The First Dough Heave: Inner Offering

Numbers 15:19-21 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Numbers 15 in context

Scripture Focus

19Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
20Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.
21Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations.
Numbers 15:19-21

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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