One of my problems with OCD and being of religious faith is that i often feel the need to pray for everyone and everything , like i see someone and immediatley feel overwhelmed i should pray for there salvation , but its not like they say sometimes you see someone and pray for that individual i see someone else walking down the street feel the need to pray for them , then 5 min later another person , and its very consuming , this doesnt happen all the time but when it does it snowballs , and the Bible says we should pray for others and as Christians we should pray for others salvation and want others to be saved , so were is the fine line in all of this ? I mean i cant even watch the news because every day someone is murdered or hurt and i immediatley feel the neeed to pray that there family is blessed and comforted for what they are going through so i feel bad or even selfish if i dont pray for these things or if i say ' well i cant pray for everyone ' does anyone else deal with anything like this ?
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Praying for everyone ? ? ?
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It seems to me that you are doing a good thing.
Don't be scrupulous though.
Perhaps you need to be more relaxed about how you do pray.
I suggest that a simple , gentle prayer from the heart , where you just place people and situations in the Father's hands and then trustingly leave it to Him.
I suspect you are being a bit too intense . Relax in your prayer . No need to be overwhelmed . It needn't be very consuming .
Be at peace when you pray , and make them short prayers from a calm heart.
Don't be scrupulous though.
Perhaps you need to be more relaxed about how you do pray.
I suggest that a simple , gentle prayer from the heart , where you just place people and situations in the Father's hands and then trustingly leave it to Him.
I suspect you are being a bit too intense . Relax in your prayer . No need to be overwhelmed . It needn't be very consuming .
Be at peace when you pray , and make them short prayers from a calm heart.
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thanks it just seems way hard to pray for everyone , and not no were to draw the line and if the thought in my head that says i should pray for someone or something is God or OCD and the feeling bad if i pray for this random person and not that random person because what if they needed the prayer to or whatever idk ...........
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God wants us to love ourselves too, that's when we know how to love our neighbors. So, If you constantly are praying for everybody and constantly under pressure and burdened and basiclly making yourself consumed and sick, then you are not really loving yourself. You have to draw a limit for yourself and not expect more from yourself than you have the energy of. God does not want that from you either. In prayer ask The Lord to help you to love yourself more and to create boundaries for your acts of service,specially praying for people. I have that issue too some times. God bless you.
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I agree with rawson, it is a beautiful for thing to pray for others, especially interceding on behalf of someone who isnt saved. and also with frank when he said pray and ask the Lord to help you set boundaries.
Paul encouraged us to pray for our brothers and sisters and pray without ceasing but dont feel that if you dont pray for every single person that something bad will happen to them or your a bad person. sometimes its like you're stuck between two alternatives and either way it makes you a bad person but remember God knows your heart. He knows that if you had the strength to pray for everyone you would. we are like our Father in that He desires for the whole world to be saved, but remember Jesus does the saving, not us.
not to boast, but i see where you are coming from because i too pray for families when i watch the news and when i hear a ambulance go by and maybe someone on the street who seems as if they are struggling or having a bad day or in conflict. dont let the false guilt keep you from praying for others and know always that God knows your heart.
Paul encouraged us to pray for our brothers and sisters and pray without ceasing but dont feel that if you dont pray for every single person that something bad will happen to them or your a bad person. sometimes its like you're stuck between two alternatives and either way it makes you a bad person but remember God knows your heart. He knows that if you had the strength to pray for everyone you would. we are like our Father in that He desires for the whole world to be saved, but remember Jesus does the saving, not us.
not to boast, but i see where you are coming from because i too pray for families when i watch the news and when i hear a ambulance go by and maybe someone on the street who seems as if they are struggling or having a bad day or in conflict. dont let the false guilt keep you from praying for others and know always that God knows your heart.
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