I'm was living like a pagan before I came to the Church. I struggle, fall, get back up and go to confession. I'm slowly getting better day by day with the help of the Holy Spirit and prayer.
I grew up in a protestant household, yet I was essentially a heathen. I was never even baptized until I discovered Orthodoxy. And I never learned to cultivate discipline or almost any Christian virtue. I don't know why these things were not deemed important. Some people consider salvation to be a totally separate thing removed from their regular lives, as though it happens solely in the mind and nothing else is necessary. This was my experience. Lord have mercy on me, a sinner.
@@no-one-787 that was my exact same experience. Now, as a 37 year old father, I'm struggling with simple things. But I will not allow my children to grow up without some living example of true Christian ethic. It's just so difficult.
I love what one priest told me. He was walking me through the church and I was asking about the icons, “were these holy men?” He turned and lovingly said, “we are all losers; only Christ is good.” I hope this helps. God bless you. Don’t lose hope.
No such thing brother. Keep praying. God is good. God is merciful. God loves you. Yes, God is righteous but he wants you to be well. Shame or feelings of guilt are from the devil. Trust me I know what it feels like to believe you are worthless or inadequate. These feelings are not from God.
I’m 5 days sober as of watching this reflection. Been drinking heavily for the better part of 10 years. I’m coming to orthodoxy from reformed Protestantism. I’ve been praying the Jesus prayer through temptation and I’m finally experiencing victory. I feel more disciplined and connected to God than ever. Glory be to God.
As a mother of 4 boys, awaiting another child, I can say that becoming more and more disciplined has been a blessing. Thank you, Father, for the wonderful video.
As a protestant, I felt like there was no structure to my faith walk. I longed for a spiritual discipline. I found it in Orthodoxy. The Orthodox Church puts discipline into discipleship. That is not to say that, upon my conversion, I became the picture of discipline. I still have much work to do. But day by day, by the grace of God, I am becoming a more disciplined man.
My discipline using UA-cam is a constant challenge. I pray for strength in keeping me from straying to wasteful videos and watching all things orthodox! Thank you Father!
One thing I've noticed is that we're far more comfortable in mediocrity than pursuing a greater life. And when trying to make the leap out of mediocrity, the biggest necessity is discipline. It's tough, but worth it.
@@TheBloodyKnuckleindeed it is harder, with the luxuries and distractions available to us 24/7 at our fingertips. A person who doesn’t follow the herd and can manage their time effectively, sacrificing what the want NOW for what they want LATER is extremely rare.
@@7thsky585Like Saint Paisios said, if you want to uproot a passion, you need to eliminate the cause. It all comes down to your attitude. If the person doesn't have a genuine desire to achieve something, they won't take the steps necessary for that.
A truly wonderful authentic humble man. Having stumbled upon Father Josiah's teaching and listening to numerous reflections I had always avoided this particular message. Who wants to click on anything with the word Discipline in the title? Upon listening, especially regarding respect for other people it is just what I need to hear and act accordingly. Thank you..
I study drums with the most strict toughest teacher . I committed to his methodology until he died . 1976- 2011, I still practice daily his name was Dani . Jesus Christ is everything, I understand my savior more because of my devotion to discipline. Great video!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
God is the only one who is good, praise be to Him who allows us to experience Him. I am refreshed by this message, discipline is something I recently let go of. The Lord is calling me back to it. I know the path is narrow, I am realizing it is so narrow you can slip off if you arnt disciplined in every step you take. I have found myself a ways away, but I hear His voice, and I am thankful of every time He shows me my error and allows me to turn back. The flesh is a growing bush in the heart that needs to be cut back constantly. Pray for the body, my brothers and sisters for the times are dark, and they will only become darker.
