Evil Thoughts and Bad Habits - How to Break Free (w/ Fr. Seraphim Aldea)
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Evil Thoughts and Bad Habits - How to Break Free (w/ Fr. Seraphim Aldea)
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"he is our savior, he is our protector, he is our shepherd, he will win the battle for us"
I'm in tears father, thank you.
Amen!
Amen!
Amen
Good Words of advice and encouragement. Thank you. It was much needed at a time of a new beginning. May we all strive to be like our Master, The Only Sinless One, Jesus Christ, our God and our King, full of Love and Grace. Amen, Amen, and Amen.
In the book of James it says to submit or humble ourselves before God to resist the devil and he will flee. So we resist the devil by turning to end submitting to God. This scripture makes much sense to me now after your message thank you so much!
I just found this channel today after I was reading the book of James and the Holy Spirit is really confirming a lot rn, and he used your comment as one of those confirmations. God bless you my brother 🙏🏼
What happens when you try that and then 5 mins later bam it’s back over and over. Now you either have to give in or you can’t focus on your college studies ?
@@pasqualemleonejr.2287 I would physically remove yourself from the spot you’re in; move your body from that place. Any connection to these thoughts needs to be cut off, so track the source, and enter into the light of God’s presence. Use Jesus name to invite His Holy Spirit into your mind. Breathe slowly and remember it is His breath, gird yourself with His armour, (Eph. 6) and remember that you are in REMISSION of sin. Do anything that you know to do to focus on the Lord and it will be driven out. There will never be a time that you will need to give into sin, this is a lie from your enemy. Keep standing firm Brother in Christ, do not become weary, we are all in it with you.
I've wasted most of my life in fear. Thank you for your talks.
I have too. It's not telling what I might have accomplished had it no been for debilitating fear.
@@garrettmeadows2273 Isaiah 41:10.
You have no idea how much this helps me father. Pray for me father. Pray for me brothers and sister so i can escape my destructive behaviour.
Done! Christ be with you
@@shawnmckenna3288 Thank You Sir. May the Lord and Savior be with you too.
DO NOT call him Father, this man is a modern day Pharisee. He is unworthy of such a title, do you even read YOUR Bible!!! Blasphemy!!!! -Matthew 23-9 ... and call NO MAN your Father UPON THE EARTH: For one is your Father, which is in heaven.
God bless you.
Thank you Father. I{m crying. Thank you.
Please Lord, save me from bad habits, my fallen character,... Please Lord help me to be your good child... 🙏🙌❤️
Jesus I trust In you. Take care of us take care of everything. Amen
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have Mercy on me, and all of us sinners.
@@nassergabriel4778 and all sinners. Amen
Thank you , Lord God
for this priest .
Please bless him and protect him and BLESS him .
Amen 🙏
Exceptional advice - I let those unwanted thoughts pass by because if I stop to look, it takes my attention away from Jesus Christ
I prayed last nighy fo God to help me understand how to fight my gluttony. I asked him to give me a sign that He heard my prayer....this morning He led me to this video!! Thank you and Praise and Glory to God for answering my prayer! Help me to put this into practice.
I struggle with the same passion (among several others), this really was a blessing to hear. Thank you Father Seraphim!
Multumin frumos Parinte🙏
Perfect timing with this upload. Christ provides always. Just as I'm feeling very overwhelmed and tired of life, spiritual food is placed in front of me.
By the grace and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, thank you Father.
Jesus Prayer helps me a lot. It's blocking and extracting bad thoughts.
Hallelujah!✝️🙏🏼🙌🏽❤️
This is just what i meeded to hear. Stop asking to remove this thing hurting me. Instead, just acknowledge God for his name's sake. ❤
Such a vital teaching, thank you. As an Anglican priest I’ve heard so many people insist that they will never give up trying to fix themselves by constantly obsessing over their negative thoughts which only ties them up in greater knots and develops anger towards themselves. Far better to turn to Christ and refuse to allow any attention for the thoughts that accuse us. God’s love is powerful to hold our attention away from all the thoughts that harm us.
Thank you father Seraphim! God bless you!
Thank you so much Seraphim Aldea for the great logos of the Holy Spirit and His majesty's great sense of Truth and Sense and logic!
Thankyou sir. And I also need to share this with you and all.
Hebrews 13: 15. By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 16. But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Ephesians 5: 18. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; 19. Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; 20. Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; 21. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Acts 16:23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the gaoler to keep them diligently. 24 Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
~25 And at midnight, Paul and Silas praying, praised God. And they that were in prison, heard them. 26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and the bands of all were loosed.
Thank you father,
May our lord bless and bring holiness to your spirit and home
Important advice. These thoughts are a daily occurrence or process. We are always under attack.
This is how you adapt to the new generation father. We are so caught up in mental warfare without a clue the chances we go and see a priest 1 on 1 is very rare and this gives us the wisdom of doing so.
