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“DON’T FALL FOR THE DRAMA IN A SEASON OF PROMOTION”

nateandchristy2018

“DON’T FALL FOR THE DRAMA IN A SEASON OF PROMOTION”

Recently I heard the Lord warn me “Don’t fall for the drama” and he began to give speak to me about some of the common tactics of the enemy in a season of promotion and also the common pitfalls. These tactics are DISTRACTION, DIVERSION, and NOISE, and I knew right away that Holy Spirit was giving me some practical insight and tools for the conquest of this season and what the giants in the land before the promise look like. Here are the meanings of these words;

DISTRACTION: a thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else, and extreme agitation of the mind.
DIVERSION: a thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else.
NOISE: a sound, especially one that is loud or unpleasant or that causes disturbance.

The enemys plan for you right now is for you to NOT reach your destiny and promise. Instead he wants to PREVENT you from SEEING where God is taking you by stealing your FOCUS, agitating and scattering your mind, and leading your somewhere different to where God intended.

Look at most battle scenes in a movie and you’ll see the enemy using one of those elements as tactic to weaken the army or put her off the game. When Moses sent the spies out into the promised land to give a report most of them came back regurgitating the report of fear instead of faith. What happened? They allowed the NOISE of the land to cause them to doubt God’s ability and power. Here are how these tactics try to make us fall for the common pitfalls in a season of increase and promotion;

1- GOLIATH ON A PEDESTAL

The Holy Spirit began to speak to me about the pitfall in this season of elevating and magnifying what the enemy is doing over what God is doing.

Right on the very pathway to where the Israelites needed to go stood Goliath yelling, taunting, and threatening them. This NOISE went on for days and days and soon enough the words He spoke overtook the people and gripped them with hopelessness and fear. The REALITY of the situation was that there was a roadblock in their way, a loud-mouthed scary one that looked impossible to beat. But the TRUTH was that God had a plan and He would never leave them or forsake them, and also that Goliath was about to fall.

Focussing on the giant only leads you further into fear and worry and even clouds the solution often staring right at you! As a prophetic person I do sense a lot of what is happening in the spirit and while that gift is used to UNCOVER and EXPOSE the tactics of the enemy like I have done above, it only highlights REALITY, not TRUTH. Prophecy carries solution not just information, so it reveals both the problem or the reality, but then UNVEILS TRUTH which then INTERUPTS and TRANSFORMS a situation.

When we constantly talk about the size of the giant we are facing without speaking forth the solution, we trap ourselves into a cycle of fear and in essence blind ourselves to the mighty power of God working through us and into our situation. It is crucial in a season of promotion to be surrounded by what God is doing to counteract the opposition and resistances you are facing in the natural.

“Listen past the noise to the still small voice”

2 - YOU BECOME WHAT YOU EAT

What are you feasting on in this season? Do you rush home after a big day and kick your feet up and watch some t.v? There is nothing wrong with watching t.v but when it becomes your only source of soul-food you’ll find yourself out of shape pretty quickly and desensitized to the voice of Holy Spirit. Many have been struggling to feel motivated in this season to spend time in the secret place in this season and have been finding it easier to believe the news report of the enemy over what God is saying. We need to RE-ADJUST our lives and begin to watch what we are feasting on so that we are not lulled into apathy and slumber in a season we are meant to be PRESSING FORWARD and TAKING NEW GROUND!

In Luke 4 Jesus visits his hometown of Nazareth and the people he grew up actually reject him and the scriptures say he was unable to do any miracles there because of their unbelief and they even tried to kill him!

The Nazareth complex is when we begin to believe the noise of the enemy bombarding us and this alone causes us to walk off the path God has set for us. These bombarding thoughts always attack your identity and purpose “Did God really say that to me?” “Did God really do that in me?” “Has God really got a purpose for me?”

Nothing puts the breaks on destiny like lies and unbelief. Not that the door ever closes but our hearts do. We start to see life through a limited lens and stop dreaming with God.

3 – WRONG-TURNS & WRONG TABLES

Distraction and diversion causes there to be a confusion over important decisions that need to be made. In this season there are so many moving pieces and many life-altering decisions are begging to be made regarding your PEOPLE, PURPOSE, and PLACE. What I mean by that is God has been readying you for a specific new assignment and for many this also includes running with a new people and tribe, and for some even a relocation. All of those three things are big decisions that are uncomfortable, painful, and difficult to navigate.

