nateandchristy2018

WORD FOR THOSE EMERGING FROM THE WILDERNESS

nateandchristy2018

WORD FOR THOSE EMERGING FROM THE WILDERNESS

WORD FOR THOSE EMERGING FROM THE WILDERNESS

(This is an edited transcription of a prophetic word released via live video broadcast on 13th June 2019)

This is an hour where Holy Spirit is saying “You have permission. You have permission to arise and to shine in this hour.” The Lord is saying “It is the hour of Isaiah 60 being fulfilled” where they are arising and shining - the crazy, the wacky, the ones with all the different expressions and the different blueprints that God has placed inside of you; this is the hour.

God is saying “Arise and shine, arise and shine.” Stop trying to get permission from men when God has giving you permission; because we are constantly comparing. We are constantly looking; we are constantly trying to measure what we carry according to culture and to the church culture and to what is acceptable.

The Lord is saying “I don’t want you to look at those things. Will you constantly feast on the throne room in My presence and My Glory and you will live by a different standard? You will legislate from a different place. You will release from a different place.”

VOICES OF HARVEST

Right now God is calling you; whether you are in a church or not in a church. This is what it says, The Holy Spirit, He searches through the earth.” He’s searching through the earth; He’s looking for those who will say yes. He’s looking and He’s searching, and His eyes are on you.

This is the Joel 2 season of the Spirit of God being poured out on the earth. I tell you what; the fruit of that is going to look messy and crazy at first. The fruit of that is not going to look like you can manage it; like you can have an admin team and a team of people trying to manage it in your church organization. It will not be enough to catch the outpouring and the harvest that is coming but God is starting with you right now.

He’s calling you out of that place and I want to speak to those who are emerging from the wilderness. What am I talking about? I’m talking about a specific people. I’m talking about a people who have maybe been living on the fringe in this past season. I’m talking about people that carry the Spirit of God; who love Jesus; who know that they have been created and designed to love God and there has been a season that you have been in an isolation and wilderness and a place of preparation and you have been trying to navigate it knowing that this is your season of emerging; this is your season that God is leading you out into something new.

LOOK TO THE WILDERNESS

God has been telling me for years now to look to the wilderness for the weighty voices from the Lord. And that’s not to devalue those who God has birthed and trained in the church; that’s not what I’m saying. I’m talking about those who have been through the fire and the wilderness; those who have been through a season that has been so intense that you thought you were going to die; a season of assassination, a season of such opposition, a season where everything came against you yet you’re still standing; God says, “They are the ones who carry my weighty glory” They are the ones who carry a word from the Lord for this hour.

I think we do often keep looking at the wrong places for the weighty voice of the Lord. I think we’re constantly looking for those who are refined. We’re constantly looking for these voices that have it all together, but God is looking for the ones that are rough around the edges that will simply be a container for His Glory to pour in and leak out in the earth.

We are going to see a different blueprint. We’re going to see a different kind of voice arise in this season. We’re going to see something arise that we have not seen that will be a solution to what the earth is crying out for. We’re going to see prophets and people sent into places, situations, social situations that are very messy, that the church doesn’t want to deal with. Areas that unless you have been to the lowest depths you won’t recognise or see.

THE PREPARATION SEASON IS THE SETUP

You have been in this season where God has been birthing what is inside of you and maybe you don’t understand your isolation; maybe you don’t understand why there has even been levels of rejection; maybe you don’t even know why people have been devaluing your voice. There’s been all these different elements that have been painful. God has been preparing you as a voice emerging from the wilderness to speak; to prepare the way of the Lord and to speak forth what is from his heart.

God has been preparing you where everything around you feels like it’s been cut off around you; every single relationship and tie and you’re like “God what is going on?” He’s preparing you; He’s preparing you.

There are seasons you go through and you don’t understand why you go through them. We don’t understand why they’re so painful we don’t understand why God would lead you into a situation that looks like It’s recession; it looks like it is subtraction in your life but it’s not. It’s the addition.

BIRTHED IN THE WILDERNESS TO LEAD PEOPLE OUT

God often develops and births people you in the wilderness. You think of John the Baptizer. His ministry was “a voice crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord.” He wasn’t in the synagogues, he was a voice crying in the wilderness. Jesus said of John. He said “John is the greatest of the prophets, but even you are greater than he;” because John was the ending of an era and John, as he baptized Jesus, there was a tag in the spirit as one ministry ended and another began and what happened that moment that Jesus had Holy Spirit come down upon him and say, “This is my son whom I love and I am well pleased” and Jesus then went into His wilderness.

