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Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between God talking to you and just your brains OCD trying to mess with you. God comes from a place of love and OCD comes from a place of fear. If the thought came from a feeling or source of fear I would assume it was OCD and not God. God talks through the heart, not the mind.
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I believe in God too, and I also have had thoughts that seem like they’re coming from God but they aren’t coming from Him. Sometimes my OCD disguises itself and tries to make me think it’s God telling me something, but really it’s the opposite of what He’s actually trying to tell me. I’ve had thoughts, then later on God causes a situation to occur that shows me the thought wasn’t from him. It’s hard to figure out what thoughts are from God and what are from anxiety, but try think about what thoughts have godly characteristics. As children of God, He just wants us to date someone who follows Him and walks in the light of Jesus and as long as the morals and character of the person follow what God wants for us, He doesn’t care who specifically we are dating! We have free will to choose the specific person! ? sometimes God’s plan calls for us to be with a specific person, but in time He’ll lead us to them. The fact that your boyfriend is in church with you gives me the thought that he’s following God too and I’m sure he’s an amazing person! Ask God if that thought came from Him. Pray and ask ‘God, if this thought was just my anxiety, please let it leave forever. But if it was you, let me know. “ and He’ll show you. ? I’m sorry this is so long! I hope I explained it good, I’m really bad at explaining so if you have questions I can clarify!
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BEEN THERE!!!!! And that same voice also told me lots of mistaken things. Throw all your skepticism at God and tell God that you need a whole lot more clear direction than just a little whispered sense. It works for some, but it is not healthy for people with OCD and God knows it. I love love love having spiritual direction to sort through things and base decisions on a much more extensive discernment. Ignatian discernment is very helpful, too. God knows you have OCD and can work with that.
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Helpful!!!! Thank you
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Carly, Joey you are amazing guys! Thank you so much, it was so helpful ? love you !
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That’s so good to hear!! God bless you ? I’ll be praying for you!
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I love you too Martha and Carly ?
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^^ YES! they explained it better than I did ?
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- 22w
I have been constantly ruminating about if God wants me to be with my boyfriend. I am so hyper fixated on Gods will for my life that I often overthink every move. I have constant “what if” thoughts or “if God wanted him in your life you wouldn’t be having these thoughts”. I can’t differentiate Gods voice with my thoughts. What if this is God speaking? I also keep seeing TikToks that say if God wanted this person in your life they wouldn’t do blah blah blah. I am just not sure what to think anymore. I want to be with my boyfriend and he wants to be with me. However, as of lately we have been having some issues because we show our love differently. Then I see these TikToks saying that the right person will love you the way you need to be loved naturally, nothing will ever need to be forced, rhat I’m forcing a rib into the wrong man, etc. and then I’m like is this God talking through these videos saying I shouldn’t be with my boyfriend? I am not sure what to think. I just feel like my mind is in a constant spiral and I get so confused.
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- OCD Conqueror
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- 20w
I have been doing very well managing my OCD over the past few months amidst the most amount of life changes I've had in years. However, today I had something catch me off guard that I just want to get off my chest. I'm getting ready to serve a mission for my church, and I've been spending a lot of time praying and getting closer to God. I've had a thought pop in my head few times that, sometime in my life, I'm going to experience divorce. I've been trying to treat it like any other OCD thought, but today when I was visiting my parents, my stepmom told me a story about when she was younger. She lost her little girl in a fire, and she said when she was young and before that happened, she heard a woman speak at church with her same name that had just lost her little girl, and she had a premonition and a really strong feeling that it would happen to her. She forgot about it, but years later, it did happen. During the story, I thought about my divorce thought, and it felt like it was from God and that it is going to happen. I got instant cold sweats and chills, and it's like my heart just dropped. It was suffocating. I'm worried that it was from God, and that divorce will happen in my life. This terrifies me, because my parents got divorced when I was a child, and most of my extended family members have been through divorces with the minority staying with their spouses. More than anything, I want to build a loving, nurturing family, so this is just really scary right now. I prayed to God about it, and He told me to trust Him. I'm trying to keep it together but I'm just so scared I want to cry.
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- 19w
i feel so confused my boyfriend and i have dated for 4 years off and on and now we finally have been together for six months again but its been so confusing im battling relationship ocd and i dont know if it just means im not supposed to be with him. we keep running into problems and he just thinks im bot happy with him, qhen he says that i cant discern, i just get confused. i pray to god but i just dont know
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