Neville Goddard on 1 Kings 21:4-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

4And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

5But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?

6And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.

1 Kings 21:4-6

Biblical Context

Ahab laments Naboth's refusal to sell his vineyard for money; Jezebel questions his sadness, and he reveals his desire for Naboth's inheritance.

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe, friend, that this drama on the fields of Naboth is the drama within your own mind. Ahab’s heavy heart and his refusal to eat are but states of consciousness. Naboth’s vineyard is the inner inheritance that your I AM would naturally possess. When Ahab says, 'Give me thy vineyard for money,' he is confessing a belief that true abundance can be bought or bartered, rather than realized as an already-present state. Jezebel, the wife, embodies habit and social pressure—the elder voices of the ego—that question your mood and stir you to chase externals. The moment you hear the demand to barter your inner estate, you see the danger: you carve out your reality with fear rather than faith. The cure is to revise this scene, to assume that the vineyard is already mine because I AM; that the entire inheritance of my fathers is the nature of my being, not a transaction of time and place. When you feel it real, you rest in the conviction that no external rejection can diminish your inner abundance, and your outward circumstances align with that truth.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the vineyard is already yours in God. Say, 'I AM the owner of my inner inheritance; abundance is my natural state,' and feel the reality of it now.