Thank you brother i struggle in this area greatly im disciplined for a while then fall away badly this has happened throughout my whole life please pray that i would overcome this spirit of double mindedness! I have a family that needs a stong man and leader blessing in Jesus name 🙏🏼
This is a huge message. We all need this, and i hope and pray that we all accept the desire for more self discipline and pray and work towards it. Thank you, Father Josiah ❤☦️
Beautiful tribute to the strength and discipline of this woman. While my wife has never carried me physically in this way, an even heavier work is to carry each other's burdens. To do both is a portraiture of love and sacrifice. To be another's cross I guess you could say is indeed a gift. But it does take a bit of discipline to even try to mentally accept this, let alone discipline ourselves physically for such work. When we see each other's struggles as if they were our own, only then can such discipline result in lifelong strength. These are the works of faith. Christ is strong.
This is a very good subject that I seldom hear. Like how you actually speak about Discipline as what we must have to be like Jesus. St Paisios said if your not advancing Spiritually .It is because you lack Willpower. I believe God gave us the power to choose,but we are weak,because we do not practice Discipline.
Genesis 1 is ELOHIM (Lucifer and the fallen angels). They made this realm. They made man in their image. (tares) Man is an idol, a trap to hunt angels. Genesis 2:7 the Lord God forms His representative in their system. (wheat) One Gospel: Gospel (GOOD ANGEL) of Reconciliation. Jesus Christ came into THEIR kingdom to reconcile fallen angels unto Himself. We are the fallen angels (ELOHIM) kept in DNA chains of darkness. If you do not confess being a fallen angel in Lucifer's kingdom, then you are an unbeliever. Unbeliever = those that claim to be made in the image of ELOHIM(gods). REPENT FALLEN ANGELS.
Hello Father, I am Roman Catholic and I really enjoy hearing your talks and the talks of other orthodox priests. I pray that you are all, even the person reading this to be doing well. Anyways... I wanted to get your advice on evil thoughts. You see in my life I went through a lot of rejections, isolation, emotional/mental abuse, had a bit of absent love from my parents, and didn't grow up in a family where I would be often visited by family members even with growing up with younger cousins. Most of my family members are in Mexico and I visit them once every 2-3 years. Anyways there was a time I lived in fear about my neurological well being, I used to eat a lot of junk food, not move much, watch inappropriate content, and basically lived a lawless/indiscipline life. As a result of that I had my legs trembled and I feared I was going to have a seizure. I feared of having seizures because I would think that I would be a burden to my life because my older brother has epilepsy and it wasn't easy for my mother, especially, to deal with ,y brother tho we love my bro a lot. I feared so much for my well being until I started to visit Jesus more often in my church and pray to him. Telling him about my troubles etc... I started my self improvement journey with going to the gym and learning about ways I can make more money in less time. Which I later learned that I can learn a business skill and earn money results based via solving problems business may encounter in there marketing and selling thus get compensated for providing there desired results. With that said, All glory be to God, I managed top overcome those doubts and fears through christ and constantly praying to him and changing my lifestyle and also learning. (learn = change in behavior) However, when I came to Mexico to visit my family, near the end of my stay, I spent a bit of time with my cousin Sarah playing with her toys and imaging that the marbles she had were food and would pretend that I ate them. But there was an occasion when I was seated with my family where my 8-10 year old cousin grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me to play with her toys and there was this instant where my mind had a evil, unclean, immoral thought. AND I HATED THAT THOUGHT SO MUCH and myself for having had such a HORRIBLE thought. I later dropped it but later came flooding back as if the devil wanted to trouble me with that thought but with something worse. My mind was being flooded with evil immoral thoughts from being obsessed of that one bad thought/feeling I had when I was in Mexico. I had thoughts telling me I was a sicko or a person that likes kids in a bad way (which isn't true) and that I would be some bad person and hurt people. These thoughts were so troubling to me that I didn't know what else to do but to combat them, engage, and pray. Later I learned that to overcome this I needed to ignore these thoughts and offer every thought I have to God. I began doing the holy rosary, did my own exorcism, reading the bible, visiting the lord when I can when I am not occupied with work. And found that my mind has been slowly decreasing the intensity of these thoughts. I CRIED TO our blessed virgin mary, our mother, I cried to Jesus, St. Michael, my guardian angel Gabriel and to God the father that I DIDN"T and NEVER want to be a bad person that hurts people and children. I told him and myself that I would rather die than to abuse people or children. It's a disgrace, evil, unthinkable, and DISGUSTING. For me it is unforgivable. and absolute EVIL. I wanted to hear your thoughts about what you recommend me to do / add to stop having these evil thoughts? I want my mind and heart to be at peace and focused on God, improving my character, building on virtues, becoming purer, and focused on my goals and doing God's will.
