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! 🙏
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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. ❤️🙏🏾
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.
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
I see some people commenting they are some type of Protestant and are going to convert to Orthodox. And then orher people commenting to their comment, some being very rude. It is sad. It is not ones place to judge and say someone is not saved because they are "the wrong type of Christian". That is for God alone. It is my understanding from reading the Holy Scriptures, that it doesn't say someone isn't going to heaven because theyre the wrong type of Christian or go to the wrong type of Church. As long as they do the things Scripture says they're to do to be saved, they are saved and a real Christian and will be going to heaven. Is this wrong of me?
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
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.🙏🏼❤️✝️
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!).
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
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 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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☦️
🙏🙏🙏🙏❤
11:31
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Praying... Lord have mercy
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 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
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.
Thank God for positive Christian influences like Fr Josiah 🙏🏽
You are the light where you are.
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
Life is prayer. Prayer is the answering and cultivation of who you are and how you see others.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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 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
i not so long ago found christ and ive been dragged towards orthodoxy. God is great ❤
God bless all orthodox brothers and sisters from all of the world!🇷🇴
"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.
I am a Protestant and I love this speech.
Bless you Father: with gratitude from Ireland.
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! ❤
I’m a Baptist. I absolutely love this.
❤✝ CHRIST IS RISEN ✝❤
❤💪🙏✝ GOD BE WITH US IN OUR FIGHT AGAINST EVIL AND TEMPTATIONS ✝🙏⛪🕊
What an amazing talk of how to pray! Thank you!!
Excellent thank you !! giving thanks for Fr.Josiah 🙂
Your reflection gives insight & encouragement. God bless you & keep it up Fr Josiah 🙏
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.
Years growing up as a kid in a pentecostal church. I never heard anyone explain prayer in such great detail.
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 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 ♥
I love love love how Jesus was the focal point. Praise God....
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.
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. ❤️🙏🏾
Excellent teaching!☦️
God bless orthodoxy ❤
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.
I loved this video, and as an Orthodox Catechumen, this video has been a blessing. Thank you, Fr Josiah.
Thank you
This is GOLD! Thank you!!
This is the most practical, inspiring and incredible video thus far. THANK YOU
Thank you this was a great reset button for my heart.
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
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 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. ❤🙏
Bless you Father and God bless you Roots of Orthodoxy! 🌹🌿❤
I see some people commenting they are some type of Protestant and are going to convert to Orthodox. And then orher people commenting to their comment, some being very rude. It is sad. It is not ones place to judge and say someone is not saved because they are "the wrong type of Christian". That is for God alone. It is my understanding from reading the Holy Scriptures, that it doesn't say someone isn't going to heaven because theyre the wrong type of Christian or go to the wrong type of Church. As long as they do the things Scripture says they're to do to be saved, they are saved and a real Christian and will be going to heaven. Is this wrong of me?
One of the true great videos
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 🙏🏻
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☦️🙏🕊
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.🙏🏼❤️✝️
Ty Fr Josiah♥️🌸🌹
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.
Thank You Father. AMEN 🙏🏻 🕊 ☦️ ❤️
A true preacher. love love love how Jesus is the focal point
Thank you, Father. Thank you for explaining the importance of prayer.
Wonderful teaching ❤️☦️
This is so helpful!! Thank you!
დიდება და მადლობა უფალს ყველაფრისათვის!!! 🙏🙏🙏
Very good prayer advisor and great coach in spirituality.
Thank you, Father Josiah!
Brothers and sisters, Father Josiah speaks THE TRUTH. 💯
አሜን አባ ቃለ ሕይወት ያስማልን መንግስተ ሰማያትን ያውርስልን:: እኔ የኢትዮዽያ ኦርቶዶክስ እምነት ተከታይ ነኝ:: ጥሩ ትምህርት አግኝቻለሁ::
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
I needed this today. Thank you.
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 so much!
Thanks!
Thank you! God bless
Wonderfully taught🙏
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.
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.
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.
Thankyou for this, Fr Josiah. It was just what I needed ❤
As a protestant, thank you, this was an extremely powerful teaching.
I am grateful for this channel.
Fr. Josiah, you speak well.
This was absolutely beautiful! 🤍
What a gift....thank you❤
This could change the world
Your blessings dear Father ❤❤❤
Affirm, acknowledge, ask- thanks!
Thank you Father ευλογείτε.. God watch over your father
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.
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!
Great preaching!😢
How does he keep doing that everything I think I might need something like a prayer rule.
Someone orthodox makes a video on it.
Mindblowing
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.
I naturally pray almost in that exact order but will continue to improve my prayer life.
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.
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
I'm gonna go pray.
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 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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 pray the Jesus Prayer or Most Holy Theotokos prayer whenever my mind is not focused on anything or I’m doing something very passive. Is this good?
TELL EM FATHER!
Amen!!❤
Coming into this at the age of 40 and a little apprehensive about the amount of memorization this is going to take.
Ευχαριστούμε!
Thank you! God bless