Inner Growth, Divine Increase

1 Corinthians 3:5-7 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 1 Corinthians 3 in context

Scripture Focus

5Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
6I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
7So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
1 Corinthians 3:5-7

Biblical Context

Paul and Apollos are merely ministers through whom believers come to faith; the Lord gives the increase. Neither planter nor waterer is the source; God alone causes growth.

Neville's Inner Vision

Paul and Apollos are not rival heroes in your inward theatre; they are states of consciousness, voices in the dream of life. They plant and water in your mind, yet the increase arises from God within, the I AM that is your true life. When you behold ministers and methods as separate powers, you have removed the central source from your awareness; when you acknowledge they are only channels, you invite the living God to do the growing. The real worker is the I AM behind all experience, the vital energy that animates every thought and feeling. Your outward scene—a sermon, a teaching, a move you make—becomes meaningful only as it reflects inner surrender to the divine process. The growth you seek is not earned by effort but realized by recognizing that you and God share the same life. In this light, you are neither planter nor waterer; you are consciousness itself through which God brings forth increase. Trust this unity, and the sense of limitation dissolves into the certainty that the increase is already yours in awareness.

Practice This Now

Assume you are the instrument through which the inner increase manifests; silently declare, 'God gives the increase in me now,' and feel the life rising within you as your own true source.

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