Thank you for airing this interview. Caught me by surprise. I was homeless and heavily medicated in my 20's. In the depths of my troubles, I was blessed with a supportive church family. When I didn't see "miracles", when life was a struggle, and I must have looked rough (and my language was occasionally coarse), I was not judged harshly, by most. Actually, one family fed me with meals, and a Bible study each week that has "fed me" in the years since. Look at many of the other comments. Mine is just one. God bless.
Wow. I am 71 and I still suffer from this Black Dog. I remember being in a psychiatric hospital and getting ECT. Treatment I was locked in and I turned over in bed and the sun was setting. I cried out Lord Jesus please don't leave me. I wept and wept. I still want to weep. I was brought up in an orphanage. God has kept me so long and counsels me to hold on to Him. How beautiful my savior is to me.
Do you find solace in the fact that God has adopted you as His son? I did not know my parents and was abused in relatives' home where I grew up; after I was saved and started reading the Bible I found that in the Psalms it says, "Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me" (27:10). I still treasure verses like that. God called me to be his daughter; in fact, the message that I heard at my first retreat focused on the fact that God wants to be our Father. I was all in at the age of 13. I still go to my Father everyday with that same eagerness of a one- orphaned, broken child who He had held many times, has "stored my tears in [His] bottle and counted each of them," as Psalm 56:8 says, and has mended my broken heart. I pray that you can receive that comfort from His Word and internalize it into your heart, and that your mourning will be turned to joyful dancing because your Father loves you!!!
@jennylombardi7630 TYSVM FOR YOUR PRECIOUS TESTIMONY🗯 {REV.12:11*}- MY FAV VERSE ABOUT OUR TESTIMONIAL, ESPECIALLY IN THESE TRYING TUMULTUOUS LAST DAYS OR (OUR PRESENT DAYS, WITH THE HORRIFIC WAR IN- ISRAEL) & THE HORRENDOUS ATTACKS ON 🇮🇱ISRAELI'S & OTHERS THAT WERE OUTRIGHT MURDERED & PERMANENTLY INJURED & DISABLED PHYSICALLY & EMOTIONALLY BY THE EVIL MILITANT HAMAS😰🤬 TERRORISTS 😡😤😢💔ETC; I AM SO GLAD FOR YOUR GREAT MESSAGE & TESTIMONIAL.💌🙏🏼🙋🏻♀️
I'm reminded of a song by Phillips, Craig and Dean called "He'll Never Let You Go. I says,"He'll never let you go. No, it's never been His way. When He said He would love you, He was talking for always. Know this, for it is truth. God will never let you go. In times you feel alone, He is holding you close. You are embraced unconditionally by a loving Father God.
You are so brave, Sheila! My dad was a very strong Christian. Later in life he became clinically depressed. It was definitely a chemical imbalance. He got medication and he returned to his old self. Being honest about our past can bring such healing. Blessings, Sheila!
I have Clinical depression. But as I age now at 61 I know how to have joy of the lord in my heart because Jesus died on the cross and rose again for ME! How can I deny that joy. So though my flesh fights me on this and it is a battle I simply say to my flesh and the devil you will not win for I am a child of God. Yes, I suffer from depression but my hope and faith helps me to face each day knowing I will be with my savior soon.
It is a battle. And I hope you put on the full armor of God, everyday. I’m trying, too. And the day we meet Him, there will be no more tears or pain ❤️
Feed on all pastor Joseph Prince’s teaching on depression, anxiety,fear,stress. etc. I struggled with depression and suicide since 9yo am now 70 and since discovering “finished work teaching am walking in effortless peace and joy fellowship with my lord and savior Jesus
oh, how I wished I had met you when I was 18. I doubted my salvation because I almost had a break-down, I got no help at all only condemnation from christains. I am 82 and I found help when I was 46. Today everyday with Jesus is sweeter than the day before! Oh how Great our GOD! God bless and keep you and others who are having these kind of sorrows
Sheila Walsh is so real! First time I was introduced to her was listening to her speak a Saddleback church. I have never forgotten her or her testimony!!!! Please continue to share your life with us!
Glory to God, about seven years ago Jesus saved me, set me free, and healed me from twenty-three years of bulimia, depression and suicidal thoughts. I was born again and made a new creation in Christ, Hallelujah! Everything changed through the working of the Holy Spirit. There is hope for you in our Lord Jesus Christ. God bless you all.
God saved me from a lifetime of bondage of mental illness & suicide attempts. I learned it was curses and demons that entered me at a very young age and God had to teach me & deliver me from strongholds. Until I learned the truth I wasn’t able to be set free. I am born again & see everything clearly and live in the light not the dark. I pray everyone gets delivered from their demonic strongholds in the name of Jesus 🙏🙏🙏
SPURGEON’S SORROWS by Zach Eswine is an excellent book on depression. It would prove beneficial for every person to read - whether one struggles with depression or their loved ones do. Zach also has a helpful podcast. Truth be told, living in this depraved world, not one of us can escape mental illness.
I sought out a pastor for help and as i cried in his office he got up and left the room. I sought out a christian woman, shared with her my pain, saw her again, invited her over for coffee and was rejected by her. Shared with others, been rejected by them too. Now i stay in my home, not going out, no friends, not going to church. Keep to myself. The loneliness is easier to deal with then the rejection.
Karen here. You have Holy Spirit The Comforter and Jesus Prince of Peace, Father God who loves us unconditionally. Thankfully, we have programs like this so we know there are others suffering also. Bless you and keep showing up to places like this. We will reach out and comfort in the Spirit. Lord, let love fly to her heart from others 'round the World.
I know it is hard but Jesus was rejected too. We all experience what he did. Read Isaiah 53. Look what Judas did to Jesus. Learn of Him, lean on Him, grow in Him. 💕
It's sad that Christians are not equipped to minister to another who is in need. They feel uncomfortable when people share deep issues from the heart. We need to learn to be a blessing to others, not reject them.
I love these two, having genuine, authentic conversation about honest struggles. So refreshing in the midst of all the lies, evil and corruption that's all over media these days. Sheila is a gem, I remember watching her on the 700 Club. Her accent and her prayers were so comforting!! And her singing voice is angelic!! Thanks for always being real, both of you!!
Sadly most Christians (evangelicals) aren't the least bit compassionate toward the wounded,which is why I gravitate toward Judaism and Eastern Orthodox....those less"perfect"
Great questions by Kirk and amazing and practical answers from Sheila. Thank you for addressing an issue that many tend to avoid, especially in the church.
Sheila Walsh is one of my all time favorites. Very real, wise, compassionate, and loving. Can't wait to tell her in Glory how much of a blessing she has been too me!
