The Jesus Prayer/Isusova Molitva

The Jesus prayer or Isusova Molitva is one of the most effective ways to sincerely let God know what your heart feels. Once you get used to praying it every night, you will never cease praying it. It's one of the basic prayers in every Orthodox Christians and also, what we, Christians should do because we sin often whether intentionally and unintentionally.

Prayer is an effective weapon against Satan's trap and the Jesus prayer is just one of the basic prayers that we, humans need since it is taught by the apostles to the current priests we have. We shall not take this basic prayer for granted because all our lives, God is with us and never gives us a challenge we will never survive. Of course we will be challenged in every aspects!

We, sinners everyday but once we find the courage to utter this not just by the mind but by the heart, we will never lose faith to God.

Molitva posredovanje sveta je važno

I am always praying, regardless of any given situation every night. When i live alone or with my family, i may pray every morning even a simple prayer facing my own alter i made with the icons of Isus Hristos, the Bogorodice, Sveta Familija and Sveti Knez Lazar. I will also light my incensce and would ask to God for forgiveness, thanksgiving, enlightenment and the power to give my very potential for my family.

An old friend of mine would tell me often to pray for St. Xenia's intercession for my job hunting and everyday work, which i did. I may have prayed that when i was a Catholic during my younger yeas but i never realized those prayers to the saints because it is not yet clear to me what i am praying for and what is my role as a true Christian. 

Ever since i found out about Orthodoxy, my prayers may have a meaning now, even in my future baptismal, now i know why i am praying the Isusa Molitva or the Oče Naš or the Bogorodice Djevo or even the Molitva za Sveti Knez Lazar. And my prayers are right now for my future and my future family. I am continually grasping my future since i know, these prayers came from my heart and what my spiritual fathers told me.

That is why, a prayer to a saint's intercession is like the saint is helping us to pray for God's miracles and forgiveness and not praying to the saints themselves.