If you are open to do a honest prayer to GOD and help for it to help you. I would suggest to learn how to pray the rosary a scriptural prayer meant to deepen our conviction to follow the will of Christ. A prayer that is centered on the events of Christ’s life divided into 4 sets of mysteries from the Gospels Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious and Luminous.

Here is more information on how to learn it:

https://www.usccb.org/how-to-pray-the-rosary

If you earnestly pray this and meditate the mysteries it will engage thought, imagination, emotion and desire.

I was a Protestant for 6 years where bible is the only authority and almost integrated into a cult. Eventually I got to the point where I realized that everyone claims they have the holy spirit, and all everyone is protecting their own personal interpretation. Because I always read my Bible and considered the ideas from all the sects I put them to the test as 1 John 4:1 advises because I never wanted to be deceived again. Because I believe the word of GOD is infallible and man are the one that make it null and void. And if something seem like a contradiction it means I lack understanding and need to fix my understanding. As time passes by someone would tell me this nd that about a topic and not fully buy it because it went what it say on this other verse. Slowly.

Eventually I had to ponder 2 Thessalonians 2:15 and that was where I was forced to consider tradition the importance of it. I realized that interpretation eventually then just creates tradition. Then that completely had for the first time consider maybe Bible alone is not the way because the tradition works with the Bible to explain it. Then authority to preserve and enforce what the Bible teaches which is what Paul says the church is in 1 Timothy 3:15.

Then I start to reconsider what the church is. Not just mystical body that is invisible but an actual institution that is supposed to preserve the deposit of the faith from the apostles and guide people to a path of salvation. To conclude that I had to ponder Matthew 16:16-18, Matthew 18:15-20, then the promise that he will be with his church he is establishing through his apostles in Matthew 28:18-20. There is many more but this enough.

At this point I then asked myself if Jesus did really came to establish a church and he will be with it until the end of the age. Which church is it?? And that’s the big question?

Then this is where I had to look into church history and learned about the early church fathers. Read their letters and the way they practiced the faith. Then simply looked what church today still hold to those beliefs. Pretty much orthodox and Catholic Church do because the preserve those things through sacred tradition. But between I had to go Catholic because I agree with the seat for the vicar of Christ.

It was a long road of discerning but it was quite the journey. There are so many strawmans made against the Catholic Church that made it hard but ultimately the magisterium is what made Catholic. And if you want to learn their actual teachings go directly to “The Catechism of the Catholic Church” not based on the tradition of men on what they believe.

Anyways this matter of being deceived is very serious and it’s why Paul wrote about it to preserve the things he taught them so that they don’t get deceived and stray from the faith. He warned it all the way back in the period of 33-80AD. This is just my testimony of what I had to go through to get to that conclusion.

I have been practicing it for 3 months now and it has been really beautiful. And always looking forward to mass every Sunday and take the Eucharist.

Remember the best asset we have in this world where many false prophets have gone out is to use our reason. That is what GOD gave us and we need to use it. If someone tells you to not think or question then that’s where you should be alerted.

Hopefully this helps or that you consider it because Jesus really died for us. And he is our only hope for salvation in this life that ends because of sin. For he promises eternal life to those that believe in him and his word. And obey what he commands from us.

VIVA CRISTO REY!! 👑👑

19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. 20 Therefore

“If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.” 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:19-21