Neville Goddard on Nehemiah 1:6-7 - 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.

7We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

Nehemiah 1:6-7

Biblical Context

Nehemiah prays and confesses the sins of Israel and his own family, acknowledging they have not kept God's commandments.

Neville's Inner Vision

Let us view Nehemiah 1:6-7 as a map of the inner laboratory. When he says 'Let thine ear be attentive,' he is inviting your awareness to listen to the whispered scripts of your own mind that have claimed separation from the Divine I AM. The confession 'we have sinned against thee, … both I and my father’s house' is not a plea to an external judge but an admission that a former state—habits, fears, and loyalties—has not kept the commandments of your true Self. In Neville's method, the people and the land are inner dispositions: obedience to the Law becomes obedience to the living I AM within, and 'the statutes and judgments' are the consistent patterns of awareness you nurture. To restore the covenant is to realign with your fundamental identity—structured not by guilt but by the certainty that you are ever-present, ever obedient to the inner law. Here, the prayer is a turning of attention from limitation to possibility, a shift from identification with scattered acts to the living, personal experience that your I AM is your only ruler. The scene invites you to claim that you and your house have become faithful, not by past acts, but by the present decision to live as the Law in action.

Practice This Now

Assume you are already living in obedience to the inner commandments; revise your memory to reflect present compliance, and feel the I AM affirming this alignment as real in your body and emotions.