Cancer as a Divine Gift

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  • Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2024

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  • @PatristicNectarFilms
    @PatristicNectarFilms  4 месяца назад +24

    Listen to Father Josiah's Videos on His Podcast "The Arena" on all platforms!

    • @NBM9055
      @NBM9055 4 месяца назад

      I can't find it😢

    • @charlesnorthrop928
      @charlesnorthrop928 4 месяца назад

      I already have it on my device and begun listening.

    • @HarryNicNicholas
      @HarryNicNicholas 3 месяца назад

      i won't be, i've had enough of this voodoo nonsense. people who say "god has the right to kill you cos he made you" are sick.

  • @dingleberrysnigglefritz
    @dingleberrysnigglefritz 4 месяца назад +199

    "Cancer brings people to sobriety." As a man afflicted with cancer for the past 5 years, who will one day die with cancer (or from cancer), and who has come to the lord during that time, I can say that there is wisdom in that statement. What an incredibly beautiful ascetic re-framing for me.

    • @4ja2vi0
      @4ja2vi0 4 месяца назад +22

      My God grace you and yours with the strength and understanding to make it through the struggles of health and that which comes with such struggles.
      Though he wasn't EO (atleast to my knowledge) Norm NcDonald had an interesting take on those that pass with cancer. His idea was those that passed didn't lose their battle with cancer, but at worst finished at a draw with the cancer.
      I like to take it a step farther and say we know those in Christ will not die, so though their body dies, they live on and through Christ have victory over cancer.
      Stay safe and stay strong out there brothers and sisters, Jesus Christ loves you.

    • @seronymus
      @seronymus 4 месяца назад +1

      Thank you for sharing this, praying for your strength and recovery 🙏

    • @Iksvomid
      @Iksvomid 4 месяца назад +6

      We live in a sobriety.

    • @stefanbasarab4506
      @stefanbasarab4506 4 месяца назад +3

      Any situation when death becomes something real that can happen any time and not just in the distant future this brings us to sobriety. Death is the best philosophy.

    • @IsraelCountryCube
      @IsraelCountryCube 4 месяца назад +1

      @@4ja2vi0 amen , much time, NormMac Donald I learned of him through David Wood, favorite Christian Pshycopath, he is very funny and charismatic so is Norm, I agreed this is the positive optimistic perspective, Not edgy nor emo, nor in love with death nor cynical, but the fight at best is at a draw where both loose physically, yet the Christian has lived on in spirit comforted by Christ in heaven, no longer tormented by evil, Cancer, Satan, evil humans which make us drained of graces, We Christians truly win when we persevere to the finish line and die believing not rejecting. Christ, were not Judas who didn't persevere, were Peter who persevered though he rejected God we will still make it and be forgiven amen in the name of the father the son the holy Spirit!

  • @ChristineBeck-d6t
    @ChristineBeck-d6t 4 месяца назад +41

    I am a breast cancer survivor. I could write a book called the Gifts of Cancer. The first gift is, you have to face your own mortality. Once you have accepted the fact that you could die, then every day after that is a gift from God. And you learn to embrace life with gratitude. I also noticed something quite unexpected. For many people cancer is their greatest fear. When they hear you have cancer, they immediately go into their compassionate self. And become very loving. My life became very beautiful because I was surrounded by so much love. Another gift is humility. You have to accept love and help, and learn how to ask for help when you need it. That takes humility. This was a great video. Thank you for posting it.

    • @Cri7tian
      @Cri7tian 3 месяца назад +1

      Amin ❤ May God bless you ❤

  • @jacobzcheng3802
    @jacobzcheng3802 4 месяца назад +138

    My dad has stage 4 cancer. He is unrepentant. Please pray for him.

    • @laur4a768
      @laur4a768 4 месяца назад +9

      His first name?

