獻給被羞辱、被拒絕、被忽視的人--這就是為什麼現在是你們的時刻！
作者：內特-約翰斯頓 Nate Johnston
來源：內特-約翰斯頓部落格
日期：2022.11.28
翻譯：Kate
轉載/轉寄 請註明出處：國度禱告網
我想為今天一直處於觀眾席沒有進場的神的子民說預言，特別是那些聲音(the voices)、先知、傳道人和先鋒--那些帶著還沒有被聽到的信息的人。一般來說，這些人只是生來就有超越他們時代的屬靈鑰匙和藍圖，他們不得不走過無數不舒服和痛苦的經歷，忠實地管理這個呼召。多年來，神一直在說 "看曠野中的人"，因為這些人所攜帶的東西是如此珍貴和純潔，因為他們不得不經受強烈的磨煉。如果我已經在對你說話，那麼這句話只是為了鼓勵你，並提醒你，無論你看到什麼，你的時間到了！
適當的季節已經來臨
我們經常聽到諸如 "這是你的時刻！"或 "你生來就是為了這樣的時候！"這樣的短語被過度使用，以至於當它實際上是"我們的時候"時，我們不相信它，也不像我們應該那樣重視它。我覺得神想要讓你真正了解從今天開始並到未來的歲月--這真的是你的時刻！這是真的。我們比以往任何時候都更處於一個被稱為"適當的季節"的時期。你真的認為你身後所有的歲月都是虛無的嗎？你真的認為神會忽視你嗎？這是你應有的季節，也是那些一直在等待和敬拜的人的時間的實現。
完全悅納的時刻和真正的神的家
在我為新興之聲寫作的過程中（該活動將在新年啟動），我的靈中不斷湧現出關於神如何揭示--以及即將揭示--兒女的啟示。這是完全接納的湧現，是對地上對兒女的呼召的回應！（羅馬書8: 19）
羅馬書8:15這樣說：
"你們沒有接受'宗教責任的靈'，使你們回到永遠不夠好的恐懼中。而是接受了'完全接納的靈'，把你們納入神的家。" (直譯)
"你們所受的，不是奴僕的心，仍舊害怕；所受的，乃是兒子的心，因此我們呼叫：阿爸！父！" (和合本)
我們作為聲音所背負的許多包袱和束縛，如拒絕、不名譽和控制/虐待，可以透過天父的完全悅納和愛來補救；這就是為什麼祂現在正在我們身上做這件事。請注意，這段經文指向被納入神的 "家庭"，而不是一個基督教俱樂部或網路。它必須是真實的。它必須是一個安全的地方和真實的關係。是的，我知道這段經文指的是與主更深的親密關係，而不是人，但現在神正在真實的家庭中工作，將被神的悅納的醫治恩膏膏抹一生都被拋棄的人。這就是我所看到的教會的復興，也是神在這個時刻帶給你的個人復興。
不隨波逐流的餘民被重新命名和重新管理，獲得全面權限
讓我們停一停......你是否以任何方式、形狀或形式注意到這一點？
你是否曾努力將自己獨特的呼召融入當地教會或信徒團體中，並感到自己格格不入？你是否被管理、操縱、控制、擁有、壓制和沉默過？你是否一次又一次地經歷了不被尊重和背叛的痛苦？你是否一直是主流教會的不隨波逐流的基督徒，並想知道為什麼神讓你成為這樣的人？
你可能不明白，你可能永遠不會得到你過去幾季所有問題的答案，但你今天需要知道，神沒有忘記你。事實上，這就是你的時刻！神正在興起一場激進的運動。神正在為神的國度興起一場由不隨波逐流的餘民所組成的激進運動，去別人不願意去的地方，說別人不願意說的話！這是神給這群不隨波逐流的人一個新的名字、新的視野和新的開始的季節。當神告訴我祂要給他們一個新的名字時，我聽到的是"重新命名和重新管理"。這麼多強大的聲音在不同的考驗中被剃掉了鬚毛，但現在看著它重新長出來，神恢復了你的雙倍榮耀！
這是一個以賽亞書第61章的醫治、啟示、重新對齊和在教會的牆外爆發的季節
就在一個月前，克利斯蒂(作者的太太)做了一個夢，夢見她在耶路撒冷，在猶太會堂裡，人們湧向街道，在建築的屋頂寫著 "西元26年"。當我們查閱時，我們驚奇地發現，耶穌正是在西元26年開始傳教的。就在耶穌開始的那一年，祂走進會堂，讀了以賽亞書61章：
