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The Shelter of God's Promises Bible Study Participant's Guide
In a world of uncertainty, pain, and struggle, where do you find solid assurance and unshakeable truth? In The Shelter of God’s Promises, a ten-session small-group Bible study, gifted Bible teacher and inspiring speaker Sheila Walsh searches Scripture for what God has promised us, what God's promises mean, and how those promises provide the foundation for daily confidence, joy, and hope. Through vulnerable storytelling and powerful in-depth teaching, Sheila offers a life-changing study on ten bedrock promises of God to help you gain a trust in Him that will sustain you for a lifetime. T he Shelter of God's Promises Participant's Guide includes individual and group activities, between-session personal studies, and additional material that will enhance your experience of the video sessions. Sessions Designed for use with The Shelter of God's Promises DVD 9780529110398 (sold separately).
208 pages, Paperback
First published February 8, 2011
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Sheila Walsh
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Sheila Walsh (05-07-1956) is a powerful communicator, Bible teacher, and best-selling author with more than 4 million books sold. A featured speaker with Women of Faith®, Sheila has reached more than 3.5 million women by artistically combining honesty, vulnerability, and humor with God's Word.
Author of the best-selling memoir Honestly and the Gold Medallion nominee for The Heartache No One Sees, Sheila's most recent release, The Shelter of God's Promises, has also been turned into a DVD curriculum and in-depth Bible study. The Gigi, God's Little Princess book and video series has won the National Retailer's Choice Award twice and is the most popular Christian brand for young girls in the United States.
Sheila co-hosted The 700 Club and her own show Heart to Heart with Sheila Walsh. She is currently completing her Masters in Theology.
Twitter @SheilaWalsh, facebook.com/#!/sheilawalshconnects
Sheila Walsh (05-07-1956) is a powerful communicator, Bible teacher, and best-selling author with more than 4 million books sold. A featured speaker with Women of Faith®, Sheila has reached more than 3.5 million women by artistically combining honesty, vulnerability, and humor with God's Word.
Author of the best-selling memoir Honestly and the Gold Medallion nominee for The Heartache No One Sees, Sheila's most recent release, The Shelter of God's Promises, has also been turned into a DVD curriculum and in-depth Bible study. The Gigi, God's Little Princess book and video series has won the National Retailer's Choice Award twice and is the most popular Christian brand for young girls in the United States.
Sheila co-hosted The 700 Club and her own show Heart to Heart with Sheila Walsh. She is currently completing her Masters in Theology.
Twitter @SheilaWalsh, facebook.com/#!/sheilawalshconnects
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November 20, 2022
Loved the dive into the promises of God and how they are our Shelter through all of life. Sheila’s real life experiences of God’s grace and the way she shares how God has worked in her life is relatable.
July 8, 2025
This is a book study that will require time, patience, and a physical Bible to study. If you want to have a deeper and more spiritual walk with God, please pick this book up. You will also need to access the video for this book. You don't exactly need the book that comes with it, unless you want to, but this is a great study book to tap into!
March 10, 2011
“Yet I have watched in silent awe as women like Angie and others have learned to walk with this wound in a way that brings such glory to Christ.” – Sheila Walsh
Sheila Walsh has never disappointed me. Her writings cut like a cleaver to the heart of a matter, and yet she does so with humor and steadfast love. This time she cuts through the question, “Why do bad things happen if God is all-powerful and holy?” by examining His promises.
“This is part of a test, scripture tells us. Jesus sends us out to stand on God’s promises and retreat with Him when we’re discouraged—but then go back out again. Will we believe in what He promises to do through thick and thin, dinner or no dinner?”
Walsh examines biblical people who struggled in much the same ways as we struggle in our day-to-day. Her book digs deeply into scripture, examining the Greek, pulling from other sources, and showing us that God loves us too much to break His promises. He loves us in spite of our choices.
“My new friend in the park had become someone unrecognizable even to himself, isolated and avoided. He lived in a place of unrest, lonliness, and self-loathing. Do you know a place like this?”
