Neville Goddard on Isaiah 37:3-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 37 in context

Scripture Focus

3And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

4It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.

Isaiah 37:3-4

Biblical Context

Hezekiah faces a crisis and voices that this day is one of trouble and rebuke. He asks that God hear Rabshakeh’s reproach and spare the remnant left.

Neville's Inner Vision

On the surface, the king proclaims a day of trouble, rebuke, and blasphemy—a scene of outer threat. Yet the inner Israel, your inner life, experiences the same moment as a birth-pain of consciousness. Rabshakeh’s words are not a foreign army but the lingering voice of doubt whispering against your God-imaged I AM. When you read, 'lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left,' you are being told to turn attention from the problem to the thing that cannot be shaken: awareness, the presence that hears and answers. The 'living God' is not an external deity but your own awareness hearing its own decree. By assuming the posture of the I AM and revising the scene—declare that God has heard and that the remnant within you is safe—you cause the mental atmosphere to re-align. The battle ends where imagination ends; you tame the imagined army by choosing a new conviction. The unseen remnant, the fidelity of your inner life, rises into realization as you feel it real.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit quietly, assume the I AM now—'God hears my prayer.' Revise the verse as a present-tense scene: the threat dissolves, the remnant is safe, and your heart is at peace. Feel it real.