Turned Captivity Through Prayer
Job 42:10-11 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Job 42 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Job's captivity ends when he prays for his friends. He is blessed with twice as much as before, and his community returns to comfort him with gifts.
Neville's Inner Vision
Imagine Job as your own I AM, the steadfast awareness that never leaves its center. The 'friends' and 'brethren' are your inner states—grievance, fear, doubt—that seem to hold you in captivity. When you lift them through intercession, when you pray as if blessing them, you shift your inner climate. In that moment the one God, your I AM, turns the captivity, and you find yourself blessed with twice what you had before—the doubling of life, energy, and peace—because you have moved into a state that is already resolved. The visitors who come with bread and gold are not strangers; they are the visible signs of your new atmosphere of grace. They reflect the abundance you now inhabit by consent. This is Providence: not a distant mercy, but your own consciousness practicing mercy, and mercy returns to you in forms, relationships, and resources. Practice intercession now, and notice how your inner door opens to communion, restoration, and the assurance that you are never separated from your own abundant life.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: Sit in stillness and imagine you have already blessed your friends in consciousness; feel the relief and abundance returning to you now. Then revise any lingering grievance into gratitude, and observe the outer signs of blessing appearing.
The Bible Through Neville










Neville Bible Sparks









