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It is damnable heresy to teach that your religion/church can save you, when only the Saviour can (John 14:6, John 10:1-9), who is Almighty and sinless to do so, and offered His ONE and ALMIGHTY sacrifice on the cross for you to trust over religious clergy and their Traditions of the Elders (Mark 7:8) to save you. "Father" Moses teaches the judaizing heresy of the Galatians. The Apostles rebuked such things, including by saying that water baptism is only for those ALREADY saved (ie, born again) in Acts 10:47.
Father, can you please recommend videos/resources for spiritual practices that helped you to learn to forget? By 'forgetting,' do you approach each interaction with renewed grace? I am struggling with how to nurture one of my children who is prone to intense, tempestuous feelings.
I relate heavily to your story but instead of finding Christ I found the evil of therapy and self help which made me feel like a ghost for a long time. There was no redemption or moving on I was scared to wake up everyday. Then I found Christ on the internet and started my journey from there. God bless all who are healed through Christ from trauma
I just finished a degree in psychology because of my dream to become a therapist. Do you think there is any hope in psychology or therapy to help peopl? I am reconsidering this approach to my career already but I wonder if people who have a bad opinion on therapy can see the possibility of good in it or whether it is bad from the roots/core.
@@dafish691I don’t know. I think only if the therapist is a practising Orthodox Christian and that’s where the problem also arises. How much can you talk about God and point people in His direction without prozelitising until it becomes a problem that takes your practice away? Or if they seem to not be open to God, pray for wisdom that you can at least help the most depressed or desperate cases to come out of it until they hopefuly find God. And being an example of a good Christian and having a tangential talk about it when questioning and probing might make them more open to it. There are problems with psychology in general, because it’s skewed and wordly with ideas like Freud’s for example. But you can make it your own and be in the presence of these people looking for help and, without forcing it, open this window for them to look at life differently. But again, you need to check what is alowed legally in a practice like this in your state/country. There are books on psychology and psychiatry from an Orthodox spiritual perspective, at least translated in my language (romanian). Look up Archbishop Hierotheos Vlachos for an example.
@@dafish691I believe it is very valid , but we have a huge issue of convincing healthy capable people that wanting to change is wrong , that they are sick , and that they need a bunch of support to be barely functional .
@@dafish691I went into therapy with an honest expression that I feel I’m not living up to my capabilities, my therapist spent months trying to convince me that the issue is me WANTING to be better. And that the answer was in being content with anything that felt pleasant in the moment
I use some inquiry tools to uncover buried, repressed anger which I didn't even know I had till I saw it. That is helping me to clear feelings out and surrender and get closer to God esp. when I read Psalms. The typical landing, ie defence mechanism, for anger repressors is to be small, nice, not good enough, anxious, depressed, wounded or feeling like a victim. This is all to stay safe from buried anger and get approval from others. It's a horrible place to be, so when I see the landings I can dismiss it more these days, get to feel the underlying anger, process it and have more space to surrender to Spirit, and express needs/boundaries with others if I need to. It makes for more authentic relating instead of shutting down or pretending. So these tools can really help if they are used correctly and in union with God.
I got high on weed brownies with my dad and uncle at age 12, took acid at age 14, moved on to blow and ecstasy, then heavy alcoholism. Got “ saved” at my granny’s Pentecostal church at age 22. Left because it’s insane. Got a DUI. Lost my drivers licence. Went to college to become an Addiction Counselor. Became one. Got fired because I couldn’t handle it. Met my Russian wife. Found the Orthodox Church. Was baptized as Nicholas in 2015. Wandered away into the occult, astrology, tarot cards, and freemasonry. Realized it was all satanic. Went back to the Orthodox Church. Confessed. Felt something like a heavy weight fly off my back. Now I’m soon to be 41. I have 3 children. I am 7 days without a drink. Still struggling with cigarettes and demonic attack. Please pray for your brother Nicholas here. Thanks ☦️
We're in a time of breaking generational cycles, by the Grace of God!!! My mother broke the cycle of sexual abuse by her parents and escaped their influence. Her, my brother and myself with my husband were baptized into the Church a few years ago. My dad was baptized on his death bed earlier this year thanks be to God and his mercy. I have two small daughters that are cradle Orthodox now. What a joy to see Gods mercies in our lives.
With all of the visible evils seemingly increasing it's hard to miss the good things that are happening. Same story with my family, same story of generational sexual abuse. My mother was able to break the cycle, me and my twin are the last 2 of 7 kids, and we were the 2 lucky enough to born outside of that cycle.
Struggling with this. I was depressed for 22 years because of the narcissistic patterns of my family home and the slow devouring dysfunction left me deceived and my soul was so ill. My childhood was consumed and now I'm struggling to make a living for myself without that foothold of growth and individuation development. I have this anger too Father, please pray for me.
@@privateupdate3747 I get you. You feel like an empty shell. I didn’t know it was my family in the first place. Everything was labeled as anxiety/depression. Now I know that I was just a pawn in the game and I have to find my new life in Christ.
Erasing your past exactly what the monastics do. The only thing I have had trouble with is "living the life I want." Every time I do that I get frustrated and trauma resurfaces. Then I know I'm getting ahead of myself and not trusting God. I've learned to tell myself everday "one day at a time." I think our modern world is so future focused and results driven that it's very damaging. I have to CONSTANTLY remind myself to get out of that mindset. Thank you for your time, Father.
Amen, Father. My siblings and I went through trauma growing up, and only by the grace of God have I been able to get past it. Now, it's my turn to help them get past theirs. Your videos help out a ton. God bless you and anyone who reads this. 👊
Thanks Fr. Orthodoxy is the only way of life that has tangibly improved me as a man, and I am just starting my journey. Glory to God! Thank you for your counsel, you along with Fr Peter and Fr Josiah are a treasure trove of knowledge. Glad to be living in a time where all of this info is so accessible!
