Struggling with God's Love and Salvation OCD

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Жыл бұрын

I address a question about salvation OCD, religious obsessive compulsive issues, the love of God and struggles with 1 John.
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@nanabanana1983 Жыл бұрын

Please will you all pray for me? I’m having severe autonomic nervous system dysfunction and I need God to heal my brain, nervous system and stomach and intestines aren’t working. Please Father heal me

@Ari-Artform Жыл бұрын

Praying for you Nan. All will be well. In Jesus name. God Bless!

@theadumitriu8664 Жыл бұрын

Take authority and command that thing to come out and be healed, Jesus gave you authority to speak to it!

@safeplaceasmr5986 Жыл бұрын

Maybe check out a brain retraining program too, like DNRS. They need to be done with the Bible in mind of course and in relationship with Holy Spirit, but super helpful. Let me know if you need more info. God is the ultimate healer, and through the DNRS program I have encountered His goodness in many healing ways combined with renewing the mind to His truth (including that authority, that I'm still learning). It's incredible.

@draleks9112 9 ай бұрын

Any updates?

@Spud3418 Ай бұрын

You’re in my prayers. God bless you!

@theresa42213 7 ай бұрын

MARK! l just cannot _believe_ that you exist! The Holy Spirit DID hear my cry! He DID want me to know He loves me! l'm not ''OUT!'' He sent YOU! What an AWESOME God we serve! You are thee best Christmas present ever! THANK YOU! :D

@norikokomikado Ай бұрын

I'm so happy for you. This level of reassurance is something I have yet to experience, but I have noticed that I do still take Communion - something that I would not do I have thought I was hopelessly lost. Perhaps you and I will meet in Paradise someday.

@theresa42213 Ай бұрын

@@norikokomikado ~ Amen Nora! Just you and l speaking reassures me as nothing happens by accident. Like Mark said, ...lts a journey. The Christian life wasn't meant to be easy. l do still have shaky days. Dear Lord please bless Nora with assurance, in accordance with Your will. Amen. :)

@trevorroeder117 Жыл бұрын

Good stuff! Feeling guilty/wrong about sin and not wanting to sin is a sign we are saved, it’s learning to not let the guilt rule us and keep us from walking with God and accepting His love for us in-spite of our sins, problems, addictions.

@matthewy8768 Ай бұрын

This has taken me over a decade of walking with Jesus to learn. I have only began to start to understand His love for me this way in the last year. Its sooo freeing. Im always accepted. I dont have to hide when i struggle with my addictions, it draws me closer to Jesus and He gives me the power to overcome. These passages use to do the same thing to me, but now that i have been perfected in love, i read them in a whole new way. God is soo good. God is love.

@MaddiKepley 2 ай бұрын

PRAISE GOD FOR MARK DEJESUS. I thought I was all alone in this thought pattern!!!

@akguitarworks7906 28 күн бұрын

This is so me!! It is so nice to hear from someone who knows me this well, without knowing me. Thanks for doing this ministry! Keep going for all those who are captive in this. Thanks, brother Mark!!

@josea3651 Жыл бұрын

This is really great. Never considered myself as OCD but everything you have described internally is me.

@Hollyfilly Жыл бұрын

My OCD is mostly hidden and of the 'pure-o' variety, I can relate.

@theresa42213 7 ай бұрын

Josea ~ Me TOOOOO! So awesome that l found this channel, and that ... l ...am NOT ....ALONE. JOY! :D

@lillymedesto 22 күн бұрын

I love this episode, its so helpful and freeing!

@blakekendall6156 2 ай бұрын

Really great, it is always so helpful to know you're not the only one who has ever struggled with this. It is also important to not downplay peoples' doubts, because it can absolutely be the case that someone is doubting because they were in fact never born again. It happens. That is what makes the whole OCD over salvation issue so painful at times, but just knowing other genuine believers have struggled with this (and why) is such a relief. I have struggled with feeling loved in all relationships, always feeling like I don't belong.

