Spiritual Warfare

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I recently purchased a book about spiritual warfare, entitled Manual of Spiritual Warfare by Paul Thigpen, published by TAN. This book gives a lot of information and also many prayers to be said for protection and casting out evil. It says something in the book about Exorcism prayers must be said by a priest, but parents can say prayers specifically for their children because they have authority over them. The prayers I have been saying for my children are from the Prayers for Strength and Deliverance section. These prayers are from Fr. Amarth’s Book, An Exorcist Tells His Story. Anyway, today on EWTN, I saw a man (not a priest) giving a talk about possessions and exorcisms (and he is works with priests who are exorcists) and he said none of the prayers should ever be said by anyone but an Exorcist. Is there a priest reading this that knows for certain? I can’t ask my parish priest about this (please believe me, there is a good reason, I’d rather not go into). I have been saying the prayers for about a week, but need to know if I have to stop, or if I can pray them. It basically commands Satan in Jesus’ name to leave my child (who has been involved in occult practices).
 
I would like to know this too.
I say the St Michael prayer for my children, which I’m pretty sure anyone can say.

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Hi,
Is your child involved in the occult? Our church has rules for our safety. Though I
Feel, if one has walked w the Lord a long time. Deep Bible reading, Charismatic in
a situation that is dropped in one’s lap, will have to use our spiritual armor, in that moment. The WORD of GOD is powerful. Then, the situation with which I was confronted could have been teenage acting out. Snarling, thrashing around, tried to jump off apt.balcony. Hallucinating about black ravens-3. Profanity. Having to be held down by friends. So, got my Bible,prayed deep prayers for myself and teens involved for protectiom. Called on Holy Spirit (GOD), St. Michael. All heaven and Saints. Read Mark 16: verse 14+. Read various scripture verses and prayed our standard prayers. Asked entity what was his name under the power of the name of Jesus-just growled.Commanded firmly to release this person. Repeatedly. Back to Mark 16. A few more commands and she exhaled a long breath. Laid still. Focused. And asked,“What was the matter.”
There is bondage= evil outside body. Possession=evil inside body.
There is power in the word. My brother tried to kill himself in a locked bathroom
In my house. He had a knife and was going to slice his wrists. If I KNEW WHAT HE JUST TRIED TO DO TO MY 12YO SON IN THE SJOWER, I MIGHT HAVE MURDERED HIM MYSELF. HE WAS BISEXUAL. He was dying from alcoholism. They bleed to death from hemorrhaging from Esophageal Varices, like varicose veins around esophogus. now, JUST ON HIS Trying TO KILL himself, I grabbed my Bible and this is so funny because I was so upset. He’s crying and was talking about it to build up his courage and my husband is saying,“Come out, I’ll drive to a deserted area and give you a gun!” That was so helpful! I started reading in the begets. My Bible was shaking. Spiritually, w God, I was saying, it’s all I got now. It’s your word and it has power. Anyway, he released the lock. Had his hand w the knife on his wrist. I grabbed his arms and abducted them, straining. He was strong. So, he stabbed himself in the calf. So, my husband said, “Bobby, you have to do better than that!” It was a little wound. He dropped knife. Now, I can’t recall, if he started to hemorrhage thar night. I do know we were in the hospital ER, where I worked and was helping push levophed done his NG tube. This was 1983. We were moving here from La. In a few days. He got transferred to Shreveport hospital where they were doing the sclerosis of bleeding Varices w endoscopy and cautery. I had to leave him and get on the road. Told him to stay put. He signed out the next day. AMA. Came to my brother a state away then.
I had a baby 7/24/83. He came to see the baby after 3 weeks and went back to my brother and died 8/11/83. Exsanguinated from varices. Horrible death.
My son was 35 and, incidently, mentioned that his uncle pulled the shower curtain back while he was showering and started to do something and backed off. Trying to help your family is ok but sometimes that choice is horrible. I’m sure my son’s guardian angel interfered. Thank you, Jesus. He was 44yo. Side issue
Other brother, w masters degree in psychology. Worked for prison system as parole officer.and teach DUI classes, would have blood achohol levels higher than his students… Straight vodka drinker. He Exsanguinated from varices, also at 50yo a couple years after our other brother. WE had different mothers. Theirs was institutionalized for alcoholism.
How much evil was hanging around them??? I knew the chaplet of mercy.
Hopefully, they didn’t travel all the way down.
Enough. Follow churches teaching. Be prepared. It’s not like l could call the other girls Dad up as we were running down the street.
That wore me out.
in Christ’s love
Tweedlealice
There are Protestant ministers that are Exorcists. Not usual. 🤷
 
Exorcism prayer is just for priests and not us.

Don’t attempt to take on Satan.

St. Michael prayer is good and also praying to your guardian angel.

Don’t forget Satan hates the Hail Mary.
 
I recently purchased a book about spiritual warfare, entitled Manual of Spiritual Warfare by Paul Thigpen, published by TAN…
I would like to know this too.
I say the St Michael prayer for my children, which I’m pretty sure anyone can say.
Sure thing.

A few weeks ago, there was an article in the National Catholic Register titled:
“US Exorcists: Demonic Activity on the Rise”
The relevant part is:
Father Lampert said that a priest, and even laypeople, can pray minor exorcism prayers because they address God. “The lay faithful should not give commands to demons,” he said. “Demons recognize the authority of bishops and the Church. If you claim authority on your own, it can get you into trouble,” he warned the laity…
…“It’s not the exorcists that have the power,” Father Lampert said, “but the power and authority of the Church that comes from Jesus Christ. Catholics understand that individuals don’t have that power.”
The whole article is worth reading:

www.ncregister.com/daily-news/us-exorcists-demonic-activity-on-the-rise

There was a thread about this sort of thing not long back because i remember bashing out part of that quote, maybe also under Spirituality. Forgotten, though. 😊
 
Sure thing.

