Inner Assurance of Prayer: Luke 1:11-13

Neville's Inner Vision

To the awakened self, the angel is the I AM speaking through the inner chamber of your mind. The right side of the altar of incense is your settled focus, the breath of attention that keeps your desire in view until it is formed as fact. Zacharias' fear is the last vestige of the old state, the portrait of lack clinging to you. When the angel says, Fear not, for thy prayer is heard, it means your state of awareness has already answered itself; your spoken petition has become a seed in the soil of consciousness, drawing forth its fruit in due season. The promise that Elisabeth shall bear a son is the inner certainty taking a new form—the shift from want to fulfilled possibility. Name and identity attach to the fruit according to your inner conviction; you can align with the feeling that the name John signifies grace and gratitude flowing from the divine within. The key is to hold fast to the assumption that the request exists now as a finished fact, and let your inner world radiate it outward.