Voice to the Inner LORD
Psalms 142:1-2 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Psalms 142 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The psalm records one who cries out to the Lord, voicing a plea and pouring out trouble before the divine presence.
Neville's Inner Vision
In your inner hearing, the 'LORD' is the I AM that you are, the consciousness to which you address your request. The speaker's 'crying with the voice' is the awakening of attention—an insistence that you desire something now. When you say 'I made my supplication' you are not petitioning an external deity, you are placing a boundary in your own mind and commanding the law to respond. The act of pouring out the complaint is not to dwell in trouble, but to bring it fully before the I AM so its power to shape experience dissolves. The next line, 'I shewed before him my trouble', indicates you face the dream to the light of awareness. In Neville-fashion, you revise the scene by assuming the finished state, feeling its reality as present. Your own consciousness, when aligned with the wish fulfilled, will reorganize the inner impressions and yield new outward conditions. The practice is to keep speaking from the end, letting the feeling of 'it is done' saturate your being.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and speak the finished state in the present tense. Revise the inner scene to relief and feel it as real.
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