Confounding Adversaries Within
Psalms 83:17 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Psalms 83 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Plainly, the verse requests that adversaries be confounded, troubled, shamed, and perish. It presents a sense of divine judgment directed at opposition.
Neville's Inner Vision
Within the inner quest of God, the 'enemies' are not external people but states of consciousness opposing your true nature. To 'confound and trouble' them forever is a protocol for revision of your mental environment. When you accept as fact that you are the I AM, you erase the power you have given to fear, lack, or anger. The psalmist's language becomes a practical instruction: seed the mind with a new image of yourself in unity with God, until the old image of opposition loses its charge. Perish is the natural result of a mind that no longer feeds life to its imagined foes. You are not petitioning an external force; you are re-scripting the inner stage where thoughts and feelings arise, and events follow. When pressure or threat appears, do not fight it; revise the scene by declaring that the adversarial image already experiences its end in your realized state. Dwelling in the I AM shifts the entire field; what appeared as 'them' is a projection of an older belief, and the foe dissolves into light. The moment you feel the shift, you awaken to a durable power that governs not by punishment but by the alignment of consciousness with law.
Practice This Now
Practice: Sit quietly, assume the I AM, and imagine the adversarial image shrinking and dissolving as you repeat, 'I am one with God; opposition is dissolved in my realized state,' and then feel the relief as your inner scene shifts.
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