How to ask God to help. How to ask for help from God and Higher Powers? Practical Tips

And really, when? We know from Scripture: ask, and it will be given to you. Therefore, we ask, and we ask, as it seems to us, we do not receive what we need. Maybe we don't really understand what we need. After all, it is not in vain that the apostle says: “Let us pray for something, we know not.” If the great Apostle did not know what to ask the Lord, then what can we know, mundane and shrouded in an unceasing and often empty vain life?

However, every believer from his personal life knows how the merciful Lord does not leave him in requests. How many requests a person pours out to the Lord, as many and many more happy and comforting answers follow from Him.

Yes, there are requests that go unanswered. When? Doesn't the unfortunate mother know what is needed for her unlucky son: a drug addict, a drunkard, a rampant brawler? Knows and asks. And the son remains, to her tears and grief, the same, if not worse. Often mothers claim that the son wants to leave his misdeeds and cannot. “I, father, pray, but the Lord does not help. Maybe I'm praying wrong? What can you say to a mother who is disappointed in everything? In her despair, she already hears a murmur against the Lord: “I pray, but the Lord does not help.”

“I know, mother, that you are praying. But your son flatters you, complains about you with his pretense, but does not want to leave his former life. Therefore, I will tell you: continue, mother, pray. A mother's prayer cannot go unheeded, and she will do her job, even if it is after your death. The petition of a mother who loves her child even to death will plead with the Lord, and He will enlighten the lost child. Bring him to the service, after the service we will talk with him.

- I can’t persuade, father, he doesn’t want to.

Here is the whole answer to the tearful question. Ah, if only the prayer were mutual!

We know from the Old Testament how the two kings of Israel, Saul and David, sinned. And both asked the prophets to pray for them. But the first prophet ordered to hand over the royal affairs, since, having sinned, he could no longer be the king of Israel, and to another, who had sinned much more, to the very first petition for prayer, the prophet replied: “Your sin has been taken away!”

At first glance, it looks like an injustice. After all, both ask, and ask for a prophet, a man who has, so to speak, a direct access to God. And the answer is different: David is pardoned, and Saul is rejected in his request. Why? Because one of the sinners, having sprinkled ashes on his head, groaned and prayed for mercy, while the other continued his ungodly way of life, wishing that someone else asked and prayed for him.

But in life there are literally wild cases. Doctors from the parishioners noticed behind me that their old father was failing in health and sent me to the local Ural sanatorium health resorts to rest and refresh my strength. It so happened that nearby, at the Medic recreation center, a student of the Chelyabinsk Medical Institute Masha Shmakova was on vacation with her mother. The family is a believer. It was August 4, the day of memory of Mary Magdalene. And we, in a marching way, celebrated the day of the Angel Mashenka. They sang, as expected, "many years." A thought flashed through: probably in this place for the first time in my life the prayer of many years sounded. And when they went to their health resort "Cliff", they got to a water-blessed prayer service in the chapel in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Healer". After the prayer service, we went to rest in an apartment provided by kind people. Passing by the grocery pavilion, my mother went in to buy something for dinner, and I sat down on a chair at the pavilion table. A tall young guy came out of the pavilion, unceremoniously sat down next to him and suddenly spoke rather rudely:

Where did you get the idea that God exists?

- Where did you get that he is?

“And where did you get the idea that He doesn’t exist?”

“I’ll gouge out your eye, I served two years, you see,” and he shows a horned fist with protruding crooked fingers.

“That won't change anything. In my prison, which I spiritually feed, where there are more than three thousand of the same guys, no one promised me this, and now my guys will have a newcomer for fun training and entertainment. But the trouble is, you never listened to your mother because you didn't love her.

“I would shoot you all!” - He shouted in anger and walked away with a drunken gait.

- Mother of God, heal, remove the spirit of malice from this boy, as they soon feel the opposite Spirit of God in people!

Who will pray for this? What awaits him? The Lord alone knows.

But it is gratifying and, one might say, rewarding what a believer feels when he asks the Lord for help. Such requests are fulfilled immediately.

With the permission of the patient reader of my notes, I will cite one or two of God's help to my requests, which clearly show which of our requests are fit for God to fulfill. I would like to first clarify that the help of God rendered to me was not for my dignity, but for the fact that my request turned out to be pleasing to God, about which I enlightened, to my shame, after many years, already being a priest.

I grew up, and they took me into the army. Mom was left to live alone in the barracks, where my daddy brought us in 1939 in the mining village of Roza, Korkinsky district. During my stay in the army, the barrack was demolished, and in a two-story house, my mother was given a room to share in 12 square meters. meters.

When I returned from the army, they refused to register me, since the norm of living space per person was 9 square meters. meters. We clearly did not have enough space. The paradox was resolved by registration. It's time to start a family. They didn’t want to register their wife for the same reason, but they nevertheless prescribed it.

I am graduating from a mining technical school, I work in a mine as a mechanic at a mining site. A baby was born, then a second. There is a sharp shortage of housing, but the mine does not provide housing. The city executive committee informed the mine about the baptism of my children, and I was among the unreliable. Many times I have been impudently shuffled from the first to the last. In the brigade of mechanics-repairmen, I had a very good attitude. People older than me, experienced in work and life, seeing my hopeless situation, late one evening a delegation came to my house with a bottle of vodka and put 1200 rubles on the table. of money. At the time, that was a lot of money. They all lived in their own houses.

