How Do You Know You're Leveling Up?
You're starting to notice your discernment sharpening. What once felt confusing is now spiritually clear, and you are trusting your spiritual senses more. You're beginning to lose your appetite for entertainment and conversations that carry compromise. What once felt normal now feels spiritually heavy.
You're becoming more intentional about who speaks into your life. You are choosing depth, truth, and alignment over comfort and familiarity. You're beginning to feel less tempted by old patterns like lust, fear, striving, and insecurity. They no longer have the same grip they used to.
You're starting to recognize spiritual assignments early. What once blindsided you now gets discerned before it can take root. You're no longer taken out by witchcraft, gossip, or slander, because you've learned how to stand in peace and stay hidden in God.
You're beginning to feel the power and authority you have over demonic spirits and strongholds, because you're releasing it right away in hard moments, instead of hesitating or shrinking back.
You're starting to refuse to be bullied by people, by manipulation, or by spiritual assignments the way you used to, and you're standing your ground more. You're beginning to see "the thing behind the thing." Your discernment has sharpened to the point that you recognize what's masquerading as surface issues.
Fruit Where There Used to Be Cycles
You're seeing small but significant shifts in areas where you used to be bombarded and robbed, and there's now fruit where there used to be cycles. You're beginning to realize that you don't have to defend yourself. God is your defender, and you're resting more in that truth.
You're noticing the Jezebel spirit can't lure you into manipulation, fear, or silence like before, and you're quicker to walk away from the drama and reclaim your voice. You're starting to speak truth with boldness instead of apologizing for your calling, and you're stepping into spiritual authority with more confidence. (Photo via Unsplash)
You're becoming more aware of the orphan mindset when it tries to creep in, and you're rejecting self-pity, comparison, and the need to prove your worth.
Choosing Sonship Over Survival
You're choosing sonship over survival, rest over hustle, and identity over performance. You're beginning to notice that your spiritual hunger has increased, and you're craving the Word, the presence of God, and purity more than ever.
You're less shaken by resistance and more aware of your assignment. You see warfare as confirmation of your calling, not discouragement. You're beginning to recognize when God is promoting you, even when it comes through pressure or pruning.
You're not offended by closed doors, you're learning to see them as God's protection and redirection. You're finding joy in the hidden place. You don't need the spotlight to feel secure anymore.
You're beginning to respond with spiritual authority instead of reacting emotionally. You take it to prayer before you take it to people. You're starting to feel a deep shift—less striving, more surrender and less fear, more fire. You're not just surviving anymore, you're starting to rule. You're not just reacting to darkness, you're displacing it.
This isn't just spiritual growth. This is spiritual promotion. You have leveled up! Well done!
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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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