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| Sheila Walsh: Leaving the Past Behind | 5 Minutes with Jesus | January 28, 2026
- Don't let what?
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- What's happened to you in your past
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- Don't like the choices that you've made in your past?
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- Don't let those cling onto you.
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- Because the amazing thing is,
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- When you've brought those to the lord,
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- When you've confessed those, they are gone.
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- And he remembers them no more.
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- When you think of the word
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- Competition, what kind of images come to your mind?
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- And how do we protect our hearts from competition?
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- And honestly, is competition a bad thing?
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- Well, i found school sports day to be an annual,
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- Humiliating experience for me as a young woman.
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- I can't run.
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- Well, i can run, but i get there way after everybody else.
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- Every single year, when we would have the races
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- Where there was a 500 meter or 100 meter, i was always last.
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- I was never even second last.
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- I was always very last.
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- But then i made this amazing discovery.
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- I'm great at hurdles.
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- I mean,
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- How do you even work that i would
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- Somebody who can't run suddenly be
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- Great at running and jumping over thing.
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- But that was a place where i shone.
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- But that's a small thing in life that most of us
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- Find our way through.
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- But in life generally, how do you view competition?
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- You know, trying to be better than somebody else,
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- Or maybe even just trying to level up your own performance?
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- I love paul's letter to the church in philippi.
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- It is literally dripping with joy.
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- Even though he's in chains in philippians chapter three,
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- He writes this.
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- I don't mean to say that i have already achieved these things
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- Or that i've already reached perfection,
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- But i press on to possess that perfection
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- For which christ jesus first possessed me.
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- No, dear brothers and sisters, i have not achieved it.
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- But i focus on this one thing
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- Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead.
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- I press on to reach the end of the race
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- And receive the heavenly prize for which god, through
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- Christ jesus, is calling us.
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- So paul is pressing on,
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- But not to be better than he was last year,
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- But to be more like jesus, not to outdo other people,
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- But to fulfill god's call on his own life.
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- They'll always be people that we perceive as doing things
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- Better than us.
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- I remember when i was probably, i don't know, maybe 14 or 15.
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- The one gift i wanted for christmas was a guitar.
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- I asked my mom for a guitar and i learned three chords,
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- And i actually started going around schools
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- At lunchtime and doing little mini concerts
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- With 2 or 3 songs that i learned on my three guitars.
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- Until one day i found myself in the company of somebody
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- Who was a real guitar, and i heard them play guitar.
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- I sold my guitar and i bought a rabbit.
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- I realized i'm not going to go into that race,
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- But i love the fact that in the passage
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- In philippians, paul includes
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- Forgetting the past and looking forward to the future.
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- Don't let what you perceive as past failures hold you back.
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- You can move forward with god's strength.
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- You can know that whatever has happened.
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- That's a great thing about forgiveness.
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- We are told that when we ask for forgiveness, whether it's
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- Something little or something big, that god removes our sin.
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- As far as the east is from the west.
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- And not only that, but he remembers it no more.
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- Don't let what?
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- What's happened to you in your past
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- Don't like the choices that you've made in your past?
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- Don't let those cling onto you.
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- Because the amazing thing is,
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- When you've brought those to the lord,
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- When you've confessed those, they are gone.
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- And he remembers them no more.
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- It's the enemy that wants to remind us of things.
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- Places where we've failed or places where we've fallen down.
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- Jesus does not do that.
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- Maybe you want to even write down
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- All the things that have been bothering you,
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- And then tear that list up and thank the lord
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- That because of his grace and his mercy and his forgiveness,
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- We get to move forward,
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- Not trying to be better than anyone else,
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- But trying to be exactly who he's created and called.
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- You and i, to be, for jesus sake.
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- Let me pray for you.
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- Father, thank you that you give us the strength
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- To keep moving forward.
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- Lord, so often we are reminded of things in our past
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- Where we feel we failed or fallen down or let you down.
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- But lord, i want to thank you that confessed sin is gone.
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- You tell us you've removed it as far as the east
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- Is from the west, and you remember it no more.
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- So help us to lay those down, lord,
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- And to get back up and to keep following you.
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- Not trying to be better than anybody else,
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- But trying to fulfill your vision
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- For our lives, for the glory of jesus and his name.
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- We ask.
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- Amen.
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