EVIL THOUGHTS and IMAGES when we pray. Why do we get ATTACKED BY BAD THOUGHTS when we begin to pray?
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Temptations against prayer will come from the devil, from the world and from our own passions. Prayer by night is a spiritual treasure and, like all treasures, it is difficult and dangerous to approach.
Fr Seraphim Aldea from Mull Monastery - the Orthodox Monastery of All Celtic Saints on the Isle of Mull in Scotland - continues the introduction to Prayer by Night by addressing the most common temptations we encounter as we begin to take our spiritual life seriously.
After we discussed despondency in our previous video, this time we talk about the bad, evil thoughts that attack our mind at the beginning of prayer. The purpose of these attacks is to make our minds impure just as we approach Christ, so as to push us again into despondency.
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Părinte, sincer, eu cred ca sunteti român. Ma bucur ca v-am gasit.
i have mental illness,i cant quit listening to heavy metal music.but i pray dailly through a english orthodox prayer book.i have schizophrenia but i take my pills they help to a point.please help me
Dino Rod SAINT DYPHNA IS THE PATRON SAINT FOR MENTAL ILLNESS. Make an effort to stop listening to this type of music for 9 days. Whenever you hear that voice that tells to play them make a mental effort to say NO, call on the “Most Precious and Sacred Blood🩸 of Jesus Christ hold a crucifix in your right hand. Say the prayers of the Archangel Michael, a Hail Mary to Our Lady of Sorrows and prayer to St. Benedict. Keep the Cross always with you at easy reach you can also put it under your pillow. Please see a Priest.
Mull Monastery do you sell your book elsewhere like Barnes and Nobles? Don’t deal on line
@@dinorod8276 So sorry about your suffering. I too suffer from mental oppression and have suffered all my life. But I discovered that Praying multiple Rosaries daily is a super powerful way to fight back and recover the balance evil is trying to steal from you.👊
So I pick up my War beads at intervals throughout the day, whether I feel like it or not. Once I get started the results usually motivate me to keep going.
The JESUS Prayer is also very good for anchoring the distracted or racing mind.🙏🌹🌹🌹
"If you don't meet the devil on the road you're on the wrong road." --Irish Saying
The thing is, our modern world offers so many benign temptations. Imagine all the time that people put into their social media, versus the amount of time they put into their spiritual life. I try to make my kids aware of the consequences of the benign temptations even more than the 7 deadly sins, which are bad in a relatively obvious way.
😄 well the Irish are absolutely right. However repeating relentlessly prayers to the Cross and the Blood of Christ prayers do disturb him terribly-turn his world upside down
So true! I've always heard it as "If you don't run up against the devil you are going the same direction."
So true
@@77thTrombone so so true. These influences have corrupted my 19 year old daughter. Please tell me how do I keep hope alive for her soul...
I just thought I was a horrible person.. I asked myself why these horrible things would come into my head while I was trying to talk to Him if I weren't just evil... it never occurred to me I was actually under attack. Thank you for sharing this wisdom.
Me too
Me too. I have always tried to give them no importance (an advice from a priest). and perhaps that worked (the more you think about the problem they seem to come back more often). This video helps me understand
same. It was a question I asked and forgot about it until it got answered
Me too... wow I thought I was a bad person also..... now I will pray harder!!
I deal with evil thoughts to the point I feel part evil and I ask you all to please.......... pray for me to push Satan out of me and to put Jesus Christ inside me. Please I ask you to help me
I found this video by "accident" I was struggling with wicked thoughts during prayer. Thank you Lord for answering my questions in a way I can understand. You never leave me in the dark. God bless you all.
same prepare, darker times are coming i can feel it
I thought I'm the only one experiencing this evil thoughts during my nightly prayer. I fight it by imagining myself when I visited the Holy Land.
I was going through the same thing and found this video accidentally. Well its not really accidentally, God wanted us to see this 🥰❤️🙏
Exactly the same with me.
Same here, so grateful Our Lord brought this video in the list of recommended vids by youtube!
I cried thru this whole video. I needed to hear this for 25 years.
Just subscribed to u, yes gr8 video ck out David Pawson and never give up , if satan wasn’t concerned about you he wouldn’t bother you FACT
All you need is gift of Holly Spirit, to live life well
@davidferguson1391 💯❤️🙏
Wow. Sometimes the right video just comes along at the right time to answer a question you hadn't even thought of asking. Thanks, Father.
The same is with me. I got this video as a sudden blessing from God.
Amen!
Cal Harding so very true. This video just popped up and I feel it was specially made for me.
Me too!
I was doing great for the Lord. Left my old life behind. I saw a dream of warning ahead. But I did not prepare myself. Then it hit me like a sack of potatoes and now I'm stuck right back into what I thought and hoped I had left behind. Pray for me brothers and sisters. Pray I get out of this trap I've fallen back into.
Those evil thoughts are denomic to stop us praying.
EXACTLY
Yes!
They put fear in people
Rebuke depression and anxiety . Lord PROTECT us
When he attacks in dreams is the worse, I’m still fighting. Jesus been with me since the beginning,This is a new road for me. I trust Jesus since the beginning.
Our Lord is fathfull and just keep trusting Him. Feed your spirit with the Word of God..saturate yourself in scriptures even if something you dont understand..Holy Spirit will lead you. That helps you to build your spirit self in order to fight those entities when they attack you in your dreams. " For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places" Ephesians 6:12
Jay Abbasi Fasting and Prayer will help.
