Deliverance Through Inner Prayer
2 Kings 13:4-5 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 2 Kings 13 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Jehoahaz prayed to the LORD because Israel was oppressed by Syria, and the LORD heard him. This verse presents deliverance as a return to a natural state of peace, achieved through divine awareness within.
Neville's Inner Vision
To Neville, this text is not about a historical monarch alone, but about your own inner climate. Jehoahaz represents a moment in your mind when you say you will not endure this oppression any longer, and you turn the gaze of awareness to the I AM. The LORD hearing is the inner recognition that your state of consciousness is not captive to tyranny outside but by your belief. When you perceive oppression as a mind-state, you invite a savior - an inner shift in consciousness that resolves the pressure and releases you from the hand of the Syrians. This savior is not a separate person, but a renewed idea, a higher feeling, a new sense of possibility that arises when you refuse to identify with lack. The people dwelling again in their tents symbolizes returning to the home of your real nature, where peace and abundance are native. In right prayer, you do not beg; you revise your state and allow this inner deliverer to birth itself within you.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Close your eyes and declare I am delivered now, then feel the relief as if the pressure has already released. Rest in the sense of your true home, the I AM within.
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