As always, thank you for your edifying words. This approach of delivering the teaching at your home - I presume - is nice since it feels natural and inviting, like we are sitting with you. More vids like this would be great.
That gives people who are Christian and have adhd really a hard time. We can try but it will never be the same as without adhd. And yes, adhd is real. Be respectful Please and empathetic. Thank you. Don’t judge everyone who doesn’t “seem disciplined”
I pray for this New Year for The Lord to help me learn DISCIPLINE what I allow my mouth to say, my eyes to watch and my ears to hear and of course what I allow my mind to think, I am an ANABAPTIST but your past lecture on the importance of prayer is unequalled in my opinion
Fr Josiah.... I think I watched this video awhile ago. It didn't sink in. I've been in a great desert for maybe 6 months now....I haven't even kept my prayer rule and recently I have not confessed and of course, I'm not partaking. My girlfriend called me this morning. She keeps getting slammed with traumatizing things every December, specially this time frame. I don't know how to pray for her or her family. I've lost the easy flow of prayer. I needed to come across this video. It has sunk in this time. Please, help me... pray for me Fr Josiah - Lydia
Inside the deepest of my hearth I know that certain value are good for my healthy, but the rational mind says, try it, you already live those everyday and you already know how that stuff is kinda boring.
One thing I am struggling with is getting rid of lust , erotic videos and self pleasure . How can we be freed , I have been trying for months now and I always come back to it and I'm tired .
Hebrews 12:1: "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." Persevere. Never stop willing to run the race, the race that is the life that God has laid out for you. Keep coming back, on your knees, or on your face if need be.
Keep persisting. It is persistence, not perfection. It will improve with time! Repentant but do not feed the cycle with shame and guilt. Join your local Parish/Church and socialise more. When tempted, remember he is always watching you, but also is praying for your salvation. You know what is right. So persist and forgive yourself, count each time it happens and be aware of yourself. You'll get there! 😊
When a battle is approaching, turn to God, do not try to battle without Him. Don't go first to battle and then to God but first to God and then to battle. And then keep on turning to God at all times too. Partake in the Church life, confess and become one with Jesus Christ in the orthodox church (which has the apostolic continuation) as often as you can and He will start cleaning everything for you.
How do you manage discipline without burning oneself out?? I’ve achieved discipline in many areas in my life until I burned out mentally, emotionally, & spiritually from a pruning season. The storms are calm now but I’m afraid to burn out and now dealing with unnecessary tiredness.
Don't forget about the fact that when God cursed women to have pain during pregnancy, he also made man to work so hard to reap fruit. Read Genesis. Embrace pain.
Is there a way of being a part of the Orthodox Church online? I live rural Australia and there is no Orthodox Church near me. I’ve been a Christian for a while now but my heart is being led to the Orthodox Church
Call the closest priest and try to go to liturgy once every month or 2, they have liturgy online but we recommend going to liturgy not just doing stuff online
I'm a Catechumen so forgive my ignorance- but I have found that as I begin to pray and give thanks to God before everything I eat it has become much easier to eat healthy things and when I don't eat something healthy I am burdened by it in my prayer. This is coming from someone who has a serious problem with candy and sweets in general.
I struggled with lustful dreams up until recently. I am afraid to say I am over it because I am still afraid I might not be, but ever since I increased my prayer rule I haven`t had one(for maybe one and a half month now) considering it used to be every single night.