Hello, just want to let you know that we as christians are given authority to cast out unclean spirits.
I used to suffer terrible nightmares, which would wake me up sweating. This continued on for awhile, like few months.
One morning I think holy spirit whispered to me, to cast out the spirit of nightmare. So I uttered out "spirit of nightmare rebuke you in Jesus name."
Then I felt tremendous weight got off inside of me and felt immediate relief. I stopped getting nightmare completely except when it comes back occasionally,
then id do the same thing again.
Any how hope this helps you
my attacks in dreams come and go there is a time i became so scared to sleep and would wait till morning to do so but now i am a bit better but not so much
@@Maja161 Amen!
Thank you father. I am a devout Roman Catholic but I have enormous love and appreciation for the Eastern Orthodox Church. I pray that God lights our way to reunification as we can learn so much from you my brothers. May the peace of God be with you.
I understand
About an hour ago I finished praying the Rosary. Prior to that, I said a mental prayer to Christ and Our Lady asking for help in my recent deep despair about my own salvation, bad thoughts during prayer and other times, my sinfulness etc. I just picked up my phone and your video was the first one on my CZcams feed. I’ve never seen one of your videos or been to your channel.
You have no idea how much your message helped me. Thank you so much.
I say this with love. Praying to anyone else other than God is a sin. In fact praying to Mary, the rosary is all praying to Satan. You are inviting demons into your life and one day if ypu continue with the rosary and Mary, those demons will soon manifest themselves to ypu physically. We can pray for each other but we are to never pray to the dead. Satan is a great deciever. God alone is worthy of praise. Have you been born again? If you are, you should be hearing the Holy Spirit speak to you daily, convicting you of sins and guiding you in all truths. If you are born again, you should be able to see a radical change in your life, a hunger towards righteousness. Your family and friends should be commenting on the radical change God has done in you. You should now hate all sin and love righteousness. Trust in Christ alone for salvation, you cant do it and neither can Mary.
and the same happened to me.Ijust FOUND this channel.having never seen it before,but needing this message. Praise GOD.!
@@jesusislord9707 my friend, you misunderstand what the rosary is. We do not, ever, pray to Mary. We pray through her and ask her to pray for us. Veneration is not the same as worship, although from the outside it may look that way.
Exactly the same happened to me finding this! I've been randomly attacked during prayer with horrible thoughts, I know what it is but never knew this was a common thing. I usually say "get ye behind me satan" and it instantly ceases.
this very same thing just happened to me. whoa. God bless you on your journey Knate1104 xo
"PRAYER CHANGES THINGS AND CIRCUSTANCES!" Prayer is a covering, like a soft blanket... don't leave home without it!
I thought I was the only one going through these horrible immoral blasphemous thoughts especially when I pray my Rosary. I’ve been praying my Rosary now for several years the consolation was wonderful when I started it gave me a peace I never experienced before but 8 months in my daily Rosary something changed I started experiencing these terrible episodes and now several years later it has intensified and I was so confused and sorta spiritually fatigued. About 5 months ago or so after finishing praying my Rosary on my knees in my room at my prayer alter as I was getting up from my knees I heard a guttural sound in my room and it was loud. The hairs stood up on my skin but I quickly knew what it was and yelled out “you can’t make me stop praying the Rosary” and I rebuked it in the name of Jesus. I won’t stop now there’s no way I can stop now I’m not going back to my old life. Pray for me my brothers and sisters and will pray for you. May the Holy Spirit guide us and protect us all. May our Blessed Mother Mary point the way to her son Jesus. Amen!🙏⛪️❤️
The evil boy attacks me constantly- the struggle with my weight, arguments with my husband/children, dark thoughts, etc. Keeping my eyes focused on Jesus & praying constantly.
Courage my sister in Christ. You are not alone... prayers sent for your endurance and faith.... 🙏
@Thomas Jefferson Thank you. I'm on my way. I'm eating clean and exercising. My strength is in God.
@@Cariad247 Thank you. God bless you!
@Three Pines Farm
Sorry to hear your sufferings. We are all in the same holy
boat together. The devil is the ultimate jerk, indeed.
As long as we keep fighting the good fight, we will one day be in heaven, with no more suffering or temptations.
Praise God. Jesus loves us. God bless.
Arguments have consumed my life lately. Especially because I’ve been open about praying- my own family calls me crazy for talking about god with strangers. Anyways I hope you overcome your arguments it feels to me they’re not going anywhere :(
Its very scary though. I've noticed that every time I pray, for the most part very strange and perverted images and ideas come to my head and I have to start over and over saying my prayers.
Your definitely not alone, me too.
Thank you for this video. Not enough people talk about this in Christian circles. If you are experiencing something, know that someone else is experiencing it, too. You are not alone. Keep reaching toward the Savior, Jesus. In Him is true freedom!
Found this totally by accident. I'm a Catholic who attends the Tridentine Latin Mass. I am having a terrible struggle with lust even when I've prayed. I went to confession yesterday and found my self battling with lust right afterwards. Really needed to hear this. Thank you.
Yes, I struggle with evil thoughts during prayer and sometimes even when I'm not praying. Initially I used to cry and ask Jesus for forgiveness. But it still kept coming. So, i decided by myself that whenever this happens, I will say out loudly " Jesus, I bow my head to You. You are my God and Master". Sometimes, I even kneel and say it if I'm alone. This has helped me. (Just sharing my experience here so that it could help someone). Thank you Fr. for bringing out this topic. I have never seen anybody talk of this openly.
