2 Chronicles 15: Renewal of Heart and Consciousness

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The chapter portrays a shift of consciousness where wakeful awareness returns and a people reorient their inner life toward a living presence, and that recovery of attention creates peace and outward alignment.
A prophetic voice within names the sickness of scattered identity and invites strength and decisive clearing of the false, which allows imagination to be restored as the altar of creation.
Commitment with whole heart and soul becomes the psychological covenant that enforces new patterns; such radical inner vows remove ambiguity and bring rest as a natural consequence.
Even after decisive change, remnants of old structures can remain as unconscious high places, reminding us that purification is both sudden and ongoing, requiring continual vigilance and faithful practice.

What is the Main Point of 2 Chronicles 15?

At the center of this chapter is the practical principle that when conscious attention turns inward to acknowledge the presence of creative awareness and decisively rejects the idols of outdated belief, imagination resumes its rightful role in shaping reality and brings a measurable cessation of inner and outer conflict.

What is the Spiritual Meaning of 2 Chronicles 15?

There is a movement from absence to presence that reads as a psychological drama: a long period of wandering without a steady teacher or law corresponds to a mind ungoverned by a clear axis of meaning. In that state events seem to vex and nations fall because the imagination is left to enact random fears and inherited stories. When the heart remembers the living intelligence within, that inward turning is experienced as being "found" by a stabilizing center, and an immediate consequence is a cessation of the chronic agitation that formerly governed perception. The prophetic voice that arrives is less an external command and more the inner authority that names truth and summons courage. Courage here means willingness to confront and remove the images and practices that no longer serve — to cut down the idols of habit, to burn what once provided false comfort. This purification is not merely moralizing; it is a reallocation of psychic energy from the maintenance of worn patterns into the constructive work of imaginative attention. When a person or a community takes a covenantal stance, pledging wholehearted attention and feeling to the creative presence, imagination becomes disciplined and directed, and the world outside becomes an expression of the new inner law. Yet the story also acknowledges complexity: some high places endure, vestiges of old attachments persist even in a heart that is otherwise resolute. Spiritual maturity therefore includes both decisive purges and patient, watchful maintenance. The long peace that follows is the lived fruit of a reoriented consciousness sustained over time. Material offerings and the bringing back of devoted treasures symbolize the reallocation of previously misused psychic resources into the sanctuary of the self where imaginative acts of fidelity are performed. In this way inner peace is not a passive tranquility but the active result of continual imaginative devotion and the steady refusal to reenact defeated narratives.

Key Symbols Decoded

The Spirit that comes upon the prophet is the rising tide of awareness that quickens insight and makes possible new decisions; it speaks as the part of mind that recognizes truth and commands action. The prophet himself is the articulate faculty, the voice that interprets inner law and addresses the will, while the king who responds represents conscious volition agreeing to govern in alignment with that voice. Idols and groves are symbolic of entrenched beliefs, ancestral stories, and small comforts that claim divinity in the psyche but actually divert creative power into repetition and defense. Cutting down and burning the idol dramatizes the inner act of refusing to feed those images with attention and energy. The altar before the porch signifies the chosen spot of worship within the imagination, the place where attention is offered and where sacrifice is made in the form of surrendered self-concern and redirected desire. An offering of oxen and sheep stands for the investment of past gains and energies into the new covenanted life, converting what was once scattered into a sustaining support for the sanctified direction. The covenant itself is the deliberate promise to sustain wholehearted attention; the fierce clause against those who will not seek the new path reflects how deeply the psyche must sometimes sever loyalties to outworn identities in order to protect the newly established field of creation. Rest 'round about' is the natural environment of a focused imagination that no longer agitates itself with contradictory loyalties.

Practical Application

Begin by listening for the interior prophet: cultivate a quiet space where the clarifying voice of awareness can be heard; take note when it names a false assumption or an idolized comfort and allow that naming to move you to decisive inner action. Ritualize the clearing by imagining, with sensory detail, laying the old image on an altar and then removing it — see it fall, feel the letting go, and witness the ashes dispersing. Replace that act with the renewing of your altar: visualize a steady inner lamp or hearth before which you bring offerings of attention, time, and gratitude, dedicating what you have gained to support this new orientation. Make a covenant with yourself in vivid imaginative terms, speaking or writing the vow so that the whole heart and soul are engaged; whenever doubt arises, return to the covenant as a touchstone and offer tangible tokens — a short daily ritual, a kept promise, a transferred habit — that reinforce the new posture. Be patient about the high places that linger; treat them as gentle enemies to be noticed, named, and gradually disempowered by refusing to concentrate on them. Over time the practice of decisive inner clearing, consistent imaginative consecration, and the conversion of old psychic spoils into creative fuel will produce the sustained peace and outward harmony that the text describes as the proof of an inward change.

