To Those In The Swirl, Watch As God Issues A Restraining Order On The Enemy! – A Word by Nate Johnston

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To Those In The Swirl, Watch As God Issues A Restraining Order On The Enemy! – A Word by Nate Johnston

Nate Johnston

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For months now the air has been swirling with interference because we are in a “birthing the new” season. From new and fresh blueprints and ideas, strategies, out of the box revelation, to direction and clarity, creativity, messages, and movements that all need to be BROUGHT FORTH. From dreams and downloads to the church breaking out of old mindsets, wineskins, and tired and “stuck” ways.

The enemy knows how Important this PUSH is and so in this critical moment he has been trying to hit us on all sides to DELAY or STOP the birth.

It’s like when you begin to feel contractions begin but then suddenly you are hit with an unexpected emergency that snaps you out of that rhythm.

The interruptions have been endless and nonstop. If you are birthing then you know what I am talking about.

So many have been experiencing spiritual bullying and assault for months now because the enemy is afraid of what you are stepping into and birthing.

He sees that you haven’t backed down when he tried to take you out in 2021 and now you are ripe and ready to step into your COMEBACK season so he has doubled down to crash your victory.

His tactic has been simple – to SURROUND you and DISTRACT you with multiple assignments and diversions, and in the last few months and increasingly in the last few weeks this has gone to another level.

SOME SIGNS OF THE SWIRL

These are some of the things we have discerned taking place;

• Witchcraft and chatter – The enemy prodding people to talk about you, assume your motives and character, or be jealous of you/competition.
• Character assassination – The enemy stirring people to curse you in the spirit which unleashes a firestorm of problems to come your way.
• Strife and relational disconnect – This comes at core relationships and intimacy/communication in marriage and wars against you being on the same page.
• Fear-bombing – hitting you with foreboding and Irrational worries and outcomes.
• Warfare dreams and night disruption – Causing sudden issues with sleep in your house from sleeplessness, anxiety, tormenting thoughts at the same time every night, and warfare dreams.
• Repetitive dreaming – God may actually highlight the direction the words are coming from by showing you over and over.
• Territorial confrontations – This is when the enemy wants you to step back by enlisting threatened and insecure people to come at you marking their zone and giving you the verbal shove-back into your box.
• Narcissistic encounters & gaslighting – When you get hit with encounters with people suddenly belittling you and cutting you down to cause you to give up.
• Random people popups- In times like this we notice that people who have been famous for speaking against you will suddenly contact you out of nowhere trying to engage in relationship or conversation.
• Information requests – This is where you will suddenly get bombarded with random messages and people who aren’t in your inner circle wanting information about your life, what you are doing, and where you are going. Don’t give it to them! Witchcraft operates on information!
• Information overload – This is where you are bombarded by information, news, opinions, bad reports, and unnecessary information that seems to affect your ability to think clearly and spiritually discern and see correctly.
• Surveillance spirits – In the same way, that information fuels spiritual chatter the enemy sends spirits to surveil you and often through people scrolling and secretly searching for information about you. Shut them out! Ask God to show you who are the lookers.
• Soulish claims made on you – This may sound strange but I have discerned where people believe they own you or have some claim owing by you in some way. This can often be family, parents, or past leaders. This is a demonic contract you need to tear up!
• Prayers of harm – This is where people straight-up pray words of harm and sickness coming to you and blindly feel justified in their conviction to do so.
• Favor doors shutting – People praying and speaking that God would humble you and close doors but it comes from a place of insecurity, not protection like they believe.
• Opportunities and sideshows – Great opportunities appearing out of nowhere that are sent to get your eyes off what you are birthing.
• Wrong partnerships – When the enemy uses manipulative people to convince you to partner with them but they are just there to steal your ointment and ride your the blessing you went through hell for.
• Jobs friends – When the enemy sends friends that are earthly wise, fickle, and will backstab your when you are away so you feel like you can’t trust anyone. So instead of having the right people in the delivery room you have none and step out lonely.
• Pressures and expectations – Unexpected pressure and expectations coming at you from every angle to burn you out and steal your energy.
• The silent treatment – Where you can feel a muzzling over your mouth. You have much to say but feel somehow like there is something in the way or preventing you from speaking up.
• Creative block and confusion – Where your spirit is brimming and ripe with revelation and creativity but the words and ideas just aren’t connecting. It feels like you are under a cloud of confusion and heaviness and are getting more and more frustrated as time goes on.
• Red tape and messes – Where simple processes seem to get held up, tied up, or delayed. It’s where you feel like you have twenty messes around you and other time-consuming tasks to do.
• Tech crashes and cyber warfare – Where computer crashes, website crashes, constant tech problems, trolls, bots, and online situations occur that you don’t normally have. This is cyber warfare and is a war against your voice.
• Strange health issues – Back, neck, and nerve pain, headaches, vertigo, and nausea out of nowhere.
• Financial hold-ups – Where for no reason you have payment, bank, and financial hold-ups.
• The dogs are barking around you – The enemy is stirring up strife nearby in multiple places and trying to tempt you to throw a rock in.
• The checkout – Where the enemy convinces you that it’s time to pay the check and run. It’s been too hard and too long and you just want to settle and forfeit the call.

