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WHEN THE SPIRIT OF SLANDER RAGES

Nate Johnston

WHEN THE SPIRIT OF SLANDER RAGES

WHEN THE SPIRIT OF SLANDER RAGES

Earlier in the week I woke up in the night sensing an extreme onslaught of heaviness in the spirit and knew I had to pray and intercede. As I began praying I suddenly heard the Lord say “I am raising up a standard!” and I was reminded of the scripture in Isaiah 59:19;


“When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him”


I couldn't deny it, the warfare felt thick, but there was also such a sense of divine protection and God's fiery intervention from delayed justice and retribution. As I continued to pray the Lord showed me a few things He was doing that I will share in shorter bullet-point format. I pray these encourage you, break heaviness, shackles, and lift you into radical faith and feet planted in the promise.


I AM BREAKING THE HEAVY YOKES!

  • The next thing I saw was a vision of a heavy yoke that was being wrapped around the church like a rope or bind and it was being squeezed over and over like a boa constrictor.
  • It was both heavy, weighing people down, and also restrictive preventing the church from “moving” freely and having the accessibility it once had.
  • The Lord said, “I am using the enemy’s pressure and warfare to reveal the hidden yokes that have been on my people because they have been yoked for too long!”
  • “No more will my people be weighed down and defeated. No more will my people be the bound and the mentally broken!”
  • “No more will my people be yoked with slave masters the world and the spirits of darkness parading as light! No more will they be as sheep to the slaughter!”
  • Right now the Holy Spirit is targeting the heaviness that has been on the church.
  • He is after all areas of constriction and restriction, limitations, and afflictions.
  • We are going to see an unusual grace this year to remove yokes of addiction, sickness, mental illness, depression, anxiety, and long-term generational issues.
  • Right now God is unapologetically after the yokes you have accepted as normal and he is destroying them.
  • Like Elisha, you are in a "burning of yokes and the oxen" season because there is a new mantle on its way.
  • All man-made yokes, agreements, and alignments are being severed because God wants you free.
  • To walk in the fullness of your anointing you need to be un-yoked.. and you will go from this place as an un-yoker and deliverer to others.


I AM CONFRONTING THE SPIRIT OF ASSASSINATION & ACCUSATION

  • As I was praying I saw a spirit of assassination that was after those who have been wrestling and contending for the promise and those who were standing in faith.
  • I saw this same spirit was coming like a flood against the prophets and prophetic church who were pressing into what God was saying on the earth.
  • This was jezebels order released to silence and censor those who were called to break new ground in this season and also build and establish.
  • I could sense the exhaustion and how extremely hope deferred these ones were - but nonetheless, they continued to stand even in the middle of accusation and slander.
  • I could sense how close the promise was and what looked impossible being manifested which was why the enemy was throwing all he could at them.
  • I could sense chatter to the level that would send people mad and break them and that was exactly the enemy's goal. They were so close. It’s like running your last lap of a marathon and having people on the sidelines throwing things across your path to trip you up.
  • I felt people wanting to turn around, give up, and look for a plan b. I saw a dark depression trying to settle on those who felt past hope and past seeing God move for them. The screams of intimidation and shame were so loud making them feel foolish for trusting in God's word and holding on to the hem of Jesus’ garment for healing and breakthroughs.
  • As I was praying the Holy Spirit began to speak; “I am shutting the mouths of the lions
  • and I am coming to their defence! Watch me now vindicate them and lift them up to dry ground! Watch me send back the arrows and route them! Watch me honor my faithful ones!”
  • “For they will soon say to them “Where are your accusers? For they will run like foxes and like prey”


