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: Where is God When You’re Hurting? | 5 Minutes With Jesus | October 10, 2025
- I don't know what you
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- Are facing right now, but i do know that god loves
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- You and wants to comfort you in your pain.
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- If you let him in.
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- Talk to him about your pain.
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- He is very near.
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- The lord is close
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- To the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
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- It's one of my favorite verses from psalm 34.
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- But do you ever wonder where god is when you are hurting?
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- One of the hardest truths
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- To hold on to as followers of christ is
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- That god is all powerful and that god is love.
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- So when devastation hits, we question
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- How a powerful and loving god
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- Could allow these things to happen.
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- Honestly, it's
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- One of the questions i get asked more than almost any other.
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- If god is love and god is powerful, then why?
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- I could see the pain
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- In our eyes before she spoke a single word.
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- I had just finished speaking at a conference
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- On the east coast,
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- And she'd weighted off to one side until i'd finished
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- Signing books and meeting other women.
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- She looked me straight in the eyes and paused before she said,
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- I don't believe what you shared from the stage tonight.
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- I said, thank you for being honest with me, but.
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- So what was it i said that you disagreed with?
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- She said, you said that god is a loving father
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- Who cares for us and that god is all powerful.
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- I said, i believe that with everything in me.
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- Then why do you struggle to believe those things are true?
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- I asked her again.
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- She paused and she said,
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- Because i've had to bury my son.
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- I held her as tears closed
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- Down her face and her fragile frame shook.
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- Her question is an age old one.
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- God, do you care when i am hurting?
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- You know, i think mary and martha were wondering
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- The same thing when their brother lazarus died.
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- I mean, think about this.
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- These sisters had seen jesus.
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- Do so many amazing things that when lazarus lazarus became ill,
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- They knew all they needed to do was get word to jesus
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- And their brother would be healed.
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- Jesus could do it, and he could have, but he didn't.
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- John chapter 11 tells us that
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- Jesus loved martha and her sister and lazarus.
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- But when you receive the news that lazarus was sick,
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- Jesus delayed going to him for two more days.
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- So by the time that jesus arrived in bethany,
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- Lazarus was already in the tomb and mary and martha
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- Were in mourning.
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- It's easy to understand why martha and mary
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- Might have wondered whether jesus cared,
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- But they were hurting.
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- In fact, martha's first words to jesus were
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- If you had been here, my brother would not have died.
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- For martha and mary did not know
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- Was that jesus delayed going to them
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- So that he might demonstrate god's power and glory?
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- Jesus had a plan.
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- It was far more wonderful than just healing lazarus.
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- He was going to raise lazarus from the dead.
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- For something beautiful recorded for us
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- In verses 33 through 35 that we must not miss.
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- When jesus saw the sisters and all of lazarus, his friends
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- Mourning, he himself broke down and wept.
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- His heart was broken over their grief.
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- This was never the plan for us.
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- Once adam and eve disobeyed god and sin entered our world.
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- So did heartache.
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- But that's why jesus came to give us a way back home to god.
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- And in the meantime, he promises the comforts
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- Of the holy spirit, who himself prays for us when we
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- Have no words left.
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- I don't know what you
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- Are facing right now, but i do know that god loves
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- You and wants to comfort you in your pain.
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- If you let him in.
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- Talk to him about your pain.
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- He is very near.
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- One of jesus names is emmanuel,
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- Which means we are never alone because god is with us
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- And we have this beautiful promise for our future.
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- From revelation given to john on the isle of patmos, revelation
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- 21 says this he will wipe every tear from their eyes.
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- There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain,
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- For the old order of things has passed away.
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- Behold, everything is made new.
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- Let me pray for you.
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- Father, i want to pray
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- Right now for everyone whose heart is broken.
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- For those who are struggling to understand
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- Why something happened or why you didn't intervene.
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- God, we just want to tell you though
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- We believe you're powerful and we believe your loving.
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- So i ask right now, father, that you would help us
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- In those places where we don't have answers,
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- Where we have tears pouring down our faces.
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- Lord, thank you that we're invited
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- To come into your presence and that you are a god
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- Who understands our grief, that you weep with us.
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- And it says in the psalms that you every single tear
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- In your bottle, not one of them is lost.
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- Thank you jesus.
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- Amen.
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