Rebuild Your Inner Jerusalem

Nehemiah 2:17-20 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Nehemiah 2 in context

Scripture Focus

17Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
18Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.
19But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
20Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 2:17-20

Biblical Context

Jerusalem's ruin is the inner state needing renewal. With God's hand and the king's word supporting him, Nehemiah inspires the people to rise and build, while opposition tests resolve, and the God of heaven promises prosperity.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the story, Jerusalem's ruin is not a city with stones but a state of consciousness you are willing to transform. The call, Come, and let us build, is your invitation to change your inner environment by an act of imagination. The hand of my God upon me is the felt sense of infinite support guiding every imaginative move; the king's words are the inner authority that validates you have permission to begin. When Sanballat and the others mock, that scorn is the old doubt asking, What is this thing you do? Will you rebel against your limitations? Answer with the confession, The God of heaven will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build. The wall you build is your boundary, your program of inner order that prevents your life from lying in reproach. They have no portion here because you are no longer ruled by the external proof but by the I AM within. Your new state comes by feeling it real, by persisting in the inward decree until the outward world aligns.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine the inner wall rising around your life, feel the I AM support steady and sure, and declare, The God of heaven prospers me; I arise and build, until the feeling is real.

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