Each of us needs strong prayers. They help to overcome difficulties, gain self-confidence and get rid of harmful thoughts that distract from important good deeds and work.
There are strong prayers such as “Psalm 90”, “living help”, “I believe”. They are quite long, so remembering them can sometimes be very difficult. We suggest familiarizing yourself with powerful prayers that are much easier to remember and understand.
Powerful prayer to start the day
The most important thing is the right attitude in the morning. A powerful prayer will help you get rid of negative thoughts at the beginning of the day and overcome all obstacles along the way. She will help you receive God's blessing.
“Our heavenly Lord, thank you for giving this day, so help me and my loved ones to live it profitably, spend time on good deeds and avoid encounters with evil. Thank you for opening our eyes, so hear the prayer so that we can survive all adversity with your help, our Almighty, God bless us, your sinful servants, for good deeds and do not let us take the wrong path. Amen".
This prayer is read after waking up, in the morning. You can read with your children or your significant other - it will be even better.
Powerful prayer to overcome difficulties
Nobody knows what will mark this or that day, what things will be like and what will happen in general. It is very important to remember some not particularly long prayer to overcome difficulties. When things don’t go according to plan and trouble happens, the Lord’s Prayer helps a lot, but we offer another effective prayer for problems:
“Jesus Christ, son of God and my intercessor, lover of mankind. I appeal to you so that you can help me overcome fear, confusion in my soul, unkind thoughts and bad desires. Give me strength to act for Your glory, and strengthen my faith in our God, the Father and the All-Creator. Give me courage so that I can overcome temptations and become a better person.”
Powerful prayer for forgiveness of sins
We all do something bad during the day. Someone shows aggression, someone lies, is a hypocrite, achieves their goals through deception or brute force. Sometimes it happens that we do something so unpleasant for ourselves that we feel very ashamed. In this case, it is worth reading the following prayer addressed to the Virgin Mary:
“Our Mother Intercessor, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God. Grant me forgiveness for my sins and for my misdeeds. Forgive me my sins. I repent before You, our Mother of God. Hear my prayers, cover me with Your cover and do not let me repeat my mistakes. Amen".
A strong prayer for the coming sleep
Prayer for the coming sleep is a chance before going to bed to ask God for forgiveness for your mistakes during the day. Such a prayer, as it were, sums up the current day, helps you look back and understand what and when went wrong, what you can correct or improve in your behavior.
“My Lord, help me and bless me for the coming sleep. Forgive me my sins and transgressions, voluntary and involuntary, large and small, calm my soul, grant me sound sleep and rest. Leave all the bad things in today so that tomorrow I can meet the dawn with a smile and love in my heart. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen".
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Prayers that help everyone and always
Regardless of age or social status, there comes a time in every person’s life when he is in dire need of help. And it is at this time that prayer becomes his first and reliable assistant - thanks to miraculous texts, prayer will help him feel protected, give strength and give hope.
Prayer to the Guardian Angel
Prayers that will definitely help you in any life situation also include those addressed to your personal protector - your guardian angel, an invisible connection with whom will always protect you from troubles and misfortunes, and in difficult times will bring salvation and good luck. A guardian angel accompanies a person from the moment of birth until death, and to whom, if not to him, should you turn your words of hope?
Benefactor, holy angel, my guardian forever and ever, as long as I live. Your ward is calling to you, hear me and come down to me. As you have done me good many times, do me good again. I am pure before God, I have not done anything wrong before people. I lived by faith before, and I will continue to live by faith, and therefore the Lord has endowed me with His mercy, and by His will you protect me from all adversity. So let the will of the Lord come true and you, saint, fulfill it. I ask you for a happy life for yourself and your family, and this will be the highest reward from the Lord for me. Hear me, heavenly angel, and help me, fulfill the will of God. Amen.
Prayer to Nicholas the Wonderworker
One of the most revered saints in Rus' is Nicholas the Wonderworker. It is to him that those who need help and who hope for a resolution to difficult life circumstances turn to him in prayer.
Miracle-working prayers, which always help everyone, are turned to by parents, hoping for a successful marriage of their daughters, and by aspiring entrepreneurs opening a new business, because thanks to his pure soul and holiness, Nikolai helps all those who suffer:
Oh, all-holy Nicholas, exceedingly saintly servant of the Lord, our warm intercessor, and everywhere in sorrow a quick helper!
Help me, a sinner and sad person in this present life, beg the Lord God to grant me forgiveness of all my sins, which I have sinned greatly from my youth, in all my life, in deed, word, thought and all my feelings; and at the end of my soul, help me the accursed, beg the Lord God, the Creator of all creation, to deliver me from airy ordeals and eternal torment: may I always glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your merciful intercession, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Prayer to the Holy Martyr Tryphon
Oh, holy martyr of Christ Tryphon, quick helper to all who come running to you and pray before your holy image, quick to obey the intercessor! Hear now and at every hour the prayer of us, your unworthy servants, who honor your holy memory. You, servant of Christ, promised that before your departure from this corruptible life, you would pray for us to the Lord and asked Him for this gift: if anyone in any need and sorrow begins to call upon your holy name, may he be delivered from every excuse is evil. And just as you sometimes healed the daughter of the princess in the city of Rome from the torment of the devil, you saved us from his fierce machinations all the days of our lives, especially on the terrible day of our last, intercede for us with our dying breaths, when the dark eyes of evil demons surround and frighten they will start us. Then be our helper and quick drive away of evil demons, and leader to the Kingdom of Heaven, where you now stand with the face of the saints at the Throne of God, pray to the Lord, that he will grant us also to be partakers of ever-present joy and joy, so that together with you we will be worthy of glorifying the Father and the Son and the Holy Comforter Spirit forever. Amen.