God bless you and all the other priests doing God work.
Thank you. You told valuable things🕯
The same day I did something that I knew my Lord didn’t want me to do a friend of mine sent me this video, pray for me guys please I need to open back up to God by cutting off the things I’ve been giving into 🙏🏾
I know this is an older post, but I wanted to take a moment to express my appreciation for your videos; I review one of them as part of my daily study and they are always thought-provoking and uplifting. May God's Blessing and Mercy flow to you! 🙏📿
Christ is risen! Much needed words, thank you beloved brother.
I can't overstate how much this video helped me. Thank you.
Today is a new day
Believers OFTEN mistake thoughts as originating from their mind when some of them are whispers from the adversary. If you fall a thousand times it is not that you fall but do you get up, pick up your cross and begin again to follow Christ? Only when you stop getting up, stop repenting and stop following is there a problem...
Thank you father Seraphim 🙏🏻 God bless you! Amen 🙌🏻
Amen! Ignore and run towards the Light.
Thank you brother, I will attempt to do this as the evil and suicidal thoughts come ❤☝🏻☦️
So read my psalter anytime Im tempted!
Thank you for sharing
Thank you dear Father, it got to this catechumen recovering from protestantism.
thank you so much, this video was right at the time and it helped. blessed be your monastic life and my prayer goes out to you. I hope one day i will have such strength to overcome my sinful nature as good as possible to be a ripe seed for god to harvest. Amen.
Glory to God for His word, and great teachers He has encouraged
Wow. I will follow this path. I had lots of issues with what he’s explaining. Thank you. God bless.
very good, just like Josef ran away from sin. I like the idea of keeping the Psalms in your pocket
You have helped me so much! Please keep illuminating us with your excellent nourishing words. Oh! Mahalo nui loa!
Thank you father for your words. I battle with lust and gluttony almost every day. God bless you and your ministry
May god bless your efforts to brake free from sin. I also have these struggles, praying and fasting helps a lot 🙏
@ thank you and God bless you
I am blessed by your words,from your heart,Father..may God provide for your needs and for the continued efforts of this ministry....
Agape,
Terrentina
Bringing things down to reality
Here's something related that I would like to share. First, I always carry my breath with me of course. When evil thoughts arrive, I turn my attention to my breath, which is practically and scripturally a gift from God. Second, I turn the evil thought into a blackbird. Then as the blackbird flies away, l wave goodbye. Goodbye bird! Have a nice migration! Then I look eastward and imagine a dove bringing me a virtuous thought as a surprise gift. What have you brought me today, little dove?
Thank you for this reflection, Fr. Aldea. It seems I've been doing things very wrong in my spiritual life and it wasn't working for a very long time now. I needed this to turn it around, so thank you and God bless!
Safe me from my addiction 🥹🙏
Thank you. You've answered the question I've been struggling with.
Thank you father, i needed to hear this message this week especially. Please continue to remind us of this. God bless you and the monastery.
possibly the most logical thing i've ever heard.... i was always taught to FIGHT the devil this way & that- i realized i spent so much time in battle i had no time for learning.... this is so simple and logical it boggles the mind❤🙏 God Bless you brother!
When tempted we must default to prayer to Christ. AMEN.
I hencforth have the utter joy to turn to my Saviour and Advocate; to my First Love! I will flee, shun, abstain from, and so forth, and embrace my Divine Creator from now on... Before watching your super video for the 1st time, I had emailed Father Spyridon and introduced myself... Thanks million!
Don't feed bad thoughts, stay focused on the good,blessings to all🙏✌️❤️
I needed confirming this was the way to stop the dragons demonic attacks... Turn to our King 👑 Yahushua ha mashiach, dont fight it alone, turn back on those wicked thoughts and turn to light.. Christ... Thank you so much Teacher of God 🙏
James 4:8 Draw near to God he will draw near to you, resist the devil he will flee. Amen Father Thank you
Amen 🙏 ❤
Thank you Father, this has been so helpful for me to hear, today has been a very difficult day battling with this very problem, I will battle no longer and turn to the psalms and prayer. God bless you Father.
This is such a powerful message. Thank you.
Father, you have enlightened me so much, Ill pray for you for as long as I can. This was spot on about what I needed to hear. May God bless you infinitely for this lesson you gave me.
Glory to God
CHRIST HAS WON AND THE DEVIL HAS ALREADY LOST.
Oh, no, these videos are not silly at all, they are very useful for us lay people. This idea of running away from evil thoughts and behaviours is very helpful, the more so as it leads us to understand more deeply that Lord Jesus is our Saviour in our daily spiritual battles if we chose to turn to Him. Thanks a lot, Father - from a Roman Catholic.
I need this and this definitely got to me! Thank you so much! God bless!
When I have a bad thought I speak scripture and worship Jehovah, I run towards my Lord, so I use the attack from the enemy to remind me who I am and who I worship. Most times I win the battle because I have memorised scripture and I speak it against the enemy.