"主的靈在我身上，因為他用膏膏我，叫我傳福音給貧窮的人；差遣我報告：被擄的得釋放，瞎眼的得看見，叫那受壓制的得自由，報告神悅納人的禧年。於是把書捲起來，交還執事，就坐下。會堂裡的人都定睛看他。" (路加福音4:18-20)
這句話讓我印象深刻，"偉大的悅納已經開始"，但更讓我印象深刻的是，耶穌大膽地說 "今天這事發生在你們面前"，因為祂發起了一場兒子們與神建立正確關係的運動，並回到了位置上。這是正確的，許多人已經離開了位置，透過對他們所攜帶的東西的攻擊而偏離了他們最初的呼召和目的--但不再是了！
這種接受的舉動不僅僅是兒子身份的信息或啟示，它是與公義之王的具體接觸，向整個世界展示了他們被創造的目的--認識祂和揭示祂！世界渴望瞭解這個簡單的啟示，這就是為什麼神在這個季節利用被遺棄者向教會和其他地方體現這個信息，以便我們能夠真正成為以賽亞書61章的一代，將失喪的人引向耶穌。我們不能一直只對唱詩班講道！
宗教的皮袋無法容納你
主說："因為這是我所呼召、保護和保留的特別的人，他們不會被宗教的三心兩意的方式和對自我的愛以及人文標準所玷污，但他們將是那些勇敢面對指控者的攻擊的人，這些控告者試圖讓他們沉默並毒害他們來敵擋我的教會。但現在我呼召他們走出曠野，進入影響力，因為我已經把我的靈放在他們身上，讓他們說我想讓他們說的話，他們會不顧名聲、不顧目的地說。他們是純潔的，他們不會試圖適應舊的皮袋，也不會迎合宗教的繁文縟節，但他們成為破路者，迎來自由！"
重新委任和甦醒的禱告
當我寫這篇文章時，我全身感到敬畏主，因為這並不只是一個感覺良好的話語。
現在是上場的時候！你是被需要的！
你不能一直認定自己是個孤兒或受害者。神放在你裡面的是在它的時間之前，所以從來沒有打算"適合"，而是要 "改革"。因此，即使是這個啟示也要開始定義你，知道你對國度的價值在哪裡。神現在在你身上所做的是向你揭示你的真實身份，在你還不知道或沒有真正相信它的地方。這種身份的揭示很重要，因為在過去，當教會或其他信徒拒絕你時，很容易讓你軟弱退出。悅納現在就在抵消每一個阻止你從一個受害者變成你所要成為的戰勝者的謊言。悅納就是現在處理你曾經達成的每一個惡魔協議，這些協議使你處於一個固定的模式--被人、地方、舊的運動、不健康的關係和說出的話語/詛咒所束縛，並使你的聲音閉鎖。你能看到今年神是如何處理所有這些類型的事情的嗎？在這些事情被帶到表面的時刻，它一直是痛苦的，但也是如此自由的。
讓這一切都過去吧。這是你的季節，這是你的時候，你是神的行動，等待著發生；所以讓它發生吧。
讓我為你做一個重新委託和個人復興的禱告。把你的手放在你的心上並說：
"主啊，我放下所有在我身後的東西，所有未完成的事情，以及所有我不明白的事情。我放下所有的痛苦、創傷、恐懼、背叛、拒絕、虐待、控制和關閉我的不名譽，我原諒每一個被用來給我施加這些創傷的人。我做出選擇，切斷與這些情況的所有聯繫，甚至現在我生命中的痛苦循環，我進入你為我準備的新一天。我是自由的，我是被悅納的，我是被愛的，我不再需要把自己看作是一個受害者，事實上，我放棄稱自己為受害者或被遺棄者，因為你不再稱我為被遺棄者。"
現在把你的手放在你的腹部，說：
"聖靈，你放在我裡面的信息、聲音、歌曲、話語、創意、運動，奉耶穌的名，我現在對這些東西說，醒來。這是我的季節，這是我的時刻，沒有任何事物可以再次搶奪或阻撓我，奉耶穌的名！"
TO THE DISHONORED, REJECTED, & OVERLOOKED - THIS IS WHY IT IS YOUR TIME!
