{"id":9374,"date":"2021-01-31T12:25:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T17:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=9374"},"modified":"2021-01-23T21:25:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T02:25:59","slug":"gaining-victory-in-temptations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=9374","title":{"rendered":"Gaining Victory in Temptations\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment when your soul is in danger and you are struggling, cry out,\u2018Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.\u2019\u00a0 Beat off everything with prayer. This is the great secret. At the moment of temptation, just as you are about to show contempt for it, the evil one grabs you, pins you down and throttles you and does what he wishes and not what you wish.<\/p>\n<p>You must make your move towards God in time. But for you to succeed m this, divine grace must illuminate you. If this isn\u2019t done at once, then the evil one will grab hold of you, and in spite of your efforts to throw him off, he will already have you in his power. Let me give you an example.<\/p>\n<p>I once asked someone to do something for me, but he refused saying that it wasn\u2019t in accord with scientific principles. I insisted, but he remained adamant. I began to feel exasperation, but then I realized what was happening, and at once I turned to Christ and managed to prevent evil gaining a hold.\u00a0 This is our method. We will raise our arms to Christ and He will give us His grace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Elder St Porphyrios in \u2018Wounded by Love\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9375\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ii8-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ii8-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ii8-768x469.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ii8.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment when your soul is in danger and you are struggling, cry out,\u2018Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.\u2019\u00a0 Beat off everything with prayer. This is the great [&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-9374","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\/9374","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=9374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9376,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9374\/revisions\/9376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}