    • @forcefedapocalypse
      @forcefedapocalypse 4 месяца назад +3

    • @sukruoosten
      @sukruoosten 4 месяца назад +3

      i will pray to GOD YAH en his son CHRIST YAHSHUA
      for healing en comfort en that he opens his eyes en heart in faith !!!!!!
      for healed ore NOT 1day we shall ALL PERISH en stand before HIM EN HIS SON

    • @jacobzcheng3802
      @jacobzcheng3802 4 месяца назад +4

      I’d give it to you but his last name is in my username haha. You can call him Mr Cheng when you pray. Thank you

    • @mjsyankee1750
      @mjsyankee1750 4 месяца назад

      Mother-in-law has AML and reaching the end and won't go to confession or pray together as a family.

  • @itssslashhere5245
    @itssslashhere5245 4 месяца назад +111

    Father I will let you cook

    • @eduardsusai559
      @eduardsusai559 4 месяца назад +14

      He is 100% cooking❗

    • @zylophone4840
      @zylophone4840 4 месяца назад +5

      He's the chef FR

    • @Stan_Castan
      @Stan_Castan 4 месяца назад

      He already eated tho

    • @OrthoFireCrusader
      @OrthoFireCrusader 2 месяца назад +2

      I wish people would stop talking like that when it’s related to religious issues

    • @deitchj003
      @deitchj003 Месяц назад

      @@OrthoFireCrusadersame

  • @auskaikru1302
    @auskaikru1302 4 месяца назад +27

    19:02 “Faith allows you to see the purposes of God even in the tragedies of man”
    Brought a tear to my eye, well spoken Father

  • @mariobaratti2985
    @mariobaratti2985 4 месяца назад +20

    This is a discussion I'm not ready still for. I'm a coward. May God give me strength and courage for the days to come and keep me in good health if He wils

    • @blackbette07
      @blackbette07 4 месяца назад +6

      Same with me. I just pray for God's strength to endure whatever he allows

    • @athenarockabilly6245
      @athenarockabilly6245 4 месяца назад +2

      Same here God bless you all

  • @Etihwkcirtap
    @Etihwkcirtap 4 месяца назад +23

    My parents both apologized for the years of abuse I suffered on their death. You are so correct. I've seen people transform

  • @deitchj003
    @deitchj003 Месяц назад +1

    Went to my local Greek Orthodox Church for the first time today. Was the best experience of my life. Coming from a Jewish background I finally feel that I’m home. God bless you all.

  • @DrewCorbett-qb8xw
    @DrewCorbett-qb8xw 2 месяца назад +2

    I have a grade IV Glioblastoma (brain cancer) as a 25 year old. I am now learning theology and diving deeper with Christ almighty. Looking to move towards priesthood or pastoral work. Blessed be the name of the LORD!

  • @barbarian_bunny
    @barbarian_bunny 4 месяца назад +13

    I'm a recent convert. I've had 3 different cancers and each one was difficult and life altering. I do view them as gifts from God. They helped lead me to belief and repentance. Glory to God! He is loving and merciful!

  • @sooperdt
    @sooperdt 4 месяца назад +31

    If you receive it as a gift, it's given as a gift , if you don't, its not.

  • @danshenmama
    @danshenmama 4 месяца назад +20

    Thank you for this beautiful word, Father. As one who has recently undergone treatment for an aggressive type of breast cancer I can say that it's been a precious gift in my life. I witnessed so many people open their hearts to God to pray on my unworthy behalf. People who never talked about God before prayed for me. I was blessed to behold numerous faith affirming indicators of God's ever present attentiveness to even the seemingly most inconsequential details of my life. God arranged so many blessings on this journey and I would not change a thing about it. I pray we are all healed of our maladies in this life, but more importantly I pray that we our found worthy in our repentance to gain ultimate healing and life unending. 🙏

  • @gabib.1780
    @gabib.1780 4 месяца назад +6

    In 2017, a little bit after having gotten married, I received the dreaded phone call from my gynecologist informing me that my latest pap smear was positive. I had a CIN 3 which is the last stage of precancerous changes on the cervix before cancer. I was 26, for the next few years my whole world felt like falling apart, but it was this experience that eventually brought me back to the religion I was baptised in - orthodoxism.
    7 years and many happenings later my husband and I are expecting our 2nd child, I am healthy, I'm a mother, my pagan raised husband considers himself a christian. I could have lost the ability to conceive, carry, birth a child and of course my own life. But that miraculously never happened.
    God has given me not only everything I ever wanted, but some things I never knew that existed and never dared to dream of. There's not one day in the past years that I'm not overwhelmed with gratitude.

