Streams of Return and Joy

Neville's Inner Vision

Prophetically, this psalm is not asking God to do something out there, but to awaken an inner stream. Your captivity is a state of mind—a stubborn belief that you are cut off, barren, or hindered. When you imagine return as streams in the south, you are simply issuing a decree to your own awareness that a new flow of life is present. The verse tells you that sorrowful sowing is the very soil from which harvest arises; that is, your tears are not evidence of failure but of the soil loosening for growth. As you assume the feeling of your desired freedom, you align your inner weather with abundance; you are not seeking a future event, you are becoming the presence that makes it real. The I AM, God within, responds to the faithful assertion of your inner state. By dwelling in the feeling of being free now, you turn captivity back and let joy rise as the harvest.