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Hello, I'm new to the boards. Really am just at a loss with things and miserable because I don't understand and It isn't easy to talk about either. I have I guess what you call Pure OCD or harm OCD and I can't for the life of me understand why I have to deal and go through this everyday all the time...I'm misserable with it and I don't understand, I guess I'm just hoping I could come here and someone could help me and give me some peace about all this and reassure me that everything will be ok and get better? I'm at a loss and feel hopeless because I feel like the thoughts are coming from me since they can be so terrible and in my mind. :-( I don't know what to do, I am a born again christian and love Jesus but I feel lost, help :-(

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Hello, I'm new to the boards. Really am just at a loss with things and miserable because I don't understand and It isn't easy to talk about either. I have I guess what you call Pure OCD or harm OCD and I can't for the life of me understand why I have to deal and go through this everyday all the time...I'm misserable with it and I don't understand, I guess I'm just hoping I could come here and someone could help me and give me some peace about all this and reassure me that everything will be ok and get better? I'm at a loss and feel hopeless because I feel like the thoughts are coming from me since they can be so terrible and in my mind. :-( I don't know what to do, I am a born again christian and love Jesus but I feel lost, help :-(


What is the obsession? Would you like prayers?
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Yes I would thanks. It's pure OCD, not sure if anyone can help me though on here with this :-(

Nice to "meet" you, TrustingJesus...What specifically is your problem?
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terrible thoughts that are always popping into my mind that I do not want :-(

That must be very difficult, annoying, and scary, TrustingJesus. What do you usually do when this happens?
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TrustingJesus...
We all have terrible thoughts that seem to "jump" into our minds--thoughts that we do wish to think about. It is not wrong to know that the thoughts attack you, but it is very important how we deal with them.

The greatest illustration I have ever heard goes something like this, in essence: Every part of our lives is a portion of something bigger; when baking a cake, for instance, we add a bit of flour. Flour alone tastes awful, and we tend to reject it, but it is needed to complete the delicious cake when finished. The same is true with the raw eggs, they are awful by themselves, but when we see the total picture, they are an essential part of the cake. All the ingredients are necessary to make the cake good and make it right. This problem in your life may be just that pinch of salt that is needed to flavor the end product; it may be the spoonful of baking soda, or the 1/4 cup of vinegar. Whatever the end product is, this may be one essential ingredient to perfecting it. hang on, friend, God knows what He is doing. Trust Him, and lean on Him, and He will bring you through.

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TrustingJesus...
We all have terrible thoughts that seem to "jump" into our minds--thoughts that we do wish to think about. It is not wrong to know that the thoughts attack you, but it is very important how we deal with them.

The greatest illustration I have ever heard goes something like this, in essence: Every part of our lives is a portion of something bigger; when baking a cake, for instance, we add a bit of flour. Flour alone tastes awful, and we tend to reject it, but it is needed to complete the delicious cake when finished. The same is true with the raw eggs, they are awful by themselves, but when we see the total picture, they are an essential part of the cake. All the ingredients are necessary to make the cake good and make it right. This problem in your life may be just that pinch of salt that is needed to flavor the end product; it may be the spoonful of baking soda, or the 1/4 cup of vinegar. Whatever the end product is, this may be one essential ingredient to perfecting it. hang on, friend, God knows what He is doing. Trust Him, and lean on Him, and He will bring you through.

Thank you so much IrishMan, I very much appreciate your encouraging words. I try praying and having faith that God will heal me of this and take it away and I try reading my Bible. I've had a lot that has happend to me... loosing loved ones and family members that have done wrong plus marriage problems and I somehow ended up with this and I know after loosing people in my life and different things happening to me made me angry so on top of it all I have a lot of anger also that I wish I didn't have and honestly don't truly know how to get rid of...but as far as the pure ocd and the bad thoughts and images it puts in my mind and says that it's me or that I like it I wish so bad would just go away...I would rather have an illness than this I believe...because nothings worse than not being able to control your mind and not understanding why you have such terrible things come into it and it makes you feel like it's you and so I have rituals to try and make the bad thoughts leave me alone when only that just makes it worse and makes me think on the bad thought more and I end up asking myself is this me to get it right in my head to know that it isn't then it will say you like this you have no feelings and when I try to think that I have feelings nothing comes and it makes me think it's me :-( it's a horrible situation that I pray that the Lord will free me from, I need His help bad! Thanks for writing me back.
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Trusting,

I'll share some scripture with you and ask you to memorize some and study some. I've added you to my daily prayer list. Please continue praying and as soon as the thoughts come immediately even while praying repeat the verses of memorized scripture almost as if chanting if need be. It may not be the cure but its good medicine none the less.