Prayer for luck
In a sincere appeal to God and the Saints, you can ask for everything - love, money, and good luck. The only thing that the sufferer should not forget about is to ask in prayers to maintain strength of spirit and faith in order to be able to withstand difficult times, not to break down and not become embittered. Prayers that always help everyone must be read daily, even if despondency and disappointment have filled your heart and you do not see a way out of your life situation. The words of prayer will help you and become a ray of light in your life.
Prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos, protecting from despair
Lady, my Most Holy Theotokos. With your omnipotent and holy prayers before our Lord, take away from me, your sinful and humble servant (name), despondency, foolishness and all nasty, evil and blasphemous thoughts. I beg you! Take them away from my sinful heart and my weak soul. Holy Mother of God! Deliver me from all evil and unkind thoughts and actions. Blessed be you and may your name be glorified forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer of the last Optina elders
Lord, let me meet with peace of mind everything that the coming day will bring me. Let me completely surrender to Your holy will. For every hour of this day, instruct and support me in everything. Whatever news I receive during the day, teach me to accept it with a calm soul and a firm conviction that everything is Your holy will. In all my words and deeds, guide my thoughts and feelings. In all unforeseen cases, do not let me forget that everything was sent down by You. Teach me to act directly and wisely with each member of my family, without confusing or upsetting anyone. Lord, give me strength to endure the fatigue of the coming day and all the events during the day. Guide my will and teach me to pray, believe, hope, endure, forgive and love. Amen.
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A strong prayer for good luck to the Lord God
Who should you ask for luck first? Of course, the Lord God himself. Prayers addressed to our Creator have enormous power. True, the Almighty helps a person only when his prayers and intentions are devoid of selfish motives, when they are aimed at good, when not a single living soul will suffer from them. Only in this case will the Lord hear the one praying, give him his blessing and illuminate his life with success and luck.
You need to pray to God for good luck in front of his image - in front of the icon in the church or, if it is not possible to visit the temple, at home. Before turning to the Almighty with your cherished request, you need to light a candle and make the sign of the cross over yourself, and then, bowing, whisper the words of the prayer. They sound like this:
It is recommended to read this prayer before every important life event or business on which your future depends. All your undertakings and steps will receive God's blessing if they do not imply anything bad and do not contain malicious intent.
Intercessory Prayer
“Intercession is the act of asking one who is God’s rightful one to obtain mercy for someone who needs it.” R.I.Mahoney
Intercession means “to go between” or “to stand in the gap.” A prayer intercessor stands before God for a person, family, city, nation, etc. Ezekiel 22:30 “I sought among them a man who would build a wall and stand before Me in the gap for the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I did not find him.” Our task is to share the burden that is in the Father's heart and to allow the Holy Spirit to pray through us (Rom. 8:26-27). To do this, our hearts must be enlarged (2 Cor. 6:11-12).
“Persistent prayer is a powerful spiritual impulse towards God. This is the mobilization of the deepest spiritual forces directed to the throne of heavenly grace. It implies the ability to stick to one’s own, to insist and wait... This is not some random event... but the passion of the soul... The struggle in persistent prayer is not manifested through any physical or carnal efforts. This is not some unexpected burst of energy and not just a mental predisposition, it is an inner strength, an ability inherent and developed by the Holy Spirit. In fact, it is the intercession of God's Spirit in you" (George Muller).
A strong prayer to your Guardian Angel - for good luck
A Guardian Angel is assigned to every person. This is an invisible protector, called upon to protect his ward from all evil and troubles, from human machinations, from evil spirits, from negative magical effects (damage and the evil eye). This is a patron whose task is to guide a person along the righteous path.
To ensure the protection of the Guardian Angel, a person must lead a pious lifestyle: do not swear, do not become a slave to addictions, do not get bogged down in sins. Otherwise, you can lose the guarantee of your divine protector and turn him away from you.
A prayer for good luck addressed to the Guardian Angel is a strong amulet that can radically change the life of a praying person (for the better, of course). To enlist the support of your invisible protector and attract good luck into your life, secret words must be spoken every day before going to bed. The text of the prayer is as follows:
The Guardian Angel constantly prays for his ward in heaven, begging the Lord for forgiveness for all his earthly sins. And this prayer will definitely attract good luck in all matters.
Prayer to Nicholas the Wonderworker: a strong prayer for good luck
Nikolai Ugodnik never refuses to help those who turn to him with holy prayer. This is a strong patron who helps everyone in need.
If you lack luck in your life, ask St. Nicholas the Wonderworker for it using the prayer given below. It is better to read it within the walls of a religious institution - in this case it will have greater power. To pronounce it at home, be sure to buy an icon with the image of a holy elder, pronounce the words in the light of a lit church candle. Text of the prayer:
Thanks to this prayer, you will always be under the protection of St. Nicholas the Pleasant, he will protect you from any evil and negativity.
Why you need to pray
However, believers in God rely, first of all, on His help and providence and resort to prayer in any situation. The Lord Himself commanded to turn to Him with requests: “And I will say to you: ask, and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you” (Luke 11:9) and “Your Father in heaven will give good things to those who ask Him” (Matthew 7:11). Traditionally, prayers for help in material problems are addressed to the Mother of God, the main Helper of all Christians, as well as to those saints who during earthly life helped all those in need and later became famous for their miracles.
Recommendations for working with prayers
In general, there are quite a lot of Orthodox prayers designed to attract good luck. Above are the three strongest of them. Which of the prayers (to the Lord, Guardian Angel, Nicholas the Wonderworker) to choose for yourself is up to you to decide. Listen to your heart, trust your intuition, your soul - these three most reliable tips will help you make the right choice. And your life will certainly be filled with luck and divine blessing.
Whatever prayer you prefer, remember that when saying any of them you need to create a certain mood. The power of prayer directly depends on faith. The desire, power of thought and energy of the person praying are important. Appealing to higher powers with prayer gives the sufferer confidence, faith in himself, gives hope and strengthens his consciousness.