@holla_j Жыл бұрын

One of the best channels on youtube on this topic and mental health struggles for people in the body of Christ. My OCD and religious OCD were and at times still are a struggle for me. Great episode once again Mark. Thank you 🙏

@HandleWhat. 2 ай бұрын

Ive been struggling so much about salvation. Been in such torment that makes me suicidal. The 10 virgins, the man he throws into outer darkness with the cowards. The I never knew you, and on and on. Its so depressing.

@norikokomikado Ай бұрын

You're not the only one. I have the same problem, especially since I sinned so much post-baptism. The great Christian Mr. John Bunyan also struggled with a severe lack of reassurance. But he went on to write Pilgrim's Progress and now is an inspiration to all Christians who have OCD. We're all in this together. Come back to Jesus, and He will accept you. (I'm writing this to teach myself too.)

@milchhonig7557 Жыл бұрын

Haha I like your sound effects!! You speak so much freedom to me, thank you

@leeannchavers3343 Жыл бұрын

Yes, at first when I heard it, I thought it was my own mind doing it, lol. So I was so relieved when it happened again! Like, I don't need another issue! Lol!

@Hollyfilly Жыл бұрын

I also love the sound effects.

@Thomas116-m2n Жыл бұрын

2:14. Me, today. I have felt like an Esau my entire life. I try not to sin but I fail. I believe in Jesus and what He did on the cross but thoughts enter my mind that God will reject me anyway. Many people have in my life so I incorrectly attribute that trait to God.

@Gyro144 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your compassion and connection and all that you do. May you be richly blessed. You are a lifeline! :-)

@TheAshleyRojas Жыл бұрын

This really helped me! Thank you 😊I plan to leave self accusation in 2022 and will preach to myself that His banner over me is love ❤

@estelleclements5515 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for these lives & for the 'Mark rant' 😀so helpful.

@jaimemartinez7782 Жыл бұрын

Love you Mark, been listening to you for the past year. You have been the most helpful. Love the sense of humor. Thank you Mark

@tee1763 Жыл бұрын

I've been binging your videos today 😅 you're great, Mark. Thank God for you and Kris Reece! You guys help me so much ❤️🙏

@3chordsrecordsmusic899 Жыл бұрын

Scrupulosity is my ongoing huge battle everyday, I’m itching to get past this one day, it’s been a couple years. Leading bible study service has been a challenge, i even took a couple weeks off so far.

@Ari-Artform Жыл бұрын

Excellent. Especially the Extra PRODUCTION....yes! The voice CRACKS me up!

@jennifera777 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Mark, your transparency is very reassuring and refreshing. I don't know what I would have done if I hadn't found you an your wealth of information on OCD. You've help me so much! 🙏🏼💖🤗

@darlenetammara3199 8 ай бұрын

Fantastic….Thank You….you are a Godsend!! Keep doing what you are doing….i just found your KZfaq site today and I am grateful and you are an answer to prayer!! 👍🙏👍🙏

@swisschris2 Жыл бұрын

I am so glad I found you on youtube! Finally someone who knows what I am struggling with every single day! Your channel is a life-saver to me. I do not feel so terribly isolated anymore and I have hope again that there is a way out of all my fears and doubts and obsessions... Thank you for this ministry!

@mhatter5 8 ай бұрын

God where we’re you 8 years ago. Such a blessing man. Thank you for your ministry!!

@Hollyfilly Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this. Amazing insight and the voices add a lot. Great Elf impression too. Thanks for adding levity to the healing process. Your videos often lighten my mood along with the helpful information.

@j.aravena2158 Жыл бұрын

My men this feels so true, I have OCD and I fit perfect with this description of "believer"

@dkert0b05n0 10 ай бұрын

Hey Mark- I totally get that feeling of “do I REALLY?!,” “do I FULLY?!” “I’m not sure?!?” so strongly

@marianmears8026 Жыл бұрын

Love sound effects I see myself more in love.💕

@mdy888 Жыл бұрын

I neeeeeded this today I feel so much better, n a few laughs helped too, thank you SO much

@bettypartin1793 Жыл бұрын

Yes Mark can help you laugh at yourself and I think that's healthy.

