This Is a Ferocious Take-Back Moment
Word from the Lord released on January 13, 2026:
"From the days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of Heaven has been subjected to violence, and violent people have been raiding it." (Matthew 11:12 NIV)
I have been prophesying for a while now that we are in a "John the Baptist" moment. Right now, eyes are opening. In the tail end of a season of spiritual bullying, God is revealing to us who we really are, and it's changing everything we know. Let me say it like this: whether we see it yet or not, we are in an awakening after a long season of the enemy's swirls making us buy in to defeat.
Let me prophesy a little today, because I feel so fired up on this.
Since we stepped into 2026, I have felt a stirring in my spirit that we are in a take-back season as the Church. Really it's us, as the Body of Christ, stepping into who we are called to be and out of the messy wilderness and battles we have been in. It's been a five and seven year window, where the enemy has amped up warfare on our seed to steal our harvest—the one that is needed and expected now. So, we've been through a period of time where the enemy has been roaming around like a lion, trying to devour and rob us from many angles for many years.
But the thing is, when we think of robbery, we instantly think about our finances. We think about our health. We think about our marriages. We think about all those tangible things, and they're all true, because they're the areas closest to home. But the enemy's ultimate target has been our voices and our destinies, as well as something the enemy has seen coming that we may not have even realized.
As the Church has been in a shift, coming out of an old, religious wineskin into the new, we have also, personally, been coming out of old, religious wineskins and coming into new ones. The enemy was able see that we were in line for mantle and anointing upgrades that were going to break bonds and cause us to step into a place where we were fiercely opposing his plans and taking back territory for the Kingdom of God. That is why, in these past five to seven years, there's been such an assignment of depletion, exhaustion, and distraction to get us to a place where, when the shift takes place in our lives, we will be too defeated to step into it.
I hear the Lord saying, "This year, recognize the moment, spiritually, that you've been in."
We must recognize the spiritual assignment and detach it from the natural, detach it from the trauma and the pain of what we've gone through, and recognize it for what it is: an assignment against our lives from the enemy—the kingdom of darkness opposing the Kingdom of life on the inside of us. It is the false lion opposing the Lion of the tribe of Judah and the voice on the inside of us. Begin to recognize that there is something so mighty, powerful, and weighty that the Lord has been leading us into, something the enemy has been afraid of.
Let me make this really clear: this is a take-back season for us to step into our mantles. It's a take-back season for us to take back what the enemy has stolen.
As I'm sharing this, I keep hearing the old Sunday school song: "I went to the enemy's camp, and I took back what he stole from me" (Enemy's Camp by Lindell Cooley). I keep hearing that this is going to be a take-back season for each of us personally, as well as our families, our marriages, our voices, and our callings. It's also going to be a take-back season for us in our cities, in our regions, and as a nation.
I keep hearing the Lord say that He's raising up the movers and the shakers to go and stand at the eastern and western walls of nations to fortify the nations in prayer and intercession. This is going to be a mobilization season where we're stepping out of old paths and old methods that have been powerless and stepping into an apostolic blueprint to go and take territories, evict principalities, and begin to establish the Kingdom of God in those places.
Yes, this is going to be a take-back season for the Body of Christ. It's a take-back season on all fronts. It's a take-back for families. It's a take-back for everything that's been at war in our lives, but it's going to require us to step out of the defeat that's been over us. It's going to take us picking ourselves up off the battlefield floor and beginning to shake off the dust of a past season of failure, a past season where everything was against us, a past season of nonstop slander, betrayal, and robbery on every front. (Photo via Pexels)
We're going to have to shake it off. And even now, I hear the Lord saying, "Leave your 'defeat' season behind. Leave your sickbed." Just as Jesus wiped the dust from His feet, it's time to wipe the dust from our feet. It's time to step out of the old shroud, the old tattered mantle we've been wearing that is no longer conducive to a new season. We have to step out of that. And it's not just our mantles we're going to have to step into. This is what the Lord said to me: "It's time to step into your office."
If we have ever been unclear or unsure about our callings, this is a moment where the Lord is dismantling us, mantling us, and commissioning us for the office we were born for.
I'll never forget a man of God's response many years ago when he was asked, "What is the greatest insulator against warfare?" He said, "Owning and stepping into your office."
We all know we're anointed. We're called. We're gifted. But few of us have ever recognized the office we belong in... This office is our God-ordained sphere of influence. It carries authority and a realm of dominion that evicts every single principality and power. It's a place of decreeing and releasing that which ushers in the Kingdom of Heaven. When we understand our office, we will step into a realm of overcoming. We will step into breakthrough that's unlike anything we've ever seen.
