As I prayed this evening, I had a vision of God walking. And He was walking slowly, with a sense of great contentment. And the day was about Him like a living colour. And as He walked, He was holding something small in His hands that were clasped lightly together in front of Him.

And as I moved from looking at His smiling face to His gentle hands in front of Him, my eyes were drawn to His belly, and I noticed movement and light all inside His body. And it was then that I noticed that His body was filled like a skyscraper with all these open-sided rooms facing out from His belly. One room after the other. Above each other, and next to each other.

And inside each room was a son or daughter of His, happily going about their business, as was God Himself. For all were content. The belly of God is significant, for the belly is not only a place of constant nourishment and warmth, but being in His belly represents constant companionship and abiding.

And as I marvelled, I instantly knew that the house of the Father that Jesus spoke of going back to, so that He may prepare a place for each of us, was actually God Himself. God IS the house. A living house. We live in Him and He in us. Which is why it is written that “IN” Him (His belly) we live and move and have our being.

And what He was holding lovingly in His hands was one of His sons and daughters that He had taken out for a walk with Him, just like He did with Adam. Just like He did with all of those in His house.

And as I looked, I was aware that all about His feet and legs were others approaching in peaceful delight and anticipation, all expectantly converging upon God to be placed each in their own place. And I was reminded of this scripture: “At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord, and all nations shall GATHER TO IT, to THE PRESENCE of the Lord in Jerusalem” (Jeremiah 3:17).

Jerusalem is where we shall dwell, in the city of light, being all those who are filled with the glory of God. The Lord our God is coming, coming as a thief in the night, that He may receive unto Himself (into His belly) His wise virgins, being those whose lamps are full of oil, being those with the “light of life” of John 8:12 that never fades or dies (1 Corinthians 15:54). Hallelujah.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.