I urge you fellow believers to pray for us in Greece, there is a HORRIBLE wild fire burning near the capital, the damage is unheard of, may God help us! 🙏
Sola Scriptura is not in scripture, stPaul tells us that the traditions given to us are meant to be kept, in Orthodoxy is the correct worship of the Lord, with all your mind, all your heart and all your soul @@Yo-0o0o0o0o
I am Catholic but I listen with joy and faith everything I am hearing from the Greek Orthodox priests, monks and elders.I so admire them all!!! I admire their liturgy and devotion to authentic prayer and purposed living, God bless to you all.
I was raised Catholic, became atheist, found Yeshua and joined Hebrew roots, I then read the church father's and realised my many errors and have began the journey down the orthodoxy route, back to the ancient unchanging church ⛪... There is a book by Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou called Thinking Orthodox, if you ever get a chance to read or listen to audiobook, it is amazing, she also has a 2 part lecture on youtube called Phronema and that too will bless you. Much love from Ireland.
I was raised evangelical and haven't always been devout but I really enjoy listening to this priest. He's so wise and has an amazing way of capturing the listeners attention.
Basic prayer-rule 10:29 structure: 11:50 Making the sign of the cross, trisagion prayers into an our Father 12:04 Prostrations (each with the sign of the cross and Jesus prayer) x20 16:00 Prayers of thanksgiving (St Basil’s is gr8 leaping-off point) 20:29 Confession - anything that we need to seek forgiveness for 21:13 intercessions (prayers for others) 21:53 end with Jesus prayer ☦️ *include a reading of the holy gospel, and or portion of the holy fathers and or lives of the saints
‘Jesus’ the name by which every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord! Sooo love that you said this ❤ What a sweet, sweet sound is the name of Jesus.
Fr. Your teaching is awesome. May God continue to use you. I am born Ethiopian Orthodox, but never took the time to learn about the my faith until I saw you here. I’m learning a lot from you. God bless you.
I'm an Orthodox Christian convert from Protestant. 9 years now, + 1 catachumen. This past year has been terrible for me with regards to prayer. I've "lost" my obedience to prayer to the point I am guilty of prayerlessness. I'm getting back on track, Lord have mercy.
@@TboneWTFif you expect God to answer your prayers nothing will happen. We pray to God to have a relationship with Him and give us strength to face our problems. If you think that you will pray to God and magically will solve your problems is a lie.
@@katerinakaterinaki9143 "if you expect God to answer your prayers nothing will happen." Precisely my friend so why bother praying? Regardless, doesn't the babel claim that one need only ask to receive? What was the purpose of this passage if gad was not going to answer prayers?
I deeply appreciate the passion and wisdom for the Lord that you express here. As a Maronite (Eastern Catholic), I have great admiration and love for the Orthodox Church and for everyone who speaks about prayer with the depth and sincerity that this wonderful priest does. God bless all your listeners, and I will continue to cherish and welcome your guidance.
I am a orthodox convert I was born Protestant and started to beg my parents to take me to an Orthodox Church when I was 12 I was baptized May 4th I am still the only orthodox Christian in my family but I have brought friends and my grandfather to my church and he said it was nothing like he’s ever seen and he really liked it. Sadly I still do struggle with prayer though.
God is your best friend, there's nothing to fear when you pray. Some fear that may not be listened to by God. When you think that way, you limit God as if " i don't believe He can listen to all of us at once" But He can and He answers too but we don't often hear because we are not ready. As this Priest said, we prepare to enter a prayer : relax your body, allow the mind to rest in the heart, and connect with God. Relaxing your body can prove a very difficult task for many but once you practice it's actually very easy. The Priest goes on and says that we can live in prayer 24/7. It's true. Hope we all get the chance to experience that 🙏
Gleefully Love you father J.T. I'm obsessed with your word in prayer and shows devoted to your voice in urging us to reach out and be transparent as a course of action or an alternative to confession. Instead of asking for forgiveness I can wake up by asking the Lord & father to pray over me and guide me service after service. My next confession I will pray to guard me from my bad side and to align me with a better prayer rule to fix my entanglement and shed the holy spirit with our hearts.