It turns out that they bargained a house for me near the mine. I was frightened and bewildered. At first I was refusing, but the strict conversation of the miners stopped me: “If you don’t take it, we’ll take it back, we won’t offer it a second time, and our friendship will break. We work together, you will give back in time. So I became the owner of my own house, where I lived for many years. It was very convenient - work is nearby.

For years the house was old, backfilled. The area is sufficient, but in a good frost the walls froze through, and the house had to be heated without stopping. Luckily there was coal. We endured a lot of difficulties, and the main thing is that when my wife and I were at work in winter, my mother often, due to her infirmity, stayed in an unheated house.

And somehow I came home from the night shift. The children are in the kindergarten, Maria is at work, the stove flooded by her almost burned out, her mother lies in her room under a thick blanket, Maria put a thermos next to her. The wall where mother lies is covered with snow frost. He melted the stove, gave his mother a cup of tea and sat down next to him on the edge of the bed.

Our dear mothers, forgetting about themselves, worry about their children.

- Son, how are you doing at work?

- Mom, everything is fine.

- Thank God. While you are at work, I pray for you without ceasing.

I picked up a newspaper, and a note caught my eye that this year so many millions of square meters of housing were put into operation for the well-being of Soviet people. Involuntarily burst out in my heart: “Lord! I would like one and a half of these millions, for my mother. I am day and night in the mine, Maria is at work, my mother is alone in the cold. If there had been a folder, the issue would have been resolved in my infancy. At work, I'm afraid to give a voice about housing. Lord, You are our Father, help me keep my mother warm, she deserves it.

My mother and wife often told me to leave my job in the mine. But I did not see where I could apply myself with a mining diploma. He pulled, as they say, rubber, pushed aside a home conversation on this topic. And, as I understand it now, this was my big mistake: disobedience to my mother and the will of God. And then the Lord puts me in a different position.

The Union rejoiced at the opening of a new VAZ automobile plant in Togliatti. "Zhiguli" were given to the leaders of production. I had brilliant production figures. At that time, I had a “humpbacked” Zaporozhets, but I wanted a “Lada”. But my situation for getting a car turned out to be as deplorable as for an apartment. There is a limit to patience, and I went out to talk with the director of the mine, considering myself deprived.

By this time, my rating had grown: I was transferred as a mechanic to the Ventilation section. In other words, the gas shield of the mine lay on me. This is high and very responsible. But all my successes did not count, the first opponent of my requests was the party organizer of the mine. The arguments were obvious: attending the Church, reports on the baptism of children, morally unstable. And I decided to leave the mine. I came home upset, my mother noticed and asked the reason. I told him and added that if now they began to persuade me to stay at the mine and offered the Zhiguli for free, I would not agree, believing that I had exchanged my faith for a coffin with wheels. Of course, it was very bad and painful in my soul, but I should have listened to my mother earlier, I would have left quietly and peacefully, painlessly. Where to go? Maria offers to build the Chelyabinsk Poultry Farm, where she worked at a construction site, in order to later become a veterinarian. Decided. The decision was made by the three of us: me, mom and Maria. Neither the children nor the relatives knew anything. We agreed that until I got a job, I would not say a word to anyone where I was going. So the Lord has given.

“Abba, you and I are in the deep desert, we are alone in your cave, no one can hear us, why was it necessary to write a note, and even burn it?”

- Our conversation is heard by the evil one.

- No, I couldn't. He is not trained in this. In addition, his primitive pride will not allow him to read a note written by a man of God.

Remembering the advice of the marvelous old man, we decided to have our own family secret.

So, I submitted my resignation. After the director's signature, my head of the Ventilation section had to sign the application. An ardent commie. He tolerated me only because I had a wonderful friendship with the RGTI (mining technical inspection), before which everyone trembled. This was the will of God, which kept me afloat in front of the haters. And so, my dear boss, signing the application, asks:

- Where are you going?

They will give me an apartment.

- Will you be a mechanic?

- Not. plumber.

- Why?

- I'm telling you that they will give me an apartment. You don't give!

You won't get an apartment.

- I'll get it. Otherwise, I wouldn't have left the mine.

You won't get an apartment.

- Why?

- While I am a deputy of the City Council, you will not get an apartment.

- I'll get it. And I invite you to a housewarming party.

- I won't go to you.

Why not? I invite.

We are ideological enemies.

- Well, my business is to invite.

For the first time in my life, I told a lie. Must be a white lie. Having received full payment, on the same day I got a job as an instrumentation engineer at a poultry farm under construction. After working the shift, when talking with miner's friends, he said that he got a job at a poultry farm. The factory was 15 kilometers from us, there was no connection. It was 1974. On the third day I go to work, explain to my electricians the scope and purpose of the work, and suddenly my chief power engineer of the poultry farm calls me aside and excitedly asks:

- Sergey Ivanovich, the director of the factory sent me to ask - are you a Baptist?

- What's the matter?

- Now they came to him from the mine where you worked, and they said, “Gulko Sergey Ivanovich is getting a job with you. Don't take it. He is a Baptist and corrupts the discipline of people, we have suffered with him. Sergei Ivanovich, tell me honestly, are you a Baptist?

- You ask, I honestly answer: no. Never have been, and never will be.

- Thanks. I got it.

And went to report to the director.

