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: God's Unwavering Grace | 5 Minutes with Jesus | October 21, 2025
- Regret is a painful emotion
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- When we feel as if the choices we have made
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- Have impacted god's love for us, or god's plan for our lives.
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- It's very easy to feel hopeless.
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- But the good news of the gospel is that's why jesus came.
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- Jesus didn't come to save perfect people.
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- He came to serve people who can't make it without him.
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- Create in me a clean heart.
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- O god, renew a loyal spirit within me.
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- Do not banish me from your presence,
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- And don't take your holy spirit from me.
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- Psalm 51, verses ten and 11.
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- I met a young woman recently at a conference
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- I was speaking at.
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- She had stayed behind at the end after everyone else had left,
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- And i could tell by her face
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- That she was carrying a heavy burden inside.
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- I asked her if she wanted to talk and she said yes.
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- So we found a quiet place in the back of the church
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- To sit down.
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- Took her few moments to be able to open up, but when she did.
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- Tears poured down her cheeks.
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- Her story is not mine to tell,
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- But the situation she found herself in
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- Is one that many of us find ourselves in.
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- Some point in life, she'd made a decision that she knew
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- Was not god's best for her life, and now she felt miserable.
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- She told me that she felt life would never be the same again,
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- That she would always be living with plan b
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- She thought she'd missed plan a, god's perfect plan for her.
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- Regret is a painful emotion
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- When we feel as if the choices we have made
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- Have impacted god's love for us, or god's plan for our lives.
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- It's very easy to feel hopeless.
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- But the good news of the gospel is that's why jesus came.
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- Jesus didn't come to save perfect people.
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- He came to serve people who can't make it without him.
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- Repentance is an old fashioned word,
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- But it's one of my favorites.
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- It simply means to stop going in one direction,
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- To turn around and go in a completely new direction.
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- The psalmist david was called a man after god's own heart.
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- And yet it's very clear from scripture
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- That david sinned against god.
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- So what was it about his life that was pleasing to god?
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- I believe it was that david understood when he sinned
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- The only place to find forgiveness
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- Was in the father's heart.
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- When we ask for forgiveness for our sin, scripture tells us
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- That god removes our sin as far as the east is from the west.
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- And remembers it no more.
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- That means it's gone.
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- We will never have to answer for that again.
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- We're told in scripture that satan is a liar.
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- The father of all lies.
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- We're told, too, that he's the accuser of god's children.
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- But we read in romans chapter eight, verse one
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- That there is now therefore no condemnation
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- To those who are in christ jesus.
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- It was pure joy that evening to watch that young woman begin
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- To grasp hold of the truth, that when we confess our sin,
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- He is faithful to forgive us and to wash us clean.
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- God is a god of new beginnings, and like david, we can pray.
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- Create in me a clean heart, o lord.
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- He will always answer that prayer.
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- Let's pray.
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- Father, thank you
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- That when we fall down, when we sin, when we blow,
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- When we make mistakes, we get to come to you
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- Just as we are and ask for forgiveness.
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- And you've promised that you remove our sin
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- As far as the east is from the west.
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- And not only that, you remember it no more.
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- Thank you so much for forgiveness.
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- In jesus name. amen.
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