My history again?

Thank you very much!

 

Hi, my dear friends

I'd like to share this with you:
How my heart was strongly touched and my prayer answered! (June 30th)

After that, I spent 100 days without M and completed 6 months without P :-D

Also I share how God rescued me from falling last week! and some thoughts on my current problem with scruples...
I hope you can read. All the links are recent posts in my journal. And please, continue praying for me

 

Intresting story this is. I had one bad day like that also. So I went to confession but just like you it was little bit embarrassing so I want to another curch to the other priest. After I stayed on mass and after mass there was eucharistic adoration I didn't know is going to be and it was quiet so I had time to pray. And from that time to now I'm clean.
Fight to stay on the right path.

 

I've had the same experience and I believe we should recognize these events as nothing less than God replying to our prayers with Actual grace. What a gift and what a tragedy if we were to waste it.

 

Good. Praise God!
I was clean during 100 days after that. I'd have liked it to be forever...

I'm doing

Indeed.

 

100days is good but forever sounds much better. That the aim. Hope this is the way to do it. It helped you to reach 100days.

 

It is no coincidence that when we fail to maintain a regular connection with God via prayer, Blessed Adoration, Confession and the Holy Eucharist, a fall is not far in the future. We need these things to obtain Actual grace from God - the strength and inspiration that we need to do His will.

For this reason, I am trying to focus on the recognizing consecutive days of these good, and vital, habits which lead to Actual grace instead of a sole focus on days free from PMO. To do otherwise is like focusing on consecutive days without committing a crime instead of consecutive days of living a moral and lawful life. The former drives the latter.

 

Yes, a very good comparison. If one stays away from PMO for a few days without prayer it means that one's success is only an accident. Maybe your body was on low or you weren't in a real temptation or there was no major occasion or circumstance. Beside of this without grace (which is mostly given by prayer - so without prayer) the time without PMO is only some exercise of your will strength. But without a component of the grace - healing, the time can be and mostly is tiresome, unpleasant , even painful. You can't stand long the incresing void feeling combined with increasing temptations and lack of pleasure. And you have not so much strength to do something good for others.

 

You are a great addition to this forum. Glad you are back

 

Recently, I heard a talk by a priest whose gift is exorcism. He had several interesting things to say, two of which I have made a new practice in my life and I must say they are an excellent help with temptations.

First, he said that he councilled an addicted person to say the Angelus at 6, 12 and 6pm each and everyday. The person he advised whined a bit and asked "do I have to pray at 6am, could it not be 7am instead?". The priest said, of course not. Part of this practice is bring some discipline into your life. This practice seems to be amazingly helpful in keeping my mind on track and away from sinful thoughts.

Secondly, he said that when He exercises a devil from someone, he says out load, "In the Name of Jesus Christ, I command you to leave this person". He explained that the devil knows Christ and recognizes His incredible power and thus does as he is told when Christ's name is invoked. I have repeated this phrase, with reference to myself, on a few occasions when I feel particularly tempted. There have been occasions when I have had to do this several times per day, because my mind wants to invite the devil back in, but still it works.

I am praying for you, please pray for me.

 

Erm.... Nice sunglasses....and haircut.

 

Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
I'l be praying. Stay strong.