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 Like You're Never Enough? | 5 Minutes with Jesus | September 25, 2025
- Look at your own life right now.
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- What can you take to jesus?
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- Do you hesitate because it's not as much
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- As someone else can give?
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- Are you embarrassed
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- Because it can't possibly be enough to accomplish the task?
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- Here.
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- This christ never expects us to bring what is needed.
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- He asks us to give him what we have
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- And he makes it work often with leftovers.
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- Remember, dear brothers and sisters,
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- That few of you were wise in the world's eyes, or powerful
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- Or wealthy when god called you.
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- Instead, god chose things the world considers foolish
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- In order to shame those who think they are wise.
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- And he chose things
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- That are powerless to shame those who are powerful.
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- God chose things despised by the world.
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- Things counted as nothing at all and used them to
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- Bring to nothing what the world considers important.
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- As a result, no one can ever boast in the presence of god.
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- Find that
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- In first corinthians chapter one.
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- Let me ask you a question.
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- Do you ever feel as if you're simply not enough?
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- You look around
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- At your friends and colleagues, and they all seem so gifted,
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- And you don't feel
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- As if you feel as if you just don't measure up.
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- Well, i know that feeling.
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- I remember my best friend marlene asking me
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- To do something a favor for her.
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- If i hadn't been her.
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- I would never have said yes.
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- She wanted me to speak
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- To a group of ladies at a luncheon in palm springs.
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- I'd never done that before.
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- The thought of speaking to a crowd of any size terrified me
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- Because my background was singing
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- And later television, but public speaking.
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- That's another animal altogether.
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- But my friend was desperate.
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- She told me that her keynote speaker
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- Had to cancel because of the flu,
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- And she's asked every other female speaker she knew,
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- But they were all booked.
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- I told marlene that it wasn't.
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- I wasn't willing to do.
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- I just never done that before.
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- I remember saying, there must be someone else.
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- And this was her response.
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- Trust me.
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- I've asked everyone i can think of you
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- At the bottom of the barrel.
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- So with that rousing vote of
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- Confidence ringing in my ears, i headed to the venue.
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- I pictured in my mind a casual affair with,
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- You know, 50 or so sweet women who had very low expectations.
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- Well, wrong.
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- There were 1000
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- Beautifully dressed and finely tailored women anticipating
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- The most motivational speech of the decade.
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- I stood at the podium
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- And whispered to the lord something i'll think strange.
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- Under catered.
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- I heard him whisper back, what do you have?
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- Let me explain.
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- A strange conversation.
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- All four gospel writers include the account of jesus feeding
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- 5000 men, and goodness knows how many women and children
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- On a hillside one day.
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- So it must be an important story.
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- But exactly what can you and i learn from what happened?
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- As the sun began to set that day?
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- It was a spectacular miracle, for sure.
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- But i think there's more to it.
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- Matthew reported
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- That jesus told the disciples to feed the people.
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- Luke mentioned jesus instructions to arrange
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- The crowd into groups of 50, according to john.
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- Jesus asked philip
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- Where they could buy enough bread to feed the crowd.
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- Only mark includes this significant question
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- That came from jesus lips.
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- How much bread do you have?
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- See, all
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- That the disciples could see was what they needed.
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- They missed seeing what they had.
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- And what they had was enough.
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- Was it enough? and their eyes?
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- Absolutely not.
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- What you and i have, if we're honest, is never enough.
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- But when we give what we have to jesus, he blesses it.
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- He breaks it, and he feeds his people.
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- One more thing.
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- Do you think the only person on the hillside that day
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- With food was a little boy with his packed lunch?
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- Of course not.
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- There were moms and grandmothers,
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- And whether there are women, there are snacks.
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- Maybe no one else offered the food because they knew
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- It wouldn't be enough for the thousands gathered.
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- They didn't understand that when we give jesus
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- What we have, he does the rest.
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- So look at your own life right now.
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- What can you take to jesus?
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- Do you hesitate because it's not as much
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- As someone else can give?
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- Are you embarrassed
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- Because it can't possibly be enough to accomplish the task?
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- Here.
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- This christ never expects us to bring what is needed.
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- He asks us to give him what we have
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- And he makes it work often with leftovers.
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- When you add your not enough to christ's, more than enough.
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- Miracles happen.
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- I saw that at the luncheon that day,
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- Simply told my story and god did the rest.
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- And we pray for you,
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- Father.
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- So often we're so aware of what we don't have.
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- Areas where we fall short.
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- But i thank you for all you ask is what do you have?
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- And when we bring that to you, you do the rest.
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- And miracles happen.
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- Thank you. in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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