This moved me SO DEEPLY! Christians, time for a gut check…
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- You absolutely needs to see this! This moved me so deeply and I want to shine a spotlight on it and talk about it with you. It's gut check time, what are we doing out here, Christians? Take a look :)
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“Before God can use you fully, He must own you completely”… chills 🤯
Thats the definition of LORD !
His ownership is HIS DOING! its not anything of our own doing(so no boasting in/of self), so all glory goes to He whois worthy of praise.
I want you to own me completely Lord
Help me to surrender all
"[Some Pastors] are more in love with their ministry for God, than the God of their ministry" - that was such a good line.
From 16:35
We have as a church repented for that.. God its Your spirit loving us and teaching us
In love with Satan and money
You're going to Thank mee
Yeah, that hits.
Excellent! Our marriage was dead 22 years ago, and it took death to ourselves to save it. March 20 will be 41 years. His mercies are new every morning! ❤
So glad you could do this. I wish my ex wife and I could do the same.
So Christianity is self loathing and masochism. Good to know.
Amazing Testimony!
March 3rd wb our 40th and we don't even talk about them anymore.
If He can do it for yours, then I believe He'll do it for ours! All Glory and Honor to our Father in the name of King Jesus!
Married 20 years and we are at “that” moment in our marriage. Time for me to die to myself! Thanks for sharing your testimony. Gives me hope.
If every Christian asked God what is wrong in their lives, and confessed, we would have a revival like we could not imagine.
We tend to have this backwards, we distract ourselves with the faults of others! May we come to a place true repentance and humility!
AMEN!!!!
Remembered a quote that has always stayed with me, "Following Jesus isn't about a stroll down a primrose path, but an upward climb to Calvary."
Calvary is the beginning not the end of the climb. We don't earn our salvaition.
Sharon. I love that 💗✝️
@@jonslagill8864 Thanks for your comment. I didn't say anything about salvation. I don't believe we "earn" our salvation either to get it or to keep it. In my mind I was referencing those who "follow" Jesus...believers who follow Jesus. "Then he said to them all, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me." (Luke 9:23)
We go to go to Calvary to take up our cross,
Power comes from Calvary from the cross ,
Not at the cross,from the Cross.
The same Spirit that raised Christ.
Only Jesus as the Power to give Life.
Victoriously in Christ,
By my Spirit says the Lord.
Jesus paid the Price with Gods blood.
Robbie is my Pastor, I was at the sermon.... God has been moving in Long Hollow Church for over a year and half... Because Robbie allowed God to move in him and break him... True Revival is such a tremendous experience. Thanks for showing this.
Me too. I’m so grateful to have moved here last year and find Long Hollow and Pastor Robbie. Life changing.
I'm hoping my Church will get into Revival Mode. My Pastor just reads a Scripture every Sunday. Just tickling the ears. God Bless Everyone
Congrats to him & you❣️
Would you _please_ tell him the word he wanted to use was ENVY, not "jealousy" ❓
This is a very common mistake nowadays, but I don't want him to be embarrassed by such ignorance since he represents Christ. Thank you 🕊️
Unfortunately, I live in a small town and with a vehicle that is on its last leg , I don't have the ability to get to a better church . Small town politics and small faith runs thick here. Since God pulled me out of the darkness 4 years ago , I've been to online church and this . I pray for a miracle to be blessed with a church that's on fire for the Lord . A real church full of the Holy Spirit. Instead a sleeping church . I am hungry !
I will pray for you and your church as I am looking for a church too. fasting really brings about such transformation also will take you to another level with God. Keep asking, knocking seeking Brethern
Blessed are those who hunger & thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled!!!!
Amen! Praise God!!!!!!
Connect with some other people in your town that are also searching for the Holy Spirit. You guys together could start a revival. God is good when you're true to his word so stay in your bibles! The church doesn't have to be a building. God will provide for you.
I hear you, I am in a similar situation. I went to a church for the first time in a long time last week. There were maybe 12 people there and the service was not impressive, but God has drawn me here for a purpose, to light the fire for Him!!
I pray He guides you somewhere where you can help a church, rather than a church that can help you. ❤️🔥🙏
Our time is short, we must grab every soul we can on our way up 🕊️✌️
We are destroyed by pride. When I finally grasped that, my faith journey changed. My walk with Jesus changed. My heart changed. PTL!
Bless you sister
YES!!!!!!!! I had to die to myself to love Jesus the way I should. The way the King who died for me deserves!! I honestly didn't realize that I had so much pride. It made an incredible difference. I went from believing in Jesus to knowing Him intimately!! Praise God
I'm praying that God shows me the pride in my heart. I'm having a hard time knowing what that looks like
@@smorgan2799 it took a lot of prayer and I'm not 100% there, but praise God the Holy Spirit is a wonderful teacher
Pride is the enemy's favorite weapon against believers.
He told me, "IF you LOVE ME, you'll TRUST ME".
I have gone through complete failure in most aspects of my life, especially in disobedience to the HOLY SPIRIT!
I felt like a worthless servant until HE SHOWED ME HE LOVES ME. That was the worst blow since I had FAILED the one WHO LOVES ME MOST!
I feel dead but HE IS ALIVE IN ME BECAUSE HE LOVES ME!!
I died 6 months ago. It was the most painfully freeing thing that could ever happen to me and I am glorifying God every day for saving me!!! I had walked in shaky faith for 30+ years until that day, unsure of my salvation and seeing little evidence of sanctification in my life. In the past 6 months I have experienced the incredible pruning of the Lord and the amazing growth that occurs after each cut. He is refining me in the fire and I am not afraid!! ❤️🔥🕊️✌️
I’m in the Fire right now! Suffering with fibromyalgia and very little funds.. it’s very difficult. The pain in my body is some days unbearable.. but He told me I was in the Fire and I will come out pure as gold.. and I won’t even smell like smoke! I can’t wait though til this pain is over! Pray for strength for me! Ty! Great video!!
@@sandraschofield9520 Your faith is beautiful! Stay strong in the Lord, I'm praying for you!!
