sexual intrusive images

Praying for you rn

Put the blame on OCD. Jesus understands and He loves you 🌻

God is not punishing you in any way. So you don't have to worry about that. I know that you are suffering a lot, but God is not punishing you! 20 years ago, I used to have constant blasphemous in my head every waking moment of the day. It was terrible. I started reading a book by Beth Moore called "Believing God". In this book, Beth took her readers a 40 day fast. And she said she was praying for every single one of her readers to have a miracle at the end of their fast. At the end of my fast, we had snow day, which was amazing because snow days are very rare where I live. I took that time to get down on my knees before God. There's more that I could explain here, but I prayed that morning that God would heal me of the OCD. From that moment on, I began a journey of healing from the OCD. The process was quite slow, but I started getting better a little at a time. A few years later, as I was journeying forward to get over the OCD, I learned we can just ALLOW these terrible thoughts to run freely through our heads. It took a step of faith for me to do this. I thought I had to put a "not " next to every blasphemous sentence in order to "neutralize it". It was scary for me to just allow the blasphemous thoughts to play freely through my head. But that was actually the right answer. And it opened the door for those thoughts to stop plaguing me. The truth is that God DOES NOT CARE if we have terrible thoughts running through our heads. And we have to learn to STOP FIGHTING them off. Just allow them to be there. I'll post something below that I wrote a few months back that might help . Also, it might be useful for you to know also that sexual imagery with God is a VERY common OCD thing. Multiple people have written about that on this app, it happens to quite a few people who have scrupulosity. You are not alone at all. The good news is that religious OCD is just the same as any other type of OCD. The fact that you have religious OCD just means that you value God. People with other types of OCD might value their family or value children, and so their OCD shows up in those areas. You don't have to be afraid of the thoughts. When you are afraid of the thoughts, you are giving the OCD power over you. When you stop caring whether or not the thoughts are in your head, the OCD loses most of its power. Please feel free to write anytime and we can talk more. I don't want you to have to suffer the way that you were suffering. And God doesn't want you to suffer either. He wants you to know how incredibly loved you are, and that you are SAFE, even though the OCD thoughts might rattle around in your head a lot all day.

It’s not your fault. You didn’t create OCD. You didn’t choose to have it. If God created everything, HE created the Ocd brain. Why? I don’t know. If God is all-loving and all-knowing, he would love you regardless and he would understand that intrusive thoughts aren’t your fault. It’s an ingrained survival mechanism that we were born with