Inner Fortresses of Rehoboam

Neville's Inner Vision

I tell you that Rehoboam's Jerusalem is not a place on any map but a symbol of your own state of consciousness. The fortified cities are the fixed dispositions you have built in the mind—discernment, order, trust, and the willingness to protect what is vital. The captains placed in them are the clear commands of your attention, directing your thoughts to guard your inner resources. The stores of victual and of oil and wine are the nourishment you provide your life as it unfolds—energy, vitality, and inspiration that sustain you through days of pressure. When you consider this text, you are invited to revise your sense of security away from external walls to the inner sense of being defended by awareness itself. The Kingdom of God is not a distant domain but a present state you cultivate by assumption: you dwell in Jerusalem of the I AM, and you act from the conviction that all your needs are supplied by your own consciousness shaping experience. Practice guided imagination: see yourself placing captains at the gates, fortifying the strongholds, and stocking your inner larder with oil and wine, now.