I AM SHATTERING WORD CURSES, REMOVING DAGGERS, & EXTRACTING THE POISON

  • I then saw the word curses that had been shutting people down and causing people to start retreating.
  • I saw the mental assault that had been taking place on many including key leaders and those who had chosen to be on the frontlines despite the high cost.
  • They were starting to feel like they were crumbling and needing armor-bearers and support. It reminded me of my dream in October of me holding up Lou Engles's arms as he prayed.
  • I saw some people I knew that had been major players and contenders feeling the effects of poison affecting them from the words. Slowly over time it had infected their hope and caused them to feel a rising bitterness and hurt but as I saw this the Lord spoke;
  • “I am right now shattering these lies, these words that are empty and vapid of life and I am reversing them. I am removing the daggers that have been thrown at the hearts of the faithful and I am extracting the poison that would seek to divert and derail their message and destiny”
  • I saw the spirit of torment and suicide lift off people who had felt tormented and brought to the place of wanting to give up and die.
  • In Isaiah 54 it says that God has created a “destroyer” to destroy the weapon the enemies use against you and even right now God is smashing in pieces every assignment that has been warring against you and every word pitted against you.
  • I believe that God is extending mercy to those who have partnered with the enemy in speaking against other believers in accusation but it will be a wake-up call to step out of operating in a critical spirit or self-righteous spirit.


I AM SHIFTING YOU OUT OF HOPE-DEFERRED & BACK INTO OUTRAGEOUS HOPE & RADICAL FAITH!

“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life” Proverbs 13:12


  • I heard the Lord say “Am I a man that should lie? Do I tease you with promises and then not hold to my word?” It reminded me of the scripture in Isaiah 66:9 that says “Do I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?" says the LORD. "Do I close up the womb when I bring to delivery?" says your God.
  • Then I heard him say “For this will be the season that you will know me as PROMISE KEEPER and I am going to shatter the cloud of hope deferred that has been cast over my people. They will see my power and my majesty. They will see that I do things my way and in my timing but I DO NOT LIE!”
  • Then He said to me “Nate read Hebrews 11 and PROPHESY IT!” So I did and the account of the faith of mighty men and women through history and God's faithfulness that didn’t lie.
  • He then said “I am restoring radical faith to my people where FEAR has been stealing their fire and gaze"
  • "This is a Red Sea moment for the church.. will they run back to Egypt or will they trust me? Will they trust in the strength of horses and chariots or in the name of the Lord? Will they operate in their own might and abilities or rest in my power?"
  • "For I am pouring out miracle-working power on those who dare to trust me in the unknown. I am going to make them a signpost to the nations"
  • "Today I shatter the rod of the oppressor and give the opportunity for sons abs daughters to leave slavery and be truly led by the spirit of God"
  • "I am shattering deceptive veils cast over them created by the enemy causing them to water down my word and power"
  • "Today there comes a flood of my spirit to shift the tide and shift the battle they have been slowly faltering in"
  • "Today I lift up a standard, and I raise a banner over my people and I say “They are mine! Do not touch them!”


Pray with me" Lord I come into agreement with your word and what you are doing in my life right now to raise up a standard against the enemy's plans where he has been trying to take me out. I rebuke the devourer, the accuser, and the render every assignment of assassination void and useless in Jesus name. Every word against me cannot prosper and I refuse them any landing place or open door in my life to take root. I am who YOU say I am, and I will not be moved. Where I have begun to doubt you and your promise Lord I ask right now that you would baptise me afresh in your fire. Give me back my boldness and courage to roar in the face of the storm. I shake off the hope deferred, grief, and disappointment and I plant it feet back into faith. I command all yokes, demonic yokes, weights, false mantles, expectations, and heaviness to GET OFF MY SHOULDERS and every tormenting voice to get off my mind, because I am child of God and I will not be bullied or harassed another day longer. This is my year and that’s all there is to it. God promised so he will deliver. He is faithful so I will see the promise. And this is my moment to dig my heels in, join the radical remnant that don’t live by what they see, read in the news or feel, but those who are moved by the spirit of God alone - in Jesus name!


You will overcome by the BLOOD of the lamb and the WORD of His testimony. I encourage you to take communion as a family.. worship, praise, bless those that persecute you, shut down the lies that scream at you, and rest in the promise! Oh, won’t he do it!


