If you are battling sins of the flesh, how about you go to Adoration and stare at the flesh of Jesus to get Satan out of your mind.
Ray Sullivan
Who is Ray Sullivan?
Born in Texas in 1951, Ray Sullivan was raised on a ranch. He went to college on a math scholarship. He played high school and semi- pro baseball. Ray worked in Mission Control at NASA in Houston for the Flight Surgeons, as well as a project engineer on the Spacelab Program. Ray retired from the USAF Civil Service in 2013. After that he taught math in a
Catholic school for 3 years. Finally, he tutors math online and in person. This September, he will be teaching math classes at a Friday only school for home schoolers. He’s married and has two grown up children, and two dogs. You can find out more about him at Catholicbible101.com.
How To Get Satan Out Of Your Mind?
In this episode, we talk to Ray Sullivan about how to get Satan out of your mind. He talks about:
i. What are the areas the devil gets in our head?
ii. Why do we need to keep the devil out?
iii. What are the practical solutions to keep the devil out of our minds?
iv. Some tips to get spiritually stronger?
Keep Your Mind Free
I read Ray’s article on How to keep the devil out of your head. It really needs to dawn on us that we are fighting principalities of darkness. (Eph 6:12)
Ray has very simple steps to battling things in our mind because he blieves that once we imagine them, they come into our memory and emotions, our conscience and finally our will.
Our mind is a battle ground. Here are some of his solutions:
- Pray: don’t we just all know this.
- Ask God to supplement the virtues lacking in your life.
- Attend mass and confession.
- Spend time in Adoration.
- Contemplate on the Passion of Christ. I love when Ray says, there’s no time in heaven. Even now we can console Jesus in His agony.
- Meditate on the Rosary and ask Mary as a mother to help you.
- Talk to someone, a spiritual director or a friend who’s been in the same situation.
- If you backslide, double down. Never give up.
- It takes years.
- Allow God’s will in your life.
I loved how matter of the fact Ray is about everything and how honest he is about his own personal struggles. It’s refreshing to hear someone who admits they’re frail and needs God’s grace. His steps to get Satan out of your mind have been discussed in many of our episodes.
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