Inner Casting Out Luke 9:39-40
Luke 9:39-40 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
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Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Luke 9:39-40 shows a boy seized by a violent spirit; the disciples cannot cast it out. This reveals that outer effort alone cannot overcome inner turmoil.
Neville's Inner Vision
Here the 'spirit' is a stubborn pattern of thought, a fever of fear that grips the life you believe you are. The boy’s convulsions and cries symbolize the mind’s storms when a belief is pressed into action. The disciples' failure to cast it out marks the impotence of effort grounded in mere technique; without inner alignment, you cannot command what you do not yet own as truth. The healing comes when you recognize that the power to cast out is the I AM—the steady awareness within you that already knows freedom. When you turn from seeking help outside and awaken to the truth that you are the house of that power, the 'demon' loses its grip and the cry subsides. This is deliverance and liberation—not by another exorcism but by claiming your true nature. Faith, in this light, is trust in the inner state and the willingness to feel the healed condition as real. When you assume the truth of your wholeness, the manifested life follows the inner revision.
Practice This Now
Sit in stillness and assume the healed state now. Say, 'I AM the I AM; this limitation departs,' and feel the release until it becomes vivid.
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