Scrupulosity Must Bow

Jesus Wins!

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read this read this read thissss

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It all starts with breathing You in, deeply I’ve been drowning under my skin No one but You can save me My weakness is my honor not my shame Leaning is my portion not my pain I was frantic til You changed the pace You won’t give me more than I can take You’re my Hero, you always pick me up Before I self destruct <3 Jesus <3

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yes

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dangit this one too. Kinda worst music such good lyrics 😳😭

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Not my type of music but these lyrics are so good rn

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freaking love everything mike emlet has to say on OCD/scrupulosity. him and elyse fitzpatrick are changing my life. thank God for them, and for my counselor <3

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dammit this is so good. only listened to part 1 so far, but thanking God for giving me a counselor to walk through the dark depths of scrupulosity and fear. Thank you Jesus that the gospel is step one, and there’s no other steps. Heal our hearts with Your love, it’s not like any other love.

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One possible response to the truth that our anxiety is rooted in unbelief goes like this: “I have to deal with feelings of anxiety almost every day; and so I feel like my faith in God’s grace must be totally inadequate. So I wonder if I can have any assurance of being saved at all.” My response to this concern is: Suppose you are in a car race and your enemy, who doesn’t want you to finish the race, throws mud on your windshield. The fact that you temporarily lose sight of your goal and start to swerve does not mean that you are going to quit the race. And it certainly doesn’t mean that you are on the wrong racetrack. Otherwise, your competitor — your adversary — wouldn’t bother you at all. What it means is that you should turn on your windshield wipers. When anxiety strikes and blurs our vision of God’s glory and the greatness of the future that he plans for us, this does not mean that we are faithless, or that we will not make it to heaven. It means our faith is being attacked. At first blow, our belief in God’s promises may sputter and swerve. But whether we stay on track and make it to the finish line depends on whether, by grace, we set in motion a process of resistance — whether we fight back against the unbelief of anxiety. Will we turn on the windshield wipers? Psalm 56:3 says, “When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.” Notice: it does not say, “I never struggle with fear.” Fear strikes, and the battle begins. So the Bible does not assume that true believers will have no anxieties. Instead, the Bible tells us how to fight when they strike. It tells us how to turn on the windshield wipers.

-John Piper

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Ps 32, “You are my hiding place, You preserve me from trouble You surround me with songs of deliverance,” Zephaniah 3, “He will take great delight in you, He will rejoice over you with singing, He will quiet you with His love,”

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can’t eeeeven tell ya how many times i’ve listened to this song. it is so healing for the soul. the truth of Jesus’ perfection, putting an end to our striving and performance.

love, anna

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Gospel hope for me, for you

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let Him wrap His arms around you, let Him love it all away.

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Streams In The Desert devotional, October 3

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18 When I said, “My foot is slipping,” your unfailing love, Lord, supported me. 19 When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought joy to my soul.

Psalm 94

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Truth sets us free

*of course Paul was writing to a Jewish audience- so for YOU, you scrupulous- read circumcision instead as whatever ritual or thinking you *feel* you have to do (or NOT do) to be right and stay right with God...* Galatians 5... "So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law. Listen! I, Paul, tell you this: If you are counting on circumcision to make you right with God, then Christ will be of no benefit to you. I’ll say it again. If you are trying to find favor with God by being circumcised, you must obey every regulation in the whole law of Moses. For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace. But we who live by the Spirit eagerly wait to receive by faith the righteousness God has PROMISED to us. For when we place our faith in Christ Jesus, there is no benefit in being circumcised or being uncircumcised. What is important is faith expressing itself in love. You were running the race so well. Who has held you back from following the truth? THAT KIND OF PERSUASION DOES NOT COME FROM THE ONE WHO CALLS YOU. This false teaching is like a little yeast that spreads through the whole batch of dough! I am trusting the Lord to *keep* you from believing false teachings. God will judge that person, whoever he is, who has been confusing you,"