My OCD made me pray to Satan

[Harley.]

I have OCD, I also am currently working on a project that...wasnt going to well.
So I decided to do what the bible tells us to do: Pray about it.
I started praying to God, In my mind (This becomes important later), asking him for his support and help on this project.
Right as I was about to end the prayer, my OCD swoops in, like the little devil it is, and directs the prayer, not to God, but instead to Satan! WHY! Id never do that!

However, ever since that prayer, the project has COMPLETELY turned around and is now working perfectly. I would be overjoyed if it wasnt for that one little goof at the end. Im now scared that maybe it wasnt God that helped me, and instead was the Devil, and im now in some kind of debt.

So here are my questions.
1. Can the Devil hear our thoughts? (This is where it becomes important)
2. Can the devil answer prayers that are directed at him?
and 3. Am I in some kind of debt now?

Please help me, I am honestly quite concerned.

 

[BobRyan]

1. No the devil cannot hear your thoughts.
2. But he can "insert" ideas/thoughts... he just does not know if you are ok with his "insert".
3. God is the one who answers prayers, and limits the devil. God knows if you have OCD or not. So trust God to know to do the right thing.
4. Any time the devil inserts a bad thought -- insert your own anti-devil thought even if it makes no sense make it a negative thought about the devil like... "the devil is swine". Something that imprints a negative idea about the devil in your mind each time he does one of his "inserts".
5. You don't need to blame yourself for the devil's "insert" just be sure to "take out the garbage" each time he does it.

 

[By_the_Book]

I have OCD, I also am currently working on a project that...wasnt going to well.
So I decided to do what the bible tells us to do: Pray about it.
I started praying to God, In my mind (This becomes important later), asking him for his support and help on this project.
Right as I was about to end the prayer, my OCD swoops in, like the little devil it is, and directs the prayer, not to God, but instead to Satan! WHY! Id never do that!

However, ever since that prayer, the project has COMPLETELY turned around and is now working perfectly. I would be overjoyed if it wasnt for that one little goof at the end. Im now scared that maybe it wasnt God that helped me, and instead was the Devil, and im now in some kind of debt.

So here are my questions.
1. Can the Devil hear our thoughts? (This is where it becomes important)
2. Can the devil answer prayers that are directed at him?
and 3. Am I in some kind of debt now?

Please help me, I am honestly quite concerned.

here are my questions.

1. Can the Devil hear our thoughts? (This is where it becomes important)
Absolutely not.
Demonic beings can attempt to influence our thoughts but they cannot hear our thoughts.

2. Can the devil answer prayers that are directed at him?
Satan is the second most powerful being in the universe, God being the most powerful of course, yes he can bring things about and make things happen both in the spiritual and physical realm.


3. Am I in some kind of debt now?
Contrary to what some people like to teach and many believe you cannot enter into an alliance with Satan or any demonic being accidentally, it would have to be something done by deliberate choice. That doesn't mean demonic beings can't try to attack you or influence you or tempt you with money, power, fame, etc. or try to get you to enter an alliance with them but it is something that you have to make the deliberate choice to do; just as you have to make the deliberate choice to follow Jesus, The Christ.

 

[lastofall]

it is written: He that is of God heareth God's Words.

 

[aiki]

I have OCD, I also am currently working on a project that...wasnt going to well.
So I decided to do what the bible tells us to do: Pray about it.
I started praying to God, In my mind (This becomes important later), asking him for his support and help on this project.
Right as I was about to end the prayer, my OCD swoops in, like the little devil it is, and directs the prayer, not to God, but instead to Satan! WHY! Id never do that!

