{"id":5088,"date":"2018-07-06T12:03:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T16:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5088"},"modified":"2018-07-01T09:04:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T13:04:18","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-the-hidden-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5088","title":{"rendered":"Elder St.\u00a0 Paisios on the Hidden Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If, again, we struggle aright but do not see any progress, sometimes the following is happening: Because we have declared war on a demon, he seeks reinforcements from Satan. So, if last year we were struggling against one demon, this year we are struggling against fifty, next year we\u2019ll be struggling against even more, and so forth. God does not allow us to see this, so as we don\u2019t become proud. But even though we may not realize iIns, God continues to work in our soul when He sees our good disposition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8216;Spiritual Awakening&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5089\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/elderpaisiosa-300x135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/elderpaisiosa-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/elderpaisiosa-768x345.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/elderpaisiosa.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If, again, we struggle aright but do not see any progress, sometimes the following is happening: Because we have declared war on a demon, he seeks reinforcements from Satan. So, [&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-5088","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\/5088","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=5088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5090,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions\/5090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}