Thank You. This happens to me all the time. I'll do the same.
Thanks for sharing. Reading scripture, memorizing it and meditating on scripture also helps.
I've been struggling with this for several months and I thought it was just me, I mean it just started and came out of nowhere. Very bad thoughts and in the beginning it was just bombarding my head for weeks/months on end. Thoughts I've never had and it didn't start til I realized what my sins were really doing to me and decided to live more for Jesus. Is this something that happens to a lot of people out there that finally realize they need Him in their lives?
Thanks for the advice...I’ll try to do this
Born Roman Catholic to Irish biological mother. Stopped going to church at 13. I guess I was New Age till a month ago. Started reading the bible for first time in 30 odd years. I understand that I've gone through dark night of the soul, possibly still am. This video has helped so much, I found it at the right time. God Bless You All. No weapon formed against you shall prosper!
I mean this sincerely. --If you've been into New Age, you've opened the door wide to demons in your life. That's not the dark night of the soul, that's just inviting demons in and turning from the Most High. Repent, ask God's forgiveness with a sincere heart. Turn from your anti God ways; He is a jealous God. And then, get deliverance from the demonic that has attached to you or they will stick around. They don't just leave voluntarily. (And they hide in you and quiet down until an opportune time, so deliverance is needed).
I just fell into sin and the sexual immorality is coming back I’m so tired of it but I’m willing to fight and fight and i really want to get to prayer I’m fasting right now to but it’s worth it
I Hope you will prevail over the temptations...
Keep fighting the good fight and you will prevail. God bless you 🙏
Deliverance will help...
Keep on the road! When you fall down over the path, you don´t starts to walk the road from beginning.... just stand up from the same point you fell and keep walking trusting in the God´s grace, not in your own forces. God bless you!
C. Vanessa thank you so much💗
I came across this video by accident,what a blessing!I could not understand why horrible thoughts were entering my mind when i tried to draw closer to God.I thought it was just me,i will never give up,ever.Blessed be the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.
"You are now a soldier in full battle." Wow!!
True words
I recently threw away my Occult Grimoires. But since I've thrown them away, the spirits have been attacking me. Please pray for me Father. I just want to be free. Thank you for your inspiring videos.
Pray to Our Lady.....the demons are deathly afraid of Her Humility.
You took a big step, brother! I’m a former occultist, too. I’ll be praying for you!
Pray, over and over, the Jesus prayer!
keep fighting! God love you, brother. all of these good people have given you good advice from their love for you.
the words of Wisdom are in the Gospel. we need none other for enlightenment.
It’s going to get worse, but Jesus will be with you, all the way.
Stay strong in Jesus name. Trust in Almighty God.
Blessings
Ok! This is what I do whenever the bad thought or word pops in my mind: I mentally take myself imediately to the feet of the cross, knees bent in adoration, because I say, if the devil wants to be in my company, it'll have to come to the feet of the cross to ADORE HIM too. Do this and you'll see they'll flee for weeks, but they'll come back, and you start the same exercise again. I used to be very distressed thinking it was me, now, I calmly pray in this manner.
@Mick Dees it certainly was my guardian angels idea yay! Let us be strong in LOVING our Most precious GiFT=Jesus. Ohh and to anyone having trouble lOving Him and feeling guilty about it, try Loving Him as a baby in the arms of Our Lovely Mother Mary.... everyone loves babies, Loving baby Jesus is easier, you just want to snuggle Him!
THANK YOU. WILL DO JUST THIS
That was honey for the soul! Thank you Father. Greetings from Greece.
O Lord God, in Your immense Goodness, help me in all things necessary for the salvation of my soul, Amen.
May Christ hear you, dear one, and all of us who call to Him with the same prayer.
Amen
Amen
2 corinthians 12:9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.
May God bless you, dear Matt. The beauty of the Fathers is that they start their theology by leaving the world behind, with all its hidden agendas and purposes. This is why there is nothing in their teachings contradicting the Scriptures, because the Truth of the Scriptures was all they had left and all they wanted in this world.
Thank you, I continue to have much to learn about prayer and scripture. I can identify with evil thought and images when in prayer. May the word of the lord be a light unto our path.
Our best teacher on prayer is Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit
Thankyou for this video. Lord Jesus take control over my mind body soul and Spirit ,my lips my tongue. So I can Glorify your Holy Name. Amen.
Amen
This happens because the devil is a liar. This happens to me everytime when I want to pray so I reject and I bind those thoughts away from my mind and it works. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah.
Oh boy needed to hear this. The blasphemous thoughts especially during the rosary make me feel awful. I try to explain this to some of my catholic friends but feel so alone. I’m so aware like a microscope my self love and it’s truly humbling. It especially happens when I pray even when I most don’t feel like prayer but I force myself to push through the vocal prayers slowly. I’m seized with terrible words I can’t express and they feel like they are coming from me.
You are not alone this happens to me especially! The enemy tries to make you feel isolated. We are going through the same exact thing.
One nun told me that if this happens, to reject those thoughts and say loudly or in your mind: "these are not my thoughts, they shell go back where they came from". I remember doing it several times, but those kind of attacks stopped eventually.
Gina Kendrick I too have this kind of blasphemous thoughts. Sometimes it doesn’t appear in my mind when I tried to focus in my prayer especially praying the rosary. I just imagine Jesus on the cross with me the Mother of God beside me.
