PROPHETIC WORDS

THE CHURCH WILL ARISE WITH THE KING TIDE

by Nawa Cooper

This prophetic word was given at the NZ Council of Prophets gathering and Behold Conference in Christchurch, March 2026.

The Spirit of the Lord says:

“It is imminent. Watch the waters, for the tide is rising.”

There is a King Tide of My Spirit that is rising upon the earth. Just as the natural king tide lifts the water levels higher than usual, so My glory is rising beyond former measures. This is not just another move of God; this will shift and dislodge everything!! and it will lift My church out of stagnation, complacency, and limitation.

For many seasons, the church has been grounded, stuck in shallow waters, restricted by the traditions of men, overcome by weariness and the pressure of culture. Others have made a shipwreck of their faith (1Tim 1:19-20).

Some vessels have been stranded on the sandbanks of fear, compromise, and routine religion. While others have been docked in Port, blowing smoke and going nowhere.

My people have been in the bilge of the ship, hiding from wars and rumours of wars when they are supposed to be in deep waters engaging in my strategies and My plans to bring down the enemy.

I heard in my spirit these words: “Enough is enough! Now is the time of my King Tide! I’ve called for all hands to be on deck, yet you are slow to come to your stations. I will send the wind to come and move you. I will shift you from your places of comfort and self-effort and position you in this season. For I am merciful. I am releasing courage and boldness to you. I will give you a backbone to stand and to fight the good fight, and having done all, you will stand, you will not hide or faint from the wiles of the enemy. You will rise and shine in this hour, for the hour is very short!

My church will be marked with glory, My Glory!! I am who I say that I am. It’s time for My people to believe!!

This Tide cannot be stopped or slowed down. My Spirit is advancing with power. I will extract the teeth from the lion and the venom from the cobra, those who are defiling and attempting to take My Glory. You will see the force and the might of My Spirit; it will level mountains and raise up valleys, and the fear of who I am will be evident in My house. I am calling My house to repentance. The King Tide is coming, ready or not.

As the waters rise, the grounded ships (My Church) will be lifted up. Ministries that have been immobile, fixed in one spot, will begin to find movement again. Callings that have been detained, held up, will suddenly be lifted by the surge of My tide and carried in the current to the places I have prepared for them. I am removing the scales off the eyes of the church. My people will see with fresh vision, greater revelation and wisdom what looked impossible in the shallow season will be made possible in the deep waters of My Spirit.

This is what the Lord spoke through Ezekiel when the prophet saw the river flowing from the house of God: “Everywhere the river goes, everything will live” (Ezek 47:9).

The river of God is rising, and with it comes healing to the weary and the broken-hearted. God will restore all that has been eaten, and He will strengthen and support and place His church on a firm foundation.

The Dislodging of the Stuck

The King Tide will dislodge what has been grounded. Some systems that have kept the church ineffective for the advancing of the Kingdom, such as Hollywood Christianity, entertainment, performance, and elitism, I will break loose from My house. Structures built on human wisdom will crack under the rising waters.

The Lord says: “I am breaking the moorings of limitation.”

The tide will carry the church out of the harbour and into the deep. No longer will the church remain confined to safe places. The Spirit is calling the church into deeper authority, deeper holiness, deeper prayer, and deeper glory.

Just as Jesus said in Luke 5:4: “Launch out into the deep.”

The shallow season is ending. He is calling His church to go into deeper waters and higher places in the spirit with Him.

A Rising Glory

As the tide rises, the glory of the Lord will fill His house. The church will not be known merely for programs, but for the manifest presence of God.

As it was written in Hab 2:14, “For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.”

And 2 Cor 3:18 (ESV) "And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”

This rising tide is not merely revival meetings. It is a shift of atmosphere.

• Prayer will intensify. My house will be a house of prayer

• Holiness will return. Be ye holy for I am holy.

• The fear of the Lord will fill the house again.

• Repentance will purify the bride.

The Lord is preparing a radiant church, a people who burn with devotion, purity, and power.

The King of Glory Is Entering

This King Tide is His Spirit being made manifest to His church—It is the arrival of the King Himself.

As declared in Psa 24:7 “Lift up your heads, O gates… that the King of glory may come in.”

The King is coming into His church with greater glory, greater authority, and greater fire.

And when the King enters, everything changes.

• Dry bones will live again. (We are called to prophecy to the dry bones)

• Prodigals will return. (Sons and daughters coming to their senses)

• Cities will encounter the presence of God.

• Nations will turn to the light of My Glory.

The Great Reset

This King Tide will bring a divine reset.

The Lord says: “What man has built in the strength of flesh will fall away, but what I have built in the Spirit will stand.”

The church will be restored to:

• Apostolic authority

• Prophetic clarity

• Priestly holiness

• Evangelistic fire

We are a royal priesthood, a chosen generation, a holy people. The Lord is purifying His bride.

What has been hidden will be in full view. What has been rotting under the floorboards is being exposed. He is pulling His church out of the muck and the mire!

The Rising Remnant

There is a rising Remnant who know who they are and whom they belong to.

• They will gather in prayer.

• They will burn with hunger for Jesus.

• They will carry the glory.

And when the tide reaches its fullness, revival will break forth like a flood.

Just as the Lord promised in Isa 59:19 “When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.”

But this flood will not only push back darkness – It will awaken nations. I am shaking Nations, I am shaking World governments, I am shaking people of every creed and every tongue, what can be shaken will be shaken and removed.

The Call

So the Spirit says to the church: “Awaken out of your slumber, this is not a slumber party, this is war! Consecrate yourselves. You are in this world but not of this world. I am calling you to look different, to sound different, to be different, for I heard the Spirit of the Lord say, “ for I will perform wonders amongst you”.

For the tide is already turning. The waters are rising. The King is near. And the church will arise with the King Tide.

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