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
@@norikotheguardian ~ 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. :)
Mark I don’t know if you’ll read this. But I want you to know that God is using you in powerful ways. I never thought I would find someone who understood what I was going through or that God would actually answer all these OCD questions I have always had. He used you to answer them. This ministry you’re doing is life changing.
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
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.
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.
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.
I'm the same. I'm struggling with sin - I can't give up smoking 😪. I worry that God will leave me and that I've lost my salvation. It scares me to hear the words, depart from me, I know you not. I find it difficult to love others, and it says in the Bible that the love of the Father is not in you if you don't love others. Please pray for me.
@HandleWhat. the last thing you want to do is commit s. Stick around and be sure of your salvation. Search hard. Watch Paul Washer Assurance of Salvation. And John MacArthur How Do I Know If I Am Saved. It's a dial in m8nistries for MacArthur
@hemapatel2694 read my message to the first poster. I thought smoking would send me to hell too. I prayed a long time for Him to gently take the desire away from me. I quit in 2000. It took a year. I used a phase out machine. Then went on to poke more holes into the butt of the cig careful not to cover them. As the more poked the less smoke I got. Eventually I noticed the filter was staying white. So I realized I wasn't hooked. I needed something to do with my hands. So i held and unlit cig in one and the lighter in the other. Typed to people on a chat and put them down as I typed. Every time I got the urge I changed the subject in my head. I would get up abd do something. A chore, play with my dogs or parrots. Go drive somewhere. Do a hobby. Read the bible ! I'm not sure smoking sends you to hell. If you are truly saved , truly, you can't lose it.
@@hemapatel2694 Hello friend. That scripture where Jesus says "I never knew you" were not to Christians that sin. He said "Never", not "I once knew you". Furthermore, if you read it carefully, those He was speaking to never mentioned Him. They were only pointing to their own obedience. They never trusted in Him and His finished work on the cross. It's to people who try to justify themselves by their own works, and not the blood of Jesus. You can smoke and still go to Heaven because Jesus paid for all your sins. I don't encourage you to keep smoking or sin, He also paid for you to break free from that bad habit. However, He paid it all. Have no fear over that. He is your Righteousness, your own works and obedience is not. You have His Righteousness covering you because He was obedient. God bless.
Thank you so much for this video!! I have had a hard time with grace for so long. I believe in Jesus and I want to do the will of the Father. I am so tired of reading the Word and being terrified because I see nothing but God’s anger and wrath. I want to know God’s love and His peace. There is no hope, love, joy, and peace apart from the Lord. Thank you again for this video.
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.
Mark, I don't usually comment on ANYTHING I watch on UA-cam, 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!!
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 🙏
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.
Me too. Read what Paul says. That I want to do, I do not do. That which I do not want to do, I do! Oh wretched man that I am who can save me from this body of death. Our flesh will sin, though less and less as we grow, until we get to heaven. He said he was the chief of sinners. I deal with doubt but it's getting better. Jesus died for us to pay for our sin. That doesn't mean deliberately continue to wallow in sin. That may show you are not saved. But you will see yourself change. You will hate your sin. You will feel guilty over sin. Watch the men I mentioned in another post answer above.
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.
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.
I have only watched 6 of your videos in the past 2 days, & it seems like you have interviewed me for each one, so I am having lightbulbs light up & having breakthroughs which I have been praying for for many, many years. God Bless you for sharing these videos to help all of us get healthier in our Faith journey.🙌🙏❤
Mark thank you for your ministry. I woke up so burdened at the thought of having to go through another day and laid in bed and turned this video on. Life is heavy right now. I have of family trouble, particularly in my marriage and with my kids. I’m working full time and working on getting a college degree as an adult. I haven’t been “loving” I’ve been isolated and selfish. I’m constantly looking for the disqualifier and was reminded how key it is to approach scripture from gospel before I open the Word. Colossians 1:12-14, 22-23 very very helpful for me this morning.
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!
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!
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!!
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.
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
Thank you Mark, I really needed to hear this message today and know that I’m not alone experiencing negative thoughts and anxiety about my salvation. God bless you. Keep up the good work and take care. Andy, wales uk
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! 🙏🏼💖🤗
@@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.
@@Mymle I learned about it through Thais Gibson on UA-cam, 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 UA-camr who is a great teacher on it, but she only teaches about the “Fearful Avoidant” attachment style, her name is Paulien Timmer.
@@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.
Fantastic….Thank You….you are a Godsend!! Keep doing what you are doing….i just found your UA-cam site today and I am grateful and you are an answer to prayer!! 👍🙏👍🙏
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. 😖🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
@@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.
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.
We are in this condition because of a technicality not because we are any worse people then others , because I witnessed people say !)*@# about God and still be fine while myself is not. So God still loves you the same as others .