I also experienced this, after Holy Communion also, non stop for many many years, day and night. I could not pray rosary..the words I was hearing were awful and I thought it was coming from me. It was torture. The worst is when I want to pray directly to God and feel anxiety, what again am I going to hear. I learned to trust God, take deep breaths during swearing, and be aware that Lord knows about it. I do not fight it anymore and with God's grace attacks are fewer. Praise Lord.
God bless all of you. I have been fighting for awhile now such horrors, but recently relief has come. Just tell Jesus that you love him and don't know where these thoughts come from. You know I really thought that I was alone in this kind of struggle. Talked it over with a priest that did finally understand what I was talking about. Reach out. Jesus, I trust in you.
I've started praying again after a long time and I am have been under attack ever since, nightmares are frightening, I was giving up, thanks to your video you have helped me. God bless you.
M M I also have had nightmares during the nightmare I say Jesus Christ son of god have mercy upon me a sinner ☦️☦️☦️ for me the dream ends then I awake ☦️☦️☦️ And say the Jesus prayer in my thoughts I also make the sign of the cross ☦️☦️☦️ It burns the demons when we say and think this they have no power over us it’s what is allowed for our salvation ☦️☦️☦️
Keep going! God is so much greater than any evil you may encounter. Repeat "I will fear no evil".
Don't ever give up. Keep fighting. God love you.
I have also had these demonic, crushing nightmares, even jumping up in bed and frightening my wife as i saw an evil presence in our room. Fear not! Pray in☦️
Hello, just want to let you know that we as christians are given authority to cast out unclean spirits.
I used to suffer terrible nightmares, which would wake me up sweating. This continued on for awhile, like few months.
One morning I think holy spirit whispered to me, to cast out the spirit of nightmare. So I uttered out "spirit of nightmare rebuke you in Jesus name."
Then I felt tremendous weight got off inside of me and felt immediate relief. I stopped getting nightmare completely except when it comes back occasionally,
then id do the same thing again.
Any how hope this helps you
“This is a good sign, this means you’ve picked up a good fight” thank you for that, I fervently believe god placed your video in my recommends to show me that
So very, very true! Know that when the dark forces begin to fight you as you pray, it is because they fear you. They fear the judgment that comes upon them through your prayers...because they know their time is short...and the more we pray, the quicker their judgment comes. Have courage, know that you are not alone. The angles are with you...and all of us who are also praying are also with you.
Angels (not angles)
I struggled with evil and disturbing thoughts in RCIA preparing for reception into the Catholic Church. It was so isolating and I was afraid to tell anyone at the time. Listening to this, it makes a ton of sense that this was an attack and a sign of the reality of my life being completely renewed in Christ and the sacramental life of the Church. I have a feeling that there are many others who need to hear this good news while going through something that is so dark and difficult. Thank you!
I had the same experiences throughout rcia too. Like suddenly the whole concept of spiritual warfare became quite real and very personal. Fight the good fight! St Michael the archangel, pray for us! Defend us in battle!
I’ve found that if I “play” the words I am praying in my mind, as if I am reading them as they scroll across the “screen” in my mind, it gives me something to focus on. This seems to enable me to pray better with fewer unwanted thoughts. It’s not 100% perfect but it helps a lot and gets better as you practice it.
I also begin my prayers asking the Lord to make my prayers “pure” and acceptable to Him, and asking him to defend me from these thoughts.
What a beautiful way to use to see the kingdom of God here on earth as it is in Heaven
That was a wonderful idea to ask God at the start of our praying, we ask for His protection that our prayer will be pure and acceptable to Him.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom, and may you stay blessed forever in your fight, so be it.
That's a great idea Libby. To ask him to make our prayers agreeable to him.
Having lived as a solitary for two years before age and bad health led to a return to society. Then came lockdown which I welcomed as a chance to return to the depth of prayer, but this time has been so much harder and so many more attacks and dark places. So thank you for this reminder that I am on the right path.
God bless.
Yes, Father. It took a very long time for me to figure this out. And even though I am aware, attacks still occur. I have become much stronger through this understanding- and my strongest prayers are at night. I have been under siege for many years, but I continue to trust my Lord. I thank you for your lovely videos and sage words.
May God bless you, dear one. Like yourself, I also know from bitter experience that knowing something is not the same as fulfilling the work of that 'something'. But knowledge is the first step to practice, so - at least - we can share with each other the little that we have, in the hope that at least one of us (maybe you) will put in the effort and actually apply this knowledge. Then, by the grace of God, we shall all partake (even in the smallest measure) of your joy because we have been the smallest part of your journey.
@@mullmonastery Thank you, Father. Every candle, no matter how seemingly small, when together, lights the darkness. I am grateful for your kind and profound words.
This was a medicine to my soul...
I am emerging from evangelicalism/charismaticism and am currently in the Anglican Church, while my boyfriend is orthodox. This was the kind of thing I have been needing to hear and I believe God lead me to it. I’ve been struggling with old temptations and am overcoming something that I’ve done all my life with the help of God. I’ve never seen a teaching like this before, it was so.. deep and nourishing. Thankyou.
I am so glad to have found this video by chance! I was so attacked that I had given up prayer and I even lost faith. But I felt such a void that I kept praying a little to fill the void but did not pray as often as I used to. Perhaps God wanted me to watch this video to encourage me and bring my faith back!
Thank you Father for sharing this wisdom. I was reaching despair because some of the thoughts that crossed my mind were horrific 😢. It's comforting to know that I'm not alone in this cruel fight. Pray for my weakness.
