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: Secure in God’s Love | 5 Minutes with Jesus | February 3, 2026
- There is nothing that can separate us
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- From god's love, not divorce,
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- Not cancer, not bankruptcy,
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- Not failure, not self-doubt, not betrayal.
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- Add your own story.
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- And here
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- There is nothing in heaven or earth under the earth
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- That can separate us from god's love.
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- That is a promise.
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- I think that romans chapter eight, verses 38 and 39,
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- Could arguably be called
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- The most important promise in all of god's word.
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- It's the promise of the love of god.
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- When paul wrote to the church in rome.
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- He said this, and i am convinced
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- That nothing can ever separate us from god's love.
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- Neither death nor life, nor angels, nor demons.
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- Neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow.
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- Not even the powers of hell can separate us from god's love.
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- No power in the sky above or in the earth below.
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- Indeed. nothing.
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- Nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us
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- From the love of god that is rev
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- The intent
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- Of the greek word here translated as convinced.
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- When paul says, i am convinced.
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- It has a much bigger story to tell.
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- It's in the greek perfect tense, and it can be read
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- As i have become convinced and i remain convinced.
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- And that's very significant for us.
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- What paul is saying is that when he came
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- Into relationship with christ,
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- Which, if you remember, was a pretty dramatic conversion
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- And acts chapter nine, you can read about it.
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- He was convinced he heard the voice
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- Of the risen christ, and he was convinced.
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- He was convinced then that nothing
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- And no one would ever be able to separate him from god's love.
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- But when he's writing to the church in rome,
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- That's almost 20 years later when paul writes this letter.
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- And if you think about it,
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- He'd been through some devastating times.
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- He had been shipwrecked.
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- He had been stoned.
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- And in those days when you were stoned,
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- You were not supposed to survive a stoning.
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- No one was allowed to throw a large stone.
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- Every single person had to be allowed
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- To throw a stone until the man was dead.
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- So when they'd finished with paul,
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- As far as they were concerned, he was dead.
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- He'd been starved. he'd been shipwrecked.
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- He'd been imprisoned.
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- And that's the one who writes to you and me,
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- No matter what we're going through.
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- I was convinced, and i remain absolutely convinced that
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- Nothing, nothing can separate us from god's love.
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- I mean, that would have been easy
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- For paul in the first
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- Flush of relationship with jesus to make such a statement.
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- You know, he actually came face to face
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- With the risen christ
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- On the road to damascus,
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- Blinded by the light of christ's presence.
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- In fact, he asked the question, who are you, lord?
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- And the voice replied,
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- I am jesus,
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- The one you're persecuting.
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- Well, from that dramatic conversion, paul was all in.
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- Sold out to christ.
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- Life for paul,
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- From that moment on was one challenge after another.
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- Beaten, imprisoned. stoned.
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- Left for dead.
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- Starved. shipwrecked.
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- Having walked through all of that.
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- He speaks to us and he says, i was convinced.
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- And i'm still convinced there is nothing
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- That can separate us from god's love,
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- Not divorce, not cancer, not bankruptcy,
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- Not failure, not self-doubt, not betrayal.
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- Add your own story.
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- And here
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- There is nothing in heaven or earth under the earth
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- That can separate us from god's love.
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- That is a promise.
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- Whatever is holding you back.
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- Let it go.
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- Bring it to the lord.
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- Let it go. because there is nothing.
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- And maybe you think, well,
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- Your life has not turned out the way you thought.
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- I think most of us would say that, to be honest.
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- When we look back in our younger days
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- And we thought how things would be and
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- And then life takes all sorts of different twists
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- And turns in the road.
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- But the one thing that you can count on today
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- That you can stake your life on is nothing can separate you
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- Right now from the love of god revealed in jesus christ.
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- We pray for you,
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- Lord.
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- That's a truth almost
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- Too great for us to even begin to wrap our minds around
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- The fact that no matter what's going on in this earth,
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- Nothing can separate us from you, that you are with us.
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- You are watching over us.
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- You love us and that you have a perfect plan for us.
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- And you have promised out of every circumstances,
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- No matter
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- Whether the circumstances are bad or not,
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- That you will bring good.
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- And so we rest on that beautiful promise of your love today.
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- In jesus name, amen.
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