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Prayer – a mighty weapon against the devil 🌿
“Geronda, I feel completely powerless whenever any temptation or difficulty comes my way.”
“You don’t turn to prayer? Just as a ship in danger sends out an SOS, you should constantly cry from your heart: ‘Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me,’ and help will come.”
There were times when a single temptation would have hurled me into the abyss if I hadn’t been praying; it was prayer that saved me.
When I was living at the Monastery of Stomion, one evening I went to a little cave that was in a very dangerous spot on the edge of a cliff. The cave was so small I could barely sit inside.
At the entrance I piled up some stones, because below was a sheer drop into the chasm. All night I stayed there saying the Jesus Prayer. At daybreak, in the deep silence, I suddenly heard a terrifying “cock-a-doodle-doo!” right beside me, followed by a violent flapping of wings.
I was so startled that I shouted, “Lord Jesus Christ!” and jumped out of the cave. I almost fell into the abyss. Right away I realized this was a temptation, so I went back to prayer, even though my ears were still ringing from the noise.
“Geronda, if someone prays only with their lips, without their mind being attentive, does that help at all?”
“It does help. It doesn’t completely drive the enemy away, but it keeps him down like bursts from a machine gun that force him to stay in cover and not stick his head out.”
Prayer has tremendous power; it is a fearsome weapon against the devil. When you pray, it’s as if you are firing spiritual bullets at him, and he cannot approach you.
Once, a novice living in the Skete of Saint Anne was praying the Jesus Prayer. The devil stood nearby mocking him, constantly grumbling, “M-m-m…” Then the novice heard the devil shouting angrily: “I can’t even get near the Skete of the Old Lady—the monks there won’t let me come close!”
“Geronda, when I’m attacked by evil or blasphemous thoughts and I try to pray, am I provoking God’s anger by doing that?”
“No. It’s that rascal, the devil, who in his malice plants these wicked thoughts. You, on the other hand, should turn them to your advantage by using them as a reminder to pray without ceasing.
Say to him: ‘Good that you brought me these thoughts—otherwise I’d have forgotten God,’ and then begin to pray. When the devil sees that his tricks only help you and lead you into prayer, he will back off himself, because it doesn’t benefit him if his temptations become a cause of your prayer.
When he finally retreats and stops tempting you in this way, it means you have acquired the habit of unceasing prayer.”
In fact, even though he doesn’t want to, the devil ends up doing a great deal of good, and that is one reason God still permits him to exist.
When I was living in the Iveron Skete, once at night those rascals tried to kill me with a piece of stone slab.
That evening a poor man had come to my hut. I gave him whatever money I had, and he left. Late at night I heard a knock at the door. I thought, “The man must have imagined I still have more money and has come back.”
“Who is it?” I asked. Silence.
Then I heard knocking on the other door. I lit a candle to see. “Who’s there?” I asked again. Silence.
After that, I heard banging on the ceiling. “Ah, now I understand,” I said. And then the real commotion began!
I knelt down and started saying the Jesus Prayer without stopping. Suddenly they dropped a stone slab from above—bam! A board in the ceiling broke, and a sharp piece of stone came through and stopped, hanging point down right above my head.
“I see,” I said, “so that’s how it’s going to be all night.”
After that we had an all-night vigil in church. I kept praying, and those devils pounded away on the roof the whole time. It turned out to be a very lively vigil!
Prayer is warfare with the devil. So of course the devil fights back in self-defense.
The demons are disarmed only when a person stands against them with courage that is grounded in humility, not in proud bravado or ego.
Saint Paisios the Athonite
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