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| Sheila Walsh: Jesus Loves the Real You | 5 Minutes With Jesus | July 3, 2026
- The love of christ is a fierce thing.
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- It can take the picture you have of yourself
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- And replace it with a true masterpiece.
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- And when you begin to
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- Open up to this embrace, you develop eyes for others.
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- You start showing up in the lives of other people.
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- You can see yourself as merely mortal, even silly,
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- But not ashamed.
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- That's the radical revolution that christ invites us into.
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- In the midst of this image obsessed world.
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- We're not just loved on our good days.
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- We're loved every minute of every day.
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- My husband teases me that before i go to the hair salon,
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- I try and make my hair look good.
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- And on the occasions when i have someone to help me
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- Clean the house, i clean up before they arrive.
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- I wonder what that is.
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- Why we feel as if we have to present
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- A better picture of who we really are.
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- One of the greatest lessons i've learned and continue
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- To learn in my life
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- Is that the
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- Most important person
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- I don't have to clean myself up for is the lord.
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- I get to show up and be welcomed as i really am.
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- Some time ago,
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- I met a woman who had walked through an absolute nightmare,
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- But through it had come to a fresh
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- Understanding of the love of god.
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- This is what she told me.
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- I was asleep one night, and i woke up to see a stranger
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- Standing at the end of my bed.
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- I reached for the phone and he shot me in the face.
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- I don't remember much about the next couple of days.
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- I was in and out of anesthesia.
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- I've had 32 surgeries on my face with more to come.
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- I used to look a lot worse.
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- You can believe that.
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- She'll after her own dark joke as we hugged each other.
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- I asked her how on earth
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- You make it through something like that?
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- And she said, day by day, inch by inch.
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- We talked for a long time.
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- Her story fascinated me.
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- I could tell
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- By the sight of her face that was still intact,
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- That she'd been an incredibly beautiful woman.
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- Her appearance had been very important to her.
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- She told me.
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- She said i used to spend so much time on how i looked.
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- I've canceled appointments
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- With friends because i was having a bad
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- Hair day or a fat day, or a breakout on my chin.
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- Then i no longer had a chin.
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- That'll change a girl.
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- She told me that if
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- You spent your life measuring your worth
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- By how you look
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- And you lose that, then you have to reevaluate everything.
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- She said that down a long, hard road.
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- She found that christ loved the real her.
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- He loved the part of her soul that is beautiful and the part
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- That scarred.
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- So she knew he would do the same with her face.
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- Only god can perform that kind of miracle.
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- She told me that the other thing
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- That was important to her was to forgive.
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- I assumed she was talking about
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- The man who shot her, and she said, yeah, but not just him.
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- She said, i had to forgive myself, too.
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- I could have beaten myself up for the rest of my life,
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- For living so frivolously for so long.
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- I had to forgive myself also.
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- I've been eternally impacted by this woman.
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- How often do we hide our real selves from one another?
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- How often do we only show part of who we really are
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- And hype what we perceive to be flawed or ugly?
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- The love of christ is a fierce thing.
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- It can take the picture you have of yourself
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- And replace it with a true masterpiece.
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- And when you begin to
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- Open up to this embrace, you develop eyes for others.
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- You start showing up in the lives of other people.
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- You can see yourself as merely mortal, even silly,
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- But not ashamed.
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- That's the radical revolution that christ invites us into.
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- In the midst of this image obsessed world.
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- We're not just loved on our good days.
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- We're loved every minute of every day.
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- So when you're struggling to remember
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- How much you're loved, here's a few truths from god's word.
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- Number one.
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- Second corinthians five
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- Says this you are a new creation in christ.
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- Number two, philippians 413 says this you can do everything
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- Through christ who gives you strength.
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- Number three, romans eight verse 33 says this
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- You are chosen and forgiven.
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- Number four,
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- Second timothy one verse seven says, you are not ruled by fear,
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- But by love, power, and a sound mind.
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- Number five nothing can separate you from his love.
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- That's from romans chapter eight, verses 38 and 39.
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- Two of my all time favorite verses.
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- This is truly amazing news.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, thank you
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- That there is nothing that can separate us from your love.
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- There are so many things in our world, lord,
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- That are unpredictable that we did not see coming.
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- But we know, lord, that you are good and you are in control.
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- And even when something happens that we would never have
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- Signed up for in the midst of it.
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- We are invited into your presence.
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- Thank you. in jesus name, amen.
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