All this works!!! I used to have thousands of nasty Intrusive thoughts , but only when I began to say - “no fear”, nope, not gonna fear! And breathe and “rest” in Jesus. They diminished like crazy!!! Now when I notice one, I can say- oh I don’t care about that. Or if I feel anxious, I will get a thought . But I clearly saw how the fear brought them in. So key word- “no fear” thank you Lord 🙏🏼 and it closes the door immediately!!
I've suffered from blasphemous thoughts. Some of the shows i watched were cuss words so i cut it out. It was so bad that i believed i committed the unpardonable sin and almost lost my mind. It was nonstop i started speaking out loud and people thought i was going crazy talking to myself rebuking the thoughts out loud. I need to do it in my mind rebuking them. I still struggle with this because when they come i try to not feel condemned and apologize to God. It was so much torment. Praise God for helping me!! Thank you holy spirit
I also thought I had committed the unpardonable sin!! I'm replying to this message to share with whoever is reading this that first of all the unpardonable sin is not an act that we can commit. It is the rejection of the gospel , rejecting Jesus . For so long I thought I had committed it and was absolutely horrified thinking I was going to hell. But then someone explained to me that if I actually cared that much , then I haven't committed it, but the actual unpardonable sin is the continuing rejection of the Holy Spirit . If you die without accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. So I just want to share this for anyone struggling with this. The devil wants you to think you've committed it and he is going to try to convince you that you have. But if you've accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior and repented of your sins, you are going to heaven my friend ✝️👐 God bless ❤️
@@jessicarowling2940 I'm happy my reply helped you! Do not believe the enemy's lies! he despises believers and will try hard to get us to believe his lies that we're too far gone, that God's given up on us , that God's mad at us. he knows his days are numbered. Stand firm sister, knowing all our sins are washed clean by Jesus' precious blood. That we're going to be with the Lord for eternity.
@@michellerubino5119 wow this came right at the time i just had enough of this ocd today and i logged on to do some work saw this in my emails its like its so confusing sometimes when the thought just pops up all day when your working and you stop thinking its you when its not and then do you pray the Lords prayer until u feel u have told God its not you oor just walk away like i just did rebuke it and not waste time on the thought as God knows your heart and praying brings more ocd you dont want anyway Thankyou Godbless you in Jesus name
i cant thank God enough for this. i know it won’t go overnight but listening to this gave me some kind of relief and peace which i’m very grateful for. thanks for being an instrument mark!
Man. This video gave me life. I’ve been dealing with this for years. I resonated with nearly everything you said. I was up at 5 am this morning wincing and clenching in fear and came across this. I understand now that I can’t control or analyze or rationalize or fix the thought. But rather can adjust my reaction to it.
Goodness Pastor Mark you have done some serious life work and are walking out the assignment HE has for you! I just ordered 3 books. I received 2 of them. I feel like this ministry is God hugging me! Thank you!
I have suffered with pure o since 2016 after having an allergic reaction to a epilepsy medicine prescribed for pain which caused psychosis. I used to be fearless in my relationship with the creator. Now I am in constant fear and feel so horrible. I would never wish anyone to suffer from this. If you have time please pray for me and everyone else suffering with this horrible mental disease.
@@godforever27 Sorry to hear that! May God bless you and grant you strategies to deal with this issue! God's love is greater than anything afflicting you even if it doesn't seem like that!
Wow!!! I thought I was the only one who battled these exhausting thoughts! Thank you! You have shown me a light!! Abuse lives and thrives in darkness! I have hope now.
I genuinely believe you are heaven sent! From someone who has been suffering from ROCD and anxiety for years…I tried everything, trying to cast out what I thought was a demon, quoting scripture,(out of fear) and completely acting like a victim…I literally work up every morning with intense anxiety with my thoughts just throwing punches at me. I slowly feel more and more at peace as I watch your videos, gonna take it one day at a time.
@@Joshua12346-g hi, I can honestly say that I am so much better… It may not be completely gone, but it’s gotten to the point where I forget it even exists, there are rare times where I get a little anxious… But for the most part, I feel like a normal person again. I had to do a lot of re-learning about love, and what it means to love and be loved… I had to dig deep and i found that I had roots of rejection , and a fear of being vulnerable, so every time my husband would draw closer to me emotionally, I would start feeling unattracted to him, numb, I would start over thinking… And I realized that it was my brain trying to protect me from being vulnerable, I had to let God love me first and then my husband… So I could know that I am lovable, and that I don’t have to fear rejection, because God will never reject me. I also had to learn that love is a choice… And that I could choose my husband every single day.
Thank you for this. I struggle not to remember the intrusive and bad thoughts I’ve had. Sometimes I get rid of them but then at any time of the day I have the temptation of remember them again and the obssesion and start an obssesive thinking that can last hours. With that same thought that i forgot before or had it months ago. It has been very dificult. I have good days and bad days. But I know is a process where God is teaching me to trust in him, seek him and stay in him. I know God is going to deliver me! Thank you brother for this video.
Oh my, your videos are SO refreshing and such an excellent tool to use in my own life and to share with others. To realize we all need "reparented"...and to "give to others what we wish someone would have given to us"... Learning to nurture...and love well... TY Lord! TY MTD! God bless!
wow Pastor Mark, this message has really allowed me to experience victory and freedom in my obsessive thoughts that are so overwhelming. May God bless yo Pastor
Thank you so incredibly much... I’ve been reading scripture, praying, searching, memorising scripture, thinking if I just cry more and beg and surrender more that God would free me from the emotional pain and cycle of thoughts, and depression... Your video has given me so much clarity, that it isn’t in the fear, it isn’t trying to suite up fighting with the armour out of fear, its on the foundation that God really loves us, first and foremost. Thank you.
