Inner Rescue of Peter

Neville's Inner Vision

Peter in this verse is not a man in a cell, but a state of consciousness—your sense of courage, faith, and action when faced with seeming confinement. The prison is any mental limitation you accept as real: fear, lack, delay. The church’s unceasing prayer is your persistent, loving attention—an insistence that the I AM, your divine awareness, is awake to your freedom. Neville reading: In your inner kingdom, you can be kept in a scene of limitation, yet the faithful in you pray without ceasing for release, and that prayer does not come from outside, but from inside, the unified field of your own awareness. The verse asks you to recognize that Providence operates through steady belief; as you maintain the feeling of being already free, the outer doors will yield. The crowd of your inner faculties—the justified, the expectant, the tender—unite to sustain the state you claim. So the message is simple: dwell in the consciousness of release, trust the I AM to work, and the “prison” dissolves as a dream when attended by persistent prayer from the church within.