Inner Thanksgiving Sacrifice
Amos 4:5 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Amos 4 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Amos 4:5 urges offerings of thanksgiving with leaven and the giving of freewill offerings. It marks a contrast between outward ritual and true inner worship.
Neville's Inner Vision
Beloved, Amos 4:5 speaks from the inner temple of your being. The leaven you are told to use in a sacrifice of thanksgiving is a symbol of your mixed state—habit, pride, and fear sneaking into your gratitude; when you allow such inner yeast to linger, the outward offering loses its power. Yet the call to proclaim and publish free offerings is not a mandate for display, but a summons to align your outer life with the wealth already within your consciousness. Your true worship is a conversion of the mind: you must revise the condition of your inner state until gratitude flows freely and without motive. The Lord GOD, the inner I AM, desires that your generosity spring from abundance rather than obligation; by assuming you are already the one who gives with joy, you feel it real, and your surrounding events shift to match that assumption. So step into the practice: claim the gratitude that is never apart from you, and let every act of giving be the natural expression of your inner abundance.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and assume the grateful state as already yours, feeling it real as you give freely in imagination. Revise any mixed motive until your acts of generosity are effortless expressions of that inner Thanksgiving.
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