I was miraculously healed

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For the past year or so I have experienced unexplainable health issues. There were long stretches of times I would feel so weak I couldn’t even walk to the bathroom. I’m a young woman so it left me feeling completely helpless and would wear me down to the point of sobbing.

But, over a month ago I prayed a prayer of healing from Fr. Rippberger’s book “Deliverance Prayers For Use by the Laity“ and the result were immediate and shocking. My symptoms waned until they were completely gone the next day. I haven’t experienced any of these symptoms in over a month.

What surprised me though was the prayer of healing that I used was basically praying for evil spirits to flee from me and for God to claim my body instead. But, here’s the thing, I stay in the state of grace and immediately go to confession if I fall out of grace which is generally rare for me. How could I have been cursed or oppressed by evil in this way? I have read about the saints being physically attacked by evil but I’m not sure if that is the same as this. Is there any wisdom from the church on how this could be? I was absolutely shocked that this particular prayer, asking for demons to flee, was what freed me from my illness. I thought demons could not have effect on those in the state of grace.
 
Demons can affect the body, not directly the spirit. At least, this is approximately what Fr. Ripperger would say. From my understanding, their antics would merely indirectly affect the spirit.

In this way, a very pious or devout person can be possessed and still, by the grace of God, not fall into sin. Demons can also utilize other people to work to affect your disposition though.

This is all my understanding of it.
 
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According to Fr. Ripperger and other exorcists it is possible to be afflicted by a demon while in a state of grace.
 
Praise God, that is wonderful! I can’t answer your question, but I know Fr. Ripperger has a lot of videos on the subject on YouTube.
 
Let me echo what someone said about seeing your doctor. Make sure that you get fully evaluated even if you are feeling better now. This sounds to me like anemia. God normally works to heal us through using our reason: ie. seeing a doctor.
 
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Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I was not actually seeking validation when posting this. And what I’ve experienced is clearly a miracle to me, who knows what I went through, and can see the contrast of the before and after.

I absolutely understand people’s skepticism. I sound like a crazy religious nut job being so sure I was healed, but I don’t need to open some kind of miracle case with the church or doctors to understand that I am now healthy in ways I haven’t been in a very long time. I left out details of my illness for modesty sake. If I went more into detail it would be more apparent why I am so convinced this was a healing.

Regardless, I give glory to God. This is a consolation no matter if there is proof or not. I seriously just wanted to know more about spiritual warfare elements behind sicknesses in people in the state of grace. I’m pretty well catachised and have done thesis’ on the church’s processes of approving miracles. So, I understand other’s warnings. As I said earlier, I was seeking to educate myself not to convince others. If you want to believe without a doubt in miracles there are gospels for that. I’m just sharing a question and my back story.

Though, I am a little surprised that people are so hesitant to believe that the Name of Jesus has the power to heal. But, again, I understand.

Thank you for the kind replies though. 🙏
 
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I give praise and thanks to God that you have received a healing!
Thank you for sharing!
 
Thanks be God! Alleluia! Alleluia!

I am happy that the Lord directed you to the right prayer for your healing. There is the spirit of Infirmity that can cause a myriad of illnesses that makes life tough and difficult to p(name removed by moderator)oint the origin.
 
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Though, I am a little surprised that people are so hesitant to believe that the Name of Jesus has the power to heal.
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Nobody doubts this in genreal, we just hesitate to apply it to a particular case.
TBF, all we have to go by is the testimony of Somebody On The Internet, without access to medical files, etc.

But that doesn’t mean we don’t rejoice with your good fortune ❤️🙂
 
I understand what you are saying but God doesn’t work “in general”. He works in particular, in each person’s life. And besides, I am a daughter of God. I could easily be an unbeliever and claim it was a coincidence but knowing how incredibly unlikely that is, it would make me ungrateful to God.

And don’t take my word for it. Take Jesus’s word for it:
“ Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” Mathew 7:7-12
 
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For the past year or so I have experienced unexplainable health issues. There were long stretches of times I would feel so weak I couldn’t even walk to the bathroom. I’m a young woman so it left me feeling completely helpless and would wear me down to the point of sobbing.
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You did not seek Anointing of the Sick?
 
During the pandemic? No. The local churches were closed. And the priests were older and concerned about coronavirus.

Edit: Also, I’m pretty sure priests weren’t doing anointings because of the pandemic.
 
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During the pandemic? No. The local churches were closed. And the priests were older and concerned about coronavirus.

Edit: Also, I’m pretty sure priests weren’t doing anointings because of the pandemic.
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That has been very limiting over the last five months, for me too!
 
Show me in magesterial documents the support that people who are in a state of grace can be possessed.
 
Many, many holy people ask, beg for an end to their physical infirmities. No one has ever prayed harder than when my husband was dying waiting for a heart transplant or when my saintly mother had cancer.

Right now I’ve been in bed unable to walk for 7 weeks, I pray and pray.

I am happy your health has resolved, however, we don’t want to go to my faith is better than your faith sort of prosperity gospel stuff.
 
You are confusing possession I think with sinning. Plenty of saints have struggled, Saint Teresa of Avila being one example off the top of my head.
 
It certainly remains true that the demonic reality attested to in the concrete by what we call the mystery of Evil, remains an enigma surrounding the Christian life. We scarcely know any better than the Apostles knew why the Lord permits it, nor how he makes it serve his designs. It could be however that, in our civilization obsessed with secularism that excludes the transcendent, the unexpected outbreaks of this mystery offer a meaning less alien to our understanding. They force man to look further and higher, beyond the immediate evidence. Through their menace which stops us short they enable us to grasp that there exists a beyond which has to be deciphered, and then to turn to Christ in order to hear from him the Good News of salvation graciously offered to us.
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http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/c...c_19750626_fede-cristiana-demonologia_en.html

Not sure if this suffices, it alludes. There’s a lot to read and I’m on a phone presently…struggling, but it’s the paragraph above that one on the document that might be better fit as well.
 
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