Jacob's Night-Wrestle Within
Genesis 32:24 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Genesis 32 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Jacob is left alone, and a mysterious figure wrestles with him until the day breaks. The scene signals an inner encounter that tests faith and births a new state of being.
Neville's Inner Vision
Jacob's lone hour is not a contest with a man, but a contest within consciousness. The 'wrestler' is the belief that you are separate from the I AM, and the night represents your solitary conditions in which this belief is challenged by the living Presence within. When you refuse to surrender to old names and narrations about yourself, you persevere in the knowing that you are the I AM—the same yesterday, today, and forever. The struggle lasts until the daybreak, not to defeat God, but to awaken to your true State; covenant loyalty is simply fidelity to the inner law that you are God in action in a body. So, in your imagination, stand with Jacob and repeat quietly: I am, I am, I am; let the 'man' be a symbol of your own thinking until you feel the dawn of realization. The moment of waking is a shift in consciousness, a new identity—Presence incarnate through you.
Practice This Now
Sit in quiet tonight and imagine you are truly alone with the I AM. Assume the feeling of your fulfilled state and declare I AM that I AM. Stay with the feeling until daybreak in your imagination.
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