1363 My Strength Is My Story with Sheila Walsh, It's Okay Not To Be Okay

Maybe you have felt broken, longing for a fresh start. IT'S OKAY NOT TO BE OKAY! Sheila Walsh shares her thoughts, and her personal tragedies and triumphs on moving forward one day at a time.

Sheila Walsh is a wife of 24 years to her husband, and mom to their son, Christian. And we can't leave out their 3 pups --- Belle, Tink, and Maggie.

Sheila is a powerful and incredible international speaker, communicator, Bible teacher and best-selling author with more than 5 million books sold.

She is the author of the award-winning Gigi, God's Little Princess, and In the Middle of Mess.

You can find her co-hosting on Life Today with James and Betty Robison. She also has her own program with more than 100 million viewers --- Wednesdays in the Word.

"It's not self help. It's God help.” ~ Sheila Walsh Connect with Sheila Walsh BOOK: It's Okay Not To Be Okay

Enjoy the multitude of topics discussed including the mental illness, brokenness, puppy dogs, chocolate cake, and God help!

700 Club Not enough for God Internal list Rick and Kay Warren Mental Illness Honestly How did I move on? The secret Christian Dark Days The little note Brokenness The Overcomer's Journey Tell God the truth Psalmist David Job Jeremiah Words Bible Study Joseph Elijah The prayer The angel Things that really matter Cambodia Rescue Life Social Media Community God Help Matthew 11 Robin McGraw Intentional walk Do you want to get well? Grace Women of Faith Chocolate Cake Where are you spending your time? Meditation, prayer, and fasting Psalm 143:8 Feeding the 5,000 What do you have? Miracles Lazarus Holy Spirit Romans 8:28 Intercession First steps on stage Control

 

Connect with Sheila Walsh BOOK: It's Okay Not To Be Okay "Miracles don't change us, obedience to Christ changes us." ~ Sheila Walsh

 

Quotes and statements within the interview:

"But in many ways, it was the beginning of the unraveling of my life."

"You can be very well-known and desperately lonely."

"What I've discovered though with God --- when you think you've come to an end, you've usually just begun something really beautiful that you wouldn't trade anything for."

"So they (Rick & Kay Warren) taken that horrible brokenness and allowed the light of Christ to shine through it."

"I don't want my son growing up with a crazy woman just because I don't want to be on medication."

"We're all broken in different ways."

"But if we follow a Savior who didn't hide His scars, why should we hide ours?"

"But if God is not big enough to handle every single thing we are feeling, then He's not the God of the Bible."

"Because I think to the level that we trust God is the level we're willing to be honest."

"Everything that comes out of my mouth is either a blessing or a curse."

"Please take my life. I don't want to do this anymore."

"So you would thin --- how does God respond when we have given up on Him?"

"Grace is the antithesis of karma. We get what we don't deserve."

"And we don't have to be okay, because Christ has make us alright."

"You are forgetting that Christ is the hero of all of our stories if we allow Him to be."

"So that then out of a fullness, we can pour into others rather than out of a dryness."

"This is not a quick fix. Your life is a process."

"The more you fall down, the faster you run home."

"I was planting something in his heart of 'You don't clean yourself up to come to your mom', because you don't clean yourself up to come to your heavenly Father. You come as you are."

"And when you begin even with a simple step of meditating on a scripture verse, you'll discover that the internal change that goes on begins to become external change in what we say to others."

"So I give You what I do have, and then You will do what only You can do."

"Are you gonna need an audience for every major milestone in life?"

"God is in control."

 

What has your story gifted you?

Beauty from brokenness

"I've learned that it's a beautiful thing that God would do with a broken life if you give Him all the pieces."

 

Resources mentioned in the episode:

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