@mdy888 Жыл бұрын

@@bettypartin1793 really was 😂💞

@Brazz0123 Жыл бұрын

This stuff resonates with me BIGTIME

@nathanburtch9734 2 ай бұрын

Mark, I don't usually comment on ANYTHING I watch on KZfaq, but THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! You have literally gotten inside my brain and put me at ease in twenty minutes. After having been saved for over three decades, I have recently, (within the last two years or so,) come under HEAVY attack when I watch things. What I mean is the idea that I forefeit my salvation because of sin or better yet, because I don't read the bible because it does make the type of sense it should. Does that make sense? I am Autistic, (and I suspect and a little OCD.). Are there rescources you can point me to so that I can deepen my walk with God? I want to do this thing right and walk circumspeckly. I also want to enjoy the scriptures and help teach others, (even those like me,) what life-changing, transformative power they possess. I am sooooooo BLESSED to have found you and your content!!

@Sunnyanne283 3 ай бұрын

Thankyou Mark!

@riiyaahdior3922 6 ай бұрын

8:30 is so meeee😂 it’s so frustrating bc Jesus took OCD on the cross. It’s comforting to know so many other believers are struggling w/ this because it’s not talked about

@tamihernandez7816 4 ай бұрын

LOL!!! I don’t think I’m fully, who is fully anyway!! Hilarious made my day!!😂

@KelilaMurdock Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Please do more in how to read the Bible, you only have a few video on that 😅 I spin out sometimes when I read the Bible.

@angelomoore4837 Жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more. I'm getting more afraid to read my Bible.

@KelilaMurdock Жыл бұрын

@@angelomoore4837 try starting with John 3:16, just read it every morning for month and see if that helps. “For God so loved…” If you feel a little extra you can read John 3:17 “He came not to condemn, but to save!” That’s the sort of a thing I’ve been doing, and it has helped.

@angelomoore4837 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. I'm going to try that starting this morning. So hard to believe this is a thing.

@amy77981 Жыл бұрын

I don't know if this will help you, but it helped me when I was at the worst parts of religious ocd/scrupilosity. I googled bible verses on "safe" topics such as the love of God, goodness of God, my identity in Christ, mercy, etc.. until I was in a stronger place to be able to read the Bible without so much fear.

@angelomoore4837 Жыл бұрын

Thank you I will try that

@Mymle Жыл бұрын

I’ve been reading about attachment issues and I think it connects to that.

@maddymclaugh9660 Жыл бұрын

I’ve thought about that too!!!

@Mymle Жыл бұрын

@@maddymclaugh9660 Interesting, where did you learn about attachment if I may ask ? I think it makes sense, I have watched a lot of Adam Lane Smith. But I will read more about it before I make up my mind.

@maddymclaugh9660 Жыл бұрын

@@Mymle I learned about it through Thais Gibson on KZfaq, she has a channel called “personal development school.” It’s all about romantic relationships, but I imagine it could possibly transfer over to God… There’s also another KZfaqr who is a great teacher on it, but she only teaches about the “Fearful Avoidant” attachment style, her name is Paulien Timmer.

@Mymle Жыл бұрын

@@maddymclaugh9660 thanks :) it always helps to know that grace is a free gift. All that matters is who we believe Jesus to be. We can stop striving to be perfect, in this world we will never be. In relationship with friends and family it helps to be surrounded by patient and loving people. Just my little reminder today.

@maddymclaugh9660 Жыл бұрын

@@Mymle thank you, that is helpful 🙏🏻

@Nightwalker25-m3u 5 ай бұрын

I been struggling with lots of things. Many different toils and snares.

