Answering the Inner Prophet
Jeremiah 29:27 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Jeremiah 29 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse questions why the people have not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, who proclaims himself a prophet to them. It signals a call to discernment and personal accountability in recognizing genuine authority within one's own consciousness.
Neville's Inner Vision
Jeremiah’s charge becomes a map of your inner life. In Neville’s view, the man from Anathoth is a thought-form that asserts authority from without, a voice your attention has allowed to stand in the chamber of awareness. The question 'why hast thou not reproved' invites you to inspect the beliefs you entertain as true. Reproving him is not hostility toward a person but a declaration that your state of consciousness will not entertain a counterfeit voice. When you tolerate that external prophet, you consent to living from a dream you did not author; when you revise him, you choose a new image, a cleaner pattern of feeling and experience. The true prophecy is that you are the I AM, the authority that imagines and governs your world. The act of reproving becomes the act of refusing to identify with any voice that does not serve your highest state. You do not bow to outward prophets; you bow to the one within, whose word is I AM and whose law is alignment with truth, love, and discernment. Your accountability then releases the kingdom of inner wisdom into your present moment.
Practice This Now
Imaginatively, set a gatekeeper in your mind and declare, 'Only the I AM speaks here.' Then revise any voice that proclaims itself a prophet of fear or limitation by imagining it dissolving into light.
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