You can eat junk food as long as yo exercise with high intensity. Junk food like candy is not as bad as people make it out to be. Now chips and preservatives aren’t that great and should be avoided most of the time.
There are tips and tricks to make it easy like timing yourself and “remembering why you started”, but at the end of the day, you’ve got to look in the mirror and face it. The boredom, the tiredness, the seemingly impossible task of turning your life around. And then you do it anyway. There’s literally no other way. It gets easier and easier until you don’t even have to try - trust me. Good luck - from an Ethiopian orthodox Christian.
Relate but you can do it. Start with exercise and a prayer rule and build. You have to gamify it. Make a list of things to do each day in like a chart or graph and each time you do 1 tick it off and add up the points to each week month and year and try and bear your score. For example have Exercise, prayer rule, scripture study, a walk, practice an instrument, clean something, do a good deed. And tick off each toy manage to do each day
I'm was living like a pagan before I came to the Church. I struggle, fall, get back up and go to confession. I'm slowly getting better day by day with the help of the Holy Spirit and prayer.
You and me both, brother.
Never lose sight of the Love God has for you, stay strong brother💪☦️ Lord have mercy on us all
@mr.c4013 Deus Vult... Christos anesti
I grew up in a protestant household, yet I was essentially a heathen. I was never even baptized until I discovered Orthodoxy. And I never learned to cultivate discipline or almost any Christian virtue. I don't know why these things were not deemed important. Some people consider salvation to be a totally separate thing removed from their regular lives, as though it happens solely in the mind and nothing else is necessary. This was my experience. Lord have mercy on me, a sinner.
@@no-one-787 that was my exact same experience. Now, as a 37 year old father, I'm struggling with simple things. But I will not allow my children to grow up without some living example of true Christian ethic. It's just so difficult.
I am a horrible Christian. Have mercy.
Repent and brace yourself ! Jesus Christ loves you beyond comprehension.
Gob bless you and your loved ones !
Amen
We are all sinners but we have to bring up the best version of ourselves with the help of Christ
I love what one priest told me. He was walking me through the church and I was asking about the icons, “were these holy men?”
He turned and lovingly said, “we are all losers; only Christ is good.”
I hope this helps. God bless you. Don’t lose hope.
@@JoshAlicea1229 God bless !
No such thing brother. Keep praying. God is good. God is merciful. God loves you. Yes, God is righteous but he wants you to be well. Shame or feelings of guilt are from the devil. Trust me I know what it feels like to believe you are worthless or inadequate. These feelings are not from God.
Discipline= freedom, health, contentment, beauty, progress, prosperity and strength
I’m 5 days sober as of watching this reflection. Been drinking heavily for the better part of 10 years. I’m coming to orthodoxy from reformed Protestantism. I’ve been praying the Jesus prayer through temptation and I’m finally experiencing victory. I feel more disciplined and connected to God than ever. Glory be to God.
May the Holy Spirit be within you and Jesus guide you to the righteous path!
I don't know if you'll see my response, but is there an update? You posted this 3 months ago and I wanted to check in.
Amen 🙏☦️🤍
As a mother of 4 boys, awaiting another child, I can say that becoming more and more disciplined has been a blessing. Thank you, Father, for the wonderful video.
As a protestant, I felt like there was no structure to my faith walk. I longed for a spiritual discipline. I found it in Orthodoxy. The Orthodox Church puts discipline into discipleship. That is not to say that, upon my conversion, I became the picture of discipline. I still have much work to do. But day by day, by the grace of God, I am becoming a more disciplined man.
Have you ever heard of John Wesley, and his methods?
With discipline is the most free that I have ever felt. When I truly operate as commanded, I feel so free! Christ has risen!!
That came at the right time, thank you father. God bless all ☦️
My discipline using UA-cam is a constant challenge. I pray for strength in keeping me from straying to wasteful videos and watching all things orthodox! Thank you Father!
