Valley to Strength: Psalms 84:6-8

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the valley is not a geography but a state of consciousness called Baca—an inner dryness, a faith-testing lament. To pass through it is to suspend lack by assuming a well where there is no surface water, and to invite rain by the audacity of inner conviction. The verse says the rain fills the pools; so the imagined scene becomes the actual climate of being. When one remains faithful to the inner act, life becomes a sequence of revelations: each stretch of the mind builds a well, every moment of longing invites nourishment. They go from strength to strength, meaning the newly formed states of awareness replenish themselves as you persist in belief. In Zion you appear before God, not in a distant temple, but within the I AM that you are. The Father is not elsewhere; you are the instrument of Heaven in your own awareness. Listen for the call of the Lord of hosts as you would listen for your own inward heartbeat, and you will discover that prayer is simply the practice of turning attention to the imagined reality and letting it harden into fact.