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: Are You Disappointed with God? | 5 Minutes with Jesus | November 4, 2025
- When you have placed your trust in christ
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- And committed to following him for the rest of your life,
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- No one and nothing can touch that hope.
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- That hope was bought and paid for by christ himself,
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- And it will never, ever lead to disappointment.
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- In romans chapter five verse three, we read this.
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- We can rejoice too, when we run into problems and trials.
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- For we know that they help us
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- Develop endurance, and endurance develops strength of character
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- And character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.
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- And this hope will not lead to disappointment.
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- Hope's an interesting word.
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- We use it in so many ways.
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- I hope to lose 10 pounds before the wedding.
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- I hope it won't rain for the parade.
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- I hope our son gets into his school of choice.
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- I hope this cream works as well as they say in the commercial.
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- Hope can promise a lot, but
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- It depends on what it's being placed in.
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- It can also depend on what i'm expected to bring to the table.
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- You know, i can hoped for dear life to lose 10 pounds,
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- But unless i put those donuts down, it's not looking good.
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- I can hope it won't rain, but that's out of my control.
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- As for so many things in life,
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- I can hope that our son gets into his school of choice.
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- But unless his grades are what they need to be
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- And so many other little things
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- Fall in line, that won't happen.
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- Even when it comes to our spiritual lives.
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- Hope at times is a delicate thing.
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- I can pray for god to heal my friend.
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- I can hope that the surgery of the medicine will bring healing,
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- But sometimes it doesn't.
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- What do you do when you've placed your hope
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- On a particular outcome and it doesn't happen?
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- How do you pray when you've lost hope?
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- The kind of hope that paul is writing about here is different.
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- He's telling us that even when things seem to go wrong
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- And all our plans are reined on, we have a rock solid
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- Hope that will never, never disappoint.
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- So what is this hope he's writing about?
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- He's writing about our confident hope of salvation.
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- You fix your gaze on jesus.
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- I remember the day when we
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- Thought for 24 hours that our son had leukemia.
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- We wouldn't get the results until the morning.
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- I stayed up all night walking the floor and praying.
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- And finally, about 3:00 in the morning.
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- I got on my knees and i prayed, lord,
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- I know that you love christian even more than i do.
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- So i'm placing him in your hands.
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- Whatever the answer, you are our eternal hope.
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- When you have placed your trust in christ
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- And committed to following him for the rest of your life,
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- No one and nothing can touch that hope.
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- That hope was bought and paid for by christ himself,
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- And it will never, ever lead to disappointment.
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- Hope in christ is not wishful thinking.
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- Hope has a name and his name is jesus.
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- When you feel overwhelmed by life, stand
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- On the name of jesus and say his name.
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- I liked me. pray for you.
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- Lord, i want to thank you that you are our hope.
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- And so we say to you, jesus,
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- Jesus,
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- Jesus.
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- We place our hope
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- Not in what we understand or in an outcome,
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- But we place our hope in you because you have
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- Fixed our eternity forever.
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- And because of that, we know hope has a name.
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- Your name is jesus and we thank you in your beautiful name.
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- Amen.
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