Archpriest Vladimir Dolgikh answers.
If the answer to this question were simple, then many family problems would have been resolved long ago. We want to reduce everything to some algorithms, step-by-step recommendations, like, do this and that, and everything will be fine. This doesn’t happen, but let’s talk about everything in order.
Honestly, questions like: “Why doesn’t God give me a husband and children” or “Why doesn’t God give me a second child?” – I was always puzzled. I would immediately like to answer with a question: why did you decide that God does not give it? There is also our will, our actions; There are also laws established by Him, according to which the whole world functions, including our body. It turns out that if we are faced with a problem that we cannot solve or do not want to solve, then it is God who is to blame. Or maybe we are simply not satisfied with God, He turned out to be not what we would like?
The Great Power of Asking
Prayer is, first of all, a heartfelt appeal to the highest heavenly powers. Words spoken from the bottom of the heart with sincere faith can be heard by God and the Saints.
Prayers for love, like many others, have great power:
- Helps save the family and return the feelings of a loved one.
- Strengthens the marriage union and protects against the evil eye and interference of strangers.
- Increases trust between spouses and their mental connection.
- Helps you find your soulmate and live happily with her for many years.
But, having decided to use prayers for love, it is worth remembering that you need to read them sincerely from a pure heart and simply hope for a positive outcome.
Attention! Prayers are not spells and love spells. The result of their use appears much later, but at the same time they do not break a person’s will and do not zombify him. The power of prayer lasts as long as it is believed and recited.
Appeal to the Lord
If the search for a partner has taken a long time, you can turn to the Almighty for help. The Lord is merciful and will not leave your request unattended.
One of the most powerful prayers is that addressed to the Lord God.
“I come to you with bow, God Almighty. I ask you for help. I ask your wicked servant to forgive all sins and mistakes. Give mutual, pure and eternal love. I'm confused in the big world, I can't find my betrothed. Guide Your servant, control her actions and thoughts, assist and help her find what I am looking for. Don't leave me at a crossroads. Amen".
There is another prayer, no less powerful and effective:
“Great God, I know that happiness depends on whether the heart of Your servant is pure. I want to follow Your will, believe with all my heart and soul, and please You. Protect from pride, help overcome pride. Grant me modesty, reason and chastity, for these are my ornaments.
Bless my work, help me find my betrothed, help me live in fidelity and honest marriage. After all, the Lord himself, having created a man, decided that it was not right for him to live alone. Let me also become a faithful, selfless companion for someone. To live with her husband in harmony and love. So that together we glorify Your name. So be it. Amen".
When should you turn to God?
Every prayer of a believer must be heard by higher powers, therefore it is impossible to disturb them in vain.
It is best to turn to God in the following situations:
- When family is at stake. If quarrels have started in the house, the husband avoids his wife or does not want to return home at all, then the heavenly powers cannot do without appeal.
- When a man or woman cannot get married and meet a worthy life partner for a long time.
- When the spouses' feelings cooled sharply.
- If third parties try to intervene in the family with the aim of destroying it.
In all these situations, God and the Saints will definitely hear prayers and come to the rescue.
Attention! You should never read prayers for selfish purposes or to prove your rightness and superiority. God sees and hears everything, and punishment for such treatment will be inevitable and severe.
When turning to the Lord or patron saints for help, we need to understand that the result we dream about will not always be obtained. Sometimes people, like little children, are capricious, believing that they know exactly what they need to be happy. And they are confident that only with this person will they find love and harmony in family life. But you need to understand that everything has a higher will, its own big heavenly plan. That man, without whom today it seems impossible to live and breathe, may have come into a woman’s life to teach her something. For example, humility, forgiveness, taming pride, rethinking life priorities. And “the one” will be nearby later, when she has completed the lesson and is ready for his appearance in her destiny.
How to read prayers to find your other half
Orthodox prayer for loneliness will help you find happiness in life.
If you decide to turn to heavenly powers for help and enlist the support of the saints, then you should familiarize yourself with some rules:
- A hastily said prayer alone is not enough to find a partner. You need to turn to the saints every day.
- Only requests coming from the heart help you achieve your goal. You cannot pray with unbelief and doubt - sincere hope and faith that everything will work out is the key to success.
- First, you should deal with your own shortcomings and sins, correct them, repent and confess. Prayers said with a pure soul are more effective.
- It is better to turn to the heavenly powers in the temple. The church has a special atmosphere, so it gives the petitioner’s words power.
- Prayers should only be used if you are sure that you are ready for marriage. If you have doubts about whether you want a long-term, strong relationship, then it is better to wait.
