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: How to Hear from God When You Feel Lost | 5 Minutes With Jesus | October 8, 2025
- You find yourself
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- Turning your situation over and over in your mind?
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- Desperate for a solution, then feeling knocked
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- Down by fresh wave of fear?
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- Go to your heavenly father.
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- He knows what you're up against.
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- Spend some time alone with him so he can fine tune
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- Your hearing and remind you of who he is.
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- Not only that, but what you mean to him.
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- I love these words and this promise from psalm 23.
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- He leads me beside quiet waters.
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- He refreshes my soul.
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- He guides me along the right path for his name's sake.
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- Even though i walk through the darkest valley,
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- I will fear no evil.
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- For you are with me.
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- Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
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- Have you ever been in a situation
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- Where you desperately needed to hear from god?
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- Not next week or next month, but now.
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- Have you ever been afraid?
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- And you just need to know that god has heard your prayer
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- And he is with you right at that moment.
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- You know, perhaps you received news
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- That broke your heart, took a breath away.
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- In a moment like that, when god's promises
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- Don't seem to line up with what you're actually facing
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- And your circumstances.
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- It's so easy to wonder where god is in the midst of your pain.
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- Those are the times we most need to get alone with god,
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- So we can try to get his perspective on things.
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- We need to have ears to hear our heavenly father.
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- When overwhelming problems surround us,
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- I read such powerful story about a german pastor
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- Who desperately needed to hear from god, when it seemed
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- As if the whole world was against him.
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- It was february the 7th, 1938.
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- German pastor martin muller needed to hear from god.
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- And just this way.
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- That morning, martin was led
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- From his prison cell to the courtroom for his trial.
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- His crime was daring to speak against adolf hitler.
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- Martin had been so courageous in the weeks and months
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- Leading up to that day.
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- But as he began that long walk toward judgment,
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- Found himself overcome with fear for himself
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- And his family, the people he loved.
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- Martin needed to hear from god.
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- For the guard who led him along the passageway seemed cold.
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- A stone.
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- But after a moment martin began to hear a soft whispering.
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- At first
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- He wasn't even sure what he was hearing,
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- But as he listened more carefully, he realized
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- It was actually the guard's words.
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- God's message to martin
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- Was being delivered through the unlikeliest of messages.
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- A soldier of the third reich.
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- The guard was whispering words from proverbs
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- That brought great comfort and courage to martin's soul.
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- This is what he quietly whispered
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- As he walked martin to a sentencing.
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- The name of the lord
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- Is a strong tower.
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- The righteous runs into it
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- And is safe.
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- What a gift from god and the most unlikely place.
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- We don't even know if a guard was a believer or an angel,
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- But when this faithful servant of god needed to hear
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- From him, god spoke.
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- Are you like martin,
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- Overwhelmed by your circumstances today?
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- Do you find yourself
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- Turning your situation over and over in your mind?
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- Desperate for a solution, then feeling knocked
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- Down by fresh wave of fear?
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- Go to your heavenly father.
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- He knows what you're up against.
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- Spend some time alone with him so he can
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- Fine tune your hearing and remind you of who he is.
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- Not only that, but what you mean to him.
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- Perhaps there, in the quiet, you too will hear
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- The gentle words martin heard
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- As he walked alone, and yet not alone.
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- Through one of the darkest
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- Moments in his life and in all of history,
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- The name of the lord is a strong tower.
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- The righteous runs into it and is safe.
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- Today, lord,
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- Enable me to hear your voice
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- Above every other.
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- I love these words from the prophet
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- Isaiah chapter 41, verse ten.
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- Do not fear, for i am with you.
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- Do not be dismayed, for i am your god.
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- I will strengthen you and help you.
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- I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
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- Let me pray for you.
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- Father, thank you that we have so many stories
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- To learn from places where you showed up
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- In the lives of your children who are struggling.
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- And lord, i want to pray right now
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- For anyone who's listening to these words of watching this,
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- Who is struggling, who just desperately needs
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- To hear from you.
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- Father, i pray that in the quietness
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- He would they would hear your voice
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- Speaking to them, saying, i am with you.
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- Do not be afraid.
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- Thank you that we have promise that because of jesus
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- We will never, ever be alone.
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- And we thank you in his powerful name.
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- Amen.
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