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: Trusting God’s Timing in a Waiting Season | 5 Minutes with Jesus | October 3, 2025
- Waiting is part of life.
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- But how do we wait at peace?
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- How do we find his strength?
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- When we're tired of waiting
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- To experience peace during the waiting,
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- We have to believe that god has heard our prayers.
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- And isaiah
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- Chapter 40, verses 29 through 31, we read this.
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- The lord gives power to the faint,
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- And to him who has no might.
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- He increases strength.
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- Even youth shall faint and be weary,
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- And young men shall fall exhausted.
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- But they 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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- Have you ever been in a season where it seems as if god is not
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- Moving?
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- What do you do with this?
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- Nothing you can do.
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- But you feel as if you're just waiting for an answer.
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- How do you find strength when you honestly
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- Just feel spiritually exhausted?
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- One of my dearest friends, lisa harper,
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- Knows what that feels like.
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- When she was waiting to bring missy,
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- The little girl from haiti that she had adopted,
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- Which was waiting to bring her finally home
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- From the very first moment that she met missy on her first
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- Field trip to port au prince.
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- Lisa was in love, but the adoption process
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- Was excruciating.
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- Weeks stretched into months and then months into years.
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- Every single time it looked as if missy would finally come
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- Home, there'd be some new paperwork, complication.
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- Move the finishing line just a little further down
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- Into the future,
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- And lisa, worried about missing an egg to hold her.
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- All the while, missy was growing up
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- And my friend watched and prayed from a distance.
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- Yeah, she had occasional trips to haiti and photos
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- From time to time, but her arms were still empty.
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- I remember her telling me waiting
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- Truly is one of the hardest things to do on earth.
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- But you know this
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- Waiting is part of life.
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- But how do we wait at peace?
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- How do we find his strength?
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- When we're tired of waiting
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- To experience peace during the waiting,
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- We have to believe that god has heard our prayers.
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- That acknowledgment helped hannah.
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- Do you remember her story?
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- She is one of honestly, my old testament favorites.
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- She's a heroine of mine
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- And like lisa, hannah
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- Had been waiting for a child for a very long time.
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- But hannah's situation was made even more painful
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- By her husband's second wife, penina, having been
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- Blessed with several children, and she loved to torment hannah.
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- But the fact she wasn't able to have children
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- And first samuel chapter one.
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- We read that pen and her had been so horrible to hannah
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- Each time they went to shiloh for the annual feast,
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- That hannah had been reduced to tears and would not even eat.
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- And it happened every year after year.
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- But one year, when hannah had taken all she could take,
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- She ran to the house of the lord
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- And poured out her pain to him,
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- And she was praying so desperately that eli
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- The priest, actually thought she was drunk and sad.
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- When desperation for god
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- Is no longer recognized in god's own house.
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- But after she finished praying and eli understood
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- Her desperate prayer, he said to her, go in peace, i.
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- May the god of israel grant you what you have asked of him.
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- And the next verse tells us that she returned to her family,
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- But was no longer downcast.
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- God has spoken into her pain,
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- Into her years of waiting for an answer.
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- And she knew that god had heard her prayer.
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- Maybe you're waiting
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- Right now, waiting for a child,
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- Or financial provision, or for an answer to something.
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- Whatever it is.
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- Let hannah lead the way.
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- Pour out your soul to god and be confident that he hears you.
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- May you rest in the peace of that promise while you wait.
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- God is with you in the meantime.
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- This is one of my favorite scriptures from psalm 27.
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- I remain confident of this.
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- I will see the goodness of the lord and the land of the living.
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- Wait for the lord.
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- Be strong and take heart, and wait for the lord.
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- Let me pray for you.
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- Father, we acknowledge before you that waiting is hard.
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- Sometimes we just.
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- We don't understand why you're not working,
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- Why you're not answering our prayers right now.
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- But i do
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- Believe you're more
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- Interested in who will be coming in the waiting.
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- So i pray right now for someone who's struggling.
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- Lord.
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- They've been waiting for so long.
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- Lord, would you give them an assurance
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- Deep inside that you've heard their prayer
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- And that your answer is on the way?
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- And it.
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- Till then, would you give them your peace in jesus name?
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- Amen.
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