The Word Within Joel
Joel 1:1 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Joel 1 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Joel 1:1 tells us that God speaks a message to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
Neville's Inner Vision
Viewed through the Neville lens, the 'word of the LORD' is not a distant oracle but a living idea arising in the I AM within you. Joel is the portrait of a state of consciousness—a ready ear, a receptive heart—into which the divine Word enters. The coming of the Word signals the moment your attention turns inward and declares, 'I am here, and I am listening.' The 'son of Pethuel' names a particular mental posture, a discipline of observation, through which a new inner promise can be heard. In this reading, prophecy is not about future events cradled in history but about the present recognition that your thoughts, feelings, and assumptions are the very Word by which reality is formed. When you treat the word as a present, living reality in you, your outer world begins to register the shift: new possibilities, renewed faith, a mission of witness that flows from within.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Sit quietly, sense the Word speaking to you now within; revise a limiting belief by declaring, 'I AM the Word made flesh in my life,' and feel the reality of that presence as you breathe.
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