Just a few nights ago, I had a dream where I was in a region, decreeing over it for a specific thing. And in the dream, I could feel the authority of my office through the Holy Spirit being released into that region. What if, right now, we are in an Isaiah 22:22 season, where the Lord is releasing the keys of David, His governmental reign, and a new governmental season over the Body of Christ? What if this is the moment where the Lord is saying, "I'm changing the guard," not just where there has been an old religious order, but where other religions, idols, false ways, false laws, and false gods have been dominating our lands?
In this hour, the Lord is raising us up to be a governmental Church that knows who we are. We will rise from the ashes of an old season and an old era. He is putting a new mantle on us, and we are stepping into our offices to shift and shape nations according to His will and His plans.
It's time to shake off the dust and begin to take back everything the enemy has stolen from us, in Jesus' name.
So here's the challenge—to get out of our sickbeds this year, to remember who we are, and to remind ourselves of our anointing.
Are Our Bodies Telling Us Something?
Word of the Lord released on January 14, 2026:
Could our bodies be telling us something right now about the season we have been through? Are our bodies showing the signs that we have been through both warfare and transition?
People don't talk enough about the fact that when we go through transition, migration, trauma, pain, warfare, and massive change in a short period of time, it affects our bodies on a cellular level. And in the same way that we have been mentally and emotionally fatigued in our souls, that fatigue has actually affected us physically, causing fatigue in our cells and even in many situations, causing symptoms and sicknesses that have manifested in our bodies. Not to mention that in the last ten years, the enemy has increased warfare against our bodies on an environmental, food, vaccine, and pharmaceutical level that has accumulated and hit an all-time high, where we are suddenly beginning to feel the effects of it all. (Photo via Pexels)
So many of us, right now in 2026, are feeling not just fatigued or soul-sick, we're actually experiencing depletion and areas of sickness in our bodies, and the Lord wants to set us free. I keep hearing the Lord say, "Decree over the Church Romans 10:13: those who call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved and delivered."
The word for saved in this verse is the Greek word "sózó" (Strong's G4982), which means "to save," "to heal," and "to deliver." So as we decree it, it's going to realign us. I believe this is what the Lord is decreeing, and as we decree this, we're going to come back into an alignment in our bodies, minds, spirits, and souls from everything that we've walked through.
In fact, I had a dream about this very thing: I was asking people to begin to declare apostolically over regions, their own lives, families, and their own bodies, "Those who call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved and delivered." Right now, we need to ask the LORD to heal us and deliver us from everything we've walked through—all of the trauma and pain and their connection points in our bodies. As we do, God is going release us from both, in Jesus' name.
Let me also say that we are coming into a time where God is increasing our awareness of our three realms—soul, spirit, and body—and helping us understand how they converge and intersect. We are also about to see a major wave of innovation and strategic, holistic wisdom, and natural cures arise to counteract the enemy's plans in this area.
Decree with me:
Lord, heal and deliver me—body, mind, and soul—in Jesus' name!
Let's take back "healthy and whole" from the enemy in 2026!
The Lord Told Me the Key to Our Turnaround
Word of the Lord released on January 15, 2026:
This has been a season where God has been revealing areas where we've been stuck—stuck in messes, stuck with Ishmaels, stuck with people, stuck in mindsets, stuck in places, and stuck in old assignments. We have started to level up in our discernment to see where we have been stuck and why we have been robbed. But what I have sensed lately is that while we need that discernment, the "knowing" doesn't fix the problem; it's simply the revealing of it.
In 1 Chronicles 12:32, the sons of Issachar discerned the times and then knew the strategies to know what to do. You see, when we are caged, we don't just need to know why, we need to know how to get out. That's what God is revealing to us right now—the spiritual strategies or keys to leave the place of bondage we have been in.
So with that in mind, I have a word from the Lord over us for 2026, but it's crucial for us to step into it right now. It's time to receive heavenly wisdom and strategies from the Lord to untangle and unmesh us from the mindsets and spiritual dynamics that we have been in for years, that have robbed and yoked us, and then finally move out of that place and back into fruitfulness.
Let me be specific. As I shared previously, in regard this season being anointed as a ferocious take-back moment, I kept seeing the numbers five and seven highlighted. The Lord showed me that there has been a significant assignment of delay and sabotage against our fruit, which began in 2019 and again in 2021, where specific issues and delays have continued to intensify until now. I kept seeing rotten fruit and seeds, and the Lord showed me that they represented the assignment that has been against God's people. It has been an assignment of barrenness and unfruitfulness, which then brought hope deferred and a war against our seed to prevent our fruit (Proverbs 13:12). Right now, God is revealing the spiritual situation and also the strategy—the keys to break free from the assignment. (Photo via Freerange Stock)
Next, I had a vision of a court case in session, and there was confusion that settled in the room. It was like the case was held up. I knew the case had been dragging on for years and years, and a restlessness was upon the people as a result. They asked, "How do we settle this case? What is the key?"
