Cured of OCD
TJ Malcangi is free from OCD through Jesus’ sacrifice
TJ attended church as a kid, but he turned to the world in his early teens because he “didn’t see miracles in church” and “didn’t see anything demonstrated.” Immediately, he came down with OCD.
TJ felt impelled to do specific rituals, like turning a light on two dozen times or performing a set number of push-ups and burpees, in order to keep bad things from happening. TJ’s time-consuming morning rituals would also cause him to be late for school.
Seeking relief, TJ turned to drug use and party life, finding that the OCD was pretty much absent when he was intoxicated. His problems escalated, with him developing panic attacks, losing his job, and getting severely thin because he was not being able to retain the food he was eating due to the anxiety. Next, TJ came down with agoraphobia. This fear of public places rendered him home-bound.
Reduced to consuming just bananas and sometimes only water, he began to think that he didn’t want to continue living in this condition, which led him to think about the next life. Then, the worst panic attack of his life came, with his heart beating so fast he thought he was going to die. Remembering what he learned in his church days, that without being saved he would go to hell, he got to the ground and prayed, “Jesus, save me.” TJ then felt like a blanket came on him and he “connected with God for the very first time.”
However, TJ’s deliverance of OCD did not come at that time. It came when he was watching a preacher online, who gave a number of Bible verses that spoke to his situation. When he read Peter 2:24, he had a vision of Jesus before he was crucified, being whipped and bloodied. Jesus looked at TJ and told him, “I did this so you can be made whole.” TJ then had an experienced like he was being electrified. TJ testifies, “I felt that something lifted off of me. I got up from my chair, and from that day to this day, I have not had OCD.”
Will Vining repented of his sins, and Jesus delivered him of OCD
Though as a kid, Will initially was bored by church, at the tender age of eight he felt drawn by the Holy Ghost. At his sister’s urging, he started reading the Bible, which led him to learn about the gifts of the spirit and start desiring them. A church leader, however, told him these gifts are not for us anymore. About 3 years before Will hit his teens, he started to come down with OCD. He started fearing the death of his parents. His initial compulsions were snapping his fingers, vocalizing, and turning light switches on and off. Upon entering his teens, he developed scrupulosity OCD, becoming fearful of being rejected by God, and his new compulsion was repeatedly saying the sinner’s prayer. Yet, he continued to suffer from a lack of assurance of his salvation.
As puberty took hold, Will gave in to lust. He remembers now that at that time he became averse to the altar call and and his youth pastor. At one point, he had a demonic dream of being in bed with multiple girls, who then vanished, and an ominous black ball floated into the room, terrifying him and culminating in him calling to Jesus for help. Afterward, Will heard God tell him, “This is what your sin is doing to you. Stop.” Will immediately repented. When the dream came again later, a lion saved him from the black ball, and then a lamb came and lay on him.
Will continued with his compulsion of saying the sinner’s prayer, though he became aware that a dark presence would show up when he did it a lot. Tired and discouraged due to his ongoing struggle with OCD and lack of assurance of salvation, Will got into pornography in college. Meanwhile, one of his sisters, Brie, also went downhill spiritually, going into drug use, becoming suicidal, having anger issues, using a Ouija board, and even disliking the light.
Then, Will went home on a break to find Brie radically changed, singing hymns, praying in tongues, essentially full of love for Jesus and out of the darkness! Upon seeing her transformation, Will decided to stay close to her. Fed up with his porn addiction, Will ended up destroying his laptop with a hammer.
Will got employment at the same Indian restaurant where Brie worked. The guy they worked for, Finny, prophesied over Will on his very first day, telling him, “Will, you are going to know God.” Finny had prayer meetings at his restaurant after closing time, and Will attended one. He felt pressed upon by God to repent of his sins publicly, and he finally did so, confessing he was lustful, a porn addict, and doubtful of his salvation. The others began to pray for him. His sister prayed in tongues, and when she touched him on his back, he began to experience a massive deliverance, screaming as “something was coming out.” Afterward, Will experienced relief and the feeling of being forgiven. And just like that, Will was freed of his OCD – “no more sinner’s prayer, no more light switches, no more nothing.”
