God talks to His people-to each one of us-through His Word, through the counsel of godly friends, and through the Holy Spirit. Sheila Walsh More Quotes by Sheila Walsh More Quotes From Sheila Walsh It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God. Sheila Walsh faces men children Lord God, I long to hear Your voice but not just secondhand through teachers, as wonderful and godly as they can be. I long to hear Your voice firsthand. Sheila Walsh godly voice teacher Theres not one good thought in me, apart from God. Thats the good news. Sheila Walsh good-news good-thoughts news One of the things I am very aware of not having in my life is the love of my father. ...but I know now that it is hard to make up that loss in the life of a daughter. Sheila Walsh dad daughter beautiful I was one of the loneliest people on the planet. You can be incredibly well known and very alone. And thats who I was. I was a well-known person who was very alone. Sheila Walsh well-known planets people When I work with Women of Faith, I probably talk to anything from 15- to 20,000 women a weekend. They are dying to hear somebody tell their story out loud and not self-combust, to bring all the secrets out of the shadow into Gods light. Sheila Walsh weekend light self When I was hospitalized in 1992 with severe clinical depression I thought I was the only one. I didn't know of one other Christian struggling with any form of mental illness. What I didn't know then was that there are thousands and thousands of men and women who love God yet are struggling alone, in silence, full of shame. This has to end. It's time to shine the brightest light into the darkest corners of the church Sheila Walsh struggle christian men Some view mental illness as a purely spiritual issue and deny the need for medication or other forms of treatment. Others view it as an illness with no spiritual aspect. I believe it's a combination of both. Sheila Walsh mental-illness spiritual believe But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept. Sheila Walsh atonement promise jesus I've never walked to an altar in my life. I gave my life to Christ in my bedroom as a child. Sheila Walsh bedroom children christ I got pregnant and turned 40 at the same time. Sheila Walsh pregnant