I never prayed as a protestant,or it felt impossible to do it more then a few minutes. Three weeks into exploring orthodoxy and I can easily spend 2 hours in my prayer corner, it feels so beautiful and deep. If I didn't have 5 kids to take care of I would spend even more time praying there, instead since I find myself just praying "Lord have Mercy" throughout the day haha
Me as a protestant: Sitting there with my eyes closed, thinking up my prayers, my mind drifting off to what I need to get at the store. I forget I am praying and get up to make a grocery list…oops
"Prayer is like the oxygen for the christian" "True prayer is to stand before God with your mind in your heart and to go on standing before God forever" Bro that open my eyes so much im currently non denominational and i had this view that prayer was more of like something to get off your checklist according to the EO but this video in less than 30s answered my question on the view of how EO think of prayer and its so beautiful to me Im inquiring orthodoxy currently.
Thank you so much Fr. Josia. So powerful and definitely it will change my prayer life. May God send his angles to protect to and his beloved mother to pray for you. ❤️🙏🏾
thank you Father Josiah. May God continue to bless your ministry and the Orthodox Church. I feel as if the Holy Spirit speaks through you, for all our edification. Praise God.
Prayers are how we remain attached to the Vine and take captive your thoughts and bring them under submission. There is nothing more powerful than the awareness of the presence of God All Mighty.
My father's sister is a noyn in an orthodox monastery in Greece for 35 years. She told me that prayer is even a phonecall on somebody to see how they doing.
So I've been practicing when I thank God in prayer, to thank God not only for what He gives, but also what He takes away. Because it is in the way God gives that we see His glory and power, but it is in the things He takes away that we are caused to grow and be purified, if we accept it graciously and thank Him for denying us of the things that are not for us. If we can see and learn to love how God grows us through denial, it is a total game changer.
Thank you for giving clarity to the things that we are doing without understanding it properly. Prayer of Saint Basil We bless you, O God, most high and Lord of mercy. You are always doing great and inscrutable things with us, glorious and wonderful, and without number. You grant us sleep for rest from our infirmities, and repose from the burdens of our much toiling flesh. We thank you, for you have not destroyed us with our sins, but have continued to love us; and though we were sunk in despair, you have raised us up to glorify your power. Therefore, we implore your incomparable goodness. Enlighten the eyes of our understanding and raise up our minds from the heavy sleep of indolence. Open our mouth and fill it with your praise, that we may be able without distraction to sing and confess that you are God, glorified in all and by all, the eternal Father, with your only begotten Son, and your all holy, good, and life giving Spirit, now and forever and to the ages of ages. Amen.
Hearing “prayerlessness” makes so much sense to me. God bless you and thank you for this video and your other videos. They really help me think deeper about the faith.🙏🏼❤️✝️
Wonderful, gentle, loving, and understandable exhortation to prayer and to embrace the Church that that call emanates from. Thank you, Fr. Josiah and Roots of Orthodoxy - may God grant you many years. Through the prayers of our holy fathers, Lord Jesus Christ, our God, have mercy on us.
God told me “dont you know who you are, you are my daughter.. then i looked at Jesus with big child like eyes of amazement and said to Jesus, you’re my brother?!’ I was in awe. It was a beautiful experience. Fri. april 5, 2024
Prayer resolves nothing my dear. If you really want to find enlightenment than you need to educate yourself. I suggest enrolling in some college classes. Good luck.