Here is the characteristic handwriting of the Council of Deputies: spend working time, come to an unfamiliar construction site, go to an unfamiliar director and warn that a believer, as an enemy, should not be hired. To slander him, to stick a hungry knife in the back of the family of someone who did not offend anyone with a word, whose father died heroically for the Motherland and family. He died so that his family would not die without a breadwinner-warrior from hunger. He died for the same mediocre and shameless liar and others like him.

Surprisingly, my new director turned out to be a believer and carried me, one might say, in his arms. This is how the Lord supports his own! And if at the mine they even deleted me from the lists for housing, then in a new place I was elected chairman of the housing and welfare commission for the distribution of housing to factory workers. For the good work of the housing commission, the director suggested that I choose an apartment myself. I modestly refused, but the question remained as such.

In parallel with the construction of the factory, housing for workers was also being built. In order to speed up the settlement of the new house, the management of the factory suggested that all future tenants go and clean the house of construction debris so that the builders could start painting the floors faster. We went with the kids. There were three children, but two could already walk. We went on the second floor to the first apartment we came across, and the younger daughter exclaimed: “Mom, this apartment will be ours!” We stopped there, the apartment had four rooms and was suitable for our family of six.

The Lord always gives more than you ask. I asked for at least one and a half for my mother - I got a four-room apartment, in which we lived for 5 years. Children began to grow up and more spacious rooms were needed. Wrote an application for consideration and forgot about it. The director begged me to move to a very important workshop for the poultry farm - an incubator. I agreed. The dear director suddenly died. The other one did not know us at all, and he was not up to all of us, there were a lot of things to do. So we lived for two more years.

In our village, semi-detached houses were built for the management staff. Once, after the end of the shift, we go out through the checkpoint to the buses to go home, at the same time people from the Administrative Department, where the trade union Fabkom met and distributed these same cottages, were leaving. The guys I knew came up to me with congratulations on allocating me a cottage. I took it as a joke, but it turned out to be true. We have moved into a new semi-detached house with a garden plot. The house had three rooms and a huge veranda, which we converted into a nice fourth room. I received the house by the will of God so that in it I would learn to read the Slavic language out loud. We lived there for 15 years and moved to Korkino already being a priest.

Why is it such a long and not so easy way to get housing? Because it was necessary to immediately hear the will of God in my mother’s words and obey: “Son, I always ask the Lord to leave the mine.” The will of God was expressed in words. I heard it and did not dare. I thought in the wrong place: I’ll leave the mine, leave my job, what will happen to me? And the Lord was preparing me to be His servant. What mercy is God to us, wavering and presumptuous!

Then, when I got a little wiser, I understood why the Lord gave me such a wonderful home. He didn't give it to me, He gave it to my mother. I asked Him for a warm lorry for my mother out of many millions of square meters of housing. And, since my mother lived with me, and I with her, I got into this gift with my family. Wonderful are Your works, Lord!

Maybe this is a complicated example, here is a simpler example.

So, on February 23, the day of the Soviet Army, we received a four-room apartment in a five-story building. Great Lent is coming, we are waiting for a joyful Easter.

Great Thursday. Maria and her mother put fresh Easter cakes and a plate with multi-colored eggs on a table covered with a clean beautiful tablecloth. We all faced a very difficult question: how to consecrate the Easter meal? Easter Sunday is a working day this year. You can't get to Korkino, we live in the middle of nowhere. It is even further to Chelyabinsk, we will obviously be late for work. My Zaporozhets is no more, on the advice of the director of the mine, I had to sell it to a worker from my mine, so that I would not be classified as a speculator, since I was standing in line for the Zhiguli. I followed the advice, and was completely left without wheels.

We sit at home with the whole family, admire the beauty of the festive table and grieve. You will have to break the fast with an unconsecrated testicle. Each of us reassures each other: “Well, what can you do, the Lord sees our situation. Let's break the fast with what we have."

“Lord,” I burst out almost with tears, “if there was a typewriter, we would have defended the service, and we would have consecrated the little ones, and we would have broken the fast like a human being, and we would have had time to work!”

On Good Friday morning, as usual, we went to work. Suddenly, the director of the factory calls me. Turns out he lost the keys to the safe. Spare inside. Who can open? Of course, a Kipovian. He came, poked around with an awl, where with curved tweezers. God knows how, but the safe opened.

The director is happy. I leave the office, on the porch stands a very elderly and respected party organizer of the factory, Nikolai Ivanovich Klimenko. In the past, the honored chairman of the collective farm. Greeted politely. He's asking:

- Sergey Ivanovich, how is life young?

Unexpectedly, he lied for the second time in his life.

- Last Sunday I went to Chelyabinsk to the "flea market", looked at the cars, all old, half-rotten, I was afraid to take them. I would like to take the children out to nature on weekends, and to relax ourselves somewhere by the water.

- What are you, what are you, do not take it! I saw a distribution order for agriculture in the area, we will have cars, take a new one.

With that, they parted ways. Closer to dinner, the factory dispatcher urgently calls me to the director on a speakerphone. Then a senior supply officer ran up to me and hurried to go to the director.

“Kolya,” I ask him, “what happened?” Can I take some of the tools with me?

- Sergey Ivanovich, nothing is needed, now everything will depend on you.

- Kolya, what's the matter, well, tell me a secret.

- As you say now, so be it.