@@marktdejesus Hello . I been suffering for 17 years been on zoooft for 10 years on and off . Didn’t help 100% so for the last 8 years I don’t have anything . It’s all started from stress in my life . Developed anxiety and after anxiety Harm OCD . It’s been terrible and I am a woman and during my hormones it gets 100 times worst , I feel like I am losing control of my mind and body . I don’t have one particular thought anymore , it’s like I have these scary feelings of harm and loosing control . How do I Handel that. Inside to have a thought and I didn’t know what it was , I thought I was loosing my mind . I was prayed for and fasted and morning charged, I was meditating all day on word of God on psalms and nothing . I don’t have like the thoughts it’s more of the feeling like I am loosing control and going insane , like I’ll cause harm , it’s soo scary i can’t get it out of my head and it’s not going anywhere . I can’t get my self distracted from it . , please help why’s is this , am I loosing my insanity and I am becoming what I am thinking 🥺🥺 it’s every single day like this . How do I get better . It’s seems like my Unconscious mind is used to all these thoughts and it’s not going away . What can I do ? I try to ignore it try to no be scared but it’s impossible it’s in my head e ye where I turn it’s there , it’s the k my thing that I think about I can’t get it out . Please give me some ideas of what to do how to change my thoughts or how to rewire them . Thank you
The part of the emotional response explained so much! I've already gotten rid of my worst intrusive thought, and I don't get that emotional response about it anymore, but this helps me understand it perfectly. THANK YOU!
This is exactly what I’ve struggled with. So glad I’m not alone and that God has led me to these videos to learn how to unlearn my response in fear vs His love. Thank you! 🙏🏻
This is what I have been looking for, cos when I practice speaking of scriptures, it doesn't work but this one, right now I can feel shift in my mind, oh thank you Lord Jesus, man of God continue this teachings and God bless you.
Mark this is exactly how I feel.The issue with the identity its awful! After an episode of intrusive thoughts that lasted for 1 entire month I felt like I died ,this is the feeling.I felt like I lost my identitity and it hurt so badly.Some thoughts I was certain that was lies but those that I didnt know if were true or not they started to destroy my identity.I still struggling with this. Mark I also struggle with unwanted emotions..does that even exist? Like wanting to laugh of something that isn't funny?This disturbs so much.Theres also another issue I feel like I want to remind myself what I have done so I feel like I want to repeat that thought or when I get happy or excited I remember that thought I think I sabotage myself out of fear.I have fear of being happy.
So I’m not sinning by having unwanted intrusive thoughts? I don’t wanna go to hell so I’m very excessively trying to stop them and I just can’t help it.. I just found your channel I’ll keep watching your videos thank you for this
Greatly explained. It's so relieving to hear that we can not control our thoughts and that they do not delfine us. I've also learned through my battles that the most important thing is what i do in my life, what actions i take and not what thoughts i have. I do a lot of good things every day, so i am a decent person, although the thoughts would like to persuade me that i' m not O.K. the way i am.
Thank you brother it was a great help,Too good,you have covered it all.God bless you,I have seen many videos,I know you speak out of your experience of OCD,But God had a great plan for you You where born for such a time as this.Its not just OCD ,Many are battling Mental issues these,Thank you after 4 years of my bad OCD struggle,I have received my deliverance today,I'm free indeed because the Son Jesus has set me free Amen & Amen
It’s a blessing to look at those videos really, it’s my third year since Christ revealed himself to me through scriptures and a retreat, and at the beginning it was so alive, so powerful, so loving and easy.. It seems that i took God for granted or i don’t know, i met a girl and i wasn’t aware enough and I’ve been pulled in a dark place that i wouldn’t never could imagine i would be , knowing where the Lord as took me before. I kind of drifted a little bit from my boldness and pandemic arrived , i drifted more but with still knowing in my heart who Jesus is and cling to this truth cause there is nothing else than that JESUS is the truth and he is alive. I met Christians that were legalistic they were reall praticing the 10 commendemnts they were taking every scripture literally. And i don’t know why but i started thinking that maybe i was wrong about what I’ve been learning from the beginning cause it seemed too easy you know .. just love God and read his word and gather and etc… so it seemed to me more probable that (that way) was the good way since it was (harder).. but while they were saying these things to me at the same time i was rebelling against what they were telling me.. so i thought i was wrestling against God and his law.. i read a couple of verses that they showed me in 1john about sin and i had sinned with this girl before so i was so scared… i though that i was condemned cause ive sinned willingly, i didn’t want to but at the same time i did it… after that i thought I’ve never been saved and that i was that seed that heard the word of God been happy and returned.. so i started to believe that.. right now as im writing that im emotional cause im so scared of God’s judgment and it seems like i just can’t go back to believe that im saved im always between two camps and i feel like a hypocrite.. and im so tired im so weary .. i can’t even read the Bible normally because of that .. everything i read scares me and because in my heart i see that i kind of don’t want more of God even if i know that he is what I want and need .. i look at my own heart and i often think i wouldn’t not be like that if i was really saved or even have these doubts or that it would override me like that it’s impossible … so the enemy is playing in my head .. im doing nightmares and i stopped my job cause it was too much ive asked for a time of rest and i really need healing .. i hope that what i wrote could also help someone put words on what they are living. Could you Pray for me please im so tired i want to be in love with Lord and stop thinking that he didn’t saved me or that im one of those that will hear depart from me :( im so scared forgive me Lord for believing this.
@@Person-dq3dk Update, The Lord has really done a work in my life, my eyes were fixed on my own heart and my fruits instead of Jesus and his perfection. In the bgining i was living by my feelings, but i think the Lord wants us to rely on his word and his promises and he wants us to depend on him. I read the book : Gospel written by J.D Greear that my church gave us to read and really helped. Also don't stay ALONE in this , the ennemy will try to keep you isolated, and you must speak and have someone to follow you through this and pray with you and for you.
