Gospel Union Within You
1 Corinthians 9:23 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 1 Corinthians 9 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse shows a motive: the apostle acts for the gospel’s sake to share in its life with others. It frames ministry as a conscious partnership with the gospel and with those it touches.
Neville's Inner Vision
To Neville, the gospel is not a distant doctrine but a state of consciousness you enter by choosing. This I do for the gospel's sake becomes the decisive act of aligning your inner state with the message you speak. To partake thereof with you is to acknowledge the I AM behind all minds, the one life weaving you with your fellow travelers. The verse invites you to see partnership as an inner movement, not a mere external arrangement: you and they are one mind expressing a shared vision. When you act for the gospel's sake, you are simply revising your sense of separation until it yields unity where you once found limitation. Practice the inner assumption: imagine you are already united with those you serve, that their joy is your joy, their success your own. In that moment, your imagined scene becomes the hunger of your waking acts, and reality follows the conviction you hold in imagination. This is the practical law: assertion becomes being, being becomes experience, and experience becomes a living fellowship in which you partake with others.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Close your eyes and declare, 'I and they are one in the I AM; I partake with you now.' Then hold that unity as you enter your next interaction, letting the imagined sense guide your actions.
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