138: Kim Walker-Smith on Escaping the Cycle of Pain and Shame through Surrender

The pain and shame of your past, left unchecked, will quickly sabotage your perspective about who you are, your inherent worth, the hope and possibility of your life’s circumstances, and your closest relationships. But the way out of the pain and shame sometimes involves a deep-dive back into it; not to revisit every moment as if for the first time, but as a means to find truth, resolution, and peace, so that you can move forward. Too often, we don’t initially recognize that the scars of our past will tell a story of healing…if we let them do so. Kim Walker-Smith is a singer-songwriter, worship leader, and best known as the face of Jesus Culture, a global worship movement. For over fifteen years, she has played a major role in influencing worshipers and worship teams around the world toward their own pursuit of Jesus. Today, Kim is married, with three children, and passionate about helping other people forge their roadmap to wholeness from the inside out. But behind her public success and renown as the face of Jesus Culture, and behind the hope that she brings to millions of people around the globe, is a never-before heard story that was birthed from pain and trauma. And that’s the story you’re going to hear right now. Buy the Book Kim Walker Smith's passionate performance of "How He Loves" helped transform Jesus Culture into a global worship movement. Brave Surrender: Let God’s Love Rewrite Your Story is the story of how Kim journeyed from a place of shame and fear to stages around the world where she boldly proclaims the unconditional love of God. Through her own story, Kim inspires us to experience true freedom and healing with Jesus. Coming from a painful childhood, Kim struggled to believe that God could heal her heart or bring any sense from her past. Yet when faced with the choice to hand her struggles over to God and receive His love in return, everything began to change. On the other side of surrender, Kim began a journey of looking at one painful memory at a time with God and exchanging her perspective for His truth - a journey in which God rewrote her story of pain into a story of redemption and hope. If you are longing to experience God more than the shame or hurts of your past, the pressures of your present, or the fear of your future, Brave Surrender: Let God’s Love Rewrite Your Story offers a soul-healing path forward. As Kim learned in her own life, the first step - and the bravest step - is letting go. Once we let go of anything that gets between us and God, we are freed to take hold of the life that truly matters. As Kim writes, "When we encounter God's love, it changes the way we see. And when we learn to see what He sees, we will never be the same again." Buy Brave Surrender: Let God’s Love Rewrite Your Story now. Review “Win Today” Click here to read the ratings, or even better, please leave me a rating and review on iTunes. Your rating will help the podcast get noticed and positioned on iTunes. What Listeners Are Saying… “So great to find a podcast that is both encouraging and challenging! It is professionally produced, yet still has an informal feel like I’m hanging out with Chris… And frankly, I’d love to hang out with him! I really appreciate his heart and have been able to apply many of his topics in my life to help me grow professionally, physically, and relationally. A+!”