The enemy doesn’t want you to be where God wants you to, so he wants you to make decisions using mans wisdom over decisions led by the Holy Spirit. If you are distracted by the noise of life you may just sign your name on the dotted line to a DIVERSION of Gods design, aligning with the wrong people, the wrong place, and being chained to the wrong purpose.

I’ve felt the impulse in this season to “jump” at something that looks good but felt not peace in the process I normally would, and after praying and weighing up the situation found that it was absolute “Ishmael” that could have easily led me astray. This is a season ive had to learn to say no to even things that are good because God is clearing defining what you are meant to put your yes and time to, and what you shouldn’t be.

This is a season God wants you to find your running partners, your family but if we are too eager to figure it all out you’ll find yourself sitting at the wrong table. Don’t fall for the trap of second best and knocking down doors! Let God bring the right ones to you.

4 - CHAMPIONS OR CYNICS?

Because we are in a time of movement and change many are finding that not only are the people around them changing, but they are also being promoted and growing in areas they weren’t before. The Lord warned me earlier in the year that to a roadblock to promotion is dishonor, where we begin to speak badly about people who are also going through change and transition. If we aren’t careful we can easily and without wisdom and true discernment judge them and assume things that aren’t even true.

When David came to the battlefield to offer his services to defeat Goliath, His brother Eliab cut him down nastily with his words. The very NOISE he had been hearing from Goliath were coming out if his own mouth against his brother!

If we are listening to the drama and noise of the season more than the voice of the Holy Spirit we can begin to entertain imaginations about people, their intentions, and what they said/did. If we aren’t careful we can then actually employ ourselves to speak against our own brothers and sisters and dishonor and curse them.

Another trap in this is assuming the motives of others hearts that we aren’t in direct relationship with, or we see people arising and out of insecurity we belittle them and feel like we know better and instead of operate out of our kingdom identity we become cynics and police instead of encouragers and champions. You can actually get in bondage to suspicion and create a world that evolves around it that makes you think the whole world is against you and you cant trust anyone. All this does is steal your focus and send you into isolation.

The Body of Christ needs to catch Gods heart of honor in this hour, get down from our high horse and learn to love dangerously, even if its messy, because if we do we will see an outpouring in the earth unlike anything we have seen yet.

DO YOU FEEL LOST IN THE DRAMA OF THE SEASON?

If you feel a little lost in the drama of the season here is a truth alignment for you today;

God is for you, so every giant and obstacle taunting you has no chance of defeating you! (Romans 8:31 & Isaiah 54:17)
You have the mind of Christ! All the wars against your mind don’t make you crazy, it makes the enemy crazy for trying to mess with you! (Philippians 2:5)
You aren’t going backwards, you can only move UP. You are going from GLORY to GLORY! (2 Corinthians 3:18)
God is leading you on the BEST pathway for your life. You wont be swayed or distracted from the perfect path. (Psalm 32:8)
Peoples words and accusations hold no weight. What God says about you is everything and He thinks the world of you.(Jeremiah 29:11)
You can love and bless those that persecute you.(Matthew 5:44)
God is promoting you right now. Nothing can stop it, delay it, or close the door on it. You are going to SEE the goodness of God in your life manifest in Jesus name!

STEWARDING PRE-PROMOTION WELL

FOCUS on what God is doing. If you wake up and you can’t think of anything, look to the smallest thing you can be grateful for. Thank him for it. Magnify him and soon the giant won’t look so huge.
Talk with God and have conversation with him throughout your day. What is he saying about the obstacles around you or the things you are struggling with? Give his voice influence and weight.
Spend time in worship daily. This will get your head out of that scattered place abs give opportunity for peace to come rest over those places you have felt restless in. You will also get a higher perspective on what you are facing.
Feast on truth. The word of God. Promises he has given you. What areas of your life are open to be influenced by negativity and joy robbing information? Change your feeding source.
Remind yourself of what God said about this season you are in? Where is He taking you? Have you been doubting it or falling into self sabotage?
Who are your tribe? Who are those you running with as you enter into your promise? Stocktake the friendships that are equally yoked and those who you have been casting your pearls to for too long.
Are you tired of waiting and tempted to push down doors? Wait for Gods best! You are so close! Don’t make an Ishmael!Celebrate people who are seeing breakthrough. Be happy for them. Don’t be bitter because you haven’t seen yours yet. God knows what you need and He also wants to know if he can trust you with how you treat others breakthroughs.
Don’t fall into the dishonor trap. If in doubt- shut your trap! Avoid gossip, judgement, and speaking badly of others. It only causes problems for you in the spirit.
Bless those who persecute you. Avoid suspicion and assumptions. Believe the best about people and focus on your own heart and life before getting caught up in where others hearts are at.
FORWARD - don’t look back. Hold your head up high and thank him that the hard days are behind you and you are coming into your days of fulfilment in Jesus name!

