Inner Standfast and Prayer

Neville's Inner Vision

To Paul, the 'Lord' is the I AM within you. Standing fast in that inner Lord means choosing awareness over circumstance; life is lived from a fixed center. The joy for others is the fruit of that alignment, not mere sentiment. 'To see your face' is to behold the divine image in another, recognizing your own true nature mirrored in God. 'Perfect that which is lacking in your faith' is not battling doubt but revising it by assuming fullness already present—the faith you seek is a present act of consciousness. Night and day praying exceedingly becomes a steady, loving occupation of the mind in that truth, a habit of imagining from the end. If you persist, the world you call external aligns with your inner state, and you discover you have been sustaining others by the life you affirm in yourself. Imagination creates reality; cultivate faith as a lived awareness, and the fruits appear in time.