The Inner Meaning of the 23rd Psalm

By Dr. Joseph Murphy

The Inner Meaning of the 23rd Psalm in the Dr. Joseph Murphy Live! series is the only authorized edition in print.

Dr. Joseph Murphy has been acclaimed as a major figure in the human potential movement, the spiritual heir to writers like James Allen, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, and Norman Vincent Peale, and a precursor and inspirer of contemporary motivational writers and speakers like Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, and Earl Nightingale. He changed the lives of people all over the world and was one of the best-selling authors of the mid-20th century.

Dr. Murphy wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thousands every Sunday as Minister-Director of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles. Over the years, Dr. Murphy has given lectures and radio talks to audiences all over the world. Millions of people tuned in his daily radio program and have read the over 30 books that he has written. His books have sold over 15 million copies. In his lectures he points out how real people have radically improved their lives by applying specific aspects of his concepts, and gives the listener guidelines on how they too can enrich their lives.

Never say, "I can't." Overcome that fear by substituting the following, "I can do all things through the power of my own subconscious mind."

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• Language: English
• Publisher: G&D Media
• Release date: Jan 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781722526535

Dr. Joseph Murphy

Dr. Murphy wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thousands of people all over the world, as Minister-Director of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles. His lectures and sermons were attended by thousands of people every Sunday. Millions of people tuned in his daily radio program and have read the over 30 books that he has written. Dr. Joseph Murphy has been acclaimed as a major figure in the human potential movement, the spiritual heir to writers like James Allen, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, and Norman Vincent Peale and a precursor and inspirer of contemporary motivational writers and speakers like Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar and Earl Nightingale. He was one of the best selling authors in the mid-twentieth century. His book THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND has sold millions of copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. This book has never been out of print and is still one of the best sellers in the self-help genre. Over the years Dr. Murphy has given lectures and radio talks to audiences all over the world. In his lectures he points out how real people have radically improved their lives by applying specific aspects of his concepts, and gives the listener guidelines on how they too can enrich their lives.

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The Inner Meaning of the 23rd Psalm

The Inner Meaning of the 23rd Psalm

Dr. Joseph Murphy

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THE INNER MEANING OF THE 23RD PSALM. Copyright © 2021 Joseph Murphy Trust. All rights exclusively licensed by JMW Group Inc., [e-mail].

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request

eISBN: 978-1-7225-2653-5

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"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside still waters. He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." This the 23rd Psalm.

Many people meditate on the great truths of this Psalm, and they get marvelous results. As you focus your attention on these truths, absorbing them into your mentality, you’re meditating in the true sense of the word, because you are appropriating more of your divinity, the divine presence which dwells in the deep self of all people.

Meditation determines your destiny. Each one is the result of his meditation. We’re always meditating. Your thought and feeling controls your destiny. Meditation is as real and as natural as digestion, assimilation, breathing.

In Las Vegas, I met a woman who suffered from shock, and had lost her voice. The doctors could find no infection, no affliction of any kind in examining the throat and the vocal organs. At my suggestion, she began to practice what I call real meditation. Her son was coming home from Vietnam in a few weeks, and she sat still and quiet and imagined that she was embracing him and welcoming him home, saying all the things a mother would say. She did this for about ten minutes, two or three times a day. She gave attention to a selected goal, an objective.

At the end of two weeks, her son came home, knocked at the door, and she welcomed him. She

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