The power of the Orthodox faith
An Orthodox Christian who attends church, participates in church sacraments, and regularly prays is under the protection of the Lord and does not need additional help from evil forces. True believers feel the constant support of the Almighty, do not know despondency, trust in the mercy of God in everything, and therefore are protected from negative influences and evil tongues.
Protective icons serve to support those who have lost the firmness of faith, doubt themselves, and need additional protection. Those who feel anxious, irritable, influenced by unpleasant people and circumstances can purchase special icons.
The images consecrated in the temple will help the Orthodox in difficult moments of life, strengthen their faith, and help them tune in to prayer. The main thing in prayers is faith in God’s mercy, hope in the Lord’s help, humility and hope for support. Priests always remind people that the best defense against the power of dark forces is observance of the commandments of Christ, purity and righteousness. The Lord protects everyone who turns and asks for help.
Eliminating the influence of black magic
What other prayers are there from sorcerers and evil people? Let's consider a prayer that allows us to eliminate the harmful influence of black magic. In order to enhance its effect, read it in a special environment. In addition, with such a ritual you can create a protective, reliable barrier against negativity, which even the most powerful damage cannot penetrate. It sounds like this:
“The all-merciful Christ Jesus, the Son of God and the Most Holy Theotokos, as well as all the Holy Thrones, all the archangels and angels, all the seraphim and cherubim. I, the servant of God (my name), bow deeply to all of you. I ask forgiveness for all earthly sins, involuntary or voluntary. Lord Almighty, accept my repentance and forgive all my sins, unknown and known. I confess to you and ask for cleansing for my soul. Deliver me, Lord, from the black eye of a dashing man, from his unkind words. I ask for help for myself and trust in all heavenly powers. Amen."
The strongest defenders
According to prayer tradition, icons of saints who fought against devilish obsessions, cast out demons, and themselves had doubts and anxieties especially help against damage and the evil eye. You can also turn to the Lord, the Mother of God, and your guardian angel for help.
Hodegetria
The type of icons most beloved by Orthodox Christians is painted in the Hodegetria type. The Mother of God holds the Divine Son in her arms and points to Him as the path of salvation. The founder of this type of icons was the Evangelist Luke. It is believed that Hodegetria icons protect against anger, hatred, and dark forces. The Most Pure Virgin points people to Christ, who can save them from any misfortune. The Orthodox hung the image in the red corner, decorated it with flowers, burned candles and lamps.
Among the icons there are many miraculous ones that help Orthodox Christians in difficult times, protecting them from damage and the evil eye. The following images of the Mother of God are especially revered:
- Kazanskaya;
- Smolenskaya;
- Blachernae icon;
- Tikhvinskaya;
- Three-handed.
The icon relieves bodily illnesses and mental anguish. The image of Hodegetria in the house will create reliable protection for the whole family.
Prayer before the image of Hodegetria:
“O Most Wonderful and Highest of All Creatures, Queen Theotokos, Mother of the Heavenly King Christ our God, Most Holy Hodegetria Mary!
Hear us, sinners and unworthy, at this hour praying to You with sighs and tears before Your Most Pure Image, falling down and tenderly saying: lead us out of the pit of passions, Good Hodegetria, deliver us from all sorrow and sorrow, protect us from all adversity and evil slander and from the unrighteous slander of the enemy.
You can, O our Gracious Mother, not only save Your people from all evil, but also provide and save with all good deeds: are You other intercessors in troubles and circumstances and warm Intercessors for us, sinners, to Your Son, Christ our God, not imams. Beseech Him, O Lady, to save us and grant us the Kingdom of Heaven, so that through Your salvation we may glorify You in the future, as the author of our salvation, and exalt the All-Holy and Magnificent Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, glorified and worshiped God in the Trinity, forever centuries. Amen".
Help: before asking for help, you need to repent of your sins and ask the Lord for forgiveness.