  • @WORKOUTSOLUTIONS
    @WORKOUTSOLUTIONS 4 месяца назад +15

    ❤✝ CHRIST IS RISEN ✝❤
    ❤💪🙏✝ GOD BE WITH US IN OUR FIGHT AGAINST EVIL AND TEMPTATIONS ✝🙏⛪🕊

  • @BogdanPopescuOfficial
    @BogdanPopescuOfficial 4 месяца назад +7

    Greetings from Romania. God bless you.

  • @Trenchwar731
    @Trenchwar731 4 месяца назад +13

    My paternal father was taken away from us two weeks before I was 1 from pancreatic cancer. Told my mother he was sorry he couldn't be here to help raise us. I hope he was able to make it, even though I never really knew him I know that God will judge rightly for his deeds. This gives me hope I might be able to see him again when my time is up.

    • @bobbiefluffy
      @bobbiefluffy 4 месяца назад +8

      God rest your father's soul in His eternal embrace, may your father's memory be eternal. I pray you get to share paradise together.

  • @z1988z1989
    @z1988z1989 4 месяца назад +3

    Father Cleopa was a miracle of man, he had the gift of speaking to the people and making them convert to the Holy Orthodoxy or coming back to Christ from atheism. He was a simple man with little education but had the power to make anyone listen carefully the word of God that he was preaching.
    I live 50 km away from Sihastria monastery and when I was a child my mom took me numerous times to listen father Cleopa preaching, he and Father Ioanichie Bălan from the same monastery were the voices of God in our country in those harsh communist years and right
    after. They spoked and wrote many books that teach us the pathway to Heaven.
    May God help you finish the book about his life and Father Cleopa bless you and pray to God for you and your family!

  • @AwesomeWholesome
    @AwesomeWholesome 4 месяца назад +5

    Thank you God, for all things.

  • @normadaly7506
    @normadaly7506 4 месяца назад +6

    Thank you father

  • @Antonia-l3j
    @Antonia-l3j 4 месяца назад +10

    May Saint Cleopa help you to translate the book. He is also loved by the greek people. Greetings from Romania. Pray for us.

  • @olesyamikhaylova5543
    @olesyamikhaylova5543 4 месяца назад +9

    Thank you Father! We love your lectures ! Can’t wait to meet you in person. Aleksandra

  • @jpage99999
    @jpage99999 4 месяца назад +14

    Very hard to concur with your message father. My wife got cancer and I was her caregiver for ten months. She survived the cancer and when her treatment finished I crashed in burnout and had a nervous breakdown losing my job, my livelihood and my career. It ruined my life and so now I am to be thankful for that?

    • @FatherGapon-gw6yo
      @FatherGapon-gw6yo 4 месяца назад +11

      Yes. As impossible as it seems, yes. Prayers.

    • @thornarts2130
      @thornarts2130 4 месяца назад +10

      I am sorry for your difficulties. Being a caregiver is a huge load. I hope in time you will be able to rebuild and find peace.

    • @Samurai33337
      @Samurai33337 4 месяца назад +5

      Through the greatest of your sufferings, God provides you the greatest of medicine. Your trials will produce great pains but take heart, Christ overcame all of it and He will give you more strength than you can imagine. This will help cure our fallen mindset if we persevere. ❤

    • @caolannmacantseanora3660
      @caolannmacantseanora3660 4 месяца назад +9

      When conversion does take place, the process of revelation occurs in a very simple way; a person is in need, he suffers, and then somehow the other world opens up. The more you are in suffering and difficulties and are desperate for God, the more He is going to come to your aid, reveal who He is and show you the way to get out.
      - Fr Seraphim Rose

