Preservation and Healing in Psalm 41:2-3
Psalms 41:2-3 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Psalms 41 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse speaks of God preserving a person in illness, keeping him alive and blessed, and not delivered to enemies; it also promises strength during the bed of languishing.
Neville's Inner Vision
Here you discover that the I AM alone preserves and sustains you in the hour of illness. The LORD is not a distant power but your own state of consciousness—your awareness that you are kept alive, blessed on the earth, and not at the mercy of hostile appearances. Your bed of languishing is merely a mental condition that can be revisited by imagination; so long as you identify with the I AM, you stand free from the fear of enemies. In this interpretation, preservation and strength flow from within, as you dwell in the conviction that you are the living expression of divine vitality. The apparent adversaries symbolize limiting thoughts; they cannot prevail when you recognize the consciousness that makes them appear. As you persist in that recognition, the body and circumstances align with the inner decree: you are blessed, you are sustained, and every so-called sickness serves as a stage for renewed life. Thus the verse invites a radical revision of your state—seeing sickness as transient and your true nature as eternally preserved by the I AM.
Practice This Now
Imaginative_act: Close your eyes and declare, I am preserved by the I AM now. Visualize the bed of languishing dissolving into a dawn-lit bed of vitality, and feel the sustaining presence circulating through your body.
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