Neville Goddard on Acts 14:8-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 14 in context

Scripture Focus

8And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:

9The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,

10Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.

Acts 14:8-10

Biblical Context

In Acts 14:8-10, a man crippled from birth is healed when Paul perceives his faith and commands him to stand; the man rises and walks.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the scene is a projection of your inner life. The crippled man is the image of a fixed belief about yourself—limitation, a sense of not walking in life. Paul represents your inner governor, the I AM that watches and speaks truth. When Paul beholds the man and perceives he has faith to be healed, he does not grant healing from without; he acknowledges the faith already alive in consciousness and speaks the word that corresponds to the healed state: Stand upright. The instant the command is released, the inner state takes form as outward movement. Healing thus is not a miracle separate from you, but the translation of inner certainty into outward experience. Your I AM, your awareness, is the healer; imagination is the instrument by which you converse with that I AM and compel it to express as reality. Therefore, healing occurs when you revise your inner picture with certainty, see the end as already accomplished, and feel it as present. Stand upright is the definitive act you give to your inner self, and your body mirrors the decree as movement and life.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine the cripple standing and walking now. Feel the energy as a present reality and softly affirm, 'I stand upright in God' until it feels true.