Neville Goddard on 1 Samuel 7:3-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Samuel 7 in context

Scripture Focus

3And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

4Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.

1 Samuel 7:3-4

Biblical Context

Samuel urges wholehearted repentance: turn to the LORD, cast out the idols, and prepare your heart to serve Him alone. The people listen and remove Baalim and Ashtaroth, choosing only the LORD.

Neville's Inner Vision

Samuel’s words model the inner art of turning consciousness. The 'house of Israel' stands for your present awareness; when Samuel says return unto the LORD with all your hearts, he invites a total revision of where you live inwardly. The command to “put away the strange gods” is not about external shrines but about surrendering every belief that claims power over you apart from the I AM. Baalim and Ashtaroth symbolize fears, desires, and habits that pretend to rule your experience. When you prepare your heart unto the LORD and serve Him only, you align your imagination with the one principle that governs all: the I AM that you are. Then the supposed enemies—your Philistine problems—lose their charge, not by force, but by lowered resistance, for you are no longer acting as a divided self; you are acting as the self that never left the field. The deliverance is the shift in awareness: realization that you are the Lord, and that your world bends to your innermost state.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes, assume the I AM as your true identity, and imagine you are serving the LORD only. Feel the release of every idol as if it never ruled you, and let deliverance flood your consciousness.