I NEEDED THIS SO MUCH PLEASE PRAY FOR ME THE DEMONS PUT BLASPHEMOUS THOUGHTS IN MY HEAD EVERY 5 MINUTES OF EVERY DAY
The ego, our flesh & the enemy can sometimes get in the way when we’re praying.
Wow! God spoke straight to my heart through you. My eyes are all welled up. This gave me hope. I love the Lord so much and couldn't understand why my mind was suddenly attacked by these blasphemous thoughts. I cried out to God to help me understand. I've never heard of your channel before and yet this video was on my news feed. I believe it was an act by God.
God bless you!
I watched this video and another one you did on demonic attacks during prayer, you said to think about demonic distraction as if they were flies-to ignore them. It's helping me for real. thank you Jesus!
Everything he said is so true. God Bless him.
I feel that I have been on the right path recently. I had experienced an increase in "attacks" since I started praying everyday again. I recently started to connect with the Lord on a new level that I never have before. I've been studying intensely and in prayer. Since then I have experienced 'evil thoughts' go through my mind and lots of nightmares.
This pain and attacks on me tells me I'm on the right path. I don't dispare because of this.
I prayed for help against these nightmares and I slept with a rosary wrapped around my hand (in addition to daily prayers throughout the day) the nightmares stopped instantly.
Yesterday I made a mistake and allowed myself to get distracted my the evil one. I didn't say a single prayer all day. I had a nightmare that night.
I woke up without the rosary. I didn't have it on. I almost lost it. I searched frantically and found it.
I immediately said prayers and psalms which I usually do in the morning.
It's better now. And I haven't experienced anymore nightmares since.
I'll see how it goes.
Bless you, brothers and sisters in Christ.
Pray for me.
Father im struggling. This happened ever since I came to christ. And keeps progressing. I'm just scared, I keep having intrustive thoughts. I'm being fed lies and the fear numbs me. But I refuse to give up on christ. I just don't know when grace is coming.
Never give up
That is what the enemy wants
Run TO JESUS HE WILL GIVE YOU PEACE
READ THE BIBLE
PRAY THE ROSARY
Here is my advice to you. First of all, we all have struggled with such filthy thoughts that distract us from God, especially when we are praying, to different degrees. When such thoughts attack you say this "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have mercy on me the sinner". Say it constantly and incessantly, and your mind and soul will start to feel peace. Try it.
I sometimes have OCD just before I pray...but prayer is pretty much the only thing that makes it go away. It is the enemy's way of trying to weaken us. God our Father is the greatest, so we have nothing to fear. Trust in God.
Bless you my brother in Christ. The enemy's biggest weapon is fear.... say the Jesus Prayer....its cited by another responder to your post. It's the only thing that worked for me, but praise Jesus it did work & sets me free.... 🙏
Oh, the grace is coming frequently through a darkness to purify you and make more open for Holy Spirit and free and happy, go on for it and do not fear :) just trust in Jesus and focus on Him, all the time, and do not fear :) He already conquered everything :) God bless you
So true... for 4 1/2 years I've said my daily rosary and have been attacked regularly in the process. Pure determination keeps me at it, and, a promise to our Blessed Mother that I wouldn't miss a single day!
I hope this will help others too. I've always spoken our Lord's words when evil endeavours to invade : Mathew 4, 10 : "Away from me, Satan". His help is instant.
Yes! Amen!
I have struggled with this too,and I am reminded of some scriptures that really do help me, Ephesians 6:10-20...and when I am praying, I believe The Holy Spirit reminds me to take my every thought captive under The Obedience of Christ Jesus...indeed my brothers and sisters in Christ...spiritual warfare is very real, and ramping up in these last days, but be encouraged for He Who Lives in me, Is Stronger than he who lives in the world, and we overcome satan by The Blood of The Lamb and the WORD of our testimony, HalleluYah, as each day passes, our redemption draws near, in Jesus Name Amen 💕💕💕
We need to up our game, deceplin ourselves, pick up our rosary and pray the hell out of the world.
I, too, was facing this challenge of unclean thoughts, ect. I was so comforted knowing that this happens to so many people and is very common and is a good sign that I am becoming a stronger Christian. God is so good to have us learn this information at a time when we so much need it. All Christians are truly united into ONE. We are here to serve one another and to build each other up. But also, we are here to WORK, to put out an EFFORT, to gain our salvation. As St. Paul said, to provide that one thing that is lacking in the crucifixion of Christ for our own salvation - our own desire, choices, sacrifices, work, effort, ect. God, the Father, wants us to experience hardships and to willingly experience them and welcome them, and feel them so painfully - out of LOVE for HIM and Jesus. Please realize this time on Earth, this time is the only time, the short time of our lives, that we are able to actually feel pain and sacrifice for HIM. After we die, we will be with HIM for eternity- full of JOY and HAPPINESS and FULFILLMENT. Our time now is such a very short time - the time of our life on earth - compared to eternity in Heaven. Realizing this fact, let us gladly experience hardships and trials for HIM while we can. Let us put everything in the correct context and priority and order. For the flesh and God is against each other, raging war inside of ourselves. Let us deny the pleasures of the flesh (and pride) to gain our fellowship with Christ and His Church. It is through this fight and effort and willingness and desire to overcome evil that our salvation is gained - along with FAITH, HOPE, and LOVE and affirmation that Jesus is both God and Man and died for our sins. Amen. Glory be to God the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit.
