1941 · Neville Goddard

Your Faith Is Your Fortune

The Bible decoded chapter by chapter: every character is a state of your own consciousness, and I AM is the key to them all.

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Neville's longest early work is a sustained act of translation: story after story of scripture — the virgin birth, Moses, Elijah, Jericho, Gethsemane — reread as psychological drama happening inside you now. The characters are not people in history; they are states of consciousness, and the hero of every story is your own I AM.

The practical thread never drops: man can decree a thing and it will come to pass, the world is a mirror of self-conception, and your desires are the words of God spoken to you. If The Power of Awareness is the system, this is the scripture course that grounds it.

Key ideas

The Bible is your biography

Every story is a psychological drama of consciousness — not history but instruction. Reading it literally, in Neville's view, is how its power was lost.

Man decrees

"Man can decree a thing and it will come to pass" — and he always has: today's world is yesterday's decrees made visible. The teaching is not to start decreeing but to start decreeing consciously.

Leave the mirror alone

The world reflects your self-conception; fighting conditions is breaking the mirror to fix your face. Change the concept of self, and the reflection must follow.

Desires are God's words

Your deep desires are prophecies of what you are capable of being. Accept them as gifts — with thanks, not worthiness-tests.

The disciplines of the inner man

The twelve disciples are twelve qualities of mind to be trained — hearing, faith, judgment, and the rest — a psychological reading that turns doctrine into daily discipline.

Chapter by chapter

Chapters 1–2Before Abraham was, I AM: consciousness as the Word, and man's standing power to decree.
Chapters 3–5Truth that sets free: no masters above you — I AM is the Lord, and consciousness precedes every fact.
Chapters 6–9The world as self-reflection: consciousness objectifies itself, and the mirror cannot be fought — only the face changed.
Chapters 10–14Hearing, virgin birth, crucifixion and circumcision — the great symbols decoded as operations of consciousness.
Chapters 15–18The trinity as impressor and expression, prayer as spiritual union, and the twelve disciplined qualities of mind.
Chapters 19–22The ocean of light, Elijah and the widow, and the turn from problems to the desires that already contain their solutions.
Chapters 23–26The inner word, true clairvoyance as insight, Gethsemane as conscious creation, and Jericho — the desired state — taken from within.

Essential quotes

“Man can decree a thing and it will come to pass.”
— Your Faith Is Your Fortune — Chapter 2

“Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified.”
— Your Faith Is Your Fortune — Chapter 9

“Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself.”
— Your Faith Is Your Fortune — Chapter 9

“Look upon your desires as the spoken words of God and every word of prophecy of that which you are capable of being. Accept them as they come to you. Give thanks for them as though they were gifts.”
— Your Faith Is Your Fortune — Chapter 21

Practice what it teaches

Who this book is for: For readers drawn to Neville's scriptural side — and for anyone raised on the Bible who wants to see what it becomes when read from within.