@@michellewilliams655 hey ! Im better, the Lord Lifted me up, i've learn a couple of things the hard way, but he's been there all along, i've had pride problems( we all have at some point) but really i was resisting humiliating myself in my need of him, i just wanted him to do what i needed to do. I still do it but it's notlike before. I think my reasoning process with calvinism and the consecratin that we need to be full of the spirit was a fight in me.. i ws thinking that since im saved foreer i could just chill.. but it'S not like that.. the devil is not chilling and the demons also.. there is multiple things that happenned at the same time so it wouls be pretty long to explain but it was sanctification also.. i was not understanding my own responsibility and since God was all sovereign i wanted him to do my part on that alos.. i was believing that we are not able to do ANYTHING.. That is not a good view of my own responsibily, and i wasnt humbling myself to change my way of thinking.. soo.. there would be a lot of things to say... it is better.. im better. thank you God..i still tend to put my eyes on everthing i should be doing but i remember myself quickyl that the Lord is faithful.. The book of John Piper battling unbelief , replacing pleasure of sin with superior pleasure. thank you for asking.. sorry for that long answer :) hope you are good by the grace of God
Wow. Thank you so much for explaining this so thoroughly. I’ve been battling a lot of intrusive thoughts and your video helped me understand I’m not alone and gave me actual solutions to my problem. Thanks again for exposing the lies and revealing the truth.
Oh, Mark, how I needed this today. On Mother's Day 2024, I had a situation occur when I received a text from someone with who shared their unkind perceptions of me. The shame and condemnation that came in that I had done something wrong triggered so many things that have happened to me in my past. I knew that I needed to go into prayer and coach myself through all of this, but the thoughts kept popping up that there was something wrong with 'me.' Then I binge-watched a few of your videos on intrusive thoughts and ruminating. Whew!!!! Thank God for your content and instruction on how to get past this. Appreciate you, my brother from another mother. 👍
Mr. DeJesus, thank God for you. I went on line and registered for the NEW "NOCD" WHERE, you pay for a therapist. The first thing they do is ASK for your insurance information yet they proclaim they want to help you. If your don't have issuance it is $200 or more an hour and you can pay $95.00 a week. What a Rip off. By the time you begin telling the therapist your issues the hour is up. They try and schedule you two or three times a week and you get nowhere. Think about that. Twice in one week is $400.00 for two hours. What a scam. I got now where. I feel my therapist was only concerned with the CLOCK not my mental health. On the other hand here you are doing live and recorded broadcasts FREE. The world would be a better place with people like you. I mean for these people to take advantage of someone like that. Imagine, 1 hour at $200 and you get NOTHING.
Mark you are a blessing. Your words bring so much comfort. Through therapy and trying and trying so hard to heal your word and knowing you went through this and healed is peace to me. Every word you say is my story. I thought I was the only one. I felt so hopeless but your teachings gave me new hope. Never stop Mark. As long as you can keep speaking these truths and healing for so many who need it. Bless you!
Oh Mark thank you so much, you made me laugh 😂 you have been such a blessing and relief to my life. Blessings upon your ministry and family. I thank the Lord Jesus Christ for sending me your way. I have prayed for healing and freedom, all the glory to the king of kings and Lord of Lords.
I am not a Protestant but a Catholic and I sorta supposed this dour disease of cognition only exists with my people. Mark is very helpful in seeing this for what it is, which is something to be accepted but fought against. Twenty-eight years going through this now. Ughh, but so hopeful. What a great communicator he is.
Oh, wow!!!! You are/ have been so encouraging. I always felt " different". I am 60 years old and for the 1st time trusting a Christian counselor For help. I feel like the female version of you it is unbelievable. Thank you for your teaching direction and hope in a Lord as well.
I'm pretty young( in my early teens) and summer really messed me up...I started getting intrusive thoughts Abt hurting my own mother and it's scary...and something about me is if i keep thinking I'll start believing it and i will feel like I'm crazy or psycho and I'll grow up to be a murderer or something and i hate it..and I'll think i have to hurt her bc that's who i am or something and i almost do it but then i pray and i feel better but everything I've tried hasn't worked. I heard a way to get rid of it is when it comes in ur head put ur attention towards it and tell urself it's intrusive and it worked for a while but a couple minutes later it came to me that when i thought of it my heart rate didn't go up and i wasn't scared anymore and that scared me....I thought that sense it's only been a couple of minutes of me trying this there's no way i could have over come it that quickly...so now my new intrusive thought is that there not intrusive and that scares me more than anything...what do i do
Also I think that mark's strategy of seeing thoughts as just incorrect thoughts about one's identity is probably better than the idea that, "oh no this is an evil lie, get away, ahhhh!". They're just incorrect, even persuasive thoughts. But they truly are incorrect, and are not God's desire for people's lives. God's desire is for your good! Edited for clarity
I was suffering so badly the other day with not feeling saved and I mean I just felt HORRIBLE like I could just 💀and I was begging God to help me because I already knew that something was wrong in my thinking and I just didn’t know what to do and I woke up the next morning and I believe God told me in my mind and heart that He heard me when I received Him. He knows that I accepted Him as my Savior and that’s all that matters. Our feelings will not align all the time with feeling saved but the important thing is knowing that He knows your heart and deepest feelings/trust you have in Him. Then when I read Psalm 139 it just really was like the cherry 🍒 on top. So I hope this encourages someone. Remember we’re saved by grace through faith not by works. It’s His sacrifice alone and His righteousness alone that gets us into heaven. All He asks us is to receive it not do some insane mental gymnastics to be successful.♥️
Thank you so much Mark. I often started the day by researching for 2 hours when I wake up. Thank you so much for your directions and your amazing bassy voice 😎🙃
Resist the devil and he flees from you. Maybe also ignoring the devil and his mind games he will do same thing. If he feels he can't accomplish his control of you with it he leaves and unfortunately tries to find someone it works on
I dont react to those thoughts and they are not effecting me but the uncomfortable I feel inside and the urge to fix something makes me feel like this though is the reason why I am not happy.
