Divine Hearing in Distress

Neville's Inner Vision

Fear is not outside you; it is a state of consciousness that seems to threaten your sense of self. The waves of death, the floods of ungodly thoughts, the sorrows and snares are all inner movements that appear to press in from the outside world. Yet they are only beliefs arising in your mind. In the moment of distress you do not petition a distant God—you awaken to the I AM, the ever-present awareness within you. When you 'call upon the LORD' you are re-identifying with the consciousness in which all things are already heard. The verse says the cry came into his ears, which in Neville language means your inner state registers the response of God because the inner state and the outer event are one reality. Your prayer is the turning of attention back to your own divinity, the recognition that your awareness is the temple where answers reside. As you dwell in that temple, the threatening movements lose their power, and you are heard because you have become the hearing itself—the I AM affirming its own being as you.