@@YesanshiWe are all called to become Saints! We definitely don’t idolize Saints in Orthodoxy. We love them, honor them as our brothers and sisters who have run the race and been successful! They are our friends, our closest confidants who are helping and praying for those of us still living and struggling to attain the kingdom of heaven ❤
My sweet father Mosses, I cried and then I cried more, I felt your pain in my chest😔, Thank you 🙏🏼 Lord you became orthodox Christian🕯️🙏🏼✝️🕊️ and he granted with beautiful soul matushka Ruth and blessed you an amazing boys🙏🏼. Spiritual mothers are the most pure and powerful like Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary. The Mother of God is intercession and the immovable hope of protection. Please forgive me if I ever volunteer or involuntary done anything wrong to you 🙏🏼 You are in my thoughts and prayers !!!🙏🏼
More than belief, you need FAITH. Belief comes from intellect and logic, Faith comes from your Spirit. Logic can never combat Faith because Faith comes from inherent truths that are embedded in our Spirit and in our very essence, our DNA. 🖤
I needed to hear this today. Thank you for your sincere candor and sharing your journey. That all resonated with me very deeply; even though our stories are respectively different. I also grew up around a lot of yelling, fighting & drinking as a child and teenager. Then I enlisted into the Marines. Got treated like an animal for four years and sent to trashcanistan twice and saw quite enough. Lots of feelings of resentment and anger about the whole experience. Ended up pushing myself through college and dealing with people who are truly privileged telling me that I am (who grew up poor and then wounded in war). Then went on to work jobs I've fcking hated. Bosses and coworkers I'd love to punch in the face. My only constant feeling is anger. I get flashes of being red hot and it can keep me up at night. At the world and people. But yeah, forgiveness and trust in Jesus & God's Will. I'm trying! Thank you, Father Moses.
Thank you Fr. For sharing your story. Forgiveness is so powerful. I got similar advice when I came to the church after growing up in a dysfunctional home (I also self medicated and started drinking at a very young age) then I had a traumatic pregnancy loss and near d.eath experience in my late 20's. I spent years in therapy trying to get over my childhood in my early 20s. I couldn't even speak of the loss without falling apart. I was given the advice to forgive by my priest and eventually I forgave my parents and the medical system that led to the loss of my daughter. Having my boys also made me too busy to dwell; I think that's important too, it forced me to put it behind me though I wasn'tgiven that advice it is very good advice. With that and baptism, I no longer suffer the way I did before, and now I can pray if I flash back and I feel so much comfort. Thank God.
Thank you Father! I’m still healing God’s way after 10 years Orthodox. As a former clinical psychologist I now see the folly in using techniques from Godless teachers!
I am looking for a job to gain experience as a psychologist after finally getting my degree in psychology. I'm really curious to know if this branch of career is right for me as a person entering into the orthodox church. Is it poisonous from the core or can it be saved?
@@dafish691 I am going into psychology as well and I truly believe that it can be used to do Gods work. I plan on joining a Christian practice. Christ is the true medicine but having someone to talk to and work through issues with is tremendously helpful
I’ve been attending catechism for a couple weeks now thanks to Fathers like you. Thank you for these pearls of wisdom and your help. Thank God for you.
Romans 11:36…all that you endured proves it…as all things do again and again. Thank you Fr. Moses for such a meaningful video that we all needed to hear.
Romans 4 KJV ♥️ 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. ✝️🩸 Romans 3 KJV 🩸 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Father thank you. I come from such a similar background, but instead of a school it was at the hands of my own father I suffered greatly. I've watched countless videos about forgiveness and it's been so hard for me to wrap my mind around it until now. I need to learn to forgive because 1 I'm not there anymore I'm in the present, and 2 the biggest thing you elucidated was he's also a very damaged person in his own ways. Those people need compassion just as badly as I need it from others who I might have hurt in my life. Thank you. This gives me so much to think about. Honestly my trauma has brought my anxiety disorders to the brink of killing me and that is no exaggeration, I'm very very ill from it physically. Regardless what happens to my body, thank you for helping me learn to forgive. May God bless you and reward you greatly in heaven for guiding many of us who have no other access to a spiritual Father in our lives.
Thanks for the video. With the grace of God I managed to at least mentally understand why my father neglected me and my brother after our mom died with the amount of loss and grief he went through, and also why his second wife who was abused as a child passed unto us the same evil, and wanted us to suffer just because we were the leftovers of my dad's past life. I have a degree of compassion and I know that hating them will not help me, but I just don't know how I'm supposed to let go when even without thinking about the past, I'm the product of it in the present, and doesn't matter how much I progress on the surface, I'm still extremely paranoid and anxious and just thinking of pursuing marriage and family life terrifies me because I'm scared to death I will not be able to defend my wife and kids like I didn't defend my brother when we were kids. And taking care of myself physically and doing martial arts didn't diminish that. Prayer keeps me from not losing my mind completely, but since coming into the Church this war only got ten times tougher.
These symptoms of trauma all come from hidden, repressed anger or hurt. Hurt repressors openly express their anger and rage whilst burying the hurt. But for anger repressors like me, it was too dangerous to express that anger for fear of retaliation, punishment or rejection so it got pushed down and buried to the point that it was invisible. I didn't even know I was angry till I uncovered it! That's because the survival defences kick in to stay safe and get approval. Some of those landings, ie defences, include being small, shutdown, nice, wounded, victimised, silent resentment, not good enough, anxious depressed etc. We get distracted and consumed by these defences so we can't see the repressed emotion under it. God gave me the insight to see these landings for what they are, survival programs to stay safe/get approval, to dismiss them and uncover the buried anger underneath. As I started to process the repressed anger and express more authentically to family, I started coming out of that repression hell, and the space for surrender to God is opening up more, esp when I read Psalms. I feel reborn in God but it took some inner work to get there!
