Heck! Just today a elated about some things and a couple of hours later the enemy was already trashing those things.

And yesterday we heard the Lord send His apostles to heal the sick, raise the dead and expel demons. Surely, the healing of the sacraments and “raising” those killed by mortal sin are part and parcel of the Church today. But it saddens me when she neglects expelling demons, if not merely paying lip service to demonic influence. I even asked a bishop about what someone should do to get a prayer of deliverance and he just changed subject.

Fun IS good. God wants us to be happy. Good clean fun; that exercises or bodies he gave us is good. Sitting playing violent video

games that KILL (and call it fun; not sure he'd be thrilled about)

God wants us to be rich, AS RICH as we want…money I don't think Jesus knew about in his day. I think in his day one worked for

animals or some food for the day. There weren't banks, and investing; I don't think. I think Our Lord would have wanted us to be content with what we are given; be it much or little use it for others besides our own desires. Use our talents and discover 'the source' of it…and give credit to HIM somehow. (the SPIRIT will say how; but it's not just about getting up in a corporate boardroom to say to all “I couldn't have done it without GOD who gave me my ability” That would have come across as boasting. To give HIM credit, is to NOT seek praise of men, but

to show in one's way towards others, patience, kindness, helpfulness,

and give others their due (as God allows us our due) That's how we

live GOD to others…He seeks not for us to 'name Him specifically'

but in doing as He did for us…gave us out chance to shine; so we

need to live that same Spirit.

the world (understood as the sinful patterns of behavior that society in a fallen world tends to normalize),

the flesh (the innate tendencies of our fallen nature that draw us towards self-centered decisions and habits),

and the devil. (of the devil himself, you point to obsession and possession; and temptation: which is as you stated; the most common tactic of the devil to 'get the good' to disobey Christ within. ie: following our will for our gain not trusting in the slow and steady way of Christ towards heaven and attaining that which we need.

I'd like to list what I think are the 'worldly' ways — and 'the enemy' of our

Christo-centric self. Correct me if I'm off. The ways of the world derive

wanting 'love' from 'the world' … trying to fit ourselves into the ways that the world says is 'cool' (ie: show no feelings, no passion, no sign we are 'human'… we show 'stoicism' even when we'd like to shed tears, or we try for total independence; never asking for help, we have an answer to every problem; rather than simply listening to another and offering a prayer for God to guide them and us, in dealing with the problem. The answer we might find was in just that, praying and being patient with ourselves while being 'in tune' to God leading us through our problem, the worldly way might be in not speaking when another is bullying us (intimidating us) to 'cower' and 'shrink back' at this other's supposed power in our job situation, not trusting the GOOD authority that is there (good authority that God gives) Worldy thinking is that any other human 'like us' has more power over us than GOD within us ie: that we need 'them' in order to succeed and be

loved.

The fleshly enemy (us) as it is said “we are our own worst enemy” comes

about when we stop attending Mass so as to sleep a bit later because we work hard all week and deserve to sleep, when we stop serious praying

(serious prayer; there is those quick mutterings of Oh God…help me; when a small difficulty comes) Serious prayer is examining conscience before

falling off to sleep at end of day, or meditating a bit on the Word of God

quietly, bringing to the reading the day's activities, or sitting in silence for

15 minutes before the Blessed Sacrament, or 'THE PRAYER' of just

'doing the good' … not giving in to the sin of sloth, but to always strive to

work a bit better (irregardless of anyone noticing our work) read and stay

in the know, show our inner spirit by outer dressing (be neat, not necessarily high fashion, but well kempt and orderly – thus we will have others come to us, and thus we can be instruments of showing HIM to

others.

This is 'world and flesh' ways that bring THE DEVIL to go to work on us.

(making us fall for Him and away from sanctified grace) YES? correct?

I don't know if this is what oppression is, but it sure wearies me. Is a prayer of deliverance the recommended solution? What should I do?

TIA

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Pax Christi

Dan

God bless.