Inner Deliverer of Jerusalem
Isaiah 36:20 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Isaiah 36 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse poses a rhetorical question: none of the nations' gods can save their land from the LORD, and Jerusalem's deliverance rests in Yahweh's hand.
Neville's Inner Vision
Think of the names on the page as ministries of your own mind. The 'gods of these lands' signify the outward conditions you have trusted to save you—wealth, status, approval, even fear itself. Yet the voice asks: where are their hands when the LORD delivers Jerusalem from my hand? In Neville's manner, the deliverer is not an external power but the I AM that you are conscious of. Jerusalem stands for your inner state of peace, safety, and right order; its rescue comes not by pleading with idols but by reinterpreting every circumstance as a sign of your own I AM presence answering to your awareness. When you believe that some god can deliver you, you arm that belief with your attention; when you withdraw attention and align with the I AM, the sense of siege dissolves, and the city is delivered from within. Your faith is the hand that works; your awareness is the army that quiets fear and orderlessness. The question becomes the invitation to awaken to the one deliverer you already are—your I AM.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Assume the I AM is delivering you now. Feel the inner peace as already accomplished and refuse any reliance on outward idols.
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