Prayer is needed for anyone especially for the maintenance of their health - mental and physical.For this there are special rules for prayer - morning prayer and the prayer of the night.Any prayer - this is a serious work, so you need to train yourself to not to start breakfast without reading the morning prayers and go to bed every night without.
Archimandrite George wrote that no other prayer can not substitute for the morning and evening.As the food - the food of the flesh, so prayer - is food for the soul reinforcements.Morning prayer and usually at night can only take about 20 minutes, and the benefits for the soul of them will be invaluable.
Prayer may sound differently.It may be "Our Father ...", "Mother of God, the Virgin ..." Jesus prayer, hymns and psalms.You can pray in your own words, simply by turning the soul to God with sincere repentance, gratitude, thanksgiving and blessing.
very important regular prayer, its permanence.At the same time, vychityvaya the same word, it is necessary to make sure that they are not devalued, not spoken formally ignored.After the prayer above all - it is talking to God, meeting with the Almighty loving father.It is a dialogue in which we are not just talking.So, you must learn to be silent and a little while praying that our hearts could listen to the depths of God.
any prayer, including prayer at night, involves absolute honesty.It should not be anything contrived, insincere.No need to choose a special word or topic for fellowship with God.It is necessary to pray about what lies in our hearts.But the basic meaning of prayer - it is still not some request, and the meeting with the Lord, the opportunity to discover his presence in our lives.
need to try not only to say the morning prayers and the prayers at night and pray throughout the day.Prayer, like a tuning fork, tunes all my life and all the actions of a Christian.It protects from bad thoughts and actions, helping to find the right way out of difficult situations and gives us strength and understanding of how to live according to the will of God.
Jesus taught us how to live and think only about today, because "every day is enough trouble of its own."Therefore, before going to bed, it is important to stop and think about passing day, repent of their wrongful deeds, to thank God for the gifts He has given to us today by his kindness.In the bustle of the day, we often do not notice these great gifts and it seems that we do not thank for that.But look - each of us is given a lot of life.When someone smiled or did good work for us - it is the gift of God.And if we could for someone to be good and useful today - is also the grace of God, because the desire to do good deeds, the heart of this opportunity for only the Lord can give.
Never sleep angry or offended.The Bible teaches us about this: "Let not the sun go down on your anger."No one knows how many days of life allotted to us and our loved ones, so the desire to make peace tomorrow may never come true.
Examine your conscience every time at the end of the day.If there was something wrong - you need to repent and be reconciled to not put stones resentment and anger in his heart.This is a very heavy burden, not to wear it to your next day.
And another important point in the evening prayer - we entrust our lives, our sleep and our awakening to the will of the Lord.By his grace, we and our loved ones can wake up tomorrow and go to the next day of life.In all of His holy will.
We pray not only almighty God, and trust in the protection of the Mother of God and all the saints, because they are our heavenly patrons and defenders.It should also refer to the Guardian Angel - with a request to protect us from temptations and not to deviate from God's path.
Here is an example of how to build a prayer at night Orthodox:
«Lord, Almighty Eternal God, merciful and humane, forgive me, please, all that have sinned before You today deed, thought or word.Give me a calm and peaceful sleep.Send me an Angel thy keeper of my soul, that it covers me and protects them from all evil.Thank you, Lord, for this day and for all the gifts and blessings are Yours.Thank you, Lord, for all that has been, for all that is, and all that will be.Glory pay tribute to the Father and to the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever and ever.Amen. "
Let us learn to pray, so that it reaches the heart, and ascended to heaven to God.Let us ask the Lord, the Mother of God and all the saints that they have taught us to pray with all my heart, because it is impossible to live without prayer and without God and without the Church It is impossible to escape.Peace to you.