“If anyone dares to stir up strife against you, it is not from me! Those who challenge you will go down in defeat. See, I am the one who created the craftsman who fans the coals into a fire and forges a weapon fit for its purpose, and I am the one who created the destroyer to destroy. But I promise you, no weapon meant to hurt you will succeed, and you will refute every accusing word spoken against you. This promise is the inheritance of Yahweh’s servants, and their vindication is from me,” says Yahweh” Isaiah 54:15-17


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By Nate Johnston 13 Sep, 2024
We flew into California a few days ago and felt the Lord telling us to go to Pirates Cove to declare “Lord do it again!” That night I had a dream where I am holding a frisbee and throwing it across the waters to the nations in the direction of Australia. As I throw it I began to groan in the spirit and cry out “Lord let a new Jesus movement erupt from these shores once again!” Then I saw something begin to fly back at me from the horizon that carried a loud whirring/buzzing sound then I caught it. It was a boomerang like one I had when I was a kid but had sounded like a “bull-roarer” that was used by the Australian First Nations as communication. It was ancient and worn yet solid and sturdy. It was the boomerang of revival from the nation of Australia! Then I stepped back and threw it back out across the waters and declared “Lord finish what you started in the nations!” Then I looked out across the waters and then again, I could make out an object coming back at me and I caught it. It was the frisbee! This repeated itself over and over as I would throw the frisbee out and declare, and then the boomerang. What is the Lord saying? Just as in the days of the Jesus people movement where God used Lonnie Frisbee as the catalyst for revival that started in California and spread to the nations, there is coming a new sound of revival from these very shores once again. But there is another sound, and it’s the sound of the Australian boomerang and bull-roarer that is right now in its birthing. From the depths of apathy is erupting a new sound of worship and a fresh move of God from the shores of my homeland that is going to ROAR across the nations! And just as it’s been prophesied that Australia and America would link arms for an end times move of God, I believe what I was witnessing was the handshake in the heavens and the SYMPHONY in the spirit that is going to take place with these two nations that will then cause the song in other nations to come forth. The frisbee and the boomerang are primitive and humble yet both powerful and the Lord is saying through this that He is going to use the unlikely and understated. He is going to use the misfits and the outcasts for this move of God. It’s going to be grassroots and organic. Raw and messy. But yet it’s going to be the biggest harvest the earth has yet seen. Lou Engle also had a dream about this same thing in 2020 where he saw Lonnie Frisbee standing as a symbolic figure for a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit, similar to the Jesus Movement. In the dream Frisbee said, “There’s going to be another Jesus Movement, only this time it’s going to be with signs and wonders.” Lou felt the Lord impressing upon him that, just as Frisbee had been a key player in the revival of the 1960s and 70s, God was preparing to use a new generation of people—those who felt disqualified or broken—to bring about a fresh wave of revival. What if we were right now on the precipice of a revolution once again? What if the Holy Spirit is saying “The sound of revival is emerging from the midst of ruins!” There’s never been a better time for it. DO IT AGAIN LORD!
By Nate Johnston 13 Sep, 2024
When we landed in Australia in April this year, I kept hearing a phrase in my spirit: “We're in the early hours of revival.” A week later, the Lord spoke it to me in a different way: “We're in the early hours of labor.” Many women know what this feels like—the pain, the pressure, the discomfort, and the fear of the unknown. But in a spiritual sense, the "early hours of birth" represents the beginning of a significant new phase, breakthrough, or change. It’s a time of preparation, anticipation, and the first signs of new life or a new season. This is what many are feeling right now—that uncomfortable tension between expectation and discomfort. It’s not time to rush to the hospital, but the early contractions are beginning. The pain. The pressure. The fear of the unknown. I felt it, and I see many feeling it too, not just in Australia but around the world. I believe this is where we are right now. In the natural, you can see the chaos, the unrest, the darkness trying to overwhelm the light. You can see the political and cultural turmoil, and it may feel like nothing is happening or that the world is going in reverse. But if you tap into