I want to share three dreams I had recently that have gripped me deeply and, to be honest, have convicted me and commissioned me for the days ahead. I pray they do the same for you.
Dream One: Class Is in Session
In the first dream, I was in a classroom about to teach but didn't have a message prepared. As I looked around the room, I saw faces of people in bondage to different demonic agendas staring back at me, and I instantly sensed that the Lord wanted to bring deliverance to them.
A young Generation-Z guy stood out to me in the second row, and I walked over to him. When I put my hand on his head, he shook and began to get delivered. Suddenly he spoke, "I am progressive Christianity, and we are taking over!" And I continued to pray and speak truth over him until it left.
After that, I looked around the room and could see God moving and delivering others. As I walked toward one girl, she suddenly blurted out, "I am worldly love and tolerance," and then was delivered. Then another yelled out, "I am compliance and conformity to culture!" And another said, "I am perversion!" Then another said, "I am the fear of man!"
The whole room was being delivered, and I could feel the pure love of God flooding the room. Then I walked back to the young man I first prayed for, bent down and I said, "The Lord says it's time to encounter His face and be lost in His gaze once again." Suddenly, he and the rest of the room fell to the floor in repentance and worship. The dream ended.
So let me share what I feel the Lord saying:
The classroom of students is the Church right now, and God is declaring that class is back in session.
God is bringing exposure, deliverance and healing to the places where we have fallen for the lies and counterfeits of the enemy. God is revealing where we have made idols out of social justice movements that didn't originate from Him.
God is bringing deliverance to the Church where we have partnered with mixture and started preaching a different gospel – a culture-friendly gospel. God is delivering the Church from the fear of man, and loosing us from the false love that tolerates evil and calls it good. God is bringing the Church back to its First Love, back to encounter and back to His face, where we cannot be perverted or taken off course. (Photo via Rawpixel)
There is a move of deep repentance taking place right now, where many are beginning to have their veils removed to see what they couldn't see before.
Catching the wave that is coming depends on us being novices and teachable again. We don't want to be so experienced that we miss the wave that is in front of us. We don't want to be the critic or the expert right now, but the surrendered. We need to get our gaze and wonder back, because a church without intimacy becomes a humanistic/intellectually-driven church that isn't led by the Spirit. When we aren't Spirit led, we catch the wrong wave.
The world needs revival and a Church that is revived not deceived. Let's represent Him well.
Dream Two: The Threshing Room Floor
In the second dream, I was witnessing what I could only describe as a "threshing room floor" process, but instead of grain, there were tons of people lying on the floor. I watched as they endured the crushing, and then the fire, over and over. Then I heard the Lord say, "Now for the wind!" Then a hurricane-force wind entered the room, and people began to stand to their feet. Then the Lord spoke again, "The true Church is emerging!"
This is what I feel the Lord is saying:
The Church has been in the threshing room floor process where God is separating what is good and what isn't; what is Him and what isn't. It's a "tares and wheat" season, and God has sent them to the threshing floor for processing. We have all been experiencing this process, and it's been difficult and painful, as God has been removing what has been keeping us in bondage.
The people on the threshing room floor are us, the Church, and God has been bringing us through the refiner's fire – not to harm us or shame us, but to FREE us and ready us for what is to come.
The Church has been through the fire and endured the crushing, but we are about to experience the wind of the Spirit! It's the winnowing that leaves the dead and old behind and reveals the new. The true Church is emerging, and you are going to experience a second wind! The Church is about to experience a fresh baptism of Holy Ghost and fire!
"Those who repent I baptize with water, but there is coming a Man after me who is more powerful than I. In fact, I'm not even worthy enough to pick up His sandals. He will submerge you into union with the Spirit of Holiness and with a raging fire! He comes with a winnowing fork in His hands and comes to His threshing floor to sift what is worthless from what is pure. And He is ready to sweep out His threshing floor and gather His wheat into His granary, but the straw He will burn up with a fire that can't be extinguished!" (Matthew 3:11-12)
Dream Three: Issachar, Rise Up! It's Time for the Prophetic 2.0
The third dream was an audible one where the Lord simply said, "Where are the prophets? Where did they go? It's time for Issachar to rise up! It's time for Issachar to rise up! There is specific revelation I want to give and strategies I want to hand them to build. I have insight for nations and cities that will evict principalities and break down walls of darkness. There are keys that I want to give them. It's time for Issachar to arise and lead the charge!"
When I woke up, I felt the fear of the Lord envelop me, and I sensed areas where I felt like I had even been taming my voice. I felt the conviction of Heaven on me, and a new boldness and purpose rose up in me.
This is what I feel the Lord is speaking:
Firstly, when the Lord said, "Where are the prophets?" I knew it was in reference to the many prophets that went into hiding prior to or after the US election in January. The assault on the prophetic movement was so severe that it took many out. I believe God is healing and reviving those who felt like they fell in the battlefield and have been stuck since.
When I heard, "Where are the prophets?" My spirit heard, "Where have My weighty glory-prophets gone?" The enemy has targeted the weighty, unedited word of the Lord by hurling the fear of man and fear of reputation at them, and many have changed their message. BUT the Lord is right now removing the fear that caused them to change what they were called to say. (Photo via Unsplash)
God has been refining the house of the prophets, and from the ashes has forged and commissioned a new breed of prophets who, like Gideon's men, will NOT be sold out to culture or to the praises of man. This 2.0 is the result of the refiner's fire and the threshing floor that is producing an army of warriors that will stand and persist and set their faces like flint. They will restore the office of a prophet to its former glory, and we will see a wave of prophetic heavyweights rise up.
So who are the sons of Issachar? Genesis 49:14 says, "Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds."
I believe Issachar is the prophetic anointing to take people and nations from lack and debt and into the promise. They stand in the gap and speak and prophesy, leading the way into a new day.
1 Chronicles 12:32 says, "...from Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do..." This means they had the anointing and responsibility of knowing the times and seasons, knowing what God was doing, and receiving the blueprints and practical knowledge of how to walk it out.
The name Issachar means "there is recompense," and just like the name suggests, these prophets can see the promise arising from the ashes of the wilderness and speak restoration in the middle of calamity.
The Issachar prophets are critical in these times because they can sense the changes and shifts in specific epoch cycles, and help give a road map and clarity to both the macro and micro processes. They know how to speak governmentally, and also personally, to those walking through blind or unknown periods, and connect the dots for those feeling lost and hopeless.
These prophets know that government is not a dirty word, and that it's actually a major component of the call. Remove that and you have lost your major sphere of impact.
This dream revealed to me God's heart for the prophetic Church. We are so quick to throw the baby out with the bathwater, but without the prophets, we are sitting ducks.
I believe God is, right now, stirring up the hearts of those who have dropped their zeal and voice, and He is asking you to pick it up again. He is commissioning a new army and a new breed of prophets who will lead the charge into this glorious new season. Will you pick up the baton?
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Nate Johnston
Everyday Revivalists
Email:Â everydayrevivalists@gmail.com
Website:Â nateandchristy.co
Nate Johnston is a prophetic voice and worshiper who has a heart to see sons and daughters unleashed into passionate friendship with God and an effective supernatural lifestyle. Through his ministry school "Everyday Revivalists," he leads people from the basics of the Gospel through to being sent and released into their mission field, as well as championing and raising up emerging prophetic voices around the world. His burning cry and desire is to see the Body of Christ become a beacon for the lost by raising up a generation that walks in the love and power of God, representing Him well. Nate and his wife Christy have three daughters, Charlotte, Sophie, and Ava and live in Dallas, Texas.
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