I have suffered from intrusive thoughts for years. Mainly that either my daughter dies or my close friends. And then I read that only 40 percent of our worries/intrusive thoughts happen ………like that was a good thing! But it only confirms that almost HALF of my anxiety comes to fruition. Think about that! HALF of the things that the obsessive thinks about HAPPENS !
Here’s some comments I have on “as he thinketh in his heart.” The subject of the passage is an “evil person” (that does not know God) and how he thinks. Not a person who is saved and yet struggling against thoughts that they cannot bear. See the passage in its context: “Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee. The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.” Proverbs 23:6-8 KJV
I suffer so much from thoughts I don’t want. I keep cussing the Holy Spirit in my mind and it’s making me feel so guilty and I’m disgusted with myself. I’m scared for my salvation. I feel so bad because I feel like it’s coming from me and I’m fighting it so bad 😭
What if u keep seeing synchronicities in real life related to the OCD triggers ? It's like the universe keeps rerouting me to this OCD cycle whenever I start to get the courage to leave it. I'm so stuck and haven't found an answer for that. I'm afraid I'll be stuck forever.
I have an OCD habit where if I touch my trashcan or take out the trash to the outside cart, I have to immediately go wash my hands before touching anything else. I want to know if this is a basic cleanliness thing or if this is an OCD habit I need to break. I mean my trashcan is clean I do wipe it down but it just bothers me to touch it and not wash my hands after. Like if I were to touch my trash and then go touch my phone I would get upset and have to go wipe off my phone with cleaner.
1. Intrusive thoughts come against your value system 2. Why do they keep appearing? 3. You cannot control what thoughts arrive in your mind. 4. Your feelings and your thought interpretation will lie to you. 5. Fear empowers intrusive thoughts. 6. "Fighting" them off with fearful intensity will make them worse. 7. These thoughts don't mean something about you. 8. Saying, "Stop thinking that way" will invoke the ways of the law. 9. What you need is loving acceptance in the midst of unwanted thoughts. 10. Gently redirection.
Mark do u do videos on attachment issues i have disorganized attachment disorder and also borderline personality disorder i struggle bonding with Jesus and God loving Him and abiding i feel depressed
Hi pastor Mark my name is Mario I have been married for 32 years I suffer from very low self esteem & intrusive thoughts the past 30 years of our marriage I always told my wife I married the wrong girl now I am facing our 3 rd separation I am attracted to Asian women and 3 years ago I feel into Asian prostitution I brock my wife’s heart over & over again please can you pray for me I also suffer from acute anxiety in Christ Mario
This is something I've been dealing with my whole life and you my friend have done a wonderful job on this video. I am going to see a councilor tomorrow because my specific "thoughts" have caused me to worry so much I've lost 5-10 lbs in a two week span because I can't eat. I thought I was better but I recently started seeing this wonderful godly woman who opened my eyes (I'm two years separated and divorced and these thoughts effected my failed marriage so I hold guilt and don't want to hurt this new woman, who actually treats me like a man, like I've never been treated before) thank you for this my friend.
I struggle with my thoughts - just trying to remember THEY ARE JUST THOUGHTS, they are not PART of me helps disarm the fears. This helps.
All this works!!! I used to have thousands of nasty Intrusive thoughts , but only when I began to say - “no fear”, nope, not gonna fear! And breathe and “rest” in Jesus. They diminished like crazy!!! Now when I notice one, I can say- oh I don’t care about that. Or if I feel anxious, I will get a thought . But I clearly saw how the fear brought them in. So key word- “no fear” thank you Lord 🙏🏼 and it closes the door immediately!!
I'm praying my son reaches this stage 🤲 at the moment he doesn't believe he has ocd/scrupulosity so it's a struggle.
I've suffered from blasphemous thoughts. Some of the shows i watched were cuss words so i cut it out. It was so bad that i believed i committed the unpardonable sin and almost lost my mind. It was nonstop i started speaking out loud and people thought i was going crazy talking to myself rebuking the thoughts out loud. I need to do it in my mind rebuking them. I still struggle with this because when they come i try to not feel condemned and apologize to God. It was so much torment. Praise God for helping me!! Thank you holy spirit
Nicole - I wish I could talk to you. I have had so many similar experiences. I struggled with the unpardonable sin for years
I also thought I had committed the unpardonable sin!!
I'm replying to this message to share with whoever is reading this that first of all the unpardonable sin is not an act that we can commit. It is the rejection of the gospel , rejecting Jesus .
For so long I thought I had committed it and was absolutely horrified thinking I was going to hell.
But then someone explained to me that if I actually cared that much , then I haven't committed it, but the actual unpardonable sin is the continuing rejection of the Holy Spirit .
If you die without accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
So I just want to share this for anyone struggling with this.
The devil wants you to think you've committed it and he is going to try to convince you that you have.
But if you've accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior and repented of your sins, you are going to heaven my friend ✝️👐
God bless ❤️
@@michellerubino5119 Thankyou so much for writing this i wish i could talk to you
@@jessicarowling2940 I'm happy my reply helped you! Do not believe the enemy's lies! he despises believers and will try hard to get us to believe his lies that we're too far gone, that God's given up on us , that God's mad at us. he knows his days are numbered.
Stand firm sister, knowing all our sins are washed clean by Jesus' precious blood. That we're going to be with the Lord for eternity.
@@michellerubino5119 wow this came right at the time i just had enough of this ocd today and i logged on to do some work saw this in my emails its like its so confusing sometimes when the thought just pops up all day when your working and you stop thinking its you when its not and then do you pray the Lords prayer until u feel u have told God its not you oor just walk away like i just did rebuke it and not waste time on the thought as God knows your heart and praying brings more ocd you dont want anyway Thankyou Godbless you in Jesus name
You’re such a comfortable for me today. Thank you, Mark for being faithful in teaching about this stuff. We need more like you.❤
I cried out to God for help and I believe He placed this video in my path. So thankful for the knowledge you have shared! God bless you 🙏🏼
Wow same! Praise God🤍
Me too!
i cant thank God enough for this. i know it won’t go overnight but listening to this gave me some kind of relief and peace which i’m very grateful for. thanks for being an instrument mark!
