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: Finding Peace After Betrayal | 5 Minutes with Jesus | October 29, 2025
- Paul writes
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- That we should present ourselves as a living sacrifice.
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- The trouble with being a living sacrifice is we can choose
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- To crawl back off the altar when it gets too hot.
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- Following jesus is not for the faint of heart.
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- It's a calling to live as jesus
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- Lived.
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- Betrayal
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- Is a big struggle and hard to work through.
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- The bible says, bless those who persecute you.
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- Don't curse them. pray that god will bless them.
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- Be happy with those who are happy,
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- And weep with those who weep.
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- Live in harmony with each other.
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- That's romans, chapter 12, verse 14.
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- That text is counterintuitive to our human nature.
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- If someone persecutes us, we either want them to hurt
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- Or at the very least, we want to distance ourselves from them.
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- Paul writes that we should pray that god will bless them.
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- What?
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- On a human level, that makes no sense at all.
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- Why would we pray good things for their lives?
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- Shouldn't we be praying that god will
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- Bring them to their knees and they'll repent?
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- Well, god may well do that,
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- But it's not our job to try and help.
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- We've been called to live our lives and a different kingdom.
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- The kingdom of god.
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- Earlier in that same chapter, paul writes, don't
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- Copy the behavior and customs of this world,
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- But let god transform form you into a new person
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- By changing the way you think.
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- This world will always want an eye for an eye.
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- It will always vote to seek revenge, to exact payments.
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- But when we've placed
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- Our trust in christ, we don't belong to this world.
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- I wrote about the betrayal i experienced from a dear friend
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- And the letter that i wanted to write to them.
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- Instead,
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- I poured out all my pain to god and asked the holy spirit
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- To help me know how to move forward.
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- In chapter 12, verse one, paul writes
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- That we should present ourselves as a living sacrifice.
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- The trouble with being a living sacrifice is we can choose
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- To crawl back off the altar when it gets too hot.
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- Following jesus is not for the faint of heart.
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- It's a calling to live as jesus lived.
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- As i prayed,
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- I knew that god was telling me to pray for this friend,
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- To ask god to bless them, to be near to them.
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- And so i did.
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- Now, at first, honestly,
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- I think i did it through gritted teeth.
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- But the more i prayed, the more god began to soften my heart.
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- As the weeks turned to months, i found myself praying for them
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- With tears, genuinely asking god to bless them.
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- Dragging your will in line with will of god is hard.
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- But the joy that comes from simple obedience is life giving.
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- So here's a
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- Prayer i would like to suggest for you to pray.
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- Father god, right now i want to bring
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- Bring the name of the person you need to forgive his presence
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- Right now.
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- I bring to you.
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- You know they have hurt me and i don't understand why,
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- But you have forgiven me for so much.
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- So i choose now to forgive them and pray that in your goodness
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- You would be close to them and bless them in jesus name.
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- Amen and
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- Amen.
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