John Lalgee to B1 Prayer Meeting, 20/01/08

John brought a picture of people gathering. “It was evidently us, that is we as a people coming together. And we all had different garments on, different clothing. And the clothing expressed the things that mattered to us. Some of the people were dressed in suits and looked really smart and proper, and that meant something to them. Others were dressed in very casual clothing and that expressed something of who they were.

“And then some were dressed in the garments of their grouping, so it wasn’t that everybody was dressed differently. A group came in - a dozen or so – all dressed the same. There was a sort of pride in the fact that, ‘We’re all dressed the same, we look a certain way!’ There was a sense of almost complacency…. a sense of pride is probably the best way of saying it, that we were wearing the things that mattered most to us. It was almost as if we felt that just being together was enough, to be together in all of our differences.

“Then God in this picture showed me that He had prepared garments for us all, and these garments were so much more wonderful than the garments we were wearing. These garments were radiant and brilliant and white! They were not the garments that expressed who we were; they were the garments that expressed who He is and what He has done for us.

“I heard the Lord saying, ‘Take off your garments! Take off what you have brought that you think expresses you and put on the garments that I have prepared for you. And see if I will not make you brilliant together!’

“And then, in this picture, the thing that amazed me was that as the people left, they did not take off their brilliant garments and put on their drab garments again. They walked away with the garments of the wonder of what God had done for them. And what happened was, the brilliance of what God was doing began to expand and people began to see the wonder and the beauty and the radiance of those garments and say, ‘Where did you get those garments? Where did you get that garment?’

And that was the thing that began to draw magnetically not just a few, but multitudes upon multitudes upon multitudes, gathered to the wonder of those garments.