the spirit and discern what God is doing, you’ll feel what I feel. We are in the early hours of birth! Romans 8:22 tells us, “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present tim e.” Right now, while we are in these early hours, the labor pangs across the earth are becoming more frequent and intense. To many, they aren’t obvious yet, but you can sense that something is stirring in the spirit, something that wasn’t there yesterday. These moments may not seem significant, but they are holy, sacred, and pivotal. I believe the enemy is trying to divert the church’s eyes away from the baby about to be born, focusing instead on the swirling confusion in the world. We’ve been experiencing spiritual earthquakes—shakings that are reforming and unsettling. But this is not to destroy us; it’s preparing us for a divine rumbling and positioning us for birth! This shaking is reigniting the fire in our bellies, stirring fervor, and aligning us with the Holy Spirit for the hour ahead. ARE YOU IN PREGNANCY DENIAL? This is why the enemy has been attacking you, especially in this last trimester. He’s trying to convince you that you’re crazy to think you’ll ever give birth. You’ve had moments of deep reflection, questioning, "Was this really God? Was it real? Did I misunderstand everything?" These thoughts are the enemy’s strategy to abort the promise before it even arrives. He wants you to believe that you’ve been chasing an illusion, that you’re not pregnant with anything from God. Many have thought, "This idea I’m carrying won’t amount to anything," or, "My message and mandate aren’t unique—others are more gifted than me." Some have even felt, "I must be delusional. I don’t have anything special." In the natural, there’s a rare condition called “denial of pregnancy,” where a woman is unaware of or in denial about her pregnancy until labor or delivery. I believe many are in a similar spiritual condition—denial of their spiritual pregnancy. Many have felt unsettled because they sense the early contractions of spiritual labor, knowing something is being birthed. Yet, at the same time, they feel a deep despair, questioning whether the promise they were given is even real. The enemy is attacking in the very area where God is moving the most in your life—both around you and within you. What God is birthing in the earth, He is also birthing in you, through the revealing of His sons and daughters. You are part of this corporate birthing, and God wants to bring forth His move through you. That’s why the attack has been both global and personal. I want to encourage you today: You are carrying something precious, even if you don’t see it or fully realize it yet. And secondly, know that nothing happening in this world—no political system, government, or global power—can stop God from birthing this move of revival. You and I get to be a part of it! We’re in the early hours of birth, both personally and corporately. It’s time to reignite our fire, reclaim our fight, and push forward. The early hours are here, my friends. It’s time to see, finally, the fulfillment of what you’ve been dreaming about for years and even decades. Stand ready, for the promise is coming to life!
By Nate Johnston 13 Sep, 2024
We flew into California a few days ago and felt the Lord telling us to go to Pirates Cove to declare “Lord do it again!” That night I had a dream where I am holding a frisbee and throwing it across the waters to the nations in the direction of Australia. As I throw it I began to groan in the spirit and cry out “Lord let a new Jesus movement erupt from these shores once again!” Then I saw something begin to fly back at me from the horizon that carried a loud whirring/buzzing sound then I caught it. It was a boomerang like one I had when I was a kid but had sounded like a “bull-roarer” that was used by the Australian First Nations as communication. It was ancient and worn yet solid and sturdy. It was the boomerang of revival from the nation of Australia! Then I stepped back and threw it back out across the waters and declared “Lord finish what you started in the nations!” Then I looked out across the waters and then again, I could make out an object coming back at me and I caught it. It was the frisbee! This repeated itself over and over as I would throw the frisbee out and declare, and then the boomerang. What is the Lord saying? Just as in the days of the Jesus people movement where God used Lonnie Frisbee as the catalyst for revival that started in California and spread to the nations, there is coming a new sound of revival from these very shores once again. But there is another sound, and it’s the sound of the Australian boomerang and bull-roarer that is right now in its birthing. From the depths of apathy is erupting a new sound of worship and a fresh move of God from the shores of my homeland that is going to ROAR across the nations! And just as it’s been prophesied