Neville Goddard on Haggai 2:16 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Haggai 2 in context

Scripture Focus

16Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

Haggai 2:16

Biblical Context

The verse records a disparity between expected and actual yields, signaling a judgment or inner misalignment; it shows that outer shortages reflect inner states.

Neville's Inner Vision

These lines speak to your inner economy, not to a fated shortage. The apparent lack—twenty versus ten, fifty versus twenty—exposes your current state of consciousness. The heap and the pressfat are inner faculties: your imagination, your faith, your capacity to sustain a belief. The decline is not punishment but a call to audit where you have accepted limitation. To alter the scene, you do not wage war with outward numbers; you revise the inner assumption. Assume abundance as already yours, and feel it real now. In imagination, walk to the heap and see twenty transformed into the fullness you intend, then welcome fifty vessels drawn from the press as proof. The change is a return to covenant loyalty with the I AM—your true self who never lacks. Keep the inner conviction steady until it reflects in the outer yard. Your responsibility is inner faith and persistent feeling; the outer world must mirror the decision your I AM has already made.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes, revise the inner ledger to abundance—silently say, 'I am abundance now'—and envision drawing fifty vessels from the press, feeling the relief as if it already happened.