@Lucyllc 11 ай бұрын

I am always afraid to do something good now because i don't want to think this is what saves me. I know it's by the blood of Jesus, Grace and faith. I dont want me to think i save myself with work so (going to church, helpong someone)

@j.aravena2158 Жыл бұрын

Idk why but being a Christian kills my mental health, yes I have OCD and stuff and it may be that, I want to believe and be in "peace" with that bit everytime I feel bad about this

@_cr8ive_ 5 ай бұрын

The stress and anxiety regarding reading the word is killing me. I can't explain it. Others get peace, I just get more fear and extreme anxiety. Maybe my lens of perception is distorted due to my dysfunctional upbringing. . . I just experience more guilt...like I've never been saved. 😖🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

@Eve90 Жыл бұрын

Or evangelizing. Like what does God want me to do? And sometimes when I’m in my depression moment and I’m lacking hope I’m like how could I possibly talk to someone about our Lord when I’m not feeling very hopeful right now

@Eve90 Жыл бұрын

Can someone please explain how they’re dealing with the verse in Matthew where Jesus says to pick up your cross and die to yourself.. also what is the difference between sin / rebellion / going against God’s will, and “normal life”

@abemontes2518 Жыл бұрын

I like to play video games and sometimes wonder if by doing it I will be cast out of the presence of God. No, I'm not addicted nor I play everyday. I have a family, a wife and kids, church services, go to work, etc... so I'm not engaged in this activity in a constant basis. In the past playing games was a problem but today it's not. However I battle with the thought that maybe God doesn't want me playing games and I get sad because I like to play games when I do. This is the reason why I don't play games frequently, I exercise self control, but I wonder if God will punish me for it. I know that the Bible says that if you have doubts about something then it's sin, but I ask God to keep me in His hands. My struggle with salvation ocd is something I have carried for an entire lifetime and have nothing to do with video games. If it's not video games then it will be something else. My wife always tells me that I come up with anything too feel condemned about, and that why can't I get a grasp at God's grace for once. I don't know what to tell her.

@Nightwalker25-m3u Жыл бұрын

So in the obsessive compulsive healing journey. Why does the Perfectionist people that I live with not listen to me?

@tonypino5415 Жыл бұрын

When a person accepts Jesus as their personal Lord and savior they instantly become part of the Bride of Christ. It becomes a spiritual marriage. God hates divorce. Which means that He wouldn't kick us out. I suppose a person CAN leave Him but that's different than "losing" your salvation.

@laylascott6096 Жыл бұрын

You cannot forfeit your salvation either. Nobody can take you out of the Father’s hand, even yourself. If we could lose our salvation, every last one of us would. It is by the righteousness OF Christ that we are saved

@margaretgrosskreuz8687 Жыл бұрын

@@laylascott6096 YES. HE keeps us we are either in the family or not. God never, ever gives up on us There is no turning back. Everlasting Life Is lasting forever. People don't think this through. I sound like a know it all. But this is the TRUTH of the Gospel of Grace, not my opinion ❤️🎶☝🏼

@jeremiahnichols8272 11 ай бұрын

I've been struggling for this for years but only recently within the last 2-3 years has it progressed to a level it's never been at before. This is going to be tl;dr. I'll be thinking I'm Easu or what if I'm one of those that Jesus says I never knew you too. I'm always fixated on God being angry with me. And how He was angry/enraged by the Isreali's in the desert. That maybe something like that might happen to me. I even think sometimes God has been allowing sickness to come on me because of my sin. I desperately don't want to sin though. But I struggle with it in some areas of my life more than others. I will say I use to have blasphemous thoughts sometimes multiple times a day but God has delivered me from that and I don't have them anymore. This is the first video I've seen from you but in the back of my mind I'm thinking should I trust someone who is monetized on KZfaq who's talking about Jesus. Lots of fakes on here. Sorry, I know this is tl;dr.

@Eve90 Жыл бұрын

By normal life I mean there are moments in my job or school where you’re not for example really counting how many breaths a person took when writing respirations and you average it does it mean you’re lying?

@stephaniel63 3 ай бұрын

wish I could show this video to a spiritual mentor in my life so they stop judging me for not reading the Bible everyday but they literally use the "are you REALLY submitted to God" thing all the time and they back it up with reasoning that I don't know how to refute. what they says makes me feel so defeated, and part of it may just be me getting triggered, but I just wish they wouldn't judge me so much....

@PathFind13 5 ай бұрын

14:30 But a lot of Christians have and show God's love, I don't get this. 16:16 also bro, not all Christians have sin patterns that they haven't overcome. Repentance can be fully formed I believe. Pure holiness can be attained, the evil in our hearts can be cleansed with enough devotion, faith and with the Help of the Holy spirit. Am I wrong?

