Demonic activity increasing since January 1, 2014?

I was talking by phone with a close friend, a faithful prayerful Catholic, during the third week of January. In the course of our phone call, he asked me if I felt especially "under attack" since the first of the new year. Frankly yes, I told him, I have felt an increase of temptations and attacks since the new year arrived.

I've subsequently asked family, friends, and a number of my patients the same question. The answer among those who are prayerful and spiritually aware has been almost unanimous. They all feel a sharp uptick in the efforts of the fallen ones against personal holiness and apostolic works.

Is this the case among the members here too?

 

Yes I would agree. The shorter the time of evil, the more temptations and attacks.

 

I can not say that I feel the added presence of evil personally, however I feel drawn to a deeper prayer and contemplative life. I do feel an urgency. I do see evil is present in many parts of the world. I feel a calm before the storm, but the wind and waves of evil are in the air.

 

I can't take it anymore. Getting blasted everywhere.

 

Only in the heart of Mary will we be able to carry our crosses. This I am convinced of.

 

I'm feeling the same thing, Everytime you think you're OK the devil tries his darndest to cause havoc. Praying lots of rosaries seems to ease off the pressure, but there definitely is something going on. I also finding that people who have seemed very strong in their faith seem to be not feeling as strong and some are even questioning their faith. I've also had a lot of people asking for prayers, much more so that in the past. We must really be strong and stand up for our faith. God bless.

 

I've posted before about my experience of a new protection from evil since I've been learning to live in the divine will. At the same time, my presence seems to draw out enmity from those living on the dark side. It happened again tonight.

I was having trouble finding my patient's house and, very focused on getting there, as he was in pain, I saw a big house with a concrete circle driveway and decided to turn around there.

I drove another block, then pulled over to call for better directions. A car came screaming up and a man jumped out, livid with rage. He started to approach the car, but when I rolled down my window and looked at him, he backed away and stood on the other side of his car. He said, "That was MY circle drive back there. Who do you think you are, using MY circle drive? What were you thinking?" I responded, "I guess I wasn't thinking. So sorry." He sputtered around then said, "What were you thinking?" I said, "Please accept my apology." I smiled at him and his face contorted with disgust. He got in his car and drove off.

So here's a guy, so enraged that he ran out without a coat, jumped in his car and chased me down. I'm sure he intended to give me quite a tongue-lashing, but his words didn't match the rage in his body language.

At the end of my visit, I told the family the story, wondering if chasing down people who use his drive was a sick hobby for this man, and they couldn't believe it - never heard of it happening before. Another nurse was there and she leaned over and whispered, "The enemy hates you!"

Then I thought, is that what caused such out of proportion rage? That I brought Jesus in me onto his property???

Every weapon fashioned against you shall fail;
every tongue that brings you to trial
you shall prove false.

This is the lot of the servants of the LORD,
their vindication from me—oracle of the LORD.
Isaiah 54: 17

 

Two Kathy's posting there, I thought I was seeing double. But its like double cream..can't get enough.

Well generally no not so much attack as more and more a feeling of being unworldly as though deeper prayer had can of given me lift off. Though I think this was because of my monthly retreat.

I did however notice two odd things recently I did not know what to make off. I was walking the dogs off the lead out in the middle of nowhere a couple of weeks ago, not a soul in miles. Being in the dark on my own far from anywhere never bothers me, I like the dark and am always comfortable with it, it is very,very good for prayer and meditation especially out the open. Then out of nowhere there was this most horrible shriek I nearly jumped out of my skin. This went on with me singing loud hymns to our blessed Lady and every hair in my head bolt upright and turning white for some time. The howling shriek from several directions.

I finally traced it to one of the dogs who had ate a ham bone and was having difficulty going to the toilet. Problem solved you might think but I had never heard a dog shriek like that before a Hollywood horror exec would have loved it. Also as soon as we came back he never done it before nor had he ever done it before. So it had a kind of question mark over it, it just happened at the right time and the right place to scare the wits out of me and the sound was so ..well unworldly. But I kinda wrote it off.

However a couple of nights later I was working the night shift with a lady with whom I have been having difficulties with. To cut along story short she can be quite nasty. I tried to solve matters by doing more and more work and being pleasant with her but this only made things worse. So I have adopted the strategy of staying as quiet as I could with her and at breaks staying in another room. We are the only two in a very big building at night. Well all of a sudden in the middle of the night from the room where she was came a voice , not hers, kinda deep cursing and hurling abuse. It was her voice I know but her voice coming out like a deep mans voice very, deep, aggressive angry and ..well cursing like a trooper. It sounded unworldly like the dogs howl.

I hope there is some explanation of these two events, I never heard anything like it before. But it has left kind of a question mark.

It would not surprise me if it was the devil, It would not surprise me if it was not. I have found with the devil often these things are hard to pin down..at first. But if he keeps it up then you can be sure.

So I am kinda left scratching my head, I just don't know. But I find great peace in prayer, if it is the devil , his nerves will go long before mine. I am quite a hard case. But I am glad to have the scapular, medal and Benedict's cross round my neck, a great source of comfort.

 

I would say with demonic activity generally , if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck it is better to treat it like a duck. It is better to be on the safe side and pray, a little extra prayer and the use of sacramentals can never, ever hurt.

Also with certain individuals..well ..a certain distance and caution seems good.

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padraig, maybe the person you were working with ate a ham bone too and was constipated!!

 

I can't say that I have noticed any attacks more than normal this year. But I have noticed Our Lady calling me to go to specific places of prayer where I have received tremendous blessings for whatever reason. Also I do feel prompted to spend as much time as possible in prayer and adoration. I have noticed though, a more distinctive falling away from the faith of those around me.. and some praying people seem to have more faith in my faith than in God when sickness etc comes to their door.