    • @a-certain-prettiness
      @a-certain-prettiness 4 месяца назад +11

      i'm so sorry. it isn't the same, but i lost my grandma to cancer when i was 8 and i haven't been the same person since. i can't agree with this message at all. seeing her in the ward with all the other older ladies, laying in bed, slowly dying alone... trying to squeeze her hand and she told me she couldn't feel anything and feeling heartbroken and not realising until years later it's because she was numb from all the morphine. she was only 62

  • @gabsskater
    @gabsskater 4 месяца назад +5

    The new app is really good! I am very impressed with its functionality!

  • @dragat5081
    @dragat5081 3 месяца назад

    Thank you Father for reminding us of glory of Christ! Everything given from him is to save us and bring him closer to him. Amen 🙏

  • @mrtripdub
    @mrtripdub 4 месяца назад +3

    Thank you Father Trenham for this great teaching

  • @lindaphillips4646
    @lindaphillips4646 3 месяца назад

    Thank you, Father Josiah.. including for all the news you told us.

  • @NicBob89
    @NicBob89 4 месяца назад +3

    My father passed on 17 June 2019 after he had beaten cancer. It was the day of the Holy Spirit and right after Father’s Day. I had just written my exam I had been studying for which prevented me from seeing him for 2 months and I went to see him with my whole family. We took him to the hospital because he fell over the day before when falling asleep on a chair… it wasn’t anything serious… they did a lumbar puncture on him to test him and the next morning when we were all in the hospital the doctor came in saying “I have great news, your results say you are perfectly healthy”… then she found out he had passed. We couldn’t find a priest because they were all busy with the service for the day of the Holy Spirit and we managed to get the priest who worked at the chapel at the school. I lit him a candle for him today. There were 300+ people at his funeral

  • @MrMetonicus
    @MrMetonicus 3 месяца назад

    I pray better when I'm in pain and thank God for the pain that brings me closer to him.

  • @jeanneelisabeth
    @jeanneelisabeth 4 месяца назад

    Thank you, Father, for the new application.

  • @Allinone_MMA
    @Allinone_MMA 4 месяца назад +1

    Christ is risen.

  • @FatherGapon-gw6yo
    @FatherGapon-gw6yo 4 месяца назад +2

    Imagine those people in heaven who can say “For I too suffered, O Lord.”

  • @reyno6826
    @reyno6826 4 месяца назад

    Thank you for sharing your lectures! Glory to God!

  • @garyspencersalt9449
    @garyspencersalt9449 4 месяца назад +1

    True

  • @CP281
    @CP281 4 месяца назад +9

    Algorithm Boost

    • @Pilgrim06
      @Pilgrim06 4 месяца назад

      Easy to say that my friend, speak to a Christian who has cancer and never loses sight of Jesus during the storm.

    • @CP281
      @CP281 4 месяца назад +3

      @@Pilgrim06 What are you talking about? I'm trying to expand his reach on YT.

  • @angeleyes7401
    @angeleyes7401 4 месяца назад +3

    If you can find it, get the book, Cancer, My Love- it’s a true story!

  • @freedomhouse7348
    @freedomhouse7348 4 месяца назад +1

    Cancer is a part of our life

  • @tait7270
    @tait7270 3 месяца назад

    David Berlinski , in The Devils Delusion. has a chapter that names of over 60 conflicts of the twentieth century and the approximate numbers of excess deaths not started by religious leaders.

  • @KirkBeck-b8f
    @KirkBeck-b8f 4 месяца назад +5

    God can use all things to help us find Him in repentance. Even cancer. What is troubling to me is that Jesus never once spoke to the afflicted in this manner. He came to destroy the works of the devil and at every occasion but in His hometown, He healed them all. As a believer who has walked through 60 years of Christian experience, I have seen scores of people slowly die of cancer. I sadly have never seen one immediately healed of this blight. Where are the miracles that Jesus said would follow those who believe? I think it is an honest question.

