Neville Goddard on 1 Kings 8:37-40 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Kings 8 in context

Scripture Focus

37If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

38What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:

39Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)

40That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

1 Kings 8:37-40

Biblical Context

Calamities and siege are described; the remedy is inward. When one recognizes the plague of the heart and lifts toward the inner temple, Heaven hears, forgives, and grants according to the heart.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within a Neville Goddard reading, the famine, pestilence, and besieged cities are not outward events but inner states of consciousness such as scarcity, fear, and resistance. The call to pray is a call to turn attention inward, to lift your gaze toward the inner house—the I AM that knows the hearts of all—until the plague within relaxes. Heaven is your own quiet center of awareness, responding to the state you inhabit; forgiveness arises as you revise the assumed condition and align with your true state. When the petition is felt as already real, the heart moves into reconciliation and life rearranges to match the new state you entertain. The passage invites a turning from doom to reverence, a covenant loyalty to the truth you accept about yourself. In that inner posture, fear yields to trust, and courage returns to the land of your present experience.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly, place your hands on your chest, close your eyes, and declare I awaken to the healing state now; I am the temple and am heard. Then dwell in that feeling until it feels real.