Goshen Within: Inner Shepherding
Genesis 47:3-4 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Genesis 47 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Pharaoh asks what you do; they identify as shepherds and request permission to settle in Goshen because of famine in Canaan. The passage frames occupation and place as a statement of inner condition and hopeful refuge.
Neville's Inner Vision
To Neville Goddard, the scene is not about geography but about your inner state. Pharaoh's question represents the outer mind demanding a role; the answer 'we are shepherds' signals a conscious vocation — tending inner flocks and lines of growth rather than bowing to famine. The famine stands for a lack of awareness, the sense that supply is far away. The request to dwell in Goshen becomes a declaration of an inner pasture, a place within where life can flourish despite outer appearances. Exile and return unfold as inner movements: leaving the mind's old land of scarcity while carrying faith into a cultivation of abundance. Providence and Guidance operate as the I AM, the inner governor who arranges pasture and settlement wherever consciousness rests. When you identify with this shepherd state and acknowledge lineage of faith, your work shifts from chasing external supply to tending an inner landscape that sustains you. The outer famine yields to your inner governance the moment you align with the I AM and choose Goshen as your home.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Assume you are the shepherd of your inner pasture and revise lack as a misalignment of consciousness. Feel it real that Goshen is already yours within, and stay there in quiet assurance.
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