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: Why Don't I Fit In? | 5 Minutes With Jesus | July 14, 2026
- I remember when i finally gave up the overcoat of shame
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- I wore and found a healing only christ can give.
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- I told him my whole story.
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- I realized i didn't have to be perfect
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- Because i knew the one who already was.
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- How long have you been suffering from shame,
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- Or a wound so deep that you will leave?
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- It will never heal.
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- Right now you're invited to come
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- To the feet of christ, and this time
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- You get to tell him your whole story.
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- I remember really struggling in my teenage years.
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- I was shy and had very bad skin.
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- I was clearly not one of the popular girls.
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- If i was invited to a party, you know,
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- I kind of tried to disappear into the background.
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- I was usually the one changing the records.
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- Yes, it was a vinyl back then.
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- It's hard when you feel as if you don't fit in,
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- But it must
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- Have been devastating
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- For a woman that we meet in mark's gospel.
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- She wasn't invited anywhere for 12 years.
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- This woman, unnamed in the gospels, had been tortured,
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- Whispered about, and avoided.
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- She was an outcast
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- Because of a medical condition that caused her to hemorrhage.
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- In jewish culture, this condition required
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- A bleeding woman to be deemed unclean,
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- Avoided, and ostracized for 12 years.
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- Then this woman had no belonging,
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- No community, no love, or even a kind touch.
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- She was shunned and forced into isolation.
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- She had not been able
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- To attend worship in the temple or visit with friends
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- Over dinner, because any dish she touched or chair
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- She sat on would be described as richly unclean.
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- If she was married,
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- She would now be cut off from her husband and all her family.
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- But one day she grabbed her moment and reached out to jesus.
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- We read this in mark chapter five.
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- A large crowd followed and pressed around him,
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- And a woman was there who had been subject
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- To bleeding for 12 years.
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- She had suffered a great deal
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- Under the care of many doctors, and had spent all she had.
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- Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse.
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- When she heard about jesus,
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- She came up behind him in the crowd
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- And touched his cloak because she thought,
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- If i just touch his clothes, i will be healed.
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- Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt
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- In her body that she was freed from her suffering.
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- Mark and his gospel account of this story describes
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- Her condition as an affliction.
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- Well, the greek word used there is master goss,
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- Which literally translates as scourge,
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- And when this word is used, it combines two elements
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- Extreme physical suffering and shame.
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- This was a woman in pain in both body and soul.
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- No one fought for this woman anymore.
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- She had no champion.
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- Have you ever been there?
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- Are you there right now?
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- Perhaps you learned a long time ago that fairy tales are cruel.
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- And their promises.
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- Because no one came to the rescue.
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- And yet the possibility of love transforming, healing.
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- Love is too great to completely abandon.
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- The love of christ knows no boundaries, recognizes
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- No labels.
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- You know, some cultures exalt men over women.
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- Jesus does not.
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- Some nations hold out one color
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- Skin over another, but jesus sees beyond skin color
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- With a love that penetrates any prejudice.
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- Whatever there is in your life that makes you feel separate
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- For a label like divorced, childless,
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- Sick, unemployed, mentally ill.
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- The apostle paul speaks to that place, saying that
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- Nothing in all creation will be able to separate
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- Us from the love of god in christ jesus our lord.
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- Now, once she was healed,
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- This woman could easily have slipped back into the crowd
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- And gone home, content in knowing
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- She'd received just what was needed.
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- And that's
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- Actually an indication that she was going to
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- Take the healing and go on her way,
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- Because she didn't cry out or exclaim.
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- She didn't even try to stop jesus and thank him.
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- But jesus doesn't give us what we believe we need.
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- He gives what he knows that we need,
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- And it gives out of love for us.
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- Deep, undeniable love.
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- Jesus wanted this woman who had lived so long in isolation,
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- Unloved, untouched, to receive not just healing
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- Of her sickness,
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- But a relationship with him that would change everything.
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- We read, then the woman, knowing what had happened to her,
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- Came and fell at his feet, and, trembling with fear,
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- Told him the whole truth.
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- Have you ever told jesus the whole truth?
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- If the woman had slipped away that day,
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- Her body might have been healed,
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- But with the shame still be there.
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- Instead, this brave, broken, healed
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- Woman fell at jesus feet and told him everything.
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- She told him how alone she had been for so long.
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- She told him about the shame and the pain and the fear.
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- Perhaps she hoped for mercy.
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- She got a lot more.
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- He said to her daughter, your faith has healed you.
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- Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.
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- I remember when i finally gave up the overcoat of shame
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- I wore and found a healing only christ can give.
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- I told him my whole story.
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- I realized i didn't have to be perfect
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- Because i knew the one who already was.
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- How long have you been suffering from shame,
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- Or a wound so deep that you will leave?
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- It will never heal.
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- Right now you're invited to come to the feet of christ,
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- And this time you get to tell him your whole story.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, right now i pray for anyone
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- Who feels as if things will never change.
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- Things will never get better.
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- Lord, i ask that by your grace, holy spirit,
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- That you would give them the gift of faith, to know
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- That you see them, that you are with them, that you love them.
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- Lord, no matter how many people were crowding around you.
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- When one person cried out, you heard them
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- And you stopped and you answered their prayer.
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- Thank you.
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- In jesus name, amen.
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