My son has serious mental health issues and is currently homeless. Praying 🙏 without ceasing for a miracle. This is so encouraging. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Shiela and thanks Kirk, Christ saved me when I was at my very lowest and suicidal 🙏🏻 and although I’m still on meds and still have some days when I struggle, the Lord helps me everyday. I can hardly explain how our Father in Heaven has helped me and what He has done in my life, my story could have only happened with Him and the Grace He gave me. I thank Him everyday 🙏🏻 amen. Paul 🇬🇧
Thank you for sharing Sheila, please know that your words are important for those who suffer like you, and important for those who have great compassion for emotional suffering. Everyone should know that mental illness is curable, and not a life sentence! So many are not told this. The answer lies in the love of God and love and support from others, especially those who have suffered and overcome. Childhood abuse is the toughest to overcome and usually needs a skilled trauma therapist. But the love and mercy of our Lord is central, He can help us to rise up and keep trying to move along the rocky, thorny path of life, and lead us to people in the world who believe in us and our value. My favorite book now is Streams in the desert, with daily readings that are beautifully written, and includes poems, all about overcoming our life tribulations with the help of our creator. I am keeping a notebook copying my favorite parts that I can read to others and myself. We must keep hope alive and well every day. We can and will get better and overcome! God bless
My daughter has been struggling with mental illness for 8 yrs. Problem is she's 40 & doesn't realize how severely it's effecting her whole life. I would appreciate any prayers. The laws prevent family members from intervening unless suicide or harm to others. She lives in a prison of her own mind. 💔
I pray for your daughter Janet❤️Thankyou Lord for Janets daughter. We plead your precious blood over her mind. Please soften her heart and remove the scales from her eyes. Help her to know the truth that she is a child of God and she is loved. Please give Janet strength to never give up hope. The joy of the Lord is our strength! Please send people into her life to support and help her come into the kingdom of God. Please set her in the path to health and healing for her mind body and spirit. We know with you ALL things are possible! In Jesus name we pray Amen❤️
A very important interview and testimony. I have struggled with addiction and anxiety for decades. Ms Walsh has helped many people by telling her story. To see her go from being famous to admitted to a hospital shows me that going from an average person to a trainwreck helps me believe God will deliver me. I was afflicted November 4th with Shingles in my eye just out of the blue. Shingles didn't go away and this day I am still afflicted with Shingles Neuropathy. There is no cure but some recover greatly. I will by the Grace of God / The Power of God, Recover. I searched my Soul through this Affliction and Repented. I have no one and an alone in this World but even though I don't always feel it, I know God is walking me through this. I didn't lose my eye and I found my Faith. Please pray for me that I can work again and not lose my home. Thank you
Looking through all these comments, we aren’t alone in our afflictions. Keep up the faith, Chris. I don’t know you, but I love you bro (like Ray Comfort always tells strangers)
@@SantoValentino so kind of you. I truly appreciate your comment and it is of God. I now pray often for the children on chemo, the elderly lying in a nursing home alone, those who get hit out of the blue and no chance to recover, the homeless and those overtaken by drugs and alcohol. You are very right that many are suffering. I am selfish to have commented that. Eternity sounds so wonderful as this world is full of suffering. I just found this channel and subscribed. I only subscribe now to what feeds my Soul. I will remember your kindness and name and hope to interact again sometime. I don't know you either but you are very right and I love you too in Christ
@@c.b.-11 I wasn’t calling you selfish, brother. I’m just sharing that I relate to what you said, and you’re not alone. I keep my hope in The LORD because I know this is all temporary. Jesus came as a man and redeemed us, so I know He knows what we go though. Much love Chris
I love this episode! The truth sets us free hallelujah 🙌🏻 My mom who isn’t saved put this on tonight, she suffers from undiagnosed anxiety and depression hallelujah 🙌🏻
Thank you for taking the time to talk about this, it has been a blessing for me, praise God for our daily healing and for our eternal salvation which is in Christ alone
"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His Mercy He saved us." I spent many years as well, thinking I had to get EVERYTHING right and perfect for God to love me. He has shown me that I didn't save myself, NOR can I keep myself saved. It is ALL the work of God Through His Son and our Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Thank you for talking about such a delicate subject. I hope you become a model for other people to talk about their struggles and to get the help they deserve.
You need to know what is truth, regardless of what you are feeling! Process the pain, & don't be afraid to get help! I love Sheila, & I've always appreciated her bold authentic honesty regarding mental illness & health. It is correct; some times the only thing to do for some one is show up & shut up, words are not necessary. I know personally this is what helped the most with My Andy when he was struggling to get to the other side of understanding & control. I would silently pray, but it was the quietness that brought him through. * If you are suffering, seek the help. There is no shame. If you are physically by yourself, cry out to God! He is always there with you. Don't ever give in, or give up! You can gain control over it. Never stop seeking your health. Self care is the greatest gift we give to ourselves. ✝
Sheila got attacked by her father, the only one because of her calling. The devil knew it, it wasn’t because she was hated by her father, it was because the demons feared her! I hope she understands that!
Young lady I met my higher power through a special man named Sir Cliff been sober for 40 years and still rocking and rollin along in life remarkable man still cares about me love Rock and Roll Stan
Thank you Sheila. About 40 years ago I heard you sing ‘You’re the Strength of my Life’ and your song ministers to me now just as much as it did when I was a teen. Your message just now has really blessed me. You’re totally real. Thank you x
Thank you so much for discussing this and God Bless you both in all you do. SHIELA!!! I always enjoy the interviews you have with Dr David Jeremiah and have enjoyed so many of his series over the years. I recently revisited his series on What are you afraid of? And the portion on depression has helped me greatly and others like yourself. Your words and wisdom are what I pray many others can hear and see and act upon. I also found myself in the VA hospital seeking help back in 2018 and as things continued to spiral downward as loved ones abandoned me started questioning my salvation even telling my wife that I wasnt which drove a wedge between us. Turning any testimony of God in my life and healing upside down and that my time spent in counsel or in devotion bible study and seeking the word that I was seeking salvation and living in disobedience completely ignoring my love for the Lord and accepting him in my life long ago. Dr Jeremiah shared some key points in an interview on that portion of the book series. It's like many want to ignore or think that it can be an has no place ina Christian's life and if you do struggle then you are not truly saved. That does so much more damage.
Sometimes we saints hide alot of serious hurts and issues that in some circles make us feel shame or accused of lack of faith. Its not lack of faith its our being human and the Lord is willing to walk with us and help and heal. If we never had a problem we would miss the journey or as some might say we wd miss the dance. Kirk you are talking to one of my favorite people. Thx Kirk love ya Sheila
A lot of what Sheila shares is very good, but the assumption that everyone listening has another person they can bare their soul to is erroneous. While it's true that everyone can MAKE time to spend with the Lord and draw help from Him, there are many people out there who cannot find another human being to share with who can even begin to understand -- or who even wants to take the time and energy to understand. Sheila said that everyone has someone they can talk to honestly, but that just is not so. She was in a place where she knew any number of strong Christians who were deeply spiritual. A lot of people suffering from depression are not in that place. I think it might be helpful if someone could share what those people can do and not just assume they can do all the same things Sheila did.
You can find that far easier by joining an authentic church where others genuinely are supportive. I was amazed at the caring, myself. It's way too hard outside of that.
