Psalms 66:17-19 - Inner Hearing and Prayer Realized

Neville's Inner Vision

Prayer, in this light, is not a petition to a distant judge but a condition of consciousness you enter. When the tongue speaks with vigor yet the heart harbors guilt, the inner 'I AM' cannot hear the request, for the inner self registers discord. The verse says the Lord will hear when you have no barrier of iniquity; this is the moment you align your entire being with the assumption that you are already heard. To Neville, hearing is an inner event: God is the I AM within you, answering according to your state of awareness. If you believe you are unworthy or blocked by secret fault, you create a barrier, and your circumstances reflect a deaf world. But when you revise the heart—let go of resentment, self-judgment, and fear—you lift the curtain and the voice of your prayer is joined to the living Presence. Your imagination is the instrument by which you rewrite your state; dwell in the feeling that the answer is present now, and your outer life will echo that acceptance.