"Semistrelnaya"
The icon of the Mother of God, called the “Seven Arrows”, is considered miraculous; many healings have occurred through prayers before it. The face of the Most Pure Virgin is sorrowful, she suffers for the Divine Son, sees all human sins and vices, and prays to the Lord for Christians.
Before the icon they ask:
- about physical and mental health;
- about protecting the home from troubles, human anger and hatred;
- about protection from dark forces, damage and the evil eye;
- about resolving quarrels, conflicts, softening evil hearts.
Before a miraculous image, people turn to the help of the Mother of God in case of devilish obsessions, the machinations of ill-wishers, or misfortunes sent. The Mother of God helps remove witchcraft and curses.
Prayer before the image:
“Soften our evil hearts, Mother of God, and repel the attacks of those who hate us, and resolve all our spiritual sorrows, for, looking at Your holy image, with Your compassion and mercy for us we heartily lament and kiss your wounds, for our arrows that torment You , we are horrified. Do not let us, Merciful Mother, perish in our hard-heartedness or from the hard-heartedness of our neighbors, for You are truly the softener of evil hearts.”
Matrona of Moscow
Matrona was a simple woman who did not perform great feats for the glory of the Lord. She helped people with prayer, gave good advice, and supported them in troubles. Everyone who came to the saint for support found peace in their hearts, peace, and hope for solving problems.
Prayers in front of the icon of the old woman protect family and loved ones from malicious slander, the ill will of others, damage and the evil eye, and temptations. In front of the Matrona icon they traditionally ask for the well-being and protection of children.
“I am addressing you, oh Matrona of Moscow. Help me get rid of the evil eye and damage, rejecting the damn dirty tricks of evil people. Cleanse my soul from the soot of sin and do not punish my mortal body with pain. I sincerely repent to you for sorrow, intolerance, anger, swearing and lack of faith. Ask the Lord God for pity and send me mercy in the form of spiritual Orthodoxy. Let corruption, the evil eye and mental anguish not kill my faith in the Lord God. Let it be so. Amen".
Nicholas the Wonderworker
God's Pleasant Nicholas is revered throughout the Christian world. The saint performed miracles, defended those slandered, slandered, and convicted without guilt. There are icons of the Wonderworker in every church; many people purchase the image for home prayers. You can turn to the saint for any need.
Damage and the evil eye, slander and negative energy from ill-wishers are powerless against the protection of St. Nicholas, which can be found by reading prayers in front of the image in church or at home.
Protective prayer:
“The Wonderworker Saint Nicholas, our Protector and Savior. Without blaming in the depths of my soul those who tried to harm, I, the Servant of God, ask only one thing. Help Saint Nicholas, me and my whole family, remove the damage from us. Make sure that the holy water from the temple washes away all our illnesses, quarrels and heat. But let the sorcerer not suffer from damage, and the sorcerer also not die. But only so that peace and tranquility reign in my family. Amen".
Holy Great Martyr Artemy
Damage and the evil eye disrupt human defenses and lead to the development of diseases. Someone else's evil energy and the ill will of others are dangerous for a person whose faith is weak. Those who do not attend church, have withdrawn from church sacraments, do not repent and do not receive communion, become defenseless, deprived of God's grace.
Turning to Saint Artemy of Antioch helps to cope with heart and vascular diseases, nervous disorders and problems of the digestive tract. These diseases often develop and progress with damage and the evil eye as the materialization of dark energy.
Prayer to the Great Martyr Artemy:
“Holy servant of God, Artemy the righteous! Look mercifully at the fervent prayer of us sinners (names), and through your compassionate intercession ask the Lord for forgiveness of our sins, and grant us success in faith and piety and protection from the machinations of the devil. Most of all, pray to the Lord, that after our Christian death He will grant us all the opportunity to receive the Kingdom of Heaven, where all the righteous together with you glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.”
John the Baptist
The prophet who baptized Christ and predicted the coming of the Messiah is the most revered saint after the Mother of God. John is considered the main prayer book for people; one can turn to the saint to get rid of damage and the evil eye.
