Inner Healing James 5:13-16
James 5:13-16 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read James 5 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
James 5:13-16 invites you to turn every mood—affliction, joy, and illness—into prayer and honest inner conversation; through faith and confession, healing and forgiveness are promised.
Neville's Inner Vision
Viewed through the inner lens, these verses reveal a law of consciousness: all conditions are states, not external happenings. Affliction arises when you identify with a story of lack; prayer is the act of turning your attention to the I AM within, the one power and presence. When you say Is any among you afflicted? let him pray, you are choosing to align with the source of life rather than with the problem. The sick and the oil symbolize the conscious anointing of awareness with clarity and truth, invoking healing by recognizing unity with God. The prayer of faith shall save the sick becomes the inner conviction that you already possess the healing you seek, and forgiveness follows as the release from guilt and error. Confessing faults one to another and praying for one another is your inner practice of shared awareness, dissolving separation. The fervent prayer of a righteous person is the sustained, heartfelt inner declaration that your true state is wholeness, and through that inner work healing manifests externally.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and declare, I AM the Lord who heals me now, and feel a warm light moving through your body.
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