Obediently I go, I get angry - too, the friend is called. I go to the director, and he asks me from the threshold:

- Sergey Ivanovich, do you need a car?

- Why was he silent? On the wire, Nikolai Ivanovich, he is in the district at a meeting, he says that you need a car. We are given "Moskvich-2125". It is more expensive than zhiguli. Will you take it, or is it better to wait?

- I'll take it.

- Expensive. "Zhiguli" -5500, and "Moskvich" - 7200.

- I'll take it.

Calls party organizer Nikolai Ivanovich about consent. They give us a car. A brand new, chic Moskvich combi 2125 was already standing under our window for dinner on Holy Saturday. In the evening, without numbers, with great joy we went to Korkino to celebrate the most joyful Easter. Here is great joy! Here is the mercy of the Lord to those who ask Him for help! And what a miracle: in the mine, the party organizer “cut down” my request, and in the village, the party organizer helped her!

Why was the request so quickly fulfilled? Because the request was for the glory of God, for prayer, for visiting the temple on Sundays.

This is what we, who ask for God's help, must definitely remember: what we ask of God and why. The will of God is to lovingly help everyone.

An example for our requests may be the petition of the Holy and Righteous Fathers of God Joachim and Anna, who, having an impeccable and pious life, prayed to God to bless them with the birth of a child, whom they decided to give to the service of God. Their tearful and ardent petitions included all hope in the Lord, sacrificial love for Him and all hope: “Remove from us, Lord, the reproach of infertility, give us a Child, and we will give Him to You for Your glory.” They thought that God would give a son to determine him to serve God in the temple of the Lord, but a girl was born. But they gladly kept their promise. It is a great and inexpressible joy for us that the Lord gave them the Girl, the Most Pure and Blessed Mary, who became the Mother of God and the Mother of the entire human race, the First Helper of all weeping and grieving mothers.

When do people turn to God? In difficult life situations, when hope gradually gives way to despair. That's when people remember that there is a God. Not all, of course, but many people are believers "in the soul." Until a certain point.

How to turn to God and ask for help from him?

One gate play?

Before you learn how to ask God for help so that He hears the petitioner, it is worth answering the question: does God help people in life? Silly to ask, of course, helps. Do people often thank Him for His help before turning again? And here comes an awkward moment, because usually a request for help looks like this: they asked (sometimes tearfully), they got what they wanted, they forgot about God until the next right moment. There was no place for thanks. And this is wrong.

People from childhood are taught to say "thank you" to their parents. God is the Father, why not thank Him for fulfilling the request?

How to give thanks?

How to ask God for help? And how to thank the Savior for help? It's very simple. You can go to church and order, put a candle in front of the icon of Jesus Christ.

If it is not possible to visit the church (precisely because of weakness, and not because of laziness and eternal fussiness), you can read an akathist at home. Or thank God in your own words, standing in front of the home iconostasis.

People don't know how to ask

How to ask God for help in love, for example? Don't be shy, first of all. For some reason, people are ashamed to ask their neighbors for help. Well, if they are not ashamed to turn to the Savior with their requests.

You don't need to be afraid of it. After all, this is your Father. Is it when a person loves his dad, he is embarrassed to contact him? Of course no. Same here. God loves everyone and responds to all requests.

A difficult situation

Finding themselves in a difficult situation, often a person doubts whether this is the right thing to do. People get nervous, enter a state of stress, try to consult with loved ones or make a decision on their own. Weighing all the pros and cons, they become even more nervous. And what to do? How to solve the issue? Ask God for help? Yes, without any hesitation. Pray to the Savior, entrust Him with the solution of a difficult issue. Who but God knows what is best for your good? Only He leads people through life, helping in everything and protecting them.

Never hesitate to ask God for help in a difficult situation, just like turning to God in general.

Pupils and students

Students and pupils are a separate issue. Are there many among them who turn to God for help? Hardly. Most often, mothers and grandmothers pray for their students. The students themselves either do not want to, or do not believe, or do not understand why this is necessary.

How to ask God for help in studying for a son or daughter? Pray for your student and ask God to help him on the path to acquiring knowledge. And even better - the schoolboy or student himself should ask the Creator for help.

When you ask God for help, it’s somehow not very scary to go to a difficult exam or go out to answer in front of a large audience and a strict professor.

Problems at work

It also happens like this: a person works, tries. And the bosses are dissatisfied and do not even try to answer the question of what is wrong in the work.

Or the boss gives subordinates a task. They perform it out of the ordinary badly, failing it with a bang. How can you not get angry? How not to yell at subordinates? How can a subordinate endure the boss's chicanery from scratch?

Turn to God for help. How to ask God for help in work? Pray for the softening of the boss's heart and for help for yourself. It will be useful to pray like this: "Lord, remember King David and all his meekness." This short prayer helps if the boss is already very harsh. By the way, this also applies to students. The professor is mad and sends everyone to re-examination? Say these simple words often.

Oh love, love

How to ask God for help in love? Pray that the Lord would give a soul mate, if we are talking about a lonely prayer.

If the one asking is married, and for some reason he cracks, then pray for the preservation of the marriage. Not once stand in front of the icons, but regularly ask, persistently. No wonder it is said: "Ask, and it will be given to you." So ask and knock on the Lord.

Why is it not given?

It happens like this: a person asks, asks, but is not given. Here already begins to grumble - why? The request seems to be good, it's not asking for something bad.

