Божии дары в молитве

The first gift from the Lord in prayer is attention, that is, when the mind can stay in the words of prayer without being distracted by thoughts. But with such attentive, non-entertaining prayer, the heart is still silent. This is the point, that our feelings and thoughts are separated, there is no agreement in them. The second gift is internal prayer, that is, when thoughts and feelings are directed in harmony towards God. Until now, every battle with passions ended in the victory of passion over man, and from now on, when the mind and heart pray together, that is, feelings and thoughts in God, the passions are already defeated. Defeated, but not destroyed, they can come to life if they are careless... The third gift is spiritual prayer. I can’t say anything about this prayer; here there is nothing earthly in a person anymore. True, man still lives on earth, walks on earth, sits, drinks, eats, but with his mind and thoughts he is entirely in God, in heaven. The ministries of the angelic ranks were even revealed to some. This prayer is the prayer of vision. Those who have achieved this prayer see spiritual objects, for example, the state of the human soul, just as we see sensory objects, as if in a painting. They already look with the eyes of the spirit, their spirit already looks. Whether they are constantly in the vision, or from time to time, I don’t know. They do not talk about what they see and rarely reveal their visions to others. You might be interested in: