All your posts offer soooo many things to respond to.

I used to pray a lot but just normal prayers and it felt like it had no effect. Nothing at all!
.... In truth, if you only pray and don't do any internal change in your daily life, the protection will only be temporary. As mentioned the malevolent beings will make your life harder as a form of revenge.

A year ago at this time I was immersed in Susie Larson and her book Strong in Battle.

Yes, she's Protestant, and I was really struck at how many ways that obvious to me. But so much of what she writes parallels what you are saying here.

You're right about the music.
"When we sing, we're praying twice."
How many times I've sung while dog walking - "Speak, Lord, I love to listen to your voice," and all these hymns of praise (and petition) - "Send us your Spirit; renew the face of the earth" -

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays." ― Soren Kierkegaard

Prayer doesn't change the world. It only changes the person who's praying.

Well, I need to get away from this pc and get the day going.
You are a kindred soul - I'll be playing catch up, reading your posts.

P.S. Before I go, here is an excerpt of my review of Strong in Battle:

Susie writes,
--"You have one enemy and he attacks in often predictable ways. But we are not going to put up with it any longer."

Yeah! We're not gonna take it anymore!

Wait. Who is this "one" enemy?

"Our battle is not against flesh and blood but against principalities and rulers in the heavenly realms," Susie explains. "We have one enemy, and his name is Satan. On our own, on our best day, we are no match for him. He has studied us our whole lives. He knows our weak spots; he knows about our unhealed wounds and how to trigger our fears. We're like little children in the face of a Goliath of an enemy."

Well, that's annoying! This "enemy" wants to steal our joy, keep us from knowing God, even get us to believe the devil does not exist (as Paul Harvey famously noted). The enemy is every negative force seeking to pull us down into depression, apathy, despair, anger, hatred, self-pity; the enemy wants us to doubt that Heaven exists and question if there’s life after death.

The focus of this book is not the scheming and manipulation of Satan, but the constructive things we can do to keep our thoughts out of the abyss. We suffer. We despair. We wonder how and why a loving God could allow so much tragedy in our world. Susie acknowledges that "....it's human nature (and a legitimate question) to wonder, If God could stop this, why doesn't He? She answers that, in part, with a quote from Bo Stern: "We may wish for a God who will keep us out of all afflictions, but isn't it wonderful to become acquainted with the One who goes with us into the heart of the fight, and then uses it for something beautiful?"

No, it is frustrating, and disheartening, actually, because I have finally conceded that Christian theology is not a good blueprint for humanity, but I did not go gently into that good night (that dark, stark, silent night).....