@@saraholson287lovesJesus Ty! Yes, being in the fire is not easy at all and dying completely to yourself isn’t either! But it will be worth it! I’m going to be going into full-time ministry after the new year and so he’s got a purge me. He’s got a heal me deliver me make me pure is gold, so I’m worthy of serving him. I do serve him now, but not full-time so there’s a lot that needs to get out of me, I know it’s painful I know it’ll be worth it! Just pray again for strength for me. Thank you so much. God bless you.❤️
If you died 6 months ago,are you talking to us from heavens or from Earth?I thought you people go to heavens once you die,but for some reason I feel as you are still on this Earth.What is the problem you have changed your mind, you prefer to live on this Earth?Well you have made the right decision because we as J.W.believe that the Bible is mostly about how we can live on this Earth peacefully as brothers and sisters, and even live everlasting life here on this Earth Paradise Earth.Hopefuly you too will be among those that will survive the Armageddon and live here on this Earth for ever.
This is a process that does not end. Every time I think God has stripped me bare of self up pops something else and I have to go to work at dying once again.
Yes agree ... it's been the same for me.
Yes, Exactly….me, too.
Vine dresser will prunes us to produce more and more fruit
A vine dresser prunes his branches to produce more fruit. “I am the true vine, and my father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me who does not bear fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.” John 15:1-3
Are you sure about going to work at dying. We don't work we rest in the finished work in Christ and only there can we see true victory. The minute we go to work at dying Satan has already won the battle. It is walking out the victory not going to work to get the victory.
We all have to die to ourselves and be raised in Christ.
Christians are sojouners here on Earth. I was born again last month and only discovered Christ and the Holy Bible in Jan. Jesus took away my substance abuse (weed and alcohol), depression and anxiety instantly when i became a bondservant to Him through repentance and baptism.
We are all slaves to something and I am blessed that i am now a servant to Christ. I now live to praise the Lord in all things i do.
He is so loving and patient!!! I cling to him because he saved my life and gave me everlasting life and im so peaceful now.
All glory to God!
Amen ❤
I've only been learning this the past year. Mikayla Kooper's testimony and vids have truly helped me. Praise be to God. He is patient and kind and King.
To which God you giving your glory?For example I give my glory to the only true God JEHOVAH the Father and God of JESUS CHRIST and our Father and God.Why are you people giving your glory always to unknown Gods and Lords?Hiding behind titles, useless titles without a name?
@@nikolapejcinovski5990 What are you going on about? Your comments are accusatory towards us who are praising Christ and God. You seem to be here only to judge us, and yet you claim to follow the Bible. Study more and ask the Spirit for understanding, because you seem to not understand at all.
The American Church needs this desperately!!
ABSOLUTELY.
CORRECT.
Amen
Im not a pastor but im going through this right now. Praise God!!!!
I am a missionary in Thailand. Before that I was a pastor in the US. This has been the key issue that I have been teaching on for a number of years! I am overjoyed to see that, like Nate said, God has been doing the same work in other pastors at the same time He is doing it in me! Praise God!
Praying for you, Jeff! Thanks for your thoughts 😊
God help us all .i have been sitting with same problem not confessing my sins before becoming a Christian i never deid to self .and moving to a new city with a new pastor i heard things coming over the pull pit and he would sometimes mention peoples names or spoke to others about his congregaitions things they did in their past .i could not understand where he got all the stories from as i was not used to a ministry like that where i came from the pastor or the deacon would call the person and find out first what happened and pray about it .but i found out this pastor and his wife would look up into peoples past go even to people that knows his church.people and even if he has to go to unbelievers he goes there to find out about his gongregation and i was one of them .he does not speak good of anybody he destroys instead of helping .im sitting without a church today with all the stories and some leis that he spread about me more people left because of the way he embaressed us from the pull pit .i realy had a hard time forgiving this pastor .i love going to church and the gongregation but i dont trust this citys pastors we are gathering together with house church now but i know i have to move to find the body of Christ and the real church of Christ .i miss my old church but due to jobs and family i cant move back there .please pray for me im in my 70s and i need to get back to a Holy Spirit filled Church of the Living God God Blessyou all
I need to check what I have in. Me from GALATION 5 ;19-21 and repent die to the flesh and jump in the Spirit of the living God that he want me to walk with him in a new life like jesus
I had one of these moments in April of 2018 I was hanging onto my sin so tight, hiding it in the dark, Jesus had to shock me to my core to make me realize my family will never be the family I was trying to build unless I surrendered my life and my desires to Him. I almost lost my wife because I cared more about my sin than serving Jesus and my family. I cannot express how much I struggled with surrender of anything. But I can say it was the best day of my life when I realized I had to die to myself to fully serve my Lord and my family.
God bless you and your family! As I was being drawn back to Christ from my prodigal years, I kept having the thought, "drop the fantasy."
I had been caught up in New Age power of positive thinking manifestation practices and deceived by Joseph Campbell's meaning of life statement, "follow your bliss." From this, I had lived a massive fantasy life which drowned out God's will for me. "Follow your bliss" is not only selfish, but deadly. Not something you tell an addict. When I started taking my fantasies to the cross and letting them die, I finally tasted freedom. Praise God!
Please pray for X who lost his marriage rather than give up porn.
@@annestrada1724 Yes. Praying. This is one I was delivered from. I pray the same for x. No program or support group could do it. But the true Gospel can and does have the power to remove this appetite. Lord, teach x by your Holy Spirit, convict his heart with mercy and "lead him not unto temptation." Please bless and comfort his spouse and Lord willing, heal their marraige. In the very least comfort her in her grief, we pray in Jesus name, amen.
@@annestrada1724prayers ❤
@@gospel.journeysAmen
I think this is whats been on my heart for the longest time. I got baptized and recommitted my life to Jesus this past summer and I thought things would be easier. But I think that God has been revealing things that have been inside me that were covered up by addiction. It is taken years. Its difficult, but I know and believe that Jesus will help me through this time.
@ greensword2244, Keep trusting in Jesus Christ because He will never leave you or forsake you!!!❤
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How were these things revealed? I want more of God.
