Neville Goddard on Psalms 109:21-24 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 109 in context

Scripture Focus

21But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

24My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

Psalms 109:21-24

Biblical Context

The psalm portrays a cry for deliverance, acknowledging poverty and a wounded heart, and describing distress as a shifting inner condition. It invites the reader to see need as a state of consciousness rather than an outer event.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the Psalmist's cry is your inner weather. When he says, deliver me for thy mercy's sake, he is awakening to the I AM you are conscious of, not petitioning a distant God. The 'poor and needy' and the 'heart wounded within' are inner beliefs about lack you have accepted as real. The phrases 'I am gone like the shadow' and 'tossed up and down as the locust' describe the restless movements of thought as old patterns fade. The fasting of knees and the fading of flesh point to the discipline of desire and the body's response to the mind's drift from truth. Your work is to revise these conditions by claiming that mercy is your essential nature and that deliverance is already present in the I AM you inhabit. By assuming the feeling of being already free, you engage the light within to cast out the shadow. Rest in the conviction: I AM delivered.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, breathe, and declare, I AM delivered. Then imagine the I AM as a bright, comforting sun enveloping you, and feel mercy weaving through every corner of your inner world until you rise in the truth of your own I AM.