Never give up on finding a church where you can get plugged into community/life groups. The enemy would have us think nobody wants to hear what’s going on in your life, or it’s too heavy to handle. And that’s just not the case. The best ways God has carried me has been thru vulnerability with other women in a life group. We pray for each other and encourage each other. And I find we each have turns where we need the other ladies to minister to us the truths of God’s word and who we are in Christ.
Dear Lord Jesus, I pray for the healing of brother Robert Harbin! You said in Isaiah 53:5 that by Your stripes we are healed, and so we claim that healing in the name of Jesus! Amen. God bless you!
Truth over feeling, so important...Psalms has been a balm for my soul...Gods word is about real people w/real problems, w/a real God...He knit us in our mothers womb, He knows us, He loves us....Thankyou for sharing w/us. Thankyou for yr transparency..I love you
I like that she reads the book pf psalms. I am a poet who has a nice Psalm book that even has Hebrew writing on it. One of my female friends gave me a suggestion to read the psalms. I like psalm 1. I love poetry.
When I became born again, my in-laws thought I went insane and sent me to a mental hospital. Even though my experience was a hellish nightmare, God was actually answering my prayers by allowing it. About a month prior, I asked Him to use me to guide someone to salvation-even if I had to suffer. Sure enough, my wife (fiancée at the time) became a born again believer after the incident. For 2.5 weeks, she was grounded from her future husband because when she noticed my spiritual growth, she started to worship me. God saved my wife from idolatry and was preparing us for a Christ-centered marriage! On top of that, the Holy Spirit used 2 Corinthians 12:7 to reveal that He was looking out for me because I would’ve become arrogant due to all the personal revelations he was blessing me with.
Amen! Sister Sheila, by sharing your testimony so openly to glorify God and also helping people like us. I have two amazing boys age 20 and 16. They're both suffered trauma. Your testimony really encourage me as a mother to keep prayer because there is hope in Christ for all who will believe. May the Lord bless you sister.
Same story here, I was in the psychiatric hospital, tormented with fear and anxiety. I overdose and was admitted twice. God has brought me through, I had childhood trauma that was not dealt with. I had over 10 panic attack a day. It was a living hell. BUT! God brought me through. It was his word, praising and thanking God every day, speaking his word, and challenging my negative thoughts with God’s word. God brought people in my life, a great support system, and now I am Starting a nonprofit organization to give hope to others.
Highly recommend the book The Search for Significance by Robert S. McGee for determining where our true value comes from. Like Shiela, in spite of knowing the Gospel backwards and forwards, I still found that my value to God was based on my performance. Comforting to know we're not alone. Grace is really amazing!
'Find someone you can speak the truth...' thank you... at least enough truth that there's a release for healing. Someone once said to me, 'don't love me too much.' I'm not exactly sure what that means... JESUS CHRIST the MESSIAH loved and loves us SO much...
I believe this so true what Sheila said ... “ Because we have Holy Spirit inside of us the atmosphere should change when we walk into the room” Ask for wisdom in being there for someone and I believe God will guide you , just be present and willing.
I did not believe so at the time but our PERFECT LORD keeps teaching/refining/transforming... I experienced Isaiah 8:12-14 recently. My spirit was SO bowed down, crushed, but a glimmer of HOPE remained. I CRIED out, prayed, fasted, repented, lamented, CRIED out. NOW I have been given eyes to see things I couldn't prior and The LORD has made Himself my only FEAR and my Sanctuary. PRAISE His Holy Name! 💜🙌💜 THANK you dear Kirk for this interview and THANK you dear Sheila for you testimony and your studies. Both eternal blessings to my walk with our VICTORIOUS LORD! BLESSINGS and LOVE to you both and everyone that watches this. 💜❤💜
I went to alot of Women of Faith conferences. Sat behind her. Ive talked to her when she came up in the area personally a few times got pictures with her. I've just wondered what's going on with her recently. It's so good to hear this. Not that any of that stuff matters what I did with her but I just saw her as personal.
It sounds like she was suffering from an undiagnosed Generalized Anxiety Disorder from oppressing her own emotional and psychological needs for a lifetime, because she was forcing herself to follow a religion or a God that was going to validate or save her. Her mother, father, and Religious community betrayed her, always and only continuously TAKING AND TAKING from her. She didn't feel worthy just as herself. She felt SOOO LONELY.
Hey, the Pharisees thought Our Lord was crazy. They later thought that Paul was crazy. My father is Jewish; a secular Jew-a very secular Jew. And he was completely hostile to Christians. I, myself, didn't confess Jesus as my Lord and Saviour 2012 (better late then never). Back in the late 70s, my Dad and I got into a near-violent confrontation (no one was hurt); and to keep the peace, and because, at the time, I had nowhere else left to go, I voluntarily check into a mental hospital. Soon after, Bill Murray moved next door to my Dad. They became buddies. A few years after that, my psychiatrist went to the Vatican for an audience with Pope John Paul II, and actor Richard Dreyfuss was with him at the time. True story! Sheila, Kirk, it is well that you know Jesus. He's the best head doctor of them all. But 'What About Bob'?
I love this interview although there’s progress there still seems to be quite a stigma associated with mental illness because there’s nothing that can show it on a diagnostic test. So many people still say pray or just be positive and I feel like if most people could be positive they would hence it is an illness.
I identify with her but thankfully God set me free. My freedom was Emmanuel -God with me. He chooses to be with me and He is bigger than my past and will be with me today and into the future.
it's about time people got to be real about mental illness, in christian venues. over spiritualizing everything can make a clinically depressed anxious person feel worse than ever. it took me years to understand that it wasnt me who lacked understanding in this area, it was ministers in churches, the hyper faith preachers, and on and on.
Off the rails or suffering depression is not what it is. Suffering from depression is a result of the oppression feelings for a lifetime, specifically from young childhood before age 9.
The enemy uses shame to keep us down. My first marriage was a nightmare but I kept it hidden so long because I didn't want to embarrass the very person who was destroying me and my family and that damaged my relationship with God. The church is ill-equipped to help victims of abuse and the depression that comes from it.
Sheila needs to read the book by Billy Graham's grandson called "One Way Love". Billy Graham wasn't real vocal or big about Grace that I ever heard. His grandson had a similar meltdown trying to measure up to God's Law until God revealed to him the message of Grace personally.
Another victim of a "Graceless Gospel". So many preachers have deceived us with a gospel of a mixture of Law and Grace. Paul warned us that the Law is the "strength of sin". Preachers under that gospel tend to be the worst of sinners in private and have left a trail of tears for their followers.