He went into His wilderness. His ministry didn’t begin until that moment. His ministry didn’t begin until right here. He was in the wilderness going through all these thoughts and bombardment of the enemy and temptations to turn the stones into bread; and I believe we go through these wilderness seasons because God is wanting the pure voices to arise and to emerge.

Don’t let comfort and safety become the place that you die because you’re not willing to be in a place that it’s just you and the Lord; that surrender, that deep place of surrender where you feel like you’re giving up everything for Him to come and live inside of you; for Him to come and take up residence in you where you say; “it’s no longer I that live but Christ who lives in me;”

That's what the wilderness does. This is what Isaiah 43:5 prophesies to John;

“A voice cries out in the desert, clear a way for the Lord, make a straight highway in the wilderness for our God. Every valley will be raised, and every mountain and hill will be low. Deep places will be made level, rough places will be made smooth. Then the Lord’s Glory will be revealed, and all the people will see it. The Lord has spoken;”

That’s the ministry of the prophetic voices; those who are coming and emerging from the wilderness and they will emerge out of that place that they thought they would die in. They would emerge out of that place bursting with more life and more transformation, more Holy Spirit power and breakthrough than they ever thought possible. The very fragrance of their season of death will actually be the ignition of a ministry of reconciliation and resurrection life to lead others lost and in bondage OUT!

FROM ISOLATION TO FAMILY

And while God often uses the wilderness and isolation to birth prophets, ln the longterm prophets need family. There are emerging voices right now without a family and God is calling you home. God doesn’t lead you into the wilderness so that you can rebel, He uses it to activate and ignite you then He leads you back so that you can then return with an answer and with a solution and you can actually be part of a family.

It’s just so important because in this season we’re going to see the family of God unite like more than ever before. This is not a season of more disjointing and more denominationalisms. It’s to be a season of the unity of the body of Christ; because the body of Christ, more than anything else, is us getting in our own little groups “I’m a prophetic voice, I’m this and I need to separate from this person because they don’t operate like me.” No, we need to work together and it’s time that the emerging voices come out of the wilderness and so that the body of Christ can come together in obedience and family.

There are a lot of people on social media who need a place to call home. There are a lot of people on social media who maybe don’t go to church and you’ve been out on the fringe and you’ve been in a very unhealthy place where maybe you don’t even realize what you carry and so I’m speaking to you more than anybody else. I’m speaking to you right now. Yes, I’ve been there but that’s not the end of the story. I’m speaking to those who have been in the wilderness past its expiry. I’m speaking to those who have been living on the fringes. I’m speaking to the sons and daughters that have felt like they have no place in the kingdom or in the church and today God is calling you back. He’s calling you into the family of God. He’s calling you to belong, He’s calling you to be a voice, He’s calling you to resound his glory into the earth.

LOOK WHAT THE WILDERNESS DID!

I want to ask; what has the wilderness done in you? I’m going to tell you what it’s done. The wilderness cultivates intimacy. It’s just you and Him alone. There’s nothing else, it feels like death because you’re like “I’m used to calling someone up and venting but I’ve got no one” and you go through this season and you’re like I don’t know who to call and the only one on the end of the line is Jesus; the only one on the end of the line is the Father. It’s where you get to know the Father really well and you’re not depending on a spiritual father. Earthly fathers are good but a terrible and disappointing replacement for the Father. The father is saying, “The wilderness is a place where you met Me. The wilderness is a place where you begin to hear my voice like a sheep knows my voice and then you know what I sound like and then you know what to speak and then you know what to say because you’re beginning to speak forth what I’ve already spoken into your spirit and release that into the earth.”

The wilderness Is where you fight your hardest battles. This is where the warfare is the most intense; it’s where you go through the mind wars and the things that come against you like Jesus did. He came against those mind battles and those wars, but it is the place that you have victory. It is the place that you defeat the bears and the lions like David and you emerge victorious. When you meet your Goliath, it’s not even a match for you because God has already been pouring out that authority. He has already showed you who you are.

YOUR PROMOTION COMES FROM THE LORD

The wilderness season is really powerful because it is the place where you know that your promotion comes from the Lord and not by man’s hands. What happened to David? All David’s brothers, when Prophet Samuel came along and said that the next king of Israel comes from your family, your lineage and He said, “it’s none of these, is there anyone else” and they had to call forth David from the wilderness, from tending to the sheep,” what happened? It wasn’t man that promoted David, it was God and when you’ve been faithful even in that season, the promotion comes from the Lord. You don’t need to chase down doors and I believe a marker of this season and for this generation is that we’re not going to seek fame or influence. We’re not going to seek fortune we’re not going to seek networking connections and all those sorts of things.

