Dispersion of the Word Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Believers are scattered by circumstance, yet the true church is the state of consciousness that speaks wherever it finds itself. Acts 8:4 shows that movement itself is the preaching. The men and women who fled Jerusalem carried a living word into every room of their inner life, and that word did not stay loud in the mouth alone; it rose as conviction in the mind as God’s I AM. In Neville’s terms, you are not being hurled about by outside events; you are being rearranged into a fuller state of awareness. The scattered effect is the inner dispersion of attention, and the proclamation of the gospel is the revelation of your unity with the One Presence. When you feel fear, imagine that fear moving through you as a teacher, and you respond not with resistance but with the acceptance that the I AM is everywhere, speaking in you and through you. Therefore, the outward world becomes a mirror of an inner sermon, a witness that you have awakened to the Word within.