The Inner Temple Within
Acts 7:47 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Acts 7 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Solomon built a house for God, signaling an earthly temple as the dwelling place of the Divine. The story invites you to see the outer temple as a mirror of your inner willingness to honor Presence.
Neville's Inner Vision
Solomon’s house in Acts is not about bricks but the discipline by which a man submits to the I AM within. Solomon, the archetype of ordered imagination, did not erect a place for God to visit so much as demonstrate the act by which consciousness chooses a fixed state. The temple becomes a living mirror of your inner orientation: a sanctuary erected by focus, reverence, and the feeling that God is already dwelling within you. The Presence is not outside, waiting to be invited; it is the awareness by which you inhabit your thoughts. When you imagine a temple, you are naming and cementing the inner authority—the kingship of your own I AM—that supports a life aligned with the truth that God resides in you. The outward building in the story points to the inward structure you must cultivate: a continuous, faithful worship of the Self as God, rather than dependence on external stones. This verse invites you to let your inner temple be the sovereign center from which all perception and action arise.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes, breathe, and imagine standing before an inner temple. In that stillness say, 'I am the Presence within,' and feel as if you are placing a sacred stone in its wall—then dwell there for a moment and notice the inner shift.
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