The phrase “Your Kingdom come” in the Lord’s prayer doesn’t mean what we usually think it means: let the Kingdom of God come so that we may enjoy life on earth and indulge in pleasure. That wouldn’t be any good. Someday we are going to leave this world, while others will come and leave it, too.
“Your Kingdom come” means, let the Kingdom of God come into us continually, sanctify us and lead us towards the fulfillment of eternal life.
Church and its members live with this anticipation and certainty that the Lord has come: They feel they’re of Christ and hold on to the anticipation that the Lord is coming, regardless of when the Lord will.
That’s faith, that’s hoping in God, that’s having God in your heart. You don't falter. You have learnt to wait. There comes a time when passions are eradicated and everything else that tornments you, too. Then, the Kingdom of Heaven will have been realised in your heart.

Did you fall victim to your own wrongdoing? Did you break God’s law, did you fail to keep a command? Repent immediately, feel crushed and humble because of your sin, beg Christ to forgive you straightaway and keep up the good fight.
By trying to keep Christ’s commands and acquire virtues, by trying to find salvation, you’ll see that, as man, you can do nothing. And as days pass by, you get more and more convinced that whatever you’ve got to do, Christ will do it for you, beginning from scratch. Christ will do it for you, if you remain constant to this struggle, constant to the effort towards self-knowledge, constant to this awareness, to this faith. That’s when salvation begins to come.
The longer someone lives and repents in this world, the better.

“Wherever the grace of the Archangels overshadows, thence the devil is banished”, says the doxastikon of the feast. You don’t do justice to yourself when you struggle simply relying on your own abilities. What will you accomplish? No matter how strong you think you are, because at some point God may have given you the power to be, you can do nothing by yourself.
A Christian can’t be without Christ’s grace, without Christ. And when he rests or works, or, all the more so, when he has to deal with enemies or hardship, if he is aware he’s never alone, but together with God, if he forgets himself and entrusts himself to the grace, if the archangel isn’t prevented from being with him, then the power of the dark devil is banished at once. Just as the darkness disappears when the light appears.

We can’t begin to imagine the sufferings saint Nektarios went through. Still, he wasn’t at all scandalized by people, or by God, who is able to prevent bad things from happening to His people, yet, scandalously, allows the enemies to rule in such a way, that a soul may get confused or even shaken up if it isn’t pure or honest and has no flame of love for God. It may even yield under the weight of so much injustice everywhere. Then, the soul runs the risk of becoming indolent. It could even lose its vigour and willingness to hold on.
The saint was accused of so many things! And these things cost a lot. When God allows for the outcry to start, for His creature to be fully overpowered, the cross man is called to lift is unbearable. Saint Nektarios’ faith, however, was strong, and his devotion for Christ ran deep and wide. Despite his sufferings, he remained firm on his faith and proved his holiness.

Man is saved whether he leads a celibate or a married life, as long as he stays in Church overwhelmed by its spirit. Naturally, some may be more overwhelmed, others less. Some may remain totally unaffected. At least, let the person in this last category become aware he isn’t seized by God and feel sorry for his pitiful state. And God will have mercy on him and will visit him with His grace.
We do wrong when we refuse to take a position which would enable us to be attentive to what God wants to tell us, to what God shows us at every moment.
The purpose of Christian life isn’t simply to make good people out of us. However good man may be, if he doesn’t unite with Christ, if Christ doesn’t come into him, if he isn’t transformed or changed by Christ, it’s no use.

When man gets rid of the mentality to be somebody, then, it’s not difficult to monitor himself at work, in the street, or at whichever place he may be for the whole day long. Paying attention to himself and complying with the voice of his consciousness, which is the voice of God, isn’t hard either.
The moment something happens to you, it is really important to think and remember that God is right above us and seeing it. Whatever it may be, He knew it would happen, allows it to happen, and has His reason for letting it happen.
When you become “normalized” or when good things happen to you, you feel a kind of euphoria, a kind of fulfillment; you feel well, you feel glad. This is one thing but it is totally another feeling the uncreated energy of God in you, this seed of God, this heavenly seed; feeling Christ in you.

The goodness, virtue, and forbearance of God aim to lead us to repentance. Even the punishments of God aim to lead men to repentance.
Were you misled? Did you fall? Did you sin? Did you distance yourself from God? Were you lost? Come back. Come to your senses and come back. Christ is waiting for you.
As man catches himself going wrong and failing to keep Christ’s commands, he’ll repent, but at the same time he’ll keep trying. He shouldn’t despair.
If we endure and have a humble spirit, everything will be done; everything will take place in due time. The providence of God acts with tremendous accuracy.