Psalm 119:92 KJV "Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction." I think you're misunderstanding God's Holiness and how grace helps us obey the law but does not abolish it. I'm going to explain it in a way that it will help you understand both of God's love and judgement through his grace. Let me preface this by saying I do believe in once saved always saved. Now with that said. God is Holy and immaculate, which means his judgements are perfect and good. Unfortunately all of humanity as you well know are sinners by nature(Romans 3:23) meaning we can never hope to attain a perfect conduct under the law. So God sent Jesus to the cross to be the atonement for our sins. Now in that sacrificial act, God provides a way of fulfilling the law through faith in Jesus Christ for every believer(Galatians 2:16). So yes, believers are no longer under the law, but the law still applies as it relates to God's perfect goodness. Which means we should strive to obey the law not for righteousness sake, but for the sake of experiencing God's goodness. Don't we all want to experience God's goodness? Of course we do, but we do so by obeying his commandments. He has them there for a reason. Let me give you an example... If a Christian who is under grace and not under the law, wants to steal from people. Would we call that good? No of course not, it's bad because he's trying to take someone's belongings. But if he decides in his heart to repent and obey God's commandment of "thou shalt not steal" then the law is instantly seen as good is it not? It's the same thing with everything else that God commands us to do. All of God's commands are good, we should strive to obey them to experience God's goodness. Being under grace means you are free to follow Jesus commandments(Holy law) without the fear of condemnation. This is what it means to be led by the Holy Spirit. The more you apply the word of God in your life, the more the Holy Spirit bears good fruit in you. Which means other people will benefit from it, like the scenario above. When the Christian in the hypothetical above repented from being a thief. Then those in his community benefited from his change of heart, because now they don't have to worry about him trying to steal their belongings. God's law is meant to help us experience God's kingdom on earth as it is in Heaven. Psalm 19:7-11 KJV "The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward."
@@elbertrobles8784 "The Law of the Lord is Perfect." If you were never told that salvation is not about how well you can obey God's impossible and perfect Law because every man has failed to keep that Law from the beginning of the old Testament and that's why Jesus had to come to fulfill its demands perfectly in your place, then you would live with no security in Christ at all but with constant fear that the hammer of the Law could come down on you at any moment condemning you. It is no way to live friend. It's what religion and a graceless gospel does to you, which is found in most churches today. The gospel of Grace is the most attacked message on the planet today. I know because I've lived through the Hell of not understanding it.
@@michaelp5283 The key to understanding grace is the Holy Spirit. Just like you, I suffered from constantly worrying if I needed to do better for my salvation. Eventually I came to a point of desperation. Then God highlighted a verse for me... Ephesians 4:30 KJV "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." When God chooses to open your eyes and ears to the Gospel. He does so by removing your heart of stone and he gives you the heart of flesh(Ezekiel 36:26). He does this through the Holy Spirit, and not only that. But for the rest of your life, God(Holy Spirit) takes responsibility for your sanctification until your death or until Jesus comes back. 2 Thessalonians 2:13 KJV "But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:" If you have faith in Jesus Christ, then you believe everything written in the word of God because Jesus is the word of God(John 1:14). When you apply the word of God(Jesus) in your life. You are doing so in faith that God is true to his word. That is how the Holy Spirit uses you to bear good fruit. Every good fruit comes from the Holy Spirit(Galatians 5:22-23) and God saves us so we can bear good fruit for him(John 15:16). But notice the only way to bear good fruit is to follow Jesus and apply the word of God in your life. The Holy Spirit can't use you if you are not applying the word of God in your life(James 1:22). John 6:63-65 KJV "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father."
@@elbertrobles8784 Being useable by God has nothing to do with salvation, which would need to come first before even being able to be useable. Because salvation is not earned, you can not do anything to merit it or measure up to it, it is a Gift pure and simple. If you add works to it it's no longer Grace.
@@michaelp5283 You're misunderstanding my point. I addressed and agree that Salvation can only be received through faith in Jesus Christ. What follows after that, which would indicate that one is saved. Is being led by the Holy Spirit which is bearing good fruit. All who are led by the Holy Spirit are children of God(Romans 8:14). If you don't have the Holy Spirit inside of you and you aren't being led by him, then you don't belong to God... Romans 8:9 KJV "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." That's why one has to be born-again. Only God(Holy Spirit) can change someone's heart to follow Jesus. Again the key to being born-again is being led by the Holy Spirit. If you're just fulfilling the desires of the flesh with no interest in being led by the Holy Spirit. What evidence is there to suggest that you are born-again? No other way around it, you must be born-again. John 3:5-7 KJV "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again."
![NOSFERATU - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters December 25](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/nulvWqYUM8k/mqdefault.jpg)
Thank you for airing this interview.
Caught me by surprise.
I was homeless and heavily medicated in my 20's.
In the depths of my troubles, I was blessed with a supportive church family.
When I didn't see "miracles", when life was a struggle, and I must have looked rough (and my language was occasionally coarse), I was not judged harshly, by most.
Actually, one family fed me with meals, and a Bible study each week that has "fed me" in the years since.
Look at many of the other comments.
Mine is just one.
God bless.
We are blessed by your story Jason! Thank you for sharing.
- The Kirk Cameron on TBN Team
@@KirkCameronTBN Hard to find some true sisters and brothers. Really hard.
@@trulysensitive5620 I can relate. 🥺❤️🤗
@@trulysensitive5620 ❤
Wow. I am 71 and I still suffer from this Black Dog. I remember being in a psychiatric hospital and getting ECT. Treatment I was locked in and I turned over in bed and the sun was setting. I cried out Lord Jesus please don't leave me. I wept and wept. I still want to weep. I was brought up in an orphanage. God has kept me so long and counsels me to hold on to Him. How beautiful my savior is to me.
Do you find solace in the fact that God has adopted you as His son? I did not know my parents and was abused in relatives' home where I grew up; after I was saved and started reading the Bible I found that in the Psalms it says, "Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me" (27:10). I still treasure verses like that. God called me to be his daughter; in fact, the message that I heard at my first retreat focused on the fact that God wants to be our Father. I was all in at the age of 13. I still go to my Father everyday with that same eagerness of a one- orphaned, broken child who He had held many times, has "stored my tears in [His] bottle and counted each of them," as Psalm 56:8 says, and has mended my broken heart. I pray that you can receive that comfort from His Word and internalize it into your heart, and that your mourning will be turned to joyful dancing because your Father loves you!!!
@jennylombardi7630 TYSVM FOR YOUR PRECIOUS TESTIMONY🗯 {REV.12:11*}- MY FAV VERSE ABOUT OUR TESTIMONIAL, ESPECIALLY IN THESE TRYING TUMULTUOUS LAST DAYS OR (OUR PRESENT DAYS, WITH THE HORRIFIC WAR IN- ISRAEL) & THE HORRENDOUS ATTACKS ON 🇮🇱ISRAELI'S & OTHERS THAT WERE OUTRIGHT MURDERED & PERMANENTLY INJURED & DISABLED PHYSICALLY & EMOTIONALLY BY THE EVIL MILITANT HAMAS😰🤬 TERRORISTS 😡😤😢💔ETC;
I AM SO GLAD FOR YOUR GREAT MESSAGE & TESTIMONIAL.💌🙏🏼🙋🏻♀️
I'm reminded of a song by Phillips, Craig and Dean called "He'll Never Let You Go. I says,"He'll never let you go. No, it's never been His way. When He said He would love you, He was talking for always.