This is describing me exactly right now from the trauma of violation, SA when I was a virgin. Happened 8 years ago and still living in that memory every day instead of living in this life. Every day I want to die and I don't know how to heal the way you have father. I pray but relief never comes.
Thank you so much for being open like this, Father. It brought tears to my eyes. This video is very much needed, and you going out on a limb to be open like that speaks alot of your character. I was abused as a child for most of my young years by a parent and what you said about the anger resonates so heavily with me. Truly, forgivness and forgetfulness- wiping that slate clean of the rot and moving onward is where its at. God bless you always
Wow. What amazing timing. Thank you Fr. for this message. It makes me think of so much of my own life and experiences. After I'd been in recovery for a while, I had struggled deeply with anger/rage. It took both of my parent's passing away before I was able to truly let God and prayer and forgiveness return and I can remember that for so long, addiction numbed the rage, but the rage filled the emptiness and it was something I clung to. Resentment was another. Those feelings still come even many years later, but I give it to God and ask him to forgive me. I have been struggling with a lot of despondency and anxiety these days, so this message really resonated. Thank you so much! God bless you!
Father, this video made me cry. I admire your strength to see past the evils and channel it into goodness. There's such power in courage. Best wishes ✨
God bless you, father. I was born in Germany as an orthodox Christian with a Syrian background. Growing up in the West, I came into contact with Evangelicals and left the church in 2014 for Sola Scriptura. I was a very devoted street preacher for many years. Last year, by the grace of God I found back to the Orthodox Church by discovering the true meaning of the holy Eucharist.
Thank you father i absolutely needed this. I was groomed when I was 11 years old, and that really fundamentally changed me as a person and how i viewed myself. I thought my entire worth of a person was dependent on how desirable i was to men, and this led me down a really dark path in my teens of doing things i really regret, and things that were really messed up spiritually and probably to a lot of secular people as well. Im an Orthodox Catechumen now at 22, and i thought i overcame lust and my really depraved desires, but when i decided to get off my birth control, i realized that was my crutch, and its been a very active battle every since, but I have been winning. Thank you so much for sharing, i needed this for my soul, God bless all of your work and may you continue to help souls like mine ☦️
Blimey. What an incredible and profoundly humbling testimony, Father. God bless you in everything that you do, and thank you for ministry of encouragement and guidance for our generations.
I was so hoping you would say you forgave them. I lost my family tragically as a child, and then was abused by my foster "dad." I don't know how, but God put it in my heart to forgive him and I tho't that he must have had serious problems of his own to do that, even tho' I was only 12 and he had terrified me. I was spared future abuse when my f-mom divorced him. God also saved me from much worse abuse by my f-mom leaving a sick cult she was involved in for a while, where 2 of my brothers and some of my cousins were gravely abused! I never suffered the repercussions of that experience like many girls do who have been abused. Forgiving the evil deeds committed against us by others is the remedy to restoring one's own life. And when they come to mind, forgive again and again, until they are buried for good. God bless you, Father.
God bless you father. I have been walking in faith for the last few years after being an atheist for most of my life, even though i was baptized as a greek orthodox. I come from a deeply, deeply dysfunctional home, and could not believe that God is real if he is letting things like this happen to children. but i understand now. thank you so much for this, my story is very similar to yours and every word you said resonated in my soul. thank you for showing me the way out. it is difficult since i have no mentor or support system, but i will follow your advice diligently, and i will make it out.
Get yourself a good wake up routine Do some sort exercises plus stretching at least 3 times a week Review each day at night What did I do wrong today? What I could do better Finsh with what you did good and prayer
@@dee-ix3iq thank you! ive been hitting the gym for 12 years, and doing martial arts since i was 3 years old, i recognize the importance of being physically active. i also went to therapy for 2 years. regardless, the only thing that really transformed my life was my faith. ive been fighting for decades, but i finally see light at the end of the tunnel.
Thank you Fr. Moses for your testimony and inspiring story of forgiveness, love and hope. I can relate. Glory to God and His Holy Church of the Ages! While the devil and his demons and the broken and lost, mean things for evil, there is nothing the Spirit of Christ can’t repurpose for good! Christ is Lord of lords and King of kings!
Keep the the faith 🩸 Romans 3 KJV 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 2 Timothy 4 KJV 7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: 1 John 5 KJV 13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
"I couldn't let go of the past until I let go of the people"... WOW!! This hit so so hard!.. Thank you! Thank you, father! This is powerful! God bless you and yours, father!
Thank you for sharing this Father. I saw in your eyes at the end how wonderful the Hand of God was in your heart in healing this event. It really touched you in a powerful way and it’s wonderful to see the victory God brought you in your life! He is a good God!
I had a terrible relationship as a young man in high school that was sexually manipulative and by engaging in it, it led to a long and painful addiction to pornography. Even now I still feel the tug and pull of the addiction in the back of my mind and it has been a self-medication for being alone and not having a loving woman in my life. Father Moses, watching this has so strongly impacted me on this. I’ve held so much guilt on this and hearing you share has been so incredibly freeing. Thank you for your videos and God bless you. You are doing wonderful things.
Thank you for equating forgivness with compassion, that struck home with me, and has been what I've been practicing. I never understood forgivness, but I do understand compassion. It's not about accepting people's misbehaviour, but about seeing their broken side, their wounded selfish childish sides, this I have compassion for.