    • @Dethelem
      @Dethelem 4 месяца назад +1

      There are such saints everytime even on ours. Read their lives. Saint Paisios Athonite and many others.

    • @lindaphillips4646
      @lindaphillips4646 3 месяца назад +1

      There is a young man in Australia who has a channel called Orthodox Christian Miracles.. Some of the videos have been about healings..
      But i believe the Orthodox Church understanding of healing would very much include the idea of being healed from many sins and weaknesses etc, through suffering and the humility that can come from it...

  • @deanzona6503
    @deanzona6503 4 месяца назад +3

    interesting reflections, and this guy could do coffee commercials, too

  • @dustinweaver9135
    @dustinweaver9135 4 месяца назад +4

    Hey! I was thinking about joining orthodoxy because I see it as the one true church.. but I dont know how? Does anyone have an answer?

    • @bobbiefluffy
      @bobbiefluffy 4 месяца назад +9

      Visit a local parish and talk to the priest! God bless your journey, brother

    • @IIZCHAOS
      @IIZCHAOS 4 месяца назад +2

      Find the closest church to you and contact the preist however you can or just turn up a day a service is on

  • @il3mendo
    @il3mendo 4 месяца назад +7

    Father I have a beautiful request. Can you please talk about celiac disease ?
    I have been diagnosed few years ago and this late diagnosis compromised my immune system.
    I was so pissed with God due to meaning of bread in christianity.
    I wish you all the best and have a nice day father.

  • @manuelquelle9915
    @manuelquelle9915 4 месяца назад

    Fr. Josiah, have you ever gone up to Platina?

  • @ИванСавостин-э7м
    @ИванСавостин-э7м 4 месяца назад +2

    algorithm boost

  • @moreibulinda9411
    @moreibulinda9411 4 месяца назад +2

    Actualy many people die from flu and car accidents.

  • @MichaelAndrewFunk
    @MichaelAndrewFunk 4 месяца назад

    When is new content uploaded to the channel? Are viewers able to watch other content on the channel while new content is uploaded to the channel? I ask for I am ignorant of these matters and I wish not to hinder the progress of the channel? Thank you.

    • @cositasmama
      @cositasmama 4 месяца назад

      Father uploads content (vlogs) every Tuesday and Friday.

  • @bananas1220
    @bananas1220 4 месяца назад +19

    Some constructive criticism: It took you more than half the video to so much as mention cancer. This is a problem on RUclips in general, that is, the problem of the endless preliminaries. I suspect it would be more effective if you got straight to the point and left the other stuff till the end

    • @Thhuradshfefnbck
      @Thhuradshfefnbck 4 месяца назад +3

      Agree

    • @AwesomeWholesome
      @AwesomeWholesome 4 месяца назад +2

      Fr. Josiah's other short videos are usually concise and focus only on one topic.

    • @NFS0038
      @NFS0038 4 месяца назад +7

      I disagree. All the information leading up to it was relevant to the point of understanding suffering in context. The only portion not directly related to the topic was him telling you that you have access to untold hours of free content exactly like this. The problem of reduced attention span in recent times may be related, but I don't think it is necessary to disagree with your point. All you need is a basic understanding of storytelling, requiring setting context and building up relevant details. If you insist on feeding attention span deficit, PNP seems like they edit a "Short" from every reflection. I dislike those because they often miss big points and words of wisdom, but again if you absolutely insist on getting to "a" point indicated by the title of the video, just watch those.

    • @LordVader1094
      @LordVader1094 4 месяца назад +2

      Absolutely not. Sometimes a main point needs preliminary context for that argument. One should not stoop to doing short form content to get a truncated message across.

    • @joshbanker8743
      @joshbanker8743 4 месяца назад +1

      This isnt how his messages are. And they never will be.

  • @virginialopezrey6860
    @virginialopezrey6860 4 месяца назад +1

    Not able to sign in to new app, because by the time I go to my email to get the code, it doesn't accept the code.

  • @tylerfast106
    @tylerfast106 4 месяца назад

    Who’s the giver of this gift ?

