Inner Provisions for the Hungry
2 Samuel 17:27-29 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 2 Samuel 17 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
David arrives at Mahanaim with his weary band; Shobi, Machir, and Barzillai deliver beds, vessels, and food so the people are nourished in the wilderness.
Neville's Inner Vision
Think of David as your awareness, wandering a mental wilderness of lack. When you come to Mahanaim— a sacred meeting place within—the figures who bring beds, vessels, wheat, honey and cheese become living symbols of the faculties that attend your consciousness and furnish its house. Shobi, Machir, and Barzillai are not distant men but currents of your I AM: mercy, provisioning, and neighbor-love delivering what you deem necessary. The hungry, weary, thirsty multitude represents your unmet desires seeking nourishment; their condition proclaims a shift in your inner weather, not a deficit in the world. As you acknowledge that you are the source of all things, abundance pours from your inner pantry into your outer life, and the wilderness becomes a banquet. The act of these gifts moving toward David mirrors your willingness to circulate nourishment within your own mind—your thoughts, feelings, and needs are fed when you accept yourself as the source. When you claim I AM as supply, you unleash a continuous flow that sustains all parts of you, harmonizing your inner states with their outer expressions.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes, place a hand on your chest, and softly declare, I AM the supply now; feel abundance flowing through you and envision sharing it with every hunger in your inner wilderness.
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