Glory to God for this. I experienced consistent abuse and severe trauma as a boy and was forced to hide it. Never allowed acknowledge it happened. I was out of the church for 35 years. Christ and learning to forgive (it takes time for me) and the church has helped me more than i probably even understand
I find that returning to the Jesus Prayer whenever my mind and thoughts go to dark places helps anchor me in the present and helps me not to sin in my thoughts or actions toward close relationships…
I can just feel God's spirit flowing through this man words, i wish everyone could express themselves so freely. It makes other people allow themself to feel and be honest with themselves i think
I've seen you so active in sm and followed you for this type of content. I'm of catholic tradition and pretty much like every other man in modern times in the west i've not been an active member of the church. I believe in Jesus Christ but still can't put it in words to why or how... Despite many attempts to get closer to a religious life i still struggle with sins and can't help to feel unworthy of calling myself a christian. I have reached a good point in life, i'm 25 years old, managed to make it socially and financially after a hard life and just now i feel like this is the missing piece on my heart Keep it up with the videos, they are extremely helpful, i hope next time i comment i'm closer to God. Greetings from Argentina
Thank you for this video. Perfect timing! Been feeling hurt recently and I really needed this. I’ve been forgiving but I need to forgive more and for everything.
Thank you Father Moses, It is as like the Godhand struck you and you made this video right at the best time for me. Thank you for your preaching and for your wise words, which are enriching us.
I needed to hear this today. I’ve been struggling greatly as of late and I feel like I’m self destructing because of all the anger I’ve held onto my whole life. I’ve been praying more regardless of how I feel but I didn’t know what I was doing wrong until now. Thank you so much for sharing your story father Moses god bless you!
Another powerful presentation! I still struggle with forgiveness to this day. I have an Uncle who pretended to be a pastor in the community and he's burned every bridge around him. It wasn't until the death of my aunt I truly witnessed his character w/o any pretense or hiding. I honestly wanted to take his life, in front of the family. He's still around, I just have to limit my time around him.
Thank you Father Moses, Everything you spoke about I relate with. You have confirmed to me what I need to do to move on with my life. Praise be to Jesus. Blessings from Australia.
Thank you for sharing your inspiring story Father! I've been praying for a year now to overcome my temptations, which come in a near constant onslaught. But I still feel like I'm drowning and sinking deeper into the pit. I have no one else to blame but myself for allowing my mind to become so corrupted and darkened by sin. So I wonder, do some of us need to forgive ourselves?
I was sexually abused, it made me enraged and hurt and feel unworthy of love. I didn’t want to tell my mother that it was the babysitter who did it to me, because I didn’t want her to feel guilty like it was her fault for leaving us with that person. I still never have. I love you, father thank you for this video. I forgive him I just need to forgive myself, that’s the hardest thing. It made me feel like dirty or bad for my other teenage sexual experiences. ❤❤ Jesus bless you, I love your content
I am sorry to hear that. I was also sexually abused so, somehow, I think I can understand what you are going through. I have nothing else to say except that it hurts me a lot for the pain you had to go through alone. I hope you will find healing for yourself.
@@sfappetrupavelandrei thank you! Likewise!! I think I’m worthy of love and especially having dreams of the trinity and leaving Islam, I KNOW he cares! It’s just like deep deep down inside, I have this wretched guilt inside me. I’m starting trauma work, and therapy in general has been helping much. I’m sorry you went through the same. We are strong and neuroscientists say our thoughts can make us healthy or sick, we just need to think positive and truly forgive people!
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It is damnable heresy to teach that your religion/church can save you, when only the Saviour can (John 14:6, John 10:1-9), who is Almighty and sinless to do so, and offered His ONE and ALMIGHTY sacrifice on the cross for you to trust over religious clergy and their Traditions of the Elders (Mark 7:8) to save you.
"Father" Moses teaches the judaizing heresy of the Galatians. The Apostles rebuked such things, including by saying that water baptism is only for those ALREADY saved (ie, born again) in Acts 10:47.
Father, can you please recommend videos/resources for spiritual practices that helped you to learn to forget? By 'forgetting,' do you approach each interaction with renewed grace? I am struggling with how to nurture one of my children who is prone to intense, tempestuous feelings.
I relate heavily to your story but instead of finding Christ I found the evil of therapy and self help which made me feel like a ghost for a long time. There was no redemption or moving on I was scared to wake up everyday. Then I found Christ on the internet and started my journey from there. God bless all who are healed through Christ from trauma
I just finished a degree in psychology because of my dream to become a therapist. Do you think there is any hope in psychology or therapy to help peopl? I am reconsidering this approach to my career already but I wonder if people who have a bad opinion on therapy can see the possibility of good in it or whether it is bad from the roots/core.
@@dafish691I don’t know. I think only if the therapist is a practising Orthodox Christian and that’s where the problem also arises. How much can you talk about God and point people in His direction without prozelitising until it becomes a problem that takes your practice away? Or if they seem to not be open to God, pray for wisdom that you can at least help the most depressed or desperate cases to come out of it until they hopefuly find God. And being an example of a good Christian and having a tangential talk about it when questioning and probing might make them more open to it. There are problems with psychology in general, because it’s skewed and wordly with ideas like Freud’s for example. But you can make it your own and be in the presence of these people looking for help and, without forcing it, open this window for them to look at life differently. But again, you need to check what is alowed legally in a practice like this in your state/country. There are books on psychology and psychiatry from an Orthodox spiritual perspective, at least translated in my language (romanian). Look up Archbishop Hierotheos Vlachos for an example.
@@dafish691I believe it is very valid , but we have a huge issue of convincing healthy capable people that wanting to change is wrong , that they are sick , and that they need a bunch of support to be barely functional .
