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| Sheila Walsh: Protected by God | 5 Minutes With Jesus | June 23, 2026
- But so often our
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- Emotions feel louder than what we know to be true.
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- But emotions don't have brains.
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- They come and go.
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- And as followers of christ,
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- We don't have to be ruled by our feelings.
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- If you find yourself struggling with the same old lies,
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- It might be time to re wallpaper your mind.
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- What i mean by that is to scrape off those lies
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- And replace them with what god says is true.
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- When we've surrendered our lives to christ,
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- We were the breastplate of his righteousness,
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- Not our one.
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- I remember a teacher i had in high school
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- Say to our class one day.
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- If you tell the truth,
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- You don't have to struggle to remember the story.
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- There's something so simple and yet powerfully true
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- About that. telling
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- The truth keeps our hearts clear and straightforward.
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- A phrase that seems to have become
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- Popular in our culture is this is my truth.
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- But truth is not an abstract idea.
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- Open to personal preference.
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- Something is either true or it's not.
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- This is a battle that we must,
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- As believers, be willing to fight.
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- To stand up for truth,
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- No matter which way the current of our culture runs.
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- As a child of god, one thing is clear.
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- The truth is, you are outrageously
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- Loved by god just as you are right now.
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- But the things you like about yourself
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- And the things you struggle with.
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- And sometimes it seems like a battle.
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- But god loves you.
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- Sometimes i think it's hard
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- To wrap our hearts and minds around that simple truth.
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- And yet it remains indelibly true.
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- And it gives us tools to stand firm.
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- In ephesians chapter six, verse ten through 18, we read this.
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- Finally, be strong in the lord and in his mighty power.
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- Put on the full armor of god
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- So that you can take your stand against the devil schemes.
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- Then he goes on to list the pieces of armor.
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- Stand firm.
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- Then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist,
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- With the breastplate of righteousness in place
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- And your feet fitted with the readiness
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- That comes from the gospel of peace.
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- In addition to all that, take up the shield of faith,
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- Which which you can extinguish
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- All the flaming arrows of the evil one.
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- Take the helmet of salvation
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- And the sword of the spirit, which is the word of god.
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- As paul comes to the end of his letter
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- To the believers in ephesus.
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- He makes it clear
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- That each one of us as believers are in a battle.
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- And this battle is not against flesh and blood.
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- This is a battle against the spiritual forces of darkness.
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- Just as that is true.
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- We have an enemy who hates everything that god loves.
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- That's why paul writes that we must armor up every single day,
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- Not just choose 1 or 2 pieces of spiritual armor,
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- But with the entire spiritual armor of god.
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- Paul wrote this letter to the ephesians
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- While physically chained to a roman soldier.
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- What he saw in that soldier of wearing for protection
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- Likely inspired this picture.
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- He drew for us of spiritual armor
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- Meant to keep us strong long after the battle is over.
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- He speaks to what he knows we need in our life,
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- So that when our battles are over,
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- We will still be standing strong.
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- The belt was the very foundation of a soldier's uniform.
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- Held his sword and breastplate in place.
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- So to truth is the very foundation for us.
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- Satan is a liar.
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- Scripture calls him the father of all lies.
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- So we need to hold onto the truth of who god is.
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- He is sovereign.
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- He is in control, and he's already won the battle.
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- When we feel attacked,
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- We need to remember that christ has won the victory
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- And that satan is a defeated enemy whose time is running out.
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- We've built our lives on the truth of god's word.
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- We're protected from the lies that swirl around us every day.
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- But so often our emotions feel louder than what we know
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- To be true. but emotions don't have brains.
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- They come and go.
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- And as followers of christ,
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- We don't have to be ruled by our feelings.
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- If you find yourself struggling with the same old lies,
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- It might be time to re wallpaper your mind.
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- What i mean by that is to scrape off those lies
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- And replace them with what god says is true.
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- When we've surrendered our lives to christ,
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- We were the breastplate of his righteousness, not our one.
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- Let me share a practical example of my own and how i armor up.
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- As a young woman, i struggled with shame.
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- I looked at it.
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- This way of guilt tells me i've done something wrong.
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- Shame tells me i am something wrong.
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- But christ took our shame on himself on the cross.
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- So that we don't have to wear
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- That heavy overcoat of shame anymore.
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- We wear the breastplate of christ's righteousness,
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- Not our own.
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- Now some days i still struggle.
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- Depression, shame.
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- But i stand firm and remember who i am.
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- I speak god's word out loud and put the enemy in his place.
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- Knowing what's true and remembering who we are
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- Guards our hearts and minds in christ jesus.
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- Let's pray.
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- What i want to thank you for the truth of your word.
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- Thank you.
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- In a world that is seems to be swirling and lies.
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- We can find our foundation in your word
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- Which speaks the truth over our lives.
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- Help us to guard up every day with a belt of truth.
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- And thank you
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- That we're not accepted
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- Because of
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- Our own righteousness, but because of your righteousness.
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- We are seen. we are loved.
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- We are family and we thank you in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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