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WHEN YOUR FOUNDATIONS ARE SHAKING

Nate Johnston

WHEN YOUR FOUNDATIONS ARE SHAKING

WHEN YOUR FOUNDATIONS ARE SHAKING

Many people right now are going through intense personal shaking and are struggling to see the light at the end of the tunnel. 


It’s different to the refiners fire which feels more like an internal spring-clean, whereas the shaking has more to do with what is around you, the environments you are in, the companies you are running with, and the ground beneath your feet. 


Foundations can also be the core beliefs or tenets of what you believe but they are normally defined by how they are attached to things around you. 


Think of the Israelites who after 40 years still have Egypt living in their heads. Because of this they weren’t fit to step into Canaan and acquire it, so God had to circumcize them as a natural and spiritual act to cleanse them. (Joshua 5:2-8)


This is what I feel is happening right now. 


God is dealing with areas we have been in bondage in that has come through our many seasons in different environments, systems, institutions, and streams. 


The church is not currently fit to inherit the new land before us and the new wine season at our doorstep, until God removes the last season from our hearts and from under our feet. 


THE NECESSARY SHAKING


Heading into 2024, one of the most clear things the Lord said to me was that this year the church would;


⁃ Have their false foundations shaken 

⁃ Have their true foundations strengthened 

⁃ Leave places carrying foundational rot 

⁃ Step into places carrying foundational health

⁃ Stop building their own thing

⁃ Start building God's thing again. 


“For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God” Hebrews 11:10


CHIP-BOARD FLOORING


I have noticed a common thread so far this year, where there is the sudden appearing of platforms or places parading as foundations in a time when God is shaking us free from so many old foundations. 


They give the appearance of stability and being built by the Lord but they are nothing more than chip-board flooring and many are falling for them. 


The reason many are falling for them is because we are in a season where people have never been more desperate for breakthrough. 


Suddenly someone appears with a stable platform for you to join and it immediately screams “Yes it has finally come!” only to discover shortly after it’s been another ruse and distraction. 


This has repeated itself over the years causing so much pain and flies in the ointment of callings, preventing what God intended for us. 


But I say this to say - this shaking is coming to bring us wisdom and discernment to know what is Him and what isn’t in the days to come. 


So with this in mind let me define four of the shaking you may be experiencing;


1. THE INSTITUTIONAL SHAKING


The first shaking that has already been happening well and truly before 2024 is the shaking of false foundations that were set during years where you poured your heart and soul out into a church environment and lost yourself. 


These were the seasons where you meant well and just wanted to serve Jesus in your city but it came with a lot of pressure to do more than that. Before you knew it you had sacrificed your time, your family, finances, and even health in order to meet the rising demand from these empire environments. 


If you didn’t wise up you may be in a dark place right now of regret and realizing how much you were not building God's church as much as you were building man’s need for conquest. And the cost? Often the well-being of your children, your marriage, and your own purpose. 


In the wake of this shaking and when eyes begin to open it feels like the deepest betrayal to walk out as well as trying to discover who you are again after it’s been swallowed up by the whale of the institution. 


My encouragement to you is this: nothing is wasted and this shaking is your deliverance. Every day you wake up you will get more and more of yourself back until you remember again what you are alive for.


2. THE SHAKING OF YOKES


The second shaking is the shaking of relationships where God is going after wrong yokes that have been like false foundations in your life. 


This process can be painful because these are often the people who you see as being crucial parts of who you are, your identity, and even your purpose. That should be an indicator right there that something is amiss. 


Often when people have been around long enough to be like furniture in our lives we stop seeing the red flags when they shift into a saboteur instead of a support. 


That’s when the yoke shifts and you begin walking in bondage God never intended for you. 


He is a jealous God and wants to be the one to be yoked to you but very often we choose to replace God with people who have the wrong heart or intentions, and unless we choose to let him move them on, we will stay experiencing the same dysfunctions over and over and never experience the breakthrough He wants for us. 


This shaking is a strength tester to reveal to you who is spiritually keeping up where with God is leading you and those who aren’t. It’s a tester of cling-ons and those after genuine covenant. 


Many have been lost in the witchcraft swirl of people who have been playing them over and over. They have not received you but have rejected you over and over and it may be time to shake these wrong people who keep holding you back. 


And as for those who do not receive you, as you go out from that city, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.” Luke 9:5


But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.” Acts 18:6


3. SHAKING OFF THE SNAKES


Personally, the shaking of foundations is needed because it reveals the areas where the enemy is trying to set us up for failure through wasted effort, misdirected focus, false expectations, and working with the wrong people. But what about the things we can’t always easily discern?


