Inner Restoration: 1 Samuel 30:12
1 Samuel 30:12 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 1 Samuel 30 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
After three days without bread or water, he is given figs and raisins, and his spirit returns to life.
Neville's Inner Vision
This scene is a symbolic invitation to awaken within you the possibility of revival at the level of consciousness. The cake of figs and two clusters of raisins are not mere nourishment; they are images of the imagination’s supply that your awareness can draw from its own abundance. The hunger and thirst symbolize the moment when you have believed you were empty, and the revival of his spirit marks the turning of attention from outer conditions to inner assurance. When you entertain the assumption that you are already sustained by the I AM, your inner climate shifts—three days and three nights become a symbolic passage from lack to fullness. Providence, in Neville's sense, is your own ongoing alignment of awareness with itself; what you cultivate in consciousness becomes the conditions you see. The 'deliverer' here is not a person but your renewed attention, the inner consent that your consciousness has never left its source. So the revival is not a miracle apart from you; it is the moment you accept that you are sustained, and you begin to feel the restoration as a present fact.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and assume, with full conviction, 'I am restored now.' Then vividly imagine eating the figs and raisins, feel nourishment flowing through you, and dwell in the sense of inner life returning to you.
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