Why Every Christian Should Have a Prayer Rule - Fr. Josiah Trenham

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

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  • @mozzarella_boyy7779
    @mozzarella_boyy7779 4 месяца назад +757

    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! 🙏

    • @bigburr
      @bigburr 4 месяца назад +27

      🙏🏽❤️May God help those in Greece Amen☦️

    • @Irina1982
      @Irina1982 4 месяца назад +4

      🙏🙏🙏🙏❤

    • @EmanuelWasstrom
      @EmanuelWasstrom 4 месяца назад +5

      11:31

    • @EmanuelWasstrom
      @EmanuelWasstrom 4 месяца назад +1

      👸👨‍🚒👩‍🚒🧑‍🚒

    • @jbn668
      @jbn668 4 месяца назад +6

      Praying... Lord have mercy

  • @_derjohnny_
    @_derjohnny_ 4 месяца назад +451

    I am a protestant that agrees with Orthodoxy and is soon to convert. Please Pray for me.

    • @hard.aground
      @hard.aground 4 месяца назад +14

      Christos Anesti.
      My wife and I started catechism yesterday. Good luck in your journey.

    • @Yo-0o0o0o0o
      @Yo-0o0o0o0o 4 месяца назад +1

      Can I ask why?
      Or what do you disagree with Protestant/sola scriptura?

    • @gabrielbalam1042
      @gabrielbalam1042 4 месяца назад +22

      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

    • @harshitchandra_07
      @harshitchandra_07 4 месяца назад +9

      You are not converting, simply migrating.

    • @gabrielbalam1042
      @gabrielbalam1042 4 месяца назад +5

      @@harshitchandra_07 incorrect statement

  • @paddydobbs2318
    @paddydobbs2318 Месяц назад +29

    Pray for the resurrection of the celtic orthodox church in Ireland.
    Pray for the humility of Rome and for the healing of the schism also

  • @Jeanelle.Mishkina
    @Jeanelle.Mishkina 2 дня назад +3

    I came to Christ from no background of faith, didn't know of church history nor what protestantism was. It was the love of God and his goodness to hear about Jesus dying on the cross for me. I devoured the Bible for a while but didn't have fellowship with the beautiful bride of Christ. I bought books about early martyrs and saint and cried all throughout the pages. I moved to Texas and have been going to a Baptist Church but at home I've been slacking in prayer and researching about church history on my own and keep going to orthodoxy. I am been crying all over this video because this is what I desire. I never heard anyone explain all this and I knelt on the kitchen floor as I cook for my dear husband and 3 sons. Lord Jesus have mercy on me a sinner. I want to inhale and exhale prayer, thanksgiving and praise all the days of my life. I will look for an Orthodox church to visit. I want to live in prayer and walk with God as his child and with his children. Please pray for me.
    My mother is Russian/ Armenian my great grandfather was Orthodox and saw his entire family slaughtered other than his brother and himself who were cut with swords and left for dead but survived in the Armenian Holocaust, I am literally a child of martyrs.
    When I was a little girl about 3 years old. My parents went to Mexico and I fell off a moving boat. They couldn't find me and swam and when my dad almost gave up he saw me descending deeper in the water. He brought me out and they said around my leg was tangled a necklace of Virgin Mary holding Jesus. It wasn't mine. This shook my father and I grew up knowing this story of God's mercy.
    My husband is also Russian. May God Our Father draw our entire family unto salvation.

    • @grapegripe
      @grapegripe День назад

      God bless you and your family, sister. I really hope you find an Orthodox Church and flourish there. I just said a prayer for you.

    • @omnitrus
      @omnitrus День назад

      What a testimony !May our Lord bless you and your family and lead you by His Holy Spirit !

  • @emmaaustin123
    @emmaaustin123 4 месяца назад +138

    Now I will have to listen to this again with pen and paper handy. There is so much in this video.

    • @binak.4590
      @binak.4590 3 месяца назад +4

      Haahha totally true !!!!! I had already a pen and getting inspired a lot ❤❤😅

  • @LivingWaterLiaison
    @LivingWaterLiaison 4 месяца назад +114

    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

    • @Evangelina.moomin
      @Evangelina.moomin 4 месяца назад +11

      Thank you ☦️

    • @StarKeeper-m5e
      @StarKeeper-m5e 4 месяца назад +8

      Thank you for these keys you have spotted❤

    • @artemisgrammatas6117
      @artemisgrammatas6117 2 месяца назад +5

      Thank you for sharing this outline 🙏☦️

    • @pjackerart
      @pjackerart 2 месяца назад +2

      ‘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.

