Inner Fasting, Inner Temptation
Luke 4:2 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Luke 4 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Luke 4:2 depicts Jesus fasting for forty days and facing temptation, ending with hunger. In Neville's view, this episode is an inner drama showing how consciousness can revise itself away from lack.
Neville's Inner Vision
Forty days of fasting become an inner time of testing; the devil is the inner habit of doubt that rises within your own consciousness. The fasting is not deprivation but a clearing of the mind’s clutter that says, ‘I am lacking.’ Each day asks: do you trust that the supply is always present as the I AM? When the days end and hunger comes, the hunger signals you to revise your assumptions about self and world. The inner reality remains untouched by sense appearances. The true temptation is to identify with the body’s need rather than the I AM that sustains all. In this light, obedience and faithfulness are steady attention to the inner state, not outward proof. The forty days become a discipline birthing trust and hope for a future formed in consciousness. The event reveals a state of awareness, not a fact of possession. The I AM is the source; hunger is an invitation to re-center in that reality.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Sit quietly, rest in the I AM, and declare, 'I am wholly supplied now,' and feel that reality until hunger fades into inner quiet.
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