Setting an alarm and put the phone down for 30 sec can also help.
One thing I've noticed is that we're far more comfortable in mediocrity than pursuing a greater life. And when trying to make the leap out of mediocrity, the biggest necessity is discipline. It's tough, but worth it.
Discipline, diligence, initiative… hard things to have nowadays
No harder now than any time in the past.
@@TheBloodyKnuckleindeed it is harder, with the luxuries and distractions available to us 24/7 at our fingertips. A person who doesn’t follow the herd and can manage their time effectively, sacrificing what the want NOW for what they want LATER is extremely rare.
@@7thsky585Like Saint Paisios said, if you want to uproot a passion, you need to eliminate the cause. It all comes down to your attitude. If the person doesn't have a genuine desire to achieve something, they won't take the steps necessary for that.
@@michael.manasian true.
Discipline is the opposite of mental illness 😳 our level of discipline is the first thing another human will interpret about us.
A truly wonderful authentic humble man. Having stumbled upon Father Josiah's teaching and listening to numerous reflections I had always avoided this particular message. Who wants to click on anything with the word Discipline in the title? Upon listening, especially regarding respect for other people it is just what I need to hear and act accordingly. Thank you..
Timing couldn't have come st a better time
Thanks father
I struggle so much with discipline. Its weighs heavy on my life and walk with God. Lord have mercy on me.
The process of changing your behavior always starts with awareness. You can do it!
Discipline is tough.
I study drums with the most strict toughest teacher . I committed to his methodology until he died . 1976- 2011, I still practice daily his name was Dani . Jesus Christ is everything, I understand my savior more because of my devotion to discipline. Great video!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
Memory eternal.
Thank you Father. The title of this video woke me up with joy. There is such a need for men to hear about discipline in Christianity.
Always a blessing when a video is timely. Father bless!
❤✝ CHRIST IS RISEN ✝❤
❤💪🙏✝ GOD BE WITH US AGAINST EVIL AND TEMPTATIONS ✝🙏⛪🕊
What a beautiful story about your wife's early devotion to your path 😂❤ thanks for sharing that despite the humiliation
God is the only one who is good, praise be to Him who allows us to experience Him. I am refreshed by this message, discipline is something I recently let go of. The Lord is calling me back to it. I know the path is narrow, I am realizing it is so narrow you can slip off if you arnt disciplined in every step you take. I have found myself a ways away, but I hear His voice, and I am thankful of every time He shows me my error and allows me to turn back. The flesh is a growing bush in the heart that needs to be cut back constantly. Pray for the body, my brothers and sisters for the times are dark, and they will only become darker.
Very relevant to today's events.
Without discipline we are at a loss.
☦️♥️🙏
Thank you brother i struggle in this area greatly im disciplined for a while then fall away badly this has happened throughout my whole life please pray that i would overcome this spirit of double mindedness! I have a family that needs a stong man and leader blessing in Jesus name 🙏🏼
Come, let us reason together.
Father Josiah - This is so needed for us all to hear. Thank you.
This is a huge message. We all need this, and i hope and pray that we all accept the desire for more self discipline and pray and work towards it. Thank you, Father Josiah ❤☦️
Thank you Fr for these reflections you post. We are blessed to have these
Thank you father for all the videos which are amazing.
i work hard at work but i'm so lazy after work help me Jesus!
I can relate!!
thanks
OK this man is absolutely amazing! God bless him
Absolutely 💯 we all need discipline, patience and self-control.
Beautiful tribute to the strength and discipline of this woman. While my wife has never carried me physically in this way, an even heavier work is to carry each other's burdens. To do both is a portraiture of love and sacrifice. To be another's cross I guess you could say is indeed a gift. But it does take a bit of discipline to even try to mentally accept this, let alone discipline ourselves physically for such work. When we see each other's struggles as if they were our own, only then can such discipline result in lifelong strength. These are the works of faith. Christ is strong.
