5 Minutes with Jesus is a daily devotional series for people in the midst of real life, whether facing anxiety, grief, questions of purpose, or simply needing encouragement and connection. Hosted by Sheila Walsh, each five-minute episode offers Biblical truth, honest reflections on faith and emotions, and closes with a moment of prayer.
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| Sheila Walsh: Does God Really Love Me? | 5 Minutes With Jesus | October 13, 2025
- Do you wonder sometimes whether god really loves you?
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- Do you ask yourself how it could possibly be true?
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- Or like a child, do you want to ask how much?
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- The truth is, we've all been loved.
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- All the way to the cross.
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- God is love, but he's also holy.
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- And there's no way that you and i can measure up by ourselves.
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- No matter how hard we try.
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- We fail and we fall.
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- And that's why jesus came
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- As the father
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- Has loved me, so have i loved you.
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- Now remain in my love.
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- Those words of jesus in john chapter 15.
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- But let me ask you, do you ever find it
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- Hard to believe that god really loves you?
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- You know, it might be easy to believe that he loves
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- Certain people who are doing great things in his name.
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- But what about you?
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- I think when we've had a good day.
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- It's easier to believe.
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- But on a day
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- When everything seems to
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- Fall apart and you call your spouse, things
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- Are not in the new testament.
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- They might have been in the old,
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- But they did not make it into the new covenant.
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- It's harder to believe, but one of my favorite quotes
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- From one of my favorite authors, a.w. tozer, is this
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- What comes to your mind when you think about god
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- Is the most important thing about you?
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- I say that again.
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- What comes
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- To your mind when you think about god
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- Is the most important thing about you.
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- Think about that.
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- That's a profound statement.
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- So what does come to your mind?
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- Do you think of him as a judgmental goddess?
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- Disappoint it as harsh.
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- The most important thing that god is that he is love.
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- He is holy and he is love.
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- That was the profound lesson that jesus wanted his friends
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- To grasp hold of in his final hours on this earth.
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- Everything was about to change.
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- For three years, jesus had walked beside his disciples.
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- He taught them god's truth.
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- He'd lived at god's
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- Love and amazing miracles to demonstrate god's power
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- And told them about god's salvation plan.
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- And as they walked together, he taught them,
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- Pointing out practical lessons along the way.
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- Now he's teaching them again,
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- But this time it's very different
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- Because jesus time with his disciples was short
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- And everything was about to change.
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- Jesus knew the last moments were ticking away
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- Before his return to his father,
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- As he anticipated making the ultimate sacrifice
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- Of his very life a sacrifice that would tear
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- The veil between god and humanity forever.
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- He began his last lessons.
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- Greater love has no one than this.
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- To lay down one's life for one's friends.
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- And filled with wonder that out of all the ways that
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- Jesus could have spent his precious last hours on earth.
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- He chose to spend more time talking to his followers
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- About how much he and the father loved them,
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- And how much he wanted them to love one another.
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- He also prayed for you.
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- Did you know that final hours of jesus life?
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- He prayed for those of us who would believe
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- Further down the line.
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- This is the absolute truth.
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- Jesus loves you.
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- This is the same jesus
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- Who was there
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- When that first sunrise broke
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- Through the darkness of the world.
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- He placed the stars in the sky and called everyone by name.
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- He could see into the future
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- As every kingdom of this world would rise and fall.
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- He knew that his disciples would suffer for his name
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- And the words of strength
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- Each of them would need to endure those trials.
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- And what better source of strength
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- Than reassurance of his great love?
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- Jesus chose to spend his precious final moments
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- Telling his followers how much he loves all of us.
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- Meaning you and me.
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- Do you wonder sometimes whether god really loves you?
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- Do you ask yourself how it could possibly be true?
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- Or like a child, do you want to ask how much?
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- The truth is, we've all been loved.
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- All the way to the cross.
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- God is love, but he's also holy.
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- And there's no way that you and i can measure up by ourselves.
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- No matter how hard we try.
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- We fail and we fall.
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- And that's why jesus came on the cross.
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- Jesus was saying, father, punish me now
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- For every wrong thing that sheila walsh will ever do.
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- You can put your name in there, too.
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- He loved you.
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- All the way to the cross.
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- He loved you.
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- Now, in this very moment.
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- And he will love you all the way home.
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- We sang
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- As a child this song, and you probably sang it too,
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- But it rings as true to me today as it did then.
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- Jesus loves me.
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- This i know for the bible tells
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- Me so little ones to him belong
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- They are weak, but he is strong.
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- Yes, jesus loves me.
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- For god so loved the world that he gave his one
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- And only son, that whoever believes in him
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- Shall not perish but have eternal life.
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- Let me pray for you.
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- Father, i want to thank you
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- That you are willing to sacrifice your son
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- So that we could find our way all the way home to you
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- And jesus.
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- I want to thank you that even in those last hours
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- You spent with your closest friends.
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- The message on your heart was to let us all know
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- How much you love us.
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- For the disciples, the next few hours would be so confusing
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- As it seems as if things had fallen apart.
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- But even though they were in a friday moment,
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- Sunday was coming.
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- And lord, i pray right now for anyone who finds himself
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- In a friday place,
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- That they would remember that because of jesus.
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- Sunday is on the way.
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- Thank you jesus and your powerful name.
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- We pray. amen.
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