(Luke 19:9)

"Repent, repent – and correct yourself," says a popular saying. It is the correction of what has been done that is the third step of our reconciliation with God. Of course, what can be corrected.

By dwelling we also mean our inner cell, the heart: it is the abode of the soul and mind when it enters there for prayer. A house or an apartment where we live alone or with a family, a village, a settlement or a city, a country and the whole land we also call our home in one case or another in conversation with our neighbors. Let's focus on a house or an apartment, because this is the topic of our conversation.

To begin with, I will give you two examples of how not to act.

One man and his family moved to live in the Leningrad region, having bought a former Finnish farm. He began to build without prayer and blessing, and even for the foundation of the house he took stones and slabs from the graves of the abandoned local cemetery. He built, lived a little and died, leaving the house to his children. They constantly complained to everyone that it was impossible to live in the house, it was difficult and uncomfortable. To top it off, the hooligans dug up the grave of the old man in search of front-line awards.

Another example. One family stood in the queue for an apartment at the place of work for a long time. Years passed, the queue moved very slowly. "One crook everywhere," the owner muttered. He grumbled, was indignant, and began to write complaints to various authorities. Two more years passed in this way. Embittered, exhausted by litigation, they finally received a three-room apartment. We moved in and had a noisy housewarming. "You can't fool me," said the drunken owner, "anyone will have a nose in the morning, I can always stand up for myself!" Only there was no happiness and silence in this apartment. The son began to drink and constantly fought with his wife. She went to her relatives, then reconciled and returned. And the old people began to get sick. "It's done for us. Everyone was jealous. It's definitely done, they jinxed it," the hostess said to her husband, "you need to go to your grandmother and remove the evil eye." "First the son must be coded," the old man objected, "then everything will work out." The son invited his friend for a consultation, because he seemed to know something about demonism. Zhora, that was his name, tied his son's wedding ring to a thread and began to check the apartment for "biofields". The ring swayed and swayed under the surprised glances of the inhabitants. "Look, there's definitely something," the old man wondered. "Done, done," the hostess insisted. Zhora also advised to go to an experienced grandmother, gave the address. Went. After standing in line, we got "to the reception", received instructions on what and where to sprinkle, where and how to sprinkle, as well as what to read at the same time, what spells. Everything was done carefully under the supervision of my grandfather: six months later, the owner died of cancer, followed by his wife. Lights began to fly in the apartment, objects began to move. The son and daughter-in-law exchanged her, because they broke up completely.

One can only be amazed at the behavior of such Orthodox Christians, their spiritual blindness, their complete lack of understanding of the meaning of life, of being on earth. Their behavior is completely contrary to the teaching of Christ, by all their deeds they show that they have become His enemies. A terrible obscuration!

Well, and if, by the mercy of God, your reason has become clearer and you have begun to see the abominations of your actions? Hasten to purify yourselves and look at your dwelling with different, new, washed with tears and contrition, eyes. And a terrible sight will open up to you, terrible and terrible! It turns out that you have done everything to make it impossible for you to live in an apartment. Not only you, of course, builders and architects, and other "specialists" helped you. What kind of "prayers for the foundation of the house" are there: obscenities, swearing, drinking accompany the construction from beginning to end. No one thinks that our homes are harmful not only to the soul, but also to the body: concrete is a crime against humanity!

Why did demons settle in our homes? We have created excellent conditions for this. In order to expel them, it is necessary to carry out reverse actions on the spiritual and physical planes.

Let us look with spiritual eyes at our dwelling. How did we attract the enemy to us? Perhaps we worked in an apartment or on the construction of our house on Sundays and holidays, when, according to the rules of the Church, we are obliged to attend divine services in church, and even justified ourselves, boldly answered those who stopped us from such recklessness.

Maybe we smoke in the house or let others do it.

They organized drunkenness, allowed obscene language, obscene songs and conversations.

They shouted at their parents, demanded a better room for themselves, while oppressing others and offending them.

When receiving an apartment or building a house, they deceived someone, paid the workers with vodka.