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Do not spend the Day without Prayer, for You Will Be Vulnerable

Do not leave your mind free so that it be kept busy with prayer or contemplation because otherwise, the enemy uses all his power in order to destroy your watchfulness. Say this prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me!” because it sanctifies the man and the place where it is said.

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.”

How to Benefit from Fasting?

If you see a poor man have mercy on him. If you see a beautiful woman, do not taint your heart with this thought. Not only your mouth should be fasting but also your eyes and ears, feet, hands and all the limbs of your body

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.

Conflicts end only after understanding that you need to forgive and be forgiven

Have faith, be kind and forgive! I have always said that living together is hard. You need to know how to obtain forgiveness.

How to protect yourself from gossips?

The other obstacle is raised by the devil in our soul through the love of self – “the devil’s first offspring.” There are three tools against the devil: The name of God, the name of Theotokos and the Holy Cross.

The dark side of our imagination

St. Hesychius of Sinai teaches that imagination was the main cause of man’s fall: ‘And so it separated Adam from God, giving him visions of divine dignity. And so the liar and cunning enemy tends to deceive all sinners.’

The mutual prayer of spouses has great power before God

The mutual prayer of spouses is pleasant to God and is very powerful. Maybe for this reason, the devil tries to prevent you from praying together. 

Can we understand the power of each event in our life?

Life is like a book. Its pages are the events in our life… There’s nothing in our life that wasn’t important, but often we just don’t understand it. Only the bright minds, enlighten by the grace of God can understand the meaning of each event.

Through prayer and faith, we cast from our life the work of the enemy

Let us not be shacked by temptations and neither be amazed of the courage of the cursed, but dwelling in faith and fervent prayer and receiving help from above, cast the work of the enemy from our life.

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