Young ministers, you’re not going to seek out event invites in churches who are going to get you to come along. You’ll just allow God to bring those things to you. Let the promotion come from the Lord.

The marker of these people is that they do not need to look for promotion. They don’t need to be these incredible self-marketers because God does it for them. The very fruit of their life is what people are drawn to because they know that the Spirit of God is upon their life.

PURE VOICES: NOT BRANDED OR OWNED

No one can say they own you. They weren’t there in the middle of your dark night of the soul. They weren’t in that place, no they weren’t. They weren’t in that place when you needed someone to call on. No, it was only Jesus. They can’t own you, they can’t put their brand on you. They can’t put their mark on you; they can’t claim you, “this is my spiritual son, this is my spiritual daughter.” No, I’m not against that stuff but I’m telling you there’s some really bad messy stuff that comes with that that is just not good and it has caused a lot of people to be squashed and controlled instead of freed and released and I’m going to tell you something, prophetic voices do need accountability and they do need people that they can draw from and people that can speak into their lives but I tell you what’s going to shut down a prophetic voice; it’s going to be someone that tries to own you, put their brand on you saying I have made you; that straightaway will weaken the prophetic voice and unction. It will mucky and muddy the very thing that is supposed to come out forth pure.

THE PURIFICATION & THE NEW WINE

So, what else has the Lord has been doing? He has been healing and freeing you. You don’t even realize; the wilderness has been doing way more for you than you realize. It’s working for you. It’s working in your favor. It’s been doing some deep deconstruction and construction a new thing. He has been re-directing you. There’s a new wine skin; maybe the thing you walked into the wilderness with, God is taking that from you and He’s giving a whole new wine skin and then He’s been filling you up with the new wine of His presence and you come out of the wilderness gushing forth with that new wine and people go, “I’ve not heard that before. Why does that just sound like life to me? Why is that just like refreshing water to my soul?” That’s why because it’s the new wine. It’s fresh. It’s new, it’s not tainted.

HE HAS BEEN DEVELOPING YOUR UNIQUE SOUND

Wow, I love that next thing God is doing in honing your instrument or unique expression. I’ve been saying this a lot but there is about to become and it’s already happening, the emerging of such crazy, out there expressions of God’s kingdom that is going to absolutely just bless the world but it’s going to be different from what we expect. The package is going to be very different from what we expect. It’s almost like we have seen that well this is what the kingdom is, and this is what we can release and it’s this tiny, there’s this tiny area here. Prophet looks like this, an evangelist looks like this, but I’m telling you right now, the emerging voices that are coming from the wilderness in this season; they have such a new vocabulary that they carry. There is such a new way and method that they operate in and unless you tapped into the spirit, you will write off who they are and what they carry. God is wanting to hone that expression that is inside of you He’s wanting you to own it. He’s wanting you to pick up the very thing that is in your hand that God has given you.

“Why would you use a sling, when you can use sword? here is the armor you need” But David said “I can’t do it with that, that’s old, that’s what I used to do it with before this season. I can’t do that anymore. I need my sling.” Now that looks stupid and we’re going to look at that sling and go, “you know, that’s stupid. Why would that person do that” but it is the new sound that God is bringing, that He’s carrying throughout the earth and as that sling, it is a new sound that is released and if you listen to the spirit you’ll tap into that place and you’ll value it.

STORIES FROM THE WILDERNESS ARE ABOUT TO BE WRITTEN

God told me to prophesy “Stories from the wilderness are about to be written in this season. You’re going to come out with a song” and the Lord says “there are going to be even stories and there are going to be books that are going to be written. There are stories that are going to be written from the wilderness.” If you felt that in your spirit just then, this might not be for everybody, but this is just for a few people. If you felt like “my story needs to be written and it’s going to empower a lot of people,” I want to pray for you right now. I feel like the Lord is saying your story is about to be written and the Lord said, “There are storytellers that are rising up in this season. There are storytellers rising”

So release that story, release that story, release that story. I just felt someone was saying “but it’s too dark, it’s too painful God, it’s too deep. I don’t want to relive that.”

The lord says “You’re not going to relive it. You’re going to see My victory. You’re going to see My power and My redemption and My Glory.”

If you’ve been through that season, if you’ve been through the wilderness, if you’ve been through the deep dark valley of the shadow of death but you came out on the other side and maybe you still don’t feel whole, but God speaks over you; “You are whole, and your voice needs to be heard in this season.”

