1. Carefully cut off evil thoughts. If those who are fighting with you strongly take up arms against you, then, standing up and raising your eyes and hands to heaven, say earnestly with humility: “
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak” (Ps. 6:3); You, Lord, are strong (see Ps. 88:9), and this is Your feat. You fight for us and win, Lord.
And if you do this without laziness, you will definitely learn from experience that they are defeated by the power of the Most High.
2. We must carefully cut off evil thoughts in every possible way; the great victor against them is to put forward diligent prayer to God, as the holy fathers betrayed - in various ways, but identical in essence. For one said, having received it from David, to pray like this:
Those who cast me out have now devoured me (Ps. 16:11), O my joy, deliver me from those who have despised me” (Ps. 31:7).
Another of the same psalms says this:
God, come to my help (Ps. 69:2)
The other is again from the same psalms:
Judge, O Lord, those who offend me and rebuke those who fight me” (see Ps. 34:1),
- and other things from the psalm.
3. Also call for help those whom you hear about in the Scriptures as having labored in chastity and purity. If you are strongly attacked by abuse, then immediately get up and stretch out your eyes and hands to heaven, pray like this:
You are strong, Lord, and this is Your feat, You fight and win in this, Lord, for us.
And cry out to the Almighty for help with humble words:
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak” (Ps. 6:3).
This is the tradition of the saints. And if you continue in such struggles, then you will learn by experience that by the grace of God, your enemies are decisively defeated.