- You should not turn to the Lord and the saints only with requests. Before prayer, whisper gratitude for the people, events, things that are already in your life.
- It is better to memorize the text and read it slowly, letting every line pass through you.
- As you pray, try to visualize your future. Think about what your chosen one should be like, what qualities he should have, what your family life will be like.
If we are talking about a broken relationship that you want to resume, then first you should think about why you left your spouse, what did not work out in your common life. Analyze the past, because perhaps what happened is your fault.
As you say your prayers, promise yourself that you will not make the same mistakes again and that you will build relationships differently.
You need to understand that prayers are not conspiracies or magical rituals. Don't count on instant results.
How to ask for love correctly
God is omnipotent; more than once he has shown small and great miracles to humanity. But such cases are the exception. Most often, the Lord has no other hands than ours. This means that people should not take a passive position and wait for someone else to do everything for them. If a husband and wife cannot resolve conflict situations peacefully, they need to learn this on their own. If a girl dreams of a good husband, she herself should be open to communication and go out to people. At the same time, it is important to understand that the chance of meeting a worthy man in a club is equal to the chance of finding a pearl in the desert. To the one who knocks, He opens another question: where to knock.
You should never go to extremes, ask: “Let anyone who is sick, without legs or arms, just stay with me.” Maybe heaven sent the woman such a situation so that she would become more soulful and pacify her pride. With this wording of the petition, the man can stay in the family, only she will have to learn her lesson on a much larger scale, living her life with a disabled person or an alcoholic whom she cannot leave.
Prayers for male infertility
Male infertility - prayers for infertility
Despite the fact that modern reproductive medicine offers many methods for treating male infertility, not all of them are effective in a particular case.
Repeatedly faced with the problem of unsuccessful treatment, a man gives up and generally stops believing in the possibility of conceiving a child. What to do in such situations?
Prayer for male infertility can help
There were situations when it was prayers addressed to the Saints that restored male strength and the ability to conceive a child. Of course, it is impossible to forget about reality, but it is still worth trying this healing method.
Male infertility - prayers to which Saints will help?
Through prayer, people ask the Lord to help them, to give them strength and health to accomplish things, and also to give them the opportunity to continue their family line, namely to give life to a person after them.
- Mostly women who dream of becoming pregnant pray to Saint Matrona of Moscow. Her icon can be found in the Intercession Monastery in Moscow.
- They pray to David of Gareji if they want to achieve family happiness. This can be done in Russia too. The image of the Saint is in the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity.
- Simeon the Myrrh-Streaming should be prayed to if a married couple is unable to conceive a baby. Prayers help both women and men.
- You can pray to Saint Seraphim of Sarov if you want to feel maternal happiness, as well as strengthen your faith and calm your soul.
- People pray to Saints Anne and Joachim with the hope of a successful and easy pregnancy.
You can also try to cure male infertility in Dieevo. In this village in the Nizhny Novgorod region there is a monastery, which many childless couples strive to get into. Only prayers with inner faith will help you heal and find paternal or maternal happiness.
Types of messages to heaven
Today there are both prayers for the general acquisition of love in life, and for its return. Each specific situation has its own appeal to heavenly powers, which helps to obtain results as quickly and efficiently as possible.
By the man's name
Despite the fact that God himself knows the names of all his children, personal addresses are most effective.
Here is one of them:
“Holy Martyrs of Christ Natalia and Adrian! Listen to me, servant of God (name), I pray to you with pain and tears. Send patience both soul and body to me and my husband, the servant of God (name). Pray to our Lord for us, may he send his grace upon us, protecting us from betrayal, sins, betrayal and destruction. I grieve with you and I beg you to protect my family and return love to it. Amen".
This prayer should be read twice a day: early in the morning immediately after waking up and before going to bed. It is best to do this alone, and in front of a lit white candle.
Reference! A man can also read this prayer, just the words slave and slave should be swapped and the names of the spouses should be given accordingly.
For a specific man
If you want a certain man to love you, then in this case you need to turn to the Most Holy Theotokos. The Great Mother loves her children, so she is ready to help everyone.
The words should be as follows:
“Blessed Mary, Mother of our God Jesus Christ, I ask you, look into my soul, Find me a loved one, Bring him to me, One who also seeks love, The spouse of my soul, One whom I will love, And who will love me until the end of our days, I humbly ask You, who knows the sufferings and secrets of a woman, in the name of our God.”
Watch the video in which a prayer is read for a man’s love for the Blessed Virgin Mary:
To meet my future husband
In order for a woman to meet her husband, she should turn to Saint Xenia of St. Petersburg. She is the one who patronizes such people.