I just break off every single lie, every single condemnation of the enemy, every voice that has tried to stunt you oppress you, hold you, control you, limit you, edit you, be broken in the name of Jesus! On behalf of leaders and people that never saw what was in you, I’m sorry. On behalf of parents, family members and friends that tried to tell you “shut up, you’re crazy.” I’m sorry; just release forgiveness to them even right now because you’re going to emerge. You’re going to emerge.

It’s a new day, you’re going to brush it off. You can’t let your story stay in that place where you were hurt. Prophets, you can’t stay there, you can’t be broken orphaned prophets anymore. Okay it was your story and let it be the part of your story that sets people free, not lead people into the wilderness, into brokenness. Let it be the part of your story that makes people realize “wow, that’s where I’m at but I’m going to get free because they did it.” Let it, let it go.

God, I thank you. I thank you for the stories that will be written for those who are feeling the anointing that is been released even right now to write their stories, to write what you’ve given them God, that in this season you’re telling people, “pick up your pens, begin to release what I give you, the revelation I give you, it’s time;” but you’re like, “but who will listen to me?” God says, “This is the hour. I want you to piece it together; I want you to begin to learn what it is again to steward my voice. I want you to speak.

WHAT IS IN YOUR HANDS RIGHT NOW?

Maybe you’re on here and you’re a prophetic voice and maybe you read the words I write or other prophetic voices and you’re like, “I hear the same thing;” good! The same Holy Spirit is speaking to you; but now it’s time for you to release it. I’m not telling you to go create an online ministry; am just telling you to begin to steward the word of the Lord. Begin to steward what He’s saying to you. Go and encourage a neighbor. Go and release the word of God over people.

Thank you Jesus that we are emerging out of that place God, that the preparation season that many have been through is over and God you’re leading them into a place of being able to be solutionists and architects of the word that you want to see. We say thank you, we say thank you, we say thank you.

EMERGING VOICES COLLECTIVE

In a few months we are launching the Emerging Voices Collective. This is a movement I’ve dreamed about for 5 years but waited for the GO from God. Emerging Voices Collective is all about raising up and championing prophetic voices around the world by creating family and resources for them discover the voice God has given them. If this word has spoken to you and this interests you go on our Instagram page @emergingvoicesco and follow us for encouragement and more updates to come.

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WE HAVE TO BIRTH DIFFERENTLY RIGHT NOW

By Nate Johnston • April 26, 2025
To the pioneers and forerunners who carry the Lord’s heart. To the remnant who are no longer following where man is leading, but are constantly seeking the Lamb - This is a word for you. This is a reminder of what God is speaking to us right now as we step into the new. The Lord keeps saying to me: “Build differently. Build differently. Follow Me. Build differently.” And He is persistent about this because we have been so used to building a certain way. Our mindsets have been shaped by old paradigms, and old blueprints of how we’ve done kingdom and ministry. But as we step into the new things God has placed in our hands, the challenge we will face is confronting the old mindsets. We will wrestle with old patterns, old methods, and old cycles, the ways we previously approached the kingdom, and God is asking us to break new ground and step into a whole new mindset and focus. The word over you is simply—birth differently. And here’s the difficult part; When you birth differently, many around you will say you’re doing it wrong. They will think you are being rebellious, foolish, or unwise. But unless we build His way and steward His mission His way, we risk birthing an Ishmael - something man-driven and powerless. We must build according to the blueprint of God’s heart, not according to proven systems and methods that have lost the wind of His Spirit. “Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.” (Psalm 127:1) That has been the trap for many in the past seasons. John the Baptist built differently. He birthed his ministry outside of the city walls. He rejected the religious systems and Pharisaical traditions (Luke 3:2-6). He did what looked simple, grassroots, even foolish, something many would have dismissed as just a momentary uprising, yet it caught fire. John was preparing the way of the Lord. He was awakening people to the transition between old and new wineskins, between old and new covenants. It says, “From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.” (Matthew 11:12) John ignited a holy hunger for true kingdom realities that had been buried under religious systems. You, remnant, were not called to tame. You were not called to maintain the status quo. You were called to lead the Church into her truest expression of relationship, intimacy, and becoming the true Ekklesia (Matthew 16:18). This is why we must build differently now. Because as we build, we are also unbuilding. As you establish what God is birthing through you, you are simultaneously dismantling what has been unhealthy, dysfunctional, and demonic. As you build healthy communities, you are unbuilding years of conditioning where the Church was a clubhouse or a hierarchy. As you build healthy leadership, Davidic leadership, you are unbuilding years of Saul-like leadership marked by control, fear, and intimidation. As you build healthy mothering and fathering, you are unbuilding years of Jezebelic influence that has sat at the tables of our ministries. As you build healthy prophetic culture, you are unbuilding the orphan spirit and celebrity-driven ministry. As you lead people to behold the Lamb, you are unbuilding the false idols, false gospels, and false “Jesuses” that have captivated the Church’s gaze. This is why birthing differently takes courage. It takes faith. It takes complete surrender. This week, I felt strongly not just to deliver this word, but to pray for you that God would begin giving you clear dreams and divine redirections. He is going to show you where you need to build differently. Where you must not fall back into the familiar patterns of the past. He will give you dreams, conviction, clarity, and specific next steps. And as you step out in obedience, you will feel the wind of the Holy Spirit behind you. And I prophesy that He will surround you with the right people, resources, and everything you need to walk into the fulfillment of this promise, In Jesus’ name! 