How to ask God for help so that this help comes? More precisely, how else to ask? Why doesn't He always help? For several reasons:

Example one. The mother asks God to take her son away from the sin of drunkenness. Prays, prays, and the son continues to drink. Why is that? Because he's not interested in quitting alcohol. And of course, he does not ask the Lord to help him stop drinking. When a person asks for someone, it is important that both the petitioner and the person being asked for are interested in the same end result.



His request is not good for a man. How so? For example, a person wants to buy a car for a long time, saves money. And all the time this money goes to more significant needs: for example, the neighbors from above flooded, repairs need to be done. Or an elderly mother fell ill, and medicines and a high-quality medical examination are needed. You have to get into the stash. Maybe this car is just not needed? Who knows what God protects the supplicant from, preventing him from saving money for his own car? Perhaps He saves a person from a fatal accident? The ways of the Lord, as they say, are inscrutable.

The request will be fulfilled a little later. It happens that a person asks for something, but it is not fulfilled. It is only worth reconciling, and suddenly the request is heard. This is because only God knows whether a person needs what he asks for, and at what point it is better to give it to the one asking.

How does one ask?

Having chosen a moment among the daily bustle, humbly standing in front of the home iconostasis and mentally voicing your request - or out loud. Once, usually. And then the one who asks waits for his request to be fulfilled. When the Lord does not respond, the person asks again - this time more insistently. And again there is no answer. Then he stops asking at all, believing that it is pointless.

This is fundamentally wrong. How, then, to ask God for help correctly?

How should you ask?

This must be done, first of all, with an open heart, not embarrassed to resort to God's help. Ask not once, but every day when you pray (if you pray). Literally cry inwardly to God. How does a child ask for something from a parent? Persistently and obviously more than once, especially when something really wants. So every person should ask in the same way as children ask - persistently and constantly.

Where to ask?

You can turn to the Savior for help at home or in church. In general, it is not a shame to resort to Him everywhere: on the way to work, walking with a child, going shopping. Nobody forbids this.

Most often, people ask for help either in the temple or in front of the home iconostasis. Those who regularly go to the temple know that it is possible to cry out for help here and there.

Ask at home

How to ask God for help at home? If it is not possible to get to the temple - due to illness, for example, do not be shy to pray at home.

When a person, waking up from a dream, goes to the icons to pray, it will not be superfluous after the morning rule to add his request to the prayers. Just before you do this, do not forget to thank God for waking you up and giving you a new day.

On the way to work, instead of listening to music, you can mentally turn to the Savior, disturb Him again with your request.

In the evening, after prayers for the coming dream, thank God for the day you lived and ask again.



Ask in the temple

It often happens like this: a person enters a church, lights candles, asks for something and leaves, being confident that his request will be immediately fulfilled. That doesn't happen.

To get anything in life, you have to work hard. Likewise, we must work hard before God. Go to church on Sundays, defend the liturgy, ideally confess and take communion. But to do this is not in order to "bribe" God, you need to do it from the heart. And ask, ask, ask again. Knock and it will be opened to you.



Ask the saints

Saints are man's helpers before God. Now, while people are walking the earthly path and praying to them, they help. How to ask for help from a saint?

For example, there is a desire to prayerfully turn to the Matrona of Moscow. Do not be lazy to read the akathist to the saint, then ask in your own words. Read the akathist for a while, and after you have received what you want, order a prayer service in the temple and read the akathist in gratitude to Matrona.

If there is an opportunity to go to the relics of the saint, use it. Bow to the honest remains of God's servant, ask her for help. Saints have boldness before God and ask for people living on earth.



A Little About Communion and Confession

As mentioned above, ideally - when a person took communion and confessed. How to achieve the ideal? It's not that difficult really.

Confession is repentance for your sins. Sincere, but not for show. People must not only understand that they have sinned, but also get rid of this sin in the future. For example, what is the point of repenting of smoking if you do not think to improve. It is clear that one cannot get rid of this sin so immediately, especially for experienced smokers. Everything is done gradually. At first they smoked a pack of cigarettes a day. After the first confession, they began to smoke five less. And slowly come to complete victory over sin with God's help.

There are everyday sins in which people repent, reading the rule for the coming dream. His last prayer is daily repentance. People "carry" stronger sins to the church.

What kind of prayer is it to ask God for help? You can pray in your own words, they are sincere and come from the heart.

What about confession? What sins especially disturb the soul? Those should be confessed first. As the soul is cleansed, sins will emerge from memory on their own. Just don’t be shy about telling them to the priest, he also didn’t hear that.

You need to go to the temple (preferably on Saturday evening or Sunday morning) and confess to the priest.

As for the sacrament, they proceed to it in case of proper preparation. This is a post for three days (minimum). It is bodily, as for mental fasting - it is abstinence from various entertainment events, computer games, watching movies, listening to music. For spouses, this means abstaining from intimacy for the three days before communion.

On Saturday evening, you need to read three canons: Jesus Christ, the Most Holy Theotokos and the Guardian Angel. You also need to subtract the akathist to Jesus the Sweetest and the following to Holy Communion. All these prayers are in the prayer books, at worst, if there is no prayer book at home and there is no way to buy at the moment, you can find it on the Internet and print it out.

