Inner Counsel Establishes Purpose
Proverbs 20:18 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Proverbs 20 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Purpose is formed by inner counsel. With wise advice you align your plan and move with decisive action.
Neville's Inner Vision
Every purpose you entertain is not a mere whim but a state of consciousness seeking form. 'Counsel' is the inner conversation of the I AM, the calm, wise adviser within you. When you invite that counsel, you align with a plan that already exists in the invisible as a completed thing. What you call 'wars' are the honest battles with doubt, fatigue, and fear—wars you win by seeing from the end: the plan fully established in your mind's eye. The verse teaches discernment: seek good counsel, choose a course that rings true, and then move, not by force, but by the inevitability of inner conviction. Your imagination is the war-room where strategies are drawn, where a desired result is rehearsed until it feels inevitable. In such a frame, you are not pleading for outcomes; you are assenting to a reality already present in consciousness. The state you inhabit becomes the world you experience; the outer requires no coercion, only faithful alignment with inner counsel.
Practice This Now
Sit quietly and ask your I AM for the counsel you need for your current aim. Hear the inner answer, then revise your mental state until it feels already real; proceed as if the plan is established.
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