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: How to Survive the Worst Day of Your Life | 5 Minutes With Jesus | October 14, 2025
- I just want to say that any of you who are struggling,
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- Who feel as if you're not worthy, that you've failed,
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- That you've let god down.
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- I want you to know that god understands your brokenness,
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- And that is why jesus came.
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- The shepherd knows where to find his sheep.
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- Und.
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- How do you
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- Survive the worst day of your life?
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- A question that i never thought
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- I'd have to answer until it happened to me.
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- Now it's interesting.
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- I've always loved psalm 27.
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- The lord is my light and my salvation.
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- Whom shall i fear?
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- The lord is the stronghold of my life.
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- Of whom shall i be afraid?
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- The truth is, honestly, i was really afraid of everything
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- And everyone.
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- Growing up in scotland, i was raised
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- By christian mum and dad, which was just wonderful.
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- Scottish population.
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- Not many go to church.
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- Parents who love jesus was such a gift.
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- But when i was just five years old,
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- My father had a massive brain injury
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- And drastically changed his personality.
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- He went from being this loving, kind, fun, tall dad
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- To this scary stranger in our home.
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- He was paralyzed down one side and had lost the ability
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- To speak.
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- But as a little girl, i thought, well,
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- I'm just going to be my dad's best friend.
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- I'm going to learn his new language,
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- And i'm going to stand beside him and and i'll help him.
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- Which worked
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- Until it didn't anymore.
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- The blood clot in my father's brain moved and began
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- To destroy him.
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- Press on.
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- An area impact his personality and from being a loving,
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- Kind person, he became an angry, confused,
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- And ultimately violent stranger.
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- Last day, my father was ever in our home.
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- He attempted to bring his cane down on my skull.
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- He was taken off that day to what was called back then.
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- Our local lunatic asylum.
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- It's what we call a psychiatric hospital.
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- He managed to escape from that,
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- And he drowned himself in the river.
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- And back in those days,
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- You didn't take children to a funeral.
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- All i remember was my mum taking all the pictures of my dad
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- Off the walls of the table and locking them a little suitcase.
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- And even though as a child i had given my life to jesus,
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- I came to this place where i thought, if your own dad, who
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- Seemed to love you, could seem to hate you.
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- That must be possible with god too.
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- And so i determined that i would be the perfect christian.
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- I would never get anything wrong.
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- I would never make god angry with me.
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- Which worked for a while until it didn't.
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- And one day i was on national television.
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- Live show.
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- And suddenly
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- That wall that i'd built around my heart began to crack.
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- My guest asked me how i was doing,
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- And i wasn't expecting it.
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- And i started to cry and i couldn't stop.
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- And by that evening,
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- I was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital.
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- I was the same age as my father.
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- I felt like my deal with god was over.
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- I promised him i'd never fail, and i had.
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- So now he had no obligation to go on loving me.
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- But what i discovered that night.
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- His son, is.
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- God will take you to prison to set you free.
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- What i discovered in that place is god is close
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- To the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
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- You know, my bible was the only thing
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- They didn't take away from me in the hospital.
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- And it fell open at psalm 27.
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- But the page turned the page to a verse i hadn't read before.
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- And it's how that psalm ends says, i believe i will live
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- To see the goodness of the lord in the land of the living.
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- I just want to say that any of you who are struggling,
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- Who feel as if you're not worthy, that you've failed,
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- That you've let god down.
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- I want you to know that god understands your brokenness,
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- And that is why jesus came.
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- The shepherd knows where to find his sheep.
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- He knows when we wander off and when we're lost.
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- And don't allow
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- Anyone to shame you if you have to take medication.
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- I was diagnosed with severe clinical depression.
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- I still take medication to to this day.
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- Do i believe god could heal me?
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- Absolutely, absolutely.
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- But until he does, i take that little pill.
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- With a prayer of thanksgiving that god has made it possible
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- For those of us who are hurting in that way to receive help.
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- If you are hurting today, would you let me pray for you?
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- Father, i want to thank you
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- That on the worst day of my life,
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- You checked into that hospital with me.
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- You let me know that
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- There is no place i can go where i'm separated from you.
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- Thank you that you care for us in our brokenness.
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- And i pray right now, lord, for any woman, man, child watching
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- This, listening to this, that if they feel somehow
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- That you don't love them, that they've been disqualified.
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- That you would let them know it.
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- Absolute assurance that you see them,
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- That you love them, and that you will go after them.
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- The shepherd knows where to find his own sheep.
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- Thank you, jesus, for loving us in jesus precious name.
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- Amen.
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