Jesus' prayer: how to pray?

One of the most "compact" and most effective appeals to the Lord is Jesus' prayer, the length of everything in the sentence. In it is an appeal to the Son of God by name and a request for pardon, that is, for protection and help. A sentence that is easy to remember, but not very easy to repeat daily ... Employment, this is our eternal employment, which becomes a huge gulf between God and man! And, mind you, God is not to blame for this.

Meanwhile, in this prayer phrase - everything: our confidence, our peace of mind, our happy future. All the blessings to which everyone aspires, fit into a short prayer. And they are fulfilled, provided that the prayer of Jesus is read correctly.

The text and meaning of prayer

Holy fathers call it a revelation, a confession of faith and a vow. Despite its brevity, the Orthodox Jesus' prayer is very capacious in content, and it allows one to put its own meaning to every worshiper.

Saying: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me!", Everyone has in mind the pardon that he needs at the moment. Someone prays for a good day, someone - about health, someone - about loved ones, someone - about the world, someone - about daily bread. And everyone finds an answer in it - not today, but in a week, a year, but it always comes, if a lot of soul is invested in a prayer work.

Hearts of purification and divine gifts of the giver - still characterize this miraculous prayer.

Where and how to approach Jesus

God hears us everywhere and always. There is no such day or time of the day when He would refuse his children in attention. In order that we can constantly "be in touch", He also gave Christians convenient short prayers. How to pray in the prayer of Jesus? As in the other prayer messages, the main instrument is the soul.

God hears sincerity, God responds to love. Surrendering to prayer, you need to forget about yourself for a while and love Jesus for sacrifice, for saving the human race, and simply - without conventions - for what He is. And remember that the Son of God, going up to Golgotha, did not demand from people special vows, did not even force and did not ask to change unsightly traits of character. I just went out of love for the kind of people we are.

Doing the Jesus Prayer Is allowed in any place and under any circumstances: at home, at work, on the road somewhere. You can create prayer by sitting, you can stand up, you can in the process of some physical activity (cooking dinner or watering flowers). The main thing is that thoughts should be focused on turning to Jesus Christ, and extraneous fantasies did not interfere with prayer.

Under the protection of God

In some regions of Ukraine the main greeting for several centuries remains the phrase "Glory to Isa!". In pronouncing it, a person attests to his respect and faith in the Son of God and desires God's protection to whom he is greeted.

The protective action that Jesus' prayer gives is practically unlimited. After uttering the name of the Son of God, a person claims that Jesus is the Lord, and calling Him to help, we recognize that God is the center of the universe, we receive from Him support, the ray of light that every soul needs.

Priests advise, before Read Jesus' prayer, repent and embark on a reading with a pure, free heart, ready to accommodate the Divine power to which it will be filled as it rejoins the Lord.

And again: Jesus' prayer is able to purify from sins, it is only after "Have mercy on me" admit that you are sinful and add: "condemning, envious, proud", etc.

How many times do I say Jesus' prayer?

In principle, the canons of the church allow the restriction of the repetition of Jesus' prayer by a certain number. But which one? How to pray the Jesus prayer and how many times? Everyone determines this for himself: during the utterance of the prayer word, one must listen to oneself. When calm and joy are poured into the soul, everything small and unsightly dissolves, then the appeal to the Son of God has worked.

One to achieve this state is enough ten times the creation of prayer, and another - and hundreds are few.

In order not to be distracted by calculations and at the same time not to lose the number, you can use the rosary while uttering the Jesus Prayer.

What is the clever doing of prayer?

In Christianity, intelligent work is understood as the maximum concentration of attention and spiritual forces aimed at contemplating God in one's own heart.

For any prayer, even uttered not by book, but in your own words, it is very important to do smart work. About the Jesus Prayer Priests always remind, teaching parishioners clever prayer: it gives the chance to concentrate on a limit of forces. With prolonged pronunciation, the worshiper ascends to one spiritual level, and more understanding of God opens in his mind and heart.

The clever prayer of Jesus opens great opportunities in the spiritual world, directing a person along the path that will only bring him good. But anyone who wishes to proceed immediately to the utterance of this prayer, one should know: prayer is a feat that must be performed with a pure heart and good intentions. And then, if on the lips of prayer, but in the soul of hatred - there's no use from it, there will be another disappointment, which is enough in life.

Therefore, the priests recommend confessing, receiving communion, repenting and, whenever possible, forgiving all the offenders before reading the Jesus Prayer.

The action of prayer

As Metropolitan Anthony said, the prayer of Jesus makes the existence lasting, since the concentration on the name of Christ is able to gather all spiritual, spiritual and physical strengths, allowing a person to be more courageous and confident in actions and more likely to achieve the set goals.

When a person is without support from above, his nature is very fragmented, he can not assemble and, finally, realize all his plans, rushes, searches, can not find, can not believe, and therefore suffers. Jesus' prayer restores the integrity of a weak human nature.

1. Heals the body and helps to strengthen mental balance.
2. Thanks to it, a person can resume control over thoughts and emotions, order the sensory sphere of life.
3. Prayer takes possession of the whole human being and begins to positively influence all areas of life: the divine light penetrates both the spiritual and the material levels. A person begins to feel the obvious help and support in everything.