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THREE DREAMS CARRYING KEYS FOR TRANSITIONING INTO THE GREATER GLORY SEASON

nateandchristy2018

THREE DREAMS CARRYING KEYS FOR TRANSITIONING INTO THE GREATER GLORY SEASON

THREE DREAMS CARRYING KEYS FOR TRANSITIONING INTO THE GREATER GLORY SEASON

I am so grateful for the word of the Lord that comes as a wilderness guide in new and uncharted waters and I love to posture myself before the Lord in these seasons like a child asking “What are you saying? What are you doing? Where are you taking us? What’s on your heart Lord? What grieves you? What do you love?” and all these years later my heart is so undone by the kindness of God that He wants to be friends with us and share His heart with us in this way.

From that desire, He always speaks, especially in dreams and in the last week I had three dreams that God gave me that speak into this season. They highlight the things on the Lord's heart, warnings, and where He is taking us. I hope this encourages you!

THE HEART-SCAPE PREPARES THE LANDSCAPE

I had a dream I was in a hospital ward full of people who were connected to IV machines and as I got closer to them I saw that they weren’t sick or diseased but malnourished, tired, and depleted from the season and the doctors and nurses were giving them nutrients, vitamins, and oxygen that was bringing them back into a place of strength, vigor, hope, and passion. But what I was drawn to the most was that they were connected to the ECG machine monitoring their heart-rate and next to them was a digital clock that said 0:00 and the patients kept looking at it wondering when they could leave. My lasting impression of the dream came in a phrase I heard “The heart-scape prepares the landscape”.

What is God saying?:

  • You have been in a time so much change, transition, opposition, and warfare and God has been counteracting that by intentionally focussing on dealing with the things that have warred against your heart. Hurts, betrayal, and the heartache of breaking away from the past season. Its taken a huge toll but God is getting your heart back to a healthy place again.
  • The tiredness, weariness, and fatigue has caused your passion to wane in the process but God is right now REFILLING, and REFUELING you, restoring your STRENGTH, HOPE, and PASSION! 
  • Your doctor Holy Spirit is right now FILLING YOU AFRESH!
  • God is preparing your heart for a season not of hope-deferred but of hope FULFILLED so HE is actually INCREASING your capacity to believe Him for more. He is wiping away the discouragement of not seeing promises fulfilled in your past season and causing you to have a freshness and joy as you step into the breakthrough in front of you.
  • Yes its been a waiting, but like the clock that read 0:00, once God is done with you it will be a BRAND NEW DAY! So embrace the heartscape because it literally prepares the new landscape in front of you!

“You satisfy my every desire with good things, You’ve supercharged my life so that I soar again like a flying eagle in the sky!” Psalm 103:5

FOUNDATIONS & FIRE

In this dream I was in my backyard when I saw a few snakes at the boundary of our property so I crushed them under my feet, but as I did I saw that there was a concrete slab foundation in the property behind us which I knew was our land also (Which is interesting because the property behind us is not part of our property). I looked at the slab and I was very protective because it was obvious that this was going to be a very important building we were going to build. Suddenly the thought came into my mind “Why are there snakes here in winter?” then I looked for where they were coming from and I could see that they were crawling up out from the foundation where they were hidden in hibernation. Surrounding the slab were positioned many bonfires burning and it was the heat from these bonfires that had drawn out the snakes so we walked around killing the snakes until there were none left or were chased away.

What is God saying?:

  • In all of the change happening God has been laying new foundations and resetting the foundations of your life so that what He builds in you this season will be healthy and strong and able to support the weight and glory He lays upon it.
  • He has been reigniting the fires of hearts, intimacy, friendship with Him where passion and love was lost through painful situations. There’s a fresh blaze coming to your life where you have felt like there’s only been a flickering flame!
  • The FIRE of God has been purifying and refining us, clearing away the junk and overheads that are only distractions for moving forward, and exposing the snakes that the enemy has been trying to conceal and hide in the foundations of this new thing God is doing in you. 
  • God is removing religious mindsets/belief systems that aren’t conducive to build on.
  • These snakes are the carry-over of pain and hurts from people and circumstances that left alone would eventually erupt tearing apart what God has been building. The enemy has wanted to poison and taint the PURE flow beginning to pour into you but it wont prosper!
  • FEAR wont be imbedded in the floor level of your new season, NO, you will go forward in faith, expectancy, and joy! 
  • I felt that these snakes were an assignment of words, accusations, judgement and witchcraft that wanted to operate stealthily to subtly rob you, frustrate you, muzzle you, confuse you, and distract you. God is cutting off the heads of these assignments against your life where the enemy has had access. No more will they have entry to surveil you, slowly steal your peace, and rob your vision in Jesus name!
  • God is revealing the sources of these slow poison releasers so that you can cancel the contracts, in fact God will keep blessing you and building you in front of the enemy! Haha!
  • Even though you may not have noticed it - God has been increasing your TERRITORY and clearing your land in preparation for what’s to come. Your tent pegs have stretched out wider and you haven’t even been aware of it!
  • GOD IS DOING A GOOD THING IN YOU! HE IS BUILDING THE HOUSE!

