The Inner Fast Test

Neville's Inner Vision

Matthew 4:2 invites us to see hunger not as a failing appetite but as a signpost within the consciousness. The forty days are not merely a physical period but a deliberate withdrawal of ordinary sensory food, a turning inward where the I AM stands watchful. In Neville’s teaching, each moment of lack is an invitation to assume a greater state of awareness. When hunger arises, you do not chase a meal; you choose to imagine what you already are: complete, nourished, and fully attuned to the presence you call God. The outward withdrawal mirrors an inner withdrawal from fear, doubt, and limitation. As you persist in the inner fast, the external world reflects your maintained consciousness, not the other way around. Hunger becomes a signal that your thoughts can be reorganized by a single, steady assumption: I AM that I AM, fullness here and now. The forty days become a discipline you apply in daily imagination, until sensation follows the truth you have already declared.