The Inner Altar of Awareness
1 Chronicles 21:18 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 1 Chronicles 21 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The angel of the LORD instructs Gad to tell David to build an altar to the LORD on Ornan’s threshing floor.
Neville's Inner Vision
Within Neville's psychology, the angel is the voice of your I AM, the inner command that arises from the deepest consciousness. The threshing floor of Ornan is the battleground of thought where you separate the real from the counterfeit. To build an altar to the LORD is to establish a fixed posture of worship in imagination—an inner sanctuary that you consciously set aside from the churn of daily weather. When Gad delivers the message, you realize the guidance is not outside you but within, calling you to 'go up'—to ascend in awareness until the divine Presence becomes your experienced state. The act of sacrifice shifts from ceremonial rite to revision of belief: you surrender fear, struggle, and limitation by reaffirming I AM as your only reality. As you stand on that inner ground, the Presence of God becomes not a future event but the present atmosphere of being you inhabit. The story invites you to trust inner instruction and to practice an ongoing altar-building that keeps you aligned with the truth you already are.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: In a quiet moment, picture Gad delivering the command, then rise in your mind to the threshing floor and set up the altar to the LORD, declaring 'I AM' here now and feeling the Presence.
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