![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send the sword of your Holy Spirit to sever and break all spells, curses, hexes, voodoo and all negative genetic, inter-generational and addictive material, past, present or to come, known or unknown, against me, my relationships and family, finances, possessions and ministry. The conclusion is always the same: what good does it do to pray? To overcome these obstacles, we must battle to gain humility, trust, and perseverance. Finally, our battle has to confront what we experience as failure in prayer: discouragement during periods of dryness, sadness that, because we have “great possession,” we have not given all to the Lord, disappointment over not being heard according to our own will, wounded pride, stiffened by the indignity that is ours as sinners, our resistance to the idea that prayer is a free and unmerited gift and so forth. Still others exalt sensuality and comfort as the criteria of the true, the good, and the beautiful whereas prayer, the “love of beauty” ( philokalia), is caught up in the glory of the living and true God. Others overly prize production and profit thus, prayer, being unproductive, is useless. For example, some would have it that only that is true which can be verified by reason and science yet prayer is a mystery that overflows both our conscious and unconscious lives. ![]()
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