Neville Goddard on James 5:16 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read James 5 in context

Scripture Focus

16Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

James 5:16

Biblical Context

James 5:16 urges confessing faults to one another and praying for one another so you may be healed. Earnest prayer from a righteous person has great power.

Neville's Inner Vision

James 5:16 invites you to confess faults to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed. In the Neville Goddard sense, the verse reveals an inner mechanism: confession is the turning of attention within your I AM, revealing what you truly accept about yourself. When you own a fault in conscious awareness, you loosen its grip by consenting to a higher truth within you. The 'effectual fervent prayer' is a focused state of consciousness—an intense, imaginative act that you hold as if the healing you seek is already yours. The 'righteous' posture is inner alignment with truth, not outward virtue; healing follows this inner change, not external judgment. So the practice is simple: arrest the old story, revise from the end, and feel the win of healing saturating your being. In such a moment, the apparent world rearranges to reflect the inner state.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and, in a single vivid scene, confess a current fault to your inner I AM or to a trusted inner companion; then revise by declaring, 'I am healed now,' and dwell in that feeling until it saturates you.