Inner Temple Prosperity Revealed
Ezra 5:8 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Ezra 5 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse reports the temple is being built with substantial stones and timber, and that the construction progresses quickly with favorable results.
Neville's Inner Vision
Ezra 5:8 speaks of a temple rising in Judea, built with great stones and timber laid in the walls, and the work going fast and prospering in their hands. In Neville's language the 'great God' is the I AM within you—the conscious awareness that can bless, steady, and direct the whole project of life. The stones symbolize fixed states of mind—convictions you refuse to topple—while the timber represents the living energy of desire and sustained action that frames those beliefs into form. When you attend to that inner structure with steadiness, the outer conditions begin to respond with haste; the inner movement matches the rhythm of creation. The report to the king is your decision to allow your inner self to govern; the province of Judea is your day-to-day world where the temple appears as you persist in imagining the end from the end already known to be true. So the prosperity of the hands is the natural fruit of living in the awareness of God, with imagination, feeling, and steady inner intent.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and assume you stand before your inner temple, seeing great stones and timber in their rightful places; feel the work as fast and prosperous in your hands this moment.
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