Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 4:38-41 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 4 in context

Scripture Focus

38And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.

39And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.

40So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.

41But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.

2 Kings 4:38-41

Biblical Context

In 2 Kings 4:38–41, Elisha returns to Gilgal during a famine and commands a pot to be prepared for the prophets. A pot of pottage made from wild gourds is found to be poisonous, but Elisha adds meal and declares there is no harm, allowing the people to eat safely.

Neville's Inner Vision

Remember, the famine is a condition of your consciousness, not the land. The pot is your inner disposition; the wild gourds are stray beliefs gathered in fear, unknown to you. When the cry goes up—“death in the pot”—you have momentarily consented to a false verdict. Elisha’s act of adding meal is your method: you cast in a new substance, a fresh assumption born of the I AM within. This meal is not a thing but a conscious conviction—an assumption that you are already whole, healthy, provided for. The poison yields to your revised state; the pot becomes harmless because the inner reality has shifted. As you practice, the world you see aligns with your new inner cooking. Notice a condition you fear, replace it with a decisive assumption, and feel it real in your chest, not in your head. The I AM dissolves the apparent death and renders the pot edible for all.

Practice This Now

Identify a troubling belief as the poison in your mind’s pot. Then declare the opposite as already true and feel it real until your perception shifts.