This is my first time talking to other people about my OCD. I felt alone for a long time. I thought that I had dissappointed God and that I had committed the unpardonable sin. I have decided to get help for this illness this summer. I ask for your prayers, that I can get through this. I know I'm not here by accident and I'm happy that I'm not alone. Please pray for me and my family at this time.-
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This is my first time talking to other people about my OCD. I felt alone for a long time. I thought that I had dissappointed God and that I had committed the unpardonable sin. I have decided to get help for this illness this summer. I ask for your prayers, that I can get through this. I know I'm not here by accident and I'm happy that I'm not alone. Please pray for me and my family at this time.
Welcome to the forum, Carebear!
I think we have all been through that feeling that we are alone in our struggles, but this forum is awesome. I'm sure, as you say, you are not here by accident. It's great that you are setting out to get help this summer. There is definitely hope, as many of us can testify, though it can be a difficult road. I will certainly pray for you and your family. If you want to share what exactly you are struggling with, that might help.
Be blessed!
Heather
I think we have all been through that feeling that we are alone in our struggles, but this forum is awesome. I'm sure, as you say, you are not here by accident. It's great that you are setting out to get help this summer. There is definitely hope, as many of us can testify, though it can be a difficult road. I will certainly pray for you and your family. If you want to share what exactly you are struggling with, that might help.
Be blessed!
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My OCD deals with religion. I pray alot and also I have had feelings that I have committed the unpardonable sin. It can get really stressful and depressing
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Welcome carebear! You have the same type of ocd as me....accept I've been through the therapy, and have much healing in it, and I rarely think of it anymore.
I was 21 when the religious ocd started for me. I so understand the pain you are going through. I'm also proud of you for going for help. Do what they tell you to do, it works!
Most of all, our Lord will be there with you. He loves you so very much...He would never let go of you. Remember, you don't have a problem with God...it's all ocd thoughts. Keep that in mind. God understands ocd...nothing is too hard for Him see you through! I believe that with every fiber of my being.
I'll pray for you.
seajoy
I was 21 when the religious ocd started for me. I so understand the pain you are going through. I'm also proud of you for going for help. Do what they tell you to do, it works!
Most of all, our Lord will be there with you. He loves you so very much...He would never let go of you. Remember, you don't have a problem with God...it's all ocd thoughts. Keep that in mind. God understands ocd...nothing is too hard for Him see you through! I believe that with every fiber of my being.
I'll pray for you.
seajoy
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Remember, we are not justified by our works, but by our faith. We must be careful by what we say, and I have failed many times thinking I committed the unpardonable sin. But God still touches me in worship, and prayer, and scripture reading.
Realize this, our Savior is a loving savior. He knows our hearts. If we say something we don't mean or believe, He forgives us.
1 John 1:7-9
7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
8If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
All our unrighteousness is forgiven. Why? Because it is with our hearts we speak what we really mean.
Romans 10:10
10For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
So then, we are justified by our faith in Jesus as the Son of God.
John 5:24
24"I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.
Love,
Ruu
I will pray for you tonight.
Realize this, our Savior is a loving savior. He knows our hearts. If we say something we don't mean or believe, He forgives us.
1 John 1:7-9
7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
8If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
All our unrighteousness is forgiven. Why? Because it is with our hearts we speak what we really mean.
Romans 10:10
10For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
So then, we are justified by our faith in Jesus as the Son of God.
John 5:24
24"I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.
Love,
Ruu
I will pray for you tonight.
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Hi Carebear,
I'm new to the forum also, but not to anxiety,Panic Disrder and OCD. I've learned that whatever I care most about is what my obsessional thoughts will turn to. This is why they create so much anxiety. I've had long periods in my life where my anxiety disorder has not been an issue.. it comes back when I've been under a lot of stress. Then that little center in my brain gets overstimulated and searches for something to grab on to to ruminate about. If I fight and fight the fearful obsessional thought... it just gets worse, because I'm telling my anxiety center that this thought is something extremely important. So if the thought is something like... "What if I'm not really a Christian after all" and then I spend a bunch of time trying to argue with the thought I make the thought more powerful. I'm learning to just recognize it as an OCD thought... let it be there... just let it be there.. run through my brain as an annoying spike... but resist the temptation to argue with it.
This is helpful to me. I hope it helps you too.
Remember... "If our heart, (the seat of our emotions), condemns us, God is greater than our heart."
You will be in my prayers.
I'm new to the forum also, but not to anxiety,Panic Disrder and OCD. I've learned that whatever I care most about is what my obsessional thoughts will turn to. This is why they create so much anxiety. I've had long periods in my life where my anxiety disorder has not been an issue.. it comes back when I've been under a lot of stress. Then that little center in my brain gets overstimulated and searches for something to grab on to to ruminate about. If I fight and fight the fearful obsessional thought... it just gets worse, because I'm telling my anxiety center that this thought is something extremely important. So if the thought is something like... "What if I'm not really a Christian after all" and then I spend a bunch of time trying to argue with the thought I make the thought more powerful. I'm learning to just recognize it as an OCD thought... let it be there... just let it be there.. run through my brain as an annoying spike... but resist the temptation to argue with it.
This is helpful to me. I hope it helps you too.
Remember... "If our heart, (the seat of our emotions), condemns us, God is greater than our heart."
You will be in my prayers.
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Hello Carebear,
Thank you for coming here looking for prayer and support.