Man. This video gave me life. I’ve been dealing with this for years. I resonated with nearly everything you said. I was up at 5 am this morning wincing and clenching in fear and came across this. I understand now that I can’t control or analyze or rationalize or fix the thought. But rather can adjust my reaction to it.
Goodness Pastor Mark you have done some serious life work and are walking out the assignment HE has for you! I just ordered 3 books. I received 2 of them. I feel like this ministry is God hugging me! Thank you!
Hey what are the names of his books and how can you find them?
@@andreash.906 He put the name of the book around the end of the video
I have suffered with pure o since 2016 after having an allergic reaction to a epilepsy medicine prescribed for pain which caused psychosis. I used to be fearless in my relationship with the creator. Now I am in constant fear and feel so horrible. I would never wish anyone to suffer from this. If you have time please pray for me and everyone else suffering with this horrible mental disease.
Hey! Are you doing okay?
@@Nobody-bg2rn for the
Most parti am still struggling with my pure o and PTSD though
I understand. It’s a lie and we need to learn to let them pass by an know it’s a lie!
@@godforever27
Sorry to hear that! May God bless you and grant you strategies to deal with this issue! God's love is greater than anything afflicting you even if it doesn't seem like that!
I pray for you in JESUS NAME
Thank you, brother! Currently reading your book, 'I Will Not Fear!' Your work has helped me tremendously! God bless!
Wow!!! I thought I was the only one who battled these exhausting thoughts! Thank you! You have shown me a light!! Abuse lives and thrives in darkness! I have hope now.
I thought so too 😭 but I am glad that I am not alone in this
Same
I genuinely believe you are heaven sent! From someone who has been suffering from ROCD and anxiety for years…I tried everything, trying to cast out what I thought was a demon, quoting scripture,(out of fear) and completely acting like a victim…I literally work up every morning with intense anxiety with my thoughts just throwing punches at me. I slowly feel more and more at peace as I watch your videos, gonna take it one day at a time.
Same!
Same
Hi. How are you feeling now ? Are you better ? What did you do to get better ?
@@Joshua12346-g hi, I can honestly say that I am so much better… It may not be completely gone, but it’s gotten to the point where I forget it even exists, there are rare times where I get a little anxious… But for the most part, I feel like a normal person again. I had to do a lot of re-learning about love, and what it means to love and be loved… I had to dig deep and i found that I had roots of rejection , and a fear of being vulnerable, so every time my husband would draw closer to me emotionally, I would start feeling unattracted to him, numb, I would start over thinking… And I realized that it was my brain trying to protect me from being vulnerable, I had to let God love me first and then my husband… So I could know that I am lovable, and that I don’t have to fear rejection, because God will never reject me. I also had to learn that love is a choice… And that I could choose my husband every single day.
Thank you for this.
I struggle not to remember the intrusive and bad thoughts I’ve had. Sometimes I get rid of them but then at any time of the day I have the temptation of remember them again and the obssesion and start an obssesive thinking that can last hours. With that same thought that i forgot before or had it months ago. It has been very dificult. I have good days and bad days. But I know is a process where God is teaching me to trust in him, seek him and stay in him. I know God is going to deliver me! Thank you brother for this video.
IM LITERALLY DEALING WITH THE SAME THING AS WELL YOUR NOT ALONE BROTHER OR SISTER
Same
Wow! Go away, Go Away really doesn’t work. I’m a tough guy but have been wrecked on by this. What a joy and blessing. A million thanks!
That part about “as a man thinks” was eye opening. Great work, very very helpful video! Thank God.
Oh my, your videos are SO refreshing and such an excellent tool to use in my own life and to share with others. To realize we all need "reparented"...and to "give to others what we wish someone would have given to us"...
Learning to nurture...and love well...
TY Lord!
TY MTD!
God bless!
wow Pastor Mark, this message has really allowed me to experience victory and freedom in my obsessive thoughts that are so overwhelming. May God bless yo Pastor
This guy just changed my thoughts and my emotions and I’m so glad and relief and happy because this guy helped me in everything’s.god bless everyone
Thank you so incredibly much... I’ve been reading scripture, praying, searching, memorising scripture, thinking if I just cry more and beg and surrender more that God would free me from the emotional pain and cycle of thoughts, and depression... Your video has given me so much clarity, that it isn’t in the fear, it isn’t trying to suite up fighting with the armour out of fear, its on the foundation that God really loves us, first and foremost. Thank you.
So glad to read this
@@marktdejesus
Hello . I been suffering for 17 years been on zoooft for 10 years on and off . Didn’t help 100% so for the last 8 years I don’t have anything . It’s all started from stress in my life . Developed anxiety and after anxiety Harm OCD . It’s been terrible and I am a woman and during my hormones it gets 100 times worst , I feel like I am losing control of my mind and body . I don’t have one particular thought anymore , it’s like I have these scary feelings of harm and loosing control . How do I Handel that. Inside to have a thought and I didn’t know what it was , I thought I was loosing my mind . I was prayed for and fasted and morning charged, I was meditating all day on word of God on psalms and nothing . I don’t have like the thoughts it’s more of the feeling like I am loosing control and going insane , like I’ll cause harm , it’s soo scary i can’t get it out of my head and it’s not going anywhere . I can’t get my self distracted from it . , please help why’s is this , am I loosing my insanity and I am becoming what I am thinking 🥺🥺 it’s every single day like this . How do I get better . It’s seems like my Unconscious mind is used to all these thoughts and it’s not going away . What can I do ? I try to ignore it try to no be scared but it’s impossible it’s in my head e ye where I turn it’s there , it’s the k my thing that I think about I can’t get it out . Please give me some ideas of what to do how to change my thoughts or how to rewire them . Thank you
@@Joshua12346-ghow are you now?
