Gibeon’s Plea, Inner Deliverance
Joshua 10:6 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Joshua 10 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The men of Gibeon plead with Joshua for swift aid against the Amorite kings. It highlights urgent reliance on leadership and deliverance.
Neville's Inner Vision
Joshua 10:6 becomes a map of inner expectancy. The request 'Slack not thy hand... come up to us quickly' is not a geography of camp and hills; it is the cry of your I AM awakening to deliverance from a state of fear. The 'kings of the Amorites' are not external rulers but the many elevated stories in your mind that claim control from the mountains of subconscious habit. When the Gibeonites press Joshua - your higher self - to arise, you are being invited to shift your allegiance from limitation to the presence of God that is already within. The 'camp at Gilgal' is the guaranteed rest in Spirit, a turning toward awareness itself, where assistance is imminent because it is your own consciousness stepping into wholeness. The scene asks you to feel as if the rescue has already occurred, preserving loyalty to the inner covenant that you are one with the I AM, and that the apparent crisis is simply a dynamic move within consciousness toward harmony and victory.
Practice This Now
Imagine you are the deliverer already arrived; repeat to yourself, I AM here; and feel the relief as if rescue has already occurred.
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