SIGNS THAT YOU ARE HEALING

By Nate Johnston • April 26, 2025
Many right now are in a deep healing moment but while it’s intense and consuming, God is not punishing you - He is healing you. He is restoring you from years of suppressed soul trauma and pain from your pioneering journey. This is what it looks like: • Pain is coming to the surface - pain you forgot was even there. • Your dreams are stirring up old topics, old wounds, unresolved memories. • God is bringing back to mind things you had buried long ago. You feel like you are in a midlife crisis but it’s just a mid - calling shift. Out of the old and into the new. You feel deeply resentful of people and people from past seasons—forgive! • You feel discontent and frustrated with everything you once tolerated. • Your emotions feel out of control - volatile, raw, and unpredictable. • You have no patience for meaningless conversations and time-wasting activities. • Surface-level relationships feel intolerable - you crave real connection or none at all. • You feel like you lost your purpose and passion - but it’s not lost. It’s being reshaped. • You are in a deep, holy reset. • Your mind feels messy, unanchored - like you’re not who you used to be. • You don’t know how to “connect with God” the old way anymore and that’s okay. • You need to talk, to vent, to release and you’re not apologizing for it anymore. • You are done putting a religious spin on pain. • You just need to do normal things without feeling guilty. • Kingdom activities that once excited you feel empty and dry. • Old betrayals, mistreatment, and buried anger are rising - the toxins are being purged. • You have no capacity left for anything fake, performative, or superficial. This is not backsliding. This is healing. God is not calling you backward - He is calling you deeper. You are shedding old survival mindsets. You are shedding old wineskins. You are making space for a new move of His Spirit in your life. It’s messy because it’s real. It’s heavy because it’s holy. It’s painful because it’s working. You are being healed and re-formed for a new chapter of healing and WHOLENESS. Stay in the process. Let healing do its work. Let the HEALER do His thing. New life is coming. 

