Inner Provision in Acts 7:11-12

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the scene as a parable of your mind. The famine is a state of consciousness where lack seems absolute; the land of Egypt is a field of potential, where supply exists in possibility. Our fathers are the past states of awareness that you have inherited, and Jacob represents a decisive act of imagining: he hears there is corn in Egypt and sends forth the forebears to seek sustenance. When you hear the phrase 'corn in Egypt,' you are invited to stop looking outside and awaken within. The I AM, your true self, already knows where sustenance lies; your task is to assume that knowledge, to revise by feeling as if provision is present now, and to let the inner search complete its work. As you persist in the assumption, the external world conforms to the inner fact: a present supply appears, not by miracle but by your renewed consciousness. This is how Providence operates: you decide, and the outer agrees.