Deliverance Through Inner Name

Neville's Inner Vision

Psalm 116 presents the experience of being surrounded by the 'sorrows of death' as a vivid inner agitation, the 'pains of hell' as the pull of belief in separation and lack. Yet the cry, 'I called upon the name of the LORD' is not manifest petition to an external power, but the turning of attention to the I AM within—awareness as the LORD of your inner house. When you realize that the 'deliver my soul' is a statement of identity, you unhook from the drama of trouble and invite a shift in state. In Neville's terms, you do not change the world so much as you change the state of consciousness that imagines the world. The moment you assume you are already delivered, you begin to feel the relief as your inner posture relaxes, breath expands, and fear loses its grip. The name 'LORD' becomes your I AM, the living presence that was always there, not elsewhere, and the world begins to respond to that change of being. Imagination becomes the instrument of deliverance, and belief in pain gives way to the certainty of peace.