Prayer is stillness of mind, which when achieved, moves to the heart and communes with Holy Spirit until at such time you are ready for Revelation through the tunnel of Light for direct knowledge of God
This is more confirmation for me, an outgoing Pentecostal that orthodox church is true church. At some point in my life, I stopped going to church so often cus I was too confused. My relationship with GOD didn't diminish, I was just so confused about everything. GOD gradually started teaching me how to pray. It's been a year now since I started this, but I tell you, EVERYTHING FATHER JOSIAH IS SAYING, GOD MADE ME DO THEM. I didn't learn this from ANYBODY. I created a prayer rule. 9am, 12pm, 3pm, 6pm, 9pm, 11:55 pm and midnight. It's a rule. Whether I liked it or not. I would prostrate, kneel and do all these things. GOD Himself taught me gradually. When you hear the Orthodox church has the fullness of the truth, DON'T DOUBT IT. I WENT TO THE ORTHODOX CHURCH (RUSSIAN) FIRST TIME YESTERDAY!💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
I appreciate his talks pertaining to politics too, as that is the world we have to live in and through too. I love his perspectives on it all, as I am in agreement too.
@@birdlynn417 No argument that we live in the world- that's obvious and undisputed. And that's a big reason why I oppose just about everything political that I hear from him. His politics are horrible, unAmerican, unpatriotic and un-Constitutional.
@@mudbug7175his politics are godly, and if that is in conflict with being of a particular nationality, oh well. The nationality will have to wait. If you put a nation first, it's because you're an idol worshipper, nationalism being that idol. Which is why they have already lost when Ukros addopted "Uk raine above all!" (a slogan borrowed from their inspiration, Na zi Germans). Next step, predictably, - they ban the true Apostolic Orthodox Church.
I asked God to help me to pray to Him, this video helped me, also asked what is His will,this video amswered to be the light in this dark word, also this video was an answer for the question "how should I spend time with God" Which aparently praying in itself,also answered my smaller questions @@TboneWTF
As a former Protestant who converted to the Orthodox Church, a great stumbling block for protestants is when the Orthodox bring up Tradition. Being unfamiliar with the difference between Traditions and traditions. Traditions is what the Orthodox Church has followed from its inception in the Book of Acts. The way the service is structured and its sacraments and more have benn passed down from Priests and the hierarchy generation to generation through Apostolic Succession. Little t tradition would be "we always eat turkey at thanksgiving at our house, it's family tradition". There's a huge differance in the meaning of the word used in either everyday vocabulary vs in the Church. Also Mary, people assume the Orthodox church prays to Mary instead of the Father at times, it's untrue. If you read the magnificat section Luke 146-155, its easy to see the protestants don't speak much about her except during a retelling of the Christmas (birth of Jesus) story. The Lutheran (MO Synod) at least mentions her more often than other protestant denominations. One of the things that really helped me decide was the fact that the Orthodox didn't alter the creed and left it as it was agreed upon prior to the change of the church of Rome adding the filioque clause. The Filioque clause was first added to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed in 589 AD at the Third Council of Toledo in Spain. The Nicene Constantinople is based on what the Bible states about Jesus asking the Father to send the Spirit.
Thank you for your comment! I am considering orthodoxy coming from a non-denominational background but originally raised in the cult of Christian Science. there are things about orthodoxy that are confusing such as praying to the Saints for intercession or venerating relics and such. Were there books or other orthodox teachers that helped you to understand the validity of these things? They seem to be such a stumbling block to me
Thank you for this as this beautifully explained prayer in a way I've not heard. It was very encouraging and looking at moving forward in some of the ways mentioned.
17:44 When thanksgiving was first mentioned I immediately thought of the prayer from St Basil, and was trying to remember it as I listened. (I’m just an inquirer) I’m so glad Fr Josiah started reciting it!
Love, love this video on Prayer. Pls, what is the difference between being a Catholic and an Orthodox Christian, if any. Warmth, gratitude & blessings. 🙏✝️💕💜
LOL. Faith is the term you use when you can't offer any credible nor verifiable evidence for something. You may as well say you are irrational (or gullible!).
Thank you so much for this! There’s too much information on the nuances of theology and not enough on how to actually follow God well day to day. May the Lord bless you all in your journey to become more Christ like 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
It aligns your actions, thoughts, mindstate, emotions & desires to God which inclines the Spirit & the Rational Soul to its highest possible ends & aims...prayers change you, not God, prayers of supplication if granted change you into the type of person that receives such a gift through providence, it does not make God give you the thing, God gives you the thing by changing you. This is why prayer is a practice, it must be done with regularity, sincerity & rigor, ever improving in its execution as a devotion.