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
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?
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)
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.
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
@@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 ❤️🎶☝🏼
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.
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
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!!!
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 UA-cam who's talking about Jesus. Lots of fakes on here. Sorry, I know this is tl;dr.
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....
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”
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.
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.
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?
I'm so happy that I get to sin all I want and still go to heaven; all I have to do is concentrate on what Jesus did for me on the cross, because He bought my ticket to sin with umpunity. Smh.
@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?
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.
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?
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.
@@homeschoolmom779 Excuse me ma'am but I want to asked you a question. Does this guy teach a works based salvation? His video randomly popped on my youtube, and by looking at the titles on his videos, he has an interesting perspectives. But if he teach a works based salvation then I won't bother at all
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
@@norikotheguardian ~ 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. :)
Mark I don’t know if you’ll read this. But I want you to know that God is using you in powerful ways. I never thought I would find someone who understood what I was going through or that God would actually answer all these OCD questions I have always had. He used you to answer them. This ministry you’re doing is life changing.
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
Praying for you Nan. All will be well. In Jesus name. God Bless!
Take authority and command that thing to come out and be healed, Jesus gave you authority to speak to it!
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.
Any updates?
You’re in my prayers. God bless you!
PRAISE GOD FOR MARK DEJESUS. I thought I was all alone in this thought pattern!!!
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.
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.
I'm the same. I'm struggling with sin - I can't give up smoking 😪. I worry that God will leave me and that I've lost my salvation. It scares me to hear the words, depart from me, I know you not. I find it difficult to love others, and it says in the Bible that the love of the Father is not in you if you don't love others. Please pray for me.
@HandleWhat. the last thing you want to do is commit s. Stick around and be sure of your salvation. Search hard. Watch Paul Washer Assurance of Salvation. And John MacArthur How Do I Know If I Am Saved. It's a dial in m8nistries for MacArthur
@hemapatel2694 read my message to the first poster. I thought smoking would send me to hell too. I prayed a long time for Him to gently take the desire away from me. I quit in 2000. It took a year. I used a phase out machine. Then went on to poke more holes into the butt of the cig careful not to cover them. As the more poked the less smoke I got. Eventually I noticed the filter was staying white. So I realized I wasn't hooked. I needed something to do with my hands. So i held and unlit cig in one and the lighter in the other. Typed to people on a chat and put them down as I typed. Every time I got the urge I changed the subject in my head. I would get up abd do something. A chore, play with my dogs or parrots. Go drive somewhere. Do a hobby. Read the bible ! I'm not sure smoking sends you to hell. If you are truly saved , truly, you can't lose it.
Me too. You are not alone.
@@hemapatel2694 Hello friend. That scripture where Jesus says "I never knew you" were not to Christians that sin. He said "Never", not "I once knew you". Furthermore, if you read it carefully, those He was speaking to never mentioned Him. They were only pointing to their own obedience. They never trusted in Him and His finished work on the cross. It's to people who try to justify themselves by their own works, and not the blood of Jesus. You can smoke and still go to Heaven because Jesus paid for all your sins. I don't encourage you to keep smoking or sin, He also paid for you to break free from that bad habit. However, He paid it all. Have no fear over that. He is your Righteousness, your own works and obedience is not. You have His Righteousness covering you because He was obedient. God bless.
Thank you so much for this video!! I have had a hard time with grace for so long. I believe in Jesus and I want to do the will of the Father. I am so tired of reading the Word and being terrified because I see nothing but God’s anger and wrath. I want to know God’s love and His peace. There is no hope, love, joy, and peace apart from the Lord.
Thank you again for this video.
I'm in that boat with you
@@robcrawford753 me too 🙏🏻❤️
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.
Hey Mark- I totally get that feeling of “do I REALLY?!,” “do I FULLY?!” “I’m not sure?!?” so strongly
This is really great. Never considered myself as OCD but everything you have described internally is me.
My OCD is mostly hidden and of the 'pure-o' variety, I can relate.
Josea ~ Me TOOOOO! So awesome that l found this channel, and that ... l ...am NOT ....ALONE. JOY! :D
Mark,
I don't usually comment on ANYTHING I watch on UA-cam, 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!!
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 🙏
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.
Me too. Read what Paul says. That I want to do, I do not do. That which I do not want to do, I do! Oh wretched man that I am who can save me from this body of death. Our flesh will sin, though less and less as we grow, until we get to heaven. He said he was the chief of sinners. I deal with doubt but it's getting better. Jesus died for us to pay for our sin. That doesn't mean deliberately continue to wallow in sin. That may show you are not saved. But you will see yourself change. You will hate your sin. You will feel guilty over sin. Watch the men I mentioned in another post answer above.
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.