“We look away from the natural realm and we fasten our gaze onto Jesus who birthed faith within us and who leads us forward into faith’s perfection. ^[ ^f ^] His example is this: Because his heart was focused on the joy of knowing that you would be his, ^[ ^g ^] he endured the agony of the cross and conquered its humiliation, ^[ ^h ^] and now sits exalted at the right hand of the throne of God!” Hebrews 12:2 TPT

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THE RISE OF THE HEALERS

By Nate Johnston • June 13, 2025

I believe we are in a window of time right now where God is turning the institutional church back into a hospital again. Just this sentence alone feels like a deep branding upon my heart because I’ve seen it in dreams increasing over the last year - a wounded and battered church and a bound world, but who will restore them? Recently, the Lord spoke to me through a personal experience. I had to go to the dentist for some intense tooth pain, and after visiting two different places neither would fix the issue. I knew there was something prophetic in it. Then the Lord said to me, “Many of my sick, broken, and demonized have been coming into churches, but they are not being delivered or set free.” Ah...there it was. But right now, God is raising up the healers again In a time when the earth more than ever before needs to see the rise of a healing church, a hospital church. Right now God is flipping the script on many ministries and institutions that have been focused on everything but the basics. We have not been doing what Luke 4:18-19 or Matthew 10:8-10 commands us to do. We have not been cleansing the lepers or healing the sick. We’ve drifted from the core of the great commission. The enemy has led us into side paths that do not transform people’s lives. But God is placing a fresh compassion on the Church and is renewing our love for people that sets people free. “When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick” — Matthew 4:14 If the enemy can make us love ministry more than we love people, if he can trap us in the idolatry of ministry we will fall out of love with the very ones we’re called to serve. Ouch! Yes, we will stop loving people, even though we’re still doing ministry technically but we have lost our true love that enables the power of God to come. And I’m not talking about a love that coddles people in their sin, tolerates demons, or keeps people brainwashed and yoked to false ideologies and fractured identities. I’m talking about the kind of love that walks hand in hand with truth, that drives out demons, and that stands at the crossroads and warns, “That’s not the way!” We need the kind of love that speaks straight and delivers people. Jesus walked in that kind of love. It was compassion that moved Him to perform great miracles. That’s what’s been missing in the Church. We’ve lost our compassion for people. We’ve lost our genuine love. We’re doing ministry for stats, KPIs, content, and reputation. Churches are trying to fill seats, recruit members, and collect tithes while people walk into our buildings bound, broken, addicted, demonized, and they are not being set free. But right now that is changing. The boardroom is being converted to an ER again! As we were leaving Pirate’s Cove on Saturday, the most powerful part of the day was still to come. Just after 6 p.m as the tide was in, a girl came up crying. Her friend asked if I could pray for her, and I did. As I prayed, I could tell she was under serious oppression, and for a few minutes, nothing shifted. But I refused to leave her the way she came. I asked the Lord what was happening. Instantly, I saw her life like a book. I saw shame and pain from the situations she’d walked through. Then I felt the intense love of the Father for her, and He said to me, “Tell her she is pure.” As soon as I said those words, she began to cough uncontrollably until the unclean spirit left. Then she asked to be baptized right there at Pirate’s Cove. It was a victory moment for her, but it was also a marking moment for me. I couldn’t understand at first why it impacted me so deeply. I’ve seen situations like this many times before. I never take them for granted, but this one felt profound. I realized later that it was God speaking loudly through this encounter. Right now, something fresh is happening around the earth. God is showing up in power. The Church is shaking off her chains and becoming who she was always meant to be. There’s an uprising - a movement leaving behind