Lord, you are the One who has strengthened the wings of the Bulgarian nation making it to ascend with the strength of an eagle among the other nations. You gave the alphabet to Cyril and Methodius so all Bulgarians can read Your Word in their own tongue. You made them to be light to all Slavs. But now we are in the bosom of darkness, while they continue to give light and prosper.

You, Lord, brought Simeon, Your servant to the gates of Constantinople and gave him the neck of his enemies.

But who weekend the king after him? Who constrained the fire of the first love which Your Bulgarian nation had and led them in the way of superstition and not in the pure faith of Christ; so, they worship in flesh, before icon images and not in the Spirit and the Truth of the Living God?

Yes, Lord, You made us in Your image and likeness. You have given us spirit to meditate and to recognize the truth form the lie. You commanded us to discern the spirits. Then, how Lord, we went after satanic deceit? How could we leave Him, the spring of living waters and to make us broken vessels that cannot hold water? Why did we turn to pay for worldly delicacies which are not bread, and overlooked God’s offer to come to Him and to receive freely and to enjoy the true bread of our life our Lord Jesus Christ abundantly? Who, Lord, but the sworn enemy, the one who sows the weeds of confusion among the seeds of the truth: the thorns of the worlds among the heavenly seeds; the weeds of superstition among the freshly sown by the Word faith?

Our fight is not against the flesh and blood of difficult, deceived and dying but against the evil authorities of spiritual forces of darkness; against the devil and his fallen angels. We have forgotten how to fight. We have laid aside the sword of the Spirit, which is the God’s Word and the shield of faith - Lord Jesus Christ himself.  We have turned to the tails of the tempter causing your righteous wrath and your just punishment to fall over us.

Lord, why did you allow that those who had to be feed your flock, the spiritual servants, to become wolves? Unknowing the Word they are greedy and coarse watching after their stomachs. Not knowing the truth, they have persecuted the ones who barely uncovered it. They perceived as heresy, the purity of teaching and simplicity of service. They persecuted all who were persistent to do the work of God like their Lord when he was on the earth.

For this we cry, oh Lord, to whom you have given the burden of intercessory prayer. Our eyes have turned to springs of tears, worrying and sorrow. Why, my Lord? How to understand the destruction of Preslav Bulgaria, the cruel defeat of the Ohrid Kingdom? With what measure to measure the depth of hearty destruction of Samuel when seeing the blinded warriors - eyes plugged out by the Christian brother Vasilius killer of Bulgars?

Many are our moans Righteous God; deep is the burden of our hearts for the tragic end of the last kings; for Shishman and his bolliars, whose heads were placed at the ends of the Ottoman swords.

Children and elders lay dead on the soaked in blood land and virgins and young men have fallen under the knife of the unbelievers. How much longer, Lord?

“Until I make my Word to be respected by all who confess My name in Spirit and Truth. Then I will lead you out from your deceit and make you ready for the day of My return. My name is AMEN.”

From the book of Elijah Bluskov, The Invisible Fight for Bulgaria