Can You Pray For Me And My Family And Ask Saint Nicholas The Wonderworker To Intercede For Us. We're

Can you pray for me and my family and ask Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker to intercede for us. We're in a very difficult situation and are struggling with homelessness and debt. Things have been improving and the Lord has provided for us throughout this but it's still very troubling.

A Prayer In Time of Need

The dark clouds of trouble gather above me, O Lord, and the grief of torments terrifies me. Although I find myself in a state of suffering I do not complain against You, O Good One, for You are my support and the unshaken rock upon which I place my hope. You know, O God, the cause of my wretchedness and sorrows, and You continue to look after me. Even in my suffering I know that You love me, and it is this very knowledge that strengthens me. Thus, hoping in Your very love and goodness, I shall not allow these assaults to overcome me; instead, I will fight with courage, and, confident in Your help, I shall be victorious. It is You Who guide the world and the fate of mortals; thus direct the ship of my life which is assailed by the waves of temptation, so that it may reach the calm harbor. Alone, I fight in vain against the tempests of life, for without You I can do nothing. I therefore flee to You, O Good One, and I pray: Come to my aid and save me by Your might, just as You once saved Peter who came to You upon the water. Stretch out Your hand to me as you did to him, O Lord of mercy and do not delay.

Through the prayers of your Most Pure Mother, of our holy fathers, of Saint Nicholas and Saint Xenia, and all your saints, Lord Jesus Christ our God, have mercy on us and save us.

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God will give you everything you need. Do not lose faith, but persevere in your trials and amidst them give thanks to God for everything good and everything difficult. Through the hardships, you are being purified like gold in the fire, so sing praises like the Three Youths who were thrown into the Babylonian furnace.

St. Xenia the Fool-for-Christ, even though she lived on the streets in her great poverty, became the helper and refuge of families experiencing financial difficulties.

May Christ our God have mercy on us, through the prayers of His saints.

Can you guys please pray for my family?

My dad was diagnosed today with terminal bone cancer and given a few months to live. My mom is struggling with an active drug addiction and other carnal sins. My brother as well, he is a year away from finishing nursing school but it’s hard to say where he will live when my dad passes away since the two help each other pay their bills. And pray for me as well, an unworthy sinner.

“When conversion does take place the process of revelation occurs in a very simple way: a person is in need, he suffers, and then somehow the other world opens up. The more you are in suffering and difficulties and are desperate for God, the more He is going to come to your aid, reveal Who He is, and show you the way to get out.”

-Fr. Seraphim Rose-

There are two ways of humility. The first humility is to consider your brother more intelligent than yourself and superior in all things, in a word, consider yourself inferior to all. The second humility is to ascribe to God one's feats, this is the perfect humility of the saints. It is obviously born in the soul from the fulfillment of the commandments. So the branches, when there are many fruits on them, the fruits bend down, but the branch, which has no fruits, rises up and grows straight. There are some trees that do not bear fruit as long as the branches are growing up, if you hang a stone against the branch and bend it, it will bear fruit. So is the soul: when it humbles itself, it bears fruit, and the more it bears fruit, the more it humbles itself. So are the saints: the closer they get to God, the more sinful they see themselves.

Rev. Abba Dorofia