Prayer to John the Baptist helps people who are in long-term depression and suffer from nervous disorders. They ask the saint for relief from migraines, insomnia, and anxiety. The evil will of enemies, slander, and magical rituals of enemies violate the body’s defenses, leading to stress and despondency.
“Holy John the Forerunner and Baptist of Christ! This preacher of repentance, do not despise us who repent, but pray to the Lord Christ for us, unworthy slaves, sad, weak, fallen into many sins. We fear death, but we are not sick of our sins and we do not care about the Kingdom of Heaven: but do not despise us, the Baptist of Christ, honorable Forerunner, born in pain of all, mentor of fasters and hermits, teacher of purity and neighbor of Christ.
We pray to you, we resort to you: do not reject us who ask for your intercession, renew our souls with repentance, which is the second baptism: by your intercession before the Lord, ask for the cleansing of our sins. Unworthy lips cry out to you, and a humble soul prays, a contrite heart sighs from the depths: stretch out your most pure right hand and protect us from enemies visible and invisible.
Hey, Lord Jesus Christ! Through the prayers of St. John Thy Baptist, and even more so of Thy Most Pure Mother, our Lady Theotokos, save us, Thy sinful servants who repent of our sins. For Thou art the God of the repentant, and in Thee, the Savior, we place our hope, glorifying Thy Most Holy Name, with Thy Beginning Father, and with Thy Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.”
Alexander Svirsky
An Orthodox saint is venerated among the saints. During his lifetime, Alexander Svirsky performed many miraculous healings, helped the paralyzed to stand up and the blind to see. The saint cast out demons, removed damage and the evil eye, and freed people from evil spells cast by sorcerers.
Through prayers to Alexander Svirsky, miracles still happen today. Fasting and turning to the saint helps to cope with nervous system disorders, relieve constant headaches, overcome stress, depression, and restore peace of mind.
“O sacred head, earthly angel and heavenly man, venerable and God-bearing Father Alexandra, great servant of the Most Holy and Consubstantial Trinity, show many mercies to those living in your holy monastery and to all who flow to you with faith and love! Ask us everything that is useful for this temporary life, and even more necessary for our eternal salvation. Help with your intercession, servant of God, before the Lord against enemies visible and invisible. May His faithful servants, who cry out to Him day and night in grief and sorrow, hear the much-painful cry and may our belly be delivered from destruction. May the Holy Orthodox Church of Christ abide deeply in peace, and may our Fatherland be founded in prosperity, indestructible in all piety. Be to all of us, miracle-working saint, a quick helper in every sorrow and situation. Most of all, at the hour of our death, a merciful intercessor appeared to us, so that we may not be betrayed in the ordeals of the air to the power of the evil world ruler, but may we be honored with a stumbling-free ascension into the Kingdom of Heaven. Hey, Father, our dear prayer book! Do not disgrace our hope, do not despise our humble prayers, but always intercede for us before the Throne of the Life-Giving Trinity, so that we may be worthy, together with you and with all the saints, even if we are unworthy, in the villages of paradise to glorify the greatness, grace and mercy of the One God in the Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen".
The Holy Trinity
Orthodox Christians turn to the Higher Powers to strengthen their faith. Those who truly believe are given God's grace and protection. The saints to whom they turn with requests themselves pray to the Lord for the laity. You can turn to the Almighty in church, at home, mentally anywhere. Before prayer, you need to repent of your sins to the Lord, and then express your request in your own words.
“Most Holy Trinity, have mercy on us; Lord, cleanse our sins; Master, forgive our iniquities; Holy One, visit and heal our infirmities, for Thy name's sake. Lord, have mercy, Lord, have mercy, Lord, have mercy. Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen".