This is why the shaking is so needed - because so many are stuck under assignments they can't even recognize.


In a dream, the Lord showed me people who were bitten by poisonous snakes but didn’t even know it. 


In the natural this was manifesting as;


⁃ A sudden distaste for the kingdom

⁃ Wanting to give up 

⁃ A hurt towards God 

⁃ Disbelief and double-mindedness. 

⁃ Feeling betrayed or misled 

⁃ Silenced and blocked. 

⁃ Depression and anxiety 

⁃ A deep soul sickness 


The reality however was that there were many spiritual assignments/oppressors that God was dealing with in one fell swoop and the enemy was not happy about it. 


The entry point? Wrong alignments and agreements. Places of hurt and trauma. 


This shaking was bringing it all to the surface. 


Remember that God will set you free and cause you to not even have any after-effects. 


But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects. The people expected him to swell up or suddenly fall dead; but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god. Acts 28:5-6


Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose. Acts 16:26


4. THE SHAKING THAT BRINGS AWAKENING


And we know that the shaking is always a sign of rebirth and awakening which is God's ultimate goal right now. 


And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness. Acts 4:31


And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.” This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Hebrews 12:26-27


The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness;

The Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. Psalm 29:18


The shakings aren’t a sign of judgement but a way God gets us back into shape and alignment. It’s a chiropractic technique of heaven to break what is holding you back and lead you into greater health and fruit. 


THE POISON IS LEAVING


I feel like I need to make you aware of something I have felt many times during this process when God is removing false foundations. 


It’s the feeling of poison in my heart that needs to come out. 


It’s the poison of the many seasons and situations sitting there at the surface of your soul and you become highly aware of it. 


The problem is that it feels like it’s impossible to move forward in that state. 


How do I find my passion and joy again? You have been asking the lord. 


The poison feels like a constant reminder of the lost seasons you have been through, the wildernesses you have endured, and the many regrets and failures you have caused. 


But they aren’t coming to the surface to condemn you but to leave you! 


Don’t take it on and don’t let it rob you of what is ahead. Lean into the process, let him draw it up and out, and move on! 


THE HEART RESET


Lastly, let me share a vision I had in January;


In a vision I saw the Lord take a defibrillator and place them over my heart and begin to shock me over and over. 


It was such a startling thing to see because at the time I was feeling close to God and felt like my heart was in a good place. 


But the more I prayed into i could sense what was coming to the surface as the Lord shook our hearts - the hidden, tucked-away pain and weariness of the previous seasons. 


The defibrillator was not only there to bring hearts back to life but to expose what was hidden causing subtle issues. 


The shaking was separating what was me and what was something else and that’s what God is doing right now in you. 


He is getting YOU back. Where you have felt lost and given yourself away, It’s time to retrieve YOU from the years and be made WHOLE. 


God is right now on a rescue mission to bring you back from the battles of other seasons and reconcile you again. 


You have been decompartmentalized and scattered throughout a myriad of seasons and it’s left you double minded, fractured, and unsettled in soul. 


But as you lean into the shaking, He is gathering you, healing you, and putting you back together. 


Sow a seed

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THIS WEEK LOOK FOR THESE SIGNS

