Desire, Prayer, and the Inner Ask
James 4:2 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read James 4 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
James 4:2 says craving and conflict persist because you do not ask in prayer. Without a petition, you remain at odds with your own desires.
Neville's Inner Vision
James exposes the inner warfare born from a restless state of consciousness. Lust and the urge to possess are not external battles; they are internal attitudes that spring from a sense of lack. When you do not ask, you deny the very power that makes you one with the I AM. Your God is the I AM, and your imagination is the instrument through which reality is created. To end the struggle, return to the inner petition by assuming the end in present tense and feeling it as true. See the impulse to fight as a misdirected longing for wholeness and invite the feeling that what you seek is already yours. In that revised state, the apparent obstacles dissolve, and the outer world follows the inward conviction. You have not because you think you have not; revise that thought and watch your life align with your inner decree.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes, breathe into the feeling of the wish fulfilled, and silently declare: I am already the person who owns this now. Revise the lackful thought to 'I am asking, and the I AM answers; I am one with the I AM.'
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