Only sincere prayer coming from the very heart of the person praying will be heard by God and his holy helpers. At the same time, his intentions must also be pure, devoid of selfishness, selfishness or malice. By turning to God for bad reasons, a person risks drawing the Creator’s wrath upon himself. This means that luck will not only turn away from him, but will also leave him for a long time - until he manages to atone for his sins and beg forgiveness from higher powers.
Source: https://tayniymir.com/molitvyi/molitvyi-na-udachu-3-samyie-silnyie-molitvyi.html
Prayer from enemies
It happens that we become a target for aggressive attacks from others. Our enemies are trying to make our life unbearable. It’s good if such an influence is quite rare and does not bring any special losses, but what to do if there is a constant and uncontrollable desire to annoy you. In this case, prayer from enemies to the Lord can help. Remember, if your faith is strong and boundless, then no enemies will harm you. You can also overcome any attack from enemies by turning to the Lord in prayer every day.
Also read: Prayer to Nicholas the Wonderworker for the birth of a child
As soon as you feel negative, immediately rush to read a prayer or speak in your own words. It is advisable to read such a prayer as follows. If someone has been negatively affected, do the following:
- seat the person opposite you,
- baptize with a sacred sign,
- whisper the text:
My refuge and my defense, my God in whom I trust! Deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the destructive plague. He will overshadow you with His feathers, and under His wings you will be safe; shield and fence are His truth. The terrors of the night will not frighten you, the arrow that flies by day, the plague that walks in the darkness, the plague that devastates at midnight. A thousand will fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but they will not touch you.
Only you will look with vigilant eyes and you will see retribution for sinners. For you have said: “The Lord is my hope,” and you have chosen the Most High as your refuge. No evil will happen to you and no plague will come close to your abode, for he commands his angels about you - to protect you in all your ways. They will carry you in their hands, and you will not dash your foot against a stone. If you step on the asp and the basilisk, you will trample the lion and the dragon. Because he loved me, I will deliver him, I will protect him, because he knew my name. He will call to me and I will hear him, I am with him in sorrow, I will deliver him and glorify him, I will satisfy him with long days and show him my salvation.
If you have become a victim, then simply read this text mentally or in a whisper.
Strong prayers for all occasions that helped
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As soon as a situation occurs in a person’s life, he immediately looks for a way out of it. If this is a negative event, then he raises to the Lord the question of why he does this. And if it’s joyful, then we don’t always thank the Lord for the grace and help sent to us. Most often, special texts called prayers are used to communicate with God.
There are a large number of them and each of them corresponds to a specific case, but there are also those that are called universal.
There are several types of prayers:
- repentant,
- petitions,
- laudatory - serve to glorify God, and the phrase “Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit” praises the Holy Trinity,
- thanksgiving.
We should not forget that in Orthodoxy it is worth glorifying: the Lord, the Virgin Mary, the Holy Trinity. There are 3 main strong prayers for all occasions that have helped a large number of believers. They are read in any situation.
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The most powerful prayer for any occasion!
What to do when you or your loved ones urgently need help? This powerful and powerful prayer will help!
Where did this powerful prayer come from?
“This prayer helped my daughter improve her health. When she was 6 years old, she shook her head very often.¹ Once a friend advised me to contact a grandmother, her name was Baba Dusya. She was blind and could not move on her own.
This grandmother straightened her daughter’s head, since then she has not shaken it off, and Grandma Dusya gave me a prayer and told me to learn it by heart, and then burn it and not pass it on to anyone for 12 years, otherwise the prayer will lose its power. I could use this prayer for healing and helping someone or myself.”
How did prayer help get rid of wolves?
“About 20 years have passed since then, and I want to share this strong prayer with you - as a sign of gratitude and memory to this bright person - Baba Dusa! Her mother taught her this prayer herself.
When Baba Dusya was 16 years old, she got lost in the forest, it quickly became dark, and hungry wolves howled. She was very scared, and she climbed up a tree, and the wolves surrounded the tree and gathered to wait.
She began to cry out of fear; it was useless to call for help in the remote taiga, and then she remembered the prayer that her mother taught her. Holding tightly to the branches of the tree with trembling hands, she whispered a prayer. How many times she said it is unknown, maybe 100 times, maybe more, but when she looked down, she saw that the wolves had left.
Having waited for dawn, Baba Dusya quickly found her way home!”
Another case of wonderful help!
“This prayer always helps me. Once I came to visit my sister, and she was all in tears - her son sent a telegram that he had been demobilized² and was coming. However, three days have already passed since the date he indicated, and he still hasn’t arrived. The sister didn’t know what to do.
I decided to help and began to read a prayer. In the morning at 6 o’clock her son was standing on the threshold of his home!”
The most powerful prayer “Dream of the Virgin Mary”
—Mother Holy Mary! Are you sleeping?
-Where did you sleep?
- In Jerusalem, in the Cathedral, with Christ on the Throne! I saw a terrible dream - like Jesus Christ was crucified on three trees - the first tree is Christ, the second is Cypress, the third is the Wise tree. Three myrrh-bearing women came and lamented pitifully.
Whoever knows this prayer and reads it three times a day will not drown in water, will not get lost in the forest, and will not be condemned in court. Just as there is no judgment for bread and salt, so there is no judgment for me, the servant of God (your own name or the name of the one for whom you are asking), and there never will be. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Then you need to spit three times over your left shoulder. You can repeat the prayer many times.
“Prayer is the cause of salvation and immortality of the soul.” “The consequence of prayer is that we are with God.