@@dafish691I went into therapy with an honest expression that I feel I’m not living up to my capabilities, my therapist spent months trying to convince me that the issue is me WANTING to be better. And that the answer was in being content with anything that felt pleasant in the moment
I use some inquiry tools to uncover buried, repressed anger which I didn't even know I had till I saw it. That is helping me to clear feelings out and surrender and get closer to God esp. when I read Psalms. The typical landing, ie defence mechanism, for anger repressors is to be small, nice, not good enough, anxious, depressed, wounded or feeling like a victim. This is all to stay safe from buried anger and get approval from others. It's a horrible place to be, so when I see the landings I can dismiss it more these days, get to feel the underlying anger, process it and have more space to surrender to Spirit, and express needs/boundaries with others if I need to. It makes for more authentic relating instead of shutting down or pretending. So these tools can really help if they are used correctly and in union with God.
I got high on weed brownies with my dad and uncle at age 12, took acid at age 14, moved on to blow and ecstasy, then heavy alcoholism. Got “ saved” at my granny’s Pentecostal church at age 22. Left because it’s insane. Got a DUI. Lost my drivers licence. Went to college to become an Addiction Counselor. Became one. Got fired because I couldn’t handle it. Met my Russian wife. Found the Orthodox Church. Was baptized as Nicholas in 2015. Wandered away into the occult, astrology, tarot cards, and freemasonry. Realized it was all satanic. Went back to the Orthodox Church. Confessed. Felt something like a heavy weight fly off my back. Now I’m soon to be 41. I have 3 children. I am 7 days without a drink. Still struggling with cigarettes and demonic attack. Please pray for your brother Nicholas here. Thanks ☦️
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Have you seeked deliverance?
What was insane about the Pentecostal church?
@@Mary-dk7mc the fact that it was Pentecostal 😂
@@nathanielpillay7650 what do you mean specifically?
We're in a time of breaking generational cycles, by the Grace of God!!! My mother broke the cycle of sexual abuse by her parents and escaped their influence. Her, my brother and myself with my husband were baptized into the Church a few years ago. My dad was baptized on his death bed earlier this year thanks be to God and his mercy. I have two small daughters that are cradle Orthodox now. What a joy to see Gods mercies in our lives.
With all of the visible evils seemingly increasing it's hard to miss the good things that are happening. Same story with my family, same story of generational sexual abuse. My mother was able to break the cycle, me and my twin are the last 2 of 7 kids, and we were the 2 lucky enough to born outside of that cycle.
Forgiving the bad others did to us is a very powerful and difficult thing to do, and most of the time that's what we need to free us from it.
False. Retribution is required.
@@RobertLoftyGod will judge you in the same way that you judge others, be prepared.
9:39 “I wasn’t a victim because I wasn’t going to let it define me”
Prayer has helped me stop drinking. I'm determined to repent of my sins. I'm going to my first Devine Liturgy on the 28th of this month.
Let’s gooo!!!!
God Bless you.
i hope to go to my first divine litgury next week, i will pray for you, please pray for me too because i need help discerning something
Amazing, praise the Lord.
You won’t be disappointed. I just went to my first ever Divine Liturgy yesterday, and it was truly an otherworldly experience
It seams like your videos come in at just the right time. It’s crazy. Thanks you’ve helped me out a lot.
Me too
For all of us bro
Yep
God bless you Father Moses.
Struggling with this. I was depressed for 22 years because of the narcissistic patterns of my family home and the slow devouring dysfunction left me deceived and my soul was so ill. My childhood was consumed and now I'm struggling to make a living for myself without that foothold of growth and individuation development. I have this anger too Father, please pray for me.
Will be praying for you. God bless you🙏☦️
@@privateupdate3747 I get you. You feel like an empty shell. I didn’t know it was my family in the first place. Everything was labeled as anxiety/depression. Now I know that I was just a pawn in the game and I have to find my new life in Christ.
Reminds me of that quote, "You can help others with your success, but you can heal them with your scars." Thank you for your testimony Father Moses
Love this!!!
Erasing your past exactly what the monastics do. The only thing I have had trouble with is "living the life I want." Every time I do that I get frustrated and trauma resurfaces. Then I know I'm getting ahead of myself and not trusting God. I've learned to tell myself everday "one day at a time." I think our modern world is so future focused and results driven that it's very damaging. I have to CONSTANTLY remind myself to get out of that mindset. Thank you for your time, Father.
Amen, Father. My siblings and I went through trauma growing up, and only by the grace of God have I been able to get past it. Now, it's my turn to help them get past theirs. Your videos help out a ton. God bless you and anyone who reads this. 👊
I tried every perspective I could get my mind and actions on, but it wasn't until I found Orthodoxy that my life improved.
God bless you Father Moses!!
Thanks Fr. Orthodoxy is the only way of life that has tangibly improved me as a man, and I am just starting my journey. Glory to God! Thank you for your counsel, you along with Fr Peter and Fr Josiah are a treasure trove of knowledge. Glad to be living in a time where all of this info is so accessible!
I'm right there with you. God Bless.
Just curious because no one will answer me on this. Why is it ok to idolize saints in orthodoxy and catholicism?
@@YesanshiWe are all called to become Saints! We definitely don’t idolize Saints in Orthodoxy. We love them, honor them as our brothers and sisters who have run the race and been successful! They are our friends, our closest confidants who are helping and praying for those of us still living and struggling to attain the kingdom of heaven ❤
My sweet father Mosses, I cried and then I cried more, I felt your pain in my chest😔, Thank you 🙏🏼 Lord you became orthodox Christian🕯️🙏🏼✝️🕊️ and he granted with beautiful soul matushka Ruth and blessed you an amazing boys🙏🏼.
Spiritual mothers are the most pure and powerful like Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary.
The Mother of God is
intercession and the immovable hope of protection.
