Neville Goddard on Acts 26:4-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 26 in context

Scripture Focus

4My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;

5Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

6And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:

7Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.

Acts 26:4-7

Biblical Context

Paul speaks of his youth in Jerusalem and his life as a Pharisee, and he is on trial for the hope of the promise God gave to the fathers, a hope the twelve tribes eagerly await.

Neville's Inner Vision

Let the manner of life from youth be your starting state of self-awareness. Paul’s words invite you to recognize the inner discipline by which your consciousness has grown: the most straitest sect is the exacting, orderly mind you bring to the I AM. The hope of the promise then becomes not a distant future but the living expectancy of a covenant already present within you. When he says he is judged for that hope, hear it as your inner nature defending the vision you carry—the divine promise embedded in you from the fathers is not external but your own inner pledge ready to be realized now. The twelve tribes, serving God day and night, symbolize the steady attention you bring to inner truth. Your work is to remain faithful to this inner promise and to inhabit the conviction that the Kingdom—your full realization—exists as a state of consciousness you are already assuming.

Practice This Now

Assume a present-tense claim: I am the fulfillment of the promise now. Feel it as a rock-solid conviction and revise any sense of lack until it feels real in this moment.