🔴 The Father’s Love, LUST and Sexual Addictions | Narcissistic Father | OCD and Parenting Autism

In this Resurrection Day Sunday Live broadcast we invite you into a real and honest journey of heart healing and mental health through a biblical lens. We open by sharing a very raw and traumatic story of Melissa experience a violent incident at Target, while sharing about how we processed it. I then shared a new episode of the Church Lady and the Church Gentleman, where they attended church together as a couple for the first time on Easter Sunday. The heart of our biblical study in Philippians was on "Standing Together Without Terror," where I bring out Paul's exhortation for the believers to develop strong and healthy bonds together under the power of the gospel, while not letting fear, terror or frightening threats hold them back. In the Q&A, I addressed a deep question about sexual addiction and pornography, explaining how lust often exposes places where the Father’s love and healthy nurture have not yet gone deep, but I talk about the journey that is needed to experience healing and renewal. We also looked at the tension of “Am I relying too much on my spouse or other people and not enough on God?” especially in the context of ROCD-like patterns. I pushed back on the unhelpful idea that “all you need is God,” and instead showed from Scripture and experience that we are created to need both God and people. Another major topic we addressed was the destruction that a narcissistic father can bring to his family and world around him, but we first talked about the reality that one daughter witnessed of her father never experiencing consequences. Finally, we spent time on parenting, OCD, and special needs—specifically postpartum OCD, intrusive thoughts about harm coming to a vulnerable autistic child (or that they might harm someone else), and the heavy weight of raising a special needs child into adulthood. Melissa and I shared personally from our life with our autistic son: the constant mental load, safety concerns, our need to overthink and re-teach, the grief of “this is not normal,” and why parents in this situation must be radically kind to themselves and realistic about what they can handle. The whole broadcast wove together Scripture, real-life stories, humor, and practical mental health insights to help you stand firm in one spirit, grow deep relational bonds, face fear together, and experience more of God’s love and grace in your healing and freedom journey. 📘The Myth of the Perfect One: https://bit.ly/44kZu7B ❓Submit a Question: https://markdejesus.com/questions/ 📘Get The OCD Healing Journey Book Today: https://markdejesus.com/the-ocd-heali... ➡️Get a FREE eBook on the Father’s Love: https://bit.ly/3fGu6t3 ▶️Mark's resource library: https://markdejesus.com/topics/ 👉Support future videos: https://markdejesus.com/donate/ 🌎Join the Healing and Freedom Community: https://markdejesus.com/community 📚Mark's books: https://markdejesus.com/books-by-mark... Music Provided by Epidemic Sound: https://share.epidemicsound.com/73m02k and Audiio: https://ref.audiio.com/3c99d6zk Mark's Podcast and Video Equipment: https://markdejesus.com/equipment/ Disclaimer: The content published is for informational purposes. The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. It is purely educational in nature. Always seek the advice of your mental health professional or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding your condition. Never disregard professional advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read, heard or viewed in our material. The resources given are not designed to practice medicine or give professional medical advice, including, without limitation, medical direction concerning someone's medical and mental health. Any resources given are not to be considered complete and does not cover all issues related to mental and physical health. In addition, any information given should not replace consultation with your doctor or any other mental health providers and/or specialists. 0:00 Intro 2:05 How To Find Freedom 5:35 M & M Chit Chat 9:35 Melissa Shares About Fight At Target While She Was Shopping 19:55 Greet The Chat 22:15 Church Lady & Gentlemen Went To Church Together 34:25 Dance Break 37:30 Philippians 1: 27-30 Standing Together Without Terror 1:00:06 Dance Break 1:03:25 M & M Discuss The Word "Bond" and How We Are Needing It 1:09:40 Experiencing Love When You Have Sexual Addictions 1:26:30 Am I Relying Too Much On Your Spouse or Other People? 1:33:05 Healing From A Narcissistic Father Who Escaped Consequences 1:43:05 Can A Narcissist Truly be Saved? 1:50:40 Intrusive Thoughts About Raising Autistic Son