Christianity as usual. But it’s something much holier than we’ve seen before, and we’ll miss it if we’re not paying attention. God is after the broken and the lost. He’s leaving the ninety-nine for the one. He’s flipping the enemy’s lies and calling what was tainted, pure again. Lou Engle once asked, “What if California was the adulterous woman Jesus redeemed?” That day, as I prophesied, I heard myself say, “What if California is the woman at the well, waiting for a church to call her clean?” We have cursed our cities, our states, and our nations as though they are too far gone. But they are only one word away from redemption if the Church would only see God’s heart in the middle of the chaos. This is a time where we must walk in powerful truth and real love. Without both, the Church fails. Weak Christianity is afraid of offending people, so it keeps them bound in the name of kindness. Truth alone might drive out demons, but without love, it doesn’t draw the broken into intimacy with God. We are standing on the edge of something monumental, a move of God that is raw, wild, unpolished, and simple. As it says in Luke 4:18 - 19, “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” The days of the hospital church have begun. The days of power are returning. And the days of God’s love driving out darkness are here again. This is our call, to speak what the enemy has called unclean and declare it pure. That is our mandate. Now, let me speak directly to the healers. You know who you are. You know that God has marked you for miracles, signs, and wonders. You’ve known that you’re called to be His healing hands in this moment. But you’ve felt disqualified. You look at your life and feel broken. You’ve fallen. You still need healing. You feel like something inside of you is tainted or poisoned by the last few years of hard battle. You’ve been heavy in your soul, discouraged, and weary. That has been the enemy’s strategy all along, to wear down the healers. To bombard the ones called to bring true deliverance. And because of that, we’ve seen the rise of false deliverance ministries, false healers, counterfeit prophets, and wolves in sheep’s clothing. They’ve stepped into a vacuum because the real healers have been under attack and haven’t yet risen up. But I believe that this moment is a call to the healers to rise again. It’s time to step back into your calling. I had a vision of someone’s legs and I knew this was a prophetic picture of the healers. They were twisted and deformed and decommissioned. And the Lord said to me, “Speak strength to their legs. Speak strength to their backs. Speak strength to their bones.” Suddenly, in the vision, the legs straightened out and they were standing to their feet! I declare the same over you - that every part of your life that has felt out of place, twisted, wounded, or weary, let it be healed and realigned with the hope and truth of God. Healers, rise up. Get your strength back. Get your compassion back. Be healed and take your place. It is time to walk again in the power of God and the compassion of Jesus. So now, in the name of Jesus, I speak to every healer, every deliverer, every voice and vessel who has been marked by God for miracles, but has felt crushed under the weight of shame, warfare, disappointment, or disqualification. I declare over you - this is your resurrection moment. Where the enemy has tainted you, twisted your story, and tried to convince you that you are unclean or unworthy, I now declare by the blood of Jesus that you are being made clean. The stain of the past, the trauma, the compromise, and the confusion is being washed off of you in this moment. I speak a cleansing over your mind, your body, your heart, and your history. The blood still speaks a better word over you. Let every accusation from hell be silenced right now. I call your mantle out of the ashes. I call your voice back from the silence. I declare strength to your bones, fire to your belly, and clarity to your mind. Every dormant gift, every silenced word, every dream buried under discouragement come back to life now in Jesus’ name. Today as you read this you are not just being healed, you are being reinstated. You will no longer walk with a limp from old wounds. What the enemy meant for evil, God is now turning for your good. This is your commissioning moment. So rise, healers! Lay your hands on the sick, cleanse the lepers, deliver the bound, and set the captives free!

STUCK IN LAST SEASON’S BATTLE BONDAGE? HE WILL NOT LEAVE YOU BEHIND!