The part of the emotional response explained so much! I've already gotten rid of my worst intrusive thought, and I don't get that emotional response about it anymore, but this helps me understand it perfectly. THANK YOU!
Oh god I wish I heard this when I was 17.
This is exactly what I’ve struggled with. So glad I’m not alone and that God has led me to these videos to learn how to unlearn my response in fear vs His love. Thank you! 🙏🏻
Yes me too!!!
Wow .. you’re explaining everything I go through on a daily basis, thanks for sharing
I don’t often comment but I think this is the best teaching on mental health I have ever heard 🙏
Stepping into the direction of love even when my feelings are 100% against it! So good - setting your 🧭 compass ! Thanks Mark !
This is what I have been looking for, cos when I practice speaking of scriptures, it doesn't work but this one, right now I can feel shift in my mind, oh thank you Lord Jesus, man of God continue this teachings and God bless you.
Mark this is exactly how I feel.The issue with the identity its awful! After an episode of intrusive thoughts that lasted for 1 entire month I felt like I died ,this is the feeling.I felt like I lost my identitity and it hurt so badly.Some thoughts I was certain that was lies but those that I didnt know if were true or not they started to destroy my identity.I still struggling with this.
Mark I also struggle with unwanted emotions..does that even exist? Like wanting to laugh of something that isn't funny?This disturbs so much.Theres also another issue I feel like I want to remind myself what I have done so I feel like I want to repeat that thought or when I get happy or excited I remember that thought I think I sabotage myself out of fear.I have fear of being happy.
Sorry to hear that! God loves you
Intrusive feelings can also happen, I've heard. May God bless you friend. :(
So I’m not sinning by having unwanted intrusive thoughts? I don’t wanna go to hell so I’m very excessively trying to stop them and I just can’t help it.. I just found your channel I’ll keep watching your videos thank you for this
Greatly explained. It's so relieving to hear that we can not control our thoughts and that they do not delfine us. I've also learned through my battles that the most important thing is what i do in my life, what actions i take and not what thoughts i have. I do a lot of good things every day, so i am a decent person, although the thoughts would like to persuade me that i' m not O.K. the way i am.
God bless you brother Mark ! May God continue to use you as a might weapon for His Glory.
You’re on fire Mark these are the true things I struggle with ✅🔥🔥
I hope you know you’re helping so many people. Thank you and God bless you!
Thank you brother it was a great help,Too good,you have covered it all.God bless you,I have seen many videos,I know you speak out of your experience of OCD,But God had a great plan for you You where born for such a time as this.Its not just OCD ,Many are battling Mental issues these,Thank you after 4 years of my bad OCD struggle,I have received my deliverance today,I'm free indeed because the Son Jesus has set me free Amen & Amen
Needs more views. I've been dealing with this for a while now. Thank you so much for this.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH SERIOUSLY! My heart is crying
It’s a blessing to look at those videos really, it’s my third year since Christ revealed himself to me through scriptures and a retreat, and at the beginning it was so alive, so powerful, so loving and easy..
It seems that i took God for granted or i don’t know, i met a girl and i wasn’t aware enough and I’ve been pulled in a dark place that i wouldn’t never could imagine i would be , knowing where the Lord as took me before.
I kind of drifted a little bit from my boldness and pandemic arrived , i drifted more but with still knowing in my heart who Jesus is and cling to this truth cause there is nothing else than that JESUS is the truth and he is alive.
I met Christians that were legalistic they were reall praticing the 10 commendemnts they were taking every scripture literally. And i don’t know why but i started thinking that maybe i was wrong about what I’ve been learning from the beginning cause it seemed too easy you know .. just love God and read his word and gather and etc… so it seemed to me more probable that (that way) was the good way since it was (harder).. but while they were saying these things to me at the same time i was rebelling against what they were telling me.. so i thought i was wrestling against God and his law.. i read a couple of verses that they showed me in 1john about sin and i had sinned with this girl before so i was so scared… i though that i was condemned cause ive sinned willingly, i didn’t want to but at the same time i did it… after that i thought I’ve never been saved and that i was that seed that heard the word of God been happy and returned.. so i started to believe that.. right now as im writing that im emotional cause im so scared of God’s judgment and it seems like i just can’t go back to believe that im saved im always between two camps and i feel like a hypocrite.. and im so tired im so weary .. i can’t even read the Bible normally because of that .. everything i read scares me and because in my heart i see that i kind of don’t want more of God even if i know that he is what I want and need .. i look at my own heart and i often think i wouldn’t not be like that if i was really saved or even have these doubts or that it would override me like that it’s impossible … so the enemy is playing in my head .. im doing nightmares and i stopped my job cause it was too much ive asked for a time of rest and i really need healing .. i hope that what i wrote could also help someone put words on what they are living.
Could you Pray for me please im so tired i want to be in love with Lord and stop thinking that he didn’t saved me or that im one of those that will hear depart from me :( im so scared forgive me Lord for believing this.
The way you feel described me perfectly bro.
@@Person-dq3dk Update, The Lord has really done a work in my life, my eyes were fixed on my own heart and my fruits instead of Jesus and his perfection. In the bgining i was living by my feelings, but i think the Lord wants us to rely on his word and his promises and he wants us to depend on him. I read the book : Gospel written by J.D Greear that my church gave us to read and really helped. Also don't stay ALONE in this , the ennemy will try to keep you isolated, and you must speak and have someone to follow you through this and pray with you and for you.
@@thevulture5750 thank you :)
@@zoltan7z7 How are you doing now?
@@michellewilliams655 hey ! Im better, the Lord Lifted me up, i've learn a couple of things the hard way, but he's been there all along, i've had pride problems( we all have at some point) but really i was resisting humiliating myself in my need of him, i just wanted him to do what i needed to do. I still do it but it's notlike before.