@michiecarter7806 so very very true.
That's my pastor, Robby Gallaty in Hendersonvile TN. Such a humble man and a genuine follower. God bless you pastor Robby and all that you have taught me.
I have only come across this post now. I am almost done listening to all of it. This is truth. I have such a hunger for truth. About four months ago I realised that in order for revival to come it starts with me. Lord change me in order to see others change around me. At the age of 73 I got rid of the rootof bitterness(did not realise I was carrying it) the result was transfimational it felt like being born again again.the following morning when I looked in the mirror I looked different 🔥 I totally agree and could not stop listening to this amazing message.. Yes dying to self the way up is the way down. We have to get rid of jealousy pride and other things that hold us captive in order fir us to be effectivein the kingdom. Love the Americans and Israel. Be blessed be very blessed. Andre from SA.
I’m almost 70 and God is teaching me the same thing. It’s painfully peaceful. Life long habits of anger, jealousy, and feeling sorry for myself. I wish that I hadn’t fought over this with the Holy Spirit for so long.
I'd love to know how you got rid of that. I'm 73 and I struggle with that too.
I heard a quote several years ago that I penned in my Bible. "When we are concerned about our needs, our rights, our just deserves, we are least effective for the kingdom of Christ." In Christ alone, our hope is found. ❤
Amen
@@starrystarrynight6281Better late than never! ❤
My pastor preaches the same. Glory to God. Its refreshing to see other pastors doing the same. God is so good 💯
I happened to have had lunch with my pastor (1 of 2 pastors) today at the last minute. My pastor (of a church of about 30 members only) looked at me after lunch and asked me what he could be doing better to serve myself and my wife, and if I had anything to say regarding how the church is being run or managed. This video made me so thankful for my awesome pastors who I see die to self every week to provide for our church. They exemplify our church mission which is “to know Jesus and make Him known.” Really encouraged by this Nate, thanks for sharing. I know I’m exactly in the church God has for my family!
Praise God, Cole! So glad to hear that :)
PASTORS ASKING MAN WHAT THEY NEED TO HEAR …. 😳
THEY ARE ASKING THE WRONG PEOPLE
WOW
AND GROSS
FEEDING MANS FLESH IS A DIFFERENT ACCURSED GOSPEL
JESUS ASKING MAN WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO TEACH ON…🤢
@@beppiekyou missed the point completely!
To know Jesus is to know He never asked for someone’s advice or opinion .
what to do to server =/= what to teach@@beppiek
Whenever I genuinely ask the Spirit to put His finger on anything in my life that is wrong. And it always happens! His gentle voice tells me and I am called to repent…all day as it happens. Without this, I am not walking truly with God. The message you gave is the most important of anything. Take this from a 65 year old who’s known the Lord since she was 14.
I want that! I ask but I don’t know how to tell or hear what it is I am to do.
@@ashtonnn777I will give you a tip and listen carefully! U have to sit down and close your eyes ! And concentrate on your breathing ! Then Ask what u need ❤
Thanks!!
BEFORE GOD CAN EVER USE YOU FULLY,HE MUST OWN YOU OR HAVE YOU COMPLETELY
I'm still crying after watching this video. I wake up praying with gratitude every morning before i do anything else. After clicking on a few shorts about Jesus and worship, this 8 month old video is in my feed this morning. So many times messages from different videos overlap. This is for what i pray. Praise you Lord Jesus. Thank you Nate. Happy belated birthday!
Thank you, Nate. Today my husband told me something true about myself that hurt deeply. Today I found this video. It’s painful, I am humbled. I need to die to myself, take up my cross. I want Jesus to live through me, own me completely.
Welcome to the truth about all of us! God bless your honesty. He already knows the truth about us… He can use us if we confess the truth about us. We are nothing without him. ❤
I can identify with that statement at 23 yrs of marriage. I have since realized that none of us have any goodness in us except Jesus. All virtue belongs to the Lord. It's him who did the work in us to get us where we are today. I can't Love anyone not my husband, not people, no one without his Holy Spirit in me working and me dying to myself too. It's a hard road that leads to life as it is written. Shalom Aleichem Mishpocah. 🇱🇷🇮🇱🛐✝️🕊️🙌🪔
AMEIN!!!
@@niaholmes7577you can Google it. Something like peace, family I think.
Pray for me to reduce anger .
I have the same issue. Be more in the word to get closer to our savior. He will help you through this. His peace and healing is real!
Same here. I have way too much of it, even for the right reasons…this world is broken.
My problem as well. 😢. God help us.
It's all about Jesus, y'all can't do ANYthing on your own!...NOthing on your own...ONLY HIM IN YOU...listen to the whole sermon! Pick up your cross (die) daily, listen and OBEY Him only. Then and only then will "your anger" be gone!
This is so true. So many pastors are busy “living their best life now” and teaching others to do the same. Dying to self is a painful process but a necessary one, if we want to be fruitful as we follow and obey Jesus.
“If”…key word
It’s surprising to me that so many are just hearing this message, almost 50 years ago when I was 12 my youth pastor taught us this in Sunday school. That was back when the church drove buses around, invited us to church and drove us there. I am still so thankful for those people for my introduction to my lord and savior Jesus Christ.
Amen to that.
Maybe in 20yrs, someone will say, "Its surprising to me that so many ppl are just hearing this message. I heard this message two decades ago, when I was watching The Wise Disciple..."
For some of us, we've heard the message, but needed the reminder.
And some ppl are 12yo today, just like you were almost 50yrs ago.
And some are 62yo "baby Christians".
God timing is PERFECT for each & every individual.
I'm 32 and I was wondering the same thing. I thought that passage and concept was one of the most commonly known and understood among Christians.
I was wondering if I was missing something, the further into the video I got.
Now I'm wondering what does it say about the church and their leaders that that scripture struck them with such a profound epiphany as if they never read or heard of it before. Makes me wonder what their status is on studying and teaching scripture.. If you're still a babe feeding on milk, then what makes you think you should be out there trying to recruit more people to the church you're leading, much less leading it?
