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: Your Scars are Proof that God Heals | 5 Minutes With Jesus | October 7, 2025
- If christ
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- Has chosen to live eternally with his scars,
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- Why should we be ashamed of ours?
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- I don't know whether your scars are internal
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- Or external, but i do know this.
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- God will do beautiful things in and through a broken life.
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- When we give him all the pieces.
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- Would you like god to tell his story
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- Through your scars?
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- He was pierced because of our rebellion,
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- Crushed because of our iniquities.
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- Punishment for our peace was on him,
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- And we have healed by his wounds.
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- Beautiful words from isaiah chapter 53.
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- I was speaking at a women's
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- Conference in a packed little church
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- In rural texas one evening,
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- When i became aware of a solitary man in the crowd.
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- He was sitting kind of at the end of a row near the back.
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- I wondered if perhaps he was the pastor,
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- Listening in to whatever was being shared
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- With the women in his congregation.
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- I noticed he kept his head slightly down
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- And turned slightly toward the aisle.
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- And when the evening was over and most of the women had left,
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- He came over to my book
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- Table and introduced himself and his beautiful daughter.
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- Well, as he turned his face to fully face me, i saw the scars
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- Cruelly etched into the left side of his face and a skull.
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- He thanked me for my message and for my transparency.
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- That night, i'd shared my own internal scars
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- From a battle with clinical depression and mental illness.
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- And honestly,
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- I didn't have to
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- Ask for his story as he gladly shared it with me.
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- He told me that when he was 15 years old,
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- He put a gun under his chin and pulled the trigger.
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- And in that millisecond, between the bullet
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- Leaving the chamber and entering his skull,
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- He heard a voice ask, do you want to live?
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- Recognizing this as the voice of god, he said yes.
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- Well, now he's married,
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- With grown children and a ministry to hurting teens.
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- I asked him that night if the scars are a daily
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- Reminder of that devastating choice he'd made.
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- He said no.
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- He told me through a slightly crooked, warm smile,
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- That they are a daily reminder of the grace of god.
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- His scars tell his story.
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- When i think of
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- Scars, i think of the scars of christ.
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- I think of the cruel wounds in his hands and feet
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- And the place where the spear pierced his side.
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- Let me ask you a question.
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- Did you ever wonder why jesus chose to rise on that
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- Glorious resurrection morning, still bearing his scars?
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- He could have chosen to leave the marks of crucifixion
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- In the tomb, but he didn't.
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- It's dead.
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- They became the very
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- Visible proof to his friends that he was alive.
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- He was the christ.
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- He was risen from the dead.
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- Remember?
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- Suddenly jesus was standing there among them.
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- Peace be with you, he said as he spoke.
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- He showed them the wounds in his hands and his side.
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- They were filled with joy when they saw the lord.
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- The life, death and resurrection of christ.
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- Changed everything.
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- We follow a savior marked by his scars.
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- He became the perfect once and for all sacrifice.
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- Under old testament law, the children of israel
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- Had to offer up a spotless animal, pointing forward
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- To christ, the spotless lamb of god.
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- Just as god began our redemption story
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- By covering adam and eve with the skins of animals.
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- There is no image that displays the love of god more perfectly
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- Than the scars of christ.
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- Charles spurgeon spoke of the efficacy
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- Of those wounds and heaven.
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- This is what he worked when he rises up to pray
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- For his people, he need not speak a word.
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- He lifts his hands before his father's face.
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- He makes bare his side and points to his feet.
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- These are the orators with which he pleads with god.
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- These wounds.
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- If christ
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- Has chosen to live eternally with his scars,
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- Why should we be ashamed of ours?
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- I don't know whether your scars are internal
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- Or external, but i do know this.
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- God will do beautiful things in and through a broken life.
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- When we give him all the pieces.
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- Would you like god to tell his story
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- Through your scars?
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- We pray for you.
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- Lord jesus.
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- We will never have words adequate for this side of heaven
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- To thank you for everything you did.
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- The fact that you are willing to come and
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- And live
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- The life that you lived and die, the death that you died
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- And that you still bear the marks in heaven,
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- The only ones in heaven will be the scars of christ.
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- Lord, thank you that you invite us to come as we really are,
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- And that rather than being ashamed of our scars,
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- They are proof that we serve a god who heals.
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- And we thank you in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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