I don't think I have true faith

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I have heard Michael Voris mention supernatural faith, and I honestly don’t know if I have that. I have scrupulosity and go to confession and communion almost every week but today I heard a verse from Deuteronomy 13 that caused so much doubt, that it seemed to bring me to a point where I felt like I was clinging to Christianity out of a confirmation bias and not because I was convinced that it was true. I am going to go pray the rosary but I wanted to ask for prayer and the fortitude to be honest.

So often I feel like I am cursed and living out my damnation, because I have not been motivated by a love of the truth but by a love of comfort. I don’t know how to break free of this and have a conscience that is truly clean. I will talk to my spiritual director about this but I wanted to ask for prayer.

update: After answering an impression to pray the chaplet of divine mercy, I’m in a much better place right now. this happens more often than I’d like to admit though, and I think it might be a call to go deeper into my faith.
 
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for true faith

OUR FATHER, Who art in Heaven,
hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom
come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in
Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive
those who trespass against us. And lead us
not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Amen.

HAIL MARY, full of grace, the Lord is
with thee. Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us
sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
Amen. (x10)

GLORY BE to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the
beginning is now, and ever shall be, world
without end. Amen.

O MY JESUS, forgive us our sins, save us
from the fires of Hell; lead all souls to
Heaven, especially those in most need of
Thy mercy. Amen.
 
Bdonoho said:
update: After answering an impression to pray the chaplet of divine mercy, I’m in a much better place right now. this happens more often than I’d like to admit though, and I think it might be a call to go deeper into my faith.
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The best thing you can do for yourself is to turn off Michael Voris or whatever is disturbing you, and pray more. If it makes you feel any better, a lot of saints had the same problem you’re having now.
I said a Hail Mary for you and here is St Teresa’s prayer for you to think about when you’re feeling disturbed.

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Hi!

Since you say you’re scrupulous, I strongly suggest that you get professional therapy and treatment for your OCD symptoms. Trust me, you will find relief and peace of mind.
 
Praying for you~

Eternal God, who are the light of the minds that know you, the joy of the hearts that love you, and the strength of the wills that serve you; grant us so to know you that we may truly love you, and so to love you that we may fully serve you, whom to serve is perfect freedom, in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

Here is my heart, O God; here it is with all its secrets. Look into my thoughts, O my hope, and take away all my wrong feelings. Let my eyes be ever on you and release my feet from the snare. I ask you to live with me, to reign in me, to make this heart " of mine a holy temple, a fit dwelling for your divine majesty.
Amen.

~~St. Augustine
 
Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Amen.

†

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

†
 
Put on and enroll in the brown scapular as an outward sign that you are consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Jesus and Mary. Pray the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the morning and evening. Pray the rosary daily as well. These sacrementals will help you foster devotion and love for our Lord and His blessed mother over time.
Once you have a habit formed, add some Novenas to pray.
 
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May you find your way soon…
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be, Fatima, AMEN!
 
Prayer for Faith

Lord, I believe: I wish to believe in Thee.
Lord, let my faith be full and unreserved,
and let it penetrate my thought, my way
of judging Divine things and human things.
Lord, let my faith be joyful and give peace
and gladness to my spirit, and dispose it
for prayer with God and conversation
with men, so that the inner bliss of its
fortunate possession may shine forth
in sacred and secular conversation.

Lord, let my faith be humble and not
presume to be based on the experience
of my thought and of my feeling; but let
it surrender to the testimony of the Holy
Spirit, and not have any better guarantee
than in docility to Tradition and to the
authority of the magisterium of the Holy
Church. Amen.

– Pope Paul VI
 
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