Know this, for it is truth. God will never let you go. In times you feel alone, He is holding you close. You are embraced unconditionally by a loving Father God.
You are so brave, Sheila! My dad was a very strong Christian. Later in life he became clinically depressed. It was definitely a chemical imbalance. He got medication and he returned to his old self. Being honest about our past can bring such healing. Blessings, Sheila!
My dad was a alcoholic. I think he dealt with depression
I have Clinical depression. But as I age now at 61 I know how to have joy of the lord in my heart because Jesus died on the cross and rose again for ME! How can I deny that joy. So though my flesh fights me on this and it is a battle I simply say to my flesh and the devil you will not win for I am a child of God. Yes, I suffer from depression but my hope and faith helps me to face each day knowing I will be with my savior soon.
Praising GOD with AND FOR You!!
Hope YOU ARE Mentoring others to REALIZE the HEALER IS THERE for Them as WELL!!
It is a battle. And I hope you put on the full armor of God, everyday. I’m trying, too. And the day we meet Him, there will be no more tears or pain ❤️
Feed on all pastor Joseph Prince’s teaching on depression, anxiety,fear,stress. etc. I struggled with depression and suicide since 9yo am now 70 and since discovering “finished work teaching am walking in effortless peace and joy fellowship with my lord and savior Jesus
That's beautiful praise the Lord. May He continue to help you through your daily battles!
oh, how I wished I had met you when I was 18. I doubted my salvation because I almost had a break-down, I got no help at all only condemnation from christains. I am 82 and I found help when I was 46. Today everyday with Jesus is sweeter than the day before! Oh how Great our GOD! God bless and keep you and others who are having these kind of sorrows
❤
The Lord must frequent the psychiatric wards, I was saved there too ✝️
Sheila Walsh is so real! First time I was introduced to her was listening to her speak a Saddleback church. I have never forgotten her or her testimony!!!!
Please continue to share your life with us!
The Pastor of Saddleback, Rick Warren, had a son of his commit suicide sometime around 2013!
@@arthurgearheard4701 how horrendous for him
Glory to God, about seven years ago Jesus saved me, set me free, and healed me from twenty-three years of bulimia, depression and suicidal thoughts. I was born again and made a new creation in Christ, Hallelujah! Everything changed through the working of the Holy Spirit. There is hope for you in our Lord Jesus Christ. God bless you all.
God saved me from a lifetime of bondage of mental illness & suicide attempts. I learned it was curses and demons that entered me at a very young age and God had to teach me & deliver me from strongholds. Until I learned the truth I wasn’t able to be set free. I am born again & see everything clearly and live in the light not the dark. I pray everyone gets delivered from their demonic strongholds in the name of Jesus 🙏🙏🙏
SPURGEON’S SORROWS by Zach Eswine is an excellent book on depression. It would prove beneficial for every person to read - whether one struggles with depression or their loved ones do. Zach also has a helpful podcast. Truth be told, living in this depraved world, not one of us can escape mental illness.
Thanks for book recommendation. Good to know.
Kirk, you are fantastic in interviewing very interesting and dynamic guests. Thank you 💜
Thank you Sheila for sharing reading the psalms aloud each day!! I started ❤️🙏🏻
I sought out a pastor for help and as i cried in his office he got up and left the room.
I sought out a christian woman, shared with her my pain, saw her again, invited her over for coffee and was rejected by her.
Shared with others, been rejected by them too. Now i stay in my home, not going out, no friends, not going to church. Keep to myself. The loneliness is easier to deal with then the rejection.
Karen here. You have Holy Spirit The Comforter and Jesus Prince of Peace, Father God who loves us unconditionally. Thankfully, we have programs like this so we know there are others suffering also. Bless you and keep showing up to places like this. We will reach out and comfort in the Spirit. Lord, let love fly to her heart from others 'round the World.
Praying for you sister. Love you
I know it is hard but Jesus was rejected too. We all experience what he did. Read Isaiah 53. Look what Judas did to Jesus.
Learn of Him, lean on Him, grow in Him. 💕
Oops Isaiah 53. Tired mistake. 💕
It's sad that Christians are not equipped to minister to another who is in need. They feel uncomfortable when people share deep issues from the heart. We need to learn to be a blessing to others, not reject them.
I love these two, having genuine, authentic conversation about honest struggles. So refreshing in the midst of all the lies, evil and corruption that's all over media these days. Sheila is a gem, I remember watching her on the 700 Club. Her accent and her prayers were so comforting!! And her singing voice is angelic!! Thanks for always being real, both of you!!
"THOSE THAT WISH TO SING WILL WILL ALWAYS FIND A SONG"
Appreciate word insight as well
Process your pain in the presence of your Father - so good!
WOW...that was incredibly helpful. Thank you for addressing this topic which is often ignored in our churches.
Sadly most Christians (evangelicals) aren't the least bit compassionate toward the wounded,which is why I gravitate toward Judaism and Eastern Orthodox....those less"perfect"
Great questions by Kirk and amazing and practical answers from Sheila. Thank you for addressing an issue that many tend to avoid, especially in the church.
This was just a beautiful interview! Thank you Lord Thsnk you Sheila Thank you Kirk🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️
Sheila Walsh is one of my all time favorites. Very real, wise, compassionate, and loving. Can't wait to tell her in Glory how much of a blessing she has been too me!
Thank You so much for sharing
Sis Sheila, let's talk about things that are issues in our lives,you just might save
Someone's life.🗣️🌎💚💙🙏📖♥️
My son has serious mental health issues and is currently homeless. Praying 🙏 without ceasing for a miracle.
This is so encouraging. Thanks for sharing.
WOW...crying my eyes out...heart broken... Thank you Sheila.
Thanks Shiela and thanks Kirk, Christ saved me when I was at my very lowest and suicidal 🙏🏻 and although I’m still on meds and still have some days when I struggle, the Lord helps me everyday.
I can hardly explain how our Father in Heaven has helped me and what He has done in my life, my story could have only happened with Him and the Grace He gave me. I thank Him everyday 🙏🏻 amen.
Paul 🇬🇧
Thank you for sharing Sheila, please know that your words are important for those who suffer like you, and important for those who have great compassion for emotional suffering. Everyone should know that mental illness is curable, and not a life sentence! So many are not told this. The answer lies in the love of God and love and support from others, especially those who have suffered and overcome. Childhood abuse is the toughest to overcome and usually needs a skilled trauma therapist. But the love and mercy of our Lord is central, He can help us to rise up and keep trying to move along the rocky, thorny path of life, and lead us to people in the world who believe in us and our value. My favorite book now is Streams in the desert, with daily readings that are beautifully written, and includes poems, all about overcoming our life tribulations with the help of our creator. I am keeping a notebook copying my favorite parts that I can read to others and myself. We must keep hope alive and well every day. We can and will get better and overcome! God bless
Thank you Sheila and Kirk.