I needed this message so badly. I've been praying the rosary every day for 3 months and I've never been attacked like this before
The brighter the Sun the starker the shadows behind you.
O my, I have been having horrific images come into my head lately when I pray, so much so I began to think I was evil and wondered where these images were coming from. I try to be kind and non judgmental, live simply thank you for this teaching bless you 😘🌤
I am so grateful to God that I found this by accident.... Thank you.
Catholic here. This was very helpful. Thank you.
Father please pray for my son Jacob he is a drunken man and he is having lukoderma please pray for his cure and salvation
Very good video Fr. I am not Orthodox Christian but Catholic, nonetheless, your topic caught my eye and have you a listen. You are so right! Btw.. I have the exact same image of Theotokos in my living room, a larger version, adorn with a candle and she always gets fresh flowers weekly - on her feast days she gets , of course , her roses!! 🙂 keep up the good work! 👍🏼
It's an equally sound message for us Catholics.
Orthodox mass counts as mass on the Catholic weekly check list so they are same as us.
I think the difference is a Roman Pope thing a couple thousand years ago. This is off the top of my head so plz double check me.
@@ambilaevus7607 Dear Friend, if you ask Orthodox people in a mostly Orthodox countries, they will tell you that there are a quite many differences between Catholics and Orthodox, including our view on papacy, filioque, Theotocos (we have a slightly different interpretation if immaculate conception concept and Orthodox don't apply it to Mary), communion (Orthodox don't accept transubstantiation concept) and also more profound divide in the approach to mysticism and spirituality, including rejection of many Augustinian teachings. Nevertheless, if you ask an Orthodox Christian who lives in a country among Muslims, pagans or atheists, trust me, they will treat Catholics as our closest soul bodies (although I personally think that even though historically we are closer to Catholics, often early versions of Protestantism are more similar to us in their theological interpretations). But this is purely my personal view, so may be other Orthodox people feel differently. Much love to all Christians and prayer for the rest of the word to come home.
@@ambilaevus7607 there is a lot of differences. Christ made one church on earth, it's the orthodox church.
Sometimes Soooooooo depressed due to the unholy,
Bad wild thoughts while praying. LORD Jesus help me
to pray ,be my strength at every moment of life,hold my hand lest I fall. HAVE mercy on me a Sinner . Mama Mary please lead me to JESUS your Divine son. I ask this in your mighty name O my Jesus!
Minaux LeRoi
I can completely relate to this. As I become more consistent with prayer, reading the Bible, and going to Church and feel closer to God, I start to get insane dreadful blasphemous thoughts, that can be overwhelming sometimes; but through Christ I always get through it. Also, if I am about to say a bad word for example, I feel the Holy Spirit alerting me, if I said it already I feel It making me aware so I ask for forgiveness. Conversely, at the times when I am far away from God, these thoughts never come. Thank you for this video, Father!
I'm speechless. Exactly what I have been going through and exactly the message I needed to hear. May The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ always reign in your life from now till eternity. This spoke to my soul. I thank you and Thank God for giving you such wisdom to articulate such things to someone like me.
Thank you, dear Father Seraphim, for sharing with us these words of encouragement. ❤️☦️🙏🏻
I've learnt, dear Kay, that if I share the little I have, Christ gives me more. So I share as much as I can, in the hope that this will bring mercy upon my soul, too.
Thank you Father. I don't know if I am praying right, but I do say my prayers - and I swing between pride, despondency and the horrible thoughts. I understand what you are saying, and thank you so much for the comfort. I don't think it takes much progress to get to the point of being attacked for it. 🙏 Thank you so much for saying this
1) Read' Bible and meditate' on the verses ...
2)you have to fight flesh with prayer'
(Prayer : A communication with God who is your Heavenly Father ...just talk to him tell him your problem and he will help you ..have faith in him ...
Be honest and real and in patience let him know all your worries...! Reference : Philippians 4:6 ;
Example of format of prayer in Acts 4:24-30
note : verse 30 Stretch out you hand to Heal and perform signs and wonders Through THE NAME Of your HOLY SERVANT JESUS .... So Conclude your prayer in his name Jesus Christ
Another verse for you is Turn your bible to Acts 3: 16 ... 16 "By FAITH IN THE NAME OF JESUS , this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is Jesus' name and the faith that comes through him that has completely healed him, as you can see."
So have faith in him - read the gospel Mathew Mark Luke John ....
Read John chapter 17 ... Please look here how Jesus himself prayed John 17:11 I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. HOLY FATHER , Protect them by the POWER OF Your NAME , the NAME YOU GAVE ME, so that they may be one as we are one.
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You have to fight flesh
with Gods help by his power ... There is power in his name ... You will see the nature of God in his name.!
And only Jesus Christ can forgive your sin ,
see in Acts 10:23-48 ....
Acts 10:43 "All the Prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name"
Read it it is the whole Gospel in short preached by Peter
Matthew 22:29 " you are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God "
You have to meditate on the word of God (Bible) & memories them.... Know the names of our God and Praise him
1 Peter 2:11 Dear friends, I urge you , as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which WAGE WAR AGAINST YOUR SOUL ...
Soul? They are your Thoughts ... So you need to fight them ...
You need capture them and plead the Blood of Jesus on you ...
Thankyou Jesus. I am been attacked constantly and since last few weeks it has been worse. I was asking Jesus why is this... thankyou for the revelation. This is first time I heard this channel. Pls pray for me. Thankyou God Bless!
