Inner Turning From Gentile Will

1 Peter 4:3 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 1 Peter 4 in context

Scripture Focus

3For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
1 Peter 4:3

Biblical Context

The text says our past life was spent in the Gentiles’ will—lasciviousness, lust, excess of wine, revelings, and idolatries. It points to a turning away from that former state.

Neville's Inner Vision

Time past is a memory of a state of consciousness, not a distant event. The Gentile mind was ruled by appetite, chasing lasciviousness, lust, wine, revelings, and idolatries as if these images defined you. This is a hinge for transformation, inviting you to awaken to the I AM, the unchanging awareness that imagines from the end. To repent in Neville’s sense is to revise the inner assumption: I am the I AM, and I no longer identify with craving or external idols. When you persist in this present assumption, the old movements lose their force and true worship becomes your natural state—purity, integrity, and a life aligned with inner law. The outer life then reflects an inner conviction that God, the I AM, is within. So you turn by inner imagining, not by striving; you embody the end you desire, and the past Gentile will fades into memory.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and declare, 'I am the I AM; I no longer identify with the Gentile will.' Revise the memory of past excess as a dream dissolving in present awareness, and dwell in the feeling of true worship.

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