Awakening the Inner God Within
1 Kings 18:27-28 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 1 Kings 18 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Elijah exposes Baal’s impotence and the futility of ritualized frenzy, calling for inner awakening rather than external performance.
Neville's Inner Vision
Elijah’s jeer at noon is not a rebuke of a rival god but a mirror of your own mind when it pretends that a ritual can fetch what only awareness is. Baal here stands for a split consciousness that believes life flows from forms outside the I AM, from knives and songs rather than from the living God that you are. The drama of cry aloud and blood is the old pattern of trying to force reality by force of will, seeking certainty in outward acts. But in Neville’s counsel, reality is not found in the ritual but in the state you inhabit while the ritual unfolds. When you fix your gaze on the inner I AM—awake, talking, pursuing, or asleep to your own majesty—the outer spectacle becomes mute. The one who mocks is the same who awakens; you simply revise the scene from separation to oneness, and the ‘god’ that seemed distant becomes a vivid presence within. By choosing the feeling of the wish fulfilled here and now, you dissolve the illusion that blood and thunder create reality, and you invite the divine presence to stand forth as your everyday experience.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Close your eyes, assume the state 'I AM the I AM' and feel that this moment is suffused with the divine presence. Revise the belief that external rites can grant power; rest in the inner awareness until it feels real.
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