Do any of those seem familiar to you? Did you recognize them at the time? 

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

A few days ago as I was listening to a crisis phone call conversation the Holy Spirit interrupted the interruption and said “Enough is enough! I am issuing a restraining order on the enemy! I am tying his hands!”

“I will save you from the hands of the wicked and deliver you from the grasp of the cruel.” Jeremiah 15:21

A restraining order is a protective order used by a court to protect a person in a situation involving violence, abuse, harassment, stalking, or assault.

As he said these words I felt the justice and judgment of the Lord against the enemy and felt strongly that we were about to see every single area of demonic violence, harassment, bullying, abuse, and assault rectified by the spirit of God personally and globally.

God is going to shut down every single access point and blind every single demon oppressing you so they are unable to again.

Then I sensed that this was not just for this particular battle but justice for those who have been fighting the same warfare for many years even decades. The enemy has been playing this hand for a long time and the Lord is right now moving in His power but He is also equipping us to understand how this operates in the spiritual realm better.

I asked Him for more understanding on how to overcome these attacks and He said three things;

1. BINDING THE STRONG MAN

“Bind the strongman!” Mark 3:27 says;

“But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house.”

The enemy is mad because we are taking back our inheritance and territory so we must bind him, RESTRAIN him as we take back what is ours. The word “bind” here means to tie, fasten, and declare to be prohibited and unlawful. This is speaking for us to CONFRONT the enemy instead and disarm his plans. Also in a legal context, we are to restrain him according to this scripture and many others such as James 4:7 and Mathew 18:18.

2) WE OVERCOME BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB

Next i heard “My people need to know the covenant I made with them!” – referring to the blood of the lamb at Calvary. We know that we overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony(Revelation 12:11) but we do far less remembering this by taking communion as often as we should before and even through crazy times. Secondly, we need the testimony. We need the prophetic pure decree to break through the air when it feels thick.

3) KEEP YOUR GATES UP!

The next thing He said was “Your gates are down oh Judah!” and I had to look up what he was meaning when I found this;

“Stand at the gate of the LORD’s house and there proclaim this message: “’Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the LORD.” Jeremiah 7:2

Judah which means praise is our worship, and during times of onslaught we tend to praise less but it’s praise that ensures the victory! Also when our gates are down we are susceptible to the enemy moving in our land and homes.

CHANGING OUR STANCE MOVING FORWARD 

Lastly, let’s shake this off. These attacks are a violation and should never be endured or tolerated. God is stirring up that justice in us to push it back when we sense it. I feel as though in this hour that God is asking us to take a different stance than we have before. He is arming us to not be as taken out by these attacks. I believe we are entering a time where the church will laugh at these feeble attempts to take us off course. We are coming up higher and understanding our authority more and more.

Also, this just screams one massive huge announcement- you and I are a threat. The church may look messy right now but we are a threat even when we look like a hot mess. The truth is we are only getting started and these are just the signs that we just stepped on new ground and birthing has begun.

Lord, I pray for every person reading this who has been facing these tactics of the enemy. We partner with you now Lord to place a restraining order on the enemy in every area he has been assaulting them and causing them harm. We bind you, strongman, in Jesus’ name, and you are bound! We are taking ground and we will not be stopped. Lord we ask for recompense for time lost, finances lost, joy lost, peace lost, and everything else that was had been lost in the crossfires of this time in Jesus’ name. Witchcraft and demonic interference we disarm you now, surveilling spirits, familiar spirits, and tormenting spirits we bind you now, blind you, and send you into utter darkness now in the name of Jesus. Attacks on the home must stop and doors to the enemy we close. We forgive those who have partnered with the enemy because we know we don’t wrestle flesh and blood and we keep in mind who the real enemy is. Lord we Thank you that your presence surrounds us and your angels are commissioned about us and that greater are you that is in us than he that is in the world! We cover our families in the blood of Jesus today and we remind the enemy that in the courts of heaven he has no claim on us in Jesus’ name! 

Jesus, we are learning, this is our worship. Show us and teach us and may you get your full reward.