My daughter has been struggling with mental illness for 8 yrs. Problem is she's 40 & doesn't realize how severely it's effecting her whole life.
I would appreciate any prayers. The laws prevent family members from intervening unless suicide or harm to others. She lives in a prison of her own mind. 💔
I pray for your daughter Janet❤️Thankyou Lord for Janets daughter. We plead your precious blood over her mind. Please soften her heart and remove the scales from her eyes. Help her to know the truth that she is a child of God and she is loved. Please give Janet strength to never give up hope. The joy of the Lord is our strength! Please send people into her life to support and help her come into the kingdom of God. Please set her in the path to health and healing for her mind body and spirit. We know with you ALL things are possible! In Jesus name we pray Amen❤️
@@tammypaul2305 thank you so much. May God bless you in all things in Jesus name❤
Just prayed for your daughter & your family. God bless you.❤️🙏🏻
Prayers sent for your daughter 🥰🙏🙌☝️
Check n see if there's anyone with a deliverance ministry near you. She may have a spirit.
A very important interview and testimony. I have struggled with addiction and anxiety for decades. Ms Walsh has helped many people by telling her story. To see her go from being famous to admitted to a hospital shows me that going from an average person to a trainwreck helps me believe God will deliver me. I was afflicted November 4th with Shingles in my eye just out of the blue. Shingles didn't go away and this day I am still afflicted with Shingles Neuropathy. There is no cure but some recover greatly. I will by the Grace of God / The Power of God, Recover. I searched my Soul through this Affliction and Repented. I have no one and an alone in this World but even though I don't always feel it, I know God is walking me through this. I didn't lose my eye and I found my Faith. Please pray for me that I can work again and not lose my home. Thank you
Looking through all these comments, we aren’t alone in our afflictions. Keep up the faith, Chris. I don’t know you, but I love you bro (like Ray Comfort always tells strangers)
@@SantoValentino so kind of you. I truly appreciate your comment and it is of God. I now pray often for the children on chemo, the elderly lying in a nursing home alone, those who get hit out of the blue and no chance to recover, the homeless and those overtaken by drugs and alcohol. You are very right that many are suffering. I am selfish to have commented that. Eternity sounds so wonderful as this world is full of suffering. I just found this channel and subscribed. I only subscribe now to what feeds my Soul. I will remember your kindness and name and hope to interact again sometime. I don't know you either but you are very right and I love you too in Christ
@@c.b.-11 I wasn’t calling you selfish, brother. I’m just sharing that I relate to what you said, and you’re not alone. I keep my hope in The LORD because I know this is all temporary. Jesus came as a man and redeemed us, so I know He knows what we go though. Much love Chris
@@SantoValentino was calling myself selfish
Praying..🙇♀️
Brother Kirk all of us one way or another are dealing with and struggling with issues
I love this episode! The truth sets us free hallelujah 🙌🏻 My mom who isn’t saved put this on tonight, she suffers from undiagnosed anxiety and depression hallelujah 🙌🏻
What a test and testimony wow God wow Jesus wow Holy Spirit wow. Thanks for sharing sis
Thank you for taking the time to talk about this, it has been a blessing for me, praise God for our daily healing and for our eternal salvation which is in Christ alone
"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His Mercy He saved us."
I spent many years as well, thinking I had to get EVERYTHING right and perfect for God to love me.
He has shown me that I didn't save myself, NOR can I keep myself saved. It is ALL the work of God Through
His Son and our Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Thank you for talking about such a delicate subject. I hope you become a model for other people to talk about their struggles and to get the help they deserve.
You need to know what is truth, regardless of what you are feeling! Process the pain, & don't be afraid to get help!
I love Sheila, & I've always appreciated her bold authentic honesty regarding mental illness & health. It is correct; some times the only thing to do for some one is show up & shut up, words are not necessary. I know personally this is what helped the most with My Andy when he was struggling to get to the other side of understanding & control. I would silently pray, but it was the quietness that brought him through. * If you are suffering, seek the help. There is no shame. If you are physically by yourself, cry out to God! He is always there with you. Don't ever give in, or give up! You can gain control over it. Never stop seeking your health. Self care is the greatest gift we give to ourselves. ✝
Glad for her testimony. Her music blessed me so much when I was younger….
God has taught me depression and anxiety are spirits we must overcome through Him.
Sometimes you are dealing with unsolved trauma. Overcoming depression has a lot to do with expressing your pain and processing your emotions.
Sheila got attacked by her father, the only one because of her calling. The devil knew it, it wasn’t because she was hated by her father, it was because the demons feared her! I hope she understands that!
I agree. Same thing happened to me.
Amen!
Young lady I met my higher power through a special man named Sir Cliff been sober for 40 years and still rocking and rollin along in life remarkable man still cares about me love Rock and Roll Stan
Thank you Sheila. About 40 years ago I heard you sing ‘You’re the Strength of my Life’ and your song ministers to me now just as much as it did when I was a teen. Your message just now has really blessed me. You’re totally real. Thank you x
Thank you so much for discussing this and God Bless you both in all you do. SHIELA!!! I always enjoy the interviews you have with Dr David Jeremiah and have enjoyed so many of his series over the years.
I recently revisited his series on What are you afraid of? And the portion on depression has helped me greatly and others like yourself.
Your words and wisdom are what I pray many others can hear and see and act upon.
I also found myself in the VA hospital seeking help back in 2018 and as things continued to spiral downward as loved ones abandoned me started questioning my salvation even telling my wife that I wasnt which drove a wedge between us. Turning any testimony of God in my life and healing upside down and that my time spent in counsel or in devotion bible study and seeking the word that I was seeking salvation and living in disobedience completely ignoring my love for the Lord and accepting him in my life long ago.
Dr Jeremiah shared some key points in an interview on that portion of the book series. It's like many want to ignore or think that it can be an has no place ina Christian's life and if you do struggle then you are not truly saved. That does so much more damage.
Sometimes we saints hide alot of serious hurts and issues that in some circles make us feel shame or accused of lack of faith. Its not lack of faith its our being human and the Lord is willing to walk with us and help and heal. If we never had a problem we would miss the journey or as some might say we wd miss the dance. Kirk you are talking to one of my favorite people. Thx Kirk love ya Sheila
A lot of what Sheila shares is very good, but the assumption that everyone listening has another person they can bare their soul to is erroneous. While it's true that everyone can MAKE time to spend with the Lord and draw help from Him, there are many people out there who cannot find another human being to share with who can even begin to understand -- or who even wants to take the time and energy to understand. Sheila said that everyone has someone they can talk to honestly, but that just is not so. She was in a place where she knew any number of strong Christians who were deeply spiritual. A lot of people suffering from depression are not in that place. I think it might be helpful if someone could share what those people can do and not just assume they can do all the same things Sheila did.
You can find that far easier by joining an authentic church where others genuinely are supportive. I was amazed at the caring, myself. It's way too hard outside of that.