And whoever is with God is far from His enemy" (St. Gregory of Nyssa) "It is not God who needs our prayers! He knows even before we ask what we need... prayer is necessary for us: it assimilates a person to God.” Thought is a projection of energy and Consciousness; it carries a colossal charge. Correctly directed thought has life-giving properties. The word has power because a living thought beats in it, as in a thin shell. A phantom is an invisible image, an energetic substance that is created by a spoken word. The word disappeared into silence, but the phantom remained and continues to live. There are many phantoms hovering above the heads of each of us - energetic reflections of the words that we have spoken or heard. Among our phantoms there are those that help us and those that destroy us. The total sum of these phantoms complements or distorts the “program” of our life. As a rule, all phantoms die by themselves after a certain period of time. The only exceptions are curses and those phantoms born of words that we hear again and again. There is colossal power hidden in the word. It can create and it can also destroy. Use it for the benefit of yourself and others. And remember that you have a unique way of influencing human nature. This method is prayer. How to Pray
“You must pray from a pure and sincere heart, with humility and zeal, without anger or resentment, without vanity and not for show, in every place (Tim 2:8) and at all times (Eph 6:18) “Those prayers remain behind the doors who, ascending to God, do not have love in themselves, because love alone opens the doors to prayer.” Rev. Ephraim the Syrian “When, while reading prayers, you seek the Lord with your mind and heart, do not look far for Him: He is here, in the very words of the prayer. Just listen to them with a humble heart, and the Lord will move from them and into your heart. The Spirit of God breathes in the words of prayer.” Saint John of Kronstadt “Prayer is diverse and for each person it comes from the heart (soul) in its own way, depending on the internal structure, spiritual experience, the ability to tune oneself to prayer, on the contemplation of the person praying... All teachers of the Church wrote about the meaning of prayer for the believer... To me It seems that the most important thing when performing prayer is spiritual composure, spiritual sincerity, detachment from the vanity of life, temptations and immersion in a state of prayer. Only then can the soul, in its prayer, rush to God, but this is not accessible to every person to the same extent.” Elder Arseny (Sleptsov)
Prayer is for the Soul what food is for the Body.
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Prayer
” is also a solitary conversation of the soul with God or with the forces of Light that create for Him;
this is also a state of tenderness, reverence and spiritual delight that covers the heart when contemplating the Beautiful, the High or the Great; this is also the catharsis through which inspiring works of art lift a person’s soul; this is also her participation in the cleansing and uplifting actions of the temple. Prayer can be private, solitary, or congregational, when its wordless song flows into the solemn stream of worship. Both of these actions are equally necessary. Solitary prayer
is such a tension of the soul when it, removed from the spiritual Center of the world, but connected with it by a single and unique string, makes this string ring with a high sound, driving away the shadows of the night.
“When you have entered your room and shut the door with willow, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you openly... (Matthew 6:6) Jesus, who commanded solitary prayer, very often himself, during His earthly pilgrimage, as the Gospel narrates, remained in it. Then there were no Christian churches and monasteries: and therefore, silent mountain peaks and shady vineyards often replaced the silent, calm cell for him. The darkness of the night covers objects from prying eyes, the silence of silence does not disturb the ears. In silence and at night you can pray more attentively. Let no one know about your prayer: neither a friend, nor a relative... “Prayer is light for the soul.” Abba Isaiah (The Hermit) Conciliar prayer
is the consonant tension of thousands of such strings, it is a choral song that fills every individual soul with a premonition of universal harmony.
For worship is not an arbitrary action invented by people, but a mystical action, that is, one that reflects the harmonious reality of the higher spheres and brings its forces down into our heart. And hence the intense prayer life - a creative and mystical life. A Christian’s prayerful communication with God can be divided into several types: church prayer
,
canonical prayer
(using prayer texts introduced by the Church into the canon - rule),
“creative” prayer
, when a Christian “talks” with God in his own words,
“unceasing” or "smart" prayer
.
CANONICAL PRAYERS
Canonical prayers are of three types:
doxology, thanksgiving and petition
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Prayers-petition
.
“Supplication in prayer is inevitable due to human weakness and is also pleasing to God,” said Theophan the Recluse. Prayers for healing
generally refer to petition.
We realize our mistakes. We accept what fate sends us. And we ask. We ask for something on which everything in our lives depends. We ask you to heal us so that we can continue to live and improve. We ask for our family and friends. We ask for all people. Prayer -petitions
necessarily contain doxology. “Doxology is not a cold contemplation of the properties of God, but a living sensation of them with joy and admiration. This is the most perfect and selfless form of prayer,” taught Theophan the Recluse. Every prayer for healing, even non-canonical ones, should begin with a doxology. We praise God with words. By this we show that our heart is free from indignation. If we are indignant, complain and grumble, we will never get better. After all, this means that we did not understand this lesson. And other lessons await us until we learn patience and forgiveness.
God is an endless, inexhaustible Source of forgiveness
“Always give thanks to God the Father in everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Letter to the Ephesians 5. The Covenant Prayer
is a beautiful, profound prayer created in the 16th century, but never included in any prayer book. As a rule, in case of some troubles or misfortunes, several Orthodox Christians agree to read it at the same time and ask the Lord for the recovery of the patient, for peace, for salvation. Those praying may be in different cities or houses, but they all read the prayer at the same time of day, during the day or in the evening. “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God! Thou hast declared with Thy most pure lips that whenever two or three on earth agree to ask for any deed, it will be given by My Heavenly Father, for where two or three are gathered in My Name, there I am in the midst of them. Thy words are immutable, O Lord, Thy love for mankind is boundless, Thy mercy has no end. We agree to pray for (people or events that are being prayed for are mentioned), help, Lord, to do all our deeds, done today, tomorrow and all days, for You, but in both cases, not as we want, but as we need and you. Thy will be done, Lord. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen".
A prayer of thanksgiving
is a separate prayer that we say after we receive what we ask for.