By Nate Johnston • June 10, 2025

As I stood on the rocks at Pirates Cove yesterday, watching hundreds of people being baptized, I was overwhelmed by what I was seeing. History yet again was being written. I thanked God for the hunger that was present that day and the day before when we gathered - the countless people encountering the presence and power of God. Clearly, God is moving right now on the earth in a new and fresh way. But as I stood there, these words suddenly rose in my spirit - “He leaves no one behind” It rocked me thinking about the seasons in my life when I felt lonely, abandoned, and lost when people around me were experiencing the opposite. It’s easy in moments of heartache, hope deferred, and deep brokenness to feel like you’re the only one going through it. It’s easy to feel like others are advancing and thriving while you’re still stuck, and still broken. But I believe God wants to encourage those who feel stuck this week, those who feel left behind in the past seasons battle and battle weariness and bondage. Those who feel unable to move forward because of pain from the past and the wounds it inflicted. God is not going to leave you behind! I’m reminded of the man who sat by the Pool of Bethesda because he couldn’t walk. “One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years… Then Jesus said to him, ‘Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.’ At once the man was cured” — John 5:1-9 That pool was surrounded by people who were sick, lame, and broken down, all hoping to be the one who got their fresh start. And right now in the midst of revival fires beginning to burn and something fresh that God is doing, many still feel stuck. David said it well in the psalms; “How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?” — Psalm 13:1 And like David many are saying; God, I don’t feel like I’ve moved anywhere. Nothing has shifted for me. I’m still dealing with the same situations, the same lack, the same health problems, the same relational and family issues. God, have You forgotten me?” But just like the man at the Pool of Bethesda, God did not leave him behind. Jesus went to him directly, healed him, and gave him a new beginning. Think of the woman at the well. “A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, ‘Will you give me a drink?’— John 4:4-7 She felt judged, abandoned, and lonely yet Jesus met her in that very place. He leaves no one behind. So I prophesy over you this week - You are going to have encounters with Jesus, where He reveals His heart to you in the very place you feel stuck. You’re going to experience the breakthrough power of God in your life, power that will shift you out of pain, brokenness, and those continual cycles of dysfunction, addiction, and torment. The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.” Isaiah 61:1 And right now many are carrying the spiritual bondage from past seasons and it feels like a massive blockage in the road but they just don’t know how to get rid of it. It’s heavy, it’s like a poison that won’t seem to flush from your system. It’s got its roots in deep but it’s no match for the power of God. In a moment the Holy Spirit can take an axe to those obstacles. Right now as I’m writing this I see them in the spirit like bricks cemented in but the Lord is right now shaking them loose! They must go! Every demonic spirit hanging around you trying to keep you tethered to bondage leave now in Jesus name! Shame go! Unclean spirits leave! As we were leaving the gathering on Saturday (the day before Pentecost Sunday), I met an amazing woman of God. I got to witness her encounter Jesus in a powerful way. We saw God completely set her free from a demonic assignment that had been following her around. Then, I got to take part in her baptism there at the famous Pirates Cove. I could feel it - she had felt a little left behind. I hadn’t prayed for her that day. Yet just as we were walking out, God ordained that moment. It was her time. I felt the loving compassion of God so strongly because I’ve been in those moments. Moments when I felt forgotten. When it felt like no one saw me. But friend He sees you. You are not left behind. I imagine the day when the believers were in the upper room. They came out speaking in tongues. Yes, some mocked them. But imagine if you were one of the 500 originally there and the enemy lied to you, and you left the room too soon. You would have missed it. “God, I’ve faithfully served You… and I missed it?” Ouch… that is it right there. So many people feel like that right now. But the Lord wants you to know - You are seen. You are not forgotten. He will not leave you behind. Right now, He is rescuing you from the grip of that past season and ushering you into a new one even as you read these words. I command every chain, every tie to your past that’s held you back to break NOW in the mighty name of Jesus. And I pray that ALL yokes break off your life, and that the Holy Spirit fills your heart and cup anew in Jesus’ name. Now watch this week as God reveals himself to you in a new way. Through dreams. God kisses. Signs of His goodness. Your old chapter has ended. It’s time to step into the new.

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By Nate Johnston • June 13, 2025

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ARE YOU AT A THRESHOLD OF FAITH?