Wow I thought I was the only one who gets attacked by negative thoughts in prayer. I have become so much closer to God this last year. Thanks for sharing.
This happens to me during mass, at prayer and even at Adoration. I feel so worthless, ashamed, dirty and full of self loathing and despair. This video was of great help and it’s nice to hear it’s all part of the spiritual battle we all undertake on our journey towards sanctity.
Thank you. Thank you so much for this and right on the day when I was most struggling. I had the worst ugly thoughts today as if another voice or conscious is trying to force me away from God and even telling me stuff as ridiculous as God doesn't exist or pushing me towards pride and wanting to know everything concerning God's unfathomable secrets. It was so tiring I had a full on migraines, but I prayed to my Jesus and delivered my struggles to him as an act of penance for my sins and sinners and asked him patience and kept repeating I believe in his power to save me. Your words have made me feel even stronger and sterner in my journey towards God. I take this as a sign from God as well, delivering what I need when my soul needs it. Thank you so, so much! God bless you and may you always be able to share such beautiful content under his Grace. ❤
Yup. Been giving our lord my first morning time for about 3 years now and daily mass, confessions and adoration and rosary. Now I’m finding Thoughts that are so evil and I’m so amazed how difficult it can be to feel peace. Frankly they are very frightening. I bought a book on spiritual warfare prayers by father Ripperger and there for the laity book by tan publishing. Thoughts are worse than ever. This video makes me even more determined to sit at the foot of that cross and hold tight...
"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you" - James 4:7
It helps greatly to ask the Seal of Lord Jesus' Holy Blood to protect you during prayer. I've been doing this for a few months and the evil thoughts are very minimal now even outside of prayer. Keep praying and follow His teachings. God bless you all :)
"Whoever thinks there is another way of deliverance from sin other than prayers, is deceived by demons" one of the deserts fathers' sayings..
Wonderful insight, as I was thinking I was not worthy of praying because I was to "rotten" with these thoughts. Thank you for your blessing and guidance. Lord God Father's Holy Providence in the name of Jesus has provided for me once again. Blessings to all that read this message.
Thank you Father, I wish our local church priests would do a sermon like this, to REALLY explain to the people, especially the youths, of all of this. The worldly voices exclaim an evil gospel, teaching youths that if these are your thoughts, then do what pleases you and what feels good. Young people don't realise that these dark thoughts that come to them are not theirs necessarily, I wish I knew this when I was a youth!
Much love from Romania, Father ! Your teachings are reaching my heart. Never give up. The entire world is still held by the prayers of your kin. MAICA DOMNULUI sa ne aiba in paza ei ! Ea e taria noastra ! Iertare
I thought i was the only one experiencing this 😥
These blasphemous thoughts makes you weak spiritually, i tried to control them but i failed. I used to hear blasphemous voices in my head, the voices were abusing God not me😢
How i wish they were abusing me but they were abusing God and i cried cried unto God to help me.
I used to tell myself "this is not me!" and yet it's my own mind. God bless everyone here am still struggling with it, Shalom to everyone in Jesus'name ❤✝️
Thank you so much Fr Seraphim. I so badly needed this. The attacks are awful.
From Buenos Aires Argentine. Excellent your talk (sorry my english is not good), very useful for my spiritual life. You describe perfectly well my struggle and you illuminate my spiritual journey. God bless you!
You have addressed the very thoughts I have thought about many times, and confessed, but NO priest has explained it so well!! Thank you for this talk! I understand now very well, why this was happening to me during prayer, and even at the communion rail!! Thank you Fr. Seraphim, I so enjoy all your talks, and so look forward to viewing them! I hope one day to meet you and to bless you, Amen, Amen, Amen!
God bless you, Father Seraphim ! Amen ! ❤️
I definitely noted, felt and thought when I began to pray this ‘sinister’ force....
In fact I wrote this at the time,
“When i get close to God the devil talks”.
Stay strong. Remain steadfast in prayer and have faith.
Much warmth, Harriet
Hi just woke up from being spiritually attacked by the spirit of sickness. I rebuked it in the name of Jesus. I prayed and prayed and prayed looking for Gods help and my phone alerted me to this video , which I never came across . This surely came at the right time . It has helped me a lot . All glory and honour to you almighty father amen. Thank you for this video
That was very interesting as a Christian in Canada I have attacks during sleep or sometimes during prayer one dream I had I fought demons in the name of yahweh and the demons where running away from me. I woke up and thanked God for a fun butt kicking. I knew at that moment as we sleep we battle in the spiritual, now I understand what spiritual battle means that is why prayer in the name of Jesus is so powerful, its getting darker in the physical as well here in Canada with a goof ball for a prime minister.
I just finished praying my daily Rosary...and this has happened to me, out of the blue, and I could not for the life of me understand why....Thank you Father for explaining why this is happening.
I was wondering why this was happening to me. I couldn't believe my terrible thoughts!!
I kept apologising to Jesus, not knowing why this was happening to me, thank
you for helping me to understanding it....
Just keep praying. It happens to me also especially during prayer. Evil spirits lurks and attacks us especially during prayer. But just keep praying with faith and it vanishes from your mind. God bless you.
Thank you Fr. Seraphim. I was asking why these horrible thoughts enter my mind when I pray. Then, a few hours later, this video appears to me. Thank you for these words of encouragement to keep fighting the good fight. Glory to Jesus Christ!
