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Comment on God is with you in this fight so how can you lose? by Laura

Laura — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:25:03 +0000

Right on

Comment on Fight ocd with four major components by Laura

Laura — Tue, 01 May 2012 23:15:45 +0000

Amen & amen my dear friend! Thank you so much for sharing…great timing for me! I will pray for your families’ health issues. So happy for all of your progress

Comment on Celebrate and praise God! by Trevor

Trevor — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:08:01 +0000

Thanks to all above for sharing. I have been encouraged.

Comment on Celebrate and praise God! by Madeline

Madeline — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:55:49 +0000

Hi Stacey & Laura

Thanks alot for writing me on this blog & celebrating my small little victories….yes, support & encouragement really helps as sometimes along the way, when we may make some gains & then we fall back a few steps backward again but Im often reminded by Stacey’s experiences that if we take 1 step at a time & work on all our issues & face our fears, one day, our list of OCD issues will become less & less & will be totally gone & hooray, you are set free completely. So once again, thanks to Stacey for setting up this blog……Im so glad I found her website : )

I have cut down my handwashing timing from 40 mins & down to within 30mins….some day I can even do a 15/20min but its not consistent as yet. But I know God is healing me…..because it is not by my fleshly efforts that I can just wash my hands faster…..you see my problem is I feel there is a demonic spirit tormenting my eye vision making me look at the water direction with alot of tension to see if there is water splatter from the sink that hits back at my hands. But as I keep praying & binding & loosing, my eye vision just suddenly got clearer, the tension less & there is less deception of my eyes. I have to share here that binding & loosing is really powerful…..so nowadays I bind all my fears….and I do feel I am less fearful & anxious…..so do try it out on your OCD issues.

Laura, I don’t know you yet but I also want to cheer you on to complete recovery & wholeness.

I came across this very good article from a lady writing about “OCD thoughts be gone.” I do encourage you guys to read this article in this link below ;
http://www.angriesout.com/grown22.htm

I particularly like these 2 quotes ;
“I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you’ll die if you venture too far.” Erica Jong

“Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.” Kate Seredy

I also like this particular advice on how to fight intrusive thoughts;
**That’s Not Me, It’s OCD. Stand up to your obsessions and separate them from yourself. Distinguish between who you are and the intrusive thoughts that come in. Realize that harmful thoughts gain in power only if you give them mental time. Remind yourself that you wouldn’t do such things. Thoughts are thoughts. You are you!

God Bless
Madeline

Comment on You can walk on water by Laura

Laura — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:40:06 +0000

Thank you for following God’s lead and sharing what He laid on you heart about walking on water! You continue to impact my life with everything you share. God bless you my dear friend!

Comment on Celebrate and praise God! by Laura

Laura — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:25:43 +0000

p.s. congratulations to Madeline!!!

Comment on Celebrate and praise God! by Laura

Laura — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:19:37 +0000

Thanks for the mention! Love this post! So true we need to celebrate our victories and not minimize how significant they are! I’m so grateful you are allowing God to use your experience to help others. I know I’ve thanked you many times but I want to thank you again today for continuing to be such a blessing and give so much hope to me. I appreciate you so much!

Have a blessed day everyone…
2 Samuel 22:40
New Living Translation (NLT)
40 You have armed me with strength for the battle;
you have subdued my enemies under my feet.

satan/ocd is under our feet praise God!!! We serve a living God who wants nothing but the best for us!

Comment on Praise by gettingthroughocd

gettingthroughocd — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:20:26 +0000

Madeline,
Praise God! That is huge progress for you!!! I am so happy for you and don’t downplay how big of a step that is for you because it was a huge step. Now that you know that you can take that step, the other steps will get easier in time. You don’t owe your progress to me. That is you and God all the way! I can’t tell you how happy I am for you. It brought tears to my eyes I was so excited to hear your news. I have been completely set free in so many areas with ocd. One area that I am still progressing in is the most stubborn because of the trauma initially associated with it. I know that I will be completely free in that area as well and have already made huge strides there. I probably would have already been over it had it not been in an area that I had a major trauma. Some days though I am able to get completely past it, and other days it might cause me some struggle. I am a walking miracle and you are well on your way to yours! I can’t tell you just how happy I am for you Madeline! Thank you also for letting me know how much the blog means to you! It lets me know that I haven’t struggled with this for nothing and that God is bringing good out of it by helping others through it as well. Please keep me updated on your progress and I could always use a prayer partner. I wish I was where you are and we could celebrate your giant leap forward in this fight! You go celebrate and do something incredibly nice for yourself for having the courage to try and trust God! You won’t be disappointed and I know you will have huge news again for me soon!

