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 Is With You In This | 5 Minutes with Jesus | July 17, 2026
- That's why jesus came.
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- He came to make broken things whole lost things found
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- And make of each of us more than we ever thought possible.
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- Because of jesus,
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- You can make it through
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- To the other side and experience healing, hope and grace
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- That you never thought was possible. oh.
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- Do you ever think people don't really know
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- What i'm going through right now?
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- I mean, i look happy and successful on the surface,
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- But underneath things are very different.
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- How do you get through something like that?
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- You know, you're desperately need god's grace.
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- And i think that was true
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- For a man that we meet in luke's gospel.
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- Chapter 19 might remember his name was zacchaeus.
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- We read this.
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- Jesus entered jericho and was passing through, and man
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- Was there by the name of zacchaeus.
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- He was a chief tax collector and was wealthy.
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- He wanted to see who jesus was and knew of his compassion
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- And desperately needed to experience his grace.
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- But being a short man, he could not because of the crowd.
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- So he ran ahead and climbed
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- A sycamore fig tree to see him since jesus was coming that way.
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- When jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him,
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- Six. come down immediately.
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- I must stay at your house today.
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- So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.
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- Zacchaeus was a chief tax collector,
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- Which means he held a higher rank in the roman
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- Tax collection system than matthew did
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- When jesus called him to follow him.
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- But he was despised by his own people because of who he was.
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- It's clear that he'd become a very wealthy man in that region.
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- Jericho was a significant center of commerce, stationed along
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- A major trade route connecting jerusalem
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- And the surrounding areas with the lands east of the jordan.
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- We're not told anything about zacchaeus personal life,
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- Whether he was married or had children.
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- But one thing is clear he was not a happy man.
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- He had everything that so often were told
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- Will make us happy, but it wasn't enough.
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- I think that must be one of the most disillusioning places
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- To be in life,
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- Because we live in a culture that tells us various lies.
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- If you were thinner, you'd be happier
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- If you were married to somebody else.
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- You'd be happier if you had more money.
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- You'd be happier.
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- You know, the list goes on and on.
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- But what happens if you have all the things that you're told
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- Will make you happy, and they just don't?
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- I think that was the life that zacchaeus led.
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- Until one day
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- He heard that this man, jesus, was coming through jericho.
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- When jesus looked up into the tree
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- And addressed zacchaeus by name,
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- I'm sure he almost fell out the tree.
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- Then jesus did something that no other jew would have done.
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- He came to his house.
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- Didn't get more personal than that.
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- That one encounter changed his life for eternity.
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- I wonder how long zacchaeus had been waiting for someone
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- To see beyond his terrible choices and lies
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- That had led him to be isolated and alone
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- With his cold piles of money all around him.
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- Zacchaeus life was changed.
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- No more lies.
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- He gave half of what he had to the poor,
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- And if he cheated anyone, he gave it back to them
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- Fourfold.
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- Church history tells us zacchaeus went on
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- To become the bishop of caesarea.
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- He wanted just a glimpse of god, and he became his
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- Honored servant.
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- When you pursue god, only he knows what become of you.
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- Six experienced more than he ever thought possible.
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- Now people are not happy that jesus met with his kids.
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- We read all the people saw this
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- And began to mutter, he has gone to be the guest of a sinner.
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- What jesus says in response to this is life changing.
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- He says, for
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- The son of man came to seek and to save what was lost.
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- The greek word used there for lost is apollo. my.
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- It means ruined, broken beyond repair.
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- What was lost was now found.
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- That's why jesus came.
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- He came to make broken things whole lost things found
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- And make of each of us more than we ever thought possible.
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- Because of jesus,
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- You can make it through to the other side and experience
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- Healing, hope and grace
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- That you never thought was possible.
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- Let's pray,
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- Lord, an encounter like that
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- That zacchaeus had with you changed everything.
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- It turned his life
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- Right side up and he was never the same again.
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- And lord, that's my prayer for each one of us,
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- That the more we understand about your grace and your mercy
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- And your life and your love and who you are,
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- The more that our lives will be transformed to look
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- More like you every single day.
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- They our lights shine, lord, so that others are lost
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- In the darkness.
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- But know there is a place to find hope.
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- And his name is jesus. amen.
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