Thank you for this video, it’s definitely helping a lot realizing it’s not the Holy Spirit’s conviction telling me these things. For the past 4 days I’ve been anxious and hardly been able to do my work or watch entertainment since my anxiety left me so tired I just want to sleep or play a comfort farming game. For now I’m going to try to ignore this anxiety and see if it goes away
Oh my word use your common sense is such good advice! When I was in college (age 18) I was convinced that God wanted me to go into a low income community in our city and work with children. This in itself was not wrong but going there by myself was not safe or wise and I praise God nothing bad happened to me.
That last point was so helpful to me. I often fall into this belief that the most Christian thing for me to do (making the most of my life) would be to never get married or have kids, never really pursue or focus on ANY relationships, and just go live out (homeless and all alone) on the streets preaching the gospel to everyone I possibly can until I die. Like every other part of life is a waste of time and is the reason others are still going to hell. But others should have families and friends and serve God through things they love doing, they were called to that and this is just my calling 😜 Typing this and watching this video helps me realize how NOT GOD this is. I wasted my life and health stressing over this? Thank you so much for this helpful video.
Really love the Bible verses you point out. Crazy how I’ve once read these but never realized how powerful they are. Never thought the Bible spoke on scrupulosity but when you pointed out Ecclesiastes 7 that really changed my mind once again thank you thank you
What I think what people tend to forget is that God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son but after He saw that Abraham was ready to do it and trusted in God, God asked Abraham to stop the sacrifice. I might be wrong but I think that story teaches us that it is good to be ready to let go of things that matter yo you but also that it's not like God is necessarily going to ask you to do so. I don't know if that makes sense but it's how I feel.
Found your blog online last night and now your videos, all very helpful, so thank you. Just paused to comment in sheer relief (annoyingly at 10:23, ha) after hearing you describe the situation of feeling called into a strange, vague, difficult action that only we have to do and would never expect anyone else to carry out. Only just coming through the other side of being tormented over the idea of breaking away from my most recent false conviction, seems as though I was actually being delivered from it. Thank you God for this kind of religious OCD content..
Obsession... "you don't really have the ability to stop when it's time to stop". That's a good description. To a fellow Christian who might be going through this, take heart. As we continue to walk with God even through lots of fears and tears, it can get better. Cry if you must, call to the Lord if you must. It's may be a slow process but it will happen. Praise God that I can recognize it a bit better now. Getting out of the spiral is a different ball game, but being able to identify it shaves a lot of the weight.
When Hophni and Phinehas were (publicly) corrupting everybody's sacrifices and (possibly privately) sleeping with the staff, they were taken to task and their dad/high priest Eli was taken to task. Samuel was not taken to task for not ridding the world of this wrong. Hannah was not taken to task for failing to write a strongly worded letter and starting another tabernacle where real, pure sacrifices could happen. There is a strong correlation in the Bible between leadership and additional, position-appropriate burdens. Am I a high priest? Am I in charge of accepting sacrifices for all of God's people? If not, then I am not likely to be held accountable for the religious practices of all Christianity.
Thank you for this video, it’s definitely helping a lot realizing it’s not the Holy Spirit’s conviction telling me these things. For the past 4 days I’ve been anxious and hardly been able to do my work or watch entertainment since my anxiety left me so tired I just want to sleep or play a comfort farming game. For now I’m going to try to ignore this anxiety and see if it goes away
Oh my word use your common sense is such good advice! When I was in college (age 18) I was convinced that God wanted me to go into a low income community in our city and work with children. This in itself was not wrong but going there by myself was not safe or wise and I praise God nothing bad happened to me.
That last point was so helpful to me. I often fall into this belief that the most Christian thing for me to do (making the most of my life) would be to never get married or have kids, never really pursue or focus on ANY relationships, and just go live out (homeless and all alone) on the streets preaching the gospel to everyone I possibly can until I die. Like every other part of life is a waste of time and is the reason others are still going to hell.
But others should have families and friends and serve God through things they love doing, they were called to that and this is just my calling 😜 Typing this and watching this video helps me realize how NOT GOD this is. I wasted my life and health stressing over this? Thank you so much for this helpful video.
Really love the Bible verses you point out. Crazy how I’ve once read these but never realized how powerful they are. Never thought the Bible spoke on scrupulosity but when you pointed out Ecclesiastes 7 that really changed my mind once again thank you thank you
What I think what people tend to forget is that God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son but after He saw that Abraham was ready to do it and trusted in God, God asked Abraham to stop the sacrifice. I might be wrong but I think that story teaches us that it is good to be ready to let go of things that matter yo you but also that it's not like God is necessarily going to ask you to do so. I don't know if that makes sense but it's how I feel.
Found your blog online last night and now your videos, all very helpful, so thank you. Just paused to comment in sheer relief (annoyingly at 10:23, ha) after hearing you describe the situation of feeling called into a strange, vague, difficult action that only we have to do and would never expect anyone else to carry out. Only just coming through the other side of being tormented over the idea of breaking away from my most recent false conviction, seems as though I was actually being delivered from it. Thank you God for this kind of religious OCD content..
These videos are on a whole other level of helpful 🙏💫
Obsession... "you don't really have the ability to stop when it's time to stop". That's a good description.
To a fellow Christian who might be going through this, take heart. As we continue to walk with God even through lots of fears and tears, it can get better. Cry if you must, call to the Lord if you must. It's may be a slow process but it will happen.
Praise God that I can recognize it a bit better now. Getting out of the spiral is a different ball game, but being able to identify it shaves a lot of the weight.
You are a blessing to us that suffer with this. Thank you!
This is very helpful! Thank you so much Jaimie, God bless you.
Great topic. This can be a hard one to deal with.
1000th view with the 15th comment on the 15th! HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
God did allow job to be afflicted by Satan I have thought about that I don't want to fail him...I think he led me out of a toxic relationship
When Hophni and Phinehas were (publicly) corrupting everybody's sacrifices and (possibly privately) sleeping with the staff, they were taken to task and their dad/high priest Eli was taken to task.
Samuel was not taken to task for not ridding the world of this wrong.
Hannah was not taken to task for failing to write a strongly worded letter and starting another tabernacle where real, pure sacrifices could happen.
There is a strong correlation in the Bible between leadership and additional, position-appropriate burdens. Am I a high priest? Am I in charge of accepting sacrifices for all of God's people? If not, then I am not likely to be held accountable for the religious practices of all Christianity.
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