Inner Samuel: Anointing Leadership
1 Samuel 9:16 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 1 Samuel 9 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
1 Samuel 9:16 speaks of God directing Samuel to anoint a future leader from Benjamin to deliver Israel from the Philistines, out of God’s awareness of their cry.
Neville's Inner Vision
Beloved, in Neville’s light this story is your inner drama: the ‘man’ sent from Benjamin is the image of leadership that rises in you as a conscious state. The anointing is not an event in history but a decision of the I AM to appoint a governing idea within your mind. The Philistines are the outer obstacles that trouble your inner peace—habit, fear, resistance, lack—but they bow before the authority you grant to the inner captain. When Samuel says, tomorrow at this time, it signals the precise moment your awakened mind aligns with a solution that has always existed in seed form. Your cry for relief is not a plea to be rescued from without; it is the call of the inner self waking to its own sovereignty. Therefore match the feeling of the wish fulfilled: assume that the captain is already in command, that deliverance is now, and let the imagination preside as reality in your every thought.
Practice This Now
Sit quietly, close your eyes, and imagine the inner captain taking its place. Feel it real now by affirming, 'I am the captain of my life; the inner anointing is in command this moment.'
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