Five Words Edifying Your Inner Church

1 Corinthians 14:18-19 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 1 Corinthians 14 in context

Scripture Focus

18I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
19Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
1 Corinthians 14:18-19

Biblical Context

Paul thanks God and speaks in tongues more than others. Yet in the church, he would rather speak five words with understanding to teach others than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the inner gospel, the church you attend is the state of consciousness you inhabit. The tongue you prize is not a voice spoken aloud but the language of your inner understanding. When Paul says he would rather speak five words with understanding than a multitude of unknown speech, he is teaching you to trust the one clear vibration of awareness that edifies the whole self. The unknown tongue represents thoughts that loop without confirmation in your feeling world—words that do not reach the heart because they lack shared meaning. Your true worship is practical alignment: you meet the living I AM with a single, precise phrase that carries your desired state. Now, imagine you are the I AM, the speaker within. You may choose to assume a brief, precise sentence that carries truth you wish to awaken in your life. When you assume that others—your inner audience—hear and are taught, you release the need for sensational language. What you speak in your assumption becomes action in your world. The creative motion follows your clear direction; your inner church grows quiet, attentive, and coherent. The five words become a doorway through which the entire being rises into understanding.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and speak five clear words in your mind that express the state you wish to teach. Then feel the truth of those words as if they are already shaping your life.

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