Never give up on finding a church where you can get plugged into community/life groups. The enemy would have us think nobody wants to hear what’s going on in your life, or it’s too heavy to handle. And that’s just not the case. The best ways God has carried me has been thru vulnerability with other women in a life group. We pray for each other and encourage each other. And I find we each have turns where we need the other ladies to minister to us the truths of God’s word and who we are in Christ.
I've been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder for four decades thank you for sharing your story
❤️
God will heal you
@@saintfrancis9619 thank you for saying that statement.
Dear Lord Jesus, I pray for the healing of brother Robert Harbin! You said in Isaiah 53:5 that by Your stripes we are healed, and so we claim that healing in the name of Jesus! Amen. God bless you!
God met me in a Catholic retreat... I was born again and ended up jn China as an evangelical missionary by His grace...☺🙏❤
Beautiful story
Why do we go from a high awareness of feeling and sensing Gods presence to being not sensing His presence or feel connected?
I needed this tonight, thanks for sharing!
Wonderful interview. So hopeful!! 💕 Thank you to both Kirk and Sheila. Blessings, from Castile, NY
Amen and Amen!
Truth over feeling, so important...Psalms has been a balm for my soul...Gods word is about real people w/real problems, w/a real God...He knit us in our mothers womb, He knows us, He loves us....Thankyou for sharing w/us. Thankyou for yr transparency..I love you
No worse pain than feeling that your father hates you! I’ve had clinical depression also.
Psm 91:3...'surely He will deliver me from the snare of the fowler!'...
I like that she reads the book pf psalms. I am a poet who has a nice Psalm book that even has Hebrew writing on it. One of my female friends gave me a suggestion to read the psalms. I like psalm 1. I love poetry.
I was homeless and addicted to drugs. I also have depression and schizophrenia . Thanks for the message 😊
Thank you, thank you! Such great courage. Such great transparency. So appreciate you both. 🙏
This is very true, and important for people to hear, Amen! Bless her!!! 🙌🏻💙
When I became born again, my in-laws thought I went insane and sent me to a mental hospital. Even though my experience was a hellish nightmare, God was actually answering my prayers by allowing it. About a month prior, I asked Him to use me to guide someone to salvation-even if I had to suffer. Sure enough, my wife (fiancée at the time) became a born again believer after the incident. For 2.5 weeks, she was grounded from her future husband because when she noticed my spiritual growth, she started to worship me. God saved my wife from idolatry and was preparing us for a Christ-centered marriage! On top of that, the Holy Spirit used 2 Corinthians 12:7 to reveal that He was looking out for me because I would’ve become arrogant due to all the personal revelations he was blessing me with.
Awesome video. May all true Christians see this video. Doug Stoliker
Amen! Sister Sheila, by sharing your testimony so openly to glorify God and also helping people like us. I have two amazing boys age 20 and 16. They're both suffered trauma. Your testimony really encourage me as a mother to keep prayer because there is hope in Christ for all who will believe. May the Lord bless you sister.
So true. The people that don’t struggle with depression don’t understand.
Some do.
Same story here, I was in the psychiatric hospital, tormented with fear and anxiety. I overdose and was admitted twice. God has brought me through, I had childhood trauma that was not dealt with. I had over 10 panic attack a day. It was a living hell. BUT! God brought me through. It was his word, praising and thanking God every day, speaking his word, and challenging my negative thoughts with God’s word. God brought people in my life, a great support system, and now I am Starting a nonprofit organization to give hope to others.
Thank u for this, my son struggles with depression:(
Highly recommend the book The Search for Significance by Robert S. McGee for determining where our true value comes from. Like Shiela, in spite of knowing the Gospel backwards and forwards, I still found that my value to God was based on my performance. Comforting to know we're not alone. Grace is really amazing!
I needed this
I have Major Depression,Anxiety,ptsd, and borderline personality disorder. I do not know the difference between clinical and major depression.
'Find someone you can speak the truth...' thank you... at least enough truth that there's a release for healing. Someone once said to me, 'don't love me too much.' I'm not exactly sure what that means... JESUS CHRIST the MESSIAH loved and loves us SO much...
I believe this so true what Sheila said ... “ Because we have Holy Spirit inside of us the atmosphere should change when we walk into the room” Ask for wisdom in being there for someone and I believe God will guide you , just be present and willing.
Soo good.
I did not believe so at the time but our PERFECT LORD keeps teaching/refining/transforming... I experienced Isaiah 8:12-14 recently. My spirit was SO bowed down, crushed, but a glimmer of HOPE remained. I CRIED out, prayed, fasted, repented, lamented, CRIED out. NOW I have been given eyes to see things I couldn't prior and The LORD has made Himself my only FEAR and my Sanctuary. PRAISE His Holy Name! 💜🙌💜 THANK you dear Kirk for this interview and THANK you dear Sheila for you testimony and your studies. Both eternal blessings to my walk with our VICTORIOUS LORD! BLESSINGS and LOVE to you both and everyone that watches this. 💜❤💜
My son Jimmy suffers from depression please help me pray for him 33 single and takes meds to sleep
Need a copy of this for my husband
I went to alot of Women of Faith conferences. Sat behind her. Ive talked to her when she came up in the area personally a few times got pictures with her. I've just wondered what's going on with her recently. It's so good to hear this. Not that any of that stuff matters what I did with her but I just saw her as personal.
Thank you for sharing you never know what people are going through or have been though you sharing has helped so many for your honesty ♥️🙏🙏
I've been living with mental illness for three years.
Prayers for healing of insomnia praying for you all.
It sounds like she was suffering from an undiagnosed Generalized Anxiety Disorder from oppressing her own emotional and psychological needs for a lifetime, because she was forcing herself to follow a religion or a God that was going to validate or save her. Her mother, father, and Religious community betrayed her, always and only continuously TAKING AND TAKING from her. She didn't feel worthy just as herself. She felt SOOO LONELY.
Thank you for sharing your story
Great & important interview
Hey, the Pharisees thought Our Lord was crazy. They later thought that Paul was crazy. My father is Jewish; a secular Jew-a very secular Jew. And he was completely hostile to Christians. I, myself, didn't confess Jesus as my Lord and Saviour 2012 (better late then never). Back in the late 70s, my Dad and I got into a near-violent confrontation (no one was hurt); and to keep the peace, and because, at the time, I had nowhere else left to go, I voluntarily check into a mental hospital. Soon after, Bill Murray moved next door to my Dad. They became buddies. A few years after that, my psychiatrist went to the Vatican for an audience with Pope John Paul II, and actor Richard Dreyfuss was with him at the time. True story! Sheila, Kirk, it is well that you know Jesus. He's the best head doctor of them all. But 'What About Bob'?
I love this interview although there’s progress there still seems to be quite a stigma associated with mental illness because there’s nothing that can show it on a diagnostic test. So many people still say pray or just be positive and I feel like if most people could be positive they would hence it is an illness.