God bless you and your beard! 😁
Beautiful content 🎉
Thank you for all you do Father Josiah. I will keep you in my prayers.
Glory to God 😲! Jesus Christ in the highest ❤
This is wonderful! My spiritual father recommended this to me and it was really helpful!
Lord Jesus Christ ☦️
Needed to hear this. Bless ❤
This is a very good subject that I seldom hear. Like how you actually speak about Discipline as what we must have to be like Jesus. St Paisios said if your not advancing Spiritually .It is because you lack Willpower. I believe God gave us the power to choose,but we are weak,because we do not practice Discipline.
Thank you, Father.
I needed to hear these words. Surely, the Spirit set this video in my path today.
Genesis 1 is ELOHIM (Lucifer and the fallen angels).
They made this realm.
They made man in their image. (tares)
Man is an idol, a trap to hunt angels.
Genesis 2:7 the Lord God forms His representative in their system. (wheat)
One Gospel:
Gospel (GOOD ANGEL) of Reconciliation.
Jesus Christ came into THEIR kingdom
to reconcile fallen angels unto Himself.
We are the fallen angels (ELOHIM) kept in DNA chains of darkness.
If you do not confess being a fallen angel in Lucifer's kingdom, then you are an unbeliever.
Unbeliever = those that claim to be made in the image of ELOHIM(gods).
REPENT FALLEN ANGELS.
The idea of being disciplined with everything I do sounds so restrictive to me. Can anyone else relate and perhaps give some encouragement?
Yes. It needs balance ❤
Κύριε Ιησού Χριστέ ελέησον τον κόσμο σου! ☦
Αμήν!!!!
Αμην!
hallelujah!
Thank u Father❤
This is what I needed to hear! Thank you, Father!
Thank you and God keep you.
Hello Father, I am Roman Catholic and I really enjoy hearing your talks and the talks of other orthodox priests. I pray that you are all, even the person reading this to be doing well. Anyways... I wanted to get your advice on evil thoughts. You see in my life I went through a lot of rejections, isolation, emotional/mental abuse, had a bit of absent love from my parents, and didn't grow up in a family where I would be often visited by family members even with growing up with younger cousins. Most of my family members are in Mexico and I visit them once every 2-3 years. Anyways there was a time I lived in fear about my neurological well being, I used to eat a lot of junk food, not move much, watch inappropriate content, and basically lived a lawless/indiscipline life. As a result of that I had my legs trembled and I feared I was going to have a seizure. I feared of having seizures because I would think that I would be a burden to my life because my older brother has epilepsy and it wasn't easy for my mother, especially, to deal with ,y brother tho we love my bro a lot. I feared so much for my well being until I started to visit Jesus more often in my church and pray to him. Telling him about my troubles etc... I started my self improvement journey with going to the gym and learning about ways I can make more money in less time. Which I later learned that I can learn a business skill and earn money results based via solving problems business may encounter in there marketing and selling thus get compensated for providing there desired results. With that said, All glory be to God, I managed top overcome those doubts and fears through christ and constantly praying to him and changing my lifestyle and also learning. (learn = change in behavior) However, when I came to Mexico to visit my family, near the end of my stay, I spent a bit of time with my cousin Sarah playing with her toys and imaging that the marbles she had were food and would pretend that I ate them. But there was an occasion when I was seated with my family where my 8-10 year old cousin grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me to play with her toys and there was this instant where my mind had a evil, unclean, immoral thought. AND I HATED THAT THOUGHT SO MUCH and myself for having had such a HORRIBLE thought. I later dropped it but later came flooding back as if the devil wanted to trouble me with that thought but with something worse. My mind was being flooded with evil immoral thoughts from being obsessed of that one bad thought/feeling I had when I was in Mexico. I had thoughts telling me I was a sicko or a person that likes kids in a bad way (which isn't true) and that I would be some bad person and hurt people. These thoughts were so troubling to me that I didn't know what else to do but to combat them, engage, and pray. Later I learned that to overcome this I needed to ignore these thoughts and offer every thought I have to God. I began doing the holy rosary, did my own exorcism, reading the bible, visiting the lord when I can when I am not occupied with work. And found that my mind has been slowly decreasing the intensity of these thoughts. I CRIED TO our blessed virgin mary, our mother, I cried to Jesus, St. Michael, my guardian angel Gabriel and to God the father that I DIDN"T and NEVER want to be a bad person that hurts people and children. I told him and myself that I would rather die than to abuse people or children. It's a disgrace, evil, unthinkable, and DISGUSTING. For me it is unforgivable. and absolute EVIL. I wanted to hear your thoughts about what you recommend me to do / add to stop having these evil thoughts? I want my mind and heart to be at peace and focused on God, improving my character, building on virtues, becoming purer, and focused on my goals and doing God's will.