Nate Johnson
I want to prophesy over God’s people today who have been on the sidelines, especially the voices, prophets, preachers, and pioneers—those who carry a message that hasn’t yet been heard. Generally, these are simply those born with spiritual keys and blueprints beyond their time and they have had to walk through a myriad of uncomfortable and painful experiences to faithfully steward this call. For years now God keeps saying “Look to the wilderness,” because what these ones carry is so precious and pure due to the intense refining they have had to endure. If I’m speaking to you already then this word is simply to encourage you and remind you that regardless of what you see, this is your time!
DUE SEASON IS UPON YOU!
We have so often heard the overuse of phrases such as “This is your time!” or “You were born for such a time as this!” to the point that when it actually is “Our time” we don’t believe it or value it as we should. I feel like God wants to really drive something home to you starting today and into the years to come - THIS REALLY IS YOUR TIME! That’s right. More than ever before we are in a time called “DUE SEASON”. Did you really think that all the years behind you would amount to nothing? Did you really think that God would overlook you? This is your due season and the fulfillment of time for those who have been in waiting and worship.
THE HOUR OF FULL ACCEPTANCE & THE AUTHENTIC FAMILY OF GOD
As I’ve been writing for the Emerging Voices Collective (which launches in the New Year) I’ve been having constant revelation bubbling up from my spirit about how God is revealing—and about to reveal—sons and daughters. It’s the outpouring of FULL ACCEPTANCE that comes as a response to the cries of the earth for sons and daughters! (Romans 8:19)
Romans 8:15 says this;
“And you did not receive the 'spirit of religious duty,' leading you back into the fear of never being good enough. But you have received the 'Spirit of full acceptance,' enfolding you into the family of God."
So much of the baggage and bondage that we as voices carry, such as rejection, dishonor, and control/abuse can be remedied by the full acceptance and love of the Father; which is why He is doing that right now in us. Notice this scripture points to being enfolded into a “family” of God, not a Christian club or network. It has to be real. It has to be a safe place and authentically relational. And yes I know this scripture is referring to something more deeply intimate with the Lord not people, but there is something God is doing in REAL families right now to apply the healing balm of the acceptance of God to those who have been outcasts their whole lives. This is the revival I see coming to the Church and the personal revival that God is bringing to you in this hour.
RENAMED & RE-MANED MISFITS LIVING IN FULL PERMISSION
Let’s stop for a moment...Does that register with you in any way, shape, or form?
Have you struggled to fit your unique calling into a local church or group of believers and felt like a square peg in a round hole? Have you been managed, manipulated, controlled, owned, squashed, and silenced? Have you been through the pain of dishonor and betrayal over and over again? Have you constantly lived as the misfit Christian cousin of the mainstream church folk and wondered why God made you the way you are?
You may not understand it—and you may never have all your questions of your past seasons answered—but you need to know today that God has not forgotten you. In fact, THIS IS YOUR MOMENT! God is raising up a radical movement of misfits for the Kingdom to go where no one else will go and to SAY what no one else will say! This is the season God is giving the remnant of misfits a new name, a new vision, and a fresh new start. When God told me He was giving them a new name I heard “Renamed and re-maned”. So many mighty voices have had their manes shaven off through different trials but watch now as it grows back and God restores double honor to you!
