Inner Counsel to Turn From Evil

Neville's Inner Vision

In this oracle, the 'counsel' is your inner state of consciousness where the I AM speaks. The prophets who speak for God are not judges of others but the man or woman who chooses to live from the inner word. If you had stood in that counsel—if you had listened to the living words arising from your own I AM—you would have turned your people from the 'evil way' and the 'evil of their doings.' In Neville's terms, the evil is the habit of a state: fear, limitation, doubt, or condemnation. When you hear the inner word and allow it to govern thought, feeling, and imagination, you align with truth and its promise. The turning is not a command from outside but a conversion of your inner weather: a shift in imagination that dissolves old scenes and replaces them with the felt reality of your good. The 'prophecy' in this verse becomes your present possibility: obedience to the inner voice yields outward harmony. The faithful life is the consistent practice of hearing and responding to the inner voice until the outer becomes a consistent image of that inner truth.