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: Christ Is Our Hope | 5 Minutes with Jesus | April 9, 2026
- I can't even begin to wrap my
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- Mind around the kind of love like that.
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- In a world struggling to find hope,
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- Hope has a name
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- And his name is jesus.
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- We all have days when nothing goes right.
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- You know, we'll laugh about them later with family and friends.
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- You know they pass and life goes on.
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- Let's be honest,
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- There are times where we're just going
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- Through a hard season in life,
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- And it feels like it's never going to end.
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- You know, you might be in the middle of one right now.
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- You know,
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- Your family might be falling apart
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- And you can't do anything about it.
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- Or perhaps you live paycheck to paycheck.
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- And if that's cut off, you'd be in a desperate place.
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- You might be struggling with anxiety and panic attacks,
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- Or you might be desperately lonely
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- And find it hard to believe that that will ever change.
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- Or perhaps you're living with a chronic illness
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- That never seems to get any better.
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- What if the bottom line
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- Is this you've honestly just lost hope.
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- In the past year, i've become acutely aware
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- Of how little i understand about some of the issues
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- That people deal with every single day.
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- And it drives me to my knees day after day.
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- When you kneel in silence and the lord's presence
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- Simply lifting up those who are hurting.
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- And it's it's painfully clear to me that not everyone
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- Is going to get the answer and the help
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- And the hope they're longed for on this earth.
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- So what is the answer?
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- Then it became crystal clear
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- To me, as clear as anything i've ever known.
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- The answer is simply jesus.
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- Now, before you write me off as being out of touch
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- With reality,
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- I don't think i've ever been more in touch with reality.
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- I am convinced that christ is our hope.
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- No matter what happens in this world.
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- In peter's first letter, he wrote this.
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- So be truly glad.
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- There is wonderful joy ahead,
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- Even though you must endure many trials for a little while,
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- These trials will show that your faith is genuine.
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- It's being tested as fire tests and purifies gold,
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- Though your faith is far more precious than mere gold.
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- So when your faith remains strong through many trials,
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- It will bring you much praise and glory and honor.
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- On the day when jesus christ is revealed to the whole world.
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- Jesus is the hope for every man,
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- Woman, and child on this planet.
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- If you're strong
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- Or weak, if you're rich or poor,
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- Happy or sad.
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- Jesus is your hope and not enough.
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- Come to jesus and everything will be all right.
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- Bumper sticker. wait. no.
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- In the radical truth that jesus came to us
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- To make everything all right, eternally.
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- There's no doubt we will all lose some battles
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- Along the way.
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- You know that to be true in your own life.
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- But because of what jesus has done for us,
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- Every single one who places their trust in him
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- Will win in bigger ways
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- Than we can even begin to imagine right now.
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- Because jesus changes everything,
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- Itâ–ˆs quite something.
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- When we're all home one day and we understand
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- The whole amazing redemptive story,
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- When every single piece is finally placed in the puzzle.
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- I know we will fall and worship.
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- Christ came for one purpose, came to pay the price for sin
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- To give you, and i a way back home to god our father.
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- He left the glory and the worship of heaven
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- To be born to dirt poor parents according to the law of moses.
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- A firstborn boy
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- Had to be brought to the temple in jerusalem when he was 40
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- Days old, and presented to the lord.
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- A sacrifice was brought so that the mother
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- Could be declared ceremonially clean,
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- While wealthy parents brought a lamb as a sacrifice.
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- But there was a provision in the law
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- For those who couldn't afford the lamb.
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- We read and if she cannot afford a lamb,
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- Then she'll take two turtledoves or two pigeons.
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- You'll find that leviticus chapter 12.
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- So that's what mary did. that day.
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- To anyone who saw her approach the temple.
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- This is how it would have looked.
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- Here's a poor girl, a poor young girl,
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- Bringing two turtledoves.
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- They wouldn't have understood that.
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- Think about this.
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- She was carrying the lamb of god.
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- You know, we live in a world
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- Where people struggle for position and influence.
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- Being called an influencer these days comes with a cash value.
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- If you have enough followers on social media
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- Channels, advertisers will pay it to be on your site.
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- The life that christ lived from beginning to end
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- Was the total opposite of that kind of self-promotion.
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- His life was one of pure humility.
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- You know, john calvin wrote about christ being placed
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- On the middle cross on good friday.
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- He said by hanging him in the middle, they gave him
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- The first place as though he were the leader of thieves
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- To onlookers or passers by that day.
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- Jesus looked like the ringleader of a bunch of crooks.
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- Even more devastating,
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- It looked like he was permanently cursed by god.
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- For it's written in the scriptures.
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- Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.
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- You can find that in galatians chapter three.
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- I can't even begin to wrap my
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- Mind around the kind of love like that.
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- In a world struggling to find hope,
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- Hope has a name
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- And his name is jesus.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord jesus, you are our hope.
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- You are our everything.
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- Lord, i want to pray right now for anyone who's watching
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- Or listening to this
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- Who is just struggling for life is not working.
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- Where they're struggling in relationships
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- Or they're struggling financially,
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- Or struggling with their health.
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- And it feels as if nothing is getting better.
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- Lord, we need a bigger picture.
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- Will you give us this bigger picture of because of what
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- You did on that good friday and because of what you did
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- On that resurrection sunday when you rose from the dead?
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- We win.
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- Lord, help us not to place our hope in things
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- That make sense to us.
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- Help us understand in a fresh, deep way
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- That hope has a name and his name is jesus.
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- Amen.
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