Inner Labor, Divine Power
Colossians 1:29 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Colossians 1 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse speaks of laboring with a power beyond human effort, driven by the divine working active within the believer. It reframes struggle as cooperation with God’s action inside.
Neville's Inner Vision
Beloved, Colossians 1:29 speaks of labor drawn from the I AM at work within you. The labor you undertake is not mere toil but a deliberate alignment with a divine current already circulating in your life. When you dwell consciously in the feeling that this power is active now, your striving ceases to be strain and becomes collaboration with God expressing through you. The phrase 'which worketh in me mightily' declares that the infinite energy is not external to your experience but resident in you as your own awareness. Your task is to assume the state of the wish fulfilled; to revise any picture of limitation until your inner sense registers the truth: God is operating in me right now. Such faithful assumption reshapes both inner and outer life, for imagination, rightly dwelt upon, creates reality. Trust this process; your perseverance is simply the discipline of remaining awake to the power that animates every movement.
Practice This Now
Practice: Close your eyes, and silently affirm 'The I AM in me labors with divine power right now.' Then revise a current limitation by stating, 'This limitation is dissolved by God's working in me; I am already the lively expression of that power.'
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