Day 22 (4th Monday of the Great Fast)
“Hear my prayer, O Lord, Give ear to my supplications! In Your faithfulness answer me, And in Your righteousness.” (Ps 143:1)
“To pray in a God-pleasing way, always do these things:
1. When you pray, always imagine that the Lord God is standing invisibly right in front of you and is watching you. As the holy apostle says, ‘He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being.’ (Acts 17:27-28).
2. Always pray only for what is pleasing to the Lord God or what is in agreement with God’s will… The holy Apostle John says, ‘if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.’
(1 Jn 5:14). The holy Apostle James adds, ‘You ask and do not receive not because you ask amiss, that you spend it on your pleasures.’ (Jam 4:3)
3. In prayer, freely tell the Lord God all your needs, with perfect humility and reverence, with firm hope of being heard, with complete love, with warm sincerity and if your prayer is not answered quickly, with grateful patience.
Pray with perfect humility and reverence because we are dependent on the Lord God for everything and because ‘He shall regard the prayer of the destitute, and shall not despise their prayer (Ps 102:17) ‘but gives grace to the humble.’ (Pro 3:34)
Pray with a firm hope that you will be heard because the Lord God, being All-Good, readily gives a full hearing to everything that His children tell Him and because the holy Apostle says, ‘he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord.’ (Jam 1:6-7)
Pray with complete love because there is no one more worthy of our love than the Lord God.
Pray with warm sincerity because God is an omnipresent and omniscient Spirit, ‘For the Father is seeking such to worship Him…. In spirit and truth.’ (John 4:23-24) and because all who pray truly to Him always pray with their whole heart. The holy King David prayed to the Lord God like this: ‘I cry out with my whole heart; Hear me, O Lord.’(Ps 119:145)
Pray with grateful patience because we are usually not very far-seeing and little know ourselves, while the Lord God knows well all the circumstances surrounding us and lying ahead of us, and He knows us incomparably better than we know ourselves. Therefore He does not always immediately answer our prayers. Sometimes He does not answer them at all, but instead in His wisdom and goodness, grants us something that we did not ask for, but which in our situation is more beneficial for the salvation of our souls.”
Metropolitan Gregory (Postikov) of St Petersburg
4th Monday of the Holy Great Fast
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