I fully agree with him there 16:50.. I've seen it even in my teens, about 13-14 years ago. Me going to church with a friend every few or every other week, and several times having a different church leader approaching me with a small conversation, and shortly after I oblige them, them ask me to sign some kind of paper like they're competing salesmen trying to fill quotas.
Hi Dean, it is sad isn't it? But it happens. I was baptized and confirmed in the Episcopal church. I know the church tried to reach me but I was distracted by the world. I don't remember reading the Bible much or "getting the message." After I graduated high school my family and I stopped going, for many reasons, none of which were good. Worship was replaced with a lot of therapy and self-help. Did I fail or did the church fail? Maybe both. My dad passed away in 2022 and I joined a Grief Share support group in conjunction with a non-denominational church. I didn't know many of the scriptures we discussed but I found comfort and a seed was planted. So much happened the following year and now I am recommitted to the Lord. Looking back I never knew God like I do now. I always believed but now I am different and it's amazing! Daily prayer, daily passages and Bible study. I'm glad that He's always been there and that I am learning to put Him first.
ABSOLUTELY!
This is it, for months I have had this feeling. It was a sense of foreboding as if there was an impending death, and the feeling that I was supposed to do something that I just wasn't doing but I never put the two feelings together. I heard the pastor talking, then Nate commented and everything became crystal clear and every hair on my body stood up. I was at work so I choked down tears the best I could but I instantly knew what I was supposed to do. God bless this pastor, and God bless Nate. People, if God is telling us is time to die then let's get to it because if we do the revivals will come. Even if it just starts in your family and stops.... Wouldn't it be worth it? Lord help us get out of your way, and use us for everything you have planned for us in Jesus name.
I’m here too (now - 6 months later) and God is still calling on us to die to self. I’ve got to go get right with Him
8😊😅😅
Amen 🙏
Jason, I want a job that let’s you watch videos at work. My company says no personal videos when they’re paying us. What do you do?
Amen, perfectly said!✝️🕊👑🙏
It is amazing what I just heard. My flesh has been being crucified for more than 2 years it is amazing to know Jesus on a spiritual level. However, being broken and put back together truly hurts. Yet we live from glory to glory. ❤
Amen brother! "Dying" is all over the New Testament. Die to sin and live for God. Paul even said, "I protest, brethren, by the boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily." (1 Corinthians 15:21). Discipleship isn't even possible without death to self, and that must be done daily. Such a good word!
Thank you for sharing and pointing the way. 14 months I've been digging through the bible in search of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. He has put me in Psalms 23 for quite a while. Now I understand that v4 is the progress of my walk-in Christ. Death is just a shadow while I walk with Him as I die to self. He is my light. Pray for me. Things are stripped away and family to support. Thank you.
Thank you Nate for this video brother. As an ex drug addict I can testify first hand to this dying thing. As a believer now for almost 4 years there's still so much of my old self that God is revealing to me that needs to die. This is sometimes uncomfortable to say the least but all so worth it! Thank you brother, this will absolutely be in my prayers more.
Yes, it can be VERY uncomfortable! I pray God continue His work in you, Neland 🙏
Iv done the same journey thru life... He saved me from death, and to night he has made me aware that he is not done with me. Im not scared, he is in my hart... Thank you God 🙏
@@godcorrodedgod amen brother! We are in a family full of people like us! Praise the Lord ! Keep on!
@@neland6515 🙏😊
I don’t even know how I found your channel but I’m glad I did! I’m a new Christian and God called me to be a Pastor in 2020. I’m currently in school and im trying to serve The Lord. I was saved at 35 years old. I was living for the world until God saved me through a accident that almost took my life. Brain injury, Broken shoulder, injured neck and back. I feel how God is calling me to die to my self and live through Him.
Don't believe in the Trinity my friend it's a demonic teaching that leans on the flesh 😢
YES, a total surrender, no holds bar and don't look back... You survived that accident for a reason! Blessings and never doubt this is your time, for such a time like this! Give your all! 21:29
Congratulations! You can do this. You have the amazing spirit of god to lead you and live through you!
I’ve been feeling spiritually dry for a while now. And it’s super important to have messages like these! We must die before we can live for Christ! I’ve also been noticing this sort of problem in the western church for many years now. This is a timely message as much as it is a sobering one. We can’t play games anymore, God’s plans>>>>our plans
Amen, Andrew! Hope you are part of a good church community that will encourage you to take up your cross daily 🙏
@@WiseDisciple I honestly feel like GOD hates me. The one keeping my head above water, while the rest of me is wanting to end it and drown, is Jesus.
I have only one hope it’s his mercy.
Every play whack a mole. THATS MY SIN. never ending game of whack a mole
Knock one down another pops up, knocked that down, another. Wash and repeat, some moles still come up but they are ragged and broken looking and barely can function😂 they are easy to hit.
😖
The board has holes that nothing has come out of yet. The depths to which I have no idea if it were not for God.
I am BROKEN
@@ItsInMyShortsvidshey Wes, thank you for your honesty and vulnerability here. May the Lord bless you for it. I can honestly say that much is the same for my walk if i am honest. Some days it sure feels like I’m a super saint ready to reach this generation by being God’s vessel and disciple. Other days, I barely feel like I know Him, and vice versa like He doesn’t really know me. But I am confident and unwavering in that whether or not I fail on this life, that God’s plans and purposes are true and faithful to the very end. No matter what we do in this life, where we end up, God is a true God of love, faithfulness, and everything that is good towards His people. If I can’t feel the confidence of my present tense, and where I am in my life currently, I can certainly rest assured knowing that my circumstances don’t change who He is. I know I said a lot here, but I hope it helps you out Wes! I’ll be praying for you 🙏🏽😄
@@ItsInMyShortsvidscome out of your feelings.. Of you go to the cancer ward of childrens hospital it will be resolved.. Quickly.. The One that feeds you the God hates you drama is a demonic. It's just one of their tactics they use feelings and emotions as the trigger.. Charles Lawson, John Ramirez, Isaiah Saldivar, Voddie Baucham explain these things well.. Know your enemy and his tactics.. It will lead to Spiritual Maturity.. This causes the Accuser, Deceiver, Satan to Flee because they get exposed..📓🔍🤔🙏💪☝️👍
@Wes108e I am praying for you Wes108e. In our weakness, the Lord is strong. And your story sounds familiar.