Comment on Praise by Madeline

Madeline — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:34:48 +0000

Hi Stacey

Its me again Madeline…….I want to thank your for all your advice when you replied me. I followed it & I have a wonderful testimony to share. I am able to cut down handwashing timing from 50mins to now 30-35 mins…..that is a big result for me. For bathing too, I am able to cut down from 50 mins too to 40 mins…..I know its not big improvement yet but I have been reading so much of your blog that you have given me so much faith & hope that I know God will lead me out of OCD completely.

So you don’t know what a big source of help you are giving to OCD sufferers like me. When I am healed completely, I really owe it & my life to you. I would really want to bless you like buying you a holiday ticket to go somewhere with your husband for a holiday. So, let’s continue to pray for each other that we will be TOTALLY set free from OCD with no more remaining issues………….I can be your prayer buddy……so if you ever need prayer & a listening ear, plse do write to me. By the way, are you already completely set free with no more remaining OCD issues….because from your blog, it seems you still have some little bit left.

Love
Madeline

Comment on Untie your boat! Set sail! by gettingthroughocd

gettingthroughocd — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:08:15 +0000

Madeline,
Absolutely God can do a miraculous healing if He chooses to go that route and take the ocd away miraculously. But, that might not be the plan. The plan may be to get you completely free from what started the ocd to begin with or to strengthen your relationship with God in a way that can’t be found any other way than to walk through the healing process. Either way, I do believe it is God’s desire to see you and me and everyone else who has suffered with this completely and totally free. Will there still be mindsets and habits that you bend to – possibly under stress, possibly for a while. But I believe that you get to a point in your healing that you don’t bend to it anymore whether or not the thought comes. Exposure therapy does help with that. If you like things clean as I do, you will never be like someone who could care less and lives in a dirty environment. But, you will no longer be controlled by the ocd if you know what I mean. You will clean like a person without ocd would clean and go on with your life. The enemy of ocd might still throw a thought in from time to time, but you will not act on it or dwell on it and will push the thought away much the same as everyone else does. Everyone gets thoughts that are not coming from them. The difference with us is that we take the thought as if it is our own and we dwell on it and act out in a compulsion or ritual to try and make us feel better instead of just casting the thought out as a lie and meaningless. Once you get to the place that you recognize the lie as meaningless, it will be easier and easier for you to walk away from the ocd rituals. So I guess, to sum it up yes I believe you can be completely healed and yes, you may still get weird thoughts from time to time but they won’t affect you or control you or cause you to act out. Everyone on the planet gets weird thoughts that the enemy throws at them, but the difference is most don’t give them a second thought except to think that was weird. I have had tremendous healing in almost all areas, but there are still a couple that bother me – pills are the main one because I had a trauma surrounding a prescription medication that caused me to have severe anxiety and panic from the side effects and I feel anxiety around pills because of the reaction I had which then causes me to want to act out with ocd to control the anxiety – so I have to work harder in those areas to completely overcome them. But, I am happy to say that progress has come there and continues to come even though I am not completely at ease around pills yet. If you have not had a huge trauma surrounding one of your fears then it will be easier for you to overcome faster, but even if you have you will still overcome it – it may just take a little longer for you to get completely free. Stress and hormonal issues can cause flares from time to time until you are completely free so know and understand that as well.
As far as the gas issue, passing gas is a normal part of life and we have to do it to stay healthy. God made that as part of the way our body needs to function. You have passed gas your entire life as have others and nothing has happened to you because of it and think about babies who do more than pass gas in their diapers and nothing adverse has happened to them. I am not making light of how you feel about it in what I’m saying because believe me I know it is hard when a thought is controlling you, but I want you to try and look at it in another way instead of what the ocd is telling you. Try and see it as this is something that is natural and you have to do in order to stay healthy and it is the way that God created your body to function. You have to tell yourself this and begin to click the logical side of your brain on instead of the ocd side regarding that. That is the same advice my therapist gave me. It may make you feel uncomfortable, but if you deliberately expose yourself and either delay what you would normally do as long as you can or not do it all, you will begin to see that you are OK and you are going to be OK. It is a process Madeline and it’s not always easy, but it is something we have to do to get free. Follow God’s leading in this because you know He wants you free and He never intended for us to live with that kind of fear. Ask God to show you the truth in the matter about what you are thinking and ask Him to help heal your mind so that you focus on the truth and not what the ocd tries to tell you. You may get an overnight healing, but don’t be discouraged if you don’t. It simply only means that you have to walk through your healing process with God. Ocd is just fear. God never said we wouldn’t feel fear, but He did say we don’t have to act on it. Ask Him to help you not to act on it and when you don’t, fear has to flee.