I will most definitely keep you in all my prayers.
God bless you and know that you are loved.
a friend,
xtreN
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Thanks everyone! I have been feeling down lately about this. But I'm happy that I can get help with it. Your stories are truly encouraging. God Bless!
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Hi Carebear,
I am glad you decided to get help. It sounds like God has already answered your cry for help by enabling you to tackle this head on. I pray for his continued strength for you as you begin your treatment.
Also, remember, God does not always deliver us FROM our suffering, but sometimes He delivers us THROUGH our suffering. Keep focused on how your faith and relationship with Him has grown and will continue to prosper as you and God fight through this together.
Please keep us posted. There is an overwhelming amount of support and understanding on this forum.
I am glad you decided to get help. It sounds like God has already answered your cry for help by enabling you to tackle this head on. I pray for his continued strength for you as you begin your treatment.
Also, remember, God does not always deliver us FROM our suffering, but sometimes He delivers us THROUGH our suffering. Keep focused on how your faith and relationship with Him has grown and will continue to prosper as you and God fight through this together.
Please keep us posted. There is an overwhelming amount of support and understanding on this forum.
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Hey sorry for suddenly barging into your thread, but I need prayers too for my OCD. Really, it has been taking a toll on me. I hate it. Lately it made me feel like I get aroused by looking at good looking boys. This sucks, I don't want to be a homosexual or a bi-sexual. Please do pray for me that I'll be cover with the blood of Christ so that all this bad thoughts and curse will not come to past on me. I hate my OCD, besides those thoughts, it gives me horrific images of my family getting involve in some kind of tragedies. I'm sick of it already. I tried to ignore the thoughts but I will feel disturbed somewhere in my mind and my right leg will not feel comfortable and i'll keep moving my right leg around until I feel right. This is really not right, I believe if I'm completely delivered and healed from my OCD, my faith could even grow stronger and I can even do more things for the Lord. I hate it. Please Lord remove my OCD and heal me completely and give rest and peace to my mind and make my mental health strong and healthy and always keep my mind peaceful and healthy and fill it with Your goodness, truth and Your Word. In Jesus' Name I pray, Amen.
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Hi AARON,
Barge in all you want. I'm so sorry to hear about your suffering. It's hard to have such spiking intrusive and unthinkable thoughts isn't it. But Seajoy is sooo right, they are just thoughts... brain static.. and nothing more. Try to not give them so much importance by arguing and debating with them. Just let them be there in the background of your mind... like a quiet annoying noise... kind of like tinnitus of the brain.
I know that takes a lot of practice to do this and I'm not always successful at it... but I don't allow my failures to discourage me as much as they used to.
I've lived with my Anxiety Disorder and OCD thoughts for the majority of my life.. but I've also learned that my OCD does not lessen my relationship with God in Christ. It affords for me an opportunity to allow "His Grace to be sufficient and His strength to be perfected in my weakness".
This bad time will pass and you will be joy filled again. I hope you are seeking professional help with this and medication if a Dr. thinks it could help you.
I'll be praying for you.
Barge in all you want. I'm so sorry to hear about your suffering. It's hard to have such spiking intrusive and unthinkable thoughts isn't it. But Seajoy is sooo right, they are just thoughts... brain static.. and nothing more. Try to not give them so much importance by arguing and debating with them. Just let them be there in the background of your mind... like a quiet annoying noise... kind of like tinnitus of the brain.
I know that takes a lot of practice to do this and I'm not always successful at it... but I don't allow my failures to discourage me as much as they used to.
I've lived with my Anxiety Disorder and OCD thoughts for the majority of my life.. but I've also learned that my OCD does not lessen my relationship with God in Christ. It affords for me an opportunity to allow "His Grace to be sufficient and His strength to be perfected in my weakness".
This bad time will pass and you will be joy filled again. I hope you are seeking professional help with this and medication if a Dr. thinks it could help you.
I'll be praying for you.
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I have just realized something that I should have realized when my OCD started last year. Jesus Christ is God's Son. If you believe that, you cannot commit anything unpardonable because if you believe Jesus is God's Son, then you believe he was conceived by the Holy Spirit in the virgin Mary and that He is doing the works of God. Every thought you have is reconciled on the cross, because those thoughts are not thoughts that lead to death because you neither want to think of them nor wish to speak them. Therefore if you believe Jesus is God's one and only Son, you have crossed from death to life:
John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
The bad thoughts you have are just not true and are a trick to get you to think you are not forgiven. That's why 1 John 1:7 says the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin, because as long as you believe Jesus is from God and God's Holy Ghost, and not from the enemy, you are forgiven for all your sin.
1 John 1:7-9
7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
8If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
Collosians 2:13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,
That's why all your sins are forgiven, because Jesus Christ is God's Son. Do you get it? As long as you believe Jesus' works are by God's Holy Ghost you are not committing anything unforgivable.
John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
The bad thoughts you have are just not true and are a trick to get you to think you are not forgiven. That's why 1 John 1:7 says the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin, because as long as you believe Jesus is from God and God's Holy Ghost, and not from the enemy, you are forgiven for all your sin.
1 John 1:7-9
7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
8If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
Collosians 2:13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,
That's why all your sins are forgiven, because Jesus Christ is God's Son. Do you get it? As long as you believe Jesus' works are by God's Holy Ghost you are not committing anything unforgivable.
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