Neville Goddard Lectures: “Teach Us to Pray”

Here is one with her husband. She is a minister, and he said to her, “Oh, wouldn’t it be wonderful if I had the church painted and new chandeliers!” Now he hasn’t her training. He’s a lovely fellow, a wonderful fellow, but a bit emotional. He can’t quite control that Imagination of his. He goes completely ___(??). But Holly can control it, so she said to him, “Now you tell me in your own way what you would tell me if it were painted and new chandeliers and all paid for.” That’s really what he wanted, all paid for. So he said to her, “Honey, isn’t it wonderful! The church is completely painted and we have new chandeliers and everything is paid for.” She said, “Within a matter of two months, Neville, we had the church painted, new chandeliers, and all was paid for…all on him.”

So here, this is an art. You can sit down and listen as though you heard. If you are very still it will become audible. When it becomes audible, do you know what it is in scripture? It’s the 3rd chapter of Exodus and the 6th of Isaiah, that when the vision breaks out into speech the presence of God is confirmed (verses 2, 8). Out of the burning bush that burned but consumed itself not came the voice “Moses, Moses,” and then the voice began to speak to Moses; then it was confirmed, the presence of God is confirmed. You can actually sit and listen as though you heard and what you are hearing is going to come to pass. Now you don’t see anything. You could…if you’re still enough you’ll see it. But if you will listen to something that’s implying a vision…if I heard a sentence, my mind may not be concentrated on what it implies as much as the actual sound. Or I might not move from the sound to what it implies. The potency is its implication. So what it’s implying you’re actually seeing, though it may not be objective to your vision. But if all of a sudden when you’re thinking about it you’re seeing it—as you think about it, if you hear the voice so that the sentence becomes audible—then the presence of God is confirmed.

Now, it doesn’t matter what the world thinks about it. If there is evidence for a thing, does it really matter what anyone thinks? If I can stand here now and listen as though I heard, and what I’m hearing has no external fact to support it, none whatsoever, well, then tomorrow or the day after or the immediate future it becomes an objective fact, does it really matter to me what the whole vast world will tell me about it? If they say, “Well, you’re insane,” alright, give praise for insanity of that nature. So here is a lady, she wanted this, she wanted that, and she got it. But if anyone does to you what this one tried to do to my friend Holly after she gets the ticket, from then on ignore them. They’ll stand on your feet forever, and they’ll use you as a flea uses a dog and live off you beyond that point, all the time begging you to hear things for them; and they will never, themselves, exercise the talent that God gave them.