Prophet's Prayer, City Salvation
Genesis 20:7 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Genesis 20 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Abimelech is commanded to restore Abraham’s wife because Abraham is a prophet who will pray for them; if he does, the king and his people will live; if not, they will die.
Neville's Inner Vision
Genesis 20:7 unfolds as a psychological tract: the 'man' and his 'wife' are not two strangers but your inner state in covenant. Abraham represents a higher self—a prophet within— whose word, when spoken in imagination, has power to contact and correct the outer condition. Abimelech’s threat is not a future sentence but a reflection of your current belief about separation. Restore the wife to the man and you restore wholeness to the mind that believes in division. The instruction to pray for thee means to allow your inner state (the prophet) to intercede in the scene you are living. When you make that intercession strong in imagination, you invite life to flow back into the garden; fear dissolves, and you discover your own life is held by the I AM. If you refuse to align, you are declaring death to self and others—the dream ends in the sense-world you fear. The promise is conditional on your vigilance: your inner prophet can turn judgment into mercy when you hold the vision of unity and pray from that state. The act of prayer is not petition to an external deity but alignment with your own God-consciousness.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and assume the inner prophet is awake within you. State, 'I restore wholeness to this situation; the inner intercessor prays and the outer scene lines up with it,' and then feel the atmosphere shift.
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