If a person has gone through three days of bodily and spiritual fasting, confession is passed. Then you need to take a blessing from the priest for communion. How to do it? Just say: "Father, bless me to take communion." And if he asks if they are ready, list how they prepared: they fasted and read everything that was supposed to.



Conclusion

So how do you ask God for help? Here are the main aspects to be aware of:

You can ask at home and in the temple.

At home, after reading the morning and evening rule, you should first thank God for allowing you to see a new day, and for allowing you to live another day. Then add your request.

You can turn to the saints with a request. To do this, it is worth reading the akathist to the chosen saint and annoying with a request.

In the temple, you need to ask more than once, but go to services and offer prayers along with a request for help.

1. And most importantly - do not forget to thank for what you get.

What is the right way to ask God for help? Esoteric Recommendations

98% of people ask God, but remain unheard. Or maybe, of course, they are heard, but for some reason the Higher Forces remain deaf to their requests.

Why?

How should you ask God, how should you pray with a request in order to be heard by God and to be helped?

There are always laws and principles. God created these Laws and He will not violate them himself.

The first thing to understand is that God is not a genie or a goldfish that fulfills all desires in a row.

And about everything else - in order.

How to ask God for help so that your prayers are heard

The question is actually very important! It was asked by Tatyana: Please tell me how to ask God and your Guardian Angel correctly, because many people will forgive and ask all their lives, but not all of their requests and prayers are fulfilled. Why does God hear some prayers and help to fulfill them, and it happens that almost instantly, while heaven remains indifferent to other prayers? And if there are any rules - how to ask to be heard?

Very, very good questions! Indeed, not all prayers are fulfilled exactly as people ask, and there are reasons for this. Indeed, there are rules that must be taken into account when you ask the Higher Powers for something. I will try to answer in detail, although we have already talked about a lot in other articles. Links will be provided in the text.

How to ask God to hear you and help you

I repeat once again - God and the Higher Powers are not a goldfish or a genie from a bottle, and serving people is not their task, fulfilling all the desires of those who ask (this would be terrible and destructive for humanity)! The Higher Forces realize the Creator's Intentions, the Will of God. Mother Teresa said it best, in my opinion:

I asked for strength - and God sent me trials to harden me.
I asked for wisdom - and God sent me problems to puzzle over.
I asked for courage - and God sent me danger.
I asked for love - and God sent the unfortunate who need my help.
I asked for blessings - and God gave me opportunities.
I didn't get anything I wanted, but I got everything I needed!
God heard my prayers...

But this does not mean that God and the Higher powers will not help people achieve their goals and dreams. Of course they will!

It should also be noted that it is not always the Light Forces, God, who help a person in the fulfillment of his desires. It all depends on the desires (goals) and motives of the person. If the goals are worthy and the motives are pure, the Forces of Light will help. If the goals are dark, destructive, or the motives are negative, evil, selfish (revenge, deceit, causing harm) - a person can get help, but only from dark forces. And he will pay for such help with his soul and fate (slavery), and plus he will still have to answer for sins (experienced suffering).

When and why will God not help a person in his requests?

1. When a person turns to God and asks for something unworthy: evil for someone, undeserved benefits for oneself, etc.

2. If a person is not sincere in his thoughts and prayers. For example, a person asking God for something, promises Him something in his prayers. God helps him, but the man is not going to fulfill his promises given to God.

3. If a person bargains with God, as in a bazaar and sets conditions for Him. For example: “If you, God, do something to me, or give me something, then I, so be it, will be a good girl or boy”. Bargaining with God is useless, this is a nasty approach to using God for your petty selfish interests. All requests must be sincere and pure, and come from the very depths of your Spiritual Heart.

4. If a person blatantly lies, he promises and does not do it, and so many times. For example, a person comes to church, asks something from God and promises that he will not slander, he will work, etc. And as soon as he leaves the church, he immediately forgets about his promises, immediately curses those going to the meeting, pours dirt, and is not even going to work. There are more than enough such examples.

5. When, for example, you ask for another person, but he does not deserve this help from God. This does not mean that you do not need to pray for him, but it means that the decision to help or not help this person always remains with God, He knows best.

6. If a person does not ask for something, i.e. his requests are directed in the wrong direction, contrary to the Will of God. For example, you ask God to help you enter the Faculty of Law, and you have karmic tasks in the field of education, and you need to enter pedagogy. Or you want to go to Japan and ask the Higher Powers about it, and They have prepared a fate for you with moving to Germany, for example. In this case, no matter how much you ask for something “of your own”, you will meet obstacles until you realize that you are trying to go in the wrong direction. Here, of course, it is desirable to get the help of a Spiritual Healer, in working with whom you can find out your karmic tasks, and adjust your plans in accordance with the Will of the Higher Forces.

7. When you want something, ask God for it, but you haven't met the preconditions for it. For example, a person asks to be healed of some kind of illness, but he himself is not going to change. As he was embittered and offended by the whole world, he continues to be angry and offended, but at the same time he asks for healing from cancer, the cause of which is the grievances he has accumulated. Until he realizes the cause of the disease and begins to work on himself, fulfilling all the conditions, he will not receive special help.

8. The most brazen option. When a person asks for something, but he himself is not going to do anything at all. His “Give” directed to God is of no interest to anyone: give me a prince (and the little girl herself is not well-groomed), give me money (but I won’t work), give me a beautiful body (but I don’t want to play sports), etc. Billions of such "Give" are sent to God every day, but the industrious Heaven will never listen to such insolent and lazy people.

