Neville Goddard on Joshua 14:6-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Joshua 14 in context

Scripture Focus

6Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.

7Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.

8Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

9And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.

10And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

11As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.

12Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.

Joshua 14:6-12

Biblical Context

Caleb reminds Joshua that the promise is secured by faithful alignment with the Lord, and strength follows from wholly following God. The long wilderness years become evidence that inner trust, not circumstance, sustains outward victory.

Neville's Inner Vision

Caleb steps forward from Gilgal as a man who knows the promise is not carried on tablets of stone but registered in his own state of consciousness. The forty years are the rhythms of doubt that recede when the I AM asserts itself; the mountain is simply the next inner elevation awaiting possession. When he says he wholly followed the LORD his God, he names an inner alignment, a fidelity of attention that keeps fear from ruling. The fear of the Anakims dissolves only when the mind dwells in the truth that the land already belongs to the conqueror who lives in God. The blessing of life kept him alive those years, showing that persistence in imagination yields outward form. Therefore, the phrase, 'If the LORD will be with me,' translates to 'With my I AM present, I shall drive out limitation.' The inheritance, the mountain, and the victory are all attested within the state of consciousness that refuses to doubt its own reality.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine you are Caleb at Gilgal, receiving the word; feel your feet on the mountain; declare, With the I AM as my strength, I drive out fear and claim the promised land now.