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: Jesus Knows Where To Find You | 5 Minutes with Jesus | May 1, 2026
- The two major causes of most emotional problems
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- Among evangelical christians are these
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- The failure to understand, receive,
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- And live out god's unconditional grace and forgiveness,
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- And the failure to give out that unconditional love,
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- Forgiveness, and grace to other people.
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- I don█t know if you have a favorite gospel.
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- But i love to read through the gospels.
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- And recently i was reading through luke's gospel again,
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- And there's a particular chapter that speaks volumes to me.
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- Have a favorite gospel, but i love to read to the gospels.
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- For jesus told three parables in luke chapter 15.
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- Each one of them
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- Further underscored the point of the previous one.
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- Think about that was the lost sheep.
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- Then there was the lost coin and the lost boy.
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- We tend to think that the prodigal
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- Came to his senses all by himself.
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- But think about it then.
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- Jesus would have contradicted
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- What he taught in the first two stories.
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- Kenneth bailey, who is a brilliant new
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- Testament scholar, suggests that when jesus used
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- The analogy of a shepherd looking for a lost sheep,
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- It has the effect of reminding us of psalm 23.
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- The lord is my shepherd.
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- I shall not be in want.
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- He makes me lie down in green pastures.
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- He leads me by quiet waters.
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- He restores my soul.
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- He guides me in paths of righteo
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- I studied greek in seminary,
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- But i avoided hebrew because it is so complicated.
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- But as i studied a little deeper,
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- The hebrew word for he restores my soul is not she?
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- You show up, it means he brings me back
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- Or he causes me to repent.
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- This is what i believe jesus was saying.
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- God brings the boy back.
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- When the father sees the boy, as we call the prodigal son,
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- He runs to him.
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- Unheard of in those days that a father would lift
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- His robes and run, exposing his legs.
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- Kenneth bailey, author of the cross and the prodigal,
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- Great book you should get it, explains
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- That if a jewish son lost his inheritance among gentiles
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- And then returned home, the community would perform
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- A ceremony called the causa.
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- What they would do is they would literally brick a large pot
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- And front of him
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- And yell, you are now cut off from your people!
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- The community would totally reject him.
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- So why did the father run?
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- He probably ran in order to get to his son
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- Before he entered the village.
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- The father ran, shamed himself
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- In an effort
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- To get to his son before the community gets to him,
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- So that his son does not experience the shame
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- And humiliation of their taunting and rejection.
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- The village would have followed the running father,
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- And they would have witnessed what took place
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- At the edge of the village between father and son.
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- That's what jesus had done for us.
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- He who knew no shame became
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- Shame for us so that we could be free.
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- David simmons wrote a wonderful book
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- Called healing for damaged emotions.
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- He summed up his life's work this way.
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- The two major causes of most emotional problems
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- Among evangelical christians are these
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- The failure to understand, receive,
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- And live out god's unconditional grace and forgiveness,
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- And the failure to give out that unconditional love,
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- Forgiveness, and grace to other people.
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- You know, it's interesting ernest hemingway told a story
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- Of a father and son in madrid, spain.
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- They had a broken relationship.
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- It doesn't say whether
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- The father kicked him out or if he left on his own.
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- There was little to no chance that he would be able
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- To find his son.
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- Paco, by wandering the streets of madrid.
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- Instead, this is what he did.
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- He put an advertisement in the local newspaper,
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- El liberal, and the advertisement read like this.
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- Paco, meet me at the hotel montana at noon on tuesday.
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- All is forgiven.
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- Love, papa.
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- Paco is such a common name in spain
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- That when the father
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- Went to the hotel montana the next day at noon,
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- There were 800 young men named paco
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- Waiting for their fathers and waiting for the forgiveness
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- They never thought was possible.
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- That's the grace that's offered to you and to me.
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- You're not lost.
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- Jesus knows where to find you.
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- And even if you think you know what.
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- I've gone too far.
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- I've made too many mistakes.
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- Now the lord knows where to find you right now.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, it's hard to find human words
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- That even begin to come close to thanking you for who you are.
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- Thank you that you are a god who calls us home
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- And waits for us with open arms.
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- Thank you jesus.
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- You are willing to take on the shame of hanging on a cross,
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- So we did not have to face
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- The shame of living eternally with our sin.
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- There are no words, lord, but i pray for anyone right now
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- Who's finding it hard to come home.
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- They would hear your loving voice saying, come home.
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- I'm waiting with open hearts in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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