    • @aterry3863
      @aterry3863 4 месяца назад +2

      Why are you setting up a trap? When God allows some suffering sent by Satan He sees that it brings people to the faith and repentance. ✝️

    • @tylerfast106
      @tylerfast106 4 месяца назад

      @@aterry3863 I’m not. I ask in good faith. And I agree with you entirely up until this point …. I think saying cancer CAN be used by some as a change for repentance thus CAN be viewed as a divine gift is possible. But to say it is a divine gift uniformly is horrific and can result in view of God that isn’t true to who He is. Much love and blessings my friend ❤️

  • @eagleeye182
    @eagleeye182 4 месяца назад

    The biggest problem is that everlasting life isn`t as desirable as you think it really is. At least, this is how I view it. How can you be happy in Heaven if your loved ones wind up in Hell? How can you experience joy in Heaven if you know that your loved ones are Hell, destined to be tortured for eternity, even if they weren`t devout Christians? Can God guarantee that your loved ones will be in Heaven? Nope! Then, what`s the point spending time in Heaven for eternity with complete strangers?

  • @Iksvomid
    @Iksvomid 4 месяца назад +2

    Ooooo now I want cancer for my birthday! 🎉🎉🎉

  • @dorian4559
    @dorian4559 4 месяца назад +5

    Sorry I don't agree with you. Cancer is not a gift. Surving cancer is a gift. I thank God for that.

    • @OrthobroJames
      @OrthobroJames 4 месяца назад +15

      Put your emotion aside to contemplate the comparison being made. Adversity brings repentance, that's the essence of what is being said. God bless ☦

    • @Pilgrim06
      @Pilgrim06 4 месяца назад +12

      Protestants have a lovely saying “ the Will of God will never take you, where the Grace of God cannot keep you, where the arms of God cannot support you…”as an Orthodox Christian with cancer, I have to lift up my cross and follow Christ, through Grace. It tests my faith, it helps develop the virtue of trust, patience, gratitude, agape, and keeps me anchored to Christ through constant prayer. This body is not mine but belongs to the Lord.
      May God protect you and yours from pain.

    • @BUTCHERDUCK
      @BUTCHERDUCK 4 месяца назад +3

      ⁠@@Pilgrim06wow! God bless you my friend

    • @LordVader1094
      @LordVader1094 4 месяца назад +2

      You seem to have seen the title but not watched the video/

    • @KirkBeck-b8f
      @KirkBeck-b8f 4 месяца назад +1

      I would concur. If there was any miraculous healing going on in America, it might silence so much of the criticism of Christianity. Paul said, "My speech and preaching was not that of the enticing words of man's wisdom, but in the POWER of God. That your faith should not stand on the words of men, but on the POWER of God."

  • @tinakarras7571
    @tinakarras7571 4 месяца назад +3

    Praying to God for cancer is not what God is all about. God may allow satan to afflict us like in the story of Job. This is self righteousness by your own self affliction. The Word of God does not teach us this. Jesus said, pray like this. " Our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name... thykingdom come thy will be done, ( His will be done, not your will begging for cancer).....on earth as it is in Heaven ( no cancer in heaven) give us this day our daily bread ( spiritual and nutritional for our well being) forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and .lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Please explain to me how do you justify " prayng for cancer" ? Show me thru scripture. Apostle Paul prayed for God to take away, whatever afflicted him.

  • @edwardt4283
    @edwardt4283 4 месяца назад +1

    😂😂😂

  • @HellenicChivalry
    @HellenicChivalry 4 месяца назад

    I don't think, maybe with the exception of Walter White would agree with you.

  • @ValentinBrutusBura
    @ValentinBrutusBura 20 дней назад

    No one should say it is from the Lord, and I don't tolerate that speech. It may be from the Archangel, though :))

  • @joji2937
    @joji2937 4 месяца назад

    I have-a da cancer boss!

  • @h-minus5537
    @h-minus5537 4 месяца назад +3

    Been there,at peace with whatever happens