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: What Has Your Heart? | 5 Minutes with Jesus | February 23, 2026
- We look in all sorts of places don█t we?
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- Thinking, if i just had this, it would make me happy.
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- If i just could do that.
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- I would be happy if i could get that promotion.
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- If i could just get pregnant, if i could just get that job,
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- If i could just move to the house.
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- Have you ever noticed
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- The sadness when those things do happen?
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- Lovely though they are.
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- They don't touch that place inside of you.
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- I think of that.
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- A sacred space, a place reserved for christ alone.
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- I'll never forget my first trip to israel.
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- It was amazing.
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- So many fun things to do.
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- I remember taking a little boat out on the sea of galilee,
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- But i also got to sit in the very place where jesus delivered
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- What we call the sermon
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- On the mount, where he gave out the beatitudes.
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- You might remember that right at the end of that message.
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- Jesus adds this promise.
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- He says, ask and it will be given to you.
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- Seek and you will find.
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- Knock and the door will be opened to you.
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- For everyone who asks, receives.
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- He who seeks, finds,
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- And to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
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- Now on first read, you might be tempted to think
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- This promise plays into our more self-indulgent side,
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- That it's about stuff about a new car or a new home.
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- But when you dig deep, there is undermined treasure.
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- What jesus is actually promising is a radical transformation
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- And how we live and how we think.
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- I can see the people leaning in when jesus tells them
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- This on that hillside when he sat down to teach,
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- Which would be an indication to people in those days
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- That he was adopting the position of a teaching rabbi.
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- The people drew closer,
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- But what they were about to hear would shock them
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- As much as if jesus had suddenly yelled in their faces.
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- Because his promise to us
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- Like that sermon is about
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- More whatever we ask.
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- He has more in store.
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- What he's about, what he's about to say
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- Will change everything if we understand the promise.
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- Because what jesus is promising is a radical transformation
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- In how we think and how we live.
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- Well, certainly the people on that hillside
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- Didn't expect what jesus was going to say that day.
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- He was teaching with authority.
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- They got that.
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- But his words and this promise
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- Would blow them away.
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- He would tell the people that god is not distant
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- Or disapproving or disconnected,
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- But a father who loves to give good gifts to his children.
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- So they should ask and ask and keep on asking
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- To understand how striking jesus promise is.
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- You have to kind of picture the scene
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- And put yourself in the place of the people who first heard it.
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- The sermon on the mount was
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- No simple sermon of nice things to memorize.
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- There was genuine shock and awe that day.
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- Jesus didn't ease into the teaching or begin
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- With a lovely greeting to the people
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- When he blew them away.
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- A friend of mine who's a speaking coach told me
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- That when you address a crowd,
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- The first sentence out of your mouth is crucial
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- As it can either resonate with your audience
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- And grab attention, or fall flat and cause people to tune out.
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- While the first words out of christ's mouth
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- Riveted, the crowd because it's not a word
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- That had ever, ever been associated with them.
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- Blessed.
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- That word in the greek is makarios,
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- Which means happy when applied to men or women,
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- But when applied to god means the glory of the gospel.
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- The word blessed
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- Was a powerful words to those who heard jesus that day.
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- When we say, oh, bless your heart,
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- Or often meaning it almost as a bit of a putdown,
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- Not to the audience in the hillside that day.
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- To them it meant divine joy,
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- Perfect happiness, and describe the kind of joy
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- That they believed up until that point
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- Could only be experienced by the gods or the dead.
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- It was a term that was used in pagan greek
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- Literature of the day to describe happiness
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- That literally only the gods or the dead could know.
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- So to use that word to talk to ordinary men
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- And women like you and me was revolutionary.
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- Blessed implied an inner security and rest
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- That didn't depend on outward circumstances
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- Or an ability to keep the rules for happiness.
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- This was so much more than the jews could have hoped for.
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- They strived to be acceptable
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- To escaped judgment, but to be blessed.
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- What a gift.
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- See, the pharisees had taught them
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- That righteousness was tied to external behavior,
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- A matter of obeying rules and regulations, of which
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- There were many.
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- The pharisees had taught that praying, giving, fasting,
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- And keeping all the other dietary and sabbath rules could
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- Measure one's righteousness.
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- But in the
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- Beatitudes, in the sermon on the mount, jesus described
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- Her character flows from inside the human heart.
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- This was not a list of things to tick off as tasks completed
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- At the end of a day, but rather a radical new way to live.
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- Sold out to god.
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- Jesus wasn't selling memberships to a club
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- That calling people to join a new kingdom
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- That would cost them everything they had,
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- But would give them everything they needed.
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- Whatever your heart
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- Is longing for today, nothing.
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- Nothing will come close to the love and absolute joy
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- That comes from surrendering everything to jesus.
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- We look in all sorts of places don█t we?
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- Thinking, if i just had this, it would make me happy.
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- If i just could do that.
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- I would be happy if i could get that promotion.
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- If i could just get pregnant, if i could just get that job,
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- If i could just move to the house.
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- Have you ever noticed
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- The sadness when those things do happen?
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- Lovely though they are.
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- They don't touch that place inside of you.
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- I think of that.
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- A sacred space, a place reserved for christ alone.
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- Let me pray for you.
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- Jesus.
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- Thank you
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- That the longing that we have inside
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- Can be filled only in one place, and that's at your feet.
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- Thank you that when you talk to the crowd
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- That day on the hillside,
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- What you were telling them
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- Was something they'd never heard before.
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- That they weren't the lowest of the low.
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- But you were saying, blessed are those
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- Who hunger and seek for righteousness.
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- Lord, i pray for everyone at the moment
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- Who might be struggling,
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- Who feels as if they are not blessed.
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- They don't even understand what it means to be blessed,
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- Because so often in our culture,
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- We associate it with stuff still nothing to do with stuff.
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- You want us to be changed internally into your kingdom,
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- To live in a brand new kingdom in a whole new way.
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- We ask you, holy spirit,
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- To show us how to do that in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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