Please forgive me if I ever volunteer or involuntary done anything wrong to you 🙏🏼
You are in my thoughts and prayers !!!🙏🏼
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More than belief, you need FAITH. Belief comes from intellect and logic, Faith comes from your Spirit. Logic can never combat Faith because Faith comes from inherent truths that are embedded in our Spirit and in our very essence, our DNA. 🖤
I needed to hear this today. Thank you for your sincere candor and sharing your journey. That all resonated with me very deeply; even though our stories are respectively different. I also grew up around a lot of yelling, fighting & drinking as a child and teenager. Then I enlisted into the Marines. Got treated like an animal for four years and sent to trashcanistan twice and saw quite enough. Lots of feelings of resentment and anger about the whole experience.
Ended up pushing myself through college and dealing with people who are truly privileged telling me that I am (who grew up poor and then wounded in war). Then went on to work jobs I've fcking hated. Bosses and coworkers I'd love to punch in the face.
My only constant feeling is anger. I get flashes of being red hot and it can keep me up at night. At the world and people.
But yeah, forgiveness and trust in Jesus & God's Will. I'm trying! Thank you, Father Moses.
Love you, brother.
Will be praying for you. God bless you🙏☦️
Wooooo... that's one hell of a message. Well received, father
Not orthodox but heavily resonate with your message and videos. Thank you for unashamedly shining light into the vast darkness of modernity.
Amen! God bless you and all of your family and friends!
I came back to leave a comment and say this video and your previous one were what I needed to hear. Thankyou.
Very powerful statement! Thank you father!
This is a very powerful message father. Thank you very much for your strength, courage and vulnerability. ☦️
Thank father. You have no idea what your video has done to my life. Thank you 🙏 glory be to God.
Thank you Fr. For sharing your story. Forgiveness is so powerful. I got similar advice when I came to the church after growing up in a dysfunctional home (I also self medicated and started drinking at a very young age) then I had a traumatic pregnancy loss and near d.eath experience in my late 20's. I spent years in therapy trying to get over my childhood in my early 20s. I couldn't even speak of the loss without falling apart. I was given the advice to forgive by my priest and eventually I forgave my parents and the medical system that led to the loss of my daughter. Having my boys also made me too busy to dwell; I think that's important too, it forced me to put it behind me though I wasn'tgiven that advice it is very good advice. With that and baptism, I no longer suffer the way I did before, and now I can pray if I flash back and I feel so much comfort. Thank God.
Thank you Father! I’m still healing God’s way after 10 years Orthodox. As a former clinical psychologist I now see the folly in using techniques from Godless teachers!
Love your username haha
@@Jac0bspeaks Hey Jacob, good to see you here
@@cjschweisthal3830 gotta tune in to fr Moses wisdom 🫡
I am looking for a job to gain experience as a psychologist after finally getting my degree in psychology. I'm really curious to know if this branch of career is right for me as a person entering into the orthodox church. Is it poisonous from the core or can it be saved?
@@dafish691 I am going into psychology as well and I truly believe that it can be used to do Gods work. I plan on joining a Christian practice. Christ is the true medicine but having someone to talk to and work through issues with is tremendously helpful
thank you for this insightful message, it has come at just at the right time. All praises to the Most High God.
I’ve been attending catechism for a couple weeks now thanks to Fathers like you. Thank you for these pearls of wisdom and your help. Thank God for you.
God bless you for having the strength to seek the church and to better yourself. And glory be to Christ our God that you are doing so well now.
Romans 11:36…all that you endured proves it…as all things do again and again. Thank you Fr. Moses for such a meaningful video that we all needed to hear.
Romans 4 KJV ♥️
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
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Romans 3 KJV 🩸
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Thank you for sharing your personal experience Father! 🥰🙏🏻☦️
Father thank you. I come from such a similar background, but instead of a school it was at the hands of my own father I suffered greatly. I've watched countless videos about forgiveness and it's been so hard for me to wrap my mind around it until now. I need to learn to forgive because 1 I'm not there anymore I'm in the present, and 2 the biggest thing you elucidated was he's also a very damaged person in his own ways. Those people need compassion just as badly as I need it from others who I might have hurt in my life. Thank you. This gives me so much to think about. Honestly my trauma has brought my anxiety disorders to the brink of killing me and that is no exaggeration, I'm very very ill from it physically. Regardless what happens to my body, thank you for helping me learn to forgive. May God bless you and reward you greatly in heaven for guiding many of us who have no other access to a spiritual Father in our lives.
Thanks for the video. With the grace of God I managed to at least mentally understand why my father neglected me and my brother after our mom died with the amount of loss and grief he went through, and also why his second wife who was abused as a child passed unto us the same evil, and wanted us to suffer just because we were the leftovers of my dad's past life.
I have a degree of compassion and I know that hating them will not help me, but I just don't know how I'm supposed to let go when even without thinking about the past, I'm the product of it in the present, and doesn't matter how much I progress on the surface, I'm still extremely paranoid and anxious and just thinking of pursuing marriage and family life terrifies me because I'm scared to death I will not be able to defend my wife and kids like I didn't defend my brother when we were kids. And taking care of myself physically and doing martial arts didn't diminish that. Prayer keeps me from not losing my mind completely, but since coming into the Church this war only got ten times tougher.
These symptoms of trauma all come from hidden, repressed anger or hurt. Hurt repressors openly express their anger and rage whilst burying the hurt. But for anger repressors like me, it was too dangerous to express that anger for fear of retaliation, punishment or rejection so it got pushed down and buried to the point that it was invisible. I didn't even know I was angry till I uncovered it! That's because the survival defences kick in to stay safe and get approval. Some of those landings, ie defences, include being small, shutdown, nice, wounded, victimised, silent resentment, not good enough, anxious depressed etc. We get distracted and consumed by these defences so we can't see the repressed emotion under it. God gave me the insight to see these landings for what they are, survival programs to stay safe/get approval, to dismiss them and uncover the buried anger underneath. As I started to process the repressed anger and express more authentically to family, I started coming out of that repression hell, and the space for surrender to God is opening up more, esp when I read Psalms. I feel reborn in God but it took some inner work to get there!