The Inner Drama of Covenant Renewal

Read as an interior drama, 2 Chronicles 15 is a concise portrait of how imagination and attention shape the life of a person. The scene begins not in a battlefield but in a meeting of voices inside consciousness: a prophetic voice arises, Asa represents the choosing will, Israelites are scattered faculties, idols are false identifications, and the altar of the Lord is the habit of deliberate imagining. Understood this way, the chapter maps the inner mechanics of awakening and the practical operations by which an inner reorientation creates an enduring peace in outer life.

Azariah the son of Oded is the messenger of the Spirit of God — the awakening impulse that appears when the inner field becomes ready to listen. His first report, that the Lord is with you while ye be with him, is a statement about correlation: alignment with the creative Imagination yields its conscious presence. The sentence is a psychological law, not a theological abstraction. The 'Lord' is the I AM of awareness, the active power of imagining that shapes experience; being with the Lord means turning attention and choice toward that creative center. Seek it and it will be found, forsake it and it will withdraw. This is the fundamental reciprocity of inner life: attention invites the presence that confirms it.

The chronic condition described next — a long season without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law — names a prolonged state of dissociation. The psyche has been operating without an integrated guiding image, without a discipline that teaches how to imagine, and without a law that governs inner acts. When imagination is inattentive or delegated to external authorities and opinions, the cohesive guiding image that forms identity grows faint. The ‘‘teaching priest’’ is the inner instructor, the faculty that knows how to use imagination deliberately; without it, conduct becomes reactive to impressions and anxieties.

Then comes a pivot that is central to biblical psychology: trouble or adversity turns the fragmented mind inward. When they in their trouble did turn unto the Lord God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them. Crisis focuses attention. When external securities fail, the attention that had been scattered returns to its source. Suffering concentrates consciousness, and in that concentrated state the teaching priest can reappear. This is not masochism; it is the way the system reclaims itself. The discovery of the living power of imagination occurs when the self stops seeking rescue in outer solutions and instead practices the inward act of seeking — deliberate imagining and expectancy.

The passage about no peace to him that went out nor to him that came in, with nations destroying nations, pictures the inner turbulence and projection that follows when guidance is absent. 'Going out' and 'coming in' are moods and actions produced by unsettled belief. The mind that is fragmented externalizes its conflict, perceiving the world as hostile and full of adversaries. This is the anxious condition prior to reorientation; the image-making faculty has been misused, and represented fears proliferate across the experiential field.

The prophetic assurance, be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded, is a call to persistent inner activity. Strength here is the steadiness of attention and the refusal to capitulate to discouragement. Hands that are weak abandon the practice of imagining; hands that are strong continue the inner work. The reward is not a capricious gift but the natural outcome of sustained imaginal discipline. The chapter emphasizes discipline rather than moral superiority: the fruit is peace, visible change, and the return of creative power.

Asa's response models the executive function of the self. When the inner voice inspires courage, Asa acts: he puts away the abominable idols, renews the altar of the Lord, gathers the people, and offers sacrifices. Each of these moves has a clear psychological correlate. To put away idols is to identify and discard false self-images — the roles, defenses, and reactive identifications that have posed as authority. Idols are the unquestioned assumptions and habits that block the imagination from forming the identity it truly wants. Cutting them down is an act of re-description: I will no longer be defined by this fear or the image of lack.

To renew the altar before the porch of the Lord is to reestablish a place of daily, deliberate imaginings. The altar is not a literal object but a practice: the focused attention that offers sacrifices of right thinking. The altar stands before the porch, the threshold between interior and exterior, indicating that inner practice precedes and determines outward change. Gathering all Judah and Benjamin — and the strangers that come to Asa — symbolizes the integration of scattered capacities. Parts of the psyche that had been alienated or identified with other aims now join the center because they perceive that the Lord, the organizing imagination, is present.

The covenant entered into with all heart and soul, with loud voice and trumpets and cornets, dramatizes the committed decision in the imagination. A covenant is a binding inner pledge: the will, emotion, and imagination unite to hold a chosen image as real. The loud voice, the shouting, the trumpets are not external noise but the amplification of feeling and expectancy that charges the imaginal act. Those who would not seek the Lord are put to death — this stark language means that resistive tendencies must be neutralized. In psychological terms, putting to death is sympathetic extinguishing of counterimaginations and self-sabotaging scripts. It is decisive inner surgery: to manifest a new reality some old patterns must be allowed to die.

Asa cutting down Maachah's idol and burning it at the brook Kidron is symbolic of severing maternal, inherited, or comfort-based loyalties that sustain outdated images. Maachah, the mother-figure, represents familial patterns and sentimental attachments that can lightly be mistaken for truth. The brook Kidron, a place of crossing and letting-go, is the site of disposal — the small but decisive ritual in which a once-cherished image is acknowledged as false and is discarded. This act is not punitive; it is functional: freeing psychic energy for new images to take form.

