Neville Goddard on 1 Samuel 9:6-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Samuel 9 in context

Scripture Focus

6And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go.

7Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?

8And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.

9(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)

10Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God was.

1 Samuel 9:6-10

Biblical Context

Saul and his servant seek guidance from a respected man of God, debating what to bring, and then go to learn the way.

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture this scene as a drama of consciousness. The city and the man of God are inner states - places in awareness where truth can be discovered. Saul’s question what shall we bring reveals the old belief that guidance costs something tangible; the servant’s coin becomes a symbol for an attitude of receptivity: a willingness to offer belief in exchange for direction. In Neville’s terms, the true exchange is a revision of consciousness: step into the state of the inner seer and declare I am guided now. The seer, once called a Prophet, is your future sense of fulfillment appearing as present guidance; the instruction to go to the seer is simply the invitation to move in accord with the answer already within you. The journey to the man of God becomes the journey of becoming aware of the path your imagination has already laid out. You do not seek permission from without; you acknowledge you are the authority, and the guidance arrives as what you already know to be true.