that Australia and America would link arms for an end times move of God, I believe what I was witnessing was the handshake in the heavens and the SYMPHONY in the spirit that is going to take place with these two nations that will then cause the song in other nations to come forth. The frisbee and the boomerang are primitive and humble yet both powerful and the Lord is saying through this that He is going to use the unlikely and understated. He is going to use the misfits and the outcasts for this move of God. It’s going to be grassroots and organic. Raw and messy. But yet it’s going to be the biggest harvest the earth has yet seen. Lou Engle also had a dream about this same thing in 2020 where he saw Lonnie Frisbee standing as a symbolic figure for a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit, similar to the Jesus Movement. In the dream Frisbee said, “There’s going to be another Jesus Movement, only this time it’s going to be with signs and wonders.” Lou felt the Lord impressing upon him that, just as Frisbee had been a key player in the revival of the 1960s and 70s, God was preparing to use a new generation of people—those who felt disqualified or broken—to bring about a fresh wave of revival. What if we were right now on the precipice of a revolution once again? What if the Holy Spirit is saying “The sound of revival is emerging from the midst of ruins!” There’s never been a better time for it. DO IT AGAIN LORD!
By Nate Johnston 13 Sep, 2024
When we landed in Australia in April this year, I kept hearing a phrase in my spirit: “We're in the early hours of revival.” A week later, the Lord spoke it to me in a different way: “We're in the early hours of labor.” Many women know what this feels like—the pain, the pressure, the discomfort, and the fear of the unknown. But in a spiritual sense, the "early hours of birth" represents the beginning of a significant new phase, breakthrough, or change. It’s a time of preparation, anticipation, and the first signs of new life or a new season. This is what many are feeling right now—that uncomfortable tension between expectation and discomfort. It’s not time to rush to the hospital, but the early contractions are beginning. The pain. The pressure. The fear of the unknown. I felt it, and I see many feeling it too, not just in Australia but around the world. I believe this is where we are right now. In the natural, you can see the chaos, the unrest, the darkness trying to overwhelm the light. You can see the political and cultural turmoil, and it may feel like nothing is happening or that the world is going in reverse. But if you tap into the spirit and discern what God is doing, you’ll feel what I feel. We are in the early hours of birth! Romans 8:22 tells us, “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present tim e.” Right now, while we are in these early hours, the labor pangs across the earth are becoming more frequent and intense. To many, they aren’t obvious yet, but you can sense that something is stirring in the spirit, something that wasn’t there yesterday. These moments may not seem significant, but they are holy, sacred, and pivotal. I believe the enemy is trying to divert the church’s eyes away from the baby about to be born, focusing instead on the swirling confusion in the world. We’ve been experiencing spiritual earthquakes—shakings that are reforming and unsettling. But this is not to destroy us; it’s preparing us for a divine rumbling and positioning us for birth! This shaking is reigniting the fire in our bellies, stirring fervor, and aligning us with the Holy Spirit for the hour ahead. ARE YOU IN PREGNANCY DENIAL? This is why the enemy has been attacking you, especially in this last trimester. He’s trying to convince you that you’re crazy to think you’ll ever give birth. You’ve had moments of deep reflection, questioning, "Was this really God? Was it real? Did I misunderstand everything?" These thoughts are the enemy’s strategy to abort the promise before it even arrives. He wants you to believe that you’ve been chasing an illusion, that you’re not pregnant with anything from God. Many have thought, "This idea I’m carrying won’t amount to anything," or, "My message and mandate aren’t unique—others are more gifted than me." Some have even felt, "I must be delusional. I don’t have anything special." In the natural, there’s a rare condition called “denial of pregnancy,” where a woman is unaware of or in denial about her pregnancy until labor or delivery. I believe many are in a similar spiritual condition—denial of their spiritual pregnancy. Many have felt unsettled because they sense the early contractions of spiritual labor, knowing something is being birthed. Yet, at the same time, they feel a deep despair, questioning whether the promise they were given is even real. The enemy is attacking in the very area where God is moving the most in your life—both around you and