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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.”

Through Sorrows We Achieve Salvation

Endure with patience all illness and sorrow that were bestowed upon you, so that you may remain on the right path.

Fasting Is the Crown of Those Who Refrain Themselves

Fasting protects all virtues. It is the beginning of spiritual struggle, the crown of those who refrain themselves, the beauty of virginity and purity, the brilliance of wisdom, the beginning of the Christian life, the mother of prayer, the spring of abstinence and thrift. It teaches us about serenity and precedes all good deeds

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.

Suffering – The School of Life

Suffering is a wonderful school through which God talks to the believer in a wonderful language. Suffering is, for the life of the believer, a cloud from which in the end drops of a blessed rain will fall.

What Happens With Those Who Do Not Pray?

People who do not pray have no power in the struggle against the temptations in life. They are like a soldier without weapons, as a bird without wings, a willow in the wind that does not seek God.

“The Evil Man Makes Everyone Bitter”

Both kindness and evilness have a radiant power.

God, Give Me Joy!

We do need joy, as for this reason we were created by God. But spiritual joy is not same as the joy of this world. True spiritual joy means having a free heart, filled with the peace of Jesus. We have spiritual joy when we free ourselves from the dominion of the enemy, of evil thoughts and temptation

Prepare Yourself for the Coming Sorrow

You shall seek for allies before starting a war and before getting ill, seek for the remedy. Before being overcome by trouble you shall pray to God and then you will have Him as an ally. Call Him and pray before the struggle

What Is Our Reward for Enduring Temptation?

Temptation uses everyone. Because if it uses Paul, guilty shall be the world before God. Strugglers are tempted to multiply their fortune, lazy people to remain unharmed, and those who sleep to prepare to wake up, those who have lost God, to find it; those who are near to remain near.

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