Thank You...❤
This was absolutely awesome.
Clicked so fast when I read the title.
This was beautiful, thanks!
Thank you Father 🙏☦️
Credinta,, Izvorul Sufletului"...
🕊🙏🏿🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊
As always, thank you for your edifying words. This approach of delivering the teaching at your home - I presume - is nice since it feels natural and inviting, like we are sitting with you. More vids like this would be great.
Thank you Pastor! Lot's of love and light to all! 🙏💖✨
Thanks Father, this helps a lot.
I hope you enjoyed Romania :)
Thank you father
I long to acquire more Godly discipline. It is truly freedom! Impulsiveness is the prison cell.
Brilliant, thanks Fr.
had a dream last night my friend n i were crying begging for self-control
Amen🙏🏼
Love the story, brother
That gives people who are Christian and have adhd really a hard time. We can try but it will never be the same as without adhd. And yes, adhd is real. Be respectful
Please and empathetic. Thank you. Don’t judge everyone who doesn’t “seem disciplined”
I pray for this New Year for The Lord to help me learn DISCIPLINE what I allow my mouth to say, my eyes to watch and my ears to hear and of course what I allow my mind to think, I am an ANABAPTIST but your past lecture on the importance of prayer is unequalled in my opinion
Fr Josiah.... I think I watched this video awhile ago. It didn't sink in. I've been in a great desert for maybe 6 months now....I haven't even kept my prayer rule and recently I have not confessed and of course, I'm not partaking. My girlfriend called me this morning. She keeps getting slammed with traumatizing things every December, specially this time frame. I don't know how to pray for her or her family. I've lost the easy flow of prayer. I needed to come across this video. It has sunk in this time. Please, help me... pray for me Fr Josiah - Lydia
Thank you 🙏🏾
❤
Amen 🙏🙏🙏 all glory be to our lord Jesus Christ
Think about crucifixion as "attaining perfection."
Inside the deepest of my hearth I know that certain value are good for my healthy, but the rational mind says, try it, you already live those everyday and you already know how that stuff is kinda boring.
Can you make a video about financial debt? Thank you for your videos. Wonderful!
Great video bro!
Me watching this knee deep in sin: “so true…”
Same
Never back down! Never what?…. Never give up!
Same...
Welcome to the club
God really did bless you by placing your wife in your life. 😂 God bless you Father. Thank you for the message.
Fourth!!!!
One thing I am struggling with is getting rid of lust , erotic videos and self pleasure . How can we be freed , I have been trying for months now and I always come back to it and I'm tired .
Hebrews 12:1:
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us."
Persevere. Never stop willing to run the race, the race that is the life that God has laid out for you. Keep coming back, on your knees, or on your face if need be.
When the thought enters your mind, say the Jesus prayer. Say it without ceasing.
Keep persisting. It is persistence, not perfection. It will improve with time! Repentant but do not feed the cycle with shame and guilt. Join your local Parish/Church and socialise more. When tempted, remember he is always watching you, but also is praying for your salvation. You know what is right. So persist and forgive yourself, count each time it happens and be aware of yourself. You'll get there! 😊
Constant Jesus Prayer.