I think my reasoning process with calvinism and the consecratin that we need to be full of the spirit was a fight in me.. i ws thinking that since im saved foreer i could just chill.. but it'S not like that.. the devil is not chilling and the demons also.. there is multiple things that happenned at the same time so it wouls be pretty long to explain but it was sanctification also.. i was not understanding my own responsibility and since God was all sovereign i wanted him to do my part on that alos.. i was believing that we are not able to do ANYTHING.. That is not a good view of my own responsibily, and i wasnt humbling myself to change my way of thinking.. soo.. there would be a lot of things to say... it is better.. im better. thank you God..i still tend to put my eyes on everthing i should be doing but i remember myself quickyl that the Lord is faithful.. The book of John Piper battling unbelief , replacing pleasure of sin with superior pleasure. thank you for asking.. sorry for that long answer :) hope you are good by the grace of God
This has blessed me more than you know. Thank you 🙏🏼
Wow. Thank you so much for explaining this so thoroughly. I’ve been battling a lot of intrusive thoughts and your video helped me understand I’m not alone and gave me actual solutions to my problem. Thanks again for exposing the lies and revealing the truth.
Oh, Mark, how I needed this today. On Mother's Day 2024, I had a situation occur when I received a text from someone with who shared their unkind perceptions of me. The shame and condemnation that came in that I had done something wrong triggered so many things that have happened to me in my past. I knew that I needed to go into prayer and coach myself through all of this, but the thoughts kept popping up that there was something wrong with 'me.' Then I binge-watched a few of your videos on intrusive thoughts and ruminating. Whew!!!! Thank God for your content and instruction on how to get past this. Appreciate you, my brother from another mother. 👍
Pastor Mark, You will never know how much this has helped me...Thank You...God Bless You.
Mr. DeJesus, thank God for you. I went on line and registered for the NEW "NOCD" WHERE, you pay for a therapist. The first thing they do is ASK for your insurance information yet they proclaim they want to help you. If your don't have issuance it is $200 or more an hour and you can pay $95.00 a week. What a Rip off. By the time you begin telling the therapist your issues the hour is up. They try and schedule you two or three times a week and you get nowhere. Think about that. Twice in one week is $400.00 for two hours. What a scam. I got now where. I feel my therapist was only concerned with the CLOCK not my mental health. On the other hand here you are doing live and recorded broadcasts FREE. The world would be a better place with people like you. I mean for these people to take advantage of someone like that. Imagine, 1 hour at $200 and you get NOTHING.
Mark you are a blessing. Your words bring so much comfort. Through therapy and trying and trying so hard to heal your word and knowing you went through this and healed is peace to me. Every word you say is my story. I thought I was the only one. I felt so hopeless but your teachings gave me new hope. Never stop Mark. As long as you can keep speaking these truths and healing for so many who need it. Bless you!
Thank you Pastor Mark for this video! It helps me with my own intrusive thoughts a lot! I'm currently healing from one, God bless!
This is so freeing that is not about the thoughts but it is your response to the thoughts. Thank you for videos. God bless you and your ministry!
Thanks!
Means a lot to me, thank you for this brother ❤️🙏
May god bless you abundantly, may you be rewarded for your help
Your videos minister to my soul. Thank you!!!
This helped so much! God bless you!
Thank you for this! Been struggling with this most of my life….makes me feel so much better!
Oh Mark thank you so much, you made me laugh 😂 you have been such a blessing and relief to my life. Blessings upon your ministry and family. I thank the Lord Jesus Christ for sending me your way. I have prayed for healing and freedom, all the glory to the king of kings and Lord of Lords.
I am not a Protestant but a Catholic and I sorta supposed this dour disease of cognition only exists with my people. Mark is very helpful in seeing this for what it is, which is something to be accepted but fought against. Twenty-eight years going through this now. Ughh, but so hopeful. What a great communicator he is.
Oh, wow!!!! You are/ have been so encouraging. I always felt
" different". I am 60 years old and for the 1st time trusting a Christian counselor For help. I feel like the female version of you it is unbelievable. Thank you for your teaching direction and hope in a Lord as well.
I can attest to this working 🙏🏻thank God. That’s really what the peace of God is
Thank you so much for these videos. They have been a huge blessing and help in my walk with Jesus.
This was 100% a great video !
such a great video and important things to think about and so encouraging!
Been looking for a video like this for ages thank you
Great talk always
What a nice channel i definetly subscribed
I'm pretty young( in my early teens) and summer really messed me up...I started getting intrusive thoughts Abt hurting my own mother and it's scary...and something about me is if i keep thinking I'll start believing it and i will feel like I'm crazy or psycho and I'll grow up to be a murderer or something and i hate it..and I'll think i have to hurt her bc that's who i am or something and i almost do it but then i pray and i feel better but everything I've tried hasn't worked. I heard a way to get rid of it is when it comes in ur head put ur attention towards it and tell urself it's intrusive and it worked for a while but a couple minutes later it came to me that when i thought of it my heart rate didn't go up and i wasn't scared anymore and that scared me....I thought that sense it's only been a couple of minutes of me trying this there's no way i could have over come it that quickly...so now my new intrusive thought is that there not intrusive and that scares me more than anything...what do i do
Also I think that mark's strategy of seeing thoughts as just incorrect thoughts about one's identity is probably better than the idea that, "oh no this is an evil lie, get away, ahhhh!". They're just incorrect, even persuasive thoughts. But they truly are incorrect, and are not God's desire for people's lives.
God's desire is for your good!