The Holy Spirit visited Sara Penita and freed her from OCD
Growing up as a Christian kid, Sara received a promise from God that she would be a future missionary. About a year later, she came down with OCD. Sara’s parents tried taking her to see a Christian counselor, but the counselor rejected her for being too tough of a case. Sara was then taken to a psychiatrist, who pumped her up with drugs to the point that she spent half or more of her days sleeping. Even on the psych meds, her waking hours were marked by unrelenting torment from the OCD.
Tormented almost to the point of ending it, Sara endured in hopes that God would give her a miracle. Then, a missionary from Honduras who happened to be her parent’s friend, met Sara and told her, “Sara, God has a promise for you… [Go] to Honduras. He will heal you.”
Sara flew to Honduras and spent three months in a home with other Christians. Upon feeling better, she returned home, only for her symptoms to spiral downward again. God convicted her she had left Honduras prematurely, so she returned. She had spent months in Honduras before she embarked on a three day water fast in order to get delivered. God again confirmed that her deliverance was coming.
Two months later, a young man approached her. As they engaged in conversation, he was curious about her problem, and she revealed she had OCD. Right then and there, she experienced a beautiful cleansing experience, feeling a weight leave her and the glory of God visit her. The young man confirmed afterward, “It left. It’s gone.” It turned out that the young man, who is now married to Sara, had by the guidance of the Holy Ghost, prayed and fasted for Sara’s deliverance. Sara and her husband now run a children’s ministry for God in Honduras, and at the time of this testimony, it has been twelve years since she had received and retained complete freedom from the OCD.
David Pauta found freedom from OCD in Christ
David’s mom was saved when he was a child, and she would take him along with his brother to church. His mom had zeal for Christ and this influenced David to develop his own fascination with the gospel early in life.
David “grew up in a bit of a chaotic household,” and at one point, he decided to keep his own problems to himself in order to not heap more stress on his parents. Just before he hit his teens, he came down with a bad case of OCD. He was fixated on doing things an even number of times, such as closing a door twice. If he didn’t do his patterns right, he would fear dire consequences, such as his mom dying in a car accident. The more he gave in to his compulsions, the worse the OCD got.
At one point, he was reduced to tears after it took him about an hour to put on his socks right for soccer practice.
Due to his friends, David got hooked on pornography at a very young age as perhaps a sort of escape from the torment of OCD. [The deliverance for this particular area would take much longer than for the OCD, and it is covered in the video.]
When he was about thirteen years old, David was unable to perfectly execute a bedtime ritual that involved tapping the floor a certain way. He was up well into the night and became panicked and started crying due to the torment of not being able to go to sleep without completing the ritual. Then, his mom saw him and demanded an answer. He had never shared his OCD ordeal with his parents until then, but now he was forced to come open with it.
His mother responded with compassion and they prayed together. David remembers, “[We] prayed and I went to bed. And the next day I woke up, and it was just different.” That inner drive to do compulsions had petered away.
Zach Isaac has been freed of OCD by Jesus
Zach, whose Youtube alias is “Skill Sanctum,” used to suffer from severe OCD. His contamination fears were so extreme that even having a thought of something unclean or otherwise objectionable would result in him washing his hands and going through a singing ritual that had to be done perfectly. The process could take up to 10 minutes, and it would be repeated frequently, resulting in him spending around 2 hours a day on hand washing. Consequently, the skin on his hands was so damaged that some people wondered if he had a disease.
He had a phobia to plastic. Touching it could result in “a meltdown or a panic attack.” In one such meltdown, he went into a crying spell after brushing a plastic bucket and ultimately had to undergo a lengthy shower until he “felt decontaminated.”
Regarding the mainstream prognosis for OCD, which can be summed up as pretty much a life sentence, Zach said, “I didn’t receive any medical treatment, yet here I am, completely free from all those supposedly chronic issues.” He attributes his freedom to his growing relationship with Jesus. It was not an overnight change but rather a gradual one brought about by the combination of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit spiritually cleansing him from the inside and also God using certain people and situations to force him to change, to drop the OCD habits. Zach now washes his hands maybe a couple of times a day.
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