This ebook will be accessible via the Bookfusion app that can be installed on any Android device (mobile, tablet or eInk) as well as on all Apple devices or through your Web browser. You can also use our send to kindle service to forward any ebook you have purchased to your Kindle Library.
eBook: Ask, and It Shall Be Given You
$21.00
New
If we are heartless, God cannot recognise us. As long as time exists, we are given the opportunity through prayer and the keeping of the commandments to lift our heavy earthly existence upwards. We cry out to God, invoking the beloved Name of Almighty and Most High God Jesus. We beseech Him to come, lift our burden, teach us His humility and the meekness of His ethos, and grant us the vision of the age to come so that we do not waver before the tragic futility of this present life. Christianity is unpopular in our time because exerting violence against our nature is incompatible with the comfortable life of this world. Yet once we embark on this endeavour with determination, God gives grace, making our burden light and the yoke of His commandments easy.
🌟 30% discount on any ebook or audiobook when you buy it together with any printed book.
Buy the hard copy of this ebook
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreward
Time – the Gift of God to Corruptible Man
Prayer – Our Converse with God
Prayer and Fasting
The Prayer with the Beloved Name of Christ
Spiritual Vision
Humility – the Ethos of Christ
‘Resist not evil’
The Spirit Is Swift
An Eschatological Perspective: the Christian Lives and Walks upon the Earth, but His Spirit Beholds Heaven
Divine Liturgy, the Image of Communion of the Saints
The Gift of Tears
Confession, the Mystery of the New Birth in the Spirit
Priesthood – the Ministry of Reconciliation
The Parable of the Wicked Tenants
The Humility of Receiving the Judgment of God Makes Us Become from Servants Children of God
‘Keep thy mind in hell and despair not’
Creative Spiritual Authority
The Paradoxical Character of Monastic Life
Monastic Obedience – the Education of God through His Commandments
Index of Scriptural References
‘The seed is the word of God.’ However, this seed is not of this world and therefore, when it falls in the good earth of the deep heart, it becomes ‘the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth’. ‘It is sown in weakness,’ but ‘it is raised in power and incorruption.’
For us monks it is very important to learn the ethos of Christ because God takes care of us in a special way: He puts us in this arena, in His own house, in His courts, and He sets forth for us ascetic labours to give us all that is His. He gives us a framework of life, a greenhouse, a fortress, a castle which is the monastery, in order to attain that which He achieved with the labour of His self-emptying and His humility unto the end. And in a safe way, He tells us also to slaughter our selfishness, our self-love, by being obedient to a person who has no enmity against us, to a person who prays for us, who watches over us – such safety!
Book Sample
More from the Author
Explore More Books
About the Author
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
Father Zacharias studied theology at the Orthodox Theological Institute of Saint Sergius in Paris and at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has translated all the writings of Saint Silouan and Father Sophrony from the original Russian into Greek and he presents their rich theology to the Orthodox world by writing books and articles and taking part in conferences. Moreover, he serves as a spiritual Father and minister of the word of God to his brethren and the people that come to him. Read more…
In stock
USD
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.