IT’S AN ISAIAH 61 SEASON OF HEALING, REVEALING, RE-ALIGNING, & BURSTING OUTSIDE OF THE WALLS OF THE CHURCH
Only a month ago, Christy had a dream where she was in Jerusalem and at a synagogue where people were flooding out into the street, and on the top of the building it said “AD-26”. When we looked it up we were amazed to discover that it was in AD26 that Jesus began His ministry. That very year Jesus began, He walked into the synagogue and read from Isaiah 61. This is what happened;
“He unrolled the scroll and read where it is written, 'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, and he has anointed me to be hope for the poor, freedom for the brokenhearted, and new eyes for the blind, and to preach to prisoners, "You are set free!" I have come to share the message of Jubilee, for the time of God’s great acceptance has begun.' After he read this he rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the minister, and sat down. Everyone stared at Jesus, wondering what he was about to say. Then he added, 'These Scriptures came true today in front of you.'" (Luke 4:18-20)
This line stood out to me “The great acceptance has begun” but what hit me even deeper is Jesus’ boldness to say “this came true before you today” because He initiated a movement of sons coming into a right relationship with God and BACK INTO POSITION. That’s right, many have been out of position, diverted from their original call and purpose through the attacks against what they carry—BUT NO MORE!
This move of acceptance is not just a message or revelation of sonship, it’s a tangible encounter with the King of righteousness that shows the whole world what they were created for—to know Him and reveal Him! The world is craving to know this simple revelation which is why God is using the outcasts to embody this message to the Church and beyond in this season, so we can truly be an Isaiah 61 generation that leads the lost to Jesus. We can’t keep just preaching to the choir!
RELIGIONS WINESKIN JUST CAN’T CONTAIN YOU
“Because this is an unusual people I have called, protected, and reserved," says the Lord, “they will not be tainted by religion's double-minded ways and love of self and humanistic standards but they will be ones who have braved the attacks of the accuser who sought to silence them and poison them against My Church. But now I am calling them out of the wilderness and into influence because I have put My Spirit upon them to say what I want them to say and they will say it without care of reputation and without agenda. They are pure and they won’t try to fit the old wineskin or cater to religion's red tape, but they will be used as breakers to usher in freedom!”
RECOMMISSIONING & REAWAKENING PRAYER
As I’m writing this I feel the Fear of the Lord all over me because this isn’t meant to be just a feel-good word.
This is game time! You are needed!
You can’t keep identifying as an orphan or a victim. What God placed inside of you was before its time so it was never intended to “fit” but to “REFORM”. So, even that revelation is going to start defining for you why you are valuable to the Kingdom. What God is doing in you right now is revealing your true identity to you, where you haven’t known or truly believed it. This revealing of identity is important because in the past when the Church or other believers rejected you, it easily took you out. Acceptance is right now counteracting every lie that has prevented you from moving on from being a victim into being the overcomer you were made to be. Acceptance is right now doing business with every demonic agreement you have ever made that has kept you in a holding pattern—chained to people, places, old movements, unhealthy relationships, and words/curses spoken—that grounded you and shut up your voice. Can you see how this year especially God has been dealing with all these types of things? It has been painful in the moments that these things are being brought to the surface but also so freeing.
Let it all go. This is your season, this is your time and you are a move of God waiting to happen; so let it happen!
Let me pray a prayer of recommissioning and personal revival over you. Put your hand on your heart and say:
“Lord I let go of all that is behind me, all that was left undone, and all that I didn’t understand. I let go of all pain, trauma, fear, betrayal, rejection, abuse, control, and dishonor that shut me down, and I forgive every person who was used to inflict those wounds upon me. I make a choice to sever all ties to those situations and even the cycles of pain in my life right now and I move into the new day You have waiting for me. I am free, I am accepted, I am loved, and I no longer have to see myself as a victim, in fact, I renounce calling myself a victim or an outcast because You call me an outcast no longer.”
Now put your hand on your belly and say:
“Holy Spirit, the message, the voice, the song, the words, the creativity, the movement You have placed inside me, I say to those things right now to REAWAKEN in Jesus' name. This is my season, this is my hour, and NOTHING will rob or sidetrack me from it again in Jesus' name!