“Gratitude is sent by a person for receiving a benefit; it is born in a grateful and sensitive soul,” said Theophan the Recluse. This prayer is not only evidence of our sincere faith, it strengthens our connection with the Higher Powers. Thanksgiving is a prayer that teaches a person to see the beautiful, it returns us the joy of life. “The prayer of thanksgiving is the most beautiful and purest. She does not seek her own, does not ask, but is filled with the joyful consciousness of God’s mercy poured out on man. For everything: for the eyes that see the sun and the beauty of the world; for the ears that hear the harmony of sounds and the Word of God; for the mind that comprehends mysteries; for a heart capable of love - a person thanks for all this. We too often focus on the dark sides of life and forget about the good that is given to us in the world...” Alexander Men. Morning prayer
nourishes the soul with energy and brings together our inner being.
By praying, we seem to bring the invisible strings of the soul into one key. And so that their sound does not weaken, we pray in the middle of the day, we pray before lunch, we pray when we go somewhere or work... Morning prayers breathe vigor, the freshness of the morning: whoever sees the light of the sensual sun and the light of the earthly day will learn to desire the vision of the highest, spiritual Light and the endless Day produced by the Sun of Truth - Christ. Evening prayer
- the prayer we do before going to bed is especially important.
Evening prayer blesses the night when we sleep. A person who has sincerely prayed always falls asleep in a calm, quiet and healthy sleep. Prayer for others
gives the person for whom we pray strength that will help him cope with problems.
In Christian monasteries, where elders and spiritual mentors lived at a high level of development, their prayers had a positive impact on other people and on the environment. They never prayed for solutions to their everyday problems. They prayed to strengthen their faith, perseverance, prayed for others... “When you pray, try to pray more for everyone than for yourself alone, and during prayer vividly imagine all people together with you as a single body...” (Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt) “ You need to pray not only for yourself, but for each other. For all the faithful, scattered throughout the whole world, are one spiritual body, having one blessed Head, Christ, and being enlightened and instructed by the one Spirit of God. And therefore, as spiritual members, components of a single spiritual body, we must help each other through prayer. Just as the members of the body care for each other, so we, when praying for each other, must raise a single voice to the Heavenly Father with faith and love: “Our Father who art in Heaven!” (St. Tikhon of Zadonsk) Prayer for enemies
.
“To pray to God for harm to enemies is to insult God.” “Whoever wants God to hear his prayer, when he gets up to perform it... before any other prayer, even before prayer for his soul, let him bring a prayer for his enemies, and for this reason God will hear all his prayers” (Abba Zeno) . “If we offer prayers for those who offend and insult us, then our prayer for ourselves will be heard.” “The Lord wants us to be meek towards the guilty, not to be vindictive towards those who sin against us, by forgiving them to gain forgiveness for ourselves and to prepare for ourselves a measure of love for mankind.” “Let us not only say to God: “Do not remember our sins,” but let each one say to himself: “Let us not remember the sins of our brothers against us.” “If we ourselves are guilty of so many sins, then we must readily forgive those who insult and deceive us and not remember evil” (St. John Chrysostom). “Forgiveness to our enemies and doing good to them is true generosity, one of the greatest traits of godlikeness” (Reverend Nicodemus the Holy Mountain). “Let us...before each of our prayers examine our conscience and, finding malice in it, eradicate it...by praying for our enemies and blessing them.” “When you love your enemies and pray for them that all blessings, temporary and eternal, be granted to them, then only God will come to your aid, and you will conquer all your adversaries with your prayer, you will enter with your mind the temple of your heart to worship the Father in spirit and the truth" Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov). Prayer for the dead
cannot change God’s intentions, but the Soul that is prayed for receives relief.
The soul will be relieved when it sees that it is being prayed for with all the heart. Praying for her may cause her to repent. But suddenly... praise be to You, Creator! You haven't forgotten your creation! You see the depth of hearts, You hear secret prayer... Praise be to You, my fear has disappeared! Like a peaceful, gracious Angel, Like a Messenger of heaven's mercy, Invisible, secret, but understandable, Something hovered over me, The soul caught a joyful voice - And faith, like a fiery stream, revived the heart of the sufferer. It began to seem to me that I, too, still dare to breathe love, That with my difficult fate He is my Father, not a judge - Gives me a way to beg Him with tenderness for my children, And for them to buy with my patience His holy grace!.. I.I. Kozlov “Prayer is the flight of the heart to God.” A. Men “Just as bodily food turns out to be almost tasteless when we consume it very hastily, so spiritual food loses its taste for our soul, when we pronounce the words of prayer very hastily, with the intention of finishing it quickly, it even tastes bitter in our heart. Without assimilating it in one’s heart, one cannot find sweetness in prayer, so the most touching prayer, not felt by the heart, has almost no value for us.” Saint John of Kronstadt HIGHER THOUGHT FORMS
feed a person with Energy coming from the Higher Spheres. This Energy is the Cosmic Thought, the Energy of the Cosmic Mind that embraces the Universe. By keeping a person at the Higher Levels, such a Thought Form makes a person invulnerable to lower Thought Forms, since he ceases to resonate at their frequencies. Such Thought Forms are used in prayers; they are embedded in great religions. They are created by people of a very high level of spirituality. After each visit to church, we take with us a whole swarm of bright images and positive phantoms. We feel good, we are filled with strength and hope. A good half of unclean phantoms will leave you after your first visit to the church. If you pray regularly, go to confession and communion, the other black phantoms won’t last long either. Strengthening your spiritual potential, training your inner being is the main cure for diseases and other misfortunes. Thanks to prayers, we learn to think correctly and feel correctly. We change the thoughts and harmful attitudes that led us to a deplorable state. We abandon old beliefs and acquire new ones. We accept life as it is. Prayer returns us to a state of harmony and peace that modern man has lost. — The words of prayer stop negative thinking, all “vain wandering of thoughts.” Negativity and dissatisfaction will be replaced by understanding. — The words of prayer directly affect the area of the body affected by the disease. “The words of prayer penetrate our subconscious and rebuild it. They change the harmful attitudes that led you to illness. — The words of prayer tame and educate our heart, our mind, strengthen the will to do good, console and save us from doubts. — Words of prayer rebuild our spiritual being. The body begins to produce subtle, life-giving energy, which stops any disease in the bud. By repeating prayers many times, focusing on the ideals of faith, hope and love, we abandon our false beliefs. The energy of prayers becomes our inner content. Then both our emotions and internal energy change. — The words of prayer, combined with the power of our desire, go into the Divine World. And we receive help from this world. Hopelessly ill people suddenly recover. — The words of prayer call grace into our hearts. Grace is a power that cannot be found within oneself or received from any other person. It comes from God. We can only prepare ourselves for it to come upon us. Grace strengthens our faith, hope and love. Grace completely regenerates a person, and he becomes tender, soft, sensitive, loving, and emitting light. Your problems are far-fetched, they will dissipate like smoke as soon as you start praying. Prayer is the great Gift of the Creator to man. Prayer is the Breath of the Soul. Prayer is the most powerful form of Energy emitted by a person. Prayer is a source of Light and Energy. When we pray, we connect ourselves with the inexhaustible driving Force that sets the entire Universe in motion. By turning to God in passionate prayer, we improve our Soul, Mind and Body. “Prayer wakefulness” (2 – 3 Hz) - the cerebral cortex is turned off, and the perception of information occurs without being analyzed by Consciousness. During deep prayer, a person leaves reality and enters a state that leads to the destruction of pathological connections in the brain and body. By moving away from images of pathology, a person contributes to his recovery.
