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Encouraging insights to equip you in your healing and freedom journey. Biblical and grounded perspectives for mental, emotional and relationship health.

The Healing & Freedom Journey Mark DeJesus

    • Religion & Spirituality
    • 4.9 • 229 Ratings

Encouraging insights to equip you in your healing and freedom journey. Biblical and grounded perspectives for mental, emotional and relationship health.

    Hope for Scrupulosity Strugglers (Religious OCD)

    Hope for Scrupulosity Strugglers (Religious OCD)

    If you battle with obsessive-compulsive struggles in how you relate to God, the Bible and Christian living, you are not alone. Many influential people have had this battle and many in the church today struggle with scrupulosity or religious OCD. You are not alone in this battle. There is hope.







    Sometimes we can think that obsessive-compulsive struggles are a new thing, when in reality, OCD has been around for a long time–I would say all the way back to Old Testament times. Today I want to provide you with some perspective on this journey, to remind you that you are not alone and provide some helpful perspectives on the journey moving through this challenging struggle.







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    • 1 hr 41 min
    The Struggle of Religious OCD | Scrupulosity

    The Struggle of Religious OCD | Scrupulosity

    Are obsessive-compulsive when it comes to your spiritual life? Is it possible that scrupulosity may be influencing how you relate to God and how you live out your Christian walk? Today I want to get into the subject of scrupulosity or religious OCD–the battle that takes place when obsessive-compulsive struggles invade your faith walk. I battled for years in a chamber of isolation, knowing no one else who struggled with these battles.







    Today, I cross paths with scores of believers wrestling in the trenches with a form of religion that binds them from freedom. As I began to learn how OCD infected my spiritual walk, I looked around and was overwhelmed at how many other believers had obsessive-compulsive lifestyles in how they practiced their faith. If you struggle with OCD, you are not alone and there is hope for your journey.







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    • 1 hr 59 min
    Do You Have a Quick Fix Mentality with Your Mental Health?

    Do You Have a Quick Fix Mentality with Your Mental Health?

    Are you chasing a quick fix mindset? In our struggle with mental and emotional health, we can put a lot of pressure on ourselves to hurry up, “fix” ourselves and fix ourselves quickly.







    “Fix it. Fix it quickly. Hurry up! Get me to the solution in the fastest way possible.”







    The problem is that mental, emotional and relationship struggles involve the life of the heart. And no matter how much you rush things, you cannot experience life transformation in a fast paced, quick fix kind of approach. In all my work, I have to help everyone get quick fix thinking out of their lives and on top of that, no longer become pulled by quick fix promoters, because there are many out there–communicating to people that healing, transformation and even change are light switch experiences. It is just not accurate and its not helping people.







    Today I want to encourage you to detox your thinking of any quick fix mentality, because it will work against your journey and actually may prolong your process.







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    • 27 min
    Confusion About Obedience and Disobedience

    Confusion About Obedience and Disobedience

    Obedience is an important precept taught in Scripture, but many believers struggle with it being burdensome, confusing and even at times tormenting. In my own experience, obedience and disobedience were distorted and gave fuel for anxiety, guilt and a heavy ladened spiritual life. As I have embraced my own healing journey, I’ve seen first hand how so many battle with deep confusion over what it means to walk in obedience and what disobedience actually means. Many teachings out there can inflame the subject of obedience in a way that keeps believers heavy ladened with unnecessary burdens. I am praying that in today’s broadcast, I can shed some light on this and bring some healthy perspective to a subject that drives many into legalistic and condemning patterns.







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    • 1 hr 39 min
    What is Grace? Part 11: The Journey from Condemnation to Grace (Romans 7 to 8)

    What is Grace? Part 11: The Journey from Condemnation to Grace (Romans 7 to 8)

    I want to take you on a journey–one that has changed my life in profound ways and has broken so many chains of condemnation that I have carried in my life. This journey involves one from condemnation into grace. Allow me to take you on this journey by teaching you line by line the words of the Apostle Paul from Romans 7-8, as he shares his honest process of getting out of law based living and into the new covenant in Christ Jesus.







    In this broadcast, I will show you:









    * why sin keeps rising up in people







    * why believers remain in chronic sin battles with no freedom







    * what the flesh means in Romans 7







    * how Paul viewed sin







    * how a no condemnation life can be experienced









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    • 1 hr 28 min
    The Power of COMPASSIONATE GRACE for Mental Health

    The Power of COMPASSIONATE GRACE for Mental Health

    Your mental health journey will experience so much more fruit when you come to experience and practice compassionte grace. These two areas will revolutionize how you relate to God, yourself and the world around you. It will transform how you relate to your mental health struggles, but compassionate grace is something that we need to learn with a journey and process mindset. In this broadcast, I will break down what compassion means to our mental health and the power of grace. Together, they can lead you into an empowered journey.







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    • 18 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
229 Ratings

229 Ratings

Bama Sue ,

Amazing Podcast!

This podcast is my absolute favorite! Mark has a way of explaining scriptures - that cause me to want to draw near to God and know Him better. I can’t say enough good things about this podcast. I’m learning to live out of God’s love instead of out of fear and/ or compulsions. I’m finally learning what freedom in Christ truly means. Thank you, Mark and Melissa! You are blessing many lives. I love how kind and compassionate you both are. You are giving people like me a “reference” for what love feels like.

Lexydisushbfjfksooakwjdhb ,

Life changing

I’ve struggled with OCD tendencies especially towards my faith my entire life. I can honestly say I’ve not yet found a resource as helpful as Mark. Every episode I listen to, I feel like there is a sliver more of hope. Mark doesn’t just see things from a clinical perspective- he has a sensitive heart that truly cares deeply for people and he’s passionate about helping people find the true heart of God for them. That’s a task worth spending one’s life figuring out in my opinion! I’m so grateful that Mark has dedicated his time to this mission. My prayer is to become free and confident enough to help the people around me understand this deep healing and freedom as well. Thank you Mark.

Em0108! ,

10/10 Podcast

This Podcast is so incredibly encouraging, I can’t even begin to explain. I have struggled with mental health issues since childhood and still struggle to this day. Navigating this as a Christian is a whole different thing. It’s really hard to figure out how to heal from past traumas/mental health while also leaving room for Christ to heal it. These days it feels like you have to choose one or the other. It’s all about balance, and this really helps me find that balance. Thank you, this has helped me so much!!!

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