Neville Goddard on Luke 1:1-2 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Luke 1 in context

Scripture Focus

1Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

2Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

Luke 1:1-2

Biblical Context

Many have sought to present an orderly account of what is believed, handed down by eyewitnesses from the beginning who were ministers of the word.

Neville's Inner Vision

Luke’s opening is not history’s ledger but a map of consciousness. The 'many' who set forth in order are the circulating thoughts that cobble a belief system; the 'declaration' they bring is the picture your mind holds about what is most surely believed. The eyewitnesses from the beginning are the original states of awareness that stood as witnesses to the truth you now claim, and the ministers of the word are the habitual thoughts and expressions that carry that truth into your life. In Neville’s sense, all of this is inner, not outer. If you wish to change your life, you do not beg an external source for new facts; you revise the inner statements and allow your inner witnesses to testify to a different possibility. By recognizing that the entirety of your experience rests on the beliefs you accept as true, you can re-script your reality by choosing anew what you declare as fact. The verse invites you to become the writer and the witness, to trust your I AM as the origin of the declared truth, and to attend to the inner ministers who translate conviction into form.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Assume the declaration you seek is already written in your mind; close your eyes, repeat 'I AM the witness to the truth I declare,' and feel inner witnesses presenting a scroll of your desired outcome. Let that conviction rise as real in your chest and carry you into action.