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It is. I am Christian. I’ve recently come to real repentance with Jesus and getting right with Him. My OCD symptoms have worsened. I believe and *know* Satan hates the fact I’m getting better. Even though I am sometimes weak, Jesus Christ is my strength, my rock, and my redeemer. Spoiler alert: Jesus wins!

To add, demons do tempt us with various things. I almost gave into something sinful the other day, but I paused and remembered that the wages of sin is death. Then, I thought about what the Lord would think of me backsliding. That’s why I didn’t act on the sin. Nonetheless, we are all going to sin, but consciously sinning whilst being convinced by the Holy Spirit is an offense to the Lord. It’s truly a spiritual fight.

When I got saved when I was 11 I began to have harm ocd …I believed it was Satan so I would rebuke him in my head for hours thinking it would make it go away ..I literally got sick I couldn’t eat for weeks and I had trouble sleeping and everyone kept telling me it was the devil so idk …I think it’s Satan but I tried really hard to get rid of the thoughts and nothing helped I prayed and prayed and asked Jesus to help me I’m interested in other ppls opinions too honestly because it’s not a coincidence the thoughts came after I gave my life to Christ ..

Yes it’s crazy you say that because Im recently going through a flare up and my first thought was to start praying a lot and rebuking again but I knew that was part of a compulsion and it would leave me in a constant loop so thank you for confirming that I’m doing the right thing by not giving into it just bc of the fear !!! Helped a lot

Submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee. Notice the first instruction is to submit to God. We don’t fight the devil by constantly rebuking him (which is necessary at times). But we are told to worship and praise God, and the devil cannot coexist with that. He has to flee. Submitting to God and resisting the devil are one action I think. You can’t serve two masters! Easier said than done. But we do know that when our eyes are on Jesus, the devil doesn’t stand a chance. He can pop back in every now and then, but that doesn’t mean he is winning. Actually the opposite, he is terrified of the gift God has given you. And so he wants to pull you back down

My biggest flare up came the DAY before my wedding. We were also getting baptized at our wedding. The devil hates marriage, he hates baptism, and he hates that we did it publicly on a beach and other people would see and a seed would be planted. Anytime my OCD flares up, it’s before or after a huge win for the Kingdom of Heaven! Press on!

That is what I am wondering 🤔

If satan did this to people

I don't think so. I don't think the devil has power to affect our minds he is a peon.

I will also say in the same way Jesus wants us to become more like Him, you know follow the Spirit, have a pure heart, think like Him, etc…. The devil wants us to be like him. So any thought that is not from God, is just Satan projecting his own desires and sick agenda onto us. We strike down anything that sets itself up against the knowledge of God. We are not unaware of Satans schemes. So any time I get a really disturbing image in my head, I credit it to Satan because he is disturbed and sick. He also wants us to be fearful because HE is fearful. He has no hope, therefore he projects his hopelessness onto us. It really is about living with two wolves in your head. You become the one you feed. I choose to (even though it’s super hard sometimes!!!) feed the Holy Spirit. And starve the demonic spirits. Walking in the Spirit, renewing our minds, taking every thought captive… that is how we win this battle. Fearful thought? Yeh ok whatever. and then immediately praise Jesus! Love and fear cannot coexist. So hard to do! I’m right there with you in this fight

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