About

Let me introduce myself:

I am Dea Clayton

I am a certified Christian Counselor, on the pastoral staff at Empowering Lives Christian Center in Selma Ca. I work in Accounting by trade and find time to make myself available to the Selma Police Department as a Chaplain.

I have also been wounded, hurt, and healed!

Five years ago God gave me the ministry vision “Wounded Hurt But Healed “. A successful conference came out of that vision…but it stopped there…

I cried out to a God, “I can’t do this, I still need to be healed!”

This is right where God wanted me to be. He wanted me to acknowledge my need to be healed.

For so many years I had been hiding my pain, my shame, my guilt, my hurt, behind my smile, keeping myself busy. The moment I stopped moving , all of these thoughts and memories seemed to haunt me, but instead of addressing them I covered them up. Over the years I had vices and addictions and struggles with mental illness that I continued to feed.

I tried to do another conference and deviated from the original vision God gave me, and it was not successful. I was not heeding the word of the Lord given to me from Isaiah 53:5 (NKJV)

“But He was wounded for our transgressions,He was bruised for our iniquities;The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.“

God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son and whosoever believe on Him will have everlasting life (John 3:16). And by His stripes, we are healed! Because of the whippings that were administered to Jesus before He died on the cross (for us), we are forgiven, we are saved, we have the ability to become and remain sound and healthy, to be alleviated from distress and anguish!

He wanted me to get back to remembering that I was healed, and why was I accepting all of the hurt, all of the pain, while living this life.

So you ask, what hurt, what pain?

It all starts with a wound…….