GIFT OF PRAYER
The gift of prayer is the ability to pray with concentration and with all your heart. Each of us can read a prayer. But few can read it correctly, few can make it into a single movement, a single impulse of the soul. The gift of prayer appears only to those who persistently pursue it. This gift was once possessed not only by great ascetics, but also by many ordinary people. Each of us can acquire the gift of prayer. In your personal prayers, ask God to send you the gift of prayer. “God does not expect beauty of speech and skillful composition of words from a person who prays, but spiritual warmth and zeal.” Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk
PRAYER IN YOUR OWN WORDS
Pray in your own words!
The words that are born in our heart and that we address to the Creator also have power. But remember: your prayer must be sincere and serious. Pray until you feel you still have something to say. Speak out with the words of prayer everything that has accumulated in your soul, and soon you will feel much better. Prayer in your own words will allow you to put into words what is bothering and gnawing at your heart. During prayer, you can see your problem in a new way with slightly different eyes. Sometimes this is enough to realize the possibility of a way out and find it. Prayer leads to deepening and expanding knowledge about oneself: a person can look into himself, realize his deeply hidden feelings, needs, fears, dreams, positive and negative attitudes. Prayer will make you feel like you are not alone. Prayer has a calming effect on the nervous system. Prayer stimulates the active process of creation inherent in humans. “I doubt that a person who prays daily for the fulfillment of his desire will not be rewarded; in other words, he will begin to act to make it come true.” Carnegie. Samvel Gharibyan, a man who has developed a phenomenal memory, recommends the following prayer when working on awakening inner potential: Whatever a thought inspires in me, I can do. Whatever thought manifests in me, I can receive. For the great God lives in me. Amen! Non-canonical prayer often becomes a psychological attitude that allows one to overcome internal barriers that hinder growth.
SMART PRAYER
Holy ascetics separate two consciousnesses in a person.
By one they mean the ordinary consciousness of our mind, brain consciousness, the starting point of which is believed to be in the head, in the brain. The other, higher consciousness, according to their teaching, lies in the life of the heart. In order to achieve success in mental prayer, we must remove our ordinary rational consciousness from the head, renounce it from all worldly and sinful thoughts and place it in the heart, where the thought, not entertained by either memory or impressions coming from outside, will not dissipate, but only ardently call on the name of the Lord. This will contribute to the detachment of a person’s consciousness, in the words of the Monk Neil, “from all thoughts emanating from sensory impressions or from memory.” Then the name of the Lord “will take root inside the heart,” and, in the words of Saint Chrysostom, “will absorb the heart of the Lord, and the Lord the heart, and these two will be one.” This is the ideal to which one who prays mental prayer should strive. Under such conditions, the mind, according to Saint Maximus the Confessor, “dying in the action of the most perfect prayer, is torn away from all worldly thoughts. And if he does not die such a death, then he cannot be with God and live with Him.” Mental prayer
is a state of a person when he is able to pray continuously.
Passions have receded, and nothing prevents the soul from soaring. Prayer becomes human nature, the content of the mind, the vibration of the heart. “From my youth I had great faith in my Lady Theotokos and begged Her with tears to give me this grace of mental prayer. One day, having come to the temple, as was my custom, I asked for this with immeasurable warmth of my heart, and when I then lovingly kissed the holy icon of Her, I suddenly felt in my chest and in my heart a certain special warmth and flame emanating from the holy icon , which did not burn me, but watered and delighted me, and brought great tenderness into my soul. From that moment, my father, my heart began to say prayer from within itself, and my mind delights in the remembrance of my Lord Jesus Christ and my Most Holy Lady Theotokos and always remains in this remembrance of these; and from that time on, prayer did not stop in my heart.” JESUS PRAYER
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Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me!”
“This prayer is the basis of the entire Orthodox faith.
"Our Father" in Aramaic
“A prayer performed with attention and sobriety inside the heart, without any other thought or imagination, with the words: Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, ignorantly and silently raises the mind to the very called Lord Jesus Christ, with the words: have mercy on me, returns it again and moves towards itself,” write the Athonite monks Callistus and Ignatius.
