{"id":4535,"date":"2018-03-16T12:27:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4535"},"modified":"2018-03-15T08:29:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T12:29:58","slug":"elder-ephraim-on-prayer-as-a-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4535","title":{"rendered":"Elder Ephraim on Prayer as a Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"a01er\" data-offset-key=\"67r94-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"67r94-0-0\">\u201cDo thoughts war against us? Prayer is a great weapon. The attraction of sin pulls the mind towards evil. But when the mind takes hold of the ax of prayer and lifts it and begins to hop, it uproots even the hardest of thoughts. As long as one gets a good grip of the ax and wields it skillfully, it really brings about wonderful results.<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"67r94-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"a01er\" data-offset-key=\"cqkoa-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"cqkoa-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"cqkoa-0-0\"> Because the devil knows this, he hinders us from saying the prayer so that he can capture us more easily. He brings negligence upon us; he brings us cares; he brings us a thousand and one obstacles with the sole aim of hindering prayer. As experience has shown many times, the demons shudder at the name of Christ. They themselves admit, through people\u2019s mouths, that they are burned when a person prays.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8211; \u2018Counsels from the Holy Mountain\u2019<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"cqkoa-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4536\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1v-300x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1v-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1v.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"a01er\" data-offset-key=\"4s1l3-0-0\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDo thoughts war against us? Prayer is a great weapon. The attraction of sin pulls the mind towards evil. But when the mind takes hold of the ax of prayer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4537,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions\/4537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}