Neville Goddard on 1 Corinthians 4:19-20 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Corinthians 4 in context

Scripture Focus

19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.

20For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

1 Corinthians 4:19-20

Biblical Context

Paul declares he will come soon if the Lord wills and will test the hearers by power rather than their puffed-up speech; the kingdom of God is demonstrated by power, not mere words.

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture yourself as the I AM that Paul calls to return. The crowd speaks with puffed pride, boasting in clever words, yet the Lord's will moves within you as silent power. The message is not to be won by fine rhetoric, but by the manifest force of consciousness. The kingdom of God is not a debate but a presence; it arrives when you shift from words to realized possibility. When you acknowledge that God is your awareness, the coming becomes the coming of your own inner strength into the scene you inhabit. Your external life obeys the inner declaration: 'I am the power now.' The test of 'whether the Lord will' becomes your willingness to defer to that inner power, letting it govern your responses, your decisions, your forms. As you dwell in the feeling of power—certainty, steadiness, and creative vitality—the apparent world yields, and events confirm the truth: the kingdom is power, not argument.

Practice This Now

Assume the feeling: 'I am the power here and now.' Revise every sentence of lack with the inner truth that the kingdom is present as manifest power, and spend a minute daily dwelling in that assurance.