Inner Belief and Shared Suffering
Philippians 1:29-30 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Philippians 1 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Philippians 1:29-30 says you are given both to believe in Christ and to suffer for his sake, sharing the same inner conflict Paul faced; this is an invitation to align your inner life with that reality.
Neville's Inner Vision
Within the phrase it is given unto you lies the key to all change: belief and suffering are not external impositions but inner states of your I AM. To believe on him and to suffer for his sake are two facets of the same conscious posture. The be half of Christ points to identifying with a Christ-consciousness that moves you when you choose to stand in that state. The conflict you saw in me becoming yours to hear now is the mirror of your mind in motion—your belief turning into endurance. When you revisit Paul’s constancy, you rehearse an inner discipline: faith that trusts appearances only as signs, and endurance that remains intact because the I AM is present. The conflict is not punishment but the awakening of your true alignment with divine consciousness. You are not striving to obtain these qualities; you are waking to them by revision, assumption, and feeling the state real here and now, as one with Paul’s experience and your own.
Practice This Now
Imaginative_act: Close your eyes and breathe three times; then assume the state of the I AM that both believes and endures. Silently revise any current trial as already resolved by that state, and feel it real now.
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