Neville Goddard on Acts 4:15-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 4 in context

Scripture Focus

15But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,

16Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.

17But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.

Acts 4:15-17

Biblical Context

The authorities pull the two apostles aside, noting a notable miracle and debating what to do; they fear its spread and threaten them to stop speaking in this name.

Neville's Inner Vision

Acts 4:15-17 is a drama of the mind. The 'notable miracle' is the inner certainty that you are already united with a power greater than opinion. The council that commands them to go aside is the habit of separation—your old self trying to confine a new state. Their question, 'What shall we do?' is the mind asking how to preserve fear while an awakening persists. The threat to 'speak henceforth to no man in this name' is the impulse to mute the voice that says 'I AM.' But miracles, in Neville's sense, are states of consciousness you cannot deny once you have assumed them. The moment you acknowledge 'I am that power,' the external voices lose their grip. From the I AM, you speak freely, and what you speak becomes your world. So revise: see yourself already in the name of Truth, and let the world align with your inner affirmed commonwealth.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and assume the feeling, 'I AM the power by which I speak truth now.' Hold that certainty for a minute, then move through your day as if the inner state has already shaped outward reality.