Priesthood of the Lord: Inner Covenant
Isaiah 61:6-8 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Isaiah 61 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Isaiah 61:6–8 speaks of being named priests and ministers of God, receiving abundance, double in place of shame, and enduring joy as the Lord directs truth and secures an everlasting covenant. It emphasizes inner transformation through judgment and covenantal alignment with God.
Neville's Inner Vision
Take the text as a map of your inner life. You are not being told to seek priestly status in a distant temple, but to awaken to the I AM that you are. When you declare yourself priest of the LORD and minister to your God, you are naming a state of consciousness in which your thoughts serve the One Power within. The riches of the Gentiles become the riches of mind—the abundance that flows when you align daily choices with divine law. Your shame gives way to double joy; for every moment of lack, there is a matched abundance in the inner stream, a double portion allotted to the aware heart. The LORD loves judgment, meaning true inner discernment, and hates robbery of burnt offerings, meaning no claiming of truth while living in contradiction. He will direct their work in truth and make an everlasting covenant with them—so your inner work is ordered by truth and sealed by a living covenant you renew within. This is not external ritual; it is the awakening of I AM to itself as priest, king, and heir.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: In a quiet moment, assume you are the LORD's priest now and revise lack into abundance. Feel the double joy as a constant inner current, and affirm I am the LORD's priest, my work is guided by truth and sealed by an inner everlasting covenant.
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