Other prayers to saints
Women also turn to the Creator’s assistants—his saints.
To Matrona of Moscow
Saint Matrona of Moscow has been helping people with their problems for many years. And after her death, young girls and their mothers began to pray to the saint, asking for a good husband. The prayer of this saint provides quick results.
Prayer to Matrona will help attract the attention of the opposite sex.
“Blessed Mother Matrona, hear the prayers of the sinful servant of God, accept them. Just as you have always listened to the requests of the suffering and mourning, so listen to this request. I turn to you with hope and faith in your help, intercession and healing. Let boundless mercy not disappear. Help me find sincere, eternal and pure love. So that, together with our soul mate, we can glorify your name and please the Heavenly Father forever and ever.”
To Paraskeva Friday
Women often turn to Paraskeva Pyatnitsa. She dedicated her earthly life to serving the Lord. The saint remained chaste and took a vow of celibacy, but she helped young, pure girls find good husbands. If your desire to start a family is strong, then you should turn to Paraskeva with prayer:
“Holy Martyr Paraskeva! An example of maiden purity and beauty, the keeper of the Christian faith and a mirror of generosity, a zealot for the commandments of God! I pray: ask Christ God for help to cleanse the soul of His servant from all the sins with which it is darkened. Pray for us sinners, grant us fidelity, love, family happiness. Mother Paraskeva, cover us, unmarried girls, as soon as possible.”
This prayer gives the most pronounced effect if you read it on the night of October 14, on the holiday of the Intercession.
To Xenia of Petersburg
It is known that during her lifetime Saint Xenia lost her husband. She was still a young girl, but she managed to overcome despair. The woman never married again, but a severe blow of fate strengthened her faith, making her an exemplary Christian. Therefore, many girls turn to the saint to ask for help in finding a husband.
Young girls often pray to Xenia of St. Petersburg to find a mate.
The text of the prayer should be memorized:
“Oh, blessed Mother Xenia! You lived under the protection of the Lord, and the Mother of God led you by the hand. You endured thirst and hunger, heat, cold, persecution and reproach. But she received the gift of insight from the Almighty. Mother Ksenia, I sincerely ask for help.
Let the light of the Holy Spirit illuminate the babies. Let the heirs study, grow smart and God-fearing. Let the sick be healed. Send down family harmony and love. Keep peace and serenity. Ksenia, our hope and helper, hear me, save me from the pain of loneliness. In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen".
The same prayer can be said by mothers who want to marry off their daughters - if the woman’s intentions are sincere, then the saint’s help will not be long in coming.
To Nicholas the Wonderworker
Saint Nicholas became famous for his good deeds. He began helping people during his earthly life, but even after his death he did not leave Orthodox Christians. The miracle worker always listens to the prayers of believers, comes to the rescue and helps make wishes come true.
If you want to find a good husband, turn to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker for prayer help.
Therefore, if you are trying to find your soul mate, then you can turn to the saint, standing in front of his icon, with the words of prayer:
“Oh, Saint Nicholas, saint and servant of our Lord, warm and caring intercessor of all those who pray, helper in grief and sorrow. Help a sinful and sad man, lead me by the hand through life. Ask the Heavenly Father to forgive all my sins that were committed in my youth, youth, and maturity. If you have offended the Lord with your thoughts, feelings or actions, may the Almighty grant you forgiveness.
May God deliver me from ordeals and eternal torment, from loneliness and restlessness. May he bestow a kindred soul. I glorify your holy name. In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. May it be so forever and ever. Amen".
To Peter and Fevronia
If you have already found your lover, but for one reason or another lost him (you separated, decided to divorce), then you should turn to Saints Peter and Fevronia. They are considered a model of a married couple, so they resort to their help when relationships with a loved one are not going well.
Constant quarrels, conflicts, disagreements, separations are a reason to pray to Peter and Fevronia.
You need to address the saints with the following words:
“Saints Peter and Fevronia, you help people all over the earth. I come to you with a bow to sincerely ask for help. I trust in your mercy, I pray passionately and frantically. Ask God to show mercy to His servant (name your name) and loved one (name your partner). Leave our love, help strengthen it so that we can stay together forever. Amen".
Peter and Fevronia are pious, praying for every suffering person.
The prayer must be repeated at least twice a day. This will help you get rid of anger, resentment, bitterness and disappointment, and then gradually improve your relationship with your partner.
