Jacob's Inner Covenant Prayer

Neville's Inner Vision

Jacob's prayer is not pleading to an external God, but turning within to the I AM that you are. The God of his fathers is the living awareness, the inner jurisdiction where promises are kept. The command to return to his country and kinship is a return to the inner land— the dispositions and loyalties he has forgotten or neglected. When he says that he crossed the Jordan with a staff and is now become two bands, he marks the moment consciousness multiplies through inner recognition, a doubling of being that does not require outer change. Esau's threat is the mind's fear of conflict with its own shadows; the assurance that God will do him good and multiply his seed is the guarantee that abundance flows from the same inner state. Mercies and truth are not external favors but the fidelity of the I AM to its own covenant. As you dwell in this inner covenant, the outer world begins to reflect the blessing—the seed as many as the sand—because the I AM is the source of all blessing and the agent of your realignment.