Neville Goddard on Colossians 4:12-13 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Colossians 4 in context

Scripture Focus

12Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

13For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.

Colossians 4:12-13

Biblical Context

Epaphras, a fellow believer, prays earnestly for the Colossians to be mature and fully aligned with God's will. Paul testifies that Epaphras has great zeal for them and for the churches in Laodicea and Hierapolis.

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through Neville’s lens, Epaphras is not a distant emissary but a vivid state of your own awareness—zeal, prayer, and steadfast allegiance to the divine order. The laboring fervently in prayers becomes your disciplined act of inner imagination, a continual raising of the inner image until the soul stands perfect and complete in the will of God. The phrase in all the will of God signals the moment when your consciousness ceases to resist and simply accepts the omnipresent law as your present circumstance. The zeal for you and for the churches shows that your inner state naturally reaches outward, embracing others as extensions of your inner harmony. Let Epaphras be the living reminder that faith is an active posture of attention, not a passive wish. When you treat this inner zeal as your daily practice, your mind rehearses the image of completion and obedience to divine intention, and your life follows the inward decree with increasing clarity and peace.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Assume the inner role of Epaphras, praying in consciousness for yourself and others, until you feel you stand complete in the will of God—and then dwell in that feeling as your immediate reality.