There is another version of prayer - it is no less effective:
“Blessed princely couple, Peter and Fevronia, helpers of our Lord! I come running to you, I pray with strong faith. Help us sinners (name yourself and your partner), ask God for the goodness to fill the bodies and souls of His servants with faith, truth, hope and unfeigned love.
May the Almighty grant us piety, good luck, and an easy death. Oh, holy miracle workers, do not ignore our prayers, give your help. Amen".
Protectors of lovers
You can ask for love, marriage and understanding in family life from Saints Fevronia and Peter. Their wonderful story began with an illness that befell the son of the Prince of Murom. Despite all attempts, leprosy did not leave Peter, and he was already desperate to recover when he saw a prophetic dream. It said that in a Ryazan village there lived a girl, Fevronia, a simple peasant herbalist who could help the prince’s son.
Peter went in search of her, which was crowned with success and the recovery of the young man. Only to fulfill his promise and marry the beekeeper’s daughter did he change his mind. I went home alone. Soon the leprosy returned, and he had no choice but to again pray to Fevronia for help. After the second healing they got married.
Having come to power, Peter found himself faced with the condition of the boyars: he either expels his commoner wife or leaves the princely throne. The choice was made, the couple left the city. During the period of exile, it was difficult for the couple, but their love for God and each other saved them. After a while, Peter was asked to return to the principality; chaos ensued in Murom without a firm hand.
Until old age, the princely family lived in kindness and mutual understanding, and then both took monastic vows. Peter became David, and Fevronia became Euphrosyne. Living in different monasteries, they continued to tenderly love each other and forgive God while simultaneously retreating to Him. For this day, the couple had prepared a common coffin with a thin partition.
The Lord heard them and sent simultaneous death to the husband and wife. The monks did not put them together. Such a case has never happened in Christianity and, fearing the wrath of the Almighty, the bodies of Euphrosyne and David were left twice in different churches. By morning, in a way unknown to anyone, they were lying next to each other. After this, it was decided to fulfill the will of the deceased for a joint burial.
Prayer to St. Euphrosyne and David (Fevronia and Peter)
Righteous miracle workers, the faithful Prince Peter and Princess Fevronia, guardians of an honest marriage and earnestly praying to the Lord for all of us! During the days of your earthly life, you were the image of Christian love, piety and fidelity to the grave and after death.
I earnestly seek your help. Bring a prayer to the Lord for me, a sinner. Ask me from him the name of righteous faith, which is beneficial to the soul and body of God’s servant. Good hope, unwavering adherence to His will. Help us get married. Let us, through your prayer, remain chaste towards each other. To preserve spiritual and physical love, not shameful, but pleasing to the Lord. Send down a long-life seed into the union, for children I pray you. So that we too can touch the blessed life through your shining crown of heavenly glory and eternal life.”
Finally, I would like to say a few words about the fact that prayer is a request, and it cannot always be heard and fulfilled the way the person asking it would like. If the Saints and the Lord God see that it is impossible to revive feelings and nothing good will come of such a marriage, then after prayer it may happen that love dries up altogether or is reborn into another bright feeling.
Prayer is not a conspiracy; you should not perceive it as a magic wand to fulfill your desire. It should be treated with seriousness and a pure soul and thoughts. Only then will your request be heard. And don’t forget to thank higher powers for the help provided.
Prayer for infertility in men
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In Orthodoxy, with male infertility, as well as with female infertility, they turn, first of all, to the Lord God and the Mother of God. There are a number of icons of the Mother of God that have the grace to help with these ailments, for example Fedorovskaya.
Men turn to some Saints to pray for infertility. But especially with male infertility, you should ask for help from famous married couples:
- Saints Joachim and Anna;
- Saints Zechariah and Elizabeth.
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Saints Joachim and Anna
These Saints were awarded special mercy from God - to become the father and mother of the Mother of God herself. But before that, they drank the bitter cup of loneliness, sorrow and even humiliation from people. And all because they did not have children for most of their married life. And in Palestine, where they lived, not having offspring in the eyes of others meant being a sinner punished by God. And although the righteous lived piously and were very decent people, many suspected them of secret sins for which they were being punished.
One day it came to a tragedy. Saint James wanted to offer a sacrifice to God in the most important place - in the Jerusalem Temple. But the priest refused to accept the righteous man’s gift, making it clear that Jacob did not deserve this honor because of his barrenness. The Saint's grief was so great that he left Jerusalem for a deserted place and decided to stay there without returning home. Day and night Joachim with all his might asked God to forgive him and his wife for their sins and to give them a child.