By Nate Johnston • 23 Jun, 2024
Over the last 3 days, I have felt a fight in my Spirit and an overwhelming sense of impending breakthrough for those who have felt at the battlefront—yet unable to move forward in that direction. As I was in worship, I heard these words: "Look for the signs of prison break," so let me prophesy over your week... LOOK FOR THE SHAKING Don't be alarmed by the shaking and what looks like drama and commotion. God is revealing what has been secretly keeping you in lockdown and what was holding up your movement. Tension points are breakthrough points and places where God brings resolve, healing, and reinvention. Your worship and contending are shaking what has felt like a holding cell, limbo, and stalemate. Like Paul and Silas, your song through the dark night is beginning to shake and shatter the bars that have held you. The shake-up is your break-out! I prophesy that this is your rescue from the shaking that has come against you to keep you still, contained, and under lock and key in Jesus name! LOOK FOR THE FRACTURES I heard the word "fractures," which means a crack or rupture, and I believe we are going to begin to see significant fractures form in the intentional onslaught against us. You are going to begin to see the fractures, weak spots, and imperfections in the warfare you have had against you, like the missing chink in the armor where you will strike down the giant that has been looming over you. You will begin to hear the sound of metal bending, and the once strong and impenetrable assignments that have kept you at bay will give way. Then, you will leave the prison hold you have been in. You will have an "eyes open" moment and see things as they truly are, and the smoke and mirrors will be revealed in plain view. I prophesy that this week, you will see the cracks in the enemy's case against you and begin to feel hope again. You will be victorious where you have been hit the hardest. LOOK FOR THE DISMANTLING OF LOCKS There is a global and personal dismantling taking place. The enemy is no longer able to hold together all the pieces and keep his hand hidden. His plan is being dismantled. Just as Isaiah 45 says ,, there will be a "stripping of kings' armor," a "dethroning," and a "breaking down of bronze doors." The counterfeit kingdom is going to have a public showing, and the house is falling apart further. Personally, this is also taking place, where God is tearing down the gates, walls, ceilings, and obstructions that have been keeping you frustrated and stationary in your assignment. The dismantling of these locks and strategies is in the making. I prophesy that you are beginning to break out and breakthrough, and every invisible rope and tie is being untied and removed in Jesus' name. LOOK FOR THE FINALITY & CLOSURE For many, a monumental prison break is the necessary closure regarding past seasons' baggage, and right now, God is tying the loose ends. This baggage has been a massive yoke on the necks of those longing to enjoy the new season but who have been dealing with the emotional scarring and trauma of past season's battles. God is bringing healing and closure to them. He is bringing closure by healing bodies, hearts, and minds from the toll of the last season where people are still carrying hurts, words, and betrayals. I sensed that, especially in families and relationships, there was coming closure to a season of unrest, hardship, debt, and bad blood. God is cleansing, healing, and restoring right now. Hidden warfare and words are being dealt with. Divisive roots and assignments are being dismantled, and ticking time bombs of strife are being disarmed. Look for the closure of expected outcomes because on the other side of the surrender of them will be the better outcomes you couldn't have come up with. I prophesy for the old doors to close, ties to be severed, and old seasons to come to an end in Jesus name! LOOK FOR THE DREAMS & INSIGHT The airwaves in your sleep have been clouded, cluttered, and under fire but there is FREEDOM & REINVENTION coming to reinstate the night seasons revelation that has been lost in this contending season. The fruit of this prison break is a deeper connection to God and hearing His heart and mysteries. Your sacrifice of praise in the storm is now opening up a whole new realm of hearing and seeing than you are used to. In the enclosed space, you were unable to have vision and dream, but now watch as you, for the first time in a long time, start to dream with God and see the "down the road" you couldn't see before. I prophesy a fresh flow and season of visitation and revelation over you in Jesus name! LOOK FOR THE KEYS YOU DROPPED I kept seeing keys, and I asked the Lord what I was seeing, and I was drawn to Revelation 3:7, which says to the holder of the keys of David that "What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open." You lost your keys in the survival season, but now you are getting them back. You also dropped your fire in the survival season, but now you are getting it back. It's time to pick up what you dropped in 2020. It's time to resume the plan you had before the pandemic. Don't look at limitations or allow what God gave you to be stunted by the times. I prophesy that God is giving you back your zeal and passion, reigniting you, and refueling you for your season of sprinting forward in Jesus name! LOOK FOR THE SUDDEN MOVEMENT You will suddenly make "headway" (the word I heard) in places where there has been no fruit, progress, or advancement for your effort. You will feel a GRACE on stepping out where there was none before and have ease in the beginning when making plans. The middle ground is falling away. The place of being without options and constantly hitting stops is over. Movement is here...so move out by faith. Step out by faith, and He will guide you. Isolation has been a tactic to keep you feeling even more cut off from any kind of breakthrough, but God is bringing you "fast-blooming " friendships to make up for lost time. Look for the sudden openings where things felt closed and the ability to make decisions to move forward that you couldn't before. I prophesy SWIFT and peace-filled movement over you and your families in Jesus name! LOOK FOR THE KNOCK ON THE DOOR Two times throughout the night before writing this word I woke up to hearing what sounded like a loud knock on our front door. I knew what it meant in the Spirit. Look for the knock on the door where doors have been locked and shut from you and what you were promised out of reach. God is opening up opportunities and things you felt you missed. He is bringing favor you thought you were robbed and cheated of. God is opening what has been shut, breaking through, and tearing down walls and doors in your way. Red tape and legalities that have stood menacing over you will be removed. God is clearing the road. For those who have been knocked down repeatedly, this is a moment of standing tall again. Where your name was dragged through the mud, and you lost your will to live. It's time to stand. "You aggressively attacked me and tried to knock me down, but the Lord helped me" - Psalm 118:13 It's time for a prison break because it's who God is...You may have endured a time of extreme hardship but it doesn't end there. I prophesy that things will shift dramatically this week in Jesus name! "Give me a sign of your goodness, that my enemies may see it and be put to shame, for you, LORD, have helped me and comforted me" - Psalm 86:17 