Thank you father. God bless
Glory to God
Thank you so much Father. I have been struggling with this for so long. You have truly helped me focus on being a better man for my family
Glad I found you Fr
This is describing me exactly right now from the trauma of violation, SA when I was a virgin. Happened 8 years ago and still living in that memory every day instead of living in this life. Every day I want to die and I don't know how to heal the way you have father. I pray but relief never comes.
Thank you so much for being open like this, Father. It brought tears to my eyes. This video is very much needed, and you going out on a limb to be open like that speaks alot of your character. I was abused as a child for most of my young years by a parent and what you said about the anger resonates so heavily with me. Truly, forgivness and forgetfulness- wiping that slate clean of the rot and moving onward is where its at. God bless you always
Love you!
@fathermosesmcpherson I love you lots Father, God bless you always
Do more of these board explanations about spirituality / psychology
Thank you Father for your confession, you are the great example how our Lord Christ is making strong people, greetings from Serbia
Thanks you, Father! I'm sure you bring a lot of men to our Lord Jesus Christ.
Best message ever.
Tank you Father, God bless you!
Wow. What amazing timing. Thank you Fr. for this message. It makes me think of so much of my own life and experiences. After I'd been in recovery for a while, I had struggled deeply with anger/rage. It took both of my parent's passing away before I was able to truly let God and prayer and forgiveness return and I can remember that for so long, addiction numbed the rage, but the rage filled the emptiness and it was something I clung to. Resentment was another. Those feelings still come even many years later, but I give it to God and ask him to forgive me. I have been struggling with a lot of despondency and anxiety these days, so this message really resonated. Thank you so much! God bless you!
Father, this video made me cry. I admire your strength to see past the evils and channel it into goodness. There's such power in courage. Best wishes ✨
God bless you, father. I was born in Germany as an orthodox Christian with a Syrian background. Growing up in the West, I came into contact with Evangelicals and left the church in 2014 for Sola Scriptura. I was a very devoted street preacher for many years. Last year, by the grace of God I found back to the Orthodox Church by discovering the true meaning of the holy Eucharist.
Thank you father i absolutely needed this. I was groomed when I was 11 years old, and that really fundamentally changed me as a person and how i viewed myself. I thought my entire worth of a person was dependent on how desirable i was to men, and this led me down a really dark path in my teens of doing things i really regret, and things that were really messed up spiritually and probably to a lot of secular people as well. Im an Orthodox Catechumen now at 22, and i thought i overcame lust and my really depraved desires, but when i decided to get off my birth control, i realized that was my crutch, and its been a very active battle every since, but I have been winning. Thank you so much for sharing, i needed this for my soul, God bless all of your work and may you continue to help souls like mine ☦️
Blimey. What an incredible and profoundly humbling testimony, Father. God bless you in everything that you do, and thank you for ministry of encouragement and guidance for our generations.
Thank you father for sharing your story. I pray that my husband deals with his trauma and learns to forgive.
Glory to Jesus Christ!!! 🙏🏻☦️
I was so hoping you would say you forgave them. I lost my family tragically as a child, and then was abused by my foster "dad." I don't know how, but God put it in my heart to forgive him and I tho't that he must have had serious problems of his own to do that, even tho' I was only 12 and he had terrified me. I was spared future abuse when my f-mom divorced him. God also saved me from much worse abuse by my f-mom leaving a sick cult she was involved in for a while, where 2 of my brothers and some of my cousins were gravely abused! I never suffered the repercussions of that experience like many girls do who have been abused. Forgiving the evil deeds committed against us by others is the remedy to restoring one's own life. And when they come to mind, forgive again and again, until they are buried for good. God bless you, Father.
God bless you! 🫶🏼
God bless you father. I have been walking in faith for the last few years after being an atheist for most of my life, even though i was baptized as a greek orthodox. I come from a deeply, deeply dysfunctional home, and could not believe that God is real if he is letting things like this happen to children. but i understand now. thank you so much for this, my story is very similar to yours and every word you said resonated in my soul. thank you for showing me the way out. it is difficult since i have no mentor or support system, but i will follow your advice diligently, and i will make it out.
Get yourself a good wake up routine
Do some sort exercises plus stretching at least 3 times a week
Review each day at night
What did I do wrong today?
What I could do better
Finsh with what you did good and prayer
@@dee-ix3iq thank you! ive been hitting the gym for 12 years, and doing martial arts since i was 3 years old, i recognize the importance of being physically active. i also went to therapy for 2 years. regardless, the only thing that really transformed my life was my faith. ive been fighting for decades, but i finally see light at the end of the tunnel.
Thank you Fr. Moses for your testimony and inspiring story of forgiveness, love and hope. I can relate. Glory to God and His Holy Church of the Ages! While the devil and his demons and the broken and lost, mean things for evil, there is nothing the Spirit of Christ can’t repurpose for good! Christ is Lord of lords and King of kings!
Keep the the faith 🩸
Romans 3 KJV 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
2 Timothy 4 KJV
7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
1 John 5 KJV
13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
God Bless You Father Moses
Thank you Father Moses, God Bless you.
Father, thank you for sharing your story.
Father Moses. Thank you for this. So needed !
"I couldn't let go of the past until I let go of the people"... WOW!! This hit so so hard!.. Thank you! Thank you, father! This is powerful! God bless you and yours, father!
Thank you for sharing this Father. I saw in your eyes at the end how wonderful the Hand of God was in your heart in healing this event. It really touched you in a powerful way and it’s wonderful to see the victory God brought you in your life! He is a good God!
