When do people turn to God? In difficult life situations, when hope gradually gives way to despair. Then people remember that there is a God. Not all, of course, but many people are believers "in the soul." Until a certain point.
How to turn to God and ask for help from him?
One gate play?
Before you learn how to ask God for help so that He can hear the petitioner, you should answer the question: Does God help people in life? Stupidly asking, of course, helps. And do people often thank Him for their help before turning again? And here comes the awkward moment, because usually the request for help looks like this: they asked (sometimes tearfully), got what they wanted, forgot about God until the next right moment. No thanks were found. And this is wrong.
Since childhood, people have been taught to say thank you to their parents. God is the Father, why not thank Him for fulfilling the request?
How to give thanks?
How to ask God for help? And how to thank the Savior for his help? It is very simple. You can go to church and order a thanksgiving service , put a candle in front of the icon of Jesus Christ.
If it is not possible to visit the church (precisely because of weakness, and not because of laziness and eternal fussiness), you can read a thank-you Akathist at home. Or thank God in your own words, standing in front of the home iconostasis.
People do not know how to ask
How to ask God for help in love, for example? Not embarrassed in the first place. For some reason, people are ashamed to ask for the help of their neighbors. Well, if they are not ashamed to turn to the Savior with their requests.
No need to be afraid of this. After all, this is your Father. Is it when a man loves his dad, he is embarrassed to turn to him? Of course no. So it is here. God loves everyone and responds to all requests.
A difficult situation
Caught in a difficult situation, often a person doubts whether it is necessary to act. People are nervous, enter into a state of stress, try to consult with relatives or make decisions independently. Weighing the pros and cons, they begin to get even more nervous. And what to do? How to solve the issue? Ask God for help? Yes, without any embarrassment. Pray to the Savior, entrust Him with a solution to a difficult issue. Who, except God, knows what is better for your good? Only He leads people through life, helping in everything and protecting.
Never be shy to ask God for help in a difficult situation, how to turn to God in general.
Pupils and students
Students and students are a separate issue. Are there many among them who turn to God for help? Unlikely. Most often, mothers and grandmothers pray for their students. Students themselves do not want to, or do not believe, or do not understand why this is necessary.
How to ask God for educational help for a son or daughter? Pray for his disciple and ask God to help him on the path to gaining knowledge. And even better - ask the Creator for help to the schoolchild or student himself.
When you ask God for help, it’s somehow not very scary to go to a difficult exam or go out to answer a large audience and a strict professor.
Problems at work
It happens like this: a person works, tries. But the authorities are dissatisfied and do not even try to answer the question of what is wrong with the work.
Or the boss gives subordinates a task. They perform it out of the ordinary, miserably failing it. How can you not get angry? How not to yell at subordinates? How can a subordinate put up with the boss’s nit-picking from scratch?
Turn to God for help. How to ask God for help in work? Pray for softening the heart of the boss and for help for yourself. It will be useful to pray this way: "Lord, remember King David and all his gentleness." This short prayer helps if the boss is very severe. By the way, this applies to students. Does the professor fiercely and send everyone to re-examination? Speak these simple words more often.
Oh love love
How to ask God for help in love? Pray for the Lord to give a soul mate if it is a lonely worshiper.
If the asker is married, and he for some reason gives a crack, then pray for the preservation of the marriage. Not just stand in front of the icons, but regularly ask, persistently. It is not in vain that it was said: "Ask, and it will be given to you." So ask and knock on the Lord.
Why not given?
It happens like this: a person asks, asks, not given. Here already begins to murmur - why? The request seems to be good, it’s not asking for something bad.
How to ask God for help so that this help comes? More precisely, how else to ask? Why does he not always help? For several reasons:
The first example. Mother asks God to take her son away from the sin of drunkenness. He prays, prays, and the son continues to drink. Why is that? Because he is not interested in getting into alcohol. And of course, does not ask the Lord to help him stop drinking. When a person asks for someone, it is important that both the petitioner and the one they ask for are interested in a single end result.
A man's request is not good. How so? For example, a person has long wanted to buy a car, is saving money. And constantly this money goes to more significant needs: for example, neighbors are flooded from above, repairs need to be done. Or an elderly mother got sick, she needs medication and a good medical examination. We have to climb into the nest egg. Maybe this car is just not needed? Who knows what God protects the petitioner from preventing him from saving money for his own car? Perhaps He saves a person from a fatal accident? The ways of the Lord, as they say, are inscrutable.
The request will be fulfilled a little later. It happens that a person asks for something, but that is not fulfilled. It’s only worth reconciling, and suddenly the request is heard. This is because only God knows whether a person needs what he asks for, and at what point is it better to give it to the asker.
How does a person ask?
