Neville Goddard on Psalms 40:13-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 40 in context

Scripture Focus

13Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

14Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

15Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

16Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

17But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

Psalms 40:13-17

Biblical Context

The psalm pleads for deliverance from pursuers and for those who seek God to rejoice in Him. It ends by affirming the speaker's poverty and God's attention as deliverer.

Neville's Inner Vision

Psalm 40:13-17, in Neville's voice, teaches that deliverance is a state of consciousness you utter into being. The cry 'Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me' is an act of assumption: I acknowledge the I AM as the one who thinks upon me and acts through me. 'Make haste to help me' becomes a decision to settle into the feeling of immediate support, right now. The images of those who seek my soul are merely fears arising to test my faith; as I refuse to entertain them as real, they are driven backward by the light of my inner awareness. 'Let all those that seek thee rejoice' translates into rejoicing within: as I love thy salvation, I say continually, 'The LORD be magnified' through every chosen thought. The line 'But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me' is the hinge: poverty there becomes recognition that lack is a doorway to the realization that the I AM is already supplying all. Thus, deliverance arrives as a present-tense experience of consciousness.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit in silence and assume, 'The Lord is my deliverer now,' feeling the inner support as real as breath. Repeat a short line from the verses—'The LORD be magnified'—until your sense of lack dissolves into calm, confident action.