Saint Cyprian
To break slander, evil spells, and damage, they read prayers to Saint Cyprian. The martyr was brought up in a pagan family, studied witchcraft and magic for a long time, and was a skilled sorcerer. A meeting with the Christian virgin Justinia, who resisted his science, led Cyprian to faith in the Lord. The sorcerer became a Christian, a bishop, accepted martyrdom for his faith, and died glorifying Christ.
Cyprian's life teaches that one can come to the Lord at any age and renounce the power of dark forces. True faith will help you get rid of the devil's power, defeat other people's evil, the evil eye, and your own delusions.
Prayer to Justinia and Cyprian:
“To the Holy Martyrs Cuprian and Justinia we direct our words! Heed the prayer of the servant of God (name), hear him, help him solve the problem. I turn to you with a request, with one prayer, Protect Me from witchcraft, from black magic, from bad people. Save me from the bad things they wished for me. Help me remove everything dark, smoothed, damaged. Pray to the Lord God for me, help me find his help, salvation. I am not asking for wealth, not for prosperity, but for protection for my soul, for my body. Amen!"
Important: when asking for deliverance from damage and the evil eye, you cannot wish harm to another person, send curses, demand punishment and revenge.
Prayer-spell for a well
Witchcraft offers technologies for protection against witchcraft, based on the use of enchanted water. You can use prayer to speak to a well. People who take water from it will be able to maintain protection from negative influences at the appropriate level. You can bless the water in a well with the following prayer:
“The Almighty Lord God, the Almighty of the worlds, transformer and creator, is glorious for his wisdom and justice, who presented water to the human race for saturation and gives life to everything on earth. Hear, O Lord, my prayer, grant healing and holy water in this place, sweet and tasty, harmless and useful. And I, the servant of God (my name), will glorify you everywhere and always in the world. Amen."
Recommendations for selection
A believer who has an image of a home does not need to purchase special icons from witchcraft powers. You can pray with a request to remove damage and the evil eye in front of any home icon, ask the saint to become an intercessor before God and deliver you from the devil's spell.
When purchasing an icon, you need to find out about its power, talk to the priest, understand who you are praying to. If the saint is unknown, you need to read the lives in order to pray consciously.
Out of anger
A reliable protector from all the troubles of life is a guardian angel, who is given to a person at baptism for support and guidance. Orthodox believe in his help if they feel the anger and hatred of others. A prayer to the guardian protects and calms:
“In my prayer I turn to you, the holy Angel of Christ (name) who brings me good. You are also a hasty servant of the Almighty Creator, who reigns over all living things and all undead creatures too. Therefore, by the will of the Almighty, deliver me, weak and infirm, from various misfortunes in the form of an unclean beast and other undead. And let neither the brownie, nor the goblin, nor the wood-grower, nor the rest destroy my soul or touch my body. I pray to you, Holy Angel, for protection from evil spirits and all its servants. Save and preserve according to the will of the Lord God. Amen".
From the malice and deceit of those around them, they also pray to the Holy Trinity, the Lord, and the Mother of God in front of the icon “Softening Evil Hearts.” Prayer in front of the icon of Saints Cyprian and Justinia helps against human anger. People who feel a flow of negative energy should hang a protective icon at home and carry it in their pocket at all times.
From evil people
The Mother of God sees the suffering of people and treats the Orthodox as her children. Prayer to the Most Pure Virgin is the best protection from evil people and their machinations. There are many miraculous icons of the Mother of God known in Russia. You can pray in front of any of them. Icons have special power:
- "Semistrelnaya";
- "Three-handed";
- "Deliverer from troubles";
- "Gracious Sky";
- "Joy to all who mourn."
The icon of the Mother of God, located in the house, creates protection from evil neighbors and ill-wishers who come to visit, and reliably protects the mental and physical health of the family.
From witchcraft and sorcery
The icon of the Kazan Mother of God will protect the house and people in it from witchcraft spells and damage. This miraculous image has been protecting our country for many years, helping Orthodox Christians in everyday difficulties.
