- Date posted
- 37w
I’m so scared
I can’t. I’m so scared. I don’t want to deny the HOLY SPIRIT. I keep having intrusives that make me question my real intentions.
I can’t. I’m so scared. I don’t want to deny the HOLY SPIRIT. I keep having intrusives that make me question my real intentions.
Sorry you're going through this. Try to take a step back and simply rest in the Lord. Remember he tells us to cast all anxiety upon him (1 Peter 5:7). Try to pray calmly and slowly, trusting God. "Lord I love you, I need you, you are my foundation." "You know all things and you know my heart." "You tell me not to fear, help me to leave this anxiety at your feet." Pay attention to the nature of your prayer. If you are very frightened, and are praying for the same thing over and over again, or repenting of the same thought many times per day - that is *compulsive* prayer. You are using prayer as a short-term compulsive response to anxiety in a way that is not truly addressing the problem - our inability to accept uncertainty. Make sure you're praying slowly, calmly, trying to trust, focus on each word. If your prayer looks more compulsive, then you need to resist praying in that fashion, and try to sit with the uncertainty and resist compulsions. You can do this. One moment at a time. God bless.
@JB1020 Thank you so much
I struggle with the same thing. I think the fact that you care about it and are worried about it is a sign that you haven’t committed it. But I know with OCD sometimes that is not reassuring. I know it is so tormenting, but what helped me is realizing these intrusive thoughts are not my thoughts. But it feels so real sometimes. It sucks. God has been faithful and has brought me through very hard seasons of these thoughts. Something that has comforted me is that we as believers are sealed with the Holy Spirit. And also just reading the promises of God, like Isaiah 43, Romans 8:15, Colossians 3. Psalms 91, Deuteronomy 31:6. God bless, I will pray for you✝️🙏
@CJ_022 Thank you so much. We’re in this and we will overcome this together! ❤️✝️
If the Spirit 'is' Holy, nothing you could do on purpose or on accident could change their unconditional love for you. You're talking about it and practicing. ^_^ Keep it up!
I feel like I dont have control of what I say in my head that I feel like it's not me saying those things. I was trying to pray and I was cursing at God and the spirit and now I'm scared because I feel like it's me and not an intrusive thought. I have an appointment later and I was trying to pray about that in my head but now that I did that I feel like things will go wrong .
So I almost said something against the Holy Spirit the devil has been trying to get me to say something against it for like weeks now and has been trying to get me to see Jesus in like a scary way with like devil horns and all of that stuff like that and then last night he made the cross my mind where I wasn’t scared to go to hell but I truly am and I see how he’s playing on my emotions and the fact that where I tried to cry, but I couldn’t cry anymore and he keeps trying to convince me to say these things that I don’t wanna say and he he keeps trying to get me to say that I curse the Holy Spirit, but I don’t I really truly don’t and then I just started to feel weird last night like I didn’t feel anything I felt really empty and then I keep praying and trying to talk to God, but I can’t feel him or the Holy Spirit. I’m scared because I feel like I’m going to hellwhat do I do? Also like as if he was on the cross and that they Holy Spirit is evil. Every form of blasphemy I feel like I’ve committed how do I fix this because now I feel empty and scared to go to hell
What if I just committed blasphemy? In my mind, I was doing compulsions and I accidentally said the Holy Spirit is not of God but of the you know who I don’t even wanna type that on there because I know it’s not true and I’m worried that I committed blasphemy and I’m worried that if I type it, I’ll commit blasphemy I don’t wanna do this I don’t know what to do. I really don’t mean that.
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