PRAY THAT YE ENTER NOT INTO TEMPTATION

[Alisa]

While reading the Bible, we discover that both the way to God, and the way to the destruction, are not like an even road, but they have steps: on the right way the believer grows in God up to the perfection in love. In other words, if I choose the right way I should understand that I will have growth like by the stairs: step by step I go up higher and higher, it is not an even road… But the way to the destruction also has steps, and a man, going down by them, becomes worse and worse on the way to death… We must understand on which step of destruction it is not yet late to stop. That is, where and how it is possible to resist the devil and to say “No.”… It is very important to understand, that the Bible states that the temptation which turns into sin, comes not from the eyes or hands themselves, they are just the instruments that fulfill the will of a man… Thanks to the prayer not the world around us changes, but thanks to the prayer we change in this world. Christ says, “I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil in this world.” So prayer keeps us from evil. God talks with us on the spiritual level. When we pray God speaks to us not with His voice, but when we pray, the Spirit of God talks to our spirit. In other words, God appeals to our conscience. And at the moment of prayer we begin to realize, to understand something. And something inside us changes, something, that no one instrument in the world can fix… Without a prayer, which endows a man with the strength of God, the man will remain with his own strength… Praying in the Spirit is when we humbly accept the will of God. A man is praying with a clean heart. He wants to be changed, and he will be changed. It cannot be differently. God promised…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhdqnHpSodk