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: Strength in the Face of Fear | 5 Minutes with Jesus | November 10, 2025
- God invites you to tell him the whole truth.
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- He won't back away.
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- He won't love you less.
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- He will draw close to you because he loves you
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- So much.
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- Have you ever had a moment with the lord when you tell him
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- Everything, everything is feeling good or bad?
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- A time when you don't clean yourself up.
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- When you just come as you are, when you think about it.
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- Cleaning yourself up before you come to god is a bit
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- Like waiting
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- For the bleeding to stop before you go to the emergency room.
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- I love what peter wrote in his first letter
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- To believers living in the roman province in turkey.
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- He wrote this
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- Give all your worries and cares to god, for he cares about you.
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- I was part
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- Of an intensive counseling group for a month.
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- It was for people who felt that they hadn't
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- Dealt with issues from their past and wanted to.
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- So during one morning session,
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- Our therapist asked this one woman
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- To contribute to that morning's meeting
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- As she hadn't yet spoken a single word.
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- She stared to him blankly and he pressed further.
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- Well, suddenly
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- She lost all control and threw her chair across the room,
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- Bounced off the wall, and landed in the middle of our circle.
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- As some members of the group
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- Frantically scrambled back to avoid getting hit,
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- I actually became clear that day why we use plastic chairs.
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- I was shocked by the intensity, the rage that shook her.
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- She seemed so nice and mild and quiet.
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- Well, when she finally calmed down
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- Enough to talk, we discovered through her tears
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- She'd been brutally raped as a young girl
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- And had never told anyone.
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- Instead, she buried the memory and thrown herself
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- Into christian ministry to try and numb the pain.
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- Work more, strive more.
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- Feel less.
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- The group talked together for a long time that day,
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- And one of the younger women shared how she too
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- Had been devastated by a rape.
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- But buried the pain as it was caused by a close family member.
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- One by one, as a group, we gifted one another
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- With the secrets that terrorize our lives.
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- It felt profoundly holy,
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- Like how we should be as the church.
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- The woman who threw the chair had belief for years.
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- Somehow the rape was her fault and she needed to pay for it
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- And pay for it. she did.
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- She learned that working punishingly hard every day
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- Offered a buffer from the anger boiling just below the surface.
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- She didn't have to face
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- What she was masking, what she was hiding,
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- What she covered through constant human efforts.
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- Well, the irony, though,
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- Was that she knew the power of her stuffed emotion,
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- That if her anger ever escaped, it would consume her.
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- She was sure that if anyone in the christian organization
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- Where she worked found out what happened to her,
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- They would ask her to leave to avoid being found out.
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- She chosen to live in the shadows.
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- What i saw powerfully enacted before me that day,
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- Is that you can try for years to deny the
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- Things are tearing at your soul, but they will not go away.
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- They thrive in the shadow lands.
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- And if you don't deal with them,
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- They will one day deal with you.
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- God invites you to tell him the whole truth.
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- He won't back away.
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- He won't love you less.
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- He will draw close to you because he loves you so much.
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- Let's pray.
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- Father, thank you that we
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- Don't have to clean ourselves up to come to you.
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- Thank you that we get to come as we are.
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- And holy spirit, i ask that you would help us
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- To deal with the things that are painful in our lives.
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- Bring them into the light of your presence
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- Where we can be healed.
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- We ask it in jesus name. amen.
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