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You May Drink, But In Moderation!

Flee drunkenness as not to fall in the sin of fornication. God created wine for us, but for the joy of the heart and not for drunkenness.

“Repentance and Humbleness Complete the Deeds you Have Not done” – Father Ilie Cleopa

For instance you do prostrations. When I was young I would compete with my brothers and see who can do more prostrations in an hour. I could do 500, but now I can’t do even one.

Who Is the Devil and How Does He Work?

The devil was, and will always be darkness, lie and perdition, with a clear purpose – to rebel against everything that comes from God and against God’s providence and man in particular.

Fighting Thoughts – Past as Fault, Future as Fear, Sin as Constant Temptation

The devil, in order to trouble you, sends you all sorts of thoughts. About past, future, present, about the sins that you did or could do, through dreams or visions that may seem to be “from God.”

Temptations Attack from Outside and Inside

From the inside, that is from the heart come all our sins. For Christ has said to the Apostles: “Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man” because it would mean to wash your hands “but that which cometh out of the mouth”. Because what comes out, comes from the heart. From the heart come adulteries, crimes, pride, insults. As in hell, they come out of our heart, and when they do, we are tempted from the inside.

Why are Some Good Deeds Useless?

When people restrain themselves from food but are gossiping and envy someone, it is considered a sin. What is the use of the bodily fasting if we ignore the spiritual fasting? What is the use of helping others if we amass fortune by stealing? What is the use of good deeds if we are proud? We are mixing good deeds with vainglory. The devil wins again. Even if we make good deeds, it is useless, because we are mixing them with evil.

Put Your Trust into God and Tread upon Fear

Bear in mind that our Lord’s providence is upon us. God said “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”

God Waits For You to Return in His Loving Arms

Despite your faults, God did not cease to watch upon us, feeding and balancing our life, patiently waiting for us to repent, to return and haste to Him.

How to control your thoughts while praying?

According to Father Porphyries all these thoughts that come into our mind while praying are like planes. First, you can hear them in the distance, as a background noise, and gradually the noise increases more and more, until they get above your head deafening you with their noise and then they move forward. If you pay attention to them, then they will land in your heart.

Nothing else can quench the thirst of living water

We want to take a sip from the water of Christianity and never be thirsty again, to never have to go to the well again and to know the truth in Jesus Christ.

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