I had a terrible relationship as a young man in high school that was sexually manipulative and by engaging in it, it led to a long and painful addiction to pornography. Even now I still feel the tug and pull of the addiction in the back of my mind and it has been a self-medication for being alone and not having a loving woman in my life.
Father Moses, watching this has so strongly impacted me on this. I’ve held so much guilt on this and hearing you share has been so incredibly freeing. Thank you for your videos and God bless you. You are doing wonderful things.
This touched me, thank you Father Moses
Pain can either make or break you. Its what you do with that energy that matters. Blessings to everyone.
Thank you, Father Moses. A powerful and very helpful video. I'm so sorry you went through this. Prayers....
A powerful testimony. Thank you Father for sharing and for your vulnerability.
Thank you for equating forgivness with compassion, that struck home with me, and has been what I've been practicing.
I never understood forgivness, but I do understand compassion.
It's not about accepting people's misbehaviour, but about seeing their broken side, their wounded selfish childish sides, this I have compassion for.
Glory to God for this. I experienced consistent abuse and severe trauma as a boy and was forced to hide it. Never allowed acknowledge it happened. I was out of the church for 35 years. Christ and learning to forgive (it takes time for me) and the church has helped me more than i probably even understand
I find that returning to the Jesus Prayer whenever my mind and thoughts go to dark places helps anchor me in the present and helps me not to sin in my thoughts or actions toward close relationships…
I can just feel God's spirit flowing through this man words, i wish everyone could express themselves so freely. It makes other people allow themself to feel and be honest with themselves i think
I've seen you so active in sm and followed you for this type of content. I'm of catholic tradition and pretty much like every other man in modern times in the west i've not been an active member of the church. I believe in Jesus Christ but still can't put it in words to why or how...
Despite many attempts to get closer to a religious life i still struggle with sins and can't help to feel unworthy of calling myself a christian. I have reached a good point in life, i'm 25 years old, managed to make it socially and financially after a hard life and just now i feel like this is the missing piece on my heart
Keep it up with the videos, they are extremely helpful, i hope next time i comment i'm closer to God. Greetings from Argentina
Thank you for this video. Perfect timing! Been feeling hurt recently and I really needed this. I’ve been forgiving but I need to forgive more and for everything.
MOSES, you DO NOT understand how much I NEEEDED this right now. Oh my, thank you Lord for providing me with this video
Thank you Father Moses,
It is as like the Godhand struck you and you made this video right at the best time for me.
Thank you for your preaching and for your wise words, which are enriching us.
I needed to hear this today. I’ve been struggling greatly as of late and I feel like I’m self destructing because of all the anger I’ve held onto my whole life. I’ve been praying more regardless of how I feel but I didn’t know what I was doing wrong until now. Thank you so much for sharing your story father Moses god bless you!
It is my first time watching your videos. You will be in my proskomidies. God bless you dear Father 🙏
God bless you father Moses, I needed to hear that today, Lord have mercy and save us amen.
Another powerful presentation! I still struggle with forgiveness to this day. I have an Uncle who pretended to be a pastor in the community and he's burned every bridge around him. It wasn't until the death of my aunt I truly witnessed his character w/o any pretense or hiding. I honestly wanted to take his life, in front of the family. He's still around, I just have to limit my time around him.
I needed this Father Moses, God bless.
Thank you Father Moses,
Everything you spoke about I relate with.
You have confirmed to me what I need to do to move on with my life.
Praise be to Jesus.
Blessings from Australia.
Thank you Father Moses God bless you
Thank you for sharing your inspiring story Father!
I've been praying for a year now to overcome my temptations, which come in a near constant onslaught. But I still feel like I'm drowning and sinking deeper into the pit.
I have no one else to blame but myself for allowing my mind to become so corrupted and darkened by sin. So I wonder, do some of us need to forgive ourselves?
Thank you Father. Very helpful video. Reinforces last weeks homily. Forgiveness has been on my mind
Powerful stuff Fr Moses! ☦️ Thank you
Amen brother! Very similar backstory and I had forgotten how important forgiving and forgetting is! Thank you!
Thank you, Father for that wonderful insight.
All Glory to GOD, Father, Son and Holy Spirit ☦️🙏❤️🕊
Father - thank you for sharing this. Glory to God you let go of the past and have now written a better story through forgiveness.
God bless you always Father Moses. much love. this video hits deep. Praise God ✝
❤thank you for sharing this video father❤
Wow, thank you for sharing Father Moses, life changing video this is.Thank you God.
Thank you for your wisdom father! God bless all here! 🙏💕✨
Wow. That's good... Amen, God bless, and thank you.
God bless you Father Moses
What a tremendous testimony. I had no idea. God has truly Blessed you.
Love this man! Thank you for your testimony!
Amazing and inspiring work that God has done through you Fr. Moses, wisdom is a gift of the Holy Spirit.
I was sexually abused, it made me enraged and hurt and feel unworthy of love.
I didn’t want to tell my mother that it was the babysitter who did it to me, because I didn’t want her to feel guilty like it was her fault for leaving us with that person.
I still never have. I love you, father thank you for this video.
I forgive him I just need to forgive myself, that’s the hardest thing. It made me feel like dirty or bad for my other teenage sexual experiences.
❤❤ Jesus bless you, I love your content
I am sorry to hear that. I was also sexually abused so, somehow, I think I can understand what you are going through.
I have nothing else to say except that it hurts me a lot for the pain you had to go through alone. I hope you will find healing for yourself.
@@sfappetrupavelandrei thank you! Likewise!! I think I’m worthy of love and especially having dreams of the trinity and leaving Islam, I KNOW he cares!
It’s just like deep deep down inside, I have this wretched guilt inside me. I’m starting trauma work, and therapy in general has been helping much. I’m sorry you went through the same.
We are strong and neuroscientists say our thoughts can make us healthy or sick, we just need to think positive and truly forgive people!