I don't get it if did not go against the HS. Then yeah do I not feel good when I pray. Please Help!
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I don't feel anything.
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Hi! I know that sometimes when I was in such a state of panic over something, similar to what you are feeling, that the panicked and awful feeling seemed to prove to me that whatever I was worried about was true! But this is not the case! Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever Hebrews 13:8... He died once for you, knowing that you were going to say and think these things... The horrible feeling you are feeling is just a feeling, and I will pray that you are able to cling to Him even through this feeling...when I look back to how I felt going through these things, I know it felt so incredibly real, I honestly thought I was beyond all hope, I had scriptures actually seeming to prove to me that I was beyond all hope, and it all seemed so real... while what you are going through IS real, it is not TRUE...
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What you said is so right PP. Feelings can control us if we let them. So many times I have felt that there was like a spiritual wall between God and myself. I still battle that quite a bit, but not as much anymore. It's helped me tremendously to learn about God's true loving, gentle, and forgiving nature. He does require repentance and obedience, but that is because He knows how devastating to each one's soul it is to live in unforgivess and rebellion. He is a love that we, as humans, cannot fathom. He is the perfect Father, not willing than anyone should be lost. I just saw Him as One who was always disappointed with me. It wasn't necessarily that I was going against Him, but since I felt rejected, the inner wall seemed so real to me. I would often feel nothing toward Him. When I did, it was mostly fear and hopelessness. When we start seeing God as the loving heavenly Father He truly is, I think it's much easier to come before Him and feel He actually cares when we talk to Him.
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Hey Armor,
It's OK that you don't feel the Lord right now. When I was at my worst with my OCD my dominate emotion was fear - it always is when I'm in a flare. The fact that you wish for, long for and are desperate for Him is what matters. Trying to muster up feelings of faith won't work either. CS Lewis said that this is kind of like taking your eyes out of your head to examine them. The moment we try to examine whether or not we are having feelings of faith all those feelings seem to flee away. Eyes are meant to see out of and faith is meant to be acted out of - so choice is what matters. I have OCD - but I have to say "so what" to it and still choose to walk in obedience to the Lord - to act in faith with or without the emotional validation because my OCD will often rob me of that.
Listen to the words of David a man after God's own heart. Psalm 13 "How long, Oh Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I keep asking myself what to do, with sorrow in my heart every day? How long must my enemy dominate me?"
Notice the focus here - intense emotional fear and suffering.
Then at the end of the Psalm David shifts his focus to the Lord and His unfailing character.
"But I trust in YOUR grace; my heart rejoices as YOU bring me to safety. I will sing to THE LORD, because HE gives me even more than I need."
Sometimes with OCD all I can do is choose to act in faith even though I feel intense fear within. I choose to praise Him to seek Him to do His will to the best of my ability. Nothing can rob me of this choice - this decision. I can allow the feelings of fear to be there but not give them any credence toward defining what is really true of God in His dealings with me. I have to base my faith soley in who He is - not in who I am or how I feel.
This is a hard place to be in but in time you'll walk out of this too. Hard to believe that right now - I know but this too shall pass.
Praying for you,
Mitzi
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Hello....I haven't been around here in a while.
I thought I would stop in and see how everyone is doing. ArmorofGod...I have some questions for you, please forgive me if you have already answered them somewhere else in here.
Have you been to see a psychiatrist, and been diagnosed with OCD?
Have you ever heard of exposure/response therapy?
What you have is an illness. You don't have a problem with God. It just feels like it. There is much hope for you. I believe everyone who does the therapy can and will see improvement.
Faith is not a feeling, so even if you feel empty, God is still in the Heavens, and still loves you anyway.
Ask lots of questions. We are here to help.
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