    • @mmr1137
      @mmr1137 2 месяца назад +2

      Wow

  • @mariaphillips4538
    @mariaphillips4538 2 месяца назад +37

    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.

    • @irinaapetrei8586
      @irinaapetrei8586 Месяц назад +1

      God help you find the Truth!

    • @paddydobbs2318
      @paddydobbs2318 Месяц назад +2

      I was raised Catholic, became atheist, found Yeshua and joined Hebrew roots, I then read the church father's and realised my many errors and have began the journey down the orthodoxy route, back to the ancient unchanging church ⛪... There is a book by Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou called Thinking Orthodox, if you ever get a chance to read or listen to audiobook, it is amazing, she also has a 2 part lecture on youtube called Phronema and that too will bless you. Much love from Ireland.

  • @kennyhollidayjr5206
    @kennyhollidayjr5206 4 месяца назад +98

    Beautiful reflection. My seeking is leading me towards orthodox Christianity.

    • @ewamakal9702
      @ewamakal9702 4 месяца назад +3

    • @lindaphillips4646
      @lindaphillips4646 4 месяца назад +3

      Lovely. Yes, indeed

    • @makanaima
      @makanaima 4 месяца назад +4

      Come to the True Church! Best decision I ever made.

    • @GINMOONLIGHT
      @GINMOONLIGHT Месяц назад +2

      I as well, but I don’t think there is an orthodox church near me.

    • @lindaphillips4646
      @lindaphillips4646 Месяц назад +2

      ​@GINMOONLIGHT yes, often a problem. The Lord will help you work it out i...i believe. .
      ☦️💜📿💜☦️

  • @pgaLyfestyle
    @pgaLyfestyle 4 месяца назад +193

    Thank God for positive Christian influences like Fr Josiah 🙏🏽

  • @NDWest
    @NDWest 2 месяца назад +22

    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.

  • @ValidityJ
    @ValidityJ 4 месяца назад +70

    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.

    • @TboneWTF
      @TboneWTF 4 месяца назад +2

      Has gad ever answered your prayers? Honestly, how has prayer resolved any of your problems?

    • @katerinakaterinaki9143
      @katerinakaterinaki9143 4 месяца назад +3

      ​​@@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.

    • @TboneWTF
      @TboneWTF 4 месяца назад +1

      ​@@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?

    • @Your_Daily_Scroll
      @Your_Daily_Scroll 4 месяца назад

      @@TboneWTFdo you believe in miracles?

    • @TboneWTF
      @TboneWTF 4 месяца назад

      ​@@Your_Daily_Scroll Magic does not exist in reality my friend. Most educated and reasonable people realize this. Why don't you?

  • @Davina249
    @Davina249 3 месяца назад +37

    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

    • @EJay08
      @EJay08 3 месяца назад +1

      Amen.

    • @annalynn9325
      @annalynn9325 2 месяца назад +2

      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

  • @beatriceluna3545
    @beatriceluna3545 13 дней назад +4

    My Son Encourage me to listen to Orthodox Christianity.
    I'm Truely Blessed I can. I want to learn so much more from you.
    God Bless you. ❤

  • @gelilamartinsen8596
    @gelilamartinsen8596 4 месяца назад +44

    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.

  • @vasilikirompotinos4268
    @vasilikirompotinos4268 4 месяца назад +107

    It’s so sad we have time for everything else and not enough praying ❤

  • @joshuabetancourt2000
    @joshuabetancourt2000 4 месяца назад +47

    Wow! Hands down the best (and most inspiring) exhortation on prayer I’ve ever heard! Thank you, Fr. Josiah. 🙏🏻☦️

  • @Agape-Jesus
    @Agape-Jesus 4 месяца назад +23

    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.

  • @JeremiahLong-ik2lc
    @JeremiahLong-ik2lc 2 месяца назад +3

    "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.

  • @derekpoole7922
    @derekpoole7922 4 месяца назад +21

    Bless you Father: with gratitude from Ireland.

  • @Nina-hy4oo
    @Nina-hy4oo 4 месяца назад +26

    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! ❤

  • @WORKOUTSOLUTIONS
    @WORKOUTSOLUTIONS 4 месяца назад +17

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

  • @Gelu345
    @Gelu345 4 месяца назад +55

    God bless all orthodox brothers and sisters from all of the world!🇷🇴

  • @RoinbinRobin
    @RoinbinRobin 4 месяца назад +11

    i not so long ago found christ and ive been dragged towards orthodoxy. God is great ❤

  • @physiocrat7143
    @physiocrat7143 3 месяца назад +4

    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.

