The First Dough Heave: Inner Offering
Numbers 15:19-21 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Numbers 15 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
When you eat the bread of the land, you shall offer a heave offering to the LORD; you shall bring a cake of the first dough as an heave offering, and this practice should be kept for generations.
Neville's Inner Vision
Within you, the I AM is the source of every supply. The bread of the land represents your life-sustaining thoughts and sensations. The heave offering is your act of return, a conscious offering back to the source as you live from your inner abundance. When you eat, you don’t merely consume; you acknowledge that all you have comes from the one life within you and you place a portion of that life back into the divine economy by an act of imagination. The cake of the first dough is the first thought of any moment—the seed you plant for what follows. Offer it as the finest of your inward dough, not out of duty but as a natural language of gratitude and trust, as you would the threshing-floor offering. By heaving it, you align your daily practice with obedience and faithfulness: generosity begins in your inner life. And the phrase 'in your generations' invites you to make this a lasting, living habit—so your inner sanctuary stays responsive to the I AM across time.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: in a moment of calm, see yourself holding the first piece of bread as a symbol of your initial thought. freely offer it back to the LORD within you, feel the gratitude and sense of abundance as if the exchange is already complete.
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