Inner Deliverance From Divination

Acts 16:16-18 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Acts 16 in context

Scripture Focus

16And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
17The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.
18And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.
Acts 16:16-18

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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