@Mimar3 Жыл бұрын

Mark could you explain when Jesus said: He who saves his life shall lose it, He who dont pick up his cross, Do not love things in the world. I have anxiety about those all day long, my mind just thinks those verses and I always feel fear, Im not hungry, thirsty, cant sleep. Please Mark. Mostly those verses somehow says that I shouldnt pluck eyebrows, shave, etc. I had problems with plucking eyebrows. I promised I wouldnt do it, I let it go, but I want to do that, take care of myself and be pretty for my future wife. I dont know what is happening. Thoughts like: You promised you wouldnt do that, it is a problem. Please Mark, help.

@KaraTalks-nd8ec Жыл бұрын

Plucking of eyebrows and shaving were a part of ceremonial law, so that Israelites wouldn't follow pagan customs when mourning. You don't need to worry about those things, unless you were doing it for mourning/a pagan custom.

@Nightwalker25-m3u Жыл бұрын

So if I'm ruminating about rather or not God loves me. How do I know that God does love me unconditionally? These racing thoughts are very disturbing.

@marktdejesus Жыл бұрын

Move forward as though He does love you.

@ellyrobertson7120 Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 the voice changes

@monicadhaliwal1791 Жыл бұрын

Thank You All Powerful Lord Jesus Christ for Paying for All my Sins Thank You Jesus For Shedding Every Last Drop of Your Perfect Redeeming Innocent Blood For The Forgiveness Full Remission of All my Sins Thank You Jesus For Dying in my place on The Cross ✝️ ❤To Pay for All my Sins as The Perfect Sacrifice because You Have No Sin Thank You for Being Buried Thank You Jesus For COMING BACK ALIVE 3 Days After Your Death because You Are The Son of God and God At The Same Time Simultaneously!!! I LOVE You Heavenly Father ABBA I LOVE You Jesus I LOVE You Holy Spirit Not 3. Different Gods but The 1 The Only True Living GOD Most High Revealed to us in 3 Ways ❤❤❤❤❤LOVE You ❤❤she who is Forgiven Much LOVES Much!!!

@Eve90 Жыл бұрын

Okay that was a dumb example, an honest example would be you get stressed out and you get upset with someone, and you don’t apologize to them. You pray for them but you don’t apologize because you didn’t really do anything wrong but obviously you grieved them by their outward expression of being upset.

@princesswarrior4797 Жыл бұрын

Do you get saved when you repent or just accept Jesus in your heart? And what about once saved always saved? Or do you need to repent daily to stay saved?

@ReligiouslyIncorrect Жыл бұрын

You must repent (change your mind from unbelief to belief) and believe in Jesus Christ. Believing that Jesus died on the cross for your sins, was buried and rose on the 3rd day. If you confess Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God rose Him from the dead, you shall be saved.

@ReligiouslyIncorrect Жыл бұрын

You do not need to repent to stay saved. You repent from sin after you are saved. You can’t lose your salvation.

@matthewholder3269 Жыл бұрын

Does anyone else have blasphemous thoughts?

@penguin8247 Жыл бұрын

I used to have more, I would simply acknowledge that I don't agree with them, ask God to help me, and move on and that helped me. God bless you

@adude3489 9 ай бұрын

As a Muslim i have the same ocd, salvation is not exclusive to the christian faith no matter what your ego might tell you.

@elysium0093 4 ай бұрын

Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven and the sooner you realize that Muhammad is a false prophet and that jesus literally said he was god then you will find much more joy

@adude3489 4 ай бұрын

@@elysium0093 Sure mr Fanatic, whatever you say :)

@elysium0093 4 ай бұрын

@@adude3489 I'll be praying for you

@adude3489 4 ай бұрын

@@elysium0093 you'll be doing yourself a favour if you put your rotten mind in immediate priority for a prayer first ;) . Btw Did you know that jewish people also don't recognise Christianity as a real religion?

@Nightwalker25-m3u 5 ай бұрын

If i didnt know your name. I think you might be John.