Neville Goddard on Nehemiah 1:6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Nehemiah 1 in context

Scripture Focus

6Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.

Nehemiah 1:6

Biblical Context

Nehemiah appeals to God for attentive hearing and awareness, confessing the sins of Israel and his own family, and praying continuously for their restoration.

Neville's Inner Vision

Nehemiah’s words reveal a state of consciousness at the moment of God’s attention. 'Let thine ear be attentive' becomes a call to awaken the inner I AM, and 'eyes open' denotes the bright, active awareness that sees truth within. The sins confessed are not external guilt but misaligned thought forms held in the mind; 'we have sinned' signals a voluntary revision of inherited patterns—'my father's house' included. The cry to hear 'day and night' points to the continual practice of assumption, a persistence of mind until the desired state feels real. In Neville’s language, prayer is not a plea to a distant deity but the alignment of consciousness with its own truth: you are the I AM hearing your petition and orchestrating the conditions from within. When this inner revision is embraced, harmony, forgiveness, and restoration arise as natural expressions of the renewed inner order, because imagination governs reality and awareness is the divine agent of change.

Practice This Now

Practice: Sit in quiet, declare 'I AM attentive and open; I hear my inner prayer,' and hold that feeling until it becomes your automatic state; then revise a current condition by assuming harmony and letting the felt sense of restoration linger.