By Nate Johnston • June 6, 2025

I have some encouragement for the pioneers. Over the last few weeks, I’ve kept hearing this language - that we are at thresholds of faith. What is a threshold? A threshold is defined as: the point of entering or beginning something new. So, what is a threshold of faith? A threshold of faith is a place you come to when you can no longer keep operating or living within the confines of your previous limitations. God is leading you into a significant breakthrough in that area to expand you and prepare you for what’s coming. Thresholds of faith at first feel like pressure. They feel emotionally triggering. They feel like the enemy is warring against your mind. It can feel even feel like a rollercoaster of soul highs and lows as God brings precious things to the surface to free you and lighten you. Why? Because God is pulling you higher, and the enemy is trying to keep you lower. God is calling you to fly like an eagle, while the enemy wants to keep you grounded with the turkeys. In this calling we go from glory to glory with God (2 Corinthians 3:18). So He’s always leading us into greater levels of truth about who we are and about our calling as sons and daughters, as leaders, and as fathers and mothers. There are always deeper dimensions of capacity, anointing, character, and fruit that we are meant to walk in. So we go through thresholds of faith not because something is wrong or because things are falling apart, but because we’ve asked Him for more. This pressure is the very thing we’ve been praying for. But we often forget - before breakthrough comes, God upgrades our internal operating system. If He brings us into breakthrough without transformation, we’ll crash and burn. The issue is that In this consumer-Christian culture we’ve inherited, we want our circumstances to change, but we often resist the internal transformation required. We avoid deliverance. We avoid healing. We avoid conviction. We avoid the refining fire. We want the goods without the fire. We want the promise without the pruning. But it doesn’t work like that. Right now, the Lord is trying to pull us higher, but there’s been a battle. There’s been tension. And there are moments where everything around you feels like it’s in ruins. Promises haven’t come to pass and God didn’t come through. That’s where the fight is because it feels too late, like it’s the eleventh hour and so how can you trust God again when your last promise didn’t come to pass? By faith even Sarah herself received the ability to conceive, even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered Him faithful who had promised.” - Hebrews 11:11 Sarah’s breakthrough looked impossible. She was past the point of fruitfulness. But God was working internally. She had to shift her focus to His ability, not her own. She had to stop striving and simply trust His miracle-working power. That’s how you know you’re at a threshold - you feel barren. You feel like nothing is working. And yet, God is asking you to believe again. To dream again. To step forward into something you don’t even have faith for yet. He’s not asking for perfect faith. He’s asking for a yes. Thresholds often feel like the most broken, most vulnerable, most disqualified place you’ve ever been. And that’s exactly where God chooses to expand you. Not when everything’s in order. Not when you feel strong. It’s when you feel empty, unworthy, and unprepared that He calls you into the new. As I was praying about this, I kept hearing the word “Jordan” and I instantly knew what the Lord was showing me. In the Bible, the Jordan River represents thresholds of calling, identity, and breakthrough. Joshua 3:17 – The Israelites crossed the Jordan into the Promised Land. 2 Kings 2:8 – Elijah struck the Jordan before being taken up. 2 Kings 2:14 – Elisha crossed back with a double portion. Matthew 3:13 – Jesus was baptized in the Jordan, then led into the wilderness. Genesis 32:22 – Jacob crossed the brook Jabbok (connected to the Jordan), leaving behind his old identity and life. I believe we are at the Jordan right now with our foot about to step in. Oh not deeper waters! It’s scary. What if I can’t swim? What if I trip? That’s what we feel in this moment. I’ve felt it in my own life where God is stretching me and I know it’s for my benefit. But in the natural, it looks like warfare, mental attack, depletion and robbery, failure, closed doors, confusion, and feeling out of your depth. Why? Because God is revealing the places you’ve placed your trust, your identity in and is revealing where you leant on your hustle, your gifting, and your own strength. Those things can’t sustain you anymore. And at the same time, the enemy is trying to discourage you, to make you give up right at the point of the threshold. He wants you to break right before your breakthrough. But God is asking you: Will you trust Me in this moment? Will you believe even when it doesn’t look like it’s working? A few months ago, I was in that exact place surrounded by doubt and pressure. And I heard the Lord whisper “The only way to survive this season is to stay at My feet. Stay in My presence.” That’s the key to crossing the threshold. Not knowledge. Not connections. Not hustle. Just surrender. So I prophesy this over you now - Just as Caleb and Joshua lingered in the tent and came out with a different spirit, so will you. You will cross the threshold with new eyes, new ears, and a new heart. Even now, God is breaking off the old operating system. He is breaking off the pain and reproach of your past. “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” - Joshua 5:9 The shame, the failure, the false labels they are being cut away. You are being recommissioned. This threshold of faith is the breakthrough you’ve been praying for and it’s time to step over in Jesus name!

WHEN JEZEBEL SENDS YOU INTO ISOLATION

By Nate Johnston • June 3, 2025

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