May be my opinion so test it, because I'm trying to understand it too, but I get the feeling that the Lord wants honesty. Are you honest with yourself? I pray you can be, in Jesus name, and let His grace and love envelop you.
I've found I struggle because I want to be perfect and right. I want to be wise and kind and all these things. But what happens is I then try being these things in my own strength, apart from God and it fails miserably and leads to more sin and hurt and shame and guilt that becomes almost unbearable.
But in a few rare moments, if i can rest in the grace of God, oh how sweet life is.
Praying brother
My heart has been crying out to the Lord for this for a while. I know God has my answer and I know He has my church I just haven’t found it yet so after watching this I was moved to ask you all as well. May we all receive the prayer you gave us. Thank you Pastor
That’s our pastor Robby gallaty here in Tennessee. Long Hollow Baptist Church
Yes! Mine too ❤
Mine also!
I have never prayed for death so hard and so completely as I am right now!
I’m obviously not perfect in any capacity. The Lord crushed my pride in 2020. Not to say I don’t still have pride and etc etc. but the Lord did this same sanctifying work in me in 2020-2021 and I could be more thankful that he did it.
That's a great point! When the Spirit accomplishes His sanctification in our lives, we are filled up with gratitude. Thanks for the comment 😊
My young adults Pastor just gave a message like this full of confession and he expressed how he was broken to love us more. I thought he was zealous before and now I see what that truly means from the message he gave last Thursday.
It was almost exactly like what this video described.
I love this message! A seed is whole but does not become a plant until it is buried and broken open in order to grow. So too must we be planted in order to break out of the shell we see as whole in order to sprout and grow. The sprout itself is the death of the seed. How beautiful is YHWH that he shows us the way to him in all things, even in creation.
Thank you for that visual and for expounding on that message ❤
This reminds me of when I was finally saved by Jesus, because I wasn't raised a believer; I was saved in my 20s, and before that I was a drug addict, I had control issues, I was secretly prideful and had a bit of a victim mentality. After months, maybe years (I'm not sure) of the Holy Spirit nudging me I finally started to listen to what He was saying and I broke down on my porch and admitted to God all the things that I was doing in my life that were killing my spirit and holding me back, and you are right it was the most painful thing I've ever gone through. But thankfully after my painful confession, I was lighter and the next day I could tell I was changed, and over the next few days I could tell there was a little voice in me telling me that I had to pick up the Book, that it wasn't enough to have stopped my addictive behavior. And I've been a believer ever since and about a year later I was baptized. That year was long and involved AA/MA meetings and lots of prayer, but God made me stronger and the end and I thank Him every day for saving me.
Please pray for me. Elona from Albania ... thank you very much
My Pastor is raw and he preach the truth and he let's Lord have his way all the time
Where?
@@KimmyLuna Atlanta GA
This is a great video. Thank you. We needs honesty and vulnerability in our churches globally. God Bless you. Greetings from Finland
AMEN❣️ There is no ladder to climb, we only need to follow the Lord, our God❣️
Been watching your videos for a while now & somehow missed this one… but as I am laying in bed & feeling very depressed & discouraged as a pastor who feels the pressure of corporate church & flashy influence this video pops up & it’s a clip from one of my favorite pastors, P. Robby!
I needed this. Thank you. This lit a fire under me! Keep doing what you’re doing! I am very thankful that God is using you in powerful ways!
Transparency is powerful! It is rare, but a true Christian must be transparent,
I first came across this passage last summer in a discipleship group I meet with. We are doing the Every Man a Warrior books. This passage is one of the quiet time studies the book puts forth in book #2 on Marriage and raising kids. It has cropped up several more times over the last nine months and I just taught this passage last week with a new group of guys doing the EMAW study. Then Nate drops the YT short a few days ago about this video he will be posting. I watched the Sermon from Long Hollow. God has my attention. I don’t know what it means for me at my church but I definitely understand what I have been missing in my home life. I am the blood clot. Thank you Nate.
I pray that you are able to deny yourself and Come To CHRIST Fully and I hope I am too. I’ve personally been struggling with laziness and pride and lust and I get so worried about my future but I just gotta give my worries and cares To GOD!
Happy birthday, Nate! You bring good solid thinking study to light for us (viewers), I'm so thankful to God! that I found your channel. Thanks for being a podcaster, paster, and teacher. I learned so much about the Bible just by watching your podcasts 🙌. LORD bless you, man.
Love it! God has my attention as well, David. Let's see what He does next 😊
Thank you for sharing brother, the Everyman a warrior books seem interesting. I will definitely check them out.
Yes!! Amen!! Hallelujah!! Its just like the planted seed❤️ you plant it,in essence it dies and creates something beautiful!! Dying to yourself is painful! Relationships,addictions ,habits etc.....but when the new growth comes is the most beautiful thing that will happen to you. You are LITERALLY a new creation!! You have to chip away the pride that is covering the light. Praise God for this pastor!! God has been seriously working on me with this. Wow it has been hard ,and im no where near "there" but the changes ive seen i know are from the Lord!! Praise God hallelujah to the Lamb of God for working on me!! Hes turning me from a wicked carnal human into a beautiful spirit filled child of the King He "knows" intimately!! Thank you Jesus
Dude this is crazy... ive been learning this exact thing the past few months! I remember a few months ago I was "done" doing what God wanted me to do and there was alot of emotional pain in my life at the time (there still is). But I remember shouting at God "I will not do what You have called me to do!" And then opening up the scriptures (in anger) and coming to John 12 and reading "unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies it remains alone"... the Holy Spirit practically shook me to the core and put a massive spotlight on Jesus. I felt like God was beckoning me to obedience in such a profound way, and the path to glory was dying to self and coming after Him.
Anywho this has been my favorite verse in that chapter since
“Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour. Father, glorify Your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, saying, “I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.”