Dude, you gotta stop avoiding responsibility for your thought life. OCD isn't something outside of yourself that is trying to afflict you with bad thoughts; it's you having made a habit of fearful, compulsive thinking. The devil is in the mix, too, nudging your thinking and feelings in certain directions, insinuating thoughts into your mind. But, if you're a child of God, that's all he can do. The devil can't make you think things you don't want to think; he can't force you to pray to himself; he can't compel you to all the obsessive stuff typical of OCD thinking. If you're God's child, He has given to you "a spirit of power, of love, and of a sound, disciplined mind." (2 Timothy 1:7) The Bible says God has not given to any of His children "a Spirit of bondage, again to fear," but the Spirit of adoption whereby they can cry out to God, "Abba, Father!" (Romans 8:15)

So, you are caught in OCD thinking because you are choosing to be caught. If you want to be free of OCD thinking, you can be, but you'll have to start standing by faith on what God says is true of you as His child, rejecting the "intrusive thoughts" you've trained yourself to think. When you start down the OCD road in your mind, interrupt your journey with the truth of God's word about you. If you're one of His, you have no reason to fear (1 John 4:16-19); if you're a born-again believer, you are a "new creature in Christ, old things are passed away and, behold, all things are become new" (2 Corinthians 5:17); if you're a child of God, you are "dead to sin and alive unto God" (Romans 6:1-11); if you're God's adopted son or daughter, you are His forevermore, nothing and no one (not even you) can pluck you out of His hand or remove you from His love (John 10:28-29; Romans 8:31-39; Hebrews 13:5).

All of the fearful thoughts you have rest ultimately on two false beliefs:

1.) Your salvation is your doing, that it rests on you, and so, it can be damaged or dissolved by you.

No, your salvation rests upon God's work (Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5; 2 Timothy 1:9), upon the work of Christ and the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit. You are only a believer in, and receiver of, God's salvation (John 3:16; Romans 10:9-10; John 1:12; Colossians 2:6), you don't have anything to contribute to your being saved. And since you did not save yourself, you can do nothing to unsave yourself. God accepts you only because you are in Christ, and Christ will never leave you nor forsake you (Hebrews 13:5). You need never fear, then, that God no longer accepts you. God is always going to accept Christ and so He is always going to accept those in him (Ephesians 1:3-7).

2.) God is looking for the slightest reason to cast you out.

No, God's love is faithful, enduring, infinite and we cannot ever get to the end of it (Romans 8:31-39; 1 John 4:9-10; 1 John 4:16-19). Where our sin abounds, His grace super-abounds (Romans 5:20). God has gone to incredible lengths to demonstrate His love to you and I, to bring us into His family. After doing so, He is not going to eject us when an intrusive thought, or foolish, compulsive prayer is made. God looks on the heart and deals with us there, remaining committed to us no matter the silly compulsive stuff we might say or do. You see, God loves us because He is love, not because we deserve or have earned His love. It is God's nature to love and so He does. Such love you cannot earn; it is extended to you entirely apart from what you have or haven't done. The wind blows, water is wet, kittens are cute and God loves. None of these things are what they are because of you. So, relax; God's got you and He's not going to let you go. Let His love in, friend. Rest in it, rest in Him.

 

[seashale76]

You have scrupulosity. Asking people here or anywhere online to help you with it isn't going to work for you. You need to be in treatment. The Internet isn't going to help you with your scrupulosity.

 

[Harley.]

You have scrupulosity. Asking people here or anywhere online to help you with it isn't going to work for you. You need to be in treatment. The Internet isn't going to help you with your scrupulosity.

Trust me I am well aware I have it! Im diagnosed and am currently in treatment! I just want to make sure this wasnt a message from god. Cause im not ready to die. How do I tell the difference between God and scrupulosity

 

[aiki]

Trust me I am well aware I have it! Im diagnosed and am currently in treatment! I just want to make sure this wasnt a message from god. Cause im not ready to die. How do I tell the difference between God and scrupulosity

One of the important results of walking with God is that you become ready to die. He helps you to see that your life wasn't made for time but for eternity. Your life on this planet is just preparation for what is to come beyond the decease of your physical body, you see. The Big Show begins when you are free of your sin-corrupted body, liberated from this world of darkness and pain.

The fear at the bottom of scrupulosity and the Selfishness that's at the bottom of the fear is never of God. He leads His own into peace, rest and love, not self-centeredness and fear. See my last post to you.

 

[RileyG]

Seek help from a pastor and a psychologist.