Fair enough, just to be clear I said a prayer and asked jesus to expell any unwanted spirits. I wear a cross around my neck and have a statue of Mary.
Your advice would be to just pray then?
Any particular prayers you would recommend?
If my post came across harsh, I apologize. I just wanted to be clear that ritual magick is worthless.
Also, don't think of the cross around your neck, nor a statue of the Blessed Virgin as magickal charms--they aren't.
Indeed, put your faith in what that cross stands for, put your faith in the One conceived by the Virgin. Let those things point you to Christ, which is why we have crosses, icons, and the like; to point us to Christ.
In the Lutheran tradition our most famous hymn is A Mighty Fortress which contains this stanza,
"And though this world with devils filled should threaten to undo us
We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us
The Prince of Darkness grim, we tremble not for him
His rage we can endure, for lo, his doom is sure
One little word shall fell him"
Note that last line, "one little word shall fell him".
The devil is a coward. One does not need some elaborate system to drive him away. In the Epistle of St. Jude we read that St. Michael the Archangel when contesting over the body of Moses with the devil merely said, "The Lord rebuke you". Again appealing to my own Lutheran tradition, Martin Luther wrote, humorously, that he would chase the devil away with a fart. He actually explains what he meant when he penned those words of A Mighty Fortress as well, that the "one little word" is this: "Devil, you lie." The devil is a liar, call him a liar, that's what he is.
Everything he says and does is a lie.
He wants you to be afraid of him, don't be, he's the one that should be afraid, "for lo, his doom is sure".
Remember your Baptism, and the Baptism promises of God. You can reaffirm these things, "I renounce you Satan and all your works." St. James says, "Resist the devil and he must flee."
Don't concern yourself with spirits, do not worry about spirits. The holy angels go about their business as God commands, and they do as He wills. The devils may try and tempt us, or goad us into false guilt, or speak any number of falsehoods--but they are all worthless kindling, you have the promises of God which He made to you through the Gospel, put your mind and gaze upon Christ, the One who saves you.
God has made you more than a conqueror in Christ who loves you, greater is God who is in you by the Holy Spirit than the one that is in the world. Trust in Jesus, Jesus has your back. Now go and love your neighbor.
-CryptoLutheran