Return to Your Inner Covenant
2 Kings 17:40 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 2 Kings 17 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse notes they did not heed the guidance and persisted in their former manner. This shows how habit can override covenant and inner authority.
Neville's Inner Vision
In the realm of Neville Goddard’s teaching, the 'they' is not merely a people external to us but the I AM within us—the living consciousness that must hear and respond to the divine call. The act of not hearkening and returning to the former manner reveals how a former state of consciousness clings to familiar patterns, resisting the fresh movement of inner covenant. The page of history becomes a mirror for the inner mind: you are free to choose a new inner alignment, and reality follows the inner state you hold. When you insist on the old habits, you deny the truth that God is the I AM within, and your world reflects that hesitancy. The cure is deliberate inner revision—to imagine yourself already living in harmony with the covenant, to feel the new order as true now, and to let the old pattern dissolve. The moment you occupy the state of perfect listening—where the inner voice governs your steps—the former manner loses its force and a new life of fidelity emerges.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Sit quietly and declare, I AM the I AM within me; I listen and obey the divine plan now. Revise past disobedience by mentally re-playing it, but this time respond in alignment with the covenant, feeling the new obedience as your present reality.
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