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Prayer for Deliverance
from the Tyranny of False Beliefs
and Negative Thoughts

Overcoming self-defeating statements that we repeat to ourselves unconsciously
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Introduction
About false beliefs and negative thoughts
Prayer for Deliverance from the Tyranny of False Beliefs and Negative Thoughts
Prayer Booklet

 
Throughout the day, whenever you feel oppressed, stuck, and weighed down with fatigue in trying to accomplish your tasks, use the following deliverance prayers to overcome the false beliefs and negative thoughts working covertly to obstruct you.

 

     

No one can make you get angry.
No one can make you depressed.
No one can make you commit suicide.
No one can make you lose your faith.
 
Although circumstances and people can obstruct you,
only you yourself can defeat your success.

     

 
 

About False Beliefs and Negative Thoughts

False beliefs (such as, “God hates me” and “I’m garbage”) and negative thoughts (things you say to yourself, such as, “You’re going to fail” and “Give it up”) develop in childhood as attempts to manage the recurring emotional trauma of confusion, neglect, criticism, and abuse. Although based in the naive reasoning of a frightened child, these beliefs and thoughts help children to survive helplessness, but, if left uncorrected, the beliefs and thoughts will continue into adulthood as parts of the unconscious that persist in self-sabotage and failure.

Examples of false beliefs and negative thoughts:

I am bad.
I am disgusting.
I have no right to succeed.
Without my father’s or mother’s love I am doomed.
I’ll never change.
It’s too hard.
Give it up.

The correction, though, cannot be forced. For example, when persons who are prone to worry are told, “Stop worrying,” they will then start worrying that they don’t know how to stop worrying. This shows that the parts of the unconscious who cling to their accustomed thoughts and beliefs as the only security they have ever known will be terrified if they are commanded to change; instead they need patient explanations and persistent teaching.
 

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Prayer for Deliverance from the Tyranny of False Beliefs and Negative Thoughts

 
IN the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

SAINT Michael the Archangel, defend me in battle; be my protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, I humbly pray: and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.

As I let God arise in my heart, I let my false beliefs and negative thoughts collapse like wax melting before fire, and I let childhood fears that were once kidnapped by demonic lies now find peace when the holy and majestic name of Jesus is invoked.

O Lord Jesus, hear my prayer.
And let my cry come unto You.

LORD holy Father, almighty eternal God, I beseech You to deliver me by Your glorious majesty from the tyranny of my false beliefs and negative thoughts; from their snares and lies; and from the grip of their confused compulsions to flounder in addictions, anger, despair, lust, pornography, procrastination, self-hatred, and unchastity. Deign, O Lord, to grant me Your mighty protection and to keep me safe through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, Who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, through all the ages of ages. Amen.

From my false beliefs and negative thoughts and from the temptations they inflict on me,
deliver me, O Lord.
That my love for You may free me from the desire for self-sabotage and negative thinking,
grant this, O Lord
That I may serve You in purity and truth, with freedom from the tyranny of lies and negativity,
grant this, O Lord.
 

Explanations of false beliefs and negative thoughts transformed into true beliefs and positive thoughts are given in the prayer booklet.

 
Prayers of renunciation are given in the prayer booklet.

 

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Prayer Booklet
 

This 8 page booklet contains the text on this webpage plus many helpful additions, such as information about the psychological nature of negative thoughts and beliefs; the reason for forgiveness; positive thoughts to keep in your heart; preparatory prayer; affirmations of true beliefs and positive thoughts; and deliverance prayers.
 
The booklet is made by my own hands and printed on acid-free paper.
 
 
 

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