Psalm 54:4-7 Inner Helper

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture the I AM within you as the psalmist’s God helper made personal. When you declare Behold, God is mine helper and the Lord is with them that uphold my soul, you are affirming that awareness itself upholds your life. The enemies in the text are not persons but conditions of fear, lack, and limitation that appear in consciousness; you cut them off in thy truth by refusing to identify with their claim and by aligning with the unchanging reality that you are divine awareness. The line I will freely sacrifice unto thee, I will praise thy name becomes a discipline of imagining praise as your present condition, a feeling-state in which good is already true. As you persist, the promise that he hath delivered me out of all trouble shifts from future hope to present awareness, and your eye—your inner sight—sees his desire upon mine enemies, meaning you perceive the outcome already accomplished within your mind. Thus deliverance is the conversion of mental scenery: a shift from trouble to a trusted, uplifted state of being. Your practice is to dwell there, letting the imagination rule your scenes until what you affirm becomes your lived experience.