Neville Goddard on 1 Kings 22:19-23 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

19And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

20And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.

21And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.

22And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.

23Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.

1 Kings 22:19-23

Biblical Context

The passage depicts a divine council where a spirit volunteers to mislead Ahab, and God permits it, illustrating how inner dispositions shape outward events.

Neville's Inner Vision

Behold the scene as Neville would—not a chronicle to argue about, but a map of your inner kingdom. The LORD on his throne is your I AM, the steadfast awareness that witnesses every thought; the host of heaven are the shifting states of mind that seem to stand by you. When the question arises, Who shall persuade Ahab? you hear the voices of your beliefs lining up to push you toward a preferred act. The spirit that says, I will persuade him, is the impulse of a thought desiring to become action. The LORD’s question, Wherewith? invites you to observe how imagination operates: the 'lying spirit' is the story you have repeated to yourself until it sounds like truth. God does not condemn the impulse; he furnishes the instrument—the prophets are your habitual phrases, your self-talk, your plans spoken aloud. And so the LORD issues a wake-up: to change the weather in your life, you must revise the weather of your mind. The freedom you seek is the decision to substitute a truthful, loving impulse for fear-based conjecture, and to feel that new state as already real.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, feel the I AM on the throne of your mind, and revise a troubling inner voice into a truthful, loving impulse. Then feel-it-real by carrying the state of your desired outcome as already present.