Inner Provision Through Famine

Psalms 105:16-17 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Psalms 105 in context

Scripture Focus

16Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
17He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
Psalms 105:16-17

Biblical Context

The passage describes God causing famine and sending Joseph ahead to prepare the way. It points to a divine rhythm where outer events reflect inner moves.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your life is a portrait of consciousness, not a record of random events. The famine in the psalm is the inner shortage that calls you to rearrange your entire state of being. The I AM within you, the living God of your awareness, orders the scene by thinning the old supply so a deeper supply can arise. The “sending of Joseph” is the inner messenger—the future-self who goes ahead in imagination, preparing the conditions for what you desire. When you identify with Joseph as the you who foresees, plans, and steward the coming abundance, providence ceases to be distant and becomes your immediate guidance. The famine is not punishment but a disciplined invitation to let go of attachments to external bread and to turn, in imagination, to the source within. By holding the assumption that the image has already happened—bread restored, staff renewed—you align your consciousness with the reality you seek. In this light, famine becomes a faithful sign of inner restructuring and Joseph a state of awareness that moves before you to establish the new order.

Practice This Now

Imagination practice: sit quietly and envision Joseph, your future self, stepping before you to prepare the way; then repeat the assumption 'I am provided for' until the feeling of sufficiency saturates your being.

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