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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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. 

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. 

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.