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: God Says You Are Enough | 5 Minutes with Jesus | November 13, 2025
- How self-critical are you?
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- You've gained a few pounds.
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- What do you tell yourself?
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- How many times have you called yourself an idiot or a failure?
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- How many times
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- Do you say things to yourself
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- That you would never say to someone else?
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- Not only that, but how many times do you assume
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- Others are saying those things about you,
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- Or at least thinking them?
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- We need to stop believing the lies.
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- God made you.
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- There is no one else quite like you.
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- He loves you more than you will ever understand.
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- Do you ever feel as if you don't measure up?
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- Is that you're not enough?
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- David wrote in psalm 139.
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- Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex.
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- On another translation, i am fearfully and wonderfully made.
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- Has not always felt like that.
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- For most of my teens, 20s and honestly into my 30s.
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- I struggled to feel as if i really belonged anywhere.
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- On the outside, i was successful enough inside.
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- I was unconvinced
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- Because i was directing my doubt toward myself.
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- I began to dislike myself, and i didn't think other people
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- Liked me either.
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- I thought they put up with me because while they're christians
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- And it's required of them,
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- Some people may well not have liked me
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- And that would have been their choice.
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- But i put
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- Everyone on the same team and i was on the other side.
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- My assumption was that if people knew all of me,
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- I would face rejection.
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- So i was held back.
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- And as a result, i was a very lonely person.
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- In my mid-thirties, god began to expose the lies i believed
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- And bring some light into very dark places.
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- His grace is an overwhelming gift.
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- I began, bit by bit, to believe
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- That god loves me right now as i am.
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- Well then, barry and i married and we had christian.
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- And the healing went deeper and deeper.
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- But still, every now and again, if i'm tired or stressed,
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- I can feel those old monsters begin to gather strength.
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- You don't really belong there.
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- Not enough.
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- In moments
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- Like that, i choose to bring my will in line
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- With god's truth and walk away from those thoughts.
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- When we allow our brokenness to make our choices,
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- We withhold who we are and what we have to give to one another.
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- One of satan's tricks is to keep us so obsessed
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- With what we used to believe.
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- Of what we used to be true.
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- That we don't live in god's grace right now.
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- Well, that kind of self-doubt is counterproductive.
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- It keeps us wallowing in the past, alone and defeated.
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- And god wants to set us free to love him
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- And to love one another.
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- To live in real relationships.
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- Bringing all of who we are to the party.
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- But we can only do that if we believe, really believe
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- We are loved.
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- When god looks at us and god looks at you,
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- He sees a child he loves.
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- How self-critical are you?
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- You've gained a few pounds.
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- What do you tell yourself?
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- How many times have you called yourself an idiot or a failure?
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- How many times
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- Do you say things to yourself
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- That you would never say to someone else?
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- Not only that, but how many times do you assume
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- Others are saying those things about you,
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- Or at least thinking them?
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- We need to stop believing the lies.
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- God made you.
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- There is no one else quite like you.
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- He loves you more than you will ever understand.
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- Let me read a little bit more of what david wrote in psalm 139.
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- You made all the delicate inner parts of my body
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- And knit me together in my mother's womb.
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- Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex.
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- Your workmanship is marvelous.
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- How well i know it.
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- You watched me as i was being formed in utter seclusion,
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- As i was woven together in the dark of the womb.
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- You saw me before i was born.
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- Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
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- Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
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- You are
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- Loved and yes, you are enough.
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- Let's pray.
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- Father, thank you for the beautiful care
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- You've taken in, making each one of us
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- So individual, so beautiful in your sight.
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- But lord, i pray right now for anyone
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- Who's struggling with those lies,
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- Who hears all those negative things in their head.
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- Lord, help us to replace the lies with your truth.
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- Help us to tear down those lies and to build our lives on
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- The truth of who you say we are, and we ask it in jesus name.
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- Amen. oh.
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