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: Step Into Something New | 5 Minutes with Jesus | January 9, 2026
- I wonder what the new thing
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- That god might ask of you this year.
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- So often we want to present the best of ourselves
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- To other people
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- Because we want to be known
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- And loved, but because we're afraid for known,
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- We might not be loved, that we trade away being known.
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- But you, you have a unique story.
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- There's no one else who has lived the life you have lived
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- And experienced god quite the way you have.
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- So i'm wondering,
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- Would you offer up the broken parts of your story to the lord
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- And see what he might want to do to bring hope and healing
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- To someone else?
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- Do you know this verse?
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- But forget all that.
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- It is nothing compared to what i'm going to do,
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- For i'm about to do something new. see?
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- I've already begun. do you not see it?
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- I will make a pathway through the wilderness.
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- I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.
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- I love that passage from isaiah chapter 43.
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- Something new can be wonderful.
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- It can also be terrifying.
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- I remember the day
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- That my best friend called me and asked for a favor.
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- The speaker for her
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- Event in palm springs, california,
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- Had to drop out at the last minute
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- And she was trying to fill the spot.
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- Well, at that point in my life, i've been a singer
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- And a tv host.
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- But the thought of speaking
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- Particularly speaking
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- To a large group of women, particularly at a country club,
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- Was not something that i could even imagine saying yes to.
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- I remember saying to her, marlene,
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- You know, all the women who do that kind of thing.
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- I don't ask one of them. to
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- Which she replied, now remember, this is my best friend.
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- I've asked them all.
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- You are the bottom of the barrel.
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- I still have
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- No idea how she extracted a yes from me.
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- But on that saturday morning i was headed to palm springs
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- From my home. two hours away.
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- I remember thinking,
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- Perhaps this won't be as bad as i think it will be.
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- Hopefully a small crowd of women.
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- I can share a few thoughts and then get out of there quickly.
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- It was actually way worse than i imagined.
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- A thousand women gathered in the beautiful ballroom,
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- Dressed in little chanel suits and perfect makeup,
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- And they sat me at the top table beside
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- The most beautiful woman i'd ever seen.
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- She was tall and skinny, with blond hair and perfect teeth.
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- I'll never forget standing in front of that
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- Crowd of perfect looking people and thinking,
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- What do i do now?
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- Honestly, i hadn't really planned much of a message
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- As i was privately praying for the return of christ.
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- So i remember standing there looking at the crowd
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- And shooting up one of those.
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- What do i do here, lord?
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- Prayers.
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- I although i've never in my life heard the audible
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- Voice of god, i sensed the holy spirit saying,
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- Just tell the truth.
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- So i did.
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- I told him that several weeks
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- Before i'd been released from a psychiatric hospital
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- After being diagnosed with severe clinical depression,
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- I talked about the fact that at the worst moment
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- In my life, god showed up and loved me
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- Just as i was, not as i wanted to be.
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- Honestly, i couldn't even make eye contact
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- With anyone in the audience as i was
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- So sure they'd be thinking, where did they drag her up from?
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- But toward the end of my message,
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- I began to look at the women,
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- And i saw tears flowing to perfect makeup
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- At the end of my talk.
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- I simply said, i'm not in a hurry,
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- So if anybody wants to talk, i'll be here.
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- The first person to come up to talk to me
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- Was the beautiful blond who took off her gold
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- Diamond encrusted bracelets
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- And showed me where she'd slit her wrists.
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- I remember thinking that day some of our masks
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- Just cost more, but they're serving the same purpose.
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- I probably stood in line for a couple of hours that day,
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- Listening to one story after another,
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- As women began to share the secrets that had kept
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- Them trapped for so long.
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- Honestly,
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- I cried the whole way home in my car
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- Because something became so clear to me that day.
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- It's a beautiful thing that god will do with a broken life
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- If you give him all the pieces.
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- And i realized that my brokenness was a far greater
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- Bridge to other people than my pretend wholeness had ever been.
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- So i wonder what your story is.
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- I wonder what the new thing
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- That god might ask of you this year.
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- So often we want to present the best of ourselves
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- To other people
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- Because we want to be known
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- And loved, but because we're afraid for known,
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- We might not be loved, that we trade away being known.
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- But you, you have a unique story.
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- There's no one else who has lived the life
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- You have lived and experienced god quite the way you have.
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- So i'm wondering,
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- Would you offer up the broken parts of your story to the lord
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- And see what he might want to do to bring hope and healing
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- To someone else?
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- Let's pray.
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- Father, i want to thank you.
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- That is a beautiful thing you will do with our lives
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- When we bring all the pieces to you, all the broken pieces,
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- And you shine your light through the.
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- And lord,
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- I pray right now for anyone who's watching this
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- And who thinks i don't think my story could ever help
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- Anyone else.
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- Lord, help us to see the way that in our stories
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- You have shown up
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- In beautiful ways and given us hope and healing.
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- And help us to be channels of your light and your life
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- To those around us.
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- We ask it in jesus name,
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- Amen.
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