Inner Conquest in Judges 1:29-31

Neville's Inner Vision

Judges 1:29-31 presents your inner geography as a landscape where old habits and desires still inhabit the land. Ephraim, Zebulun, and Asher fail to drive out the Canaanites, letting them dwell among Gezer, Kitron, and Accho and even become tributaries to those lingering loyalties. In Neville’s psychology, the land is your present state of consciousness and the inhabitants are your persistent beliefs and appetites. Not driving them out means the I AM has not yet assumed full sovereignty over that land. The scene is not a condemnation but a map: it tells you where inner conquest is needed. When you remember that the I AM governs all, you can revise these inner dispositions by imagining a single, sovereign state. As you align with that God-state, the Canaanites lose power, the tributaries dissolve, and the inner land becomes Gezer emptied, a dwelling place for the Presence. The moment you claim the I AM as ruler, your life flows in harmony with divine rule.