Spiritual Attack from Praying Too Much

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Ask Jesus to cover you with His Precious Blood. You can pray the Litany of the Precious Blood.

There are some prayers here that you may find helpful. auxiliumchristianorum.org/prayers.html

I second the use of sacramentals such as holy water and exorcised salt. Use them frequently and other blessed items.
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Have you prayed these prayers? What are your experiences with them if you did. The thingI I am worried about is being attacked again.
 
For now I’m just sticking to the rosary and just a few prayers, whatever I may be comfortable with and I’ll see how those go. Maybe I’ll do some journaling of some sort. I just always curious as to what other people’s experiences are with that program. Well right now what puzzles me is that I don’t know what triggers these things to happen. Even before I even started getting into praying the rosary nd devotions, I was going through some pretty heavy attacks. I not only feel it at home, but when I am out and about. I get bullied and at times I feel like the world is against me. It’s weird. Depression and all that scatter my mind. I don’t mean to go in the dark side of things, it I often wonder if it is some else’s intentions. It could be or not or that it’s God’s will for me to suffer this way or just a phase in my life. Bottom line is that I trust in the Lord and to ask for help with all that I have no control over with.
 
SunsetMemories said:
Have you prayed the prayers? I wanted to know what your experience were like if you did.
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I prayed them for a period of time, but frankly never really developed the habit of praying them daily. I didn’t experience anything unusual during the time I did pray them.
 
SunsetMemories said:
Well right now what puzzles me is that I don’t know what triggers these things to happen.
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To be absolutely frank, I would humbly recommend that you focus on your spiritual life, on adoring and loving God, and that you stop caring even a fig for what type of demonic activity might or might not befall you.

Being preoccupied with all of that is just a waste of time. Actively seeking out the devil’s hand in everything, and structuring your prayer life to avoid seeing it, is not remotely how we are to live.
 
See the thing is, is when you ally yourself with God you are basically climbing under his cloak of protection. The thing is, is the devil is strong but not stronger than God. So what I say is is pray to God asking him to protect you from the devil before you pray. God will not fail you. So when it does happen you will be given strength by the Holy Spirit to fight him off.
 
SunsetMemories said:
When I add more devotions and prayers to my prayer life, I have encountered many attacks and specific attacks such as tension and bad relationships with people in general occurring, people tend to act weird towards me, and I just experience weird and unusual things happen. This does not occur all the time, but it does sure happen every now and then. And I stopped and stuck to the Rosary and just familiar novenas and prayers.

I was thinking to pray the chaplet of St. Michael for daily protection, but I fear that I will experience more attacks in my life.

If anyone could share your experiences and your ways of battling the forces of evil, please share. Thank you!
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If you are allowing bad experiences to keep you from praying more, you are allowing the forces of evil to have power over you.

Trust God! He will not send you anything you cannot cope with. If He allows you to have difficulties, He will also give you the strength to endure them.

(And yes, I am speaking from personal experience. I underwent something similar and also stopped praying more but then told Jesus I would trust Him instead.)
 
Is there any websites or books that have Latin or Hebrew written prayers phonetically because when I try to read Spanish, Italian, French, Latin or Hebrew any language that’s not English I butcher it.
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Actually, there is. The term I believe is called “transliterated”. Art Scroll Publishing has some of their prayer books in transliterated Hebrew, where an English speaker can pray the prayers in Hebrew but with an English translation and pronunciation. The Hebrew text is “transliterated” into English. You don’t have to even know the Hebrew alphabet.

For Latin, since it is the English alphabet, you might just try an English-Latin dictionary.
 
SunsetMemories said:
Thanks so much for all the advices! I truly appreciate it. I do have St. Benedict Medals and Miraculous Medals around my house, but still sometimes encounter many attacks. But also these attacks spread in my family and household as well. It’s a battle everyday. I’m actually trying to find an emergency prayer that is short but effective and very powerful when I encounter these attacks as well. I’m actually trying to understand these attacks and what is it that I am doing or around me that causes me as well.
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Please see a good, holy priest and discuss these things with him, if you haven’t already.

