Get Ready for Rebranding!
At a recent gathering, I began to feel an intense burning in my chest. As it increased over the hours that we were there, I heard the Lord say, "I'm branding my people afresh in this hour with my fire!"
I looked around the room, and there was no doubt it was happening... it was taking place. It felt like this wasn't just a gathering of people meeting to worship; it was a meeting where God was branding his people. I could see it. I could see the appetites of man beginning to fall away. The debris, the seasons of "Saul-ish" toleration, the love of man's empires and delicacies were beginning to fade into the distance as people were reminded again of the main thing: Jesus.
Remembering Why We Are Alive
As we were reminded again of why we were alive, I realized that when you go through difficult seasons, it's like walking in a desert. You forget the taste of water. You forget the refreshment of the living water that comes from the source, and you begin to drink from anything that will seemingly refresh you for a moment. (Photo via Piqsels)
Many in the church have been getting temporary fixes from religion, affirmation from toxic cultures, and have been looking to counterfeits instead of the Father.
A Rebranding of the Spirit and Fire
But in this hour, the Lord is branding us afresh with his fire and his Spirit. He is reawakening our true purpose and our true calling—the one that has been hiding behind false missions and man's movements, which has never borne the fruit that a true move of his Spirit brings. But this is also what happens in a season of rebranding.
In a season of rebranding, you can feel lost. You can feel confused. You can feel like the anointing on your life has dried up, like the mantle is gone. You feel naked. You feel like you no longer know who you are or what your message is. But this is just part of the process. God is rebranding your heart with your true calling, burning away all that was masquerading as truth, when it was really a distraction. It's a time of deep surrender, repentance, and a shifting of mindsets.
Even as I write this, I hear the Lord say, "In this rebranding, I'm breaking generational contracts. I'm breaking the limitations of bloodline issues that have been affecting you. The pull of many dysfunctional systems and paradigms you have grown up in and walked through have been limiting you. But in this rebranding," says the Lord, "I am breaking all limitations. I am breaking every single ceiling and causing you to step into the fullness of who I have called you to be.
I Am Turning Orphans Into Sons
"In this rebranding," says the Lord, "I am turning orphans into sons.
"In this rebranding," says the Lord, "I am going to release my "rocketeers," those who have the ability to ascend into the heavens without fear, who can navigate the realm of My Spirit and be in tune with me to release heaven on earth. (Photo via Pexels)
"In this rebranding," says the Lord, "I am releasing my surfers, those who are the bell ringers of revival, riding the wave of my Spirit, and leading others into it.
"In this rebranding," says the Lord, "I am raising up a new breed of reformers who carry my heart yet also break down systems and realign them in the new.
"Above all," says the Lord, "this rebranding will raise up lovers and decommission the worker and performance mentality that has robbed my church."
It is time to allow this rebranding of God to finish its work in you.
Do it, Lord. Do it in us, God.
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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 Colorado Springs, CO.
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