I so much relate to this. It is a kind of inherited knowledge or a feeling in better words. I was brought up in an Orthodox family in Yugoslavia but I believe that it comes to a personnel level. I do not go to the Church here in Serbia anymore, my conversations with God are regular. I never look for him, he is always close to me and that is good.
Just a warning. You need to go to church if you want to be in communion with God. If a Christian doesn't take communion at least 4 times a year, that person is no longer considered a Christian.
I urge you fellow believers to pray for us in Greece, there is a HORRIBLE wild fire burning near the capital, the damage is unheard of, may God help us! 🙏
🙏🏽❤️May God help those in Greece Amen☦️
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Praying... Lord have mercy
I am a protestant that agrees with Orthodoxy and is soon to convert. Please Pray for me.
Christos Anesti.
My wife and I started catechism yesterday. Good luck in your journey.
Can I ask why?
Or what do you disagree with Protestant/sola scriptura?
Sola Scriptura is not in scripture, stPaul tells us that the traditions given to us are meant to be kept, in Orthodoxy is the correct worship of the Lord, with all your mind, all your heart and all your soul @@Yo-0o0o0o0o
You are not converting, simply migrating.
@@harshitchandra_07 incorrect statement
Thank God for positive Christian influences like Fr Josiah 🙏🏽
You are the light where you are.
I am Catholic but I listen with joy and faith everything I am hearing from the Greek Orthodox priests, monks and elders.I so admire them all!!! I admire their liturgy and devotion to authentic prayer and purposed living, God bless to you all.
God help you find the Truth!
I was raised Catholic, became atheist, found Yeshua and joined Hebrew roots, I then read the church father's and realised my many errors and have began the journey down the orthodoxy route, back to the ancient unchanging church ⛪... There is a book by Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou called Thinking Orthodox, if you ever get a chance to read or listen to audiobook, it is amazing, she also has a 2 part lecture on youtube called Phronema and that too will bless you. Much love from Ireland.
Pray for the resurrection of the celtic orthodox church in Ireland.
Pray for the humility of Rome and for the healing of the schism also
Now I will have to listen to this again with pen and paper handy. There is so much in this video.
Haahha totally true !!!!! I had already a pen and getting inspired a lot ❤❤😅
Beautiful reflection. My seeking is leading me towards orthodox Christianity.
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Lovely. Yes, indeed
Come to the True Church! Best decision I ever made.
I as well, but I don’t think there is an orthodox church near me.
@GINMOONLIGHT yes, often a problem. The Lord will help you work it out i...i believe. .
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I was raised evangelical and haven't always been devout but I really enjoy listening to this priest. He's so wise and has an amazing way of capturing the listeners attention.
Basic prayer-rule 10:29 structure:
11:50 Making the sign of the cross, trisagion prayers into an our Father
12:04 Prostrations (each with the sign of the cross and Jesus prayer) x20
16:00 Prayers of thanksgiving (St Basil’s is gr8 leaping-off point)
20:29 Confession - anything that we need to seek forgiveness for
21:13 intercessions (prayers for others)
21:53 end with Jesus prayer ☦️
*include a reading of the holy gospel, and or portion of the holy fathers and or lives of the saints
Thank you ☦️
Thank you for these keys you have spotted❤
Thank you for sharing this outline 🙏☦️
‘Jesus’ the name by which every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord! Sooo love that you said this ❤ What a sweet, sweet sound is the name of Jesus.
Wow
Wow! Hands down the best (and most inspiring) exhortation on prayer I’ve ever heard! Thank you, Fr. Josiah. 🙏🏻☦️
Fr. Your teaching is awesome. May God continue to use you. I am born Ethiopian Orthodox, but never took the time to learn about the my faith until I saw you here. I’m learning a lot from you. God bless you.
