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: You Don’t Have to Hide Anymore | 5 Minutes with Jesus | October 2, 2025
- You don't have to hide anymore
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- If you are hiding from god today.
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- Maybe you've
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- Shut off your heart to him because of mistakes in your past
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- That you believe disqualify you from his love.
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- If so, listen, i want you in the stillness
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- Of your heart to hear the sound of the father's voice.
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- He's calling you.
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- He created you to be in relationship with him.
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- And that's what he longs for.
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- And psalm 34,
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- We read these powerful words from david.
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- I pray to the lord.
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- And he answered me.
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- He freed me from all my fears.
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- Those who look to him for help will be radiant with joy.
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- No shadow of shame.
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- For darken their faces.
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- Do you know that god wants to redeem your shame.
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- And draw his so close to his heart?
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- The very thing that the enemy used to bring us down.
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- Jesus can use to lift us up.
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- Do you remember god's
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- Heart wrenching cry to adam and eve in the garden of eden?
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- It's in genesis chapter three where god says, where are you?
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- Something had gone terribly wrong.
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- This man and this woman whom god had made in his image,
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- Who he created to be in relationship with him,
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- Whom he enjoyed meeting with
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- In the cool of the day, were hiding from him.
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- Can almost hear god's heart breaking
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- As he spoke those words.
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- Instead of walking with them
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- In the cool of the day, as he did every other day,
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- Now they were hiding from him from somewhere in the garden.
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- Adam's voice returned.
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- Returned god's call.
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- I heard the sound of you in the garden, and i was afraid.
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- The following verse revealed the root of the problem
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- God's children. they had disobeyed him.
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- They had eaten from the tree of the knowledge
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- Of good and evil, and in doing so had brought sin,
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- Death, shame, and separation into the world.
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- And adam and eve felt
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- The weight of the darkness of shame
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- Had started creeping into their souls,
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- And they'd hid from the one who created them and loved them.
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- Now god had to tell his children
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- What their disobedience would cost them.
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- They would be sent out from eden and would eventually die.
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- Have you ever wondered why god made them leave the garden?
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- If they had stayed, they could have eaten
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- From the tree of life and lived forever,
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- But they would have lived forever broken.
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- God loves us way too much for that.
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- That before god sent them out.
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- He revealed just how he would make things right.
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- Adam and eve's disobedience turned out
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- To cost god more than it cost them.
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- Speaking to the serpent, god said, i will put amnesty
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- Between you and the woman
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- And between your offspring and her offspring.
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- He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.
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- Right there in genesis three, before he sent adam
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- And eve out of eden and posted the angel guard at the gate.
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- God shared his plan to bridge the gap
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- Between his children's hearts and his own.
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- God would make a way for the curse of sin,
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- The curse of humans.
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- Separation from holy god to be broken.
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- God would send a savior, his son jesus.
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- Good news is you don't have to hide anymore
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- If you are hiding from god today.
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- Maybe you've
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- Shut off your heart to him because of mistakes in your past
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- That you believe disqualify you from his love.
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- If so, listen, i want you in the stillness
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- Of your heart to hear the sound of the father's voice.
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- He's calling you.
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- He created you to be in relationship with him.
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- And that's what he longs for.
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- Don't be afraid.
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- There's no need to hide.
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- Messiah has come.
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- Your sins are forgiven and your father is waiting.
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- You don't have to hide anymore.
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- I love this beautiful scripture.
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- Let us draw near with a true heart and full assurance of
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- Faith.
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- With our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscious
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- And our bodies washed with pure water.
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- Hebrews chapter ten.
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- Let me pray for you.
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- Father, you know our human tendency
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- Is to hide, to pull back, to withdraw.
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- When shame clouds our confession.
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- But, lord, you took our shame on yourself on the cross.
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- Scripture tells us that he who knew
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- No shame became shame so that we could be free.
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- Shame does not belong to us anymore.
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- So i thank you that we don't have to hide.
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- That we can come into the light of your love and be restored.
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- Thank you for that.
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- In jesus name. amen.
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