 

I had my attack (or rather test I think) from the devil back in January that I posted about on this board. I can still remember it like it just happened. The pressure I felt as it held me down in my bed at my chest was a weight that I had never felt before. The most important thing for me during this ordeal was how I reacted and felt. I really felt no fear whatsoever and calmly knew instantly to call out to my Mother for help. I began to recite the Hail Mary and before I even finished her name at the beginning of the prayer, the evil was gone. I think Padraig said it best long ago on this board about the devil. Once you realize that there is nothing the devil can offer you that you want, his power is gone. I am quite sure that the devil could scare the you know what out of me but it would be more of a startling fear than a fear for my soul right now. I say bring it on. I know that if we have true faith in the two hearts then there is nothing evil can do to us.

Awhile ago someone posted on here about a new messenger in Latin America. I had not read any of her updates for quite sometime but yesterday felt compelled to read some. What I read yesterday I feel fits right into this discussion as to what many may be feeling this year or have to deal with still. As always pray for discernment when reading this but it makes sense. I have noticed of late that a lot of my past sins that I have confessed of and had burried had been coming to my mind of late and then I read this message. Evil can bring back up our wrongs to us especially those wrongs we have not confessed yet knowingly or unknowlingly. I also feel that the Holy Spirit will bring to mind some older sins that we have long forgotten about but have never confessed as a way to help us clear our debts as we prepare for what is to come.

(GOD THE FATHER SPEAKS)

My Children, My Beloved, My Little Ones:
This is the time for you to start paying off your debts with the past, in and during these terrible three years which now begin for the final purification of the entire world; it will also be yours, My Beloved.

Understand it well, how you should do it: When a lake is cleaned, what was settled quietly in the bottom starts to come up to the surface; that movement of the waters is so it can be cleansed deeply, and now it is time of such a similar situation to occur with you and with everyone.

You will start to feel the grief, the lack of peace for all of that which was settled; which suddenly returns to the surface and now you won’t be able to make it sink, but you will have to face it: each deed of your past, each unfinished situation, each debt with your God, with the Most Holy Trinity, with your children, with your Parents, with your grandparents, brothers, and with yourselves, also.
Each debt will be placed in front of you.

Those who have been obedient and have been confessing and repairing will notice that their pending account, that their debt, is lesser; but not because of it, is in zeroes or without debt; but does who have not heeded, who have not confessed will feel the greatest unrest because suddenly, they will see all their debt together in front of themselves and, IF THEY DO NOT BELIEVE IN MY HOLY WORD, IN MY SACRAMENTS, IN MY FORGIVENESS, they might despair and won’t even know how to start paying. Do you understand?

Yes, Abba.

That past that you have already buried comes out to you and demands that you cleanse it and that you remain with your account in zero and, My Little Children, it is not a simple or quick work, but you must do it or you will not find the Peace you long for.

(AN ANGEL OF THE LORD SPEAKS)

Your Most Beloved Father allowed you that all of that remained buried while you were getting prepared, because you couldn’t bear with all that debt together; but the moment comes in which you must face it, and they will come back to your memory; causing you discomfort, those issues of the past which you believed were no longer going to resurface, but now come out.

Blessed those of you who have put yourselves at peace in the times that preceded you, because now they will jump into your conscience and now you won’t be able to silence it any more.

You will have to start all that work from right now, because now nothing will remain hidden from your eyes; everything will come out, and you won’t be able to push it to the bottom because it will return until it vanishes by forgiveness, and you remain with your account clean in each matter.

That money debt which was not collected for a long time and which you thought that you would no longer have to pay will return to you demanding its payment; and it will be the same with all of your matters.
What have you been feeling, Creature?

Unrest, nostalgia for the past, pain for what was not or for what was that should not have been.

All, Creatures of Heaven, carry with that same bundle.

What do you owe?
(…The Dialog continues with the personal part… and at the end, I ask

Is that also a debt?

It is; all of that is what you owe and in which you need to work, and My Children will do theirs. Do you understand? What you failed to give is your debt of omission and you must put yourselvescurrentor you will succumb.
You have much work to do, My Little Children, so start doing it, now!

(January 29)
Year of the Lord 2014

Y Maria del Getsemani

 

You have a beautiful dog! What is its name?

 

I too have felt a presence lately. I hear swear words a lot in my thoughts, and although I don't say them, it makes me sad and a little scared. Where I work the employees freely swear a lot so I hear it all day and it's very frustrating! I still can't walk very well (2 ankle surgeries in the last 4 months) but when the weather gets better I'm going to try to make mass every day again. Here where I live if it's not -20 F in the mornings, it's snowing and I have to wait for the plow to leave.

 

I am FINALLY understanding how God works with me. Spiritual attack, everybody's grumpy,tears, praying harder, confession, consolation, joy! Then it happens again..and again...and again. Its like DUH...the valleys and the peaks!

 

Do you know what date that message was from??

 

I like Fatima's analogy of the winds and waves. Looking back I'd say Benedict XVI's resignation, at least for me, seemed to set off a chain of events. For me it feels like the opposition is getting bolder and converging - trying to create a perfect storm. It almost seems like each day the storm grows and rages even harder than the last. How far we have fallen away in such a short amount of time! I worry for my children most of all, what kind of world are they going to grow up in? The only hope I have and cling to is that we win in the end. I'm just trying to latch onto the ship and ride it until the end.

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forget to put the end of the message on there:

(January 29)
Year of the Lord 2014

Y Maria del Getsemani

 

I tthought they called this "purgatory".

 

It would be possible then, this being true, that the same source might cause trouble on the forum.