Spiritual words

Prayer – an accessible treatment

  • Foto: Oana Nechifor

    Foto: Oana Nechifor

Do you see how great the power of prayer is? Where power, fortune, bravery and the knowledge of skilled doctors were of no use, the prayer of a poor Christian many times helped.

When we are ill and in suffering not even kings or doctors, the most skilled professors, the visit of our friend or the service of our servants, or the luxurious ornaments, money and fortunes, nothing on this earth can soothe and relieve our tormenting pain.

If to the sick bed of this great king, great or small governor, or even a common man, would come a chosen of God, from the moment when he would touch his body, and pray fervently, clean in Spirit and truth, his body would be cured.

Do you see how great the power of prayer is? Where power, fortune, bravery and the knowledge of skilled doctors were of no use, the prayer of a poor Christian many times helped.

(Translation from Protosinghel Nicodim MăndițăÎnvățături despre rugăciune, Editura Agapis, București, 2008, p. 77)