THE WINDS OF CHANGE ARE BLOWING

By Nate Johnston • 19 Jun, 2024
Look around. It's the winds of change blowing. You either fight it or fall into it. But this one isn't leaving anything the same way it was. But many are saying, "Lord, I can't handle another season of storms; I am tired!" But the Lord says, "My winds are not the storm; they dissipate the storm!" Many have seen the signs and hunkered down in the storm bunker, but this isn't what you think it is. The winds of change are creating ripple effects upon global and personal circumstances, but they aren't coming to take you out but to put you back together! "Then He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, 'Thus says the Lord God, "Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they come to life." - Ezekiel 37:9 Yes, the winds of the spirit are bringing life to dry bones and the decommissioned. So I say to the fallen today, arise in Jesus name! I see the deep grief trying to clamp itself around your head, but it must break loose now in Jesus name! THE WINDS OF REFORMATION For the Lord has been reforming you in secret. That's why your heart has been so raw, and all appetites for this world have fallen away. This is why you have detoured from the safe and expected path. This is why you had to shut the door. This is why you had to be detoxed from the rat race and see it for what it is. In the last 10 years, there have been gusts of transition and many birth pangs, but they have not been the birthing. But now, the winds of change have prepared the church for the greatest hour. THE WINDS OF DIVINE ORDER I heard the Lord say, "Fresh manna will fall as you let the old manna rot away." There has been an unhealthy clinging to the methods and mindsets of God's last move, which has produced an influx of bad fruit. But this move of God is going to look different. It's going to be messy, yet it will restore order to lives, families, and the church. THE WINDS OF POLARIZING SEPARATION For I have been separating the wheat from the chaff, says the Lord. Those who fear me and those who don't. Those who lie with evil and call it good. And those who choose the world over me. That is why I have separated you from them and removed you from the tables of compromise even when it hurt. But you knew you couldn't worship me and their golden calves at the same time. For the winds of change are bringing things into their right place and everything that is out of place is being removed. For I am plucking out the root rot of the church and planting a Davidic heart again in place of that which was defiled. So don't be surprised if it looks polarising or destructive; these will cause true repentance to gush forth. WINDS OF HOLY JUSTICE My winds of change are blowing divine justice over these situations that have held people in bondage and psychological manipulation. And in a moment their power will be gone and I will repay what they stole from you and restore you to your post. A sign of this will be that you will start to see the private foxes become public, and the private battles in your life with this spirit will soon be made known for what it is. For this is an hour I am dismantling the towers of man's achievements and bringing the church back into a humbling once again. For my wind is blowing and delivering the proud and lofty and setting them free from their thrones. And I am bringing the church into her nameless, faceless days where all eyes will be on me once again. THE WINDS OF DISRUPTION & RESTORING NATIONS Now watch as I blow upon the nations. I am sending one expression of my spirit to one nation and another to another. There will be such a sudden explosion of varying flavors as I restore my salt and light and set my feast for the hungry. These expressions won't be able to be contained or manipulated because they can't be controlled. And those who are there to witness them will be unable to manufacture or steer it, only lean into what I am doing. My winds come now at the turning of a tide in the nations and in response to those who have prayed for nations hanging in the balance. And you will see both disruption and beauty, says the Lord. You will see turmoil and outpouring. But look beyond the news and beyond the story before your eyes and see what I am doing. For I am restoring nations, not tearing them apart. YOU WILL SEE WHAT YOU COULDN'T As I was writing this down, I went into a vision that felt like 8k clarity. The clearest vision I have ever seen. Then the Lord said, "My winds are blowing open the blurry prophets!" For many have been in a season of blindness and disconnect but my spirit is now giving you back sight with a clarity that has not been released upon the church yet. And the eyes of the blind will see, and the eyes of the deaf be unstopped. And fresh vision will finally come after years of wandering around feeling like God departed from you. The Lord says to his prophets, "I had to untangle you before I could allow you to see fresh; otherwise, they would have trampled the revelation I am now giving you. This is where the dots connect over the last four years and finally come to fruition. THE WINDS OF MIGRATION & MOVEMENT So, as I am rearranging your life and altering your plans, I am also conceiving in you new movements. But in order for these movements to be birthed you will have to migrate. For some, it's geographically, and for others, it's migrating from the seas you have been swimming in. The Lord says you have outgrown those waters, and you will become stagnant if you don't flow with me and move with me. But I am not taking anything from you, but adding to you! Don't throw the baby out with the bath water as you feel this shift. Don't burn your bridges and throw away the keys to your vehicle, but learn how to receive multiple callings and assignments. Multiple burnings and multiple groans...says the Lord. For I am going to give you more nations. And open up places you would never have expected. So don't be overwhelmed, but lean into this new space of dreaming with me and learning to operate with a deeper capacity to understand how I weave global estates together. THE WINDS OF GATHERING And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other. - Matthew 24:31 Lastly, I saw the winds gathering people from hidden holes and caves around the earth. Who are these ones? I asked...These are the ones I am calling out of the dens of darkness and pain and back to their posts. They are the ones who died in the battle and lost everything. These are the ones who the enemy assassinated. But I am putting my spirit upon them again so they can lead the charge in the days to come. But now they won't lead the church to more religion but to me. And they will establish birthplaces where my spirit can move without restriction and where I can cohabit, says the Lord.

