Inner Authority Over Spirits

Acts 16:18 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Acts 16 in context

Scripture Focus

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 16:18

Biblical Context

Paul is grieved by the girl's possession. He commands the spirit to come out in the name of Jesus Christ, and it leaves at that moment.

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, this scene translates into a drama within the consciousness. The girl is the outward sign of a fixed mental state—habit, craving, or story you tell yourself as 'I am this.' Paul’s grief is not pity alone but the Tuning of attention, a turning toward the inner reality where you are aware. When he says I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her, he is not invoking a person apart from him; he is affirming the I AM as the sovereign cause. The 'Jesus Christ' represents your living, unified awareness, the power by which you name and release what no longer serves. The spirit leaving 'the same hour' signals that once the inner state is corrected, the outer disturbance dissolves with immediate clarity. Through this, deliverance and liberation occur as a revision of your inner atmosphere—from fear, greed, or limitation to the freedom of an unbounded I AM. The act is an inner act of faith, trust, and consistent assumption that you are always king in your own kingdom.

Practice This Now

One-minute practice: the moment agitation arises, close your eyes, center in the I AM, and say inwardly, I command this limiting thought to depart in the name of the I AM. Feel it real by imagining the belief dissolving into light.

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