Watchful Prayer for Standing

Neville's Inner Vision

This verse does not command you to flee a distant calamity; it beckons you to awaken your inner man. Watch and pray are not external duties but the two activities of consciousness: steady attention to the I AM and a continual act of imaginative consent. By dwelling in the awareness that you are already integral to God’s presence, you revise your sense of self so fear, collapse, or bondage cannot touch you. When you imagine yourself worthy to escape 'these things,' you are not bargaining with fate, you are returning to the state you truly are: the Son of Man made manifest in you. The passage points to the liberation that comes when you hold the posture of vigilance and petition as the daily habit of awareness, allowing the outer events to be seen through an inner, fearless frame. To stand before the Son of Man is to stand in your own illuminated I AM, where every challenge is witnessed and dissolved by the power of consciousness.