John 12:27-28
This is amazing that God is showing others the same thing.
Hi I just wanted to say thank you for this video, i have been struggling with a lot of things and right now i'm in a similar situation as you mentioned at the end pastors who are not dying and are not giving themselves all to God and are not able to take things with humility. I'm pastor on this church and it's been a struggle, but I've been trying to help rise this church and cleanse it. I ask you for your prayer, My church is called families in Christ in Colombia. It's so sad to see how pride how conceit vanity It's permeating our church, I want to be the pastor that you said at the end. And I'm working on it. Restoring the relationships with people that left our church in a bad way. and with their hearts broken and not being shepherd at all. Thank you Nate.
Yes, Amen...I've been shedding my layers more each & every day... and praying for my son to reach his bottom so he can fill his heart with GOD. While I pray, I have come to realize I need to become soft & quiet with GOD's love (instead of being so critical and shout my critique to my son.
I have layers to leave also... It's the message coming clear.... It takes time to realize because we don't look inward or don't want to look inward. Just because we see what needs to be fixed on someone else doesn't mean we don't need to fix ourselves as far as the death of our previous self. Lots of tears... feeling ashamed and judgemental...we need to come to this point in order to have GOD working through us...thank you for your videos.
Probably one if the Best videos/sharing/teaching I’ve seen.
I have been struggling on this path of discipleship with much of the same thoughts/ processes/ for many years. Around 42 or so.
I am so thankful for this vid that just came up in my playlist - I subscribed.
Thank you brother for allowing Jesus to reveal this and walk through the place of deep self examination and the Calvary road!
I’m trying to say what’s hard to say and my words aren’t expressive enough to say thank you enough - tremendously helpful!
Thank you Sir,
Thank you!
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Thank You for The Transparency & Humility
This is Now where GOD CAN MOVE!
Hallelujah
OMG, God has been breaking me graciously since the beginning of this year. This was very encouraging to me. Thank you for being obedient to God in sharing this truth
How blessed I am. My pastor who meets with me every week because I asked him to give me some homework. Now I go to his house on Thursdays reading a book on the means of grace.
He’s actually been preaching on John 12 for last two months ironically lol
Love it! God is good all the time! 😊
Wow!!! Thank you for sharing. God has been exposing jealousy in me also. I was so shocked when God so gently exposed what was laying dormant. How powerful to see 2 humble, mighty men of God so open, raw and transparent about their truths. I can not thank you enough for this video. God bless you and your ministry.
As a Pastor, death is the greatest blessing I ever went through. Because life was breathed into me and everything in my life…including my ministry. Great message.
Wow! Thank you for this video! I've been looking for a church and the ones I've tried just 'lack' and I couldn't put my finger on it as to why. Now I know. It's funny about 2 months ago I was asking Jesus to show me how to die to self but I didn't completely understand what I was asking. It was a little scary but I KNEW it was something that I had to do. It as if being naked before the Lord, no ego, no hiding anything. It was like layers of 'self' were falling away. I felt how wretched I was compared to the Lord, how small I was and how powerless. I thank the God that I could experience that. My walk is closer to Him and I'll tell ya, I've never had the kind of peace that I have now. Thank you for that wonderful video I think it's really needed right now.
Thank you! This has been resonating in my ears for over a month. Gut checking. Wow! I have been holding on to things because I thought they were part of my personality.
Than you so much for this "gut check" post... my husband and i are not pastors, we are field workers, which makes me feel very lonely at times. I was just scrolling and came across this message. I know it is Holy Spirit as He needed me to do this check.... much love in CHRIST JESUS from S.A.
Good stuff.. even as a missionary in a 3rd world country laying down my life for the gospel, I still need to die more! Thanks for sharing
My ❤! So, so true! It’s not about serving the church’s agenda, but dying to self and yielding to the Holy Spirit! Lord, help us!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATE!!!
KEEP UP THE GOOD DEBATES
MY CHRISTIAN ✝️ BROTHER!!!!
This is why I go to Zion’s River church in Tacoma, WA. Prayed for three years for a church like this. Pastor Jim Shein is doing what these pastors are doing. And the spirit of God is palpable in that room when you walk in to the sanctuary.
Nate, I am a young minister who is only within his first year of working in ministry. Tomorrow I am being licensed by my church, and they want me to share my testimony and my calling. My testimony isn't hard for me to share but my calling is because I never knew how to put it into words. I teared up during this video because this is exactly what God is calling me too. The weakness in pastors when I was growing up. Not willing to answer questions or help develop my walk or others. People more concerned with the numbers in the pews then the souls themselves. Like you say, love for the ministry but not for God. But I didn't know how to explain it or anything. Thank you for sharing this video and I praise God for using you to give me the words to say tomorrow.
I pray God continues to work in your life, to convict you and correct you, as I pray He convicts and corrects me. Thank You brother!
Bless you, NEW Pastor! I sense that your flock will be blessed by your humble heart and love for Jesus!
Gods timing is awesome
To hear this before you begin for me shows us all the goodness of God
I pray for you to keep this message and refer back to frequently
God bless you as you go forward
I came across this video now and I watched it a year ago. This video needs to be watched, digested, and prayed over at least once a year, better, twice a year.
Thank you for sharing this, and thank you for saying what needs to be said out loud.
I have gone to three churches my entire life. I am now going to a fourth church skeptical and reserved due to the collective wounds delivered to me as a member of said churches.
The church I grew up in was a mega church. Now, to be fair, my journey of faith did not really begin until I was 19. There isn't much I can say about the church I grew up in because I was only there because that's where I was raised. I went because my father took me. I learned a lot, of course, but my relationship with Jesus was not...personal. But what I will say about that church, and all other mega churches is this. I find it to be incredibly difficult to make personal relationships within them. And of the leadership, I struggle a great deal in believing and trusting leadership. Simply because of the masses, the large attendance of people watching and listening. But more so with the lack of relationship with leadership. My pastors didn't know me. The one time the senior pastor was in my home, I was on my best behavior, trying to make an impression because I did not want to embarrass my father. I was not free to be authentic and real. And it was because there was no personal relationship.