within you. What God is birthing in the earth, He is also birthing in you, through the revealing of His sons and daughters. You are part of this corporate birthing, and God wants to bring forth His move through you. That’s why the attack has been both global and personal. I want to encourage you today: You are carrying something precious, even if you don’t see it or fully realize it yet. And secondly, know that nothing happening in this world—no political system, government, or global power—can stop God from birthing this move of revival. You and I get to be a part of it! We’re in the early hours of birth, both personally and corporately. It’s time to reignite our fire, reclaim our fight, and push forward. The early hours are here, my friends. It’s time to see, finally, the fulfillment of what you’ve been dreaming about for years and even decades. Stand ready, for the promise is coming to life!
By Nate Johnston 10 Sep, 2024
If you are like me in this season (and I know many of you are) where you are constantly asking God the same questions “What are you doing, where are we going?” then you know that you are setting yourself up for both encounter and revelation because there is nothing God loves more than when we are pursuing Him and expectant to know what is on His heart. This prophetic word is more or less just my continued conversation with God for clarity and definition of this time we are in. NEW EASE, YOKES, & ENCOUNTERS A few nights ago I woke up feeling God’s presence sensing He was going to speak. “There is slipstream of my Spirit” I heard Him say. A slipstream is the flow of air or water behind a moving object that enables another object when in close proximity behind it to move effortlessly in its motion. It’s interesting to me that to step into the slipstream you have first been following the right object and secondly, you have to get close. This is God saying to us that as we stop being distracted by everything else wanting our attention and pursue only Him we will not only step into His slipstream where it’s no longer in our own strength but we will also experience the acceleration we have been praying for. The key here is both attention and intimacy. We need to get close to Him and un-yoked with everything else that keeps pulling us in many different directions. If we are yoked to the wrong vehicle we won’t end up where God wants us and we will be exhausted and worn out. We have to yoke with Him and let Him carry us in this part of the transition! Right now many people are running around like its a Black Friday sale and the Lord is wanting you to step into the flow of transition instead of working against it or tiring yourself out trying to figure it all out. REST IN THE FLOW! This is a time of fresh encounter for you that is NECESSARY for what’s ahead. You can’t skip this step, God is inviting you into a makeover of His Glory that is going to remove every weight and burden and cause you to fall in love with Him in a way you haven’t known. Remember, this transition isn’t a life event, it’s the product of intimacy with Jesus and Him taking you from glory to Glory. EXITS, CLOSING DOORS, & DEFINITION The next thing I saw as I woke up were many doors in a long hallway that were closing, but what I noticed in this short vision was that as the doors closed it began to highlight an open door down the end of the corridor that had lighting shining out of it. This is a time that God is removing the wrong things from the equation. Dreams, affections, ventures, and doors that while they may look good would be diversions to the ones God had assigned. I instantly thought “This is going to cause heartache” and heard God say “Not if they adjust their eyes to SEE what I’m revealing”. Closed doors are sudden and unexplained exits from different situations, circles, and assignments that can cause so much confusion and pain but right now God is pulling many people out of wrong environments and situations and into places conducive for growth. As I think back to the vision of the doors it was as if the closed doors only painted a huge big neon arrow in the direction of the open door. When God removes empty options it actually brings greater clarity and alignment to your process and DEFINES the timing. Right now there is such an acceleration on the process that soon we will see the expiry date on the waiting we have been in. Don’t fight, resist and kick back against this because it is only working for you to clear away the distractions and highlight what you need to be focussed on. DELAY, DIRECTIONS & COORDINATES Many have been in deep distress over the many decisions around them that need to be made and the many answers and wisdom they need to be able to advance. More than just a crossroad it feels like a complete standstill waiting for the final pieces of this play to be revealed. So many things are up in the air - jobs, homes, relocations, ministry changes, friendships, families, dreams and projects. As I was talking to the Lord He spoke to me through Daniel 10:12-13; “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them. But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days” Instantly the revelation came; Daniel was in prayer and fasting for an answer which was held up in the second heavens for 21 days as an angel and a demonic principality fought. 