Inner Turning From Gentile Will
1 Peter 4:3 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 1 Peter 4 in context
Scripture Focus
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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