Inner City Walls Renewed
Isaiah 36:1 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Isaiah 36 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
In Isaiah 36:1, Sennacherib defeats Judah's fortified cities in Hezekiah's fourteenth year. The verse records a decisive outward invasion.
Neville's Inner Vision
Viewed inwardly, the siege is a drama of your mind succumbing to fear and doubt. Judah represents the inner city—your organized, defended faculties of awareness that stand under the protection of I AM. Sennacherib is the loud, externalized thought that proclaims scarcity, lack, and loss. When you accept that invasion as real, the defenses yield, the walls fall, and the entire city is taken. Yet the verse does not bind you to the invasion; it invites a deeper memory: you are the I AM, king of your inner kingdom, and no outer vision can breach the realm you choose to inhabit. In practical terms, when fear appears as a formidable army, do not argue with it; imagine you have already conquered it by assuming its opposite. The fourteen-year mark signals a fixed state of consciousness. Shift that state now, feel the walls secure, and breathe as if the dream has already ended in victory. The invader dissolves the moment you inhabit the state of answered prayer.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: Sit quietly, close your eyes, and in your mind's city walls stand firm; declare, 'I AM the defender of this city,' and allow the feeling of security to flood you for 5 minutes. Then revisit the verse in imagination, imagining Sennacherib melting away before your inner certainty.
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