It’s so sad we have time for everything else and not enough praying ❤
Parable of the four seeds. Satan steals the word from most by keeping them from reading the Bible.
The devil works in various ways to separate from God
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I'm an Orthodox Christian convert from Protestant. 9 years now, + 1 catachumen. This past year has been terrible for me with regards to prayer. I've "lost" my obedience to prayer to the point I am guilty of prayerlessness. I'm getting back on track, Lord have mercy.
Has gad ever answered your prayers? Honestly, how has prayer resolved any of your problems?
@@TboneWTFif you expect God to answer your prayers nothing will happen. We pray to God to have a relationship with Him and give us strength to face our problems. If you think that you will pray to God and magically will solve your problems is a lie.
@@katerinakaterinaki9143 "if you expect God to answer your prayers nothing will happen." Precisely my friend so why bother praying? Regardless, doesn't the babel claim that one need only ask to receive? What was the purpose of this passage if gad was not going to answer prayers?
@@TboneWTFdo you believe in miracles?
@@Your_Daily_Scroll Magic does not exist in reality my friend. Most educated and reasonable people realize this. Why don't you?
God bless all orthodox brothers and sisters from all of the world!🇷🇴
I deeply appreciate the passion and wisdom for the Lord that you express here. As a Maronite (Eastern Catholic), I have great admiration and love for the Orthodox Church and for everyone who speaks about prayer with the depth and sincerity that this wonderful priest does. God bless all your listeners, and I will continue to cherish and welcome your guidance.
Life is prayer. Prayer is the answering and cultivation of who you are and how you see others.
I am a orthodox convert I was born Protestant and started to beg my parents to take me to an Orthodox Church when I was 12 I was baptized May 4th I am still the only orthodox Christian in my family but I have brought friends and my grandfather to my church and he said it was nothing like he’s ever seen and he really liked it. Sadly I still do struggle with prayer though.
God is your best friend, there's nothing to fear when you pray. Some fear that may not be listened to by God. When you think that way, you limit God as if " i don't believe He can listen to all of us at once" But He can and He answers too but we don't often hear because we are not ready.
As this Priest said, we prepare to enter a prayer : relax your body, allow the mind to rest in the heart, and connect with God.
Relaxing your body can prove a very difficult task for many but once you practice it's actually very easy.
The Priest goes on and says that we can live in prayer 24/7. It's true.
Hope we all get the chance to experience that 🙏
This was very helpful for me. I happen to be in prayer desperate asking for what’s been missing in my prayer life. God is good! ❤
❤✝ CHRIST IS RISEN ✝❤
❤💪🙏✝ GOD BE WITH US IN OUR FIGHT AGAINST EVIL AND TEMPTATIONS ✝🙏⛪🕊
i not so long ago found christ and ive been dragged towards orthodoxy. God is great ❤
Bless you Father: with gratitude from Ireland.
Honestly full inquisition. I am impressed and inspired to be a greater person of faith. Very heroically displayed.
Gleefully Love you father J.T. I'm obsessed with your word in prayer and shows devoted to your voice in urging us to reach out and be transparent as a course of action or an alternative to confession. Instead of asking for forgiveness I can wake up by asking the Lord & father to pray over me and guide me service after service. My next confession I will pray to guard me from my bad side and to align me with a better prayer rule to fix my entanglement and shed the holy spirit with our hearts.
Excellent thank you !! giving thanks for Fr.Josiah 🙂
I never prayed as a protestant,or it felt impossible to do it more then a few minutes. Three weeks into exploring orthodoxy and I can easily spend 2 hours in my prayer corner, it feels so beautiful and deep. If I didn't have 5 kids to take care of I would spend even more time praying there, instead since I find myself just praying "Lord have Mercy" throughout the day haha
Amen.
