Neville Goddard on 1 Samuel 1:20 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Samuel 1 in context

Scripture Focus

20Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.

1 Samuel 1:20

Biblical Context

Hannah conceives after praying and names her son Samuel, declaring she asked the LORD for him. The verse frames naming as a theological assertion about answered petition and providence.

Neville's Inner Vision

Samuel stands as the inner decree that your asking has found its answer in the LORD, the I AM within you. Hannah's naming is not simply a label, but a functional statement of reality: I asked, and thus the thing is. In the Neville sense, the time is 'come about' when you assume the state of the wish fulfilled and dwell in it until it feels natural. The Lord here is your own awareness—your attention that has heard and granted your petition. To practice, treat the name you give your desire as a symbol of its presence, and let your feeling-tone confirm it as already true. When you repeat, 'I have asked, and it is given,' you honor the inner process and accelerate the shift from desire to experience. The verse invites you to trust Providence by affirming with gratitude that your inner conversation has produced form, and that the outer result will follow in due season.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the feeling of your wish already fulfilled. Choose a name that represents the answered prayer and pronounce it gently as present reality, resting in gratitude until the sense of fulfillment remains.