Inner Anointing, Inner Freedom

Neville's Inner Vision

Whenever I read Luke 4:18-19, I hear not a man two thousand years ago, but the I AM speaking through me. The Spirit of the Lord upon me is my inner conviction that I am anointed with awareness—not to wield power over others, but to awaken the inner world of consciousness. The 'poor' I preach to are the thoughts and beliefs that feel lacking; by affirming a wealth of life in me, I replace lack with presence. 'To heal the brokenhearted' becomes a revision of the sense of grief or fragmentation—I soften the ache by imagining wholeness restored within. 'Deliverance to the captives' means releasing held patterns—old fears, identifications, and habits—from the prison of memory. 'Recovering of sight to the blind' is the light of discernment dawning in awareness, the ability to see every situation as already complete in spirit. 'To set at liberty them that are bruised' is the unbinding of oppression in me, the sense of freedom that comes when I accept my unity with the Infinite. And the 'acceptable year of the Lord' signals a perpetual now of grace, a shift in my inner weather toward abundance.