Inner Lament for Inner Princes

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Ezekiel's terse command, the princes are not men but the ruling ideas you accepted as your sovereignty—the fears, judgments, and self-justifications that have governed your inner Israel. To lament them is to acknowledge their tyranny and to refuse to identify with their power any longer. In the Neville Goddard sense, God is not out there but the I AM within, the ever-present awareness that makes all things real. When you hear 'take up a lamentation,' you awaken the dynamic of knowing you are not the thoughts that oppress you, but the wages of your own consciousness. The lament is not despair but a deliberate reversal: you begin to honor the inner prince as a symbol of a state you’ve outgrown, then invite a new ruler—the Kingdom of God within—into that place. The old rulers bow not by force but by your refusal to identify with them; your awareness now stands as judge, observer, and creator of your reality. The prophecy points to accountability: every inner movement you permit becomes your world. Your job is to hold the vision that the inner government shifts to fidelity to I AM, and the outer experience will follow.