Neville Goddard Lectures “God Only Acts”

01 Jan Neville Goddard Lectures “God Only Acts”

3/20/1964

Tonight’s subject is “God Only Acts.” You may be familiar with that statement from Blake, “God only acts and is in all existing beings or men.” We’re told that what is impossible to men is possible with God, if we can only find God; for what is impossible with us as men is possible with God. I am confident I can locate him for you right this night. And it’s very simple. There are unnumbered things that you and I can think of that are truly impossible with us, unnumbered things you can think of them. Now, could you imagine the thing that is to you impossible solved? Can’t you imagine it solved? Think of something that you cannot, I defy you to think of something that you cannot imagine. Think it over. And so you say, I can’t go because I haven’t a passport. I can’t go, say, to Russia. They wouldn’t allow me to go to Russia. I couldn’t get a passport. Can’t you imagine that you have a passport? Can’t you imagine that you’ve been to Russia and that you’re back? You may say, well, that’s a lie; there is no evidence to support that imaginal act. But can’t you imagine? Can you imagine it? Well, that’s God. That’s God in action.

If you can imagine, all I ask you do now is to hold God trustworthy. You’ve found him, you’ve found something that can imagine anything in this world, well, that’s God. For with him all things are possible, and with men there are unnumbered things that are not possible. So you found in yourself a power that makes everything possible. But all God intends from us is to accept the imaginal act with faith, that’s all. Faith is being loyal to unseen reality. You remember what you did, that’s an imaginal act. All it takes from us now is to be loyal to that imaginal act. For through faith we made all things. An imaginal act is one thing and that’s self-determining, that’s causative. Everything on the outside moves under compulsion, but everything, and no one really knows the unseen, hidden, causal act. Once in a while you can trace it…the individual may be able to trace it back to something that he did. But between the imaginal act and its unfoldment in the world, in this whole vast world, unnumbered things come out, all contributing. And much of it we condemn. We condemn this act and that act and that act, and harshly condemn it. But it all is moving towards the fulfillment, the bloom of what each in the Silence did back here. And yet we sit in judgment of all the unfolding picture of that act, right up to the bloom of the act.

Now let me share with you a story that was shared with me. About two weeks ago or three weeks ago I told you a story—it was unfinished, it wasn’t yet completed—about the lady who had carried this tremendous burden on her shoulders as it were for twenty-five years, and suddenly, that very day, it was washed out of her life, completely washed out. But I didn’t know the nature of the burden; it wasn’t yet told me; in fact, it wasn’t yet told him. He just wanted me to know, to encourage me to encourage you of this story. Well, this is the story. It’s all about his mother, who lives in St. Louis; that’s, maybe, 1,500 miles away. So take that in to consideration when you hear the story.