Me as a protestant:
Sitting there with my eyes closed, thinking up my prayers, my mind drifting off to what I need to get at the store. I forget I am praying and get up to make a grocery list…oops
"Prayer is like the oxygen for the christian"
"True prayer is to stand before God with your mind in your heart and to go on standing before God forever"
Bro that open my eyes so much im currently non denominational and i had this view that prayer was more of like something to get off your checklist according to the EO but this video in less than 30s answered my question on the view of how EO think of prayer and its so beautiful to me
Im inquiring orthodoxy currently.
Your reflection gives insight & encouragement. God bless you & keep it up Fr Josiah 🙏
I’m a Baptist. I absolutely love this.
I am a Protestant and I love this speech.
What an amazing talk of how to pray! Thank you!!
I love love love how Jesus was the focal point. Praise God....
Years growing up as a kid in a pentecostal church. I never heard anyone explain prayer in such great detail.
God bless orthodoxy ❤
Thank you so much Fr. Josia. So powerful and definitely it will change my prayer life. May God send his angles to protect to and his beloved mother to pray for you. ❤️🙏🏾
thank you Father Josiah. May God continue to bless your ministry and the Orthodox Church. I feel as if the Holy Spirit speaks through you, for all our edification. Praise God.
Excellent teaching!☦️
Brothers and sisters, Father Josiah speaks THE TRUTH. 💯
Prayers are how we remain attached to the Vine and take captive your thoughts and bring them under submission. There is nothing more powerful than the awareness of the presence of God All Mighty.
I would add - do not be over ambitious but let the habit grow, and when you fall, don't give up, but pick yourself up and start again.
I am a Catholic and I inspired by this teaching of Prayer Rule. May God help me in practicing this kind of prayer. Thank you Fr. Josiah ♥
Needed to hear this 🙏🩷🌷🌸
Thank you
დიდება და მადლობა უფალს ყველაფრისათვის!!! 🙏🙏🙏
My father's sister is a noyn in an orthodox monastery in Greece for 35 years.
She told me that prayer is even a phonecall on somebody to see how they doing.
Started praying the rosary every day three years ago with very few-if any exceptions-it has completely changed my life.
I loved this video, and as an Orthodox Catechumen, this video has been a blessing. Thank you, Fr Josiah.
This is the most practical, inspiring and incredible video thus far. THANK YOU
Thank you this was a great reset button for my heart.
So I've been practicing when I thank God in prayer, to thank God not only for what He gives, but also what He takes away. Because it is in the way God gives that we see His glory and power, but it is in the things He takes away that we are caused to grow and be purified, if we accept it graciously and thank Him for denying us of the things that are not for us. If we can see and learn to love how God grows us through denial, it is a total game changer.
This is GOLD! Thank you!!
አሜን አባ ቃለ ሕይወት ያስማልን መንግስተ ሰማያትን ያውርስልን:: እኔ የኢትዮዽያ ኦርቶዶክስ እምነት ተከታይ ነኝ:: ጥሩ ትምህርት አግኝቻለሁ::
Wow. Just wow.
Bless you father, the Lord is so good, and so pure, even upon me a sinner, He has mercy. Glory be His all Holy Name. Amen☦️🙏🕊
Fr.Josiah, thank you for such a beautiful sermon!
It touched my heart so deeply that's why I'm sitting in tears from overflowing joy❤
Thank You Father. AMEN 🙏🏻 🕊 ☦️ ❤️
Thank you for giving clarity to the things that we are doing without understanding it properly.
Prayer of Saint Basil
We bless you, O God, most high and Lord of mercy. You are always doing great and inscrutable things with us, glorious and wonderful, and without number. You grant us sleep for rest from our infirmities, and repose from the burdens of our much toiling flesh. We thank you, for you have not destroyed us with our sins, but have continued to love us; and though we were sunk in despair, you have raised us up to glorify your power. Therefore, we implore your incomparable goodness. Enlighten the eyes of our understanding and raise up our minds from the heavy sleep of indolence. Open our mouth and fill it with your praise, that we may be able without distraction to sing and confess that you are God, glorified in all and by all, the eternal Father, with your only begotten Son, and your all holy, good, and life giving Spirit, now and forever and to the ages of ages. Amen.