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.
I have only watched 6 of your videos in the past 2 days, & it seems like you have interviewed me for each one, so I am having lightbulbs light up & having breakthroughs which I have been praying for for many, many years. God Bless you for sharing these videos to help all of us get healthier in our Faith journey.🙌🙏❤
Mark thank you for your ministry. I woke up so burdened at the thought of having to go through another day and laid in bed and turned this video on. Life is heavy right now. I have of family trouble, particularly in my marriage and with my kids. I’m working full time and working on getting a college degree as an adult. I haven’t been “loving” I’ve been isolated and selfish.
I’m constantly looking for the disqualifier and was reminded how key it is to approach scripture from gospel before I open the Word. Colossians 1:12-14, 22-23 very very helpful for me this morning.
Haha I like your sound effects!! You speak so much freedom to me, thank you
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!
I also love the sound effects.
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!
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!!
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 ❤
Thank you so much for your compassion and connection and all that you do. May you be richly blessed. You are a lifeline! :-)
Thank you brother! This really helped me. I have religious OCD.
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
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.
My men this feels so true, I have OCD and I fit perfect with this description of "believer"
Thank you for these lives & for the 'Mark rant' 😀so helpful.
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
Thank you Mark, I really needed to hear this message today and know that I’m not alone experiencing negative thoughts and anxiety about my salvation. God bless you. Keep up the good work and take care. Andy, wales uk
Thank you, Mark, for walking us through this to sobriety. I’m so thankful to find out what this mindset truly is, and see the hope in its exposure.
I've been binging your videos today 😅 you're great, Mark. Thank God for you and Kris Reece! You guys help me so much ❤️🙏
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! 🙏🏼💖🤗
God where we’re you 8 years ago. Such a blessing man. Thank you for your ministry!!
I love this episode, its so helpful and freeing!
Thank You Mark! You've helped me so much! . May the LORD our God bless you!
I neeeeeded this today I feel so much better, n a few laughs helped too, thank you SO much
Yes Mark can help you laugh at yourself and I think that's healthy.
@@bettypartin1793 really was 😂💞
I’ve been reading about attachment issues and I think it connects to that.
I’ve thought about that too!!!
@@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.
@@Mymle I learned about it through Thais Gibson on UA-cam, 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 UA-camr who is a great teacher on it, but she only teaches about the “Fearful Avoidant” attachment style, her name is Paulien Timmer.
@@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.
@@Mymle thank you, that is helpful 🙏🏻
Love sound effects I see myself more in love.💕
Excellent. Especially the Extra PRODUCTION....yes! The voice CRACKS me up!
Fantastic….Thank You….you are a Godsend!! Keep doing what you are doing….i just found your UA-cam site today and I am grateful and you are an answer to prayer!!
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This stuff resonates with me BIGTIME
I been struggling with lots of things. Many different toils and snares.
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. 😖🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
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.
Couldn't agree more. I'm getting more afraid to read my Bible.
@@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.
Thank you so much. I'm going to try that starting this morning. So hard to believe this is a thing.
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.
Thank you I will try that
We are in this condition because of a technicality not because we are any worse people then others , because I witnessed people say !)*@# about God and still be fine while myself is not. So God still loves you the same as others .
Thankyou Mark!
LOL!!! I don’t think I’m fully, who is fully anyway!! Hilarious made my day!!😂
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
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?
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)
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.
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
@@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 ❤️🎶☝🏼
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.
Great video thanks mark. This is the problem with Christian evangelists. They mean well but they scaremonger and it’s terrible for people with OCD
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
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!!!
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 UA-cam who's talking about Jesus. Lots of fakes on here. Sorry, I know this is tl;dr.
“Spins me out?” I keep hearing that, what do you mean by that?
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....
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”
So in the obsessive compulsive healing journey. Why does the Perfectionist people that I live with not listen to me?
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.
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.
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.
Move forward as though He does love you.
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?
🤣🤣🤣 the voice changes
I'm so happy that I get to sin all I want and still go to heaven; all I have to do is concentrate on what Jesus did for me on the cross, because He bought my ticket to sin with umpunity. Smh.
Does anyone else have blasphemous thoughts?
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
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 Sure mr Fanatic, whatever you say :)
@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?
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.
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?
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.
You do not need to repent to stay saved. You repent from sin after you are saved. You can’t lose your salvation.
You have to trust in the blood and Jesus sacrifice on the cross and believe. Once your saved your sealed and always saved
@@homeschoolmom779 Excuse me ma'am but I want to asked you a question. Does this guy teach a works based salvation? His video randomly popped on my youtube, and by looking at the titles on his videos, he has an interesting perspectives. But if he teach a works based salvation then I won't bother at all
If i didnt know your name. I think you might be John.