Neville Goddard - Life Has A Purpose

Life has a purpose, and that is saying God has a purpose. You and I may have plans in conflict with God’s purpose and God allows it for a short while and you and I can realize our dreams but only within the framework of God’s plan. As we are told in the Book of Isaiah, the 14th chapter, the 24th verse, “The Lord has sworn: ‘As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.’” No one will thwart God’s plan, God’s purpose. God’s purpose is to give himself to us, individually, as though there were no others in the world, just God and you; ultimately, because the gift is complete, just you. That is God’s plan, that is God’s purpose, and he’s mapped the whole thing out for us in the Bible. The entire story he told us in the Old Testament; the New Testament is the fulfillment of God’s plan. Men will not believe this; even the hundreds of millions who claim themselves to be Christians do not fully grasp it, if they do at all understand it. Well, it is his plan; it is his purpose. Tonight, it is my desire to share with you what I have experienced concerning God’s plan. Night after night, I want to share with you the joy of a change in imagining, really. If I could take you with me and persuade you to believe that you are already the one that you want to be and that you could really believe that you really are and remain loyal to such an assumption that you really are the man, the woman, that you want to be, I know from experience that you would become it. I trust you will do it just as we are told in scripture within the framework of his purpose. You will not try to influence me, influence the other, but you will do it just as we’re told in scripture, to alert him that I am what I want to be, and do nothing about it, just live in it just as though it were true; and I, in a way I do not consciously know, I will become it. That I know from experience.