Grace

None of us necessarily deserve to suffer from OCD, but OCD and all disease is the result of our fallen, sinful world. We struggle more than others with uncertainty and doubt. That may or may not change for each of us in this lifetime, but there is an ultimate hope! The central fact of all human existence is beyond all doubt - that Jesus Christ, the son of God, came to this fallen world to seek and save lost sinners (which is to say, every man, woman and child to ever walk the earth). He died a criminal’s death on a cross to become the perfect, sinless sacrifice to pay for our sin. Because NONE of us can possibly reach God’s standard. The tiniest fib or any other seemingly innocuous sin is enough to send you to hell. BUT PRAISE GOD!!! Jesus rose from the grave three days later. He now lives forevermore, and so can we! And because there’s absolutely nothing we can do to earn such a salvation, the best part is we don’t have to do anything! Here’s the deal - JESUS willingly suffered the death YOU deserve as a sinner. If YOU believe and accept this saving grace, and also REPENT (turn away from) your sin, then ALL your sins (past, present and future) will be washed away and forgiven! Then YOU will take on HIS righteousness in the eyes of God, allowing YOU to inherit eternal life with Him in heaven. To everyone who feels OCD has robbed you of the life you imagined, unfortunately there are no guarantees of a better life while in this world. But by putting your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and walking with Him, you can look forward to the glorious eternity that awaits in the life to come! Remember: O - Only C - Christ D - Delivers

Dear Brothers and Sisters, how are you? Let's put anxiety aside, how are you? Let's make believe ocd isn't affecting your lives right now, how are you? I once heard someone say that intrusive thoughts didn't have physical arms to stop you from doing things, tha k God that's true. We can't let anxiety and ocd stop us from doing what we want. This is hard to do yes, and some of this might sound tough but let's be real how many times have we used the excuse of ocd and anxiety to justify not doing something or avoiding people? Ocd can be crippling some days, but I'm not talking about those moments, I'm talking about the days when we are fine but we just decide to use our behaviors to get in the way of love, of charity. We know the game ocd plays, we know how to not play that game then why aren't we doing it? Let's shake off our comfort my beloved, let's lean on our Lord Jesus to help us shake our fears and face them in therapy, let's ask our Father in Heaven to give us the graces we need to fight ocd and to live to the fullest as He wants us to. We are loved by Love Himself.

Hi y’all! I just want to let you know that I struggled and still do sometimes with scrupulosity , (a form of ocd where you have spiritual bad thoughts about God) And The Lord Jesus helped me out of it. I pretty much all of the time felt condemned and separated from God, and saw Him through the “ocd goggles,” where I saw a god throwing burdens on me and looking only at my “perfectness” which no human can be—perfect. So Jesus Helped me by showing me the TRUE Jesus, the One talked about in the Holy Bible—the Kind, Gentle, Living and patient Savior. God sent His Son, Jesus into this world 2000 years ago to die for our sin, cause yes—we all do deserve God’s Just and Holy wrath—but Jesus came to take all of our sin upon Him because He is prefect and sinless, The Spotless Lamb, and God credits Jesus’ Righteousness to anyone who JUST Believes in Jesus, and they will be completely pardoned from that point on. There is nothing we can do to be separated from God, for once we believe in His Son Jesus, He becomes our Father. The Bible says all we need to do is believe, so for those of you who think you aren’t going to Heaven because of some thing you did, yet you believe in Jesus—then that is a lie. Romans tells us we are justified by Faith : Romans 3:21-28 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for ALL those who believe, there is no distinction; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a GIFT by his grace through the redemption which is in Jesus Christ; whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in his blood through FAITH. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because in the forbearance of God he passed over the sins previously committed, for the demonstration I say of his righteousness at the present time so that he would be just in the justifier of the one who has FAITH IN JESUS; where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. After justification (being pardoned of our sin through Jesus Christ thru Believing In HIM) comes sanctification (the process that lasts our entire lifetime growing in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ our Savior, producing Fruit of the Spirit, —we can only do all this through Jesus and His Holy Spirit, because Jesus said in Matthew that we can do NOTHING apart from Him. Just remember—refuse to listen to the lies of the devil and your feelings, and look to Jesus and His perfect sacrifice and how He says He will never leave you nor forsake you and “never cast you out” (John 6:37) God bless you and trust Jesus not your thoughts and feelings. Glory to God only, amen.