[Adapted from Prayer of the Warrior]
When Satan disrupts our lives, sending us anxious or confused thoughts, we must immediately halt what we are doing and pray until the evil attack is stopped.
We must pray until peace returns to our spirits.
We must nip obnoxious diversions in the bud.
He sends many people — good and bad — our way. He can use the devout as well as the sinful. He is relentless, but when we approach his attempts with humility and peace of heart, we stifle him.
He is afraid of humility.
And he flees the Holy Spirit, Who especially comes when we praise Jesus and thank the Eternal Father, over and again.
He flees when we thank and love God.
This is also how we come to the truth: only through love, for God is Truth but also God is Love.
If we’re confused by someone, we can discern why — we can have full insight into them, perhaps into their wrongful words or actions — only by loving them first. Love makes all clear. Love gives us the grace of vision. Hatred is blind.
If the devil predominates in our time, it is because there is such rampant pride, which he feeds off — for he is the Prince of Pride, and also the prince of the this world.
Jesus said that.
Don’t be deceived into thinking you can have it both ways, the “best of both worlds.” That is a compromise with darkness. Seek advancement in God’s kingdom, not the passing one of life on earth.
There are many who misuse the cliché “doom and gloom.” It is not gloom and doom to expose evil. The true gloom is to continue wallowing in Satan’s work.
To pretend matters are better than they are is to conveniently disregard the work we must hurriedly tend to.
Evil may be far more pervasive than what most people believe. But it’s nothing compared to the power of Christ — a grain of sand (or less: an atom) next to the Empire State Building.
To expose it is to move toward a remedy.
Quickly vanquished, can be demons! But they like operating unnoticed, in the dark.
We look up — we keep our eyes focused on Heaven. When evil rises in our lives, our families, or society at large, when we see it as New Age or immorality, or religious judgment and pride, when demons come to harass in their final pathetic assault, we remain in a heavenly gaze while lifting up our collective hands and commanding the devil in the Name of Jesus to vanish, as then he must.
[Adapted from Prayer of the Warrior]