Refuge and Portion Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Psalm 142:5 presents a quiet decree rather than a plea. The I AM within you declares, 'Thou art my refuge and my portion,' and the land of the living becomes the theater of your conscious life. God is not a distant rescue but the very awareness you inhabit. When you acknowledge refuge as your inner state, you stop chasing circumstances and begin to employ imagination to feel safeguarded by your awareness. Providence is the steady alignment of your prevailing assumption with reality; faith is trusting that your portion is already present in the moment you inhabit. The verse teaches you to dwell in a present confidence that you are held by the Presence of God, and that your supply flows from that inner inheritance. If fear arises, revise the thought: 'I am protected by the I AM; I am provided for by the I AM.' In this way, your future unfolds as the natural manifestation of the inner decree, not as a distant wish. The outer world becomes a mirror of your inner allocation of refuge and portion.