THIS WEEK LOOK FOR THESE SIGNS

By Nate Johnston • 23 Jun, 2024
Over the last 3 days, I have felt a fight in my Spirit and an overwhelming sense of impending breakthrough for those who have felt at the battlefront—yet unable to move forward in that direction. As I was in worship, I heard these words: "Look for the signs of prison break," so let me prophesy over your week... LOOK FOR THE SHAKING Don't be alarmed by the shaking and what looks like drama and commotion. God is revealing what has been secretly keeping you in lockdown and what was holding up your movement. Tension points are breakthrough points and places where God brings resolve, healing, and reinvention. Your worship and contending are shaking what has felt like a holding cell, limbo, and stalemate. Like Paul and Silas, your song through the dark night is beginning to shake and shatter the bars that have held you. The shake-up is your break-out! I prophesy that this is your rescue from the shaking that has come against you to keep you still, contained, and under lock and key in Jesus name! LOOK FOR THE FRACTURES I heard the word "fractures," which means a crack or rupture, and I believe we are going to begin to see significant fractures form in the intentional onslaught against us. You are going to begin to see the fractures, weak spots, and imperfections in the warfare you have had against you, like the missing chink in the armor where you will strike down the giant that has been looming over you. You will begin to hear the sound of metal bending, and the once strong and impenetrable assignments that have kept you at bay will give way. Then, you will leave the prison hold you have been in. You will have an "eyes open" moment and see things as they truly are, and the smoke and mirrors will be revealed in plain view. I prophesy that this week, you will see the cracks in the enemy's case against you and begin to feel hope again. You will be victorious where you have been hit the hardest. LOOK FOR THE DISMANTLING OF LOCKS There is a global and personal dismantling taking place. The enemy is no longer able to hold together all the pieces and keep his hand hidden. His plan is being dismantled. Just as Isaiah 45 says ,, there will be a "stripping of kings' armor," a "dethroning," and a "breaking down of bronze doors." The counterfeit kingdom is going to have a public showing, and the house is falling apart further. Personally, this is also taking place, where God is tearing down the gates, walls, ceilings, and obstructions that have been keeping you frustrated and stationary in your assignment. The dismantling of these locks and strategies is in the making. I prophesy that you are beginning to break out and breakthrough, and every invisible rope and tie is being untied and removed in Jesus' name. LOOK FOR THE FINALITY & CLOSURE For many, a monumental prison break is the necessary closure regarding past seasons' baggage, and right now, God is tying the loose ends. This baggage has been a massive yoke on the necks of those longing to enjoy the new season but who have been dealing with the emotional scarring and trauma of past season's battles. God is bringing healing and closure to them. He is bringing closure by healing bodies, hearts, and minds from the toll of the last season where people are still carrying hurts, words, and betrayals. I sensed that, especially in families and relationships, there was coming closure to a season of unrest, hardship, debt, and bad blood. God is cleansing, healing, and restoring right now. Hidden warfare and words are being dealt with. Divisive roots and assignments are being dismantled, and ticking time bombs of strife are being disarmed. Look for the closure of expected outcomes because on the other side of the surrender