Elijah's Inner Resurrection
1 Kings 17:19-20 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 1 Kings 17 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Elijah takes the widow’s son and prays to God for restoration, highlighting intercession, faith, and providence in the unfolding of a life situation.
Neville's Inner Vision
The widow represents an outer circumstance, the life you see as solid and final; the son is a living state of consciousness within you. Elijah is your attentive I AM, lifting the son to a loft—an elevated awareness where perception shifts and life can be revived. When Elijah cries to the LORD, his question—“ hast thou also brought evil upon the widow … by slaying her son?”—reveals a common inner belief: that God or life itself has struck a death-blow to what you love. Neville would teach that the real question is what you are willing to assume about your inner state right now. The revival of the son comes not through pleading to an external power, but through a deliberate revision of consciousness: affirming that life is continuous, that the I AM is the source of vitality, and that your present-state perception can be renewed. In this moment, you are invited to believe in the vitality of your inner life and to act from that certainty, thereby restoring what seems lost by the power of inner conviction.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: Place your hand on your chest and mentally declare, “I am the I AM; this situation is resolved now in me.” Then visualize the son alive and the widow’s heart at peace, and feel the relief as if it is truly happening now.
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