Ask Seek Knock: Inner Provision

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of these words as a posture of the mind rather than a petition to an external deity. To ask is to align your inner state with the end you desire; to seek is to turn attention from lack to the feeling that the provision already is yours; to knock is to persist in that assumption until the door of experience opens. The Father in heaven is not distant but the very awareness that you are. When you ask, you are letting the true you declare what is already true in consciousness; the gifts you seek are present as possibilities within your own I AM. The 'stone' and 'serpent' imagery shows the mind's habit of misidentification—if you give a stone to a hungry child, you show you do not know what is yours. But how much more will your Father, the depth of your being, give good things to those who ask from a state of wholeness? The key is to dwell in the feeling of the wish fulfilled until it becomes your ordinary seeing.