Yes! This is a huge key. Trusting God wholeheartedly has changed everything.
@kickpublishing
7 ай бұрын
Show me a single major biblical character who didn’t struggle with at least one episode of real anxiety - even Christ. The Bible say do not BE afraid, it never says do not FEEL afraid. Fear and anxiety are natural human emotions - we can feel them, we will whether we like it or not, but we needn’t BE afraid - I.e. we can choose to go through that fear - in fear - and trust God. Christ sweated blood in fear before the cross - but he went in faith anyway. He accepted his reality as he found it and chose to take the next right step regardless of his feelings. I pray I and you learn this and grow into doing it more every day.
@allanobrien7513
Ай бұрын
Didn't know you were a Christian. Thanks for sharing. :-)
@lisacouture4124
4 ай бұрын
You are spot on!! What you are speaking is gospel. Perfect LOVE casts out all fear. Cause fear has to do with torment. Religion is the source of much OCD scrupulosity. Religion breeds fear and mistrust. We are safe in Christ. Completely safe
@logankelley4210
4 ай бұрын
First time coming across your channel man loved how you talked about trusting God and not having that fear and ultimately God’s loves is the foundation and everything else becomes clear. Fear is from the devil and can so easily cloud faith. I’ve struggled so much in doubting my salvation or spinning out in my faith and just constantly trying to understand or think every thing through. Often being tormented with fear. This really spoke into my life man. I often would go to other Christians for help and end up feeling more confused or they would kind of feed that compulsion. The Bible was such a safe place and then I’ll be terrified to even open it because I’m bringing fear into it with me. This reminds me of the beginning of my testimony and how God helped me. I found God after I was tormented with fear after drug use and suffering hallucinations. Then God delivered me and showed me his love and how to trust him and I learned about Jesus and certain sins and God was transforming me and I was getting stuck on what is a sin and what’s not so much but God was transforming em naturally but some where along the way I feel like other peoples fear or rules came on and distorted it whether it be social media or in church. But God can restore what devil steals
@mandylou1766
8 ай бұрын
This is so good. It’s so hard to accomplish though. I feel like I’ll do good for a few days, then it’s back to living from fear and feeling like a failure.
@davidfettig8885
8 ай бұрын
Also watch what Jesus does with the devil when he was tempted. He didn’t fight with the thoughts or temptations. He quoted scripture and facts. Similar to what Matt teaches. Don’t get tangled up
@Camro24
6 ай бұрын
Hey Matt, I just commented on a previous video. Thank you again for sharing your story, God definitely has used your channel/testimony to help me tonight. You give me hope for a better future and I will make sure to memorize that verse tonight!
@johnloftin2461
8 ай бұрын
My OCDs first manifestation was through religon at 5 years old. It never let up after that and did get worse. Compulsive study, prayer, and viewing the more negative verses over and over again. I lasted around 30 years and gave religon up 5 years ago. No discouragement meant for all you religous folks. Thanks for the program. It's nice to hear I'm not the only one who struggles this way. It's torture to always have a view of god that's more negative than those around me. Great program.
@brianmery761
8 ай бұрын
I wish I could speak with you. I also have dealt with this, & same age too
@jerrys1
8 ай бұрын
I hope you rediscover faith again. God is good
@estellaromero812
8 ай бұрын
I've had these struggles with intrusive thoughts for over 40 years. It is torture and discouraging. Your talk is great. I want to listen to talks about my problem which I'm sure you probably do talks on that. Thank you
@joshbanker8743
7 ай бұрын
Wow man I can relate. Due to things like neglect, not processing thoughts, and religious trauma and abuse I went through years of compulsive study and prayer. Intrusive thoughts. Extreme thinking, Existential OCD and deep Cognitive Distortions. I'm 26 and I have now realized this.
@kagoStore-lh5er
6 ай бұрын
@@brianmery761hello please help me overcome this
@lovelyj05
3 ай бұрын
Very powerful! As someone who had struggled with OCD in the past and also have grown in faith this video hits close to home. Thank you for shedding light on the whole concept of operating in fear and how fundamental that concept is to specifically Christians. Knowing that fear is not of God is the beginning of overcoming anxiety/fear and ocd. Please continue to make more videos on this subject!
@debbiecrillo7479
8 ай бұрын
I completely love your shows.They imspire me and I get comfort from listening to you.
@kremsnita446
2 ай бұрын
Thank you, I think that this video helped me on my way to overcome my own struggles. Keep up the good work!
@laureenbygrave2596
8 ай бұрын
Thanks, Matt . This is extremely helpful.
@restoredminds
7 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@joshbanker8743
7 ай бұрын
Wow man I can relate. Due to things like neglect, not processing thoughts, and religious trauma and abuse I went through years of compulsive study and prayer. Intrusive thoughts. Extreme thinking, Existential OCD and deep Cognitive Distortions. I'm 26 and I have now realized this.
@ManfredGerhard
8 ай бұрын
Really good thoughts. Thanks for this dude
@restoredminds
8 ай бұрын
My pleasure!
@lyndaarnold2090
7 ай бұрын
Thanks Matt for sharing this! Very helpful, and needs to be talked about more.
@restoredminds
6 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@richieart4133
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing this. I recently read the book A Quiet Mind to Suffer With by John Andrew Bryant and your thoughts are similar. Although plagued by thoughts, he recognised that his thought patterns were - at times - rooted in sinful/prideful desires to control events and how he'd believed his life ought to be. Instead, he grew to understand that his experience with OCD led him to greater depths of trust in Christ.
@michaelguidone2792
8 ай бұрын
Thank you Matt. So much of what you talked about applies to me. Much appreciated and very helpful!
@restoredminds
7 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@brianramer3694
8 ай бұрын
This is so helpful and relatable. Really enjoy your channel. Blessings to you
@restoredminds
8 ай бұрын
Thank you! You too!
@JohnBrown-ig5nc
8 ай бұрын
I realized I need to read verses about what God is like because I've been operating almost my entire Christian life out of fear for some reason
@stormchaser419
3 күн бұрын
My testimony. I was taken to suicidal thoughts. What worked when prayer failed. Medication. Medication. Not prayer. My personal lord and savior is medication. If Jesus exists its called parental negligence and neglect. Thanks be to Prozac.
@xxmidnight12xx18
5 ай бұрын
Thanks for this.
@restoredminds
5 ай бұрын
My pleasure!
@concylourenco3751
12 күн бұрын
Medicine for ocd unwanted thoughts. Religious ocd. I have been taking fluvoxine for 15 and more but no relief. Can anyone advice me please.
@OCDOVERCOMER
7 ай бұрын
Thanks brother you are one of the few that save my life I defeated my pure 0 Jesus is the way but give us people as tools believer and unbelievable to
@sunflowercloud9115
5 ай бұрын
I didn't know that prayer could be a compulsion! I have ben doing this since I started having my intrusive thoughts. I would pray and cry that these thoughts went away. Does writing the thoughts down in a journal count help, would this be a compulsion?(thinking about doing a daily journal).
@joelmckaig946
8 ай бұрын
I am not a Christian
@LiveByChrist0
7 ай бұрын
believe that Jesus died, took your place on the cross for your sins and you will be filled with the holy spirit
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