Inner Vineyard, Outer Desires
1 Kings 21:1-2 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 1 Kings 21 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Naboth owns a vineyard near the king's palace. Ahab asks to trade or buy it for a better vineyard or money, revealing a pull toward possessing another’s property. Naboth refuses.
Neville's Inner Vision
In the Neville Goddard frame, Naboth’s vineyard represents a state of consciousness—an inner garden that exists near the palace of awareness. Ahab’s plea is the ego’s grasping impulse, the belief in lack that seeks to possess what seems external. When you identify with that urge, you reproduce the same drama: chasing a supposed external possession while neglecting your own inner soil. The teaching is to return to the inner kingdom and claim abundance by the law of consciousness. Your wealth and provision are not contingent on winning something from another; they are produced by your inner state. I AM, the eternal awareness within, is the owner of all that can be perceived. By revising the sense of lack and feeling the presence of abundance now, you align with the reality that there is no separation in consciousness. The drama dissolves as you affirm: I AM the source of all supply; my garden of herbs can be cultivated by imagination and steady inner faith. The outer world will reflect this inner sovereignty.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes, breathe, and imagine the vineyard as already yours in your inner kingdom. Feel the abundance as a present state, owned by I AM.
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