The second church I went to, my faith had exponentially developed and deepened. But I was running from demons when I got involved in leadership myself. I, like the pastor you introduced us to, was puffed up with pride and arrogance. I should NOT have been given authority over and entire youth group. What's more is that, while I was dating the senior pastor's daughter, I learned a great deal of disturbing things about him. The way he behaved in his personal life, particularly as a father and husband, made it clear he had no business leading a church. And when I spoke too openly about that, I was shut up. My girlfriend at the time was told not to share anything with me. Because he KNEW he was deeply in the wrong.
The last church I went to was arguably the worst. This one felt personal. I was never sought out. I was never known. I was hardly acquaintanced with the pastor before I was asked to serve in one capacity to another. The church was run like a business and not a family. I wasn't even invited into the pastors home until I started dating my now wife, and it was an empty invitation. Other pastors were leaving one-by-one, which lead me on a journey to discover what was happening. I spoke to every single one of them, save one. And again, I learned some disturbing truths.Moreover, that pastor rebuked personality differences and different gifts. He taught that everyone, as a "real Christian" would evangelize like he did. Mind you, this narcissist never kept more than maybe 100 people in his church. And yet, somehow, he had big plans to develop his church into a mega church.
At was when the only other pastor decided to leave that I knew it was time for my wife and I to go. This other pastor, the associate pastor, I trusted. He knew me. He led me. He knew and led my wife. He revealed the same patterns the other pastors had, totally validating and confirming all that I was suspicious of. And so, I left.
But I left with wounds. I am tired of churches in America being run like businesses and not families. There should BE NO CORPORATE LADDER. The people matter, not so much the structure, events, the look of the church, whatever... Yes, those things have their place, but the pastor, hypocritically, was more concerned about running his church business than he was his people. And so I wanted out. Not just of that church, but of all churches. I wanted have community w/Christians outside of the church. I was over it. I still kind of am.
I am trying with this new church. The only reason I am going is because I am spiritually anemic and skeptical. I lost my passion, my fire, for Jesus and His ways. And my wife needed community.
I am solely paying attention to what the pastors teach right now. Nothing else matters if they aren't not teaching directly and accurately from the Bible. But so far, each sermon has been good. There hasn't been any indication from the Spirit, as far as I can tell, that has led me to believe this is not a Bible-based pastoral group. So far, at least. My next goal is to get to know the leadership. There is an opportunity coming up, a men's bonfire at the lead teaching pastors home, that I am considering attending. If I'm honest, I am a wee bit nervous about the idea. Because I won't know anyone. But I don't want to miss opportunities that God has brought forth.
Anyway...
Thanks for reading.
My heart breaks for you. As a pastor's kid, I am intimately familiar with the experience of being disappointed and even betrayed by the knowledge that your pastor is not a person of integrity. You were right to leave. I'm happy to hear you haven't given up on God because He certainly hasn't given up on you. I will keep you and your church in my prayers. I really want you to find a community you can love and trust that will allow you to be vulnerable so you can learn and serve under the godly leadership. May God bless you and keep you.
There was no room for God in my heart until He took everything I had away from me and sent me to jail. I left jail with nothing but had everything when God came into my heart. That was 35 years ago and the process of denying myself and taking up my cross never ends. That's why we must always be fed with God's Word.
Great ! Great word - Praise God! I am in a church that is totally Christ Centered. And yes my pastor shares gut wrenching mistakes of his own that leads him to teach us. Amazing ❤️
So glad for this Pastor's honesty. People are supposed to do God's Will NOT theirs. Too many pastors today are full of Arrogance, Pride and Ego. All the things that do NOT REPRESENT Jesus or His Love for Mankind. Some have turned God's House into a den of thieves and refer to it as a " business" instead of a House of Prayer". Some have no love in their hearts for people. They make it all about them and their ego rather than the Love and Will of Almighty God, who wants the World to know He sent His only Begotten Son so that the World can be saved...We won't see true Revival until the Lord cleans His house and change these leaders into True God- Fearing Shepards who yield to the Holy Spirit in doing God's Work. May this Pastor be Blessed for his honesty and be an EXAMPLE to many others who need to submit to God's Will so TRUE revival can come...🔥✝️💖🕊
So proud that this is my church and my pastor ♥
This was so refreshing to hear and spot on. A real confirmation. God has been doing this in my heart for the past year or more…exactly💕
Good post! Once saved it seems this is the centerpiece of walking the path. Repentance, walking towards holiness. We must allow the Holy Spirit to show us our shortcomings because many times we are unable to see them on our own. The more we get our personal baggage out of the way the more God can accomplish through us. That really is the point of it all, and we need to realize that. We've already been offered the free gift of salvation. What should our response be? Remember the parable of the talent; don't bury yours!
Holy cow….this is EXACTLY what I needed to hear….placed in my life today, as God is calling me to be a light and minister in an evil and broken town. I need to see my own short comings and I need to die to self before I can be used fully!!! Thank you for sharing this. I am humbled by the way that I am being led and taught line upon line, precept upon precept so that I can be FULLY used by Him!
Nate! I have been binge watching your channel for the last couple of weeks since I found your channel. I have learned a lot about how to better engage people with the Word of God. Thank you for that! I will have to say that this video spoke right to me. I am an assistant Pastor and worship leader at our church. While I will say that our leadership has been pretty good at loving people, I still feel that there is something more that needs to happen in this church for revival to happen. I do think it has a lot to do with what you say here! I am taking it to heart what you shared and will be putting this into practice. Thank you for you faithful service to the Lord!!!
This has been on my mind as well. For me, it started a few years ago. I started having the same imagery play over and over in my mind. I was walking in a wilderness and came to a clearing. In this clearing there was a mouth to a cave, and I saw Jesus standing next to it, pointing into it. It was as though He was telling me this was the way, and there was no other. He was calling me into it. Something in me recoiled, and I realized I could either go back into the wilderness or entrust myself to Him and enter in. The more I considered this imagery in my mind, the clearer it became a picture of what Bonhoeffer once said “when Christ calls a man he bids him come and die.” I understood that Jesus was calling me out of the wilderness and my wandering into dying with Him, into fellowship with Him. I also began to think about how He wasn’t calling me into something He hadn’t already traversed. He would be with me every step of the way, and would see me to the end.
