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| Sheila Walsh: How Do I Renew My Mind? | 5 Minutes With Jesus | June 17, 2026
- I eliminated anything in my life
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- On a daily basis that fed into a wrong way of thinking.
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- But biggest of all, i really got that it was bringing my
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- Nothing and taking his everything.
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- His love, his forgiveness, his wisdom and his peace.
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- That's all we need.
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- It's all in him and from him.
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- We're not perfect, but we are perfectly loved.
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- And we have redeemed.
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- I heard so many sermons over the years
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- On renewing my mind, but i never really understood.
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- Like, how do you do that?
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- Old thought patterns are hard to change.
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- The circumstances of my childhood created
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- A thought process that told me certain things about myself.
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- My. my dad died by suicide when i was five years old.
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- And although i don't believe i ever consciously thought that
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- I live believing that i wasn't worth sticking around for.
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- So i lived a very careful life.
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- I was careful not to get too close to anyone,
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- So that if they walked away, it wouldn't hurt so much.
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- When i went into high school, i never tried to be friends
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- With the popular girls because i knew they wouldn't accept me.
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- Instead, i would volunteer for projects
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- Or audition for part of the school musical.
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- I was always much more comfortable
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- With something to do,
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- Because i had little confidence and who i actually was.
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- So you think
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- When i became a christian,
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- All of that would have changed, but it didn't.
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- I believed god loved me because he's god.
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- I mean,
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- That may sound a little disrespectful,
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- But i thought, well, that's just a job.
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- It's not personal. he loves everyone.
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- It didn't change how
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- I saw myself, how i believed others saw me.
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- As a young girl, i found my value and what i did
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- For god.
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- I volunteered for everything at church.
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- I stayed late to clear things up after youth group.
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- Once i became a singer and then a television host
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- And bible teacher,
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- I believed i had value because god was using me.
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- So therefore he must be pleased with me.
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- I didn't understand that god wanted to totally transform
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- The way i thought, and therefore have i lived.
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- Not only that,
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- But i also didn't understand that the greatest,
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- Most profoundly personal love story ever
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- Is the one between god in christ and any man or woman
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- Who would come with nothing and accept as everything.
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- I hadn't allowed the love of god
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- To bathe my eyes a second time.
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- To remember that story
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- From mark's gospel says, when they arrived at bethsaida,
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- Some people brought a blind man to jesus, and they begged him
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- To touch the man and heal him.
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- Jesus took the blind man by the hand
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- And led him out of the village.
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- Then, spitting on the man's eyes, he laid his hands on him
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- And asked, can you see anything now?
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- The man looked around.
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- Yes, he said, i see people, but i can't see them very clearly.
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- They look like trees walking around.
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- Then jesus placed his hands on the man's eyes again,
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- And his eyes were opened.
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- His sight was completely restored
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- And he could see everything clearly
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- While he was healed of physical blindness.
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- At times we need to be healed of spiritual blindness.
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- We were invited to come back to christ over and over again
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- To be renewed.
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- Having our vision clarified is a powerful gift,
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- An ability to see ourselves as christ does not, by the labels
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- We wear, are the way we think about ourselves.
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- When i began to realize how much of my life
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- Was still being influenced by destructive thought patterns,
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- I made some changes.
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- They weren't like monumental leaps.
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- They were simple steps.
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- One day at a time.
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- So i recognized two issues.
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- Number one, i saw that i had an internal problem.
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- You know my thoughts.
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- And number two, i had an external problem.
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- The things i allowed
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- At side of my life to impact me tv, social media, other people.
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- So i made my internal and external problems
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- A matter of daily intentional prayer internally.
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- Every time a negative thought comes up, i replace it
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- With a promise from god's word and externally.
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- Then i began to work with the lord.
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- I eliminated anything in my life
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- On a daily basis that fed into a wrong way of thinking.
- 00:04:30.617 --> 00:04:34.855
- But biggest of all, i really got that it was bringing my
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- Nothing and taking his everything.
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- His love, his forgiveness, his wisdom and his peace.
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- That's all we need.
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- It's all in him and from him.
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- We're not perfect, but we are perfectly loved.
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- And we have redeemed. let's pray.
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- Lord.
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- Thank you.
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- Thank you for the way you love us.
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- Good.
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- Even as we just pause for a moment
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- And think of all the things in life that we have done that
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- That were not good, that didn't bring anybody closer to you.
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- And yet you have given us this glorious gift of the ability
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- To repent, and you forgive us and you remove our sin.
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- As far as the east is from the west.
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- Lord, we want to be transformed in the way we think.
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- Help us internally to replace
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- Every negative thought with promises from your word,
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- And help us to pay attention to how the external world
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- Is impacting us.
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- We want to live lives.
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- Honor you in jesus name. amen.
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