Neville Goddard on 2 Chronicles 20:3-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

3And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

4And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.

5And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,

6And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?

7Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?

8And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,

9If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.

10And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;

11Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.

12O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.

2 Chronicles 20:3-12

Biblical Context

Jehoshaphat fears, proclaims a fast, and gathers Judah to seek help from the Lord. He anchors the petition in covenant memory and declares that their eyes are upon God, trusting the divine presence to hear and deliver.

Neville's Inner Vision

To me, this scene is not a history lesson about a king, but a manual for turning mind from fear to the I AM. Jehoshaphat’s fear dissolves the moment he sets himself to seek the Lord, not in outward protocol but in an inward recognition that God reigns over all kingdoms. The house of the LORD and the sanctuary symbolize the inner sanctuary of consciousness where the name of God resides—the indwelling awareness that cannot be moved by Ammon, Moab, or Seir. When he says, our eyes are upon thee, he is not pleading for favors but yielding to the only force that can alter appearances: the assumption of God’s rule within. The enemy arrayed before them is the suggestion of lack and powerlessness outside. In truth, the only armament is the acknowledged truth of I AM—that there is power and might in the One whose presence fills every room of your mind. Faith here is not stubborn resistance but inward agreement: I know the Lord is present, and thus the threat becomes a signal to awaken to the truth I already am.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, declare, I am the Presence of God now. Feel the relief as if the answer is already here, and stand in your inner sanctuary until fear dissolves into trust.