Entering Inner Rest by Belief
Hebrews 3:19 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Hebrews 3 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The passage states they could not enter the rest because of unbelief; doubt blocked the state they might have entered through faith.
Neville's Inner Vision
Unbelief is not a distant failing but a state of consciousness that keeps the door shut to the rest God invites. In the inner tongue of this text, the 'rest' is the sustained awareness of I AM—the living I that imagines and completes every scene. They could not enter because their minds clung to lack and awaited external signs, rather than turning the inner light toward the assumption of already having what they sought. Your entry, like theirs, is an inner movement: a decisive revision of what you accept as real. When you stop arguing with your present limitations and align with the feeling of the wish fulfilled, you unlock the gate. The power is yours: you are the I AM, and imagination creates reality. By choosing to assume the state of rest now, you cast out doubt and commune with the divine within. The 'desert' becomes a classroom where belief is practiced until it becomes experience. You enter not by changing the world, but by changing your inner state to believe it as already done.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and assume you are already dwelling in the rest; feel it in your chest and declare, 'I AM rest in God now.'
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