of them will be the better outcomes you couldn't have come up with. I prophesy for the old doors to close, ties to be severed, and old seasons to come to an end in Jesus name! LOOK FOR THE DREAMS & INSIGHT The airwaves in your sleep have been clouded, cluttered, and under fire but there is FREEDOM & REINVENTION coming to reinstate the night seasons revelation that has been lost in this contending season. The fruit of this prison break is a deeper connection to God and hearing His heart and mysteries. Your sacrifice of praise in the storm is now opening up a whole new realm of hearing and seeing than you are used to. In the enclosed space, you were unable to have vision and dream, but now watch as you, for the first time in a long time, start to dream with God and see the "down the road" you couldn't see before. I prophesy a fresh flow and season of visitation and revelation over you in Jesus name! LOOK FOR THE KEYS YOU DROPPED I kept seeing keys, and I asked the Lord what I was seeing, and I was drawn to Revelation 3:7, which says to the holder of the keys of David that "What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open." You lost your keys in the survival season, but now you are getting them back. You also dropped your fire in the survival season, but now you are getting it back. It's time to pick up what you dropped in 2020. It's time to resume the plan you had before the pandemic. Don't look at limitations or allow what God gave you to be stunted by the times. I prophesy that God is giving you back your zeal and passion, reigniting you, and refueling you for your season of sprinting forward in Jesus name! LOOK FOR THE SUDDEN MOVEMENT You will suddenly make "headway" (the word I heard) in places where there has been no fruit, progress, or advancement for your effort. You will feel a GRACE on stepping out where there was none before and have ease in the beginning when making plans. The middle ground is falling away. The place of being without options and constantly hitting stops is over. Movement is here...so move out by faith. Step out by faith, and He will guide you. Isolation has been a tactic to keep you feeling even more cut off from any kind of breakthrough, but God is bringing you "fast-blooming " friendships to make up for lost time. Look for the sudden openings where things felt closed and the ability to make decisions to move forward that you couldn't before. I prophesy SWIFT and peace-filled movement over you and your families in Jesus name! LOOK FOR THE KNOCK ON THE DOOR Two times throughout the night before writing this word I woke up to hearing what sounded like a loud knock on our front door. I knew what it meant in the Spirit. Look for the knock on the door where doors have been locked and shut from you and what you were promised out of reach. God is opening up opportunities and things you felt you missed. He is bringing favor you thought you were robbed and cheated of. God is opening what has been shut, breaking through, and tearing down walls and doors in your way. Red tape and legalities that have stood menacing over you will be removed. God is clearing the road. For those who have been knocked down repeatedly, this is a moment of standing tall again. Where your name was dragged through the mud, and you lost your will to live. It's time to stand. "You aggressively attacked me and tried to knock me down, but the Lord helped me" - Psalm 118:13 It's time for a prison break because it's who God is...You may have endured a time of extreme hardship but it doesn't end there. I prophesy that things will shift dramatically this week in Jesus name! "Give me a sign of your goodness, that my enemies may see it and be put to shame, for you, LORD, have helped me and comforted me" - Psalm 86:17 

