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| Sheila Walsh: You Can Start Again | 5 Minutes With Jesus | June 15, 2026
- Sometimes we make our relationship with god
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- So complicated.
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- What he wants honestly, is our hearts.
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- Not our performance or our perfection.
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- Jesus is the only one who is perfect.
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- And when god sees us, he sees jesus.
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- We are free and transformed.
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- So my bottom line is this
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- Your history does not determine your destiny.
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- You're not defined by your past, and god holds your future.
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- He's just inviting you to take the next step.
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- Let me ask you a question.
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- What would you say
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- To your 21 year old self if you could sit down with them?
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- Now, with everything that you learned so far in life.
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- I ask myself that question and, well,
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- I think i'd take my face in my hands and tell her
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- It's okay not to be okay.
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- I promise.
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- But would you believe me?
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- I don't think so.
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- She was so determined to get everything right.
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- That question started with a photograph.
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- I was cleaning out drawers the other day
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- And found an old photograph.
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- Undriveable of christmas paper.
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- I sat down on the sofa and i studied the picture.
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- I'm in a white dress and a graduation gown.
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- I'm 21 years old, graduating from seminary.
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- My hair is short and dark.
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- That's my natural color.
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- Hair stylist told me i no longer have a natural color.
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- Had taken about three years to recover from my experiment
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- With a perm
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- That left me
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- Looking like a pack of dogs had assumed my hair was lunch.
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- In the photograph, i'm smiling,
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- Confident, ready to take on the world for jesus.
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- Honestly, my heart aches for that woman.
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- There's so much i'd like to tell her.
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- If i only had ten minutes.
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- I'd cut to the chase and i'd tell her this.
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- This will not be the life she imagined.
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- I tell her that she will disappoint people,
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- And they will disappoint her, but she'll learn from it
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- And let her know that she'll fall down over and over again.
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- That rather than understanding the love of god less,
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- She'll get it more.
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- I'd let her know her heart is going to break,
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- But she'll survive, and it will change
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- How she sees people not as causes to be saved,
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- But as people to be loved.
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- I'd let her know that sometimes the night will get very dark,
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- But she will never be alone, even when she's absolutely
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- Convinced she is.
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- I'd let her know that she's loved,
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- And i'd tell her to get rid of her punishing list of things
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- She thinks she needs to get right.
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- I lived so much of my life with a list of things to change,
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- To do better.
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- It's not actually written down on paper
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- Than definitely in my head.
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- I think most of us do.
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- Think of the kind of promises we make, particularly
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- At the beginning of a year. well,
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- Not only join the gym this year, but we'll actually go.
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- I will start
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- That, read through the bible in a year, plan again,
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- Or will recover from
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- Overspending, and this year will be financially responsible.
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- I will cook wholesome, nutritious meals for our family
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- And will all sit down at least five nights a week together
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- At the table, or will reduce a television watching.
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- And we'll read more books.
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- But sometimes
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- The messages carry much more weight.
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- This marriage will work.
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- We will get out of debt.
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- We will be healed.
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- Our children will come back to christ.
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- We'll eat better to save our lives, not our waistlines.
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- I don't know what your
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- Internal list looks like, but if it's anything like mine,
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- It usually serves to let us know where
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- We've failed or fallen down.
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- And what about our spiritual lives?
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- That can be the most judgmental list of all
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- When we assume that god's love is based on our behavior.
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- We've set ourselves up for a devastating fall.
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- I'll pray more.
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- I'll share my faith at work.
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- I read my bible from genesis to the maps.
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- I trust god without questioning.
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- So what does it actually look like to live a transformed life?
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- Well, first
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- I want you to meditate
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- On this one text from isaiah chapter 43, verse 19.
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- From god's promise to israel.
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- But in christ, all god's promises are true
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- For all his children then and now.
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- This is what it says, for i'm about to do something new.
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- See, i have already begun.
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- 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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- Sometimes we make our relationship with god so
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- Complicated.
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- What he wants honestly, is our hearts.
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- Not our performance or our perfection.
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- Jesus is the only one who is perfect.
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- And when god sees us, he sees jesus.
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- We are free and transformed.
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- So my bottom line is this
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- Your history does not determine your destiny.
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- You're not defined by your past, and god holds your future.
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- He's just inviting you to take the next step.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, thank you that you have promised
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- That you will guide us all the way through our life.
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- Thank you that your spirit is with us
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- And i pray right now, lord, for anyone who feels
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- Condemned or judged or feels as if they've fallen down.
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- Lord, you never, ever bring condemnation.
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- You bring conviction.
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- But that brings us closer to you.
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- So, holy spirit, i ask in jesus name.
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- For anyone
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- Who's living under condemnation that that would be gone.
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- And that rather than moving further away, we would run
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- Even closer to our father.
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- And i ask it in jesus name, amen.
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