Clarissa Rojas

speaker

264 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard Mar 2025

Clarissa Rojas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

No recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Saved Not Soft · Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas · 5 Mar 2025 podcast

Yeah. And not only that, but a lot of why we've grown to become more receptive of correction and take accountability. I really do believe is because of the loving kindness that is displayed through the spirit of God in the people who we've chosen as our mentors because or who God has placed in our lives as our mentors.

Because scripture literally says it is the loving kindness of God that leads a man to repentance. Yeah. Your condemnation, your harsh words, your mean attitude towards what I'm going through. Here's what I'm going to tell you from experience. When I was dressing very immodestly, I had people throwing stones at me. It wasn't until...

this woman in my church, she was like, Hey, like, I just wanted to add, I can't fully remember the conversation, but I remember like her being so kind about it. And like, really just like, it's just, you're in, she was talking more about my spirit than she was about my outward modesty. And that really convicted me, but it was her kindness about it, her language, her voice, her tone about it.

That made me want to change. Yeah. Forget all those other people who told me thousands of times, you shouldn't be doing that. You shouldn't blah, blah, blah. That didn't make me want to change. In fact, it made me want to rebel a little bit more. I'm going to be honest. But it is truly the loving kindness of God that leads someone to repentance. Condemnation is never going to make anyone change.

You see something wrong on the internet. You see something wrong in your friends. You see something going on in the congregation that shouldn't be happening. How are you going to approach that? For sure. Like, you know, and people can sit here and be like, oh, but Jesus flipped tables. Well, you ain't Jesus. Yeah, you're not Jesus. You ain't Jesus.

And it's like always approaching people with kindness or how I would want to be spoken to because I know from my experiences, kindness has always been the reason I've desired to change. It's the love.

And kindness is not tolerant. That's where people get it mixed up. It's like just because I'm kind doesn't mean I'm being tolerant to your behavior. It's actually I'm empathizing with you and I see the spirit for what it is behind you and realize that I'm not warring against flesh and blood. It's against principalities in the spiritual realm.

So what you were going through with like immodesty or living in secularism, whatever it may be, that wasn't actually you. That was a bigger spirit behind you. But if people are going just to attack and feel this self-righteousness and this like fair say a coal in their heart, then they're going to condemn you and you're going to receive it as condemnation. Right.

But they come, I know what scripture you were talking about was second, second Timothy, uh, chapter two. And I think his verses 24 through 26. And it's like his loving kindness is intended to bring you back to repentance to what? To remove the scales up out of your eyes and to remove you from the trap that the devil has ensnared you in.

So you can no longer be a vessel to do his will, but now do the things of God. And I think it's, um, like I even have a similar testimony to with the modesty thing. People would, cause I was an influencer before I was an influence for Christ. So people were on, as I was, you know, getting safe, people were on my page throwing stones at me and I never heard any of them.

But the moment people started to sit me down, um,

my mentor at the time sat me down and then Amoye sat me down and they were just like look we got to be honest with you here and that's what changed me was so kind and compassionate and it was people who had the authority to call me out and all these randos on the internet that's a big one they were able to see my fruit and they were able to see my relationship with God unlike all these people on the internet and I think another area where I was really ignorant for a

also living a part of the world and listening to a lot of secular music. That, because that played a huge part in my faith. And then also like going out and hanging out with people who weren't really edifying my walk whatsoever. It's like people were telling me, throwing stones at me to not live this lifestyle. Stop listening to that music. Why are you making TikToks to that sound?

I'll just be like, I can listen to whatever I want. I don't have to accept that. Did all these things. And then the moment I actually got sat down and met the compassion of God, I was like, I realize, oh, man, like I actually am wretched and I suck. And but but but the tone does matter. Yeah, because you see, like, do you think Jesus was yelling at the prostitutes?

No, like he sat and ate with them, but he told them the truth.

Yeah, but it's like there's a way to do it.

People don't understand the context of when he flipped the tables. Like everyone who set up the temple to be a marketplace, they knew they shouldn't have done that. So what's that? Like these prostitutes and the tax collectors, like they were in sin and it was like, they didn't understand like the full entirety of who God is versus these people who've been in the temple their whole entire lives.

You send it upstairs. Right. And it's like, God's like, Jesus is like y'all. If anyone should know better as y'all. Yeah. So if anything, there is like a higher conviction for those who are deeply invested into Christ. Yeah. Because,

which is why whenever Moses hit the dang rock out of water or with this stone and the water came out, it took one moment for Moses to drop the whole entire ball because God was like, you should know better out of everybody else. It's not a, there's a lack of grace. No grace is always there. God could have fully taken Moses off the planet or after he did that, but he didn't.

But it's a responsibility, which is what James writes about in chapter three. He says, teachers, understand what you do is highly responsible work because you know better. So it's like when you don't know better, there's a grace for that. And it shouldn't be met with condemnation. It needs to be met with a conviction married with compassion, right?

Showing 201–220 of 264 · page 11 of 14