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- 17w ago
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!
Does anyone question that they'll go to hell because of your intrusive thoughts. I feel so scared about that because I grew up Catholic
my therapist suggested that some of my less bad rocd intrusive thoughts are actually mine, and not intrusive. She ended up taking it back when she saw the alarm on my face and saw how panicked I got. I feel really freaking anxious. We were only talking about it because I mentioned a lot of doubt surrounding those less bad ones, but it only filled me with more doubt. I don’t want those thoughts to be mine. I really don’t. I feel scared and so discouraged after this session. I feel scared about the worst thoughts, what if those aren’t intrusive. I feel so much doubt.
Lately my OCD has been very horrible, it’s been more convincing than ever to the point where I’m genuinely convinced that I like this stuff, when I get a thought, I’ll hear my intrusive thoughts go “oooh, I like that, I’d do that.” and I just don’t freak out nor feel bad, I just feel like I like it even more, and feel like I would do/act on it and like it, and the feeling is strong and it lingers forever? It genuinely feels like I do, and I’m just lying now, i can’t tell if I make these thoughts worse or anything All I remember mostly just being like confused sometimes when these thoughts happen, but since I’m getting strong emotions that I like it, my brain says that means I did and I’m worried about that being true because I don’t understand nor know It’s like I am resisting to like this stuff now, it’s even tougher now than it was before
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