There are other reasons why God does not respond to requests, such as ingratitude, when a person is eternally dissatisfied with what he receives and does not appreciate at all what he already has in life. The main reasons are listed, although there are others.

How to ask God to help you! Practical recommendations

1. Ask only for what is worthy! To wish good for yourself (first of all for your Soul), other people and this world. Evil - you need to desire justice (fair punishment from Above), and not evil.

2. Motives, your thoughts - must be pure! Be sincere to yourself, for no one can outwit God. Ask yourself - for what and for whom are you asking anything from God? And answer this question honestly. Next, find pure selfless motives for yourself.

3. Do not bargain with God and be ready to accept any of His Will! Be ready to accept any response from God with gratitude, this will increase your chances of getting what you want. Ask actively, but with inner Humility before the Omnipotence and Wisdom of God.

4. Act yourself! "Trust in God, but don't make a mistake yourself". Remember, God helps, but does not do for you. Ask and do from your side everything that depends on you. The law works like this - the more you yourself take responsibility for your goal, the more help you receive from Above. God does not help idlers. They must first be willing to overcome their laziness and prove themselves worthy of His help.

5. Keep your promises to God! If you have promised something to the Higher Forces in your prayers, try to follow this with all your might! And it is better to always write down what you promise, so as not to become empty talk before God. God will help you to the maximum if you fulfill your obligations. The highest patronage of God always has a Man of Honor, and not a deceiver!

6. The most beloved requests of God that you need to know! The best thing you can ask for (which is most encouraged by the Higher Powers): A) The most effective development for your soul B) Understand and realize the Will of God C) Know the Truth, find out the Truth D) Recognize and atone for your Sins E) Educate yourself worthy personal qualities (become responsible, strong, worthy) F) Understand and realize your Karmic Tasks and your Purpose G) Serve God and Society - bring the greatest benefit to this world. Other.

These are the requests in the embodiment of which God will help a person to the maximum!

7. Be grateful for everything you already have in life! For all the good things - thank you! For all the trials and lessons in which you have become stronger, wiser - thank you! First of all, God helps the grateful! And from those who are not grateful and eternally dissatisfied, they take away what they do not value.

8. How to ask? Ask both in writing and orally.

• Let it be a prayer-request on paper. When you write, it's hard to deceive yourself.
• Be sure to write and tell God about your motives - why do you need this?
• Be sure to give thanks for everything you already have and for the opportunity to ask for and receive His help.
• Be sure to write what you yourself will do for this, and do it.

Glory to Jesus Christ, dear brothers and sisters!

I congratulate you on Holy Communion, on the sanctification of your souls and your bodies.

Today we listened to an interesting Gospel (Luke XVII: 12-19), where we see that 10 lepers asked Jesus for help and they received it. We see that only one out of ten came to thank Jesus. And we see that it wasn't a Jew; it was a Samaritan. And when we read history, we see that the Jews had an advantage over other peoples in their thoughts and in their traditions. Including over the Samaritans. The Lord Jesus Christ in the Gospel constantly emphasizes to the Jews that look, the Samaritan helps. So today - look, the Samaritan was healed and came to give thanks. Jesus Christ shows us with this gospel that He does not choose whom to heal. He did not ask which of these ten Jews, who was a Samaritan, who in general could be of some other nationality. He told them: "Go and show yourself to the priest."

The Lord thereby shows that He does not pay attention to what color your skin is, what your nationality is, and so on. - He helps everyone. That is, for God there is no such thing that some are better and others are worse. And Jesus constantly emphasized this, because the Jewish people, some of them to some extent, had such pride in themselves that did not bring them to God, but rather alienated them. They thought they were the best. Jesus came and said, “No, you are not better. You are no better if you do not love God. You are no better if you do not do the works of God. You are no better off if you do not keep the commandments of the Lord.”

Today, dear brothers and sisters, this is also happening: one of the religious trends thinks that it is better than the other. Christians are better than Muslims, Muslims are better than Jews, Jews are better than Hare Krishnas or Buddhists. Such a distortion occurs. Everyone is equal in God's eyes, they are all equal in God's eyes. The value of our faith depends on how we keep the commandments each in our religion, in our traditions and how we live. If we ask the Lord: "Help me" - being a Muslim, and the Lord helps, then we need to thank Him. If we ask God as Christians: "God, help us to be healed," then we must thank God when this happens. And not like some people in our society, and we are probably the same to some extent when we ask: “God, help, help,” we pray, we pray, we pray, the Lord helps us, and we We even forget to thank God for helping us. And then we somehow forget about it, because the black angel comes and says: “Yes, it should have happened by itself. It's a simple matter. Why did you pray to God at all, when this is an easy thing, everything was already fine. ”

We remember situations when we see that we have a very simple task ahead of us and we think: “Why pray for the Lord to help? It will happen by itself." And here it so happens that in the process we can hardly cope, for the Lord shows: “Without Me, you are nothing. In your infirmities is my strength." When we are weak, we cry out with all our souls and ask: "God, help us." Just as these lepers asked Jesus: "Jesus, save us, help us." It doesn't matter how they asked, but they asked, and the Lord took pity on them and helped.

