Neville Goddard on Nehemiah 1:6-9 - 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.

8Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:

9But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.

Nehemiah 1:6-9

Biblical Context

Nehemiah humbly faces God, confessing Israel’s sins along with his own and invoking the covenant promises. He states the possibility of judgment and the glorious invitation to turn back and be gathered unto the sacred place.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here, the verse is not a history lesson but an inner drama. The 'children of Israel' are states of consciousness within you; the sins are misalignments of attention from your I AM. When Nehemiah says, 'Let thine ear be attentive,' he is teaching you to become acutely aware of the inner movement: the moment you realize you have not kept your commandments, you can shift back into the divine. The 'If ye transgress, I will scatter' line reveals that scattering is the mind's drift away from its center. The remedy is described as turning unto Me and keeping the commandments—an inner alignment: a revision of your present state by assuming you are already aligned and obedient in your highest sense. God’s promise, 'I will gather them,' is your own inner unification: all parts of your being returning to the place where your name is kept, your authentic self. The prayer becomes your own inner prayer: declare that you are the one who confesses, repents, and returns in consciousness, and feel the reality of restoration now.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, breathe into the I AM, and silently declare: I turn back to my true center; I confess what no longer serves, and I feel every part of me gathered and restored as my consciousness now.