I identify with her but thankfully God set me free. My freedom was Emmanuel -God with me. He chooses to be with me and He is bigger than my past and will be with me today and into the future.
it's about time people got to be real about mental illness, in christian venues. over spiritualizing everything can make a clinically depressed anxious person feel worse than ever. it took me years to understand that it wasnt me who lacked understanding in this area, it was ministers in churches, the hyper faith preachers, and on and on.
Off the rails or suffering depression is not what it is. Suffering from depression is a result of the oppression feelings for a lifetime, specifically from young childhood before age 9.
Sheila thank you for your honesty, I've walked part of the same road, God bless you
I've seen personally several people helped in an amazing way with b complex vitamins. Sometimes they do wonders.
The enemy uses shame to keep us down. My first marriage was a nightmare but I kept it hidden so long because I didn't want to embarrass the very person who was destroying me and my family and that damaged my relationship with God. The church is ill-equipped to help victims of abuse and the depression that comes from it.
This was so rich
Sheila needs to read the book by Billy Graham's grandson called "One Way Love". Billy Graham wasn't real vocal or big about Grace that I ever heard. His grandson had a similar meltdown trying to measure up to God's Law until God revealed to him the message of Grace personally.
Billy Graham's focus was on evangelism.
@@catherineclinton911 The apostle Paul's was also but he used God's Grace to win the lost.
Letting go and letting God love on us.💖
My goodness.. how impactful
Someone help me please i cant do anymore i need a friend just 1 help me please
I’m here with you. I understand that pain and am with you.
@@jamesavery6015 thanks i feel very alone 😊💟
Sadly people who are severely depressed don't want to be around other people and other people usually don't want to be around the severly depressed.
Amen. She's great. Very articulate.
Another victim of a "Graceless Gospel". So many preachers have deceived us with a gospel of a mixture of Law and Grace. Paul warned us that the Law is the "strength of sin". Preachers under that gospel tend to be the worst of sinners in private and have left a trail of tears for their followers.
Psalm 119:92 KJV
"Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction."
I think you're misunderstanding God's Holiness and how grace helps us obey the law but does not abolish it. I'm going to explain it in a way that it will help you understand both of God's love and judgement through his grace. Let me preface this by saying I do believe in once saved always saved. Now with that said. God is Holy and immaculate, which means his judgements are perfect and good. Unfortunately all of humanity as you well know are sinners by nature(Romans 3:23) meaning we can never hope to attain a perfect conduct under the law. So God sent Jesus to the cross to be the atonement for our sins. Now in that sacrificial act, God provides a way of fulfilling the law through faith in Jesus Christ for every believer(Galatians 2:16). So yes, believers are no longer under the law, but the law still applies as it relates to God's perfect goodness. Which means we should strive to obey the law not for righteousness sake, but for the sake of experiencing God's goodness. Don't we all want to experience God's goodness? Of course we do, but we do so by obeying his commandments. He has them there for a reason. Let me give you an example...
If a Christian who is under grace and not under the law, wants to steal from people. Would we call that good? No of course not, it's bad because he's trying to take someone's belongings. But if he decides in his heart to repent and obey God's commandment of "thou shalt not steal" then the law is instantly seen as good is it not?
It's the same thing with everything else that God commands us to do. All of God's commands are good, we should strive to obey them to experience God's goodness. Being under grace means you are free to follow Jesus commandments(Holy law) without the fear of condemnation. This is what it means to be led by the Holy Spirit. The more you apply the word of God in your life, the more the Holy Spirit bears good fruit in you. Which means other people will benefit from it, like the scenario above. When the Christian in the hypothetical above repented from being a thief. Then those in his community benefited from his change of heart, because now they don't have to worry about him trying to steal their belongings. God's law is meant to help us experience God's kingdom on earth as it is in Heaven.
Psalm 19:7-11 KJV
"The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward."
@@elbertrobles8784 "The Law of the Lord is Perfect." If you were never told that salvation is not about how well you can obey God's impossible and perfect Law because every man has failed to keep that Law from the beginning of the old Testament and that's why Jesus had to come to fulfill its demands perfectly in your place, then you would live with no security in Christ at all but with constant fear that the hammer of the Law could come down on you at any moment condemning you. It is no way to live friend. It's what religion and a graceless gospel does to you, which is found in most churches today. The gospel of Grace is the most attacked message on the planet today. I know because I've lived through the Hell of not understanding it.
@@michaelp5283 The key to understanding grace is the Holy Spirit. Just like you, I suffered from constantly worrying if I needed to do better for my salvation. Eventually I came to a point of desperation. Then God highlighted a verse for me...
Ephesians 4:30 KJV
"And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption."
When God chooses to open your eyes and ears to the Gospel. He does so by removing your heart of stone and he gives you the heart of flesh(Ezekiel 36:26). He does this through the Holy Spirit, and not only that. But for the rest of your life, God(Holy Spirit) takes responsibility for your sanctification until your death or until Jesus comes back.
2 Thessalonians 2:13 KJV
"But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:"
If you have faith in Jesus Christ, then you believe everything written in the word of God because Jesus is the word of God(John 1:14). When you apply the word of God(Jesus) in your life. You are doing so in faith that God is true to his word. That is how the Holy Spirit uses you to bear good fruit. Every good fruit comes from the Holy Spirit(Galatians 5:22-23) and God saves us so we can bear good fruit for him(John 15:16). But notice the only way to bear good fruit is to follow Jesus and apply the word of God in your life. The Holy Spirit can't use you if you are not applying the word of God in your life(James 1:22).
John 6:63-65 KJV
"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father."
@@elbertrobles8784 Being useable by God has nothing to do with salvation, which would need to come first before even being able to be useable. Because salvation is not earned, you can not do anything to merit it or measure up to it, it is a Gift pure and simple. If you add works to it it's no longer Grace.
@@michaelp5283 You're misunderstanding my point. I addressed and agree that Salvation can only be received through faith in Jesus Christ. What follows after that, which would indicate that one is saved. Is being led by the Holy Spirit which is bearing good fruit. All who are led by the Holy Spirit are children of God(Romans 8:14). If you don't have the Holy Spirit inside of you and you aren't being led by him, then you don't belong to God...
Romans 8:9 KJV
"But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his."
That's why one has to be born-again. Only God(Holy Spirit) can change someone's heart to follow Jesus. Again the key to being born-again is being led by the Holy Spirit. If you're just fulfilling the desires of the flesh with no interest in being led by the Holy Spirit. What evidence is there to suggest that you are born-again? No other way around it, you must be born-again.
John 3:5-7 KJV
"Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again."
Been there, done that. Thank god for the VA.
Met Sheila very briefly many years back. Bless her for such an honest and helpful message
A lot of wisdom in this lady. God bless her.
Christian Therapists are out there, use this tool for Healing. God will lead you to the right one. Depression is not your fault, but is your problem.
Wonderful interview! Love your new show Kirk, I have learned from all the interviews and great resources!
Wow, that really spoke to my heart in so many ways. Thank you Sheila for being brave enough to share your struggles.