When a battle is approaching, turn to God, do not try to battle without Him.
Don't go first to battle and then to God but first to God and then to battle. And then keep on turning to God at all times too. Partake in the Church life, confess and become one with Jesus Christ in the orthodox church (which has the apostolic continuation) as often as you can and He will start cleaning everything for you.
How do you manage discipline without burning oneself out?? I’ve achieved discipline in many areas in my life until I burned out mentally, emotionally, & spiritually from a pruning season. The storms are calm now but I’m afraid to burn out and now dealing with unnecessary tiredness.
Don't forget about the fact that when God cursed women to have pain during pregnancy, he also made man to work so hard to reap fruit. Read Genesis. Embrace pain.
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It’s so hard… god help me to be disciplined
Is there a way of being a part of the Orthodox Church online?
I live rural Australia and there is no Orthodox Church near me.
I’ve been a Christian for a while now but my heart is being led to the Orthodox Church
How far is the nearest church???
Call the closest priest and try to go to liturgy once every month or 2, they have liturgy online but we recommend going to liturgy not just doing stuff online
I tell my brain not to eat junk food...not easy.😢
I'm a Catechumen so forgive my ignorance- but I have found that as I begin to pray and give thanks to God before everything I eat it has become much easier to eat healthy things and when I don't eat something healthy I am burdened by it in my prayer. This is coming from someone who has a serious problem with candy and sweets in general.
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I struggled with lustful dreams up until recently. I am afraid to say I am over it because I am still afraid I might not be, but ever since I increased my prayer rule I haven`t had one(for maybe one and a half month now) considering it used to be every single night.
You can eat junk food as long as yo exercise with high intensity. Junk food like candy is not as bad as people make it out to be. Now chips and preservatives aren’t that great and should be avoided most of the time.
How do we do this from the power of the spirit and not just our own power?
Can someone tell what prayers I can do after the 9th hour. I'm very new to the orthodox way of life
Thanks in advance.
God be with you 🙏
hahaha.. that's a good mate brother. Discipline earlier = greater avenues of blessing.
WOW.
Well at least they kept the comment section open on this one
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Hello father, i want to ask what are the Christian principles of discipline?
"Discipline = Freedom" Joko
We dont need Joko quotes here plz and thanks
@BBBRRROOODDDYYY lol 😆 oh your welcome 🙏... "Good" Joko
@@BBBRRROOODDDYYY Jocko prepared me for Orthodoxy.
I get the what, but not the how.
There are tips and tricks to make it easy like timing yourself and “remembering why you started”, but at the end of the day, you’ve got to look in the mirror and face it. The boredom, the tiredness, the seemingly impossible task of turning your life around. And then you do it anyway. There’s literally no other way.
It gets easier and easier until you don’t even have to try - trust me.
Good luck - from an Ethiopian orthodox Christian.
Discipline is so hard with an ADHD brain😂
Relate but you can do it.
Start with exercise and a prayer rule and build.
You have to gamify it.
Make a list of things to do each day in like a chart or graph and each time you do 1 tick it off and add up the points to each week month and year and try and bear your score.
For example have
Exercise, prayer rule, scripture study, a walk, practice an instrument, clean something, do a good deed.
And tick off each toy manage to do each day
The trick is to channel your ADHD into a couple hours of its cousin, OCD.
But Constancy-no idea how.
Yes so do not beat yourself up OK ? just so no to sugar and flour .. it has helped many
I'm currently suffering with logismi. How do I find freedom?
Jesus prayer. 💗
I’m trying to listen to lectures on PNP, but the audio won’t load in the app or in my chrome browser on my iPhone.
What is the song at the end?
I’m glad father isn’t in that dang squeaky chair in his office. I’ve thought about mailing him some oil.
If god has put homosexuals in your life how do you treat them higher than yourself without encouraging them to continue their sinful existence?
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