Inner Power Of Faith
1 Thessalonians 1:3-5 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 1 Thessalonians 1 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The passage highlights their faith, love, and patient hope, and reveals they are elected by God. The gospel arrived with power, the Holy Spirit, and a strong assurance, not merely words.
Neville's Inner Vision
To Paul, the Thessalonians are living, breathing states of consciousness: faith becoming action, love becoming labor, and hope becoming patient expectancy in the Christ within. When Paul says the gospel came with power, and with the Holy Ghost and much assurance, he reveals that truth enters not as history alone but as an inner conviction, a felt demonstration in your own mind. Your 'election of God' is the realization that you, in your I AM, have already chosen by the divine presence; the outer church becomes a mirror of your inner alignment. The men you were among them for their sake is the imaginative you who serves as witness to that inner power. So the condition is one of inner vitality: anchor your awareness in the triumphant state—the belief that you are beloved, chosen, enabled by Spirit—and your outer experience will echo that assurance. The gospel thus travels from words to inner force, from memory to experiential certainty.
Practice This Now
Assume the state, declare I am the election of God, and feel it until it becomes your habitual awareness. Then revise any sense of lack by silently affirming that the gospel has already come with power in you.
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