Neville Goddard on Joshua 14:9-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Joshua 14 in context

Scripture Focus

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 14:9-12

Biblical Context

Caleb is promised the land for following the LORD. Even at eighty-five, he declares he is as strong as ever and asks for the mountain, trusting the Lord to give him victory.

Neville's Inner Vision

Caleb’s ascent is a map of the inner man, where the land you tread is your current state of consciousness. When Joshua notes that Caleb's feet trod the ground, I hear the whisper of a fixed image you have repeated in the sanctuary of your mind: that you fully followed the LORD MY God—the I AM within you. The covenant is not a far-off contract but the recognition that your I AM is present, and with it comes an inheritance of possibilities you have refused to leave unclaimed. The Anakims—fears and doubts—fall only where your awareness remains unwavering. The forty-five years of wandering mark the long patience of imagination, not mortality; your strength today is the same clear force you knew in youth because it is your I AM, not a body’s measure. When Caleb says, 'If the LORD will be with me,' he reveals the secret: the power you seek is already with you as the I AM. The mountain you crave is a state of being you decree into actuality by continued assumption.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, stand on the inner mountain, and repeat, 'The land is mine because I wholly followed the I AM of my being.' Feel the strength and victory as present reality.