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: Leave Your Baggage Behind and Find Healing | 5 Minutes with Jesus | September 29, 2025
- We're all dragging baggage of one kind or another,
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- But the invitation from jesus remains the same.
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- Will you leave your baggage at his feet?
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- Will you take christ up on this amazing exchange?
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- You don't have to carry your baggage for one more minute.
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- In matthew's gospel, chapter 11, we read these words.
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- Then jesus said, come to me, all of you who are weary
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- And carry heavy burdens, and i will give you rest.
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- So let me ask you.
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- Are you weary?
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- Do you ever feel like weighed down by all the stuff
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- You're carrying through your life?
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- Does life feel heavy and rest feel a million miles away?
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- So i want you to imagine for a moment
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- That it's sunday morning and you're heading to church.
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- You're very nearly bailed at the last moment.
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- You've been feeling so tired and discouraged lately.
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- We pour some coffee into a travel mug and you headed out.
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- The radio station is playing a familiar song,
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- But the hope filled lyric seems a bit out of reach
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- As you navigate the parking lot.
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- Looking for those last two coveted spots.
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- You watch families heading into the sanctuary,
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- Apparently carefree.
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- So you pick up your bible.
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- Put on your best sunday smile and you follow them.
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- Suddenly you feel this weight that you're carrying.
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- You look down and all the baggage from your life.
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- The stuff you've been carrying
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- Inside for years has become visible.
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- You had no idea you've been carrying so much fear.
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- Shame, insecurity, disappointment,
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- Regret, and so much more.
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- It's all there.
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- So panicking and not sure what to do.
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- You look around
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- And suddenly you see that everybody else has baggage too.
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- Everyone is weighed down by things
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- They've been trying to bury for a long time.
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- Then the service starts,
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- So you just drag your stuff to your seat and sit down,
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- And you hear a voice coming from the front of the church.
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- It's not your pastor's voice.
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- In fact, he's sitting at the edge of the platform
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- And he seems weighed down like everyone else.
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- You realize
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- That it's jesus speaking.
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- Come to me.
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- All of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens,
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- And i will give you rest.
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- Take my yoke upon you, and let me teach you,
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- Because i am humble and gentle at heart,
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- And you will find rest for your souls.
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- For my yoke is easy to bear,
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- And the burden i give you is light.
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- For a moment these words in the church are met with silence.
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- But then an older man stands up, drags his backs to the front
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- And leaves them at the feet of jesus.
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- The young couple does the same thing.
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- More and more people begin to drag their baggage
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- To the feet of jesus and leave there.
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- That's the invitation.
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- That's what jesus promises to those who love and trust him.
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- He promises rest.
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- He promises peace.
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- He promises healing from the inside out.
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- What would that be like for you?
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- What would it be like
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- If all your internal baggage became visible?
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- All the stuff you pushed way down into the cellar
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- Of your soul.
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- And suddenly you could see it all?
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- How would you feel?
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- Would you be surprised by how much stuff you're carrying
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- And how long you've carried it with you?
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- We're all dragging baggage of one kind or another,
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- But the invitation from jesus remains the same.
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- Will you leave your baggage at his feet?
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- Will you take christ up on this amazing exchange?
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- You don't have to carry your baggage for one more minute.
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- Remember what it says in the book of isaiah.
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- Even youths shall faint and be weary,
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- And young men shall fall exhausted.
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- But those who wait for the lord shall renew their strength.
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- They shall mount up with wings like eagles.
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- They shall run and not be weary.
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- They shall walk and not faint.
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- Let me pray for you.
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- I invite you now in the name of jesus,
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- Just to bring your baggage to him.
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- All the stuff that you've pushed as far down
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- Into the cellar of your soul, and yet it still casts a shadow.
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- I invite you to bring that into the presence
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- Of jesus and simply say, lord jesus,
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- I want to take you up on the offer.
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- I want to leave my baggage at your feet.
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- Thank you that you've told me
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- That the burden that you will give me
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- Is easy to bear, and it is light.
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- Thank you for loving me in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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