Inner Shield Of I AM Presence

Neville's Inner Vision

The 'evil man' and the 'violent man' are not outer foes but states of consciousness you entertain when fear dominates. Deliverance comes not by changing others, but by turning attention away from the imagined threat and into the I AM that you are. When you imagine another plotting mischief and gathering for war, you rehearse a continual inner war; you become the battlefield. The verse invites you to revise this story by asserting a new reality—the awareness that you are protected by the divine I AM, the unchanging present consciousness that is always with you. In Neville's terms, your state of consciousness creates your world; therefore, make the assumption that the I AM stands guard and that violence and fear have no power in your realm. See that the 'evil man' dissolves as you dwell in the feeling of being kept by an all-sufficient presence. The moment you assume this state, the mental actors of threat vanish from your scene, replaced by the quiet assurance of being held by divine awareness. This is spiritual warfare reversed: you command the stage by a steady, living faith in I AM. Imagination creates reality, and you are the imaginer.