Inner Appointments, Outer Growth
Acts 6:5-7 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Acts 6 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Acts 6:5-7 shows the community selecting seven men, including Stephen, who are full of faith and the Holy Ghost, and presenting them to the apostles for prayer and blessing. After the laying on of hands, the word of God grows and many followers, even priests, turn to the faith.
Neville's Inner Vision
Acts 6:5-7 unveils that the Church's expansion begins not with outward institutions, but with inward states. The choosing of Stephen and the others is the ordering of your inner faculties: faith, the Holy Ghost, and sensible discernment, all presented before the apostles—the I AM of your mind. When they prayed and laid hands, you are learning to honor a higher authority within, to concede to a stronger voltage of awareness. As you commit to these states, the word of God—the living truth in you—awakens and grows, not by clever plan but by inner alignment. The disciples multiply because your attention, once fixed on a real feeling of being already whole, invites outer circumstances to reflect that wholeness. Even priests, those who seemed opposed to the faith, become obedient; that is, the old resistance yields to the new conviction of your I AM. This is the mechanism: inner decree becomes outer form, and growth follows fidelity to a higher law within.
Practice This Now
Assume you are already surrounded by a council of faith, and feel the inner laying on of hands; dwell in the I AM until the sense of growth precedes outer results.
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