The Shepherd Within
Psalms 23:1 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Psalms 23 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse states that the Lord leads and provides for me, so I lack nothing. It invites trust in that shepherding presence within.
Neville's Inner Vision
The psalm speaks not to an external deity far away but to the I AM that I am. The Lord as shepherd is the state of consciousness in which attention is guided, provision is felt, and lack disappears. When I dwell in that shepherding awareness, every thought moves in harmony with sufficiency; desires are not denied, but rearranged into present reality by the act of assumption. To say, 'I shall not want' is to rest in the truth that I am already attended by the divine, that my needs arise from alignment, not from seeking. The faithful shepherd is my inward ordering of perception—calm, purposeful, and ever-guiding. By assuming this state, I find green pastures and still waters within my own awareness, and abundance follows as a natural outgrowth of that settled I AM.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and declare, 'The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want,' as a present-tense fact. Feel the abundance arising from your I AM presence and revise any sense of lack until it is real in you.
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