A few weeks ago, there was an article in the National Catholic Register titled:
“US Exorcists: Demonic Activity on the Rise”
The relevant part is:

The whole article is worth reading:

www.ncregister.com/daily-news/us-exorcists-demonic-activity-on-the-rise

There was a thread about this sort of thing not long back because i remember bashing out part of that quote, maybe also under Spirituality. Forgotten, though. 😊
Thank you, this is very helpful. I guess I need to quit a few of the prayers I have been praying.
 
Thank you, this is very helpful. I guess I need to quit a few of the prayers I have been praying.
I’m assuming I can pray the prayers that ask God to banish evil, but not the prayers where I command the banishment. Is that what you are getting from this article?
 
I’m assuming I can pray the prayers that ask God to banish evil, but not the prayers where I command the banishment. Is that what you are getting from this article?
That’s it.
It’s OK to pray direct to God, and to ask the angels and saints to intercede for us, the prayer to Saint Michael. After all, they’re** OUR FRIENDS!** Don’t forget Saint Joseph: one of his titles is “Terror of demons”!
Any prayers, including made up ones, to the “good folks” would have to be good. 🙂

Exorcists are trained, and they have the full backing of the Church.
i knew a very foolish individual, a Catholic layman, who declared himself an exorcist. He was strange, and i reckon he’d at least had his fingers singed! :eek:
Others thought the same.
Plus, of course, the Church has to look first for possible psychological causes of strange behaviour. Accepting demonic activity/possession as the cause is only the last resort.

A couple of years back, during a sermon, the priest warned everyone in strong terms not to challenge demons.
 
My recommendation is that you seek the proper spiritual journey given by the Church itself. Look inward, find your sins and confess them at numerous penances. Allow the spirits that guard you to aid your position. Then, if you learn about medals, Scapulars, crosses, and other such holy items which interest you, obtain them, enroll in them, pray Rosaries for others (such as the 10 million rosaries against Satanism in the United States effort) then let youself be aligned spiritually with what is best. Spiritual warfare in my experiences should only be considered once all the previous have been completed over time.

Be safe.
 
I must also add, praying for those who need it, what you have witnessed, turn your hate away and pray for everyone you have ever had negative contact with. Be not boastful in knowin their needs, but for THEIR benefit. An unclean heart must be cleansed. If you must, begin practicing in the Prayer Intentions section of this forum and develop first into a prayer warrior with consistency.
 
Hi,

I posted this in the prayer request section but would like to expand on it here.

I have an incredibly problematic relationship with the father of my child. I was recently confirmed in the church and have some serious spiritual warfare going on. We have not had a positive relationship even though we know God wants us to be together for some purpose. Warfare with principalities is a constant thread throughout my entire life. I have heard that sometimes the devil will send people into your life to wreck it. I hope that isn’t the case, but I did have a vision about this man when I was 19 and it carried with it a feeling of terror. I believe either he was either sent by a diabolical force or was actually sent by God and the devil is plaguing us. I have been involved in the occult before and my mother (who is Catholic) rationalizes heresy and doing astrology. It is very hard for me to rebuke it because it seems normal to me. It is hard for me to rebuke it in every day conversation.

I have an entire life’s history of everyday demonic attack. A well-meaning psychic said I have an “earthbound spirit” which is trying to live “vicariously through me”. Alarm bells! I traded him a tarot deck for that reading, so that probably really moved things in the wrong direction. Our problems have included not necessarily violent poltergeists, but other things sometimes including small poltergeist activity like small religious icons of Mary or Jesus breaking. I have dissociative identity disorder from PTSD. I have identified a three-headed beast separate from my actual self which is most likely Asmodeus from the Old Testament. Fulton Sheen says the signs of diabolical influence are wrath, divisiveness, and nakedness. I believe that entirely. I think this thing has moved well into obsession, because I am more comfortable with wrath and rationalizing violent behavior now than ever, even though I used to be a violent anarchist. I still retain some radical politics. It is hard for me to control my own reactions to things. For example, I am without my child right now due to a domestic violence charge wherein I assaulted her father in front of staff at a homeless shelter, because he did not have a job which was satisfactory to me. I do take medication and work with several very qualified, Christian specialists.

I am working with that TAN book called Manual for Spiritual Warfare and another book called Unbound. There is a ministry here named after that which is helping me. I am only interested in taking responsibility for my own actions, but not those of this thing that loves to hide behind my symptoms and use them to work me like a puppet. I admit to really not even caring as I type this. I could go to jail today for violation of the restraining order because I do not keep my opinion to myself.

Please pray for us to Saints Jude, Dymphna, Gemma, Rita, Michael, Joseph, and Mary Undoer of Knots.

Love to you all,
Victoria
 
thoughtcatalog.com/christine-stockton/2014/06/intense-and-disturbing-accounts-of-demonic-possession/
(References Asmodeus, features my symptoms)

experienceproject.com/stories/Believe-In-Demonic-Possession/1890963
(References Asmodeus, ouija boards)

catholicnewsagency.com/news/exorcist-says-theres-a-demon-that-targets-the-family-34067/
(THIS DEMON ATTACKS THE FAMILY???)

crisismagazine.com/2009/the-dark-backward-demons-in-the-real-world
(Anyone else experienced the “hag phenomena”, or sleep paralysis? It happened when I had the vision)

crisismagazine.com/2009/the-dark-backward-demons-in-the-real-world
(All I ever have experienced are OT style trials. This scratches the surface of events in my life)

Etc etc etc!
 
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