The text acknowledges an incomplete victory: high places were not taken away out of Israel. High places, the local shrines and unofficial sanctuaries, are lingering subconscious habits and the tricks the mind uses to sneak back into old programs. They are tolerated remnants, tolerated compromises. Yet the heart of Asa is described as perfect all his days — the central will remains aligned with the creative principle. This is the healthy configuration: residual reflexes may persist, but the ruling imagination holds the vital center. The mature inner governor accepts imperfection in peripheral functions while maintaining sovereign direction.

Bringing into the house of God the treasures and dedicated vessels is the appropriating of resources. The silver and gold are the qualities, memories, and capacities previously invested in other aims; now they are offered to the work of the imagination. This is a reinvestment of psychic wealth into the generative process: talents, past victories, and precious experiences are reallocated to support the renewed identity. The result — no more war unto the 35th year — indicates a sustained period of psychological peace and functional success once the central orientation has been reestablished.

Read as inner technology, this chapter teaches a sequence: inner hearing (the prophetic voice), response of the will (Asa), removal of false identifications (idols), reestablishment of practice (altar), integration of faculties (gathering the people), binding commitment (covenant), emotional charging (shouts and trumpets), disposal of inherited patterns (Maachah and Kidron), and reinvestment of inner wealth (treasures into the house). The outcome is restoration of order and a measurable peace that endures until the psyche faces new tests.

The law the chapter encodes is imaginal: the world of experience conforms to the dominant inner image. When the ruling inner image is the Lord — the I AM of clear, deliberate imagining — life reorders itself accordingly. The chapter refuses literalism because its narrative coherence comes precisely from reading its symbols as states, decisions, and practices within consciousness. The promise 'he was found of them' repeats the experiential truth: when one seeks creatively and with feeling, the formative power answers. The ancient words therefore function as instructions for the art of inner change: cultivate a prophetic ear, choose deliberately, make sacrifices of wrong thinking, invest your treasures in the work of imagination, and expect a transformation that shows itself outwardly as peace and fruitfulness.

Common Questions About 2 Chronicles 15

How can I apply Neville Goddard’s law of assumption to the revival in 2 Chronicles 15?

Apply the law of assumption by first inwardly assuming the state described in 2 Chronicles 15: imagine and feel that you already dwell in the presence of God, that idols of doubt are removed and a covenant of wholehearted seeking is made; act from that state in small consistent ways. Quietly live in the feeling of the wish fulfilled, rehearsing scenes of restoration and unity until the new state becomes dominant. Replace contrary beliefs with the imagined fact of God being with you (2 Chronicles 15:2). Persist without arguing with present appearances, and allow outward circumstances to rearrange themselves to correspond with your inner conviction.

What is the central message of 2 Chronicles 15 and how would Neville Goddard interpret it?

The central message of 2 Chronicles 15 is that inward turning and fidelity to God restore peace and produce visible change: when Asa and the people sought the Lord with wholehearted covenant and removed idols, the presence of God was manifest and they received rest (2 Chronicles 15:2,15). In Neville’s teaching this story reads as an account of a collective change of state of consciousness; God is the consciousness you assume. The people’s outward reforms mirror an inner assumption made real by imagination and feeling. The prophet’s word awakens a conviction, the assumption is sustained, and reality conforms to the inward state, yielding the promised rest.

Are there lectures, PDFs or YouTube commentaries linking Neville Goddard to 2 Chronicles 15?

Yes, many teachers and students of Neville have explored Old Testament passages like 2 Chronicles 15 in lectures, transcripts and videos that relate prophetic narratives to the imaginal faculty; you will find audio and PDF transcriptions of Neville’s talks on imagination and the law of assumption, and modern commentators who apply those principles to Asa’s revival. Search for recordings on imagination, the law of assumption, and Neville’s references to prophets, but evaluate resources by testing their claims inwardly: compare what they say with the text and with the felt reality you can assume, and keep what lives in your consciousness.

Which verses in 2 Chronicles 15 align with Neville’s teaching about inner conviction and the imaginal act?

Several verses resonate with the principle that inner conviction and imaginal acts create outward change: the promise that ‘The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you’ (2 Chronicles 15:2) illustrates reciprocal consciousness; the account of covenanting to seek God with all heart (2 Chronicles 15:12–14) shows the deliberate assumption and sustained feeling; and the record that ‘the LORD gave them rest round about’ (2 Chronicles 15:15) demonstrates the outward result of an inward state. Read these verses as instructions to assume, persist in feeling, and expect manifestation.

How does Azariah’s call to 'seek the Lord' relate to Neville’s practice of assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled?

Azariah’s exhortation to seek the Lord is an invitation to change your state of consciousness, which directly parallels assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled: to ‘seek’ is to deliberate in imagination and emotion, to dwell in the inner sense of being seen and supported by God (2 Chronicles 15:2). Neville teaches that when you inhabit the inner scene of answered desire and maintain its feeling, the outer world adjusts; likewise, the people’s covenant and removal of idols are outward signs of an inward assumption. Practically, assume the reality you desire, feel accomplished and peaceful, and let that assumed state discipline your thoughts and actions until manifestation follows.