Tender Heart Within

2 Kings 22:19 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 2 Kings 22 in context

Scripture Focus

19Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
2 Kings 22:19

Biblical Context

The verse presents a tender heart and humble turning as the condition for divine attention and mercy. When Josiah mourned and humbled himself, the LORD heard his plea.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, see that the 'place' and its desolation speak of your own life when you forget who you are in the I AM. The warning is not a distant judgment; it is your awareness revealing misalignment. When Josiah heard what was spoken against the city, his heart trembled with tenderness, and he rent his clothes in a symbolic releasing of an old self—an act of letting appearances fall away before a higher understanding. This is your inner process: discomfort at the critique, a humble turning, and tears that wash down the walls of limitation. And as you truly feel that humility, God—your own I AM presence—answers, saying, I have heard thee. So the outer desolation is reversed not by effort, but by the inner posture of trueness: you acknowledge the truth of your condition, you soften, you submit to the inner word, and you return to your divine state. The moment you do, the inner prophecies become your present experience rather than distant warnings.

Practice This Now

Practice: Sit in stillness, assume the state of Josiah now—tender heart, humble before the I AM, listening to the inner word, ripping away the old garment of limitations, and weeping with release; affirm 'I have heard thee' and dwell in the restored inward state.

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