  • @holystrawberry
    @holystrawberry 4 месяца назад +22

    Excellent thank you !! giving thanks for Fr.Josiah 🙂

  • @amynazrini
    @amynazrini 4 месяца назад +6

    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.

  • @PhonySopran0
    @PhonySopran0 3 месяца назад +5

    I’m a Baptist. I absolutely love this.

  • @rosemarietolentino3218
    @rosemarietolentino3218 4 месяца назад +6

    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.

  • @markdecastro8761
    @markdecastro8761 4 месяца назад +25

    Your reflection gives insight & encouragement. God bless you & keep it up Fr Josiah 🙏

  • @NicholasJArbuthnot
    @NicholasJArbuthnot 4 месяца назад +7

    I love love love how Jesus was the focal point. Praise God....

  • @stylist62
    @stylist62 19 дней назад

    Thank you Father for these words of wisdom🙏🥰

  • @ThomasLandry-z5r
    @ThomasLandry-z5r Месяц назад +2

    Honestly full inquisition. I am impressed and inspired to be a greater person of faith. Very heroically displayed.

    • @ThomasLandry-z5r
      @ThomasLandry-z5r Месяц назад +1

      Gleefully Love you father J.T. I'm obsessed with your word in prayer and shows devoted to your voice in urging us to reach out and be transparent as a course of action or an alternative to confession. Instead of asking for forgiveness I can wake up by asking the Lord & father to pray over me and guide me service after service. My next confession I will pray to guard me from my bad side and to align me with a better prayer rule to fix my entanglement and shed the holy spirit with our hearts.

  • @nodistortions
    @nodistortions 2 месяца назад +2

    Life is prayer. Prayer is the answering and cultivation of who you are and how you see others.

  • @manwe254
    @manwe254 4 месяца назад +15

    Excellent teaching!☦️

  • @DoaPenyembuhan
    @DoaPenyembuhan 4 месяца назад +5

    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 ♥

  • @amyfrezgy4198
    @amyfrezgy4198 4 месяца назад +8

    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. ❤️🙏🏾

  • @ionacummings6327
    @ionacummings6327 3 месяца назад +2

    What an amazing talk of how to pray! Thank you!!

  • @abrahamc4437
    @abrahamc4437 3 месяца назад +4

    Years growing up as a kid in a pentecostal church. I never heard anyone explain prayer in such great detail.

  • @SuperXeroNine
    @SuperXeroNine 4 месяца назад +5

    I loved this video, and as an Orthodox Catechumen, this video has been a blessing. Thank you, Fr Josiah.

  • @nna4532
    @nna4532 4 месяца назад +4

    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❤

  • @yongmeimcalpine532
    @yongmeimcalpine532 4 месяца назад +22

    I am a Protestant and I love this speech.

  • @ირაკლიმაისურაძე-ნ8დ

    God bless orthodoxy ❤

  • @Elany.lyon1388
    @Elany.lyon1388 4 месяца назад +4

    Thank you this was a great reset button for my heart.

  • @Asceticlifeofmotherhood
    @Asceticlifeofmotherhood 4 месяца назад +5

    This is the most practical, inspiring and incredible video thus far. THANK YOU

  • @taraboi1
    @taraboi1 4 месяца назад +4

    Thanks!

  • @savvasbournelis8401
    @savvasbournelis8401 4 месяца назад +5

    This is GOLD! Thank you!!

  • @robinwilson7118
    @robinwilson7118 4 месяца назад +2

    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.

  • @ForeverinChristourLord
    @ForeverinChristourLord 4 месяца назад +1

    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☦️🙏🕊

  • @KittehNow
    @KittehNow 2 месяца назад +1

    Brothers and sisters, Father Josiah speaks THE TRUTH. 💯

  • @Israella_
    @Israella_ Месяц назад +2

    This is more confirmation for me, an outgoing Pentecostal that orthodox church is true church. At some point in my life, I stopped going to church so often cus I was too confused. My relationship with GOD didn't diminish, I was just so confused about everything. GOD gradually started teaching me how to pray. It's been a year now since I started this, but I tell you, EVERYTHING FATHER JOSIAH IS SAYING, GOD MADE ME DO THEM. I didn't learn this from ANYBODY. I created a prayer rule. 9am, 12pm, 3pm, 6pm, 9pm, 11:55 pm and midnight. It's a rule. Whether I liked it or not. I would prostrate, kneel and do all these things. GOD Himself taught me gradually. When you hear the Orthodox church has the fullness of the truth, DON'T DOUBT IT.
    I WENT TO THE ORTHODOX CHURCH (RUSSIAN) FIRST TIME YESTERDAY!💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾

  • @squizzla
    @squizzla 4 месяца назад +7

    One of the true great videos

  • @Bluebottle3456
    @Bluebottle3456 26 дней назад

    thank you father for this video. It reach indonesia. while im so empty, i lost hope, i have no direction. Im searching in youtube about fasting and praying, and i found this video.its like i find way to live my life again, i know what to do, what is the most important things in life... May God have mercy on me... for all the wrong ive done, the the good things i didnt do. All glory to GOD.

  • @musicfan560
    @musicfan560 3 месяца назад +2

    დიდება და მადლობა უფალს ყველაფრისათვის!!! 🙏🙏🙏

  • @Blueyes7786
    @Blueyes7786 4 месяца назад +3

    Thank You Father. AMEN 🙏🏻 🕊 ☦️ ❤️

  • @NicholasJArbuthnot
    @NicholasJArbuthnot 4 месяца назад +2

    A true preacher. love love love how Jesus is the focal point

  • @CoachNoahDavid
    @CoachNoahDavid 4 месяца назад +3

    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.🙏🏼❤️✝️

  • @carlosmones8183
    @carlosmones8183 4 месяца назад +2

    Thank you, Father. Thank you for explaining the importance of prayer.

  • @MichaelBrianInc
    @MichaelBrianInc 16 дней назад

    The substance of this shared message of prayer is mind blowing. It makes western Christianity in America look like child’s play in comparison to the seriousness, and sincerity orthodoxy is committed to.
    Wow. What an honor towards the prayer life which is the Christian life and our lifeline to our father.
    I have much to learn and prayer has always been a topic of study for me, but it’s amazing how much you see that is wrong in regards to the subject… meaning there’s so much emphasis on how to get prayers answered and selfishness within prayers, and this teaching puts it to shame.
    This is the core of prayer. To honor and revere our God and see ourselves for who we are and the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ.
    I have to watch this again.
    Orthodoxy seems like such a whole new world and there’s so much information to take in. Wow.

  • @jbn668
    @jbn668 4 месяца назад +5

    This is so helpful!! Thank you!

  • @katerinakaterinaki9143
    @katerinakaterinaki9143 4 месяца назад +8

    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.

  • @athenak6401
    @athenak6401 4 месяца назад +3

    Thank you for this 🙏🏻

  • @Eqxlusive
    @Eqxlusive 2 месяца назад +13

    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.

    • @mony2934
      @mony2934 Месяц назад +4

      God is your best friend, there's nothing to fear when you pray. Some fear that may not be listened to by God. When you think that way, you limit God as if " i don't believe He can listen to all of us at once" But He can and He answers too but we don't often hear because we are not ready.
      As this Priest said, we prepare to enter a prayer : relax your body, allow the mind to rest in the heart, and connect with God.
      Relaxing your body can prove a very difficult task for many but once you practice it's actually very easy.
      The Priest goes on and says that we can live in prayer 24/7. It's true.
      Hope we all get the chance to experience that 🙏

  • @fanispatsalides1810
    @fanispatsalides1810 4 месяца назад +3

    Bless you Father and God bless you Roots of Orthodoxy! 🌹🌿❤

  • @fotis607
    @fotis607 4 месяца назад +1

    Ευχαριστούμε!

  • @donnacole5949
    @donnacole5949 3 месяца назад +1

    Thank you

  • @loveandpeace7695
    @loveandpeace7695 3 месяца назад

    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. ❤🙏

  • @mudbug7175
    @mudbug7175 4 месяца назад +1

    Well spoken. It is such a a pleasure to listen when you speak of spiritual matters. (Not so much when you speak on politics)

    • @birdlynn417
      @birdlynn417 4 месяца назад

      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.

    • @mudbug7175
      @mudbug7175 4 месяца назад

      @@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.

    • @olgakarpushina492
      @olgakarpushina492 3 месяца назад

      ​@@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.

  • @Christianelvin
    @Christianelvin 4 месяца назад +1

    This video answered so many of my prayers

    • @TboneWTF
      @TboneWTF 4 месяца назад +1

      Seriously?! can you list 3 prayers of yours this video "answered"? Thank you.