Hearing “prayerlessness” makes so much sense to me. God bless you and thank you for this video and your other videos. They really help me think deeper about the faith.🙏🏼❤️✝️
One of the true great videos
Thank you for teaching about prayer. This gave me hope and has helped me see prayer in a more beautiful and intimate way to commune with God. ❤🙏
A true preacher. love love love how Jesus is the focal point
Bless you Father and God bless you Roots of Orthodoxy! 🌹🌿❤
Thank you, Father. Thank you for explaining the importance of prayer.
Wonderful, gentle, loving, and understandable exhortation to prayer and to embrace the Church that that call emanates from.
Thank you, Fr. Josiah and Roots of Orthodoxy - may God grant you many years.
Through the prayers of our holy fathers, Lord Jesus Christ, our God, have mercy on us.
God told me “dont you know who you are, you are my daughter.. then i looked at Jesus with big child like eyes of amazement and said to Jesus, you’re my brother?!’ I was in awe. It was a beautiful experience. Fri. april 5, 2024
Thank you for this 🙏🏻
This is so helpful!! Thank you!
This could change the world
Wonderful teaching ❤️☦️
Very good prayer advisor and great coach in spirituality.
Thank you, Father! I'm an Orthodox convert since 11 months and I don't have a spiritual father. Please pray for me that I find one! Thank you! 🙏☦
Prayer resolves nothing my dear. If you really want to find enlightenment than you need to educate yourself. I suggest enrolling in some college classes. Good luck.
Affirm, acknowledge, ask- thanks!
Prayer is stillness of mind, which when achieved, moves to the heart and communes with Holy Spirit until at such time you are ready for Revelation through the tunnel of Light for direct knowledge of God
This is more confirmation for me, an outgoing Pentecostal that orthodox church is true church. At some point in my life, I stopped going to church so often cus I was too confused. My relationship with GOD didn't diminish, I was just so confused about everything. GOD gradually started teaching me how to pray. It's been a year now since I started this, but I tell you, EVERYTHING FATHER JOSIAH IS SAYING, GOD MADE ME DO THEM. I didn't learn this from ANYBODY. I created a prayer rule. 9am, 12pm, 3pm, 6pm, 9pm, 11:55 pm and midnight. It's a rule. Whether I liked it or not. I would prostrate, kneel and do all these things. GOD Himself taught me gradually. When you hear the Orthodox church has the fullness of the truth, DON'T DOUBT IT.
I WENT TO THE ORTHODOX CHURCH (RUSSIAN) FIRST TIME YESTERDAY!💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
At the start of my prayer I begin kneeling with the prayer god as a beggar goes before the king so to I come before you
Thank you, father Josiah.
Thanks!
@@taraboi1 thank you! God bless
Well spoken. It is such a a pleasure to listen when you speak of spiritual matters. (Not so much when you speak on politics)
I appreciate his talks pertaining to politics too, as that is the world we have to live in and through too. I love his perspectives on it all, as I am in agreement too.
@@birdlynn417 No argument that we live in the world- that's obvious and undisputed. And that's a big reason why I oppose just about everything political that I hear from him. His politics are horrible, unAmerican, unpatriotic and un-Constitutional.
@@mudbug7175his politics are godly, and if that is in conflict with being of a particular nationality, oh well. The nationality will have to wait. If you put a nation first, it's because you're an idol worshipper, nationalism being that idol.
Which is why they have already lost when Ukros addopted "Uk raine above all!" (a slogan borrowed from their inspiration, Na zi Germans). Next step, predictably, - they ban the true Apostolic Orthodox Church.
This video answered so many of my prayers
Seriously?! can you list 3 prayers of yours this video "answered"? Thank you.
