Heaviness and / or urgency to pray

[Katchit]

Hi everyone - does anyone else get this - where they can be sat still and then just have a heaviness that you need to pray? Like if you do not pray at that specific moment, you will be separated from God or you will make God angry, or something along those lines, and the anxiety builds?

However, you then pray but you possibly dont know what you are asking for forgiveness for, and the anxiety possibly increases more than it was before you prayed.

Do you tend to pray when you get heaviness to pray?

Thank you!

 

[mmutsakama]

i think thats what they call compulsive praying, it is always motivated by fear instead of being motivated by faith and love

 

[amaui]

I do because my OCD causes me a lot of guilt. I feel like I NEED to pray or something bad will happen or God will leave me.

 

[mmutsakama]

ask God to purify your motives,

 

[Katchit]

Thank you for your replies everyone.

I am feeling at a lot of anxiety and heaviness at the moment, im not really sure why, i just seem to be struggling a lot more with anxiety lately.

I probably don't understand how great God's love for me and his children is, i probably don't understand the amazing forgiveness which we have through Jesus Christ Our Lord, and i probably don't understand how to walk in faith instead of depending on my own feelings all the time.

I really enjoy communicating with God but i don't want it to become / continue to be a compulsive as it is too important to me, to turn it into a compulsion.
Thanks again!

 

[mmutsakama]

its a very good thing to accept that you don't understand, thats the only way God can teach you. I am also still learning walk in faith and love, i am still learning how to obey God without being motivated by fear or pride or selfglory. I am learrning a lot but the wrong motives are still there, i have accepted that i can't change myself and so i nolonger struggle. God doesn't demand us to be what he has not made us but he expect us to submit to Him so that He can change us. He is very patient.

 

[Katchit]

Thank you.

I do feel a little upset, anxious and down at the moment, but i have asked God to help and i know he will