Everyone is dressed in something. We are dressed in authority, power and glory or we are cloaked in shame, guilt and condemnation. Some people are dressed in lies and others are wrapped in truth. Some are wearing their history, while others are manifesting their future. Everyone is dressed in something and people can see what we are wearing. This reality goes for individuals, families, cities, states and nations.

When I was a youth pastor at a Lutheran Church in Washington state, that church was cloaked in tradition, but when I went to a small town in Missouri, they were dressed in revival. When I walked into cloaked in tradition, I was not wearing the right garments for the location in which I was standing. The first thing God did for me in revival was give me new clothes to wear. I had to take off the garments of tradition, if I was going to put on the garments of revival. What I was wearing needed to match where I was standing.

Colossians 3 says it this way, “Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him.” The Lord is calling us to wear the clothes of who we are called to be. This will mean putting off some old outfits that we used to wear in order to put on the new outfit God is giving us.

I was listening to Dutch Sheets on Give Him 15 this morning because the title “It’s Time For Miracles” caught my attention. Friends, we have to put off the cloak of infinity, oppression and iniquity and put on the new garments of healing, liberty and sanctification. God is about to cast off the demonic three fold cord that has bound us, but we must put on garments of praise He is giving us we can live in this new location He is providing for us. Who is ready for a change of clothes?