching. It’s here to show you that there’s so much more ahead for you than you knew. It’s waiting to breathe life into your lungs and bring clarity and vision after the fog. So turn the page, not because you understand but because you are choosing to trust the one who’s writing it. And watch what He does with the blank space. 

DON'T MISS YOUR BURNING BUSH SEASON

By Nate Johnston • May 27, 2025
As we start this week, I have a word for many out there: Don’t miss your burning bush season. Or maybe I should say, don’t overlook your burning bush season. Don’t miss it. We often look at seasons where things don’t add up or make sense and diagnose them as seasons of waiting, seasons we’re just trying to survive until we get to the next destination, the next stop. We don’t always see the richness of what God is depositing in each season. In the last few days, I keep hearing this: Don’t miss your burning bush season. Remember the story of Moses? He was tending his father-in-law’s sheep in the wilderness when he saw the burning bush. He was simply doing his job, satisfied in it when suddenly, there was an encounter with God. And God pulled him out out of the wilderness, out of that environment, out of that situation, out of the guilt and shame of his past. God pulled him out and gave him an assignment. Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law… and the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.” - Exodus 3:1–2 “God called to him from within the bush, ‘Moses! Moses!’ And Moses said, ‘Here I am.’” - Exodus 3:4 He was simply doing his job, when suddenly, there was an encounter with God. And God pulled him out of the wilderness, out of that environment, out of that situation, out of the guilt and shame of his past. God pulled him out and gave him an assignment. “So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” - Exodus 3:10 And I believe we are in a moment right now that, to many, feels like a standstill. It feels like a hiatus after a long season of pioneering for the Lord, one that has strangely led to this place of wilderness. As I’ve been sharing for a while, we’ve been in a Hosea 2 season, where the Lord has been leading the Church back into the wilderness. That wilderness has been necessary for you. You’ve needed respite. You’ve needed refreshing. You’ve needed to break away from the hustle so God could reset you and bring you back to encounter, which is the ultimate reset. That’s what truly resets you. You’ve taken on so many mantles and jackets—Saul’s armor—for years. You don’t know which way is up anymore, or what your assignment is, who you’re called to, or who you’re not called to. You don’t know where your alignments are meant to be. You’ve had your hands in too many pies, your feet muddy from too many places. You’ve been slimed, slandered. You’ve walked through heartache, difficulty, betrayal. Yet, you’ve felt the compulsion to step into anything just to feel like you’re not lost. But no, the wilderness has been necessary to set you free. Here’s what you need to know: the wilderness can shift quickly because the wilderness leads to encounter, and encounter launches you into your new assignment. I say this over you and prophesy: you are in a very small window of time where the Lord is doing a massive work. The time isn’t long but the work is deep. Let me say that again: the time isn’t long, but the work is deep. God is going deep generationally. This isn’t a short cleanup process. God is going deep into your life, and He wants to set your feet on a new foundation. That’s right this season you’re in right now is a season of a brand-new slab being laid in your life. A new foundation. What is foundation? It’s where God gets you ready, gears you up for the new thing He’s going to build in your life, around you, and through you. Last year, we went to Australia, and the Lord gave me a dream: two towers crumbling to the ground. He said, “You’re at ground zero.” That’s what this is—a ground zero. A new slab has been laid in your life. God is going low and slow right now. He’s getting you ready because many of us have built for years without a foundation—without solid structure or deep roots. So God’s been setting that right for the new season, and for the Church. But we often misdiagnose seasons of fresh foundation as stagnancy, when they’re anything but. When the Lord sets your heart right, He aligns you to a rhythm and a synergy you didn’t know in the past season. He sharpens your discernment your ability to see and know what’s true. He leads you to the right people, right places, and right environments. I believe one key part of this new foundation is that God is leading many out of loneliness and isolation. He’s not just setting your feet upon the rock of salvation He’s breaking off orphan mentalities, the hustle, the striving and leading you into an Acts 2 infrastructure: community, family, people who hold your arms up so you can thrive. This foundation includes restoration God restoring the years the locusts have eaten. And He’s doing that right now. Now for the weighty part of this word: That moment with Moses at the burning bush was more significant than we often realize. It was like Elisha being mantled by Elijah a sudden shift into his true calling. In that moment, God told Moses: “ Go. Set my people free.” And Moses responded, “But God, I don’t know how to speak.” God replied, “When you go, I will give you the words. I will give you signs. I will give you the power.” “Moses said to the Lord, ‘Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent…’ And the Lord said to him, ‘Who gave human beings their mouths?… Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.’” - Exodus 4:10–12 He didn’t just send Moses on an impossible mission. He backed him with the power of heaven. And I feel the word of the Lord right now for many who have been in this season of waiting: You have been fashioned and formed to be a voice for the Lord in this next season. To set the Church free. To set the bound free. God is raising up unconventional, unusual, untrained voices who carry His heart. And I prophesy, in the mighty name of Jesus: this is your burning bush season. You are stepping out of the wilderness and into the bold voice God has called you to be. Let me go one step further: This week look. Look for the signs in your life of breakout. Look for the moments. The encounters. Because that’s where God is waiting for you. You’re looking for external change, for doors to open. But you’re missing the door that’s already swung wide open: the door of encounter. The door to the secret place. The door that leads into the tent of meeting. That’s what I’m calling you to. That’s what God is commissioning you into - a season of intimacy and encounter. So let me prophesy over your - this week, your wilderness shifts. It shifts from waiting to encounter, from wandering aimlessly to walking in clarity. The fog lifts. The silence breaks. Heaven is speaking. Dreams come now! Insight floods your spirit like a rushing river. May the full healing of the wilderness come—so the rest, the restoration, the commissioning can follow. Lord, raise up your wild voices. Those untrained by man but marked by fire. Those who have met You in hidden places. Let them rise now, rooted, ready, and roaring in Jesus’ name. Amen. 

ARE YOU A PROPHETIC FEELER?

By Nate Johnston • May 21, 2025
You feel things others can’t. You walk into a room and sense the atmosphere shift. You carry burdens that aren’t yours—and you know it. You’ve been called to discern, but not left without direction. You are a Prophetic Feeler. And it's time to get equipped. On July 1st, we officially launch FIREBRAND —a powerful, unapologetic prophetic training course designed specifically for the prophetic feeler. This isn’t just a class. It’s a spiritual bootcamp. A forge. A furnace. A place where your gift is refined, understood, and weaponized for Kingdom impact. Inside FIREBRAND, you’ll: 🔥 Learn how to steward your discernment without burnout 🔥 Understand the spiritual mechanics of what you’re feeling 🔥 Develop prophetic confidence, clarity, and authority 🔥 Discover how to navigate spiritual warfare with wisdom 🔥 Connect with a tribe that speaks your spiritual language If you’ve ever felt alone in your gift—like no one quite gets what you carry—FIREBRAND was made for you. July 1st is the beginning of your firewalking. Are you ready? 🔗 Reserve Your Spot Now! No more confusion. No more carrying what isn’t yours. It’s time to train. It’s time to burn. You are a FIREBRAND.