Overcoming OCD

Hi Everyone,

I always wondered if ocd was really just demons putting thoughts in my head. I struggled with the insanity of ocd till it got to much to bare, I prayed for help.

I always had bad thoughts, and to stop them I would have to replace them with good thoughts...and even then it sometimes didn't help which meant flicking light switches on and off heaps of times. refilling cups, touching certain things all the time. Oh and constantly checking things..drove me nuts!!

I prayed for help to overcome it. And after I prayed if I thought 'Jesus loves me' that would be good enough to walk away from it. unless it was a really terrible thought, i'd run back and do it a few more times

I prayed some more. I happened to watch Joyce Meyer at 2am in the morning.. it was about how demons whisper in peoples ears. she quoted the bible: 1 John.

HE WHO IS IN YOU IS STRONGER THAN HE WHO IS IN THE WORLD.

(God is in us, and the devil is in the world)

I realized that if my bad thoughts are from demons...they have no hold over me!! God is stronger than any demon.

I got up and filled a glass with water and instantly I got a bad thought... and I laughed!!! I couldn't believe it, I laughed and I said 'nice try' and I drank my water after only filling it once!!!!! I was filled with Joy and I praised my Lord.

When I went to bed I opened my curtains and gazed into the starry sky, I was usually too afraid to do that, and I had never felt so close to God.
I felt true peace, freedom from those tormenting thoughts because I knew they had no hold on me. God was my shelter and I had nothing to fear.

I know now that when I first prayed, I had not fully trusted God...when confronted with a bad thought, I'd repeat my ritual.

I still get bad thoughts sometimes, but they have no hold on me. I belong to Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit dwells in me. I will not answer to demons.

GOD IS IN YOU... TRUST IN HIM AND YOU WILL OVERCOME THE WORLD.

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he will hear us. And if we know that he hears us - whatever we ask- we know that we have whatever we asked of him.
1 John 5:14-15

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have recieved it, and it willbe yours.
Mark11:24

The one who is in you is greater that the one who is in the world.
1 John 4

Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree but also you can say to this mountain, Go, throw yourself into the sea. and it will be done If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.
Mathew 21:21-22

I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.
Mathew 17:20

FAITH = TRUST

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is esy and my burden is light.
Mathew 11:28-30

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
Mathew 7:7-8

TRUST IN GOD, FOR HE WILL NEVER FORSAKE YOU.