Please keep these coming!!! You are helping so many souls!!!
My biggest problem when I go into prayer. Thank you for taking this issue. I wish our clergy talk more about this issue. May God bless you abundantly. 🙏🙏🙏
I pray to St. Michael the Archangel and ask him to fight the temptations and distractions that the devil do to prevent me from connecting to our Lord God. 🙏🙏🙏
You posted this the same hour I had emailed my spiritual father asking about this very thing. Thank you so much. It was much needed by me today. Father bless.
That is such a great gift, dear Innocent, to see so clearly that God takes care of you and steps in when you need Him, and that He still uses His little and unworthy ones to work in the world.
God of Israele bless every one in the world amen father son holy spirito amen
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This is what we all need... thank you! It shows we are not alone in our struggles and that all of us are subvert to falling! I’m a father of five grown up children, although never married, but the mother of my children married after we split up and I am seeing a girl. Because we are intimate I struggle so much with prayer because I’m not in the state of grace and I feel my prayer is not sincere! But I need to pray hoping that God take this situation and turn it in the direction He pleases... your words hit all the right points but it is so difficult being in this situation!
Thank you Jesus... I was so ashamed I thought I was the only one going through this.... I ask for prayers but was so ashamed to say for what.. thought I was blasphemy against God ,but I kept praying and trusting God... it's no mistake I came across this message to God be the glory for all he has done... now I know how to fight that spirit of darkness.
You are describing exactly my situation. Please pray for me Father.
I, like many of them who commented, experienced what you say, about feeling a sensation of pride, then trying to consciously silence those thoughts, then maybe having a feeling of not being worthy of praying along with a prayer on a video, for example. Then I get frustrated about things like a priest who insist that the only way to enter into the paradise (= not going to hell when I die) is to be a part of one special branch of Christendom etc. Then I noticed that while I was praying, my thoughts were wandering away with me, and sometimes during the prayer, I also noticed that some really awful thoughts entered my mind, totally contradicting my intentions with the prayer. Last week I gave up and was thinking: "OK, I wanted to be a better person, but finally I started to feel that I am worst than before I started to pray (one to two hours in the night). I have also been thinking: "OK, I will probably be going to hell, and what can I do... I have been searching and searching for years, and for a while I feel this way is probably right, to find another way which probably is right and so on. And now when I "clicked" on this video it was like I got an answer to my "silent" prayers on a more or less subconscious level (from a "silent God", as I thought of God, many, many times). Now I can see that it is a fight and that you have to battle against those terrible thoughts of an almost blaspheming character (entering the mind in a fraction of a second, then rejected, etc.), contradicting the word of holiness coming out from your mouth. Anyway, I feel very happy that "I found" this video. I was feeling so depressed and rejected and in despair, but now after I understand the process, it, the revelation, was a great relief to me, thanks to you. If I should be absolutely honest, I have been thinking that this maybe is how the process is working, but this was the confirmation I needed to go on! Thank you for this video! /Erik
Wow, that is precisely what is happening to me when I pray, the vilest thoughts when praying, thank you for making this clear to me and encouraging me. Now I will pray with more vigor to fight the enemy!!! Thank you and GOD bless!!!
Thank you so much! I truly believe that all Christians need to see this video, all people of faith! The closer we get to God, the more the enemy will attack us, it's true. When I am in prayer, and the enemy attacks me, and tries to distract me I rebuke him in the name of Jesus Christ. I know logically that I'm not alone in this fight, but when it happens I feel alone when the enemy attacks me. I think it's important for all people to know that they are not alone when the enemy attacks them while they are in prayer. We must always rebuke the Devil in the name of Jesus Christ, by the power of the Blood of the Lamb!
Thank you so much for the blessing of this video! 😇🙏🏻🕊💓🌹
THANK YOU 🙏❤
MY GOD BLESS EVERYONE 😇HOLY LORO ALELUJAH 🌻🍀💎🌹💞🌈
I love the sincerity and passion this wonderful man displays. A reminder that the enemy still "Prowls " about.....thank you for the wise counsel, brother.
I am a devout Protestant and I truly appreciate what you said. It was very helpful. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I will pray for you and the monastery. Blessings. Love from Pennsylvania.
I cant believe i came across your video because i really needed it i have been fighting with evil thoughts about our father nasty disgusting thoughts that i will never think of and i have askew father to take them away and its working because its not so bad like before thanks alot my brother i really appreciate it
Holy words of wisdom what father speaks of, folks, from God Himself. Thank Jesus!
This is why God calls some people to live an aesthetical lifestyle, like a monk, so that he can go into deep prayer and learn the beautiful mysteries of the Lord, and share it with others for one's benefit.
What a great video. Explains a lot for me. The last few months, when in prayer, the most evil and blasphemous thoughts and images will enter my mind. Thoughts that never come to me other than while in prayer. Thoughts which I can't even identify as being my own but rather as though they were inserted into my mind by force. I can't even speak the thoughts out loud or write them down, such evil shouldn't be spoken. They will come into my mind and I am immediately repulsed by them and the reaction is to recoil from them and the activity (prayer) in which I was involved at the time. Of course, I don't let that stop me and get right back to praying, but clearly these are from the evil one.
I'm looking for GOD I live alone and have a disability and just over addiction and not much money, but I have found you and I have started to get horrible thought And dreams and temptation, Thank you GOD has truly sent you to me, I don't know how to pray 🙏🙏🙏🙏😇😇😇