Remnant… I have seen you wrestle this process the mess of this season. I have seen you fall on your knees a thousand times and want to give up on the hard road you have walked.
I have seen you die a hundred deaths in the fires of adversity and persecution. I have seen you enter the cocoon of the Lords refinery and emerge with new wings. New at first and feeling unsure and still remembering the pain of the past season but carrying new wings none the less. Do you feel them yet? No? You soon will.
You have been in the deepest metamorphosis of your life so far – prepared for a divine purpose that is about to be revealed. And all around you are others who have been prepared for this very same thing.
Now let me address the ones who felt like they died in this past season. Yes you! I see you. The lord has NOT forgotten you!
I saw you with nothing left yet still hanging onto the threads of Jesus’ garment. I know you have faced countless nights enduring the tormenting voice of the enemy screaming at you to give up and retreat, and you wanted to, but you knew the cost. You knew what was at stake. So you stood. Against all odds, you stood.
Remnant, I know the process you have been through. I know it felt final. I know it meant closure on many things that you didn’t understand. I know the door slammed shut and it caught you by surprise.
Those people you wanted to come with you into the cocoon by they just weren’t ready to come. They just weren’t at that place and you can’t beat yourself up over it anymore. In fact if you continued with them you would have been unequally yoked and sent you further into bondage.
I saw the COST of this season has been more than all your life’s warfare combined. I know you faced endless locusts and plagues and even felt abandoned by God. “Job, you said. I feel like job! But Lord you restored job so many times over! Will you do the same for me?” And I hear 2 Samuel 22:25 “Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness,According to my cleanness before His eyes”. There will be a RECOMPENSE!
I feel like those who have been long term lone rangers – God is speaking to you the most right now. Your paradigm is changing quickly. You left those people because they bullied and shut you down. They rejected you and alienated you and tried to prevent you from your calling. I get it. The Lone Ranger life is safer and less drama but the loneliness has become a wounding to you in this past year. Like a deep stabbing sorrow in your heart that you can’t seem to escape.
Let me tell you the very crux of this word and why I am delivering it to you right now.. YOUR LONELY ISOLATION DAYS ARE OVER BECAUSE I SEE YOUR TRIBE RUNNING TO YOU!
Moses needed people to hold up his arms in battle and you need that too in this next season. Alone you fell on your face too many times but this next season remnant you will have people holding you up and carrying you over the finish line!
Remnant, your tribe is coming and it will be MAGNETIC.. they won’t despise you, they will be drawn to you! They won’t compete with you, they will pour into you! Remnant find your people, open that space, prepare that table, and let’s RUN together!
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Author: Nate Johnston
Nate and his wife Christy host online courses to train, equip and empower people as they walk through deep inner healing, identity issues. They release regular encouragement and prophetic words to the body of Christ through social media and create simple, bible-based books and resources to help edify and empower the body of Christ to walk in their full authority and identity as Sons and Daughters of the King.
This spoke to me big time. My husband passed four years ago. We lived on twenty acres in country. I prayed and knew I was to stay, pray, and seek God till time came He would bring my family. Yes, under attack many nights. I would see, hear and even feel the enemy about me. This place is to be a refuge, if I left it, they would have nowhere to go. I have been asked to marry a few times but leave here, no was my answer. It is coming, but God’s children will have a safe place all over. May His Kindness and Love protect all who love Him.
“Loneliness” by Carter Conlon
https://www.carterconlon.com/sermon-newsleters/loneliness
Thanks Nate. I am hearing the same things about to change . This last week Was lonely cold -8 in my tent.
The remnant is being dron together. I see it happening met three souls in last mouth , living in wilderness with the Lord. Hope in midst struggle.
David Powell Alaska
I have lived in tents and out of a minivan for years, though not as cold. However, have you woken up in the morning to find your face ‘sunburned’ while sleeping?
Spot on again Nate !!!!
You’ve been reading my mail and seeing what my eyes have seen.
If Jesus is the author of our faith, I will trust HIM to be the finisher also.
Only HE is faithful!!!
Ok, Nate. Your posts have made me shed tears lately!! 🙂
Honestly, Thank You for posting them. I know I am not alone, walking this lonely road, as of late. We have not been forsaken. Our precious Lord is watching over us, leading us, guiding us, preparing us for this season. God Bless you, Nate.