God bless
 
nikky15 said:
Fourthly, here’s a Prayer for Protection that I suggest:

Lord Jesus, by Faith in Your merits, I now take Your Precious Blood, and sprinkle it over myself and my family, right from the crown of our heads to the very souls of our feet. I seek from Thee total and complete protection for my life and my family. Lord Jesus, keep us free today from evil, sin, temptation, Satan’s Attacks and afflictions, fear of darkness, fear of man, sickness, diseases, doubts, anger, all calamities, and from all that is not of Thy kingdom. Fill us Lord Jesus with the gifts of Your Holy Spirit, and grant us the gifts of Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith, Understanding, and Discernment, so that we shall live today in Your glory, by doing what is right.
Praise You Jesus, thank You Jesus, Jesus I love and adore Thee.
Amen.
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What a beautiful prayer! Where did you find it?
 
oldgraymare2 said:
Evil thoughts against anything holy while I was at Adoration. They were thoughts that were trying to get me out of there. I just “knew” that it was something that I couldn’t even think of myself. That’s what I mean by bizarre. Temptations, too. Just really strange stuff.

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Wow, that’s interesting because I experienced something similar too. I was very excited to go to Adoration, then when I’m there in prayer, thoughts like “Jesus hates you”, “Jesus hates the fact he has to be in here with you alone”, “you should leave you aren’t worthy to be in here”,… stuff like that… like a barrage of insults. Goes away after a while, but its enough for me to have second thoughts about going to Adoration.
 
SunsetMemories said:
Thanks so much for all your help. Have you prayed the prayers? I wanted to know what your experience were like if you did.
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I jumping in here late because I have experience with the Auxilium Christianorum prayers. I don’t remember how I first found them but I was immediately drawn to them. Of course we are cautioned to check with our spiritual director before starting to pray them daily. My priest looked them over and said they look like deliverance prayers and it would be okay.

I pray them every night. Sometimes I’m tired but I always look forward to them. I even prayed some of them with my mom who was having hallucinations that may have been due to medical issues but had a demonic element to them. They helped. I have found consolation in my own life from praying the Auxilium prayers but my main reason in praying them is as spiritual aid for the exorcists!
 
Sorry SunsetMemories, to be so late in responding to your questions from the 29th.
I usually say as many Rosaries each day as I can fit in and still help out my wife. I always say the Seven Sorrows Rosary, along with my morning offering. Then I try to fit in the Little Office of the BVM.(Latin version, 1904) The Little Office is one of the most powerful, that I’ve found.

We attend a Traditional Latin Mass on Sunday’s and first Friday’s. After our 10:30am High Mass we sing the Angelus with the choir. High Mass ends just before noon (like 11:55).

I love closing the day with Compline and the Dolors Rosary.

And still I have problems, which shows that I’m VERY human. Frequent confession is helps here. But as I said in my first post, we were born for Spiritual Combat. It’s our lot in life.

God Bless
 
SunsetMemories said:
For now I’m just sticking to the rosary and just a few prayers, whatever I may be comfortable with and I’ll see how those go. Maybe I’ll do some journaling of some sort. I just always curious as to what other people’s experiences are with that program. Well right now what puzzles me is that I don’t know what triggers these things to happen. Even before I even started getting into praying the rosary nd devotions, I was going through some pretty heavy attacks. I not only feel it at home, but when I am out and about. I get bullied and at times I feel like the world is against me. It’s weird. Depression and all that scatter my mind. I don’t mean to go in the dark side of things, it I often wonder if it is some else’s intentions. It could be or not or that it’s God’s will for me to suffer this way or just a phase in my life. Bottom line is that I trust in the Lord and to ask for help with all that I have no control over with.
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In any case you can not go wrong praying the Rosary.
However, allowing the bad thoughts or evil dictate how you will pray is giving evil power over you.

