Arise, Be Baptized, Call

Acts 22:16 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Acts 22 in context

Scripture Focus

16And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Acts 22:16

Biblical Context

The verse urges immediate action: stop tarrying, arise, be baptized, and wash away sins by calling on the name of the Lord.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville’s reading, you are not awaiting a distant ritual but awakening to your I AM. Baptism becomes the inner cleansing that occurs when you assume the feeling of forgiveness and refuse to identify with past states. The 'name of the Lord' is the inner recognition of the Lord as your own I AM—the awareness that you are God-in-man. When you call that name within, you align outer experience with your true state, and the sense of sin dissolves as you stop living from it. The sequence—arise, allow the baptism to occur in consciousness, wash away the past—signals a shift from waiting for change to assuming the state that makes change inevitable. Faith becomes trust in your imagining; forgiveness becomes your natural reference point because you have identified with a higher self that cannot be condemned. View the moment as your baptism and every thought as a call to the Lord within, restoring you to present, victorious consciousness.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Assume you are already washed by the inner baptism and call on the Lord within. Spend a few minutes feeling the I AM as your present, forgiving presence and then act from that state.

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