WE HAVE TO BIRTH DIFFERENTLY RIGHT NOW

By Nate Johnston • April 26, 2025
To the pioneers and forerunners who carry the Lord’s heart. To the remnant who are no longer following where man is leading, but are constantly seeking the Lamb - This is a word for you. This is a reminder of what God is speaking to us right now as we step into the new. The Lord keeps saying to me: “Build differently. Build differently. Follow Me. Build differently.” And He is persistent about this because we have been so used to building a certain way. Our mindsets have been shaped by old paradigms, and old blueprints of how we’ve done kingdom and ministry. But as we step into the new things God has placed in our hands, the challenge we will face is confronting the old mindsets. We will wrestle with old patterns, old methods, and old cycles, the ways we previously approached the kingdom, and God is asking us to break new ground and step into a whole new mindset and focus. The word over you is simply—birth differently. And here’s the difficult part; When you birth differently, many around you will say you’re doing it wrong. They will think you are being rebellious, foolish, or unwise. But unless we build His way and steward His mission His way, we risk birthing an Ishmael - something man-driven and powerless. We must build according to the blueprint of God’s heart, not according to proven systems and methods that have lost the wind of His Spirit. “Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.” (Psalm 127:1) That has been the trap for many in the past seasons. John the Baptist built differently. He birthed his ministry outside of the city walls. He rejected the religious systems and Pharisaical traditions (Luke 3:2-6). He did what looked simple, grassroots, even foolish, something many would have dismissed as just a momentary uprising, yet it caught fire. John was preparing the way of the Lord. He was awakening people to the transition between old and new wineskins, between old and new covenants. It says, “From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.” (Matthew 11:12) John ignited a holy hunger for true kingdom realities that had been buried under religious systems. You, remnant, were not called to tame. You were not called to maintain the status quo. You were called to lead the Church into her truest expression of relationship, intimacy, and becoming the true Ekklesia (Matthew 16:18). This is why we must build differently now. Because as we build, we are also unbuilding. As you establish what God is birthing through you, you are simultaneously dismantling what has been unhealthy, dysfunctional, and demonic. As you build healthy communities, you are unbuilding years of conditioning where the Church was a clubhouse or a hierarchy. As you build healthy leadership, Davidic leadership, you are unbuilding years of Saul-like leadership marked by control, fear, and intimidation. As you build healthy mothering and fathering, you are unbuilding years of Jezebelic influence that has sat at the tables of our ministries. As you build healthy prophetic culture, you are unbuilding the orphan spirit and celebrity-driven ministry. As you lead people to behold the Lamb, you are unbuilding the false idols, false gospels, and false “Jesuses” that have captivated the Church’s gaze. This is why birthing differently takes courage. It takes faith. It takes complete surrender. This week, I felt strongly not just to deliver this word, but to pray for you that God would begin giving you clear dreams and divine redirections. He is going to show you where you need to build differently. Where you must not fall back into the familiar patterns of the past. He will give you dreams, conviction, clarity, and specific next steps. And as you step out in obedience, you will feel the wind of the Holy Spirit behind you. And I prophesy that He will surround you with the right people, resources, and everything you need to walk into the fulfillment of this promise, In Jesus’ name! 

SIGNS THAT YOU ARE HEALING

By Nate Johnston • April 26, 2025
Many right now are in a deep healing moment but while it’s intense and consuming, God is not punishing you - He is healing you. He is restoring you from years of suppressed soul trauma and pain from your pioneering journey. This is what it looks like: • Pain is coming to the surface - pain you forgot was even there. • Your dreams are stirring up old topics, old wounds, unresolved memories. • God is bringing back to mind things you had buried long ago. You feel like you are in a midlife crisis but it’s just a mid - calling shift. Out of the old and into the new. You feel deeply resentful of people and people from past seasons—forgive! • You feel discontent and frustrated with everything you once tolerated. • Your emotions feel out of control - volatile, raw, and unpredictable. • You have no patience for meaningless conversations and time-wasting activities. • Surface-level relationships feel intolerable - you crave real connection or none at all. • You feel like you lost your purpose and passion - but it’s not lost. It’s being reshaped. • You are in a deep, holy reset. • Your mind feels messy, unanchored - like you’re not who you used to be. • You don’t know how to “connect with God” the old way anymore and that’s okay. • You need to talk, to vent, to release and you’re not apologizing for it anymore. • You are done putting a religious spin on pain. • You just need to do normal things without feeling guilty. • Kingdom activities that once excited you feel empty and dry. • Old betrayals, mistreatment, and buried anger are rising - the toxins are being purged. • You have no capacity left for anything fake, performative, or superficial. This is not backsliding. This is healing. God is not calling you backward - He is calling you deeper. You are shedding old survival mindsets. You are shedding old wineskins. You are making space for a new move of His Spirit in your life. It’s messy because it’s real. It’s heavy because it’s holy. It’s painful because it’s working. You are being healed and re-formed for a new chapter of healing and WHOLENESS. Stay in the process. Let healing do its work. Let the HEALER do His thing. New life is coming. 

