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Challenges to the adversary and weapons....

You must never give yourselves over to the forces of evil, for your will determines its power over you. As soon as this will is turned towards God you are immune to his attacks and you will not be so exposed to his temptations. Yet he only lurks for moments when this will is weak in order to gain influence over him. Therefore watch and pray.... never feel so strong that you do not need to fear him, but know that he constantly lurks around you and tries to turn you away from God. For he knows about the weaknesses of the individual and uses them in such a way that the human being is in danger if he does not remain in constant contact with God through heartfelt prayer and loving activity. Where love is practiced, the enemy encounters stiff resistance, for there his efforts are fruitless. Loving activity is the surest way to banish him from the vicinity. God's adversary leaves a person who is active in love unmolested because he is so closely united with God through his activity of love that all power of the adversary is shattered. For love is God, and he can no longer successfully fight against God. The will to do good is likewise a strong weapon against him, only lukewarmness and sluggishness are a great danger, for they signify weakness of will and are welcome opportunities for God's adversary to bring his power to bear. He is immediately prepared to reinforce the weak-willed state by presenting the human being with pleasures which are intended to captivate his senses and turn him away from that which alone is worth striving for.... from union with God.... He seeks to disturb the intimacy of prayer and to gain influence over people's thinking. If he succeeds, man loses himself in superficialities, his spiritual striving weakens and his power to resist diminishes. A person who strives towards God will indeed fight his way through again, but it is lost time which is irreplaceable, for every ascent is arduous and therefore all the more difficult the deeper the person sinks. Therefore watch and pray, do not let up in your striving towards God, call upon Him for His help and thus deny the adversary access to you. Remain active in love and thereby resist his efforts, then you will always have the strength to fend him off and withdraw yourselves from his influence....

amen

PROTIVNIKOVO NAPASTVOVANJE I ORUŽJE.....

Nikada se ne smijete prepustiti silama zla, pošto vaša volja određuje njegovu vlast nad vama. Dok je ta volja okrenuta u pravcu Boga, vi ste sigurni od nasrtaja protivnika, i nećete biti toliko izloženi njegovom napastvovanju. No on samo vreba trenutke kad je ta volja slaba, kako bi na čovjeka zadobio utjecaj. Stoga bdijte i molite..... nikada se ne osjećajte toliko jaki da ga se ne trebate bojati, nego znajte da vas neprestano vreba i trudi se odvraćati vas od Boga. Jer on (protivnik) zna slabosti pojedinca i koristi ih, tako da je čovjek u opasnosti samo ako neprestano nije u (s)vezi s Bogom putem iskrene molitve i djelā Ljubavi.

Gdje se vrši Ljubav, tamo protivnik nailazi na čvrst otpor, tamo je njegov trud uzaludan. Djela Ljubavi su najsigurnije sredstvo da ga se iz svoje blizine protjera. Čovjeka radinog u Ljubavi, Božji protivnik ostavlja nesmetanog, pošto je ovaj putem djelovanja u Ljubavi tako duboko i usko spojen s Bogom da to lomi svu vlast protivnika. Jer Ljubav je Bog, a protiv Boga on se više ne može boriti sa uspjehom. Isto tako, volja ka dobrom je silno oružje protiv njega, a mlakost i tromost velika su opasnost, jer one predstavljaju slabost volje i Božjem protivniku dobre su prilike za nametanje svoje vlasti. On je odmah spreman stanje slabe volje pojačati, time što čovjeku predočava ugodnosti koje trebaju zarobiti njegova čula i odvraćati ga od onoga za čim jedino valja žudjeti..... a to je savez s Bogom .....

On se trudi ometati dubinu i srdačnost molitve i zadobiti utjecaj na čovjekovo razmišljanje. Ako mu to uspije, čovjek se gubi u banalnostima (površnim stvarima), njegovo duhovno stremljenje postaje slabije, i njegova snaga za otpor popušta. Čovjek koji stremi Bogu opet će se sâm uspjeti probiti, no to je izgubljeno vrijeme koje je nenadoknadivo, jer svaki uspon je tegoban i stoga utoliko teži koliko niže čovjek potone. Stoga bdijte i molite, ne popuštajte u vašem stremljenju k Bogu, zazivajte Ga za Njegovu potporu, i tako zapriječite protivniku pristup k vama. Ostanite aktivni u Ljubavi, i time njegovim nastojanjima pružite otpor, tada ćete neprestano imati snage da ga odbijete i da se uklonite njegovom utjecaju.

AMEN