Witchcraft rituals will not stand against the icon of Cyprian and Justinia. The saint himself practiced sorcery for many years, and after baptism he began to fight against magicians and wizards who invoked dark forces. Prayers are performed in front of the image of the saints in the morning and evening.
Out of envy
The hatred and malice of envious people are powerless in front of the icon of St. Nicholas the Pleasant. They pray to the saint to protect themselves and loved ones from curses and the ill will of those who burn with annoyance and irritation, looking at other people’s happiness and successes. In front of the image of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, they ask for the protection of family well-being from spiteful critics and envious people, to protect children from troubles and troubles.
From enemies
Prayer to saints who became famous during their lifetime for military exploits helps protect themselves from ill-wishers and enemies. They fearlessly defeated hordes of enemies, destroyed monsters terrorizing people. In military affairs they were helped by prayer and turning to the Lord for support.
To protect against dangerous, powerful enemies, they pray before the face of St. George the Victorious. The saint who defeated the terrible snake is revered as the protector of warriors, of all who fight with enemies. Offended people who have suffered from evil people and slander turn to Saint George.
A prayer to the holy warrior Artemy of Antioch, who became the governor of Egypt for his military exploits, helps to escape from enemies. The fearless military leader also bravely faced martyrdom and accepted death for Christ. A prayerful appeal to a saint protects against enemies, evil spells, and slander.
From damage to health
With witchcraft spells and the sending of damage, the body’s defenses weaken, the materialization of evil energy leads to illness and deterioration of well-being. Freed from dark spells, you can regain your strength and find peace.
If your health has deteriorated and treatment does not produce results, you can assume that the person has been damaged. In this case, you should pray to Alexander Svirsky. The saint healed the sick, cast out demons, and freed them from witchcraft. The saint is consulted in cases of infertility caused by black magic.
Prayer to John the Baptist helps remove magical spells on health. The Prophet relieves the consequences of damage and the evil eye, which affect the physical and mental state. Prayers are read before the icon of the saint, and the amulet with the image is worn on the body. You can pray repeatedly throughout the day, touching the amulet with your hands.
How to pray in front of an icon to protect yourself and your family
For prayers against damage and the evil eye, they purchase an icon consecrated in the temple. You should not take an image from unfamiliar people, in a random place. What rules are followed when praying:
- Before starting prayers, you must repent of your sins and ask the Lord for forgiveness.
- You should learn the prayer by heart, pronounce the request in your own words.
- You cannot send curses on others, demand the Lord to punish offenders.
- You need to lead a righteous life - fast, monitor your thoughts and deeds, and perform regular prayers.
- Orthodox Christians are prohibited from participating in magical rituals, turning to sorcerers and sorcerers, and wearing amulets. You cannot ask psychics or witches to remove damage.
- Before prayer, they light a candle or lamp at the icon, let go of all extraneous thoughts, and concentrate.
- After completing the prayer, they thank the Lord, the saint, for his help.
Sincere prayer, which is read from the heart, and not just repeating a memorized text, helps to get rid of problems. You can ask for help in simple words, without reading the canonical or popular text.
The icon helps against damage and the evil eye only to those who truly believe and keep God’s commandments. Regular prayers and participation in church sacraments will protect the believer from any troubles and machinations of sorcerers.
Prayer against the evil eye: who can read?
There are no restrictions for turning to Higher powers. The main thing is to have faith. Appealing to the Almighty helps all people. It doesn't matter how old you are, what your profession is or what your social status is. None of this matters. For the Saints we are all equal.
A petition from a clergyman (priest, monk) is endowed with special power. Therefore, if there are suspicions that a person is suffering from a negative program imposed on him, the first thing they do is turn to the clergy for help.
The prayer is read in church or, if a spoiled person cannot go to church, at home. If he feels the strength to get rid of sorcery on his own, he should go to the temple and confess. After repentance and receiving the sacrament of Holy Communion, you must ask the priest for his blessing to read prayers against the evil eye.