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BATTLED & SURVIVED JEZEBEL

By Nate Johnston • April 23, 2025
I have a prophetic word for those who have grown up under the demonic agenda of Jezebel, and for those raised in narcissistic environments and battled it their entire lives. Yes, the spirit of Jezebel has always had a target on your back because of who you are... Like Agent Smith from The Matrix, Jezebel keeps showing up, manifesting through different people, personalities, seasons, assignments, and alignments to take you out. It’s been the greatest battle of your life: figuring out how to steward your calling, how to be a voice in the midst of relentless attacks and constant attempts to cancel your calling. This spirit has tried to silence you, shut down your voice, reject you, belittle you, isolate you, and keep you in a cave. She’s tempted you to sugarcoat your words, dilute your message, and shrink your fire so you didn’t keep getting in her cross fire. I know the price many of you have paid for pioneering through this—for choosing health for your families, your marriages, and your future. I know the cost of refusing to tolerate her, season after season, and what you’ve walked through for the sake of not giving up on your calling. But in the hardest moments, you chose legacy again and again, yet it’s been costly. Recently, I was praying into this, especially in my own life, because I’ve battled this spirit for as long as I can remember, I asked the Lord, “Will it always be this way? Will I always have to fight Jezebel?” As I was reading through 1 Kings 19 - 2 Kings 10, the Lord highlighted the story of Jehu, the one who took out Jezebel (2 Kings 9:30–37). And the Lord said: “You are the Jehu. This generation is the Jehu generation, rising to confront and take out this spirit.” But here’s the thing: Jehu overthrew Jezebel, but he didn’t reform the land. “But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord… he did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam…” 2 Kings 10:31 He overthrew the person, but not the pattern. He tore down the idol, but didn’t restore the altar. He left a void, and that void became an open door. Right now, the test of our generation isn’t just about calling out what’s wrong. It’s about restoring the priesthood, rebuilding the altar, and leading the Church back into true worship. Because without worship, Jezebel returns. I’ve seen it in dreams repeatedly, Jezebel overthrown, only to be welcomed back through broken, unhealed, and unprotected spaces. Because where there is no priesthood, no purity, and no presence, she comes back to rule. So I asked the Lord, “What is the key?” He said: “Joash.” The name Joash means “The Lord has given.” The Lord said: “The generation of Joash and Jehoiada is now upon you.” Here’s what that means: Jehu may have exposed Jezebel but it was Joash and Jehoiada who removed her legacy. Athaliah, Jezebel’s daughter, rose to power in Judah after Jezebel’s death (2 Kings 11:1–3) . She was a generational extension of her mother’s spirit. But Jehoiada the priest preserved Joash, hiding him in the temple for six years. When the time was right, they overthrew Athaliah in the temple (2 Kings 11:13–16). That was so prophetic because they didn’t just confront the fruit of Jezebel they killed it in the place of worship, as a declaration: “We are taking this place back for the Lord.” They then led a revival of covenant and worship in the land (2 Kings 11:17–18), restoring God’s people to their true identity. And this is the battle we have today. We are not just confronting Jezebel, we are confronting her legacy, her influence, her strongholds in families, marriages, churches, and systems. But we can’t stop at exposure. We must rebuild the altar, restore the presence, and model the priesthood again. But here’s the word for you overcomers - the pioneers, the forerunners, the ones who refused to bow: You are not doomed to fight Jezebel your whole life. God is raising up a Joash generation, sons and daughters the Lord has given who will see and walk in the fruit from your persistence in battle, because you refused to tolerate Jezebel and have prevailed! Now because of you the next generation won’t face what you faced, because you confronted it, took it down, and established healthy! But here’s the key: You must restore your home, your marriage, your inner world into a lifestyle of worship and the right affections. You must refill the void with presence and priesthood. When we do that, we not only evict Jezebel, we close the door for good. And that’s Joash - living in the fruit of victory with no landing pads for the enemy. No more idols. Compromise. Other lovers. Just Jesus again. So the promise over you is this: You’re stepping out of the weariness. You’re stepping out of the endless fight. You’re stepping out of the cave. And you’re stepping into the fruit of obedience. You’re about to see legacy break forth in your children and those around you. You’ve walked through rejection, isolation, intimidation, and endless assassination as this spirit that tried to shut you down at every turn. But you didn’t bow. You didn’t break. And you prevailed. And now the Lord says - You’re stepping out of the fight and into the fruit. Because you chose wholeness over generational dysfunction. Because you confronted what others tolerated. And because you refused to shut down and be walked over. Your children will know peace where you knew warfare. They’ll grow up in safety, freedom, and peace because you tore up the contract you were born into and started a new bloodline. You were the target, but now you have become the testimony.  You’re going to watch a generation walk in peace where you’ve known warfare. Because you chose to fight, they will be free. So in the days to come watch as you begin to see FRUIT where you only encountered the FIGHT because the tide is shifting mighty ones and you have overcome! “You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world” —1 John 4:4

IT'S TURNING AROUND!

