Calling Upon Inner Praise

Neville's Inner Vision

Psychologically, Psalms 18:3 reveals that the Lord is not an external deity but the I AM within you, the very awareness you call upon. The enemies mentioned are internal states—fear, doubt, and limitation—whose power wanes as you fix your attention on the living presence you honor with praise. To call upon the Lord is to align your consciousness with its nobility; to praise is to confirm the worthiness of that awareness and the certainty of your saving power. When you repeat the act in imagination, you do not seek rescue from afar; you authorize your own state of salvation by dwelling in appreciation, gratitude, and the felt assurance that you are already in the presence of the One who saves. Thus the verse becomes a practical method: raise your inner Lord, maintain the mood of praise, and the circumstances bow to your inner alignment. Your enemies dissolve not by force, but by the quiet conviction that you are the I AM in action, and thus already saved.