Right after that, the key dropped. You see, I have been in a season where God has personally been speaking to me about Proverbs 6:30–31, about the thief having to repay sevenfold. Very recently, I was praying for the key to sevenfold restoration when I heard the Lord say, "The key to the sevenfold return is the seventy times seven, seventy times seven, seventy times seven!"
He said "seventy times seven" three times, reminding me of the three days of death to life with the finished work of the cross, and the three times He restored Peter after Peter had denied Him. So to be clear, The key to the sevenfold restoration is FORGIVENESS, just as Jesus forgave our debts on the cross and forgave Peter for denying Him three times.
If we want to get UNSTUCK, it's not just about saying the source of the problem, but doing the heart work to untie ourselves from it! The key to this turnaround for us right now is found in full forgiveness that then unleashes the full release in the courts of Heaven. Unforgiveness is what has been holding up our case in the courts; it is what has been holding things up in the heavenlies. We have been dealing with pain that has been lingering in our souls and we have to release it!
The delays and mounting injustices that have been against us these past years have actually been because of a court case in the heavens. And we did not fully understand that the key to the case being released is the principle of "seventy times seven" (Matthew 18:21–22).
Here's where it gets even deeper. The Lord then said to me, "So many feel like they have been through a Job season, but they don't know the key."
I said, "Lord, what is it?"
He led me to Job 42:10. Ready for this?
"After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before." (Job 42:10 NIV)
This hit me like a ton of bricks, and I fell to my knees in repentance. "Lord, if there's anything in me, I'm sorry... I FORGIVE, I RELEASE, I BLESS!"
Only two days after God spoke this to me, I was sent a video by Bill Johnson about restoration. He started talking about Job 42:10, and I almost fell off my chair! He had preached this message seven months ago!
God is declaring this so loudly right now. In this past season, we had to step into true discernment, boundaries, and understanding the spiritual dynamics that have been against us. But sometimes, through experiencing legitimate injustice, we can step into a critical spirit and allow the accuser access. We unknowingly step into the role of judge and executioner in our own lives, and that is not our role. God does not expose assignments of the enemy or the people involved in them for the sake of vengeance. He exposes them so we can realize that the only way to be set free and restored is to release and forgive. This is not just about releasing others; it's about releasing ourselves and, for many, forgiving ourselves.
Right now, we are in a moment where the Lord is bringing us into a five and seven year window of jubilee. The Lord is releasing us from delays, false starts, and things that have postponed the call of God on our lives and created problems. (Photo via Pexels)
The Lord says, "Now, in this season, I am going to repay."
The key in this moment is to release ourselves and others from what was done against us and what the enemy used them to do—robbery and delay—causing situations where it has seemed too late or too impossible to recover from.
The Lord is saying over us, "This is the week I reveal My take-back plan. This is the week I show you what your life looks like beyond the storm you've known."
The Lord is also releasing us from double-mindedness—the tension between seeing the assignment and wanting justice served.
The Lord says, "This is where you must allow Me to be your vindicator. Allow Me to set you free. Allow Me to bring restoration. Allow Me to bring the sevenfold return as you forgive seventy times seven."
This is truly a divine season of strategy, deliverance, and restoration.
Lastly, the Lord has been showing me that as prophetic people, we can sometimes be so focused on tearing down principalities and powers that we neglect the condition of our own hearts. It becomes easy to believe the problem is only external, without addressing where it has taken root within us—where strongholds, landing pads, or areas of commonality have formed through prolonged warfare by people, principalities, and powers.
This is a moment where the Lord is healing hearts by revealing the state of our own hearts. I keep seeing a sweet fragrance being released right now. The Lord is tenderly bringing us back into a place of softness and tenderness in areas where hearts have become stony or cold because of pain.
We can be Jeremiahs. We can be reformers. We can tear down and overturn tables, but we must also build. I believe the most significant way the Lord has us build after devastating betrayal is by having us rebuild in our own hearts through forgiveness and release. As a result, that which has been held up in heavenly jurisdiction can now be released, because we are no longer relying on our own righteousness, which is just like filthy rags, but instead we are relying on the finished work of the cross.
We must take stock of our hearts, forgive, bless, release, and deal with any areas of commonality so we don't give the enemy any more room. And above all else, let the finished work of the cross and the blood speak. God is untying the court case against us in Jesus' name!
"So now the case is closed. There remains no accusing voice of condemnation against those who are joined in life-union with Jesus, the Anointed One." (Romans 8:1 TPT)
Let the take-back begin!
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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 Orange County, CA.
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