Neville Goddard on Psalms 144:5-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 144 in context

Scripture Focus

5Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

6Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

7Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;

8Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Psalms 144:5-8

Biblical Context

The psalm asks for divine intervention against foes and overwhelming waters. Neville's reading reframes these as inner battles of belief, fear, and vanity that can be conquered by awakening consciousness.

Neville's Inner Vision

I see no external foe, only a mind that dances in belief. Bow thy heavens, O LORD, becomes the moment I bow my own sense of separation and invite the I AM to descend into the sky of my awareness. The mountains that smoke are the fixed opinions I have formed about myself—that I am small, vulnerable, bound by circumstance. When I consent to the presence here and now, these mountains smoke away, and the air clears. The lightning I cast forth is a sudden clear insistence of truth, a thought that scatters the illusion and scatters the remnants of fear. Arrows that destroy are the judgments that have kept me pacing in a circle; I shoot them with the conviction that thought creates form and that nothing stands outside my state of consciousness. Send thine hand from above; rid me, deliver me out of great waters—these waters are the tides of emotion—until a calm decision arises within me. The 'strange children' and their vanity and falsehood are the voices of doubt; I simply refuse to let them govern me, knowing I am one with the I AM.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the state of deliverance; feel the I AM lifting you above the waters, then declare 'I am delivered' until it becomes your immediate sense of fact.