Inner Guard Marches for Order
2 Samuel 20:7 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 2 Samuel 20 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Joab, Cherethites, Pelethites, and the mighty men depart Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri. The verse depicts a kingly mobilization of forces against a disruptor within the self.
Neville's Inner Vision
In your mental realm, David is the I AM, the sovereign awareness, and his army is the disciplined faculties centered in authority. Joab, the Cherethites, the Pelethites, and the mighty men represent the coordinated states of consciousness—will, memory, perception, courage—ordered to leave the city of familiar self (Jerusalem) and pursue Sheba, a rebellious thought or belief threatening the inner kingdom. The pursuit is not combat for conquest but the restoration of inner alignment: dissolve the disturbance, reaffirm the king's rule, and return with the message that the inner realm can be governed by ordered intention. The kingdom of God is not elsewhere but here, whenever you align your inner army under the I AM and drive out the disruptive pattern that would set up its own rule. The outward march mirrors an inward discipline: a revision, a rising feeling of assurance, and the decision to act in consciousness till the thought-kingdom is unified again. Let this movement remind you that your inner authority can reclaim order from scattered impulses and establish a single, harmonious government within.
Practice This Now
Assume the state that you are the I AM, and picture your inner guards leaving the city of old self to pursue a disruptive belief, until it dissolves into the light of order.
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