Inner Reign of Manasseh

Neville's Inner Vision

View the verse as the drama of an inner state awakening to kingship. The twelve-year-old prince represents a fresh, impressionable consciousness taking the throne of the mind, Jerusalem as the sacred center where decisions are made. The fifty-five-year reign declares the enduring authority of a state of consciousness that believes strongly in its own reality. Hephzibah, meaning my delight is in her, is not a family name but the gift of covenant loyalty—an inner ally that makes your victory possible. In Neville’s terms, you do not seek an outer king you cultivate a reliable inner governor. When you imagine, feel, and declare that I AM rules here, permanently, lovingly, and joyfully, your life moves in harmony with that royal order. The verse invites you to recognize that the inner king can extend his reign by the steady alignment of thought, feeling, and action with the truth of God as your I AM, the undeniable governor of all experience.