Always say these seven words in your heart several times before you pray for healing. Christ is the Word of God, the Father is creative silence. An old woman came to the hermit and told him that she had been repeating the Jesus Prayer for many years, but had never experienced the presence of God. “How can God get a word in if you talk all the time?” the hermit was surprised. When you say your prayers, take your time. Take a break between prayers. Let God have his say. " God speaks His Word in silence
." “The meeting will not be deep and complete until the two sides are able to remain silent with each other. Morning prayer blesses the day when we are awake. While we need words and actions, tangible evidence, it means that we have not achieved the depth and completeness that we are looking for. Silence is where we meet God." For those starting their prayer life, we can recommend performing unceasing prayer as follows: wherever you are: on the road, at work, at home, if your mind is not occupied with any necessary work activity, say “to yourself” the words “Jesus "Prayers: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God! Have mercy on me, a sinner (or a sinner).” Moreover, this prayer must be pronounced not mechanically, but carefully and leisurely, placing emphasis on the word “have mercy,” for this capacious word includes “forgive my sins,” and “strengthen me in virtue,” and “protect me from all evil,” and "Give me Your Grace." If you accustom yourself to constantly performing the “Jesus” prayer, then this prayer will protect you from unclean thoughts, protect you from many temptations, and gain you the saving Grace of the Holy Spirit.
PRAYER CRY
“Use tears as a tool to receive every request, for the Master rejoices greatly over you when you pray with tears,” taught St. Neil of Sinai.
Without aspiration, without desire, the soul in us is drowned out and forever deprived of the charm of joyful tears. Sweet, sweet is the appearance of a stream in the empty wilderness; Likewise, tears are the refreshment of a desolate soul... V.A. Zhukovsky From the depths of centuries there comes a tradition of prayerful crying. The ability to pray with tears was revered in monasteries as the greatest virtue. An adult's ability to pray and cry shows that his heart is still full of love, like a child's. “From such a heart a tear often flows, cleansing and weaning.” According to the teachings of the Athonite monks, tears are a gift from God to man; tears appear from “Divine disposition.” Tears
are a sign that healing is being granted to the soul. Psychotherapists know a method of treatment when deep experiences are evoked in a person. They are followed by a deep understanding of the past. When a person begins to cry, along with tears of repentance, all the black demons that tormented his soul leave him. Tears are catharsis, cleansing. When you pour out streams of tears during your prayer, do not at all become proud as if you are higher than many. This help from Above was received by your prayer, so that you, having diligently confessed your sins, would appease the Master with tears. The Fathers retired to the desert to remove themselves from the infectious impressions of the world. The Fathers withdrew into the desert: from there they saw more clearly the self-delusion and blindness of the world, which the sons of the world do not see, moving among it and being deceived by it. One must stand at the top of the mountain in order to survey the plains spread out at its base. The Fathers retired to the desert: there they plunged completely into repentance. Repentance consists of fulfilling all the Gospel commandments. It is possible to fulfill the Gospel commandments accurately and in a godly manner only from a contrite and humble heart. The spirit of life according to the Gospel commandments is repentance. When repentance takes root in the depths of the heart, then it turns into crying. This cry is the cry of the spirit. This crying and prayer are together. The mind prays with words; the heart prays with tears. The heart will not cry if it is not touched by the words of prayer; the mind will not acquire attentive prayer if the heart does not cooperate and help it with crying. Such lamentation is heard in the sayings of the desert Fathers, arouses sympathy in the attentive reader, arouses both prayer and lamentation. Let us leave all vain things in order to inherit the weeping and prayer of the mind, the companion of weeping, so that through weeping and prayer we may find the consolation promised by the Savior. The path to crying - the Gospel commandments. The fruit of the commandments is prayerful crying. He will embrace the monk throughout his life, a careful worker of the Gospel commandments - he will introduce him, even during his earthly wanderings, into the Kingdom of Heaven, hidden within us, and at the end of his earthly wanderings, into the mountainous land of eternal bliss. This country is primarily called the heavenly kingdom: in it one enjoys wholly unearthly bliss - one enjoys both secret, inner bliss, which is different for everyone, and general, outer bliss, according to the influence of the situation, wholly holy, constantly arousing and constantly nourishing perfect bliss, never and not violated by anything. This country is the inheritance of those who will discover within themselves, during their earthly life, the spiritual kingdom of heaven. Saint Isaac of Syria.
WHERE CAN I PRAY?
You can and should pray for healing at home, near the patient. Candles and lamps burning in front of a home icon will help you evoke a prayerful mood. You can also go to the temple and pray there, light a candle in front of the healing miraculous icon. Where you come, say a prayer, Don’t open the doors without it, If you don’t see the key in the door, Turn back, my friend, quickly, without knocking. You can pray anytime, anywhere! Saint Paul taught to remain in prayer and said that prayers can be done in any place. This is how the great Orthodox ascetics Sergius of Radonezh, Seraphim of Sarov and others acquired the gift of prayer. You can pray when you walk down the street, when you travel in public transport, when you work. Athonite teachers said that prayer should warm in the heart. If this happens, no business can distract from prayer...
WHEN PRAYER “DOES NOT WORK”?
