Stephen's Inner Spirit

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville Goddard vantage, the scene is not about stones but about the inner stone of doubt dissolving before the I AM. Stephen’s cry, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit, is the moment when consciousness chooses to turn away from outward circumstance and into the indwelling God-image. Calling upon God is not petition to a distant being, but a deliberate shift of attention—a return to the one self that you are: I AM. The spirit is not a fragile thing blasted by death, but a timeless momentum of awareness that remains intact as the I AM sets the stage for a new state of being. In this understanding, the stones press against the body while the inner man rests in faith, trusting that the imagined reality already exists in God. Perseverance under trial is simply maintaining the assumption that your life is held by the divine continuity, even when appearances deny it. This is how faith endures: not by outrunning fate, but by revising it inwardly until the outward form aligns with the inner reality.