Assurance in Prayer

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner drama, the host that presses against Asa is your own fear and doubt, a vast army of thoughts that seem to overwhelm. The valley of Zephathah is the inner climate where you measure what you think you can do. When Asa cries, 'LORD, it is nothing with Thee to help,' he is not seeking help from a distant sky; he is turning to the I AM within as the one power you awaken to. This cry is the declaration that the divine presence and his own consciousness are one. Resting on the LORD means relinquishing the habit of acting from fear and stepping into the awareness that guides all things. To practice this scene, you must assume the feeling of the innermost I AM already at work in you, and live from that certainty rather than from the evidence of the body or world. The external army dissolves when you stand in the inner vision that no situation can prevail against the living God within. Do not strive to overpower the foe; align with the awareness that your very life is sustained by Providence, and your steps will follow that holy, integrative impulse.