THE WINDS OF CHANGE ARE BLOWING

By Nate Johnston • 19 Jun, 2024
Look around. It's the winds of change blowing. You either fight it or fall into it. But this one isn't leaving anything the same way it was. But many are saying, "Lord, I can't handle another season of storms; I am tired!" But the Lord says, "My winds are not the storm; they dissipate the storm!" Many have seen the signs and hunkered down in the storm bunker, but this isn't what you think it is. The winds of change are creating ripple effects upon global and personal circumstances, but they aren't coming to take you out but to put you back together! "Then He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, 'Thus says the Lord God, "Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they come to life." - Ezekiel 37:9 Yes, the winds of the spirit are bringing life to dry bones and the decommissioned. So I say to the fallen today, arise in Jesus name! I see the deep grief trying to clamp itself around your head, but it must break loose now in Jesus name! THE WINDS OF REFORMATION For the Lord has been reforming you in secret. That's why your heart has been so raw, and all appetites for this world have fallen away. This is why you have detoured from the safe and expected path. This is why you had to shut the door. This is why you had to be detoxed from the rat race and see it for what it is. In the last 10 years, there have been gusts of transition and many birth pangs, but they have not been the birthing. But now, the winds of change have prepared the church for the greatest hour. THE WINDS OF DIVINE ORDER I heard the Lord say, "Fresh manna will fall as you let the old manna rot away." There has been an unhealthy clinging to the methods and mindsets of God's last move, which has produced an influx of bad fruit. But this move of God is going to look different. It's going to be messy, yet it will restore order to lives, families, and the church. THE WINDS OF POLARIZING SEPARATION For I have been separating the wheat from the chaff, says the Lord. Those who fear me and those who don't. Those who lie with evil and call it good. And those who choose the world over me. That is why I have separated you from them and removed you from the tables of compromise even when it hurt. But you knew you couldn't worship me and their golden calves at the same time. For the winds of change are bringing things into their right place and everything that is out of place is being removed. For I am plucking out the root rot of the church and planting a Davidic heart again in place of that which was defiled. So don't be surprised if it looks polarising or destructive; these will cause true repentance to gush forth. WINDS OF HOLY JUSTICE My winds of change are blowing divine justice over these situations that have held people in bondage and psychological manipulation. And in a moment their power will be gone and I will repay what they stole from you and restore you to your post. A sign of this will be that you will start to see the private foxes become public, and the private battles in your life with this spirit will soon be made known for what it is. For this is an hour I am dismantling the towers of man's achievements and bringing the church back into a humbling once again. For my wind is blowing and delivering the proud and lofty and setting them free from their thrones. And I am bringing the church into her nameless, faceless days where all eyes will be on me once again. THE WINDS OF DISRUPTION & RESTORING NATIONS Now watch as I blow upon the nations. I am sending one expression of my spirit to one nation and another to another. There will be such a sudden explosion of varying flavors as I restore my salt and light and set my feast for the hungry. These expressions won't be able to be contained or manipulated because they can't be controlled. And those who are there to witness them will be unable to manufacture or steer it, only lean into what I am doing. My winds come now at the turning of a tide in the nations and in response to those who have prayed for nations hanging in the balance. And you will see both disruption and beauty, says the Lord. You will see turmoil and outpouring. But look beyond the news and beyond the story before your eyes and see what I am doing. For I am restoring nations, not tearing them apart. YOU WILL SEE WHAT YOU COULDN'T As I was writing this down, I went into a vision that felt like 8k clarity. The clearest vision I have ever seen. Then the Lord said, "My winds are blowing open the blurry prophets!" For many have been in a season of blindness and disconnect but my spirit is now giving you back sight with a clarity that has not been released upon the church yet. And the eyes of the blind will see, and the eyes of the deaf be unstopped. And fresh vision will finally come after years of wandering around feeling like God departed from you. The Lord says to his prophets, "I had to untangle you before I could allow you to see fresh; otherwise, they would have trampled the revelation I am now giving you. This is where the dots connect over the last four years and finally come to fruition. THE WINDS OF MIGRATION & MOVEMENT So, as I am rearranging your life and altering your plans, I am also conceiving in you new movements. But in order for these movements to be birthed you will have to migrate. For some, it's geographically, and for others, it's migrating from the seas you have been swimming in. The Lord says you have outgrown those waters, and you will become stagnant if you don't flow with me and move with me. But I am not taking anything from you, but adding to you! Don't throw the baby out with the bath water as you feel this shift. Don't burn your bridges and throw away the keys to your vehicle, but learn how to receive multiple callings and assignments. Multiple burnings and multiple groans...says the Lord. For I am going to give you more nations. And open up places you would never have expected. So don't be overwhelmed, but lean into this new space of dreaming with me and learning to operate with a deeper capacity to understand how I weave global estates together. THE WINDS OF GATHERING And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other. - Matthew 24:31 Lastly, I saw the winds gathering people from hidden holes and caves around the earth. Who are these ones? I asked...These are the ones I am calling out of the dens of darkness and pain and back to their posts. They are the ones who died in the battle and lost everything. These are the ones who the enemy assassinated. But I am putting my spirit upon them again so they can lead the charge in the days to come. But now they won't lead the church to more religion but to me. And they will establish birthplaces where my spirit can move without restriction and where I can cohabit, says the Lord.

I AM UNDOING THE MESS OF YOUR ISHMAEL...

