How should we move towards God’s blessing?

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How should we move towards God’s blessing?

A person who believes in God always comes to a priest to get the blessing when he/she needs help in solving difficult problems, which happen in life. It was set up since the times of Jesus Christ. The Gospel tells how suffering people appealed to Jesus and His disciplines. In the Gospel (Mark ІХ:17-31 ) about the healing of the boy by Jesus Christ it was told that his father firstly appealed to the disciplines. But they did not have enough power to help that boy. Why? They asked the Lord to heal that boy. But it did not happen at that moment. And the Lord Jesus Christ explained them later why they were not successful. Because some efforts and work had to be done.

What kind of work? Physical. It means that there were no fast, no work, no move towards God’s blessing.

It means that a person comes to the priest and says: “Father, pray and bless me” and after that he sits down and thinks: “I have already prayed, now God’s Angels have to work.” And the person drops in this situation.

And nothing good will happen after that. Because you have to understand - the priest during his prayer pays God’s attention on this soul, that God could give more time for the needs of this soul. And at this very moment this soul stands in front of God like under magnifying glass. God listens to the prayer of this soul more attentively, look more directly on his/her doings, desires.

At this time a man has to move. And first of all it is work – spiritual and physical. They have to be connected, only in such way the living balance will return. If there is no spiritual work, no work with soul to decrease the darkness in the heart, then there will be no visible results of the prayer.

The person does not get what he is asking for. Then he/she stops, becomes inert and loses faith in God’s grace. Why? Because he/she does not understand that it is his/her own fault. The person was asking, got help, but does not use it properly.

That is why I pay your attention on such thing: when you pray and ask God for His help and blessing, do not stop at this, but work even more. Do your best, work spiritually and physically in order to get a result, which you are expecting for in your life.

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Gospel (Мark, ІХ:17-31)

Gospel (Мark, ІХ:17-31)

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17 And someone from the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a spirit that makes him mute.

18 And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able."

19 And he answered them, "O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me."

20 And they brought the boy to him. And when the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.

21 And Jesus asked his father, "How long has this been happening to him?" And he said, "From childhood.

22 And it has often cast him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us."

23 And Jesus said to him, "If you can'! All things are possible for one who believes."

24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, "I believe; help my unbelief!"

25 And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again."

26 And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said, "He is dead."

27 But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.

28 And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why could we not cast it out?"

29 And he said to them, "This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer."

30 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he did not want anyone to know,

31 for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, "The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise."