Most of the things you and many others are concerned about ….God doesn’t give two shakes about…
So the real challenge becomes…. how do you change your thinking from → sin consciousness to Son consciousness.
I won’t pretend to know much about OCD other than two brothers (twins) who had pretty severe case of it …I challenged them both to memorize the first 3 chapters of Ephesians along with a list of other verses regarding their son-ship rights …which they did…….. But they also ended up rememorizing the entire book of Ephesians.
I picked Ephesians because it’s the Magna Carta or the apex of the doctoral epistles, and because I also had committed it to memory. The first 3 chapters are what God has done for us, and 4-6 are the practical application thereof…..It’s not as overwhelming as it seems, because our minds were designed by God to hold the Word of God.
What it did for them (as described by the brothers) was completely heal their OCD ….which is not surprising because the words in the Word… are spirit and they are life. Many times I have seen people who have been so fried by drugs that they couldn’t piece together a sentence…. much less have a coherent conversation…. Get completely healed (delivered) by listening and reading the Word of God.
Knowing your Sonship rights is something you can recall when you have the thoughts that you are sinning or felling less than what Gods Word declares.
5 Sonship rights …Your rights as a child of God
Sanctified - You have been set apart from the world as son or daughter of the most high God.
Justified – Just as if you never sinned.
Redeemed – having Gods incorruptible seed within and having eternal life.
Righteous – we have the righteousness of God.
Reconsolidation - God has committed (given it over) unto us the ministry of reconciliation as an ambassador for Christ.
Following are some verses that proclaim our sonship rights
1Co 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and
righteousness, and
sanctification, and
redemption:
Phl 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the
righteousness which is of God by faith:
Rom 4:25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our
justification
In the originals this verse reads: Who was delivered for our offences and was raised again when we were justified.
Rom 3:20 Therefore by the
deeds of the law there shall no flesh be
justified in his sight: for by the law
is the knowledge of sin.
Rom 3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
Rom 3:22 Even the
righteousness of God
which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Rom 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Rom 3:24 Being
justified freely by his grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Rom 3:25 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;
Rom 5:1 Therefore being
justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
This better reads …we are at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 5:9 Much more then, being now
justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Rom 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life
.
2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man
be in Christ,
he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
2Co 5:18 And all things
are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the
ministry of reconciliation;
2Co 5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
2Co 5:20 Now then we are
ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech
you by us: we pray
you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.