❤ dear Father… thank you very much for your words which fill my hearr with hope and light.. i am broken in sin and turn to you in thirst and you have guided me ..Amen
Thank you Brother.
This is incredibly helpful.
Thank you for sharing this with us - I will try this with my addiction to smoking/vaping as I have quit a thousand times on my own (but it never lasted...)
Brother, thank you soo much for this. I've been struggling with Lust and and an unforgiving heart
Bless Father... 😢😢😢 ... 🙏 for me... maryOfEgypt... Christ US the Way... Truth ... the LIFE ... GLORY TO GOD FOR all 😢😢😢 thingsxxx
Thanks Father, it did help :)
Thank you so much, this really helped me a lot because before I tried to right the devil but now I Will try what you said, I Will ignore this thoughts. God bless
THANK U
Revelation 14:12
12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Thank you Brother Aldea. That video was very uplifting and helpful. Glory to our Savior Jesus Christ. Bless you. 🙏
Thank you farher for these precious spiritual advices. GOD BLESS
Thank you very much for this message!
Thank you and GOD bless.
I am struggling. I am struggling with the injustice in this world. God please help me.
Golden Counsel in this video
God Bless.
Thank you.
Wow. Mind blown. I knew this but could never articulate it this well. God bless you all the days of your life and one day i hope to thank you in Heaven.
What a gift from God you are to my soul 😭🙏🏻
Amen amen. Amen. Bless you my child. What can I do for you? Asking you receive repent and live and be life worthy hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah😊😊
"Cutting away" = Repentance ("Thank You" God for the strength and courage that you give me).
This helped me to comprehend our Lords words "resist not evil!" Mt 5:39. Thanks very much and glory be unto God! 🙏☦️
thank you and thank you JESUS
Thank you father this is exactly what I needed to see and hear in this moment. Eternal glory to Jesus Christ our savior and redeemer!
DO NOT call him Father, this man is a modern day Pharisee. He is unworthy of such a title, do you even read YOUR Bible!!! Blasphemy!!!! -Matthew 23-9 ... and call NO MAN your Father UPON THE EARTH: For one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Beautiful ministry, Father. This talk is an answered prayer.
DO NOT call him Father, this man is a modern day Pharisee. He is unworthy of such a title, do you even read YOUR Bible!!! Blasphemy!!!! -Matthew 23-9 ... and call NO MAN your Father UPON THE EARTH: For one is your Father, which is in heaven.
You have helped me so much father i truly thank you
This was extremely helpful and practical advice. Thank you.
God bless you Father
DO NOT call him Father, this man is a modern day Pharisee. He is unworthy of such a title, do you even read YOUR Bible!!! Blasphemy!!!! -Matthew 23-9 ... and call NO MAN your Father UPON THE EARTH: For one is your Father, which is in heaven.
🙏🏾 Amen
Praying for you and your brothers. May God protect you all and everyone persecuted for being a Christian. Please keep spreading the word
Thank you father. I never thought i should bypass thoughts. Lord will bless you father with lots of strength
DO NOT call him Father, this man is a modern day Pharisee. He is unworthy of such a title, do you even read YOUR Bible!!! Blasphemy!!!! -Matthew 23-9 ... and call NO MAN your Father UPON THE EARTH: For one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Thank you Father I needed this message
DO NOT call him Father, this man is a modern day Pharisee. He is unworthy of such a title, do you even read YOUR Bible!!! Blasphemy!!!! -Matthew 23-9 ... and call NO MAN your Father UPON THE EARTH: For one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Thank you father for sharing this message.
Thank you Father Seraphim. Your advice is so timely.
DO NOT call him Father, this man is a modern day Pharisee. He is unworthy of such a title, do you even read YOUR Bible!!! Blasphemy!!!! -Matthew 23-9 ... and call NO MAN your Father UPON THE EARTH: For one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Honestly, after watching this, I feel left with frustration and confusion.
I just dont seem to understand fully. Im only left with dozens of more questions. Lord have mercy on me a sinner.
This is truth .
I have been in situations where I was not permitted to escape from physical, mental, & emotional attack. I was lead to the Psalms during that time & they sustained me.
Even tho I'm no longer in those situations at the moment, there are repeated spiritual attacks that come for periods of time. The confusion & panic in the mind is insurmountable.
"Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy. Thy will be done"... is my prayer until the attack ends. I am so thankful for God's love & grace.
Thank you Father❤
I feel like you are speaking directly to my situation. Thank you
Oh Father, don’t wonder whether this got to us! This is amazing. Glory to Jesus Christ! May He always grant you all your needs, heavenly and earthly ❤
Please pray for me my brothers and sisters I’m having a lot of demonic attacks in my head I feel the weight and it scares me
Keep going brother
@ Thanks for the support GOD Bless You brother 🙏🫡💪