I asked God to help me to pray to Him, this video helped me, also asked what is His will,this video amswered to be the light in this dark word, also this video was an answer for the question "how should I spend time with God" Which aparently praying in itself,also answered my smaller questions @@TboneWTF
As a former Protestant who converted to the Orthodox Church, a great stumbling block for protestants is when the Orthodox bring up Tradition. Being unfamiliar with the difference between Traditions and traditions. Traditions is what the Orthodox Church has followed from its inception in the Book of Acts. The way the service is structured and its sacraments and more have benn passed down from Priests and the hierarchy generation to generation through Apostolic Succession. Little t tradition would be "we always eat turkey at thanksgiving at our house, it's family tradition". There's a huge differance in the meaning of the word used in either everyday vocabulary vs in the Church.
Also Mary, people assume the Orthodox church prays to Mary instead of the Father at times, it's untrue. If you read the magnificat section Luke 146-155, its easy to see the protestants don't speak much about her except during a retelling of the Christmas (birth of Jesus) story. The Lutheran (MO Synod) at least mentions her more often than other protestant denominations. One of the things that really helped me decide was the fact that the Orthodox didn't alter the creed and left it as it was agreed upon prior to the change of the church of Rome adding the filioque clause. The Filioque clause was first added to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed in 589 AD at the Third Council of Toledo in Spain. The Nicene Constantinople is based on what the Bible states about Jesus asking the Father to send the Spirit.
Thank you for your comment! I am considering orthodoxy coming from a non-denominational background but originally raised in the cult of Christian Science. there are things about orthodoxy that are confusing such as praying to the Saints for intercession or venerating relics and such. Were there books or other orthodox teachers that helped you to understand the validity of these things? They seem to be such a stumbling block to me
This was one of the most profound lectures I’ve heard on prayer. Thank you deep from my heart! Please pray for me!
Thank you Father ευλογείτε.. God watch over your father
I needed this today. Thank you.
Ty Fr Josiah♥️🌸🌹
Thank you for this as this beautifully explained prayer in a way I've not heard. It was very encouraging and looking at moving forward in some of the ways mentioned.
Fr. Josiah, you speak well.
I naturally pray almost in that exact order but will continue to improve my prayer life.
17:44 When thanksgiving was first mentioned I immediately thought of the prayer from St Basil, and was trying to remember it as I listened. (I’m just an inquirer) I’m so glad Fr Josiah started reciting it!
Wonderfully taught🙏
Thank you so much!
As a protestant, thank you, this was an extremely powerful teaching.
Love, love this video on Prayer. Pls, what is the difference between being a Catholic and an Orthodox Christian, if any. Warmth, gratitude & blessings. 🙏✝️💕💜
Your blessings dear Father ❤❤❤
Thankyou for this, Fr Josiah. It was just what I needed ❤
What a gift....thank you❤
I am grateful for this channel.
This was absolutely beautiful! 🤍
The greatest gift God gave me was my faith for him.
LOL. Faith is the term you use when you can't offer any credible nor verifiable evidence for something. You may as well say you are irrational (or gullible!).
@@TboneWTF God bless you sir.
@@CoramDeogenua LOL. It's a shame gad is a lie my friend. Good luck.
Mindblowing
Thank you so much for this! There’s too much information on the nuances of theology and not enough on how to actually follow God well day to day. May the Lord bless you all in your journey to become more Christ like 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Amen, this was so good. I need a prayer rule, I need help by a father, but I live not within bus transportation to the church.
It aligns your actions, thoughts, mindstate, emotions & desires to God which inclines the Spirit & the Rational Soul to its highest possible ends & aims...prayers change you, not God, prayers of supplication if granted change you into the type of person that receives such a gift through providence, it does not make God give you the thing, God gives you the thing by changing you. This is why prayer is a practice, it must be done with regularity, sincerity & rigor, ever improving in its execution as a devotion.
Thank you.
I so much relate to this. It is a kind of inherited knowledge or a feeling in better words. I was brought up in an Orthodox family in Yugoslavia but I believe that it comes to a personnel level. I do not go to the Church here in Serbia anymore, my conversations with God are regular. I never look for him, he is always close to me and that is good.
Just a warning. You need to go to church if you want to be in communion with God. If a Christian doesn't take communion at least 4 times a year, that person is no longer considered a Christian.