Inner Rule of I Am

Ecclesiastes 8:8-9 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 8 in context

Scripture Focus

8There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
9All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
Ecclesiastes 8:8-9

Biblical Context

Ecclesiastes 8:8-9 asserts that no one can truly control the spirit or escape death, and there are times when one person’s rule over another brings hurt to all involved.

Neville's Inner Vision

All exterior power and the fear of death are but echoes of your inner state. The verse says no man has real power to retain the spirit; death comes to all, and war has no discharge—unless you wake to the truth that you are the I AM, the sovereign observer who imagines and thus creates. When you insist on separating yourself from the life within, you experience a world where another seems to rule you, often to your own hurt. But the remedy is to assume the living reality of your own unity with the I AM: imagine the end from the beginning, feel the already fulfilled state of harmony, and dwell in that awareness until it becomes your immediate perception. As you revise the inner picture, the outer events align with your inner decree, and the impression of subjugation dissolves into effortless dominion.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, adopt the feeling of the I AM as your permanent governor, and for five minutes declare, 'I am the sovereign creator of my life.' Then carry that sense into the day.

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