I don't feel saved.

[Don't feel Saved]

I suffer with severe OCD. I live an isolated life as a consequence. Over the last few years I have come to believe that the world we live in is a lie and is actually run by evil. I have begun praying, repenting of my sins, everyday and WANT to believe in Jesus Christ but being completely honest don't think I actually do. I pray for help from God and Jesus to give me help to believe and have faith but I just don't FEEL like anything has changed in me and that I haven't been saved. Please help me.

 

[Mir]

We cannot trust our feelings...only the Word of God. Faith comes by hearing:
1. Read the scriptures, slowly and outloud as to hear them...even if its only 5 verses and underline your bible those words that stand out to you. If you don't understand, look the verse up on internet or youtube for several interpretations. The Holy Spirit will guide you, if you ask him!

2. Get in a bible reading church / bible study home group
ie. Calvary Chapel they go thru the scriptures at the pulpit Genesis thru Revelation. God did not make you to be an island unto yourself. You were made to have fellowship w/ God and the brethren. Romans 12 instructs us to be transformed by the renewing of our minds! 2 Timothy Ch. 3 verses 15-17 tells how the scriptures are holy and have supernatural power
to equip us to do all that God desires us to do!

3. God made us in his image...Genesis 1 we read how he created with his Spoken Word. Throughout the scriptures he tells us how we speak life and death with the tongue (our words) in James ch. 3 it sets on fire the course of nature! Proverbs 18:20-21 Life and Death are in the power of the tongue.

4. Find scripture to speak life over yourself...God will make it happen. Isaiah 55:11 and Jeremiah 1:12 he hastens his word to perform it!
ie:
A. Speak Proverbs 3:5-6 Outloud but personalize it! Say everyday outloud: I will trust in the LORD with all mine heart, and lean not unto my own understanding!
B. Speak Ephesians 2:8. Through Grace I am saved by faith, and not of myself, as it is a gift of God.

5. Pray and talk to God as you would to a father/friend. Giving all your burdens and concerns to him! He wants you to need him, so he can show you his reality and power, but you have to ask in prayer in Jesus name. He created us to have fellowship with him. He could not do that with Robots, so he gave us a free will to make a conscious choice to choose him and accept his free gift of life eternal by the Cross of Jesus Christ. And you can always just pray the Lord's prayer to start: as
Jesus himself gave us an ensample of how prayer should be patterned in Matthew 6:9-13 (The Lord's Prayer).

6. Helps to get prayer handbooks: prayers that are founded on scripture are potent! As God says his word will not return void!
Isaiah 55:11 KJV.

 

[Deep Seeker]

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Consider that You maybe You are being tested for Your endurance in Your belief. If so, then struggle to bear the cost. IF You are truly in Christ Jesus, You will WIN!

 

[th1bill]

I suffer with severe OCD. I live an isolated life as a consequence. Over the last few years I have come to believe that the world we live in is a lie and is actually run by evil. I have begun praying, repenting of my sins, everyday and WANT to believe in Jesus Christ but being completely honest don't think I actually do. I pray wellingfor help from God and Jesus to give me help to believe and have faith but I just don't FEEL like anything has changed in me and that I haven't been saved. Please help me.

Brother, begin to pray for, and prepare for the Indwelling of the Ruah/Holy Sprit. The best way I know to prepare is to pray every chance you get, pray before reading three chapters every day, and begin testing the Word of God by living it's instruction. And ask people like me to pray for you.

 

[Deep Seeker]

I suffer with severe OCD. I live an isolated life as a consequence. Over the last few years I have come to believe that the world we live in is a lie and is actually run by evil. I have begun praying, repenting of my sins, everyday and WANT to believe in Jesus Christ but being completely honest don't think I actually do. I pray for help from God and Jesus to give me help to believe and have faith but I just don't FEEL like anything has changed in me and that I haven't been saved. Please help me.

Brother, begin to pray for, and prepare for the Indwelling of the Ruah/Holy Sprit. The best way I know to prepare is to pray every chance you get, pray before reading three chapters every day, and begin testing the Word of God by living it's instruction. And ask people like me to pray for you.

 

[Deep Seeker]

To The 1 Bill :
Bill; One must not trust in Their own fellings! That is to trust in the flesh, The Scripture states that God is Spirit, and must be worshipped in spirit and truth.
It matters little what One may think as such. It matters in what One believes.
Scripture states that if One believes in God, they are on the correct path! "You have not, because you ask not"; is stated in the Bible scriptures. Then; also: "Ask believing, and It shall be given unto You.
I hope this short message is a help to You.

DeepSeeker

 

[Deep Seeker]

I would like to add something: Muscles are built by exercise. So is the Brain. In the case of learning of God and His way, and truth is obtained for The Giver of It. The Bible, it is The Holy Spirit.

"Ask and you shall receive: Ask Believing.
DeepSeeker