Neville Goddard on Psalms 3:5-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 3 in context

Scripture Focus

5I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

6I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.

7Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

Psalms 3:5-7

Biblical Context

The psalm portrays laying down and waking up as acts of trust in divine sustenance. Fear is dissolved by the inner I AM that upholds.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the kingdom of your own consciousness, sleep and dawn are not mere physical states but movements of awareness. When you lay you down and sleep, you are surrendering to the sustaining act of I AM—your Godward self—until you awaken refreshed, for the LORD sustains you. The cry 'Arise, O LORD; save me' is the inner call to shift from fear to alignment; the many around you are not armies but thoughts vying for attention. You do not yield to them, for they are repeated sounds in the theater of mind, not powers. When you awaken, the enemies' teeth are broken by the conviction that you are one with the divine will; there is no separation between you and God. The 'smiting' and 'cheek bone' imagery becomes the inner breakthrough: limitation is disrupted as you persist in the awareness that I AM is the sole operator of your life. So your faith is not a petition but a revision of the state of consciousness—fermented by imagination—until deliverance is felt as present reality.

Practice This Now

Tonight, assume you are sustained by I AM and feel the body relax into that certainty. Before sleep, revise fear into trust and imagine deliverance as already completed.