I want to beat this ocd but my question is how do I conquer it when it tries to act like God is telling me these things? How do I beat it without feeling like I'm breaking God's heart?
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How to deal with OCD that feels like God?
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You have to learn to understand that God lives in our heart and that God is love. The accuser on the other hand is loveless and zeroes in on your sins. To defeat the devil is to stop heeding him. The bible says resist the devil and he shall flee from you.
What makes the devil flee?
You communing with your Heavenly Father in His love and with His love. So grow love for God in your heart and don't think He is a voice in your mind like the accuser. Rather He speaks the truth in love for you and everyone, that is how you will know Him.
Let Him grow within you heeding His truth - loving God and your neighbour - He comes and dwells in our hearts when we love, for He is love.
Once you understand the language of God's love for you, and all, you will never fear the voice of the accuser any more, but be able to get past him time and again.
So learn to listen to the truth of the bible spoken in love for you and neighbour within your heart and you will meet up with Jesus soon enough, and who will lead you to your Heavenly Father.
Peace.
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That m you so much! I've been doing better this morning. I must keep my guard up though, I've fallen down a lot before because I didn't.
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At first we fall all the time, then we learn the truth and we fall less often until we learn to stay in His truth 24/7 also when we are sick at our worst.
Please understand that love Himself will teach you to follow the right way. The more you practise love for God and neighbour, the freer you will become in Him.
His truth is so good, Jesus sets us free!
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Hello! A fellow OCD sufferer here. I can share a tip to differentiate between OCD and God that I have learnt throughout my recovery journey, of which I am still currently in. As mentioned in the website OCD & Christianity maintained by Ian Osborn MD, you can know it is OCD if you feel a great urgency: you have to do something right now, because waiting could cause immense harm. Hope it helps! I pray that God may give you peace, strength and discernment!
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I am sorry but you do not hear OCD. It is a mental illness which needs treatment.
There are things you can do which will help you cope with it and together with help from therapists and medication will get it under control.
What do you need to do, we'll see a doctor etc to sort out treatment/medication.
While you are doing that follow this link and read and reread the advice and start practicing it:-
International OCD Foundation | 25 Tips for Succeeding in Your OCD Treatment
Two points for you in case you don't read it.
You are the person responsible for your treatment.
Intrusive thoughts are not real, don't argue or debate or try to push away, but agree, say yes that's right and carry on doing what you were doing.
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