I feel like Satan is always scupering my prayers!

[Nelka]

It just seems that when I pray he is listening and thinks how to hurt me a different way and always succeeds.

I need a day off from it.

 

[pianistclare]

Why do you give him a second thought?
Pray the St. Michael prayer and just PRAY.

 

[1neophyte]

He’s doing what to your prayers?

 

[Autumn-Smoke]

I was just wondering if you pray your most personal requests out loud. If so, “any spirit” can hear. I don’t think Satan can read our minds, so personally, I would keep my most private prayers between me and God alone. I agree about praying the St. Michael’s prayer.

 

[pianistclare]

OK, now we’re getting into scruples here. Who cares if Satan can hear your prayers? Let him know in no uncertain terms that you do not fear him.
Pray.
We know Satan flees at the sight of a crucifix, the name of Mary, and the use of Holy Water.
You have tools, stop giving him face time or thought.

Today is the Feast of the Guardian angels. Give more thought to THEM and be at peace.

 

[Roseeurekacross]

what PianistClare said.

and just say

begone satan.

then get on with your prayers

 

[TheHolyTrinity]

Satan can not know what your prayers and thoughts are, if you do not speak them out loud. This is a good prayer to use at the beginning of prayer:

Prayer for a Spiritual Canopy
Dear Lord Jesus, please forgive me for all the times I have not submitted to your will in my life. Please forgive me for all my sinful actions, making agreements with the enemy, and for believing the devil’s lies. I now submit to you as my Lord, dear Jesus. Now I break every agreement that I have made with the enemy.
Lord Jesus, please send an assignment of angels to remove and bind to the abyss all demons and their devices that had access to me because I believed their lies. I now ask you to establish a hedge of protection around me, over me and under me, and seal it with your blood, Lord Jesus Christ.
I now choose to put on the full armour of God and ask that you cleanse me and seal me, body, mind, soul and spirit, with your blood, Lord Jesus Christ. Please have your angelic army bind up and remove all demons, their devices, and all their power from within this protective hedge and have them sent to the abyss.
Please have your angels destroy all demonic, occult or witchcraft assignments directed against me. Please have your angels stand guard over me and protect me from all attacks of the enemy. I thank you for establishing an impenetrable shield of protection around me, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Anima Christi
Soul of Christ, sanctify me; Body of Christ, save me; Blood of Christ, inebriate me; Water from the side of Christ, wash me; Passion of Christ, strengthen me; O good Jesus, hear me; within your wounds, hide me; let me never be separated from you; from the evil one, protect me; at the hour of my death, call me; and bid me to come to you; that with your saints, I may praise you forever and ever. Amen.

Hope these help you in your prayer life.

THT

 

[Vico]

It just seems that when I pray he [Satan] is listening and thinks how to hurt me a different way and always succeeds.

I need a day off from it.

“concupiscence is left for us to wrestle with”

Catechism

1264 Yet certain temporal consequences of sin remain in the baptized, such as suffering, illness, death, and such frailties inherent in life as weaknesses of character, and so on, as well as an inclination to sin that Tradition calls concupiscence, or metaphorically, “the tinder for sin” (fomes peccati); since concupiscence "is left for us to wrestle with, it cannot harm those who do not consent but manfully resist it by the grace of Jesus Christ."66 Indeed, "an athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules."67