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I pray to the Generic God due to ocd who is different than Christian God.

My ocd was telling me to give my friend 2 euros for ocd reasons. I did not want to and there is no need to because my friend was owing me money. I could easily give him back the 2 euros just for my ocd to leave me alone but my friend would not accept them I guessed so I did not want to make me more anxious by trying to make a certain ocd compulsion which was to give my friend 2 euros.

We were ready to leave and I had decided not to give money. ocd kept bugging me. in order to free myself from worries, some thoughts without my will happen like "not give 2 euros back to my friend due to a new promise without my will to the Generic God" something like that. I do not remember what words came to my head because it happened in a second and very subconsciously and random. and they were thoughts without my will.

I ignored them because I know it is just ocd which is trying to get me out of the old compulsion just to trap me in a new ocd compulsion. it tried to did this to me many times in the past. why worry? because I do not remember what myself was thinking exactly. and even though I know they are thoughts without my will, I cant prove it. The last months, I have been trying and avoid even thinking the word "promise" cause I do not want to make any promises to the Generic God. it is like an ocd worry. But there are some cases, that I am carefree and in order to relief my worries for not doing an ocd compulsion, a part of my ocd creates another ocd that forces me not to do the compulsion. that gives me relief and makes me feel happy and free but later backfires.

I find myself in a situation thinking stuff like "what happened a second ago? my ocd tells me that I may have made an accidental promise to the Generic God not to obey the compulsions?"

ocd: maybe you are making promises to the Generic God not to do the ocd compulsion in order to use that promise as an excuse to your ocd in order to stop give you worries for not doing the compulsion. you know they are thoughts without your will. what if you are allowing these thoughts without your will to happen just free yourself? it is better for you to just ignore all these stuff than making thoughts without your will. it happened many times. are you sure they are thoughts without your will? what if the Generic God makes them valid just because for a second you feel relieved?

So, as I was saying, my ocd was telling me to give 2 euros to my friend and in one second some thoughts happened without my will that were general thoughts like " not give the 2 euros back" like that. and I know it is an ocd trick but instead of ignoring it completely a part of my ocd uses it as an excuse to relief myself for not giving the 2 euros. and a second later I have thoughts like "what if I was careless and made a promise to the Generic God not to give my friend 2 euros? what if that counts not only for that moment but forever?"

I never made a promise and I do not want to make. the next days, I have been avoiding giving that specific friend any money for whatever reason. today, I accidentally gave him for some seconds 2 euros and he returned them to me later due to a misunderstanding. my ocd started telling me stuff like

ocd: you gave your friend 2 euros? why? you may have made a promise not to give 2 euros to him. you may have given him the 2 euros that he gave you the day the ocd thoughts without your will happened that day, about the 2 euros.

I worry guys cause I do not want to make promises but I end up worrying about it. I worry because for a second I am so worried and careless on the same time, that some random thoughts happen without my will and I can not tell for 100% that they are thoughts without my will. and I cant prove it to my ocd. what if they are thoughts with my will for a second?
 

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I worry because for a second I am so worried and careless on the same time,
Worry is a pathological liar, and worry can keep my mind busy away from taking good care of things. So, Jesus says not to worry.

without my will
what if they are thoughts with my will for a second?
I now understand that in giving myself to Jesus, I have left my human will behind, so I can start new in finding out how to love.

I now trust God to take care of what I will >

"for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure." (Philippians 2:13)

So, our Heavenly Father does not want to be distant, leaving and forsaking us to be on our own in our own free wills. But God desires to personally share with us in our willing and doing, in His love with His creativity being shared with us >

"Let all that you do be done with love." (1 Corinthians 16:14)
 
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The more you look at your confused thoughts the worse your ocd is going to be. The best thing to do is put your faith in Jesus Christ and believe He died for your sins on the cross and say thank you to the Father because of Him.

Each time your ocd makes you look at yourself or your neighbour look back to Christ and remember his promises and hold on to them. The truth of God sets you free from the lies of your ocd. So loving Jesus, and heeding what He says, makes you free from the confusing thoughts that now plaque your mind.

Keep your eyes peeled on Jesus! He is the One who can help you immensely for He loves you unconditionally. Honestly true!

Peace

Matthew 11:29-30 "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 easy and my burden is light.”
 
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If I were you this what I would do: Understand that God knows my weakness and confusion about my promises coming to my mind and my not being sure if I am making them or not. So I would set a rule that from now on any promise that I make will be written down. If I do not write it down and sign it before the real God it is not of my will. Likewise I would write out and sign a renunciation of the generic god to settle that it is not of my will to pray to him nor to serve him nor to make promises to him. It is that simple, no need to complicate it. And now I am going to seek the real God with all my heart, call on Him as long as I live and trust in His mercy in Christ, do what I can know is pleasing to Him, and make my promises before Him in writing to confirm them. When it comes to promises to other people I will only say what I can immediately write down before the real God. If I'm not ready to write it down before Him I won't say it and He knows I didn't promise to do it. Now I'm good to go and obey God's Word without chains.

You can choose to make it this simple. And you can write down your resolve to make it this simple to confirm that THIS is indeed of your will. It is YOUR CHOICE.
 
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OCD is an evil and cruel master.

Are you under a doctor's care; or have someone you can enlist to get you some help in the "material world existence"? Yes, these things impact us spiritually; yet God has put medical and mental health practitioners in this world to help deal with the physical side of things. You sound like you need some help dealing with the confused thoughts.

Maybe sounds like as stupid question; but, do you want me to pray for you?
 
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