Having chosen a moment among the daily bustle, humbly stood in front of the home iconostasis and mentally voiced his request - or aloud. Once, as a rule. And then the asker waits when his request will be granted. When the Lord does not respond, the person again asks - this time more insistently. And again there is no answer. Then he completely ceases to ask, believing that this is pointless.
This is not true at the root. How then to ask God for help correctly?
How to ask?
This must be done, first of all, with an open heart, not hesitating to resort to the help of God. To ask not once, but every day, when you pray (if you pray). Literally yelling inwardly to God. How does a child ask parents for something? Persistently and clearly more than once, especially when he really wants something. So every person should ask just as the children ask - persistently and constantly.
Where to ask?
You can turn to the Savior for help at home or in a church. In general, it is not a shame to resort to Him everywhere: on the way to work, walking with a child, going shopping. Nobody forbids this.
Most often, people ask for help either in the temple or in front of the home iconostasis. Those who regularly go to the temple know that you can yell for help there and there.
Asking at home
How to ask God for help at home? If there is no way to get to the temple - due to illness, for example, do not be shy to pray at home.
When a person, awakening from a dream, goes to the icons to pray, it will not be amiss after the morning rule to add his request to prayers. Just before doing this, do not forget to thank God for waking you up and giving you a new day.
On the way to work, instead of listening to music, you can mentally turn to the Savior, again disturb Him with your request.
In the evening, after prayers for the coming one, thank God for the day and ask again.
You can read the akathist to our Lord Jesus Christ. You can read it regularly, and then attach your request.
Asking in the temple
It often happens like this: a person enters a church, lights candles, asks for something and leaves, being confident that his request will be immediately fulfilled. This does not happen.
To get something in life, you need to work hard. So it is also necessary to work before God. To go to church on Sundays, to uphold the liturgy, ideally, to confess and receive communion. But to do this is not in order to "bribe" God, you need to do it from the heart. And ask, ask, ask again. Knock and it will open to you.
Ask the saints
Saints are the helpers of man before God. Now, while people are walking the earthly path and praying to them, they are helping. How to ask for help from a saint?
For example, there is a desire to prayerfully turn to the Matron of Moscow. Do not be lazy to read the akathist saint, then - ask in your own words. Read the akathist for a while, and after receiving what you want, order a prayer service in the temple and read the akathist in gratitude to Matron.
If you can go to the relics of a saint, use it. Worship the honest remains of the servant of God, ask her for help. Saints have boldness before God and ask for people living on earth.
A bit about communion and confession
As stated above, it is ideal when a person partakes and confesses. How to achieve the ideal? It’s not so difficult actually.
Confession is a repentance of one's sins. Sincere, and not for a "tick". People should not only understand that they have sinned, but also get rid of this sin in the future. For example, what is the point of repenting of smoking if you do not think to correct yourself. It is clear that one cannot immediately get rid of this sin, especially to experienced smokers. Everything is done gradually. At first they smoked a pack of cigarettes a day. After the first confession, they began to smoke five less. And slowly you will reach a complete victory over sin with God's help.
There are everyday sins in which people repent by reading the rule for the coming dream. His last prayer is daily repentance. More serious sins are "carried" to the church.
What prayer is it to ask God for help? You can pray in your own words, they are sincere and come from the heart.
What about confession? What sins especially disturb the soul? Those must be confessed first. As the soul is cleansed, sins will emerge from memory on their own. Just don’t be shy to tell their priest, he hasn’t heard such a thing.
You need to go to the temple (preferably on Saturday evening or Sunday morning) and confess to the priest.
As for the sacrament, they start it in case of proper preparation. This post is for three days (minimum). It is bodily, with regard to the post of mental - it is abstinence from various entertainment events, computer games, watching movies, listening to music. For spouses, this is abstinence from intimacy for three days before the sacrament.
On Saturday night, you need to read three canons: Jesus Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Guardian Angel. You also need to subtract the akathist to Jesus the Sweetest and the follow-up to holy communion. All these prayers are in prayer books, at worst, if there is no prayer book at home and there is no way to buy at the moment, you can find it on the Internet and print it.
If a person has gone through three days of bodily and mental fasting, the confession is passed. Then you need to take the blessing for the sacrament from the priest. How to do it? Just say: "Father, bless communion." And if he asks if they are ready to list how they prepared: they fasted and read everything that was supposed to.
Conclusion
So how can you ask God for help? Here are the main aspects you need to know about:
You can ask at home and in the temple.
At home, after reading the morning and evening rules, you should first thank God for allowing you to see a new day, and for allowing you to live another day. Then add your request.
You can turn to the saints with a request. To do this, it is worth reading the akathist to the chosen saint and annoying with a request.
In the temple, you need to ask not once, but to go to services and offer prayers along with a request for help.
- And most importantly - do not forget to thank for what you get.