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 Uses Every Struggle | 5 Minutes with Jesus | October 24, 2025
- The bible is not a
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- Pinterest app of happy thoughts and motivational quotes.
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- It's full of the honest,
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- Heartbroken cries of those who loved god,
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- But felt the painful slam of a door in their face.
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- Nothing you walk through is wasted with god.
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- I want you to know he will redeem every drop
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- Of our suffering.
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- In psalm 34, we read.
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- The lord hears his people when they call to him for help.
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- He rescues them from all their troubles.
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- The lord is close to the broken hearted.
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- He rescues those whose spirits are crushed.
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- There's so many things that happen in life that feel like
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- The slamming of a door
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- Might be the end of a friendship you cherished,
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- The loss of a job, a divorce you never saw coming,
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- A prodigal child or devastating health issue.
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- The circumstances are different for each person,
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- But the feelings of being rejected or
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- Isolated, are heartbroken, are crushing.
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- What makes many of these situations much harder to bear
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- Is that you had no choice, no say in the matter.
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- A woman who had lost her baby wrote to me,
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- But didn't give me a name or address,
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- And i wondered
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- If that was because she felt ashamed at asking her question.
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- How can a god of love allow this to happen?
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- She should not have been ashamed of the question
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- Or the anger or the pain behind it.
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- Her question matters.
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- How could you lose a child and not cry out? why?
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- How can a god of love allow such things to happen
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- When we are afraid to ask those kinds of questions
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- To rail at god?
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- We're left alone in our pain.
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- I think that's one of the
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- Hardest things about those door slamming experiences.
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- You feel alone.
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- If you've loved ones around you.
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- They can sympathize,
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- But they can't enter into the depths
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- Of the devastation that you feel.
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- Life moves on for them, but not for you.
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- You feel you're stuck in the hallway.
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- If you don't have anyone close to you.
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- The night is even darker.
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- I've often wondered
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- If some of the epidemic levels of depression and anxiety
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- In our culture
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- Stemmed not simply from a lack of chemicals in the brain,
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- But from a lack of connection in our lives.
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- Social media has made us believe we're not alone.
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- We can look at the number of followers we have.
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- But following doesn't amount to connection.
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- In turn, we can follow a lot of people
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- Famous people
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- We never meet in the street in our normal lives
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- And feel as if we have a connection with them.
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- But it's an illusion.
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- If we met them in the street, they would pass you and i, by.
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- Having a smartphone
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- In the hallway doesn't meet real human needs.
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- Think about your life for a moment.
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- Can you identify any doors any door slamming moments?
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- They may be in the past and you've moved on,
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- But what did you do with the feelings
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- That often accompany them?
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- In my life, i've discovered that burying feelings
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- Didn't make them go away.
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- Rather, it led to anger, fear and depression.
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- I thought i'd moved on, but i was carrying the baggage
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- From those unexpressed raw emotions with me.
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- It might feel more christian
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- Not to bring our anger, pain, or disappointment to god.
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- I believe it's actually the antithesis
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- Of a real relationship with christ.
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- We become a little less
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- Authentic with every experience we bury.
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- I don't know what place god's word occupies in your life,
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- But in my life it is water and air.
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- It's my lifeblood.
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- When i feel alone and adrift.
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- I open the pages to find myself again.
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- The bible is not a pinterest app of happy thoughts and
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- Motivational quotes.
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- It's full of the honest,
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- Heartbroken cries of those who loved god,
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- But felt the painful slam of a door in their face.
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- Nothing you walk through is wasted with god.
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- I want you to know
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- He will redeem every drop of our suffering.
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- Let me pray for you.
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- Father, i pray right now for those who are hurting,
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- For those who are wounded,
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- For those who feel as if a door has been slammed in their face
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- And they're left in the hallway alone.
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- Lord, you have promised us your presence.
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- And so i ask that right now.
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- Holy spirit, would you give peace
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- And would you give comfort in the powerful name of jesus?
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- Amen.
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