Prayer should fill your entire being, without a trace
. We think that if our request was not fulfilled in the coming days, it means that the Creator did not hear us. Consider how sincere your prayers are. We can pronounce words, but our heart feels completely different. Our mind has no power over the desire in the depths of our heart. We don't always have the same things in our minds as we have on our tongues. “Prayer is the work of the heart; when the heart is in complete agreement with the lips, then the prayer reaches the Creator.” Has the desire to be healed become your “flesh and blood”? Has this thought taken over your entire being? Maybe your illness allows you to realize your need for love and compassion for yourself? Maybe you like that you can relax for an extra hour, treat yourself to something tasty, or complain to someone? If yes, then your prayer is meaningless. It is unlikely that she will be heard. “When you pray, do not act like hypocrites. Only hypocrites like to pray standing in synagogues and on street corners, so that everyone can see them. I tell you: they have already received their reward in full. When you pray, go into the room, close the door and pray to your invisible Father. Then your Father, who sees everything, will reward you. When you pray, do not say unnecessary things, as the pagans do. They think that they will be heard due to their verbosity. Don’t be like them, because your Heavenly Father knows about your needs even before you turn to Him.” Gospel of Matthew. Remember that not everything can be asked of the Lord. “If you pray to God for something and he hesitates to hear you, do not grieve about it. You are no smarter than God." Venerable Isaac the Syrian Were you ready to humbly accept everything that befell your lot? Maybe deep down in your Soul you are indignant: “Why? Why exactly did I get sick?” The patient must have a firm intention to use his restored health and strength to serve God. If after recovery a person does not change and continues to serve sin, then even greater problems await him. Don’t forget that with the help of illness, the Lord often snatches us out of the normal course of life and saves us from serious trouble, and with a small trouble saves us from a larger one. “It happens that God, through illness, protects others from trouble that they would not have escaped if they were healthy.” Saint Theophan the Recluse “Health is a gift of God!” said Seraphim of Sarov. But this gift is not always useful. A very healthy person is often cynical, cold and narcissistic - he is not able to empathize, he does not know how others suffer, and what he sees, he considers a sign of weakness. Illness has the power to cleanse from spiritual filth, atone for sins, humble and soften the soul. Illness makes us think, and we realize our weakness and remember God and eternity. We need illnesses for spiritual growth! The Christian attitude towards illness consists of humble acceptance of the will of God, awareness of one’s sinfulness and the sins for which illness was given, as well as repentance and changing one’s life. “Many times, while praying, I asked that it be done to me, what seemed good for me, and foolishly insisted on the petition. But, having received what I asked, I was then in great sorrow, for the matter turned out to be different for me than I thought.” Venerable Neil of Sinai
Types of asceticism in the Russian Land Prayer
If humility is the basis of all asceticism, then the first work, the first thing, equally saving, equally convenient and necessary on all paths of ascetic life, was
prayer
.
“Pray without ceasing,” the apostle said to the first Christians, and prayer served for our ascetics as the immediate goal when they entered the narrow path and the first means to achieving the final goal - eternal salvation. In order to freely indulge in prayer, they left their homes, went into the desert, and locked themselves in caves for many years. They knew the miraculous power of prayer, resorted to it every hour, and it always and invariably helped them, in a wide variety of situations and relationships. With prayer, a monk easily carries out monastic obediences, a hermit settles with her in an impenetrable wilderness, drives away forest fears with her, fights with visions in seclusion with her, swims across a cold raging sea with her, and a holy fool whispers to himself while walking through the noisy streets of crowded cities. It was not labor and a difficult feat for only a few ascetics, it was a joy and consolation for all saints without exception and was combined with all their other exploits and labors, as something constant, inevitable, and self-evident. In the lives of all the saints, prayer is presented as an indispensable feature of the pious life of every ascetic. On their knees, weighed down with chains, with hot tears, they prayed without rest for long hours, whole nights, praying for their sins, for their neighbors, for their enemies, for the whole world. “The fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much” (James V, 16). That they cleansed with it and saved their souls, their blessed death, incorruptible relics and numerous miracles assure us of this, and how many times with their prayer they turned away the wrath of God from the sinner, eased his difficult fate beyond the grave, or called on God’s mercy for those suffering here, on earth, only the One to whom they offered their prayers knows. the study of the Holy Scriptures
and the works of our fathers with prayer The favorite reading of Russian people in the old days was reading religious books; all the more so must this be said about the monks and ascetics, who were, primarily, the guardians of enlightenment in our fatherland. The Word of God was for them an inexhaustible source of all the knowledge they needed. Who and what could tell them better than Holy Scripture about God, the soul and salvation? From Holy Scripture they drew for themselves the best lessons of life, in the words of the same Scripture they gave the best instructions and teachings, and through the mouth of the same inspired writers they poured out their feelings to God. In order to be able to use the word of God, sometimes adult monks in the monastery learned to read and write for the first time. This is what the Rev. did, for example. Spiridon Prosphora. Many people memorized entire books of the Bible. The Psalter was especially loved; for many years, others read it daily, for example, Rev. Sophrony the Recluse. Rev. Barsanuphius of Tver, living in the desert for forty years, even memorized all of the Holy Scriptures and not only read it to everyone who came, but also explained incomprehensible passages, so that Metropolitan Photius himself turned to him in doubtful cases as the best interpreter of the word of God. Along with Holy Scripture, the ascetics also studied the patristic works. “Earthly life is war, and for war you need weapons, you need experienced knowledge; So, for spiritual warfare you need to learn a lot from experienced holy men; we need to learn from them which spiritual weapons are useful in which cases; From them we can also learn well about our enemies,” - this is how the Rev. spoke about the benefits of reading the works of our fathers. Abraham of Smolensk lovingly read the works of John Chrysostom, Ephraim the Syrian and others. Like him, he devoted all his free time to reading the Holy Scriptures and the works of St. Fathers of St. Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow, Kirill Belozersky, a famous zealot for enlightenment, and other ascetics. Types of asceticism in the Russian Land (Contents) Teachings on prayer by St. Porfiry Kavsokalivit DNA and the WORD, living and dead. Prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Prayers for the healing of the sick Prayers for healing from drunkenness, drug addiction and other destructive vices Prayer book for children Prayers for various occasions for children Orthodox prayers to the Guardian Angel. Mother Teresa's Prayer Wonderful Seraphim's prayer "all-merciful" Ladder prayer of Elder Zechariah (Schiarchimandrite Zechariah) Prayers in the poetry of the classics Prayers in modern poetry How fasting and prayer affect the human body
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