This might help. I take great comfort in knowing that Satan can not read my thoughts if I do not give him permission to. So when angry, negative thoughts and feelings overcome me I ask God to place a shield around me so that what I say to God can not be heard. And, I TRUST this shield. Then I tell God all - and I mean all - my doubts, fears, anger, frustrations and sadness. I know that the evil will not know my weaknesses so I can be totally honest in expressing myself. Of course God knows these thoughts anyway but being able to express them helps more than you can imagine.
 
corsair said:
Sorry SunsetMemories, to be so late in responding to your questions from the 29th.
I usually say as many Rosaries each day as I can fit in and still help out my wife. I always say the Seven Sorrows Rosary, along with my morning offering. Then I try to fit in the Little Office of the BVM.(Latin version, 1904) The Little Office is one of the most powerful, that I’ve found.

We attend a Traditional Latin Mass on Sunday’s and first Friday’s. After our 10:30am High Mass we sing the Angelus with the choir. High Mass ends just before noon (like 11:55).

I love closing the day with Compline and the Dolors Rosary.

And still I have problems, which shows that I’m VERY human. Frequent confession is helps here. But as I said in my first post, we were born for Spiritual Combat. It’s our lot in life.

God Bless
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When you pray the Rosary, do you usually add intentions or just pray without intentions? I also pray the Seven Sorrows but the shorter version. I know as included part of the benefits is that praying the Seven Sorrows will provide peace in the family, but I still encounter tension within my family. I always pray for peace, but still encounter enemy, so you like you said, no matter what “we were born for spiritual combat.”

When encountering an attack, do you know of any short prayer that will always relieve the situation? Any powerful short pray that consist of at least 2 or 3 sentences to keep in mind always?
 
If you feel you’re under attack then you’re probably doing things right. Satan will try to trip you up but he can’t do more to you than you and God allow. Trust in God. I try to spend more time with the Blessed Sacrament and it seems to help. There is real power in doing this.
 
SunsetMemories said:
I fear that I will experience more attacks in my life.
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There is nothing the Devil would like better than to have you pray to God less. Remember that God will never allow you to be tempted beyond your strength, and that Our Lord continued to pray while He was nailed to the cross and up to the moment of His death. There are so many souls here and in purgatory who have no one to pray for them, so your prayers can be very effectual for them! You can also offer up the suffering you experience in reparation for their sins and your own.

Courage! You have my prayers, too.
 
Prayer should be done by saying the exact same words while uttering them. This is spiritual life.
 
kdbueno said:
Prayer should be done by saying the exact same words while uttering them. This is spiritual life.
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Thank goodness that we each have our own manner of talking with The Lord that allows us to not only glorify and walk with God, but also to ask for help and forgiveness. Yes, there are prayers that we all say by rote, but those are not, hopefully, the only manner we use to converse with Jesus. Maybe I missed something in your post, would you be so kind as to elaborate.🤷
 
Thank you so much for your help. I did add a few more devotions since I last posted something. I prayed to Our Lady of Confidence and Our Lady of Surprises and some other prayers. That same day I prayed these prayers I ended up receiving some bad and negative news. I still hope that things will get better, but I am just so drained stressed. I am not trying to think about the devil coming after me and the negative situation, but I am just so confused as to why when I pray bad things happen. I notice that all the time. Now I am worried sick and stressed and I just feel so hopeless and for the two people I am praying for. I have no peace of mind. I am praying for two people, and it seems as though they are negatively affected by my prayers? I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. When I pray for peace or something to help people with their problems the opposite occurs sometimes. There’s tension, fighting, and arguing for the people I am praying for and at times I get targeted too by others. I am like what in the world is happening? What did I do? I then feel the entire world and people are against me. I have been going through some tough times. This is just my experience and I ma sure people are tired of my pessimism, but I’m only sharing with you what I am experiencing. To be honest with you, I am so scared!
 
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