Prayer Amid Betrayal Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner world is the stage on which this psalm plays. When you say 'for my love they are my adversaries,' you are naming a counterstate within you that opposes your highest loving nature. The remedy is not to fight the adversaries, but to return to prayer—an inner act of imagination in which you assume the state that you actually desire. Give yourself unto prayer means to dwell in the I AM until the feeling of being attended, protected, and justified replaces fear or accusation. The line about setting a wicked man over him and Satan at his right hand is not a command to battle others, but a script of the inner drama: you observe the thought-forms that arise to challenge your love and you refuse to let them govern you. You invite the right-hand seat of your mind to be occupied by the truth of your unity with God, not by judgment or harm. Persist in this inward petition, and your outer world will echo the sovereignty you have claimed within.