By India McCarty
Podcaster Lola Sheen recently recalled the moment she first felt God’s presence, as well as the “calling” she has since felt to share her faith with others.
“When I started to struggle with mental health, I was probably 10,” she said on the “Jesus Calling” podcast. “My parents are both famous, and I think a lot of my anxiety rooted from things about my family being out in public without my control.”
Sheen’s parents are actors Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards, and the relentless press scrutiny her family was under made her feel “isolat[ed].”
“It didn’t get really bad until I was 16,” she continued. “I did definitely experiment with drinking and vaping and all of that because I started struggling so badly with feelings of depression. I never had a foundation, I never had joy that was always there. I think when I would go to alcohol or with my friends or vaping, I was trying to fulfill this feeling.”
When she was 18, Sheen began to seriously struggle with depression and said she “felt like a lost cause,” adding, “I just didn’t know my purpose. I didn’t [know] my worth. I believed all these other things that everybody would say about me. I never had someone be like, ‘No, this is the truth. This is who you are.’”
One night while scrolling on TikTok, she came across a video from Christian influencer Ally Yost, and it got her to start thinking about faith.
“I remember I was about to go to bed and all of a sudden — I had never felt the presence of God, I’d never felt the Holy Spirit before — it was like the presence of God, like Jesus just came into my room,” Sheen shared. “I felt like my entire room was filled with His spirit. I had never felt it before, and so I knew it was Him. Even though I didn’t feel Him before, I just knew.”
She continued, “I didn’t see Him, but I felt Him. It felt like Jesus came and took my hand, and I can’t even explain it — my room just had this overwhelming sense of peace and safety and I knew I was going to be okay.”
“I can’t explain it other than it literally was supernatural,” she told PEOPLE of that moment. “Jesus rescued me and he completely rewired my mind. He became my Savior, but also my best friend.”
Sheen would go on to get baptized, writing in a January Instagram post, “I chose to get baptized at the beginning of this year, because I made it through this year only by the strength of Jesus, and I am so happy to go into this next year, after publicly declaring Jesus as my Savior. I am forever saved by His Grace, through faith.”
Now, Sheen is sharing her faith, both in her day-to-day life and through her podcast, “The Heavenly Bonded.”
“The thing that inspired me to start a podcast is after I found the Lord, I immediately wanted to tell everyone about Him,” she explained. “I wanted to tell everybody about Jesus and how He just saved my life…I felt such a calling on my life to just minister to people who have experienced depression and anxiety and to just help them and show them that you are never too far gone for Jesus.”
Sheen’s story is a wonderful reminder of the power God’s love has to change our lives for the better.
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