We can take this Gospel as an example and draw the conclusion that when we ask God for help, and the Lord helps us, we should always give thanks. When we ask God for help, and the Lord does not help us, somehow does not solve the situation, we should still thank God. We must remember that the Scriptures say that "in every step of life, behold the ways of the Lord." We must analyze, dear brothers and sisters, our lives. So I lived this day today, I was at work. What happened to me in a day? Such a situation was, such, aha, and how wonderfully it was resolved. After analyzing, we see that it could not be solved just like that - the Lord helped, blessed his angels. He blessed the people through whom this situation was resolved. But if we are preoccupied with the vanity of this life and all sorts of working moments, we may not see this situation. We see that the day passed normally, well, it’s good that we didn’t thank God. If we didn't, the next day would be worse. For the Lord helps us and He is waiting for us to show free choice and say: “Thank You, Lord, that You helped me.”

We remember that the Scripture says: "so that every breath glorifies God." So that we always praise God. It is difficult for us or it is easy for us, we must praise God.

And most importantly, when we ask the Lord to help us, do not forget to thank God. Thank God for being so merciful. Thank you for the fact that He loves us such sinners, that He blesses us, that He hears our prayers. Thank you is the most important thing.

But there is one more important point here, dear brothers and sisters - when we ask God to help us in something, and He helps us, we understand that He hears us and our faith is not in vain. We see Jesus say to the Samaritan, "Go, your faith has saved you." Because the Samaritan believed that this man would help him.

We believe that the Lord will help us, and we ask Him. If we didn't believe, we wouldn't ask, and we wouldn't get help then. The Lord said, "According to your faith, it will be done to you."

That is, dear brothers and sisters, we see various aspects here, we can talk a lot about it, but the most important thing is to give thanks to God. The most important thing is to ask the Lord to strengthen our faith. And it is strengthened when we ask, and the Lord helps us. And we really see such moments in our lives.

We are asked: “Do you believe in God? - Of course, I believe. - Why do you believe in Him? - Yes, because I see how He works miracles every minute, every day in my life. Why should I not believe in Him? I know that He is. I don't need to see Him physically, I know that He manifests physically in my life."

If we set ourselves up in this way, ask the Lord and thank Him, then the Lord will always be with us.

Save you Lord!

In situations where the human mind cannot find a way out of the current state of affairs, the heart leads us to church, bows before the image of Jesus Christ and teaches us to fervently and sincerely ask him for help. How, one wonders, does a person whose life is connected with religion only by the fact that sometime after his birth he was baptized, remember that the last hope is God.

We turn with prayers for help to God, the saints, Jesus Christ, the Mother of God, as to the last resort, they say, if not they, then no one is able to save. And that's right. True, in order for a strong help to become effective, you need to know how to pronounce it, and what to offer the Lord in return.

First of all, when you decide to ask God for help, first formulate your request in your mind - let it be a sincere request, without deceit and pretense, just tell what is in your heart and how they can help you.

At the same time, thank the Lord for all the blessings in life, for the fact that you and your loved ones are alive and well.

Then swear that you will try not to sin, not to lie, not to envy, not to swear. In order for the prayer to the Lord God for help to be heard by them, you need to overcome the sinful wall that separates you and God. And for this, start living differently, no matter how difficult it may be. Help those who are even worse than you - sick, poor, suffering, abandoned children. First of all, it will raise your self-esteem - there are people in the world who are worse than you, and you, no matter how bad it is for you, thanks to God can help them.

Love is the only thing that can make us happy. Love for children, for God, for parents, for friends, but for any woman, all this will not be complete until she experiences love for a man. Many fail to find their soul mate on their own, which is why you need to enlist the help of God using a prayer for help in love.

Prayer text:

“Lord my God, You know what is saving for me, help me; and do not let me sin before You and perish in my sins, for I am sinful and weak; do not betray me to my enemies, as if I had resorted to You, deliver me, O Lord, for You are my strength and my hope, and to You be glory and thanksgiving forever. Amen".

Not we, and not the words of the sorceress save us from corruption, evil eye, conspiracy, but the Lord God. If there is damage on you, it means that he was pleased to allow it in order to teach you something. And since you turn to him with a prayer for God's help, it means that you have already learned something.

To get rid of witchcraft, evil views, the influence of ill-wishers, a prayer to Jesus Christ for help will help.

Prayer text:

“Lord Jesus Christ! Son of God! Protect us with Your holy angels and the prayers of Our All-Pure Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, by the power of the Honest and Life-Giving Cross, the holy Archangel Michael of God and other incorporeal heavenly powers, the holy Prophet and Forerunner of the Baptist of the Lord John the Theologian, Hieromartyr Cyprian and Martyr Justina, St. Nicholas Archbishop Mir Lycian Wonderworker, St. Nikita of Novgorod, St. Sergius and Nikon, Abbots of Radonezh, St. Seraphim Sarov miracle worker, the holy martyrs of Faith, Hope, Love and their mother Sophia, the holy and righteous Fathers of God Joachim and Anna, and all Your saints, help us, unworthy, servant of God (name). Deliver him from all the slander of the enemy, from all evil, witchcraft, sorcery and crafty people, so that they cannot do him any harm. Lord, with the light of Your radiance, save it for the morning, for the afternoon, for the evening, for the coming dream, and by the power of Your grace, turn away and remove all evil wickedness, acting at the instigation of the devil. Who thought and did, return their evil back to the underworld, as Yours is the Kingdom and the Power, and the Glory of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit! Amen".