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    Please pray - again!

    Another zingiber post for the night! Please pray for me, because my OCD is giving me a rough time. It has been under reasonable control, but I have come off the stuff I was using. Usually takes 3 days for my OCD to hit - a bit of a shock naturally. It has been 2 and a half days, and I am...
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    Please pray - spiking badly

    Please pray for me. My OCD has been beginning to flare; please pray that I do not tip over the edge, because that is very nasty for me and those around me. I have been quite good for a while, and I know that my thoughts are OCD, but as usual the fear is hard to handle and predisposes the mind to...
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    Why do we worship on Sunday?

    I came across a post by a Seventh day Adventist recently arguing that Saturday is the day we are to rest (the Sabbath), It seemed convincing, because the sabbath is of of course commanded in the fourth of the Ten Commandments. Yet now we worship on the Sunday. Does anybody now why?
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    OCD and others' blasphemy

    I have been having trouble with a new obsession which tells me that if someone else uses God's name in vain, it is my duty to confront them. I don't know whether this is right or not, but I feel as if by being a silent bystander I am partaking in their sin. Also I feel that by letting people do...
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    Encouraging verses

    Hi everybody. I have been a bit down lately, feeling like when I prayed I was talking to thin air, so I have decided to try finding verses which are encouraging, helpful and uplifting. Here are a few: Job 19:25-27 (This one's in Handel's Messiah) Job 23:8-10 Lamentations 3:19-33 Romans...
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    Witnessing and OCD

    I have OCD. I have had various obsessions , but have been having particular trouble with scrupulosity lately. After finally getting over (almost) the unpardonable sin, my mind has switched itself to witnessing. I know that there is OCD involved, but to what extent I am finding it hard to...