Inner Deliverance From Divination
Acts 16:16-18 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Acts 16 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Acts 16:16–18 recounts a damsel with a spirit of divination who proclaims the salvation message while Paul confronts the inner power and frees her. The event points to an inner warfare over perception and authority, where true deliverance comes by recognizing the I AM within.
Neville's Inner Vision
All events are states of consciousness. The girl’s spirit of divination is not a demon from without but a stubborn tendency within you to seek power through appearances and signs, a habit that profits from other hopes. The 'masters' represent inner voices that value gain over truth by trading in forecasts. Paul’s act—'I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her'—is the decisive inner confession that the Christ within has authority over every belief that pretends to govern your life. When you align with the I AM and refuse to identify with the need to predict life, the old state dissolves. The shift happens not because an external event occurred, but because you embraced a single act of inner assumption: you are the one power, the Christ, and you stand over every rumor of lack, fate, or fortune-telling. The hour of emancipation arrives as soon as you acknowledge your inner salvation, and the outward scene reflects the inward triumph. This is salvation as experiential realization here and now.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Sit in stillness, affirm 'I am the I AM' and picture the divination spirit dissolving into light and vanishing. Then revise the belief by declaring, 'From this moment, I am guided by inner wisdom, not by outward signs.'
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