A month after my wife and I got married our church unexpectedly closed and we were devastated. That had been the only community we’d known since God had saved us (for me, 7 years prior and for her around 5 years). We spent the next year searching and couldn’t find a church. Thankfully, we recently did, but it’s meant having to pack up and move a few hours North of where we are now. But it’s entirely worth it. And I would echo the encouragement expressed in this video to seek out churches that have shepherds and overseers who model this and call the congregation into it through discipleship and biblical community. Living out the one another’s together while encouraging one another to look to Jesus as our greatest Hope.
THATS MY PASTOR!!! so crazy that he made the channel! Very dope pastor, dude, and everything in between! 🔥💜💪🏽🤝🏼👏🏽‼️
Just started going back to church about 5 months ago because my oldest daughter being the catalyst on why we've been going back to church. Couldn't have picked a better church to go to. My family and I LOVE it here!
We also go to Long Hollow! My husband was scrolling CZcams and I saw this snip of this video and said “weird, that looks like Pastor Robby AND just like our stage!” 😂 How cool to stumble across this!
Can you send me the sermon
Ty
By the grace of GOD I have great pastors who are a true shepherds of CHRIST for the flock under them.
Wise Disciple, GOD richly bless you and your ministry. Amen 🙏
I don’t think I will go shopping for a type of pastor because I judge his style. I go to church to worship my God. I read my Bible I study my Bible I take notes in my Bible I prepare myself. I don’t expect the pastor to do that for me. No one is perfect. You could have an honest, transparent pastor like this guy you have in the video, who behind the scenes does corrupt things. I’m not saying he does, I’m just saying that you could have someone who is a good performer and yet not a righteous man. That’s my take.
My Pastor is totally everything you said a Pastor should be. I travel 132km to church and thank the Holy Spirit for leading me there. Everything on that video we have been taught. I am an English woman living in Cyprus and our church loves and prays for Israel. Maranatha ❤
Happy birthday, Nate. Thank you so much for bringing true knowledge to light for us. I appreciate your podcasts, your knowledge of how you distribute them & how you encourage 👍, you are one good brother in Christ ( also your crew), and we may never meet in this world, but looking forward to meeting you in Heaven!! May LORD bless 🙌 you, brother!!
Thank you, Lutfur! You never know, maybe we'll run into each other one day. Appreciate you 😊
Yes.,Yes, Yes we are deeply loved because they deeply love GOD the FATHER and HIS Son JESUS.
He is no fool to lose what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose! ~Jim Elliot [On giving your life for the cause of Christ]
Oh wow! I've been in this place for over a year. This word is not confined to pastors. Any influence and leadership position are being challenged right now. Myself included.
I am searching for a while.
@@yolandaggray3386 I haven’t seen the video in a while- what are you searching for?
Tears here!!! Pastor thank you!!!!!!!!! This very thing you spoke is what we all needed!!!! Glory to God of the heavens ! For Word!
Just gave this message to my sons yesterday and found this video this morning!
My Pastors are the most kind, loving n real Pastors I have sat under in 14 years! I was looking n looking for my “ tribe”.. and finally God lead me to them through a friend! They love their sheep unconditionally and they go the extra mile to be there for us if needed. Even if you just have been there once or your friend or family member needs help or prayer they are always available! I am so blessed to sit under these amazing shepherds!!! They are true shepherds! 🎁❤️🙌👑🥰
This is so powerful. My God!. We must all humble ourselves before the mighty Hand of God!
At some point in my Christian life I realized I needed to be thankful for all God's blessings to other people. Otherwise it wasn't God's blessings I rejoiced in. This has turned my life around. Now I know what it is like to live an abundant life. Every day I see God bless people around me, and I have continuous reasons to rejoice in God's blessings.
You described to a T. Exactly what I walked out of and that's exactly what I needed! Someone who wasn't intimidated by the anointing or is in competition with each other. Or trying to be in control! I found a place where the Spirit flows and everyone just glorifies and exalts the King and operates in love!
🙏🏻☝🏻🔥🙌🏻❤️👑
Wooowwww 🙏🙏🙏
This video is what I have been reading and meditating on in the Bible today and all this week. I feel a fire in my heart and in my body.
Hosanna!!! Glory to God!
Père, manifeste ta gloire dans nos vie.
In the name of Jesus, amen!
A quote I penned in my Bible as a reminder, its not about me. "When we are concerned about our needs, our rights, our just deserves, we are least effective for the kingdom of Christ." ❤
Amen brother. I live near Harrisonburg VA. I try and walk with the lord daily. If anyone knows of a church or is out near me, I am more than happy to help. We can pray, and give glory to God. Have a blessed day.
Thank you for posting this powerful message. This is absolutely needed for all of us, Christians, to be reminded about our daily lives carrying the cross. Through faith in Him, we can make better choices and live in peace. Amen!🙏
This is what is happening to me right now. I am so glad that the Lord has so carefully stripped me of all the things that cushioned me from laying down my life.
Amen brother. I pray that everyone who watches this take this to heart. God bless you brother.
I love that line, "You are the blood clot". My husband pastored for 40 years and is just stuck because he can't seem to move past being a "pastor" and being a Follower of Jesus. My heart breaks for him.
God sees my groaning heart
and now He answered my-prayer
this Pastor that you are talking about is what i and my family need today
and right now my family are not attending any Church for almost 10years why we cannot find a Church with a Pastor like this one with true and genuine Love for Christ
and Praise be to God
listening to how you interpret his message gave tears to my eyes my heart is hunger for this His Word and i i mean we all human beings and we are looking and hunger for the right spiritual food
to strengthen us along the way
I have that kind of Pastor who has been broken, crushed and allows Holy Spirit to move. You are right about them being rare, and I am so thankful for God sending me to my church with such a wonderful Pastor and church family!