In later chapters, Walsh talks about the woman at the well, “It was a divine neccessity and command that Jesus had to take (the road to Samaria)–there was a woman who needed to know that her life mattered.” There are many quotable portions of the book and it loathes me not to post them all. She includes a Bible Study in the rear of the book. The Shelter of God’s Promises is full of the scripture, personal stories, love and humor that her fan base has come to know and love.
“You are loved just the same on the days when you feel you’ve done a good job as on the days when you know that you have blown it.”
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Sheila Walsh has never disappointed me. Her writings cut like a cleaver to the heart of a matter, and yet she does so with humor and steadfast love. This time she cuts through the question, “Why do bad things happen if God is all-powerful and holy?” by examining His promises.
“This is part of a test, scripture tells us. Jesus sends us out to stand on God’s promises and retreat with Him when we’re discouraged—but then go back out again. Will we believe in what He promises to do through thick and thin, dinner or no dinner?”
Walsh examines biblical people who struggled in much the same ways as we struggle in our day-to-day. Her book digs deeply into scripture, examining the Greek, pulling from other sources, and showing us that God loves us too much to break His promises. He loves us in spite of our choices.
“My new friend in the park had become someone unrecognizable even to himself, isolated and avoided. He lived in a place of unrest, lonliness, and self-loathing. Do you know a place like this?”
In later chapters, Walsh talks about the woman at the well, “It was a divine neccessity and command that Jesus had to take (the road to Samaria)–there was a woman who needed to know that her life mattered.” There are many quotable portions of the book and it loathes me not to post them all. She includes a Bible Study in the rear of the book. The Shelter of God’s Promises is full of the scripture, personal stories, love and humor that her fan base has come to know and love.
“You are loved just the same on the days when you feel you’ve done a good job as on the days when you know that you have blown it.”
I review for BookSneeze®
All reviews are honest and impartial.
July 5, 2011
Just yesterday I was watching and discussing one of Sheila's appearances with Women of Faith at my ladies bible study and today I am reviewing her newest book which is a DVD based bible study and lesson guide. I did not have access to the DVD so this is a review of the participant's guide only.
This bible study is about the Ten Promises that the Lord has given us:
Jesus - I Need Something to Hold On To
Provision- I Don't Have Enough
Peace- I'm Afraid and Feel Alone
Confidence-I Can't See God's Plan in this Pain
Love- I Don't Believe that Anyone Could Really Love Me
Grace- I Have Failed
Hope- I'm Broken
Strength- I Feel Things Are Crashing Around Me
More- I Know There's Something Better
Home- I Have a Future
This study is set up in a similar fashion to recent Beth Moore studies I have done. A bible study watches the DVD together then discusses it in their small group. Then there are four lessons for the participant to complete independently. The book is well laid out with introspective questions that challenge the participant.
From what I can see without having read the book or seeing the DVD lessons, I believe that this will be a great bible study and I will recommend it to my bible study.
This bible study is about the Ten Promises that the Lord has given us:
Jesus - I Need Something to Hold On To
Provision- I Don't Have Enough
Peace- I'm Afraid and Feel Alone
Confidence-I Can't See God's Plan in this Pain
Love- I Don't Believe that Anyone Could Really Love Me
Grace- I Have Failed
Hope- I'm Broken
Strength- I Feel Things Are Crashing Around Me
More- I Know There's Something Better
Home- I Have a Future
This study is set up in a similar fashion to recent Beth Moore studies I have done. A bible study watches the DVD together then discusses it in their small group. Then there are four lessons for the participant to complete independently. The book is well laid out with introspective questions that challenge the participant.
From what I can see without having read the book or seeing the DVD lessons, I believe that this will be a great bible study and I will recommend it to my bible study.
July 6, 2011
Did with my Thursday morning group of wonderful ladies. I missed some chapters but what I have caught was good and thought provoking. The DVDs were not too long and different from the book so not a repeat, which we liked.
April 4, 2013
I did this study with a small group, and we used the DVD's - which are necessary for this study - and overall I was pleased with it. The daily breakdown was easy to complete even in my extremely busy life. And Walsh is extremely gifted in sharing God's word. I recommend it to study groups.
January 18, 2016
Read this with my women's bible study group and it was amazing. This was the first Sheila Walsh book I read and will definitely look for more from her.
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