When a person just starts to pray regularly,He likes it, and he is winged. This is where the danger lies. The first is to start to be proud of yourself and consider yourself worthy of certain special feelings and visions. The second is to get tired of doing the prayer work and to give up your new habit. Many begin to pray regularly when they first go to confession. And they try to confess during fasting, often this is Lent. Are there any features for prayer at this time. What should be the prayer in Lent? And what you need to know about prayer in general?
First, if you know the importance of performanceprayer rules, then you are already responsible for every little bit of your knowledge. And when you deliberately refuse to pray, it will be a sin, which, of course, you must confess. One must always turn to God every day. Prayer in Lent is special, because believers in these days are imbued with the spirit of repentance and try to read all the prayers of the rule, even if they usually do not read each one. Remember this and you.
Secondly, remember that you can and should prayany time, for any work. For this, the fathers recommend Jesus' prayer. It does not distract from work and, at the same time, according to the testimony of believers, the work is better and randomness is often on the side of the praying.
Thirdly, do not look for any special effects fromprayers such as euphoria, mood improvement, rapture. The Holy Fathers wrote that everything excessive happens from demons. An inexperienced person, these enemies of God can bring to a psychiatric hospital, so be careful.
Fourth, one must be aware during prayer,how much your achievements are modest. After all, even what we are accustomed to consider as our unconditional credit, God gave us. But all our sins are ours, and this reflects the right prayer in Lent.
At this time it is required especially carefullyanalyze your thoughts and actions, you also need to be attentive to the motives that govern us. A person is often unable to live right because he is afraid to admit that he is weak and has already done much wrong. A person is afraid of unforgiveness. However, the Lord is merciful and after the confession you will feel like a heavy stone rolled off his shoulders.
The world becomes flattened, wrong withoutmeeting with God. And this meeting is a prayer. The Christian constantly meets with God in this way. First, when prayer is heard at the time of baptism, at the end of the journey it is served and also prayers are read.
Researchers at Boston Universityhave established that man is inclined to seek in all events and things manifestations of higher meaning. In the soul of everyone from birth there is space for faith, which can be filled with any religious beliefs. Only atheism in the soul of a normally developing child is not located. Then superstition and mysticism come to the place of faith.
Why does God need our love?Because this is the only thing that we ourselves can give or not give him. All the rest is in his hands. If there is his will, he can take all the wealth, glory and honor. On the Court to him we go only with a report for our affairs, nothing more we can not take from the material world.
Prayer to the Theotokos helps often in theextreme and desperate situations. Why is this happening? Because the Blessed Virgin is the most good nature of our world, She is the intercessor of all Christians and brings prayers from them to God. In trouble, prayer to Her works wonders. She is sometimes sick children, she is called the mother of orphans. Therefore, if you need a special intercession - refer specifically to Her.
Prayer in Lent should be supplemented in addition toa binding rule also by reading a larger number of chapters of the Gospel than usual. In fasting, people avoid entertainment, so there is time to read spiritual literature. Instead of turning on the television, open the Eternal Book-the Gospel. And add to the rule the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian.