By Nate Johnston • 18 Jun, 2024
I heard the Lord say, “Right now, I am undoing the mess of your Ishmael.” The thing you created and birthed didn’t have me in it. Because I have seen you broken and contrite before me, I will now reverse what has felt like a curse over your life since you stepped into it. For it’s felt like your life has been falling apart for such a long while and now I am going to bring you back to the moment of that decision and place you in a divine re-do. I don’t want you stuck there anymore. I don’t want you in the pit of despair anymore. And I have seen you wallowing in the depths of regret, grief, and utter loss as a result. I have seen you hit rock bottom because you couldn’t sustain what you created without me. And while right now it hurts, it had to fall apart so I could bring you the door I promised and birth your Isaac. It also hurts because you didn’t see that it was Ishmael at the time. You thought it was faith. You thought you were following me. But in the noise and drama you chose what looked right over what was right. But now it’s time to let it go. Close the door. Turn the page of that chapter and rediscover what you were created to birth with me. It’s time to return to your roots so I can make you bloom again. So don’t fear the shipwrecks and mess around you. I am right now in the midst of tidying them up with you and bringing you out of the constant warfare of being out of grace. For my mercies are new every morning...so receive it. And let your heart release all bitterness, for I will make all things new and restore the years. Watch as I turn back the clock and bring you what you lost. Watch as I restore the relationships, passion, and joy that were stolen. And the sign will be that you will come alive again, and your family will thrive again.

REMNANT - YOU'RE ABOUT TO FIND A NEW RHYTHM

By Nate Johnston • 12 Jun, 2024
Remnant, You are in a Holy Spirit detour right now. You aren’t off course and haven’t missed your target. It’s not what you were expecting, but it’s not stagnation like it feels - it’s just the Lord pulling you into a moment of stillness and sudden hiddenness for what is about to take place. It’s the call to build a new foundation internally and the call to build the new foundation of a new era. Its both. Can you feel it? That is why you have felt lost, because you didn’t expect you would be dealing with the heart stuff. Your affections have changed. Your priorities have suddenly shifted. Yes, He is doing a new thing INSIDE you as He builds AROUND you. They are connected. A NEW RHYTHM Right now you are learning a different rhythm. You are being untangled and untethered from so many strings and ropes trying to keep you held tightly to their expectations and busy-ness. But the Lord is setting you free from all of them and leading you away from the exhaustion of the ministry golden calf and its subtle robbery. You see, the ministry machine doesn’t think of families, soul-health, or longevity, but devours anything it is given. And many have been consumed and spat out when they have nothing more to give. It’s left a trail of burn out and many who right now who are depleted but fighting the enemies agenda to take them out completely. It’s been 6 months of facing some difficult consequences and cleaning up the messes of years of being spread thin. So don’t run from it, and don’t fear it, because it’s your deliverance and your new beginning. On the other side is a fresh wind and a joy you didn’t even know could exist. On the other side is a wonder and a new adventure with the Lord that will make you come alive where religion shut you down and hedged you in. Let God redefine your mission, recalibrate your heart, and place His easy yoke upon you. Lean in...it’s about to get good again. BE REPLENISHED “Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah: “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.” “So he did what the Lord had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook” - 1 Kings 17:2-6 Just as God led Elijah away to be replenished, right now God is pulling many away to be fed with fresh manna and revived again. This will be where you are healed from your long road of opposition and slander. This is where the weight you are carrying is removed once and for all. This is where the heavy yokes break. This is where God brings you back to your factory settings and gives you a new passion and zeal for HIS kingdom. This will be where you are rebranded so you can build the pure thing He has given you with nothing added. MOVEMENTS BIRTHED IN SECRET But this is not the way you expected it to come. You thought you would be building something in public but the Lord has led you away to birth this one because of its significance. The most impacting movements of 2025-2030 are right now being built quietly behind the scenes by a people on their faces before the lord. They aren’t in a boardroom with a group of entrepreneurs and strategists, but a small few who have given their lives to prayer and to restoring the fallen altar. They don’t have conference headlines in their sights or boosting social media followings. They aren’t interested in joining the latest hip apostolic network or getting the affirmation of Apollos. They have died to the machine and have zero desire and affection for the old regime. Right now they are in the last trimester and have gone underground to finish what God started long ago, and so to do so have separated themselves in the most crucial stage. In fact, they aren’t even trying to birth a movement, but are in a deep personal reset and purge from the last season of battle. But out of the ashes and pain of the old wineskin is emerging what is pure and not manufactured by man. It won’t look like anything else. It won’t have the hype. It won’t have the razz and marketing charisma of a movement. They will just be honest and pure expressions of the kingdom that come out of environments where people have valued the KING more than launching a brand. So to those carrying movements and feel this tension; This won’t be built by your hands, but God birthing through you. This is why you have felt the pull-back from the hustle for years now. This is why you have left so many tables. This is why your circle has gotten smaller and God has reduced your alignments. This is why your desire for the current model and ministry aspirations have died. This is why you have been set apart relationally yet again. This is why you are going through the deepest reset of your life. There is something that you are carrying that God is protective over and He is ensuring that THIS TIME it is not aborted!
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