By Nate Johnston • April 22, 2025
I want to release a word of faith and authority over you as we begin this week. As I was praying over this week, I kept seeing this image in front of me of a person that was stuck in a corner with no way out, and arrows were flying at them from all sides. I instantly discerned that what I was seeing was someone who had been in a season where they felt very much like their calling had somehow made them feel like they’ve just been through constant assailing by the enemy, with constant arrows from all sides. Thats where you have felt exposed. That’s where you have felt bombarded. You felt like you’ve just been attacked from every single angle. Then I began to really feel like it was similar to the scripture that says: “But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say, ‘Restore!’” — (Isaiah 42:22, NIV) I began to feel authority rise up in my voice. I began to feel an authority saying, “No! This is injustice. This cannot happen. This must turn around now!” Then I began to prophesy: “Restore in the name of Jesus! Restore in the name of Jesus! Restore in the name of Jesus!” As soon as I said that, Deuteronomy 23:5 came to mind, where it says that every curse turns into a blessing. So I began to prophesy: “Lord, every curse will turn into a blessing. Every curse will turn into a blessing. Every single assignment of the enemy will turn into a blessing. Every area of robbery, every area of financial hardship, every area where the enemy has come after finances, after health - God is going to turn it all around.” And that’s when it hit me - THIS IS UNCTION OF A TURNAROUND! It’s the sensing that things had to shift! I began to prophesy: “Turnaround now in the name of Jesus! Turnaround now in the name of Jesus!” As I began to declare this, I began to see things beginning to shift in the atmosphere. Then suddenly I began to hear all this chatter in the spirit of people who had been worn down mentally to the point where they no longer believed that God could turn these situations around. And I suddenly realized the key: God is wanting to shift and turn around situations right now, but the enemy has worn down your authority and your faith to the point that you no longer believe He can do it. Hope deferred has crept in to such a degree that it’s made it feel impossible that God could move. And so I feel that even right now, God is coming against those mindsets. He’s coming against the fear. He’s coming against the intimidation of the army. He’s coming against the hope deferred that constantly makes you feel like nothing will be able to shift or turn around. He is restoring in you a boldness and authority to begin to speak to the things around you and cause them to be removed and those mountains around you to be cast into the sea. And that’s what God is doing this week. He is hitting up against your mind and the foreboding keeping you captive. You’ve been looking at the obstacles you’re facing right now in your finances, health, marriage, and everything else, and they look like mountains. The Lord says, “Where has your faith gone? Where has your authority gone? Where has your boldness gone? I am your protector. I am your provider. I am looking after you and watching over you. Yes, the war has been constant against you. Yes, the enemy has been trying to wear you down. But He says to you “this week, I want you to do what David did - and strengthen yourself in me!” “I want you to step out of the place of faithlessness and cowering, out of begging for the crumbs under the table” “I want you to shift your mindset, and as you shift your mindset, I’ll shift your circumstances!” “Even right now, begin to break every agreement with fear” “Break every agreement with hopelessness and despair that’s caused you to stop dreaming” “It’s caused you to drop your vision in the dust” “It’s caused you to stop wearing your mantle and slip back into survival mode in a time where I want you to thrive and dream with Me” Then I was reminded of something so special to us. Over the years we’ve experienced this strange but beautiful phenomenon in our lives. Whenever we’re in the thick of spiritual warfare, when we feel like we’re being preached at by our circumstances - that’s when God brings us a sign of His nearness. It happens like clockwork. But it’s so simple that you could miss it if you aren’t childlike. We see ducks in twos and they show up in odd places, at odd times. It’s always just when we’re beginning to feel overwhelmed or discouraged. It’s God’s subtle reminder: “I see you. I’m with you. It’s not over.” But this year, on our anniversary, it was different. Two doves appeared on our back fence and they stayed for a full week. It was as if God was saying: “Watch ME turn this around! Not by night nor by power!” And even though we were still in the middle of the storm the breakthrough hadn’t come yet His goodness showed up as a downpayment. Sometimes, the sign isn’t the full breakthrough, but it’s the reminder that He hasn’t forgotten you, and that the turnaround is closer than you think. There are many right now trying to ask God, “Where are my next steps?” but you’re not thinking with faith, you’re thinking with fear. And the Lord says: “It’s time to break that off. I’m reversing everything that’s come against you, and I’m turning it. And some would say, ‘Could this turn in a day?’ Yes, it can turn in a day. And the Lord says “you will watch in this season, as you partner with Me again not with the accuser, not with fear, not with lack but as you choose to partner again with Me, “You will see every single obstacle and every mountain around you crumble into the sea” But you need to partner with Me again. Will you partner again with My Spirit and reject the patterns and mindsets of this world? It is time to step back into a mind-renewal season that actually brings about the shifting of circumstances. Because the fruit of worry is actually causing that which you fear to come to you. But as you shift out of that, It will cause the fruit of your renewed mind to be that you see the kingdom of heaven invade your world, your lifestyle and you’ll see things shift around in a short period of time.” So give me your heart and mind and I’ll turn around the things around you that have tried to do in your strength and failed, and silence the storm”