Jeremiah 8:18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
John 16:22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

Memorize these below...
Job 30:16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Isaiah 41:10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Romans 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Romans 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Study...continue reading your Bible...
Romans 7:15-25
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10
9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

Isaiah 58:8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.

I hope this is helpful, I hear and to a small degree feel your pain.

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I might add, looking at this world and what it taking place is not very encouraging at all. Its all in decay and sin thrives everywhere, its full of doom and gloom. Those who have not a Savior have nothing good to look forward to. Yet for the child of God, those with the Savior, the best is yet to come, we have a wonderful future to look forward to, but that future will not be on this earth, for there is so much sin. It will be when we get to heaven, and the former things are passed away, when we have moved to that "New Location."

Re 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Once a bank sent flowers to one if its competitors that was moving to a new location. However the flower shop made a bad mistake, the flowers that arrived on their grand opening day had a card that read, “With Our Deepest Sympathy.”

The flower shop was very embarrassed, but not as embarrassed over that as they were of the card they had included in the flowers sent in honor of a man that had just died. His relatives had opened the card and found these words, “Congratulation On Your New Location.”

However that would really be approipate to send to a Christians that had just died, for in death the Christian moves to a wonderful "New Location." If it were not for that fact things would be so depressing, yet knowing that, depression does not bother me. As I've stated many times, "The Best is Yet To Come" for God's children.

Much like the woman that wanted to be buried with a fork in her hand.

There was a woman who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and was given 3 months to live. As she began getting her things "in order" she called her pastor and asked him to come to her house to discuss certain aspects of her final wishes. She told him which songs she wanted sung at her service, what scriptures she wanted read, and what dress she wanted to be buried in. She also requested that she be buried with her Bible in her left hand.

Everything was in order, and as the pastor was preparing to leave, the woman suddenly remembered one final request that was very important to her. "Please, Pastor, just one more thing," she said excitedly. "Sure, what is it," came the pastor's reply.

"This is very important to me," the woman continued ... I want to be buried holding a fork in my right hand."

The pastor gazed at the woman with a loss for words. "That surprises you, doesn't it?" the woman said. The pastor replied, "Well, to be quite honest I am puzzled by the request." The woman explained, "You see, pastor, in all my years attending church socials and potluck dinners, I remember after the main course and the dishes were being cleared somebody will inevitably lean over to me and say .... 'keep your fork' .... that was my favorite part because I knew that something better was coming, like the velvety chocolate cake, or deep dish apple pie. Something wonderful to add substance to end the great meal."

The pastor listened intently as the woman continued, "So, you see Pastor, I just want people to see me there in my casket with a fork in my hand, and I want them to wonder ... 'What's with the fork?' ... then I want you to tell them: 'Keep your fork ~ the BEST is yet to come!"

The pastor's eyes filled with tears of joy as he hugged the woman goodbye. He knew that this would be one of the last times he would see her before her death. He also knew that this woman had a better grasp of Heaven than even he did. She KNEW and trusted that the BEST was yet to come.

At the funeral, everyone who walked by the woman's casket saw her wearing a beautiful dress, with her Bible held in her left hand and a fork in her right hand.
Over and over the pastor heard people ask, "Why is she holding a fork?" and his smile began to get larger and brighter each time. During his message, the pastor told the people about the conversation he had had with the woman shortly before her death. He explained the fork and what it symbolized to her.


So, the next time you reach for your fork, remember ~

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I will pray for you. I can understand having horrible, incomprehensible thoughts popping into your head. It's happened to me; I guess it happens to all of us. I can also understand feeling lost, hopeless.

God bless you.
In Christ,
Joel ><>.
2 Chronicles 7:14.

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TrustingJesus, this is how I battle temptations. I make sure I take time out EVERY night to read a few chapters of scripture. I also like to read a devotion that is Biblical sound. I pray that Christ would live through me. I pray that I would not allow my sinful flesh, the old man, to do the driving. Instead I want Christ to be in control of my life. If I try to battle temptations I will fail. With Christ all is possible. Also, if you can get a mature Christian of the same sex to be an accountability partner that is a help as well. Praying for you, and I mean it.

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Thank all of you so very much! It helps me more than you know seeing all of you reply and try to help because I truly am at my wits end with this, it's so very hard to understand and deal with and I don't want to have to deal with it. Thank yall so much. I will repeat the Bible verses and read more, please continue to pray for me and that this will all go away soon, thanks so much for the kindness yall share and for praying for me!

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TrustingJesus011 please add me (Dave) to your prayers for strength to do God's will and to praise His name continually. Thanks.

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