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: Do You Feel Seen? | 5 Minutes with Jesus | May 4, 2026
- Even though the shepherd still had 99 sheep,
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- The one that was lost mattered to him.
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- No one else might have seen it wander off,
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- But the shepherd did.
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- You are not lost.
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- Jesus sees you.
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- Do you ever feel invisible?
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- I mean, you're clearly in the room,
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- But no one seems to notice what's
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- Actually going on in your life.
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- Do you ever feel overlooked?
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- You know, others in your church or group or family
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- Seem to get all the attention and somehow
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- You're just in the background?
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- You're not the loudest or the most emotional,
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- But things are going
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- On in your life too, and nobody seems to notice.
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- Or perhaps life just got too much for you
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- And you've kind of wandered off by yourself.
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- Yeah, you still love jesus, but you've been hurt by the church
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- And you don't believe anybody cares anymore.
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- One of my favorite chapters in the new testament is luke
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- Chapter 15.
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- It's been called the gospel within the gospel.
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- Jesus tells three parables to make it clear
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- To the listening crowd that no matter how lost they feel,
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- God sees them and hasn't given up on them,
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- Even if everybody else has,
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- Even if they've given up on themselves.
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- Let me share a few verses with you from luke chapter 15.
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- These are verses 3 to 7.
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- So jesus told them this story.
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- If a man has 100 sheep and one of them gets lost,
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- What will he do
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- When he leaves the 99 others in the wilderness and go to
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- Search for the one that is lost until he finds it,
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- And when he has found it,
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- He will joyfully carry it home on his shoulders.
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- When he arrives, he will call together
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- His friends and neighbors, saying, rejoice with me,
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- Because i have found my lost sheep.
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- In the same way, there is more joy in heaven over
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- One lost sinner who repents and returns to god than over
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- 99 others who are righteous and haven't strayed away.
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- That would be a revolutionary story to the crowd that day.
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- They'd heard
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- Part of that phrase before, but jesus changed the ending.
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- The religious leaders had a saying,
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- But it was quite different.
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- They declared that there is great joy in heaven
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- Over one sinner who is obliterated from god.
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- The pharisees referred to people who didn't follow every single
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- One of the 613 jewish laws.
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- People of the land.
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- Once someone had been designated as that,
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- You couldn't do business with them.
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- It couldn't be used as a witness in court.
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- They couldn't adopt an orphan.
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- You shouldn't have them in your home.
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- Jesus message that day was radical.
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- He said, there's great
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- Rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents.
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- Not what they've been told.
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- Great joy over one who's obliterated.
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- What a message.
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- What a total distortion of the heart of god.
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- We could unpack the power of that story all day,
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- But there's a few things i'd like you to see.
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- Number one, even though the shepherd still had 99 sheep,
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- The one that was lost mattered to him.
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- No one else might have seen it wander off,
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- But the shepherd did.
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- You are not lost.
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- Jesus sees you.
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- Number two, i love the phrase until he finds it.
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- He doesn't give up.
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- He keeps looking.
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- Keep searching until he finds it.
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- Sometimes we feel as if people
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- Will stick with us for a bit, but then get tired of us.
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- Jesus keeps looking.
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- Never gives up.
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- Number three,
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- Perhaps one of the most moving
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- And profound aspects of this story
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- Is how the shepherd treats the sheep.
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- Once he finds it, he's not angry with it.
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- Frustrated with it, tells it.
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- Wander off one more time.
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- I am done with you. no.
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- He puts it on his shoulders, carries at home,
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- And calls his neighbors out to celebrate with him.
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- That this one lost sheep has been found.
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- I don't know where you are in your own life right now.
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- You may feel lost or are angry,
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- And i want you to know that the shepherd that jesus loves
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- You and will keep on looking for you
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- Until he can bring you all the way home.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, you are such a faithful shepherd.
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- I want to thank you that even when we wander off
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- By mistake, or whether we wander off by choice,
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- You are so faithful to come and look for your own.
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- And lord, i pray right now for anyone who feels a bit lost
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- Or a bit invisible.
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- That they would understand in a fresh way that you see them
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- In jesus name. amen.
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