Stephen's Mercy Prayer

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine Stephen as a state of consciousness awakening within you. When he cries, 'Lord, lay not this sin to their charge,' he is not appealing to a cruel fate; he is revising his inner weather. The crowd and stones become symbols of the opposing thoughts and judgments that arise in the mind. Stephen's intercession is your inner petition to release grievance, to entertain the certainty that the I AM can absorb and cancel accusations. His falling asleep marks the moment the outer drama yields because the inner reality has chosen peace. You are not defined by persecutors or by pain; you are the I AM that forgives. The practice is simple: assume the feeling of mercy now, insist that no charge sticks to anyone in your life, and feel that the sin is dissolved in the timeless awareness of God. If you dwell there, your outer circumstances align with that mercy; restraint, reconciliation, and quiet follow. The act of forgiving for another becomes a doorway to your own immortal peace.