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: The Presence of Christ | 5 Minutes with Jesus | March 12, 2026
- Peace is not the absence of trouble.
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- It's the presence of christ.
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- I face storms outside my life and inside my life.
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- And i want you to know that christ has spoken peace to both.
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- Whether you are facing a storm around you
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- Or a storm inside you.
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- Jesus is the one who can still speak peace.
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- Be still.
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- Peace is something we talk about all the time.
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- I find a significant in the last in-depth conversation
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- Jesus had with his closest friends.
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- He mentions the word peace, but he kind of redefines
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- What that peace will look like and what they will be facing.
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- As he promises his peace.
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- In john 1427, we read this.
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- I'm leaving you with a gift peace of mind and heart.
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- And the peace i give is a gift the world cannot give.
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- So don't be troubled or afraid.
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- Again, further down in john chapter 16, verse 33,
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- Jesus says, i have told you all this,
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- So that you may have peace in me.
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- Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows.
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- But take heart, because i have overcome the world.
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- Jesus makes it clear that the peace has friends
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- And those of us who have believed since will experience.
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- It's not business as usual.
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- This is a different kind of peace, but it's huge.
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- It's peace of mind and heart.
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- Again, when he talks about peace.
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- Connects it to a concept that we don't associate with peace.
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- Trials and sorrows.
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- When we're walking through
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- Devastating circumstances, through loss and grief.
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- Peace would seem to be elusive.
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- When jesus said,
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- I've told you all this so that you may have peace in me.
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- When you read of
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- What he's actually told them is terrifying.
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- He just told them that
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- Just as the world hated him, it will hate them too.
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- As jesus unpacks for his peace is one thing.
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- Is crystal clear.
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- Peace is not the absence of trouble.
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- It's the presence of christ.
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- In mark's gospel,
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- There are two incidents that happen back to back.
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- They help us see what christ's peace looks like in real life.
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- The first two you'll find in mark chapter four.
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- The disciples are in a boat with jesus
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- Crossing to the other side of the sea of galilee.
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- Jesus is asleep when a terrible storm breaks out.
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- Now, these these guys were fishermen,
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- So they were used to the storms that could suddenly blow up
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- Out of nowhere on the sea of galilee.
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- But there was something about the storm that was different,
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- And they were afraid.
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- They woke jesus in a panic and asked him
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- If he didn't care that they were all going to drown.
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- Well, the word that jesus uses to still the storm here
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- Is the exact same greek word he uses in mark chapter one,
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- Verse 25.
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- When silencing an evil spirit.
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- This was no ordinary storm.
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- There was a demonic presence trying to keep jesus
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- From crossing the lake to get to one man.
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- And what we'll see from these two incidents is that
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- Whether the storm is outside your life or inside your life,
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- Christ can silence the storm and bring peace.
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- So when they get to the other side of the lake in mark five,
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- A man possessed by demons came running up to christ.
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- I mean, if you think about it, it must have been
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- A terrifying sight for the disciples.
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- People had tried to chain this man up,
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- But he broke the chains and he cut himself with stones.
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- When jesus put his foot on the shore,
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- This man ran and threw himself at jesus feet.
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- Why would he do that?
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- He didn't know who jesus was.
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- Jesus had never been to this side of the lake before.
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- But the demons who were tormenting him knew immediately.
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- They begged to be sent into a
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- Herd of pigs on the hillside, which jesus allowed,
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- And 2000 pigs ran off the side of the cliff into the water.
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- Can't imagine the whole scene was chaos
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- Apart from
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- One place at the feet of jesus.
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- We read that this man was found clothed and in his right mind.
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- And then we read.
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- And those who had seen it described to them
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- What had happened to the demon possessed man and to the pigs.
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- They began to beg jesus to depart from their region
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- As he was getting into the boat.
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- The man had been possessed
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- With the demons, begged him that he might be with them,
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- But he did not permit him, but said to him,
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- Go home to your friends, and tell them how much the lord
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- Has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.
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- Think about that.
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- They had just seen such a powerful miracle of deliverance
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- And they begged jesus to leave.
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- Some people
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- Don't want their lives
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- Invaded by the glorious presence of jesus.
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- And for the man he begged to go with christ.
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- But jesus sent them back to his own people.
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- He became the first missionary to that region.
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- We're not saved to sit down.
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- We're saved to rise up.
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- Peace is not the absence of trouble.
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- It's the presence of christ.
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- I face
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- Storms outside my life and inside my life.
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- And i want you to know that christ has spoken peace to both.
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- Whether you are facing a storm around you
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- Or a storm inside you.
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- Jesus is the one who can still speak peace.
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- Be still.
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- Let me pray for you.
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- Lord, i want to thank you for your peace.
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- That is not depending on the circumstances of our lives.
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- Some of us right now are in very difficult circumstances.
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- But you have promised us your peace.
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- You have promised us your presence.
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- So i ask that right now.
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- Lord, your peace would be shattered.
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- Every single one who is listening to my voice.
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- That they would know that you are the author of peace.
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- And that peace is not the absence of trouble.
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- Peace is a presence of christ, in whose name we pray.
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- Amen.
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