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I was suffering so badly the other day with not feeling saved and I mean I just felt HORRIBLE like I could just 💀and I was begging God to help me because I already knew that something was wrong in my thinking and I just didn’t know what to do and I woke up the next morning and I believe God told me in my mind and heart that He heard me when I received Him. He knows that I accepted Him as my Savior and that’s all that matters. Our feelings will not align all the time with feeling saved but the important thing is knowing that He knows your heart and deepest feelings/trust you have in Him. Then when I read Psalm 139 it just really was like the cherry 🍒 on top. So I hope this encourages someone. Remember we’re saved by grace through faith not by works. It’s His sacrifice alone and His righteousness alone that gets us into heaven. All He asks us is to receive it not do some insane mental gymnastics to be successful.♥️
your videos have been SOOOO helpful thank you Mark :)
Thank you so much Mark. I often started the day by researching for 2 hours when I wake up. Thank you so much for your directions and your amazing bassy voice 😎🙃
Great video with excellent, helpful ideas for those who deal with this problem. Thank you, Mr DeJesus.
@mark de jesus thank you so much for this. Almost could cry.
Resist the devil and he flees from you. Maybe also ignoring the devil and his mind games he will do same thing. If he feels he can't accomplish his control of you with it he leaves and unfortunately tries to find someone it works on
Thanks. The book "30 Days to Reduce Anxiety" by Harper Daniels was also helpful.
In the late 70's I saw a scary movie about the devil and it still haunts me today. What can I do to get this out of my mind set and be free?
This was sooo good. Thank you so much!!!
Great video!
I've found mindfulness is very helpful. The workbook "30 Days to Reduce Anxiety" by Harper Daniels is pretty cool.
Thank you Mark !
I'm praying for the strength to quit weed and tobacco before therapy because my mom's unpacking was disorderly conduct.
I dont react to those thoughts and they are not effecting me but the uncomfortable I feel inside and the urge to fix something makes me feel like this though is the reason why I am not happy.
I have suffered from intrusive thoughts for years. Mainly that either my daughter dies or my close friends. And then I read that only 40 percent of our worries/intrusive thoughts happen ………like that was a good thing! But it only confirms that almost HALF of my anxiety comes to fruition.
Think about that! HALF of the things that the obsessive thinks about HAPPENS !
Here’s some comments I have on “as he thinketh in his heart.” The subject of the passage is an “evil person” (that does not know God) and how he thinks. Not a person who is saved and yet struggling against thoughts that they cannot bear. See the passage in its context:
“Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee. The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.”
Proverbs 23:6-8 KJV
This is so good! Thank you!
This is so good Hallelujah
So good. Very helpful. Thank you, Mark!
This was a fabulous video! Your messages are a blessing. Thank you and God bless you 🙏❤️
I suffer so much from thoughts I don’t want. I keep cussing the Holy Spirit in my mind and it’s making me feel so guilty and I’m disgusted with myself. I’m scared for my salvation. I feel so bad because I feel like it’s coming from me and I’m fighting it so bad 😭
God made you and he is in you. So you are the light. Fear and guilt is lying to you. I struggle, your not alone. God bless you!!
Me too same struggle it’s horrible feeling
Thank you for your work!
Great info
Thank you for this video
What if u keep seeing synchronicities in real life related to the OCD triggers ? It's like the universe keeps rerouting me to this OCD cycle whenever I start to get the courage to leave it. I'm so stuck and haven't found an answer for that. I'm afraid I'll be stuck forever.
I have an OCD habit where if I touch my trashcan or take out the trash to the outside cart, I have to immediately go wash my hands before touching anything else. I want to know if this is a basic cleanliness thing or if this is an OCD habit I need to break. I mean my trashcan is clean I do wipe it down but it just bothers me to touch it and not wash my hands after. Like if I were to touch my trash and then go touch my phone I would get upset and have to go wipe off my phone with cleaner.
that’s normal
I'm the same. I guess it depends on how far we take it.
Normal
OCD disrupts your daily life. Regular hygiene is not OCD. Any person would wash their hands immediately after taking the trash outside.
@@TheSimaralynn I don’t- I guess I’m dirty😐
1. Intrusive thoughts come against your value system
2. Why do they keep appearing?
3. You cannot control what thoughts arrive in your mind.
4. Your feelings and your thought interpretation will lie to you.
5. Fear empowers intrusive thoughts.
6. "Fighting" them off with fearful intensity will make them worse.
7. These thoughts don't mean something about you.
8. Saying, "Stop thinking that way" will invoke the ways of the law.
9. What you need is loving acceptance in the midst of unwanted thoughts.
10. Gently redirection.
Good stuff!!!!
Straight up the truth of truth wow thank you
Mark do u do videos on attachment issues i have disorganized attachment disorder and also borderline personality disorder i struggle bonding with Jesus and God loving Him and abiding i feel depressed
Hi pastor Mark my name is Mario I have been married for 32 years I suffer from very low self esteem & intrusive thoughts the past 30 years of our marriage I always told my wife I married the wrong girl now I am facing our 3 rd separation I am attracted to Asian women and 3 years ago I feel into Asian prostitution I brock my wife’s heart over & over again please can you pray for me I also suffer from acute anxiety in Christ Mario
This is something I've been dealing with my whole life and you my friend have done a wonderful job on this video. I am going to see a councilor tomorrow because my specific "thoughts" have caused me to worry so much I've lost 5-10 lbs in a two week span because I can't eat. I thought I was better but I recently started seeing this wonderful godly woman who opened my eyes (I'm two years separated and divorced and these thoughts effected my failed marriage so I hold guilt and don't want to hurt this new woman, who actually treats me like a man, like I've never been treated before) thank you for this my friend.
Has it gotten better?
I believe if we deny ourselves daily.." die to self" and take up our cross daily and we will be healed from OCD. In Jesus name...
Hey Mark can you do a video on Real event ocd and false memory ocd?
My OCD thoughts seem to come in cycles. Could be related to hormones
Thanks
Get the book Brain Lock. Very helpful.
What is helping me is to not do the comforting compulsion. If you do it it makes the thoughts worse
Would you consider intrusive thought sto be fear, andxiety, and worry? If so, then I am being hit with them, especially due to current crisis.
Intrusive thoughts are empowered by fear, anxiety and worry.
Do we have intrusive feelings