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1. Healing against the fear of the enemy - confidence in the rightness of the matter and its conformity with the will of God “What will they say?” – Enemy fear, where there is no fear. The remedy against this is confidence in the rightness of the matter and its conformity with the will of God... and, most importantly, surrendering oneself and everything one’s own into the hands of God. Without this tradition, peace within is hardly possible (1, p. 226). 2. People are shaken by fickle thoughts of fear, fear, and all kinds of confusion: the prince of this world worries every soul not born of God Macarius the Great also depicted the turmoil and pursuit of something that you saw: “The children of this age are likened to wheat poured into a sieve of this earth, and are sifted among the fickle thoughts of this world, with the constant excitement of earthly affairs, desires and multi-woven material concepts. Satan shakes souls and sifts through the entire sinful human race with a sieve, that is, earthly affairs. Since the fall, when Adam transgressed the commandment and obeyed the evil prince who took power over him, with his incessant seductive and restless thoughts he sifts all the sons of this age and brings him into conflict in the sieve of the earth. Just as wheat beats in a sifter’s sieve and, constantly being thrown into it, turns over, so the prince of wickedness occupies all people with earthly affairs, shakes them, leads them into confusion and anxiety, makes them cling to vain thoughts, impure desires, earthly and worldly connections, constantly captivating the entire sinful race of Adam. And the Lord predicted to the apostles the future uprising of the evil one against them: Satan asks you, so that sowed like wheat. I prayed to My Father, that your faith may not fail 225 (Luke 22:31). For this word and definition, clearly spoken by the Creator to Cain: groaning and shaking, in anxiety, you will be on earth (see Gen. 4:12), serves secretly as an image and likeness for all sinners; because the race of Adam, having transgressed the commandment and become sinners, secretly took on this likeness. People are shaken by fickle thoughts of fear, fear, all kinds of embarrassment, desires, various kinds of pleasures. The prince of this world worries every soul that is not born of God, and like wheat constantly rotating in a sieve, he agitates human thoughts in various ways, leading everyone to hesitation and entrapping everyone with worldly seductions, carnal pleasures, insurance, embarrassment” (Conversations 5; § 1, 2) (9, p. 11). Satan asked to sow you like wheat, but I prayed for you so that your faith would not fail. You might be interested in: