Voice of the LORD Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the Assyrian is a stubborn state of mind—fear, pressure, the sense of attack. The rod you feel is not a weapon of flesh but a reflex of your old stories about lack and danger. Yet the verse says the Assyrian is beaten down through the voice of the LORD, meaning through the authority of your own I AM. When you attend to that inner sound—when you hear the LORD as the sure, present I—your awareness shifts and the threat loses its grip. The beating down is not from without but a reorganization of your state: a new conviction replaces the old dread; a new rhythm replaces the old drumbeat. So you do not fight the enemy, you change the identification. Your imagination, rightly directed, is the rod dissolving the illusion. Your sense of self becomes the decree; the outer scene follows the inner decree by the law of consciousness. Practice: assume the inner voice as your real director, dwell there, and let the feeling of its power saturate your body until the old fear drops away.