21 is the number that represents distress and is a unique cycle of time where strongholds lose their footing. I felt that this was significant of breaking through into clarity and past specific delays sent to hinder seeing properly. The word “Persia” means “division” so this assignment comes to scatter and DI-vide your vision so you feel lost and like God is not answering you. As I was talking to the Lord about this I kept seeing a map on a phone giving directions where it details not only the route but gives the timing as well. In the next few weeks God is updating your transitional navigation revelation and updating your direction, route, and giving your specific details and insight on your destination and finally - the timing of the journey. As the new direction comes you will be able to MOVE forward in ways you haven’t been able to. All of the distress and stretching you have been facing is going to be worth it. PROVISION, SUSTENANCE, & FAITHFULNESS There is a display of God’s goodness and faithfulness He wants to release to you right now to REMIND you that you don’t have to be the hero trying to orchestrate every facet of your life in transition. Just because the heat is on and you have to continually adapt and surrender to change doesn’t mean you are alone having to do this “self-made”. As I sat there in Gods presence just soaking up the peace He was releasing a scripture bubbled up from my spirit; “But you would be fed with the finest of wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.” — Psalm 81:17 Can we just land this right here? Wow, this says it all. Just like the Israelites in the desert that God gave water to from the rock, God wants us to feed and be satisfied on honey as we walk out this transition. That’s resting in His provision, His plan, His sustenance, and His presence. I felt like the honey was prophetically speaking of those who have felt like they had become frail and deficient throughout this season and God was right now giving them back strength, strength, and returning sweetness to their lives where long and difficult situations had zapped them. As I’m writing this down I feel strongly that the Lord is wanting to heal people who actually feel bitter because it’s been so long since they have tasted God’s goodness or faithfulness. Holy Spirit I ask you right now to refresh them and let them taste your honey where they have only tasted disappointment in Jesus name. It’s a new day. REST, WARFARE, & PROTECTION Friends you have been the hamster in the wheel long enough in this journey, now it’s time to rest in His ability to guide your ship safely to harbour in your new land. Jesus has already gone before you as your fore-runner. There are no surprises to Him and there is nothing to fear ahead. He knows your coordinates, where you have been and where you need to be, and He is making sure you get there. The key here is REST. Rest from trying to make things happen. Rest from striving, pushing, prodding, pacing, fighting, and working yourself into an anxious wreck. You will pass the test as you rest in his ability, in fact, if you don’t rest God is unable to properly reformat you for the new place you are stepping into. Moses was unable to enter the promised land -REST, because when God provided the rock full of water He disobeyed God by striking it with his rod instead of just speaking to it. How often do we do things our way when God wants us to watch HIM do the mighty miracles we need? I feel that God’s rest and abiding in His presence is the strategy for the season. Yes it’s our lifestyle as believers but right now it’s also a prophetic strategy. It’s been a time where the assignment of hell has been to bombard you with so much witchcraft, chatter, resistance and opposition, and distraction to put a spirit of heaviness in you. The assignment has also been to bring you into temptation and slipping into the wrong kind of escape so he can trip you up and catch you out. Rest and being In God’s presence will realign your priorities and activities so that you aren’t burning out, as well as Insulate you from the constant torrent of noise. We HAVE to deal with warfare differently right now. We need to know when we have to swing our sword and when to ascend the mountain. I am praying this week that you would trade in the anxiety and confusion of this season for the fresh oil and wine, that you’d trade in the hard uphill battle for the ease, the old heavy yoke for the light an easy one, and step into slipstream of his Spirit in Jesus name!