His wife Anna, having learned about the popular insult to her husband and his placement in the desert, was shocked to the core. In grief, she left the house and went wherever she looked. Unbeknownst to herself, the woman found herself in a deserted area and heard the chirping of birds. Raising her head, she saw a bird's nest on the tree, in which the mother was caressing her chicks. Seeing that even birds have children, but she and her husband do not, the righteous woman cried bitterly and began to beg God to send them a child too.
Such a strong prayer of the couple was finally heard. In a revelation from above, both were told that they would become the parents of an unusual Daughter, who would be glorified by all people. After this, Joachim and Anna went to Jerusalem. There, some time after their meeting, the promised child was born - the Most Holy Theotokos.
Prayer to Joachim and Anna
O holy righteous woman, Godfathers Joachim and Anno! Pray to the Merciful Lord, that He may turn away His anger from us, who is righteously moved towards us by our deeds, and may, despising our countless sins, turn us, the servant of God (names), to the path of repentance, and may He establish us on the path of His commandments. Also, with your prayers in the world, save our life, and in all good things, ask for good haste, all that we need from God for life and piety, from all misfortunes and troubles and sudden death, through your intercession, delivering us and protecting us from all enemies visible and invisible , and so in the world this temporary life has passed. Let us achieve eternal rest, where through your holy prayer may we be worthy of the Heavenly Kingdom of Christ our God, to whom, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, be due all glory, honor and worship forever and ever.
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Saints Zechariah and Elizabeth
Saints Zechariah and Elizabeth also received great honor. They became the parents of the famous prophet - John the Baptist. But before this, Zechariah and Elizabeth also did not have children for many years. And they also suffered from human misunderstanding. This is despite the fact that Zechariah occupied an important place in the social structure of his state - he was the priest of the only temple located in the city of Jerusalem. And Elizabeth was the cousin of the Mother of God Mary.
The childless couple, with hope in God, prayed for many years. And so, on one of the days of his service in the temple, Saint Zacharias entered alone into the inner room to, according to tradition, incense there. And suddenly I saw the Archangel Gabriel, to the right of the incense altar, the same one who brought the good news to the Mother of God. (Therefore, in case of infertility, people also turn to this angel for help - the messenger about the birth of children.) The prophet was confused, but was reassured by Gabriel. The Archangel announced the gift of a son to him and his wife, for many years of prayer and righteousness. The words added by the angel are significant. He said that no words of prayer are in vain, and all of them are heard by God.
It was promised that the son of Zechariah would return many people to the pure faith of their ancestors and guide them to repentance. The priest was no longer young and humanly doubted what he heard. He asked for a special sign to authenticate the words of the heavenly messenger. And in response to doubt, he received a formidable sign - Zechariah was speechless. Having informed that the child should be named John, and that the speech would be returned to the father after his birth, the archangel left.
Indeed, upon Zechariah's return home, his wife conceived a baby. After the birth of his son, the father was asked what he wanted to name him. The priest wrote on the board: “John.” And immediately after that he spoke. When the baby grew up, he became a great prophet and was honored to baptize Christ himself in the Jordan River. That is why he has been called since then - John the Baptist. And the prayer for infertility in men is heard by his father, who literally begged for his long-awaited son.
Prayer to Saints Zechariah and Elizabeth
Oh, holy saints of God, the prophet Zechariah and the righteous Elizabeth, you fought a good fight on earth, you received in heaven the crown of righteousness, which the Lord prepared for all who love Him; In the same way, looking at your holy icon, we rejoice at the glorious end of your life and honor your holy memory. You, standing before the Throne of God, accept our prayers and bring them to the All-Merciful God, to forgive us every sin and help us against the wiles of the devil, so that, having been delivered from sorrows, illnesses, troubles and misfortunes and all evil, we will live piously and righteously in the present We will be worthy, through your intercession, even though we are unworthy, to see good on the land of the living, glorifying the One in His saints, the glorified God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen.
Muslim prayer for infertility
According to Muslim tradition, there is a type of petitionary prayer called dua mas-ala. In such a prayer one is supposed to ask the Almighty for the gift of children.
In Islam, it is also customary for male and female infertility to turn to the prophet Zechariah, the father of St. John the Baptist. His name appears here as Zakariya.
The surah, entitled “The Family of Imran,” talks about the visit of the righteous by angels and his receipt of news of the birth of his son. It also talks about the punishment of the prophet for doubts by the loss of the ability to speak for doubts. And further, about how this ability returned after the birth of his child, named Yahya, which means John.
The Muslim prayer for male infertility goes like this:
“O Lord, do not leave me childless, for you are the best of inheritors.”
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