Inner Mercy Through Prayer

Neville's Inner Vision

That line does not describe a battle with a distant god, but a question lodged in the mind about the state of mercy. The child represents a future life you yearn to see, not as a separate event but as the present end of an inner process. When David asks, 'Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me,' he betrays the habit of living as if mercy were a postponed prize rather than a present condition. In the Neville Goddard view, God is the I AM that you are, and mercy comes by occupying the end in imagination and treating it as already true. The fasting and weeping are not merely deprivation; they are the disciplined return of attention to the end you desire, a humbling of the old sense of lack until the inner conviction tilts the world toward its expression. The moment you assume the living truth of your wish—‘the child lives,’ or ‘my prosperity is now’—you reverse the inner movements, and the outer scene follows as an echo. Mercy is not granted from outside; it is awakened within, as your present awareness shifts into alignment with the desired future.