By Nate Johnston 08 Sep, 2024
A few nights ago, I had a dream where I was watching wheat and tares being separated, much like the parable in Matthew 13. It was harvest time because the wheat was heavy with grain, bending the stalks under its weight, while the tares stood straight and tall. As the parable says, it's during the harvest that you can easily see the difference between the two. When they are smaller, they are nearly indistinguishable. But suddenly, in my dream, the wheat and tares began to change shape until they became spears. The wheat spears, however, were made of metal, and the tares were made of wood. Then, they were both thrown into the fire and taken to an anvil, where they were beaten with a hammer. This process happened repeatedly, over and over. “Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest, I will say to the reapers, ‘First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.’” — Matthew 13:30 Within a few rounds of this process, the tares burned up quickly and were easily broken and smashed on the anvil. In contrast, the metal spears only became stronger and sharper through the process. When I woke up, I had a deep sense of knowing that we are in an hour like Matthew 13, where tares and wheat are being easily distinguished. It’s becoming clearer and clearer to see things for what they truly are, to discern what is man-made and what is God-made. It’s becoming easier to spot what is a counterfeit and what is authentic. This is a time of fruit testing and pruning. What is from Him, and what is from us? What is ambition, and what is His vision? What is another idol with a Christian label slapped on it? What is an Ishmael, and what is Isaac? What carries the glory, and what is after the glory of man? In the natural, this looks like a time of exposure. It looks like the wheels are coming off the wagon of man’s empires. The tares, which have been trying to look like wheat, are now being seen for what they truly are. But it’s also a time of great celebration for the faithful, as God brings increase. How do you know which side you’re on? If you're being burned up, you're not wheat. But if you're simply being pruned, you're wheat. This is a time when all of the tares hanging around your life are getting the axe. Wrong doors and assignments are being thrown into the fire. The wrong people and company—they’ll get the first whiff of smoke and run a million miles from you. Yet, it won’t hurt you; it will only make you stronger. And that’s what this dream is declaring! Firstly, you are in a harvest you didn’t even realize you were in! For so long, you’ve been focusing on the fire instead of the fruit you’ve been carrying in the dark. You’ve been fixated on the tares that have been stealing your ground, nutrients, and light, yet you’ve been multiplying rapidly. Now, please hear this: you are entering a season where you will finally see just how much has been growing and increasing through your season of shaking and the refiner’s fire. The fire hasn’t been burning you up; it’s been strengthening you. And the hammer has only made you sharper, preparing you for greater things! I hear the Lord saying over you today: “Mighty voices of truth, arise! For there has been a separation between the faithful and the faithless, the impure voices and the righteous, but the impure are becoming as ash while you are now stepping into the FULLNESS of your calling and anointing. I am going to AMPLIFY your voice and carry it to the nations, for you are the sharp tip of the spear that will cut through the chaos and usher in My glory. Soon, you will see that this season was not in vain; you will see the fruit I have produced in you while you thought you had failed and floundered.” Lastly, prophetic voices, I believe this dream is a commissioning for you. It’s a governmental clarion call to be the tip of the spear in this time of history. No more hiding in the face of injustice. SPEAK. God has been preparing you for this, and you have felt the internal rumbling. Just as this dream speaks to a season of divine separation and refining, it also emphasizes discernment and how, in this time, God is increasing this gifting upon you to not only reveal what is God and what is not, but also lead the church out of mixture and counterfeits. That’s why you have been sharpened, so you can slice through the veils of the enemy keeping many in bondage. This dream speaks that you have only become stronger through the fire and hammer revealing and has only come to refine you and not destroy. You are being prepared for greater authority, and your voice will cut through confusion and chaos like the tip of a spear, bringing clarity and direction. Keep your focus on the fruit, not the fire, and trust that what you’ve endured has been preparation for a greater unveiling of who you are and whose you are.
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