Awakening the Inner Tabernacle
Exodus 40:2 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Exodus 40 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Exodus 40:2 commands the establishment of the tabernacle on the first day of the first month, initiating a sanctuary for worship.
Neville's Inner Vision
Think of the tabernacle not as a structure outside you but as the sanctuary of your own awareness. The 'first day' marks a fresh assumption in consciousness, and to 'set up' the tabernacle is to arrange your inner environment so the Presence of God can dwell. The tent of the congregation is the gathering of all your aspects—beliefs, passions, and intentions—united under the I AM. Holiness becomes the discipline of consecrating thought and feeling, a choosing of what remains inside your sacred space. Covenant loyalty means you honor this inner sanctuary daily, refusing to let fear or lack supplant true worship. When you imagine the sanctuary present, you live as if the divine dwells in you now. This is not ritual for its own sake but a practical alignment of consciousness with its eternal Source. As the inner temple takes form, you shift from wandering to settled, from scarcity to sufficiency, from mere thinking to worshipful being.
Practice This Now
Assume you have already set up the inner Tabernacle this moment; feel the Presence of God dwelling as the I AM. Sit for a moment and revise any lack into fullness, softly speaking: 'I am dwelling in the Presence now.'
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