    • @Christianelvin
      @Christianelvin 4 месяца назад

      ​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

  • @jadefarah2858
    @jadefarah2858 4 месяца назад +3

    Wonderful teaching ❤️☦️

  • @juarbemike77
    @juarbemike77 4 месяца назад +2

    Very good prayer advisor and great coach in spirituality.

  • @Valintinus
    @Valintinus 4 месяца назад +1

    Thank you, father Josiah.

  • @guts5797
    @guts5797 4 месяца назад +2

    I needed this today. Thank you.

  • @ThankyouJesusGod
    @ThankyouJesusGod Месяц назад

    Needed to hear this 🙏🩷🌷🌸

  • @joshuamiller9853
    @joshuamiller9853 4 месяца назад

    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!

  • @wyattfuchs8079
    @wyattfuchs8079 3 месяца назад

    This was one of the most profound lectures I’ve heard on prayer. Thank you deep from my heart! Please pray for me!

  • @Juneninety6
    @Juneninety6 4 месяца назад +1

    Thank you so much!

  • @nasja1984
    @nasja1984 4 месяца назад +8

    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.

    • @janinephillips6934
      @janinephillips6934 2 месяца назад +1

      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

  • @davidwarnica4253
    @davidwarnica4253 19 дней назад

    As someone who is considering Orthodoxy, these lessons on prayer really move me.
    I can't really describe how I'm feeling right now... I wish I could, but how I'm feeling is beyond my understanding.
    I have always admired the beauty of Orthodoxy, but these views were merely superficial. As I continue to learn and gain understanding, it is really igniting my life of prayer that I have never really felt previously, as I've wandered through the desert.

  • @phillipmast88
    @phillipmast88 3 месяца назад

    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.

  • @Wizard-Girl9
    @Wizard-Girl9 Месяц назад

    Ty Fr Josiah♥️🌸🌹

  • @heatherelliot3202
    @heatherelliot3202 4 месяца назад

    Thankyou for this, Fr Josiah. It was just what I needed ❤

  • @Idontkown12
    @Idontkown12 4 месяца назад +13

    How does he keep doing that everything I think I might need something like a prayer rule.
    Someone orthodox makes a video on it.

  • @tiaharrison2802
    @tiaharrison2802 3 месяца назад

    I am grateful for this channel.

  • @peterkettler2070
    @peterkettler2070 14 дней назад

    God Loves YOU...

  • @skkrish1388
    @skkrish1388 2 месяца назад

    Wonderfully taught🙏

  • @JoyCrown
    @JoyCrown 3 месяца назад

    This was absolutely beautiful! 🤍

  • @Thekey369
    @Thekey369 3 месяца назад

    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

  • @tdeej7062
    @tdeej7062 4 месяца назад

    What a gift....thank you❤

  • @WhiskyRidge
    @WhiskyRidge 4 месяца назад +10

    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.

  • @jonathanmaxwell9086
    @jonathanmaxwell9086 4 месяца назад

    As a protestant, thank you, this was an extremely powerful teaching.

  • @marioftrujillo7805
    @marioftrujillo7805 Месяц назад

    Started praying the rosary every day three years ago with very few-if any exceptions-it has completely changed my life.

  • @TheDriveIn.
    @TheDriveIn. Месяц назад

    So I've been practicing when I thank God in prayer, to thank God not only for what He gives, but also what He takes away. Because it is in the way God gives that we see His glory and power, but it is in the things He takes away that we are caused to grow and be purified, if we accept it graciously and thank Him for denying us of the things that are not for us. If we can see and learn to love how God grows us through denial, it is a total game changer.

  • @nicklong7442
    @nicklong7442 4 месяца назад +4

    This could change the world

  • @denisakona6637
    @denisakona6637 Месяц назад

    Amin!

  • @BX0207
    @BX0207 3 месяца назад

    Thank you Father ευλογείτε.. God watch over your father

  • @Lordhavemercy17
    @Lordhavemercy17 4 месяца назад

    Your blessings dear Father ❤❤❤

  • @spektra6755
    @spektra6755 3 месяца назад +1

    Mindblowing

  • @nathanmunoz5857
    @nathanmunoz5857 4 месяца назад +1

    I naturally pray almost in that exact order but will continue to improve my prayer life.

  • @yoginisatwork902
    @yoginisatwork902 3 месяца назад

    Fr. Josiah, you speak well.

  • @TheActualCorrectOpinion
    @TheActualCorrectOpinion 4 месяца назад +6

    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?