“Because the LORD revealed their plot to me, I knew it, for at that time he showed me what they were doing” Jeremiah 11:18

“You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows” Psalm 23:5

THE STATION OF TRANSITION & THE GLORY TRAIN

This dream was by far the most powerful of the three. There aren’t many times in my life I have woken up still shaking under the power of God but I did from this dream. Gods weighty Glory was upon me as I dreamed it. In the dream Christy, I, and our girls were on a Gold train that was travelling to a destination where we had a mission from the Father to accomplish. I have had many dreams and visions over the last 5 years of GLORY-TRAINS and while they represent many different facets of Gods purposes, they are all transporters that usher us, the Body of Christ from one measure of glory to another. I have seen glory trains over regions ushering in revival, in families that takes them into health and legacy restored, and I have also seen glory trains in heaven where people have arrived literally “into glory”.

As we arrived at the station I stood out and was so gobsmacked by what I saw. We were at a grand central station of sorts where there were literally THOUSANDS of criss-crossing train-lines and platforms covering miles in front of me. Even in the dream I knew this station was the “Station of transition” where many were arriving from one season and to embark on the journey into another. I opened up my manifest to see what God was asking me to do and I saw the names of three children that were arriving from the Bulgarian train line and our mission was to take take them safely to their next destination/home.

I walked to the Bulgarian train line and soon after the train arrived and hundreds of school children and orphans rushed out. I easily found the first two orphans - an 8 year old boy and 12 year old boy, but the third was nowhere to be found. I looked down at my manifest and read her name and began yelling it out “PETRA, PETRA, WHERE ARE YOU?”. Suddenly a 14 year old girl turned around and said “yes that’s me, but do we have to go yet?”. She was very reluctant to leave with us and was holding onto another young girl who seemed like she was a bad influence on her. After a little while of waiting she eventually came with us.

What is God saying?:

  • Let me highlight the elements for a moment: So we know that the station is transition and the glory train is promise. 
  • The name Petra means “Rock, or stone” in Greek and like the name of the disciple Peter. Jesus said something prophetically in Matthew 16 when He says to Peter “You are petros (a small wobbly and easily movable stone), but on that petra (the unmovable faith that is from God) I'm going to build my church. So Petra in this dream represents us, the church(The ecclesia)
  • The three orphans represent the FULLNESS of time for the church( A very common theme right now) Just as Jesus died and rose again 3 days later. It speaks of revival, rebirth, and resurrection.
  • The interesting element was that the children were “Bulgarian”, and I felt this dream was metaphorical, not literal. The word “Bulgaria” means to “shake, and stir” and comes from the word “bulgak” which means revolt, disorder, and to disturb” I asked the Lord why this was significant and He told me that the church in this transition has been in an intense shaking and He has been using all of the disturbances and disorder the enemy has been trying to incite against us to STIR us up and remind us of our IDENTITY and DESTINY! We aren’t orphans and under the yoke of bondage anymore!
  • The children’s ages are also significant in this dream: 8 is the number of new beginnings, 12 is the number of Governmental perfection, authority, and the overthrowing of oppressive powers, and 14 is the number of deliverance and the release from slavery. 
  • In this dream the church was RELUCTANT to go where God was calling them to go and I believe this is a key part of the dream and warning that we have to LET GO of the old thing, the comforts, the old wineskin, the old patterns, and ways because it simply won't be able to take us where we need to go.

“And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit” 2 Corinthians 3:18

“The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,' says the LORD Almighty. 'And in this place, I will grant peace,' declares the LORD Almighty” Haggai 2:9

KEYS TO TAKE AWAY

  • God is doing major work in your heart and life right now, refueling you for what is to come, and there is a timing to that but REST in the process, don’t try to rush it but let Him finish what He started.
  • God is tying up loose ends and finalizing cycles.
  • God is teaching you a new way to navigate unknown seasons and warfare so it doesn’t deplete you like it has.
  • God is giving you renewed passion and vision, so you will feel like brand new as you step into the increase.
  • God is exposing the areas of your life that the enemy has been trying to rob you in. The fire feels hot but let him work on your foundations so you can build tall and strong.
  • God is renewing fresh intimacy with you. It’s going to feel like a new friendship with Him. Where the enemy has warred at you entering the secret place is going to feel a new lease of hunger for His presence.
  • God is taking you from GLORY TO GLORY! The transition has been rough but LOOK WHERE YOU ARE GOING! Don’t hold back! 
  • God is freeing you, delivering you, and bringing you to your place of PROMISE!

RELATED prophetic WORDS:

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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! 
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. 
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! 
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. 
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
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”