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| Sheila Walsh: The Battle in Your Mind | 5 Minutes With Jesus | July 1, 2026
- God will never get tired of hearing from you.
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- Never. so, number one, pray.
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- Number two, tell god about all your needs.
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- Number three, keep asking.
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- I love this saying that jewish rabbis have about prayer.
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- Human beings can hardly hear two people talking at once.
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- But god, if all the world calls to him
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- A one time hears their cry.
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- I wonder how much of our life
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- Is taken up by wondering what might happen.
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- I remember a conversation i had with a woman
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- At the end of an event i'd been speaking at.
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- He told me that her son had been knocked off his bike
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- By a drunk driver.
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- He was in a coma for four days and then he died.
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- But it was what she said.
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- Next that i didn't see coming, she said.
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- I gave my life to christ in my son's room, in intensive care.
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- I think she could tell.
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- I didn't expect that.
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- And this is what she told me.
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- He was the only one in the family who was a christian.
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- As we watched his life ebor way, a silent
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- Truth hung in the air like the morning star.
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- My son was the only one who was not afraid of death.
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- He knew where he was going.
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- He talked to us many times about the profound impact
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- His relationship with jesus christ had on his life.
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- Here's what she said. that blew me away.
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- He was dying, but we were lost.
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- His father, three brothers
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- And the mom gave their lives to christ by his bedside.
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- He never knew that. i never regained consciousness.
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- But as she said to me.
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- We'll all be together one day.
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- Clearly, this was the worst thing
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- That a mother could ever face.
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- But what she discovered in the midst of her
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- Grief was the very real presence of god.
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- I think one of the reasons
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- That we struggled to control what's going on around us
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- Is because
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- We're afraid of the future, afraid of what might happen.
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- So what does god's word say about fear?
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- Well, one of my favorite texts is from philippians chapter four
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- Six and seven. you're probably familiar with this.
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- Don't worry about anything.
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- Instead, pray about everything.
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- Tell god what you need and thank him for all he's done.
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- So let's just break that down. number one.
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- Don't worry about anything.
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- Instead, pray about everything.
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- It might actually help you
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- To sit down and write out the things that you're afraid of.
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- Sometimes naming them can take some of their power away.
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- Then take every single one of them to the lord.
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- There is nothing insignificant to god about your life,
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- And there's no shame in admitting what you're afraid of.
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- The more honest we are,
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- The more we open our hearts to his love.
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- Number two,
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- Tell god what you need and thank him for all he's done.
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- Jesus told us to ask to seek to knock.
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- In matthew chapter seven we read.
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- Keep on asking and you'll receive what you ask for.
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- Keep on seeking and you will find.
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- Keep on knocking and the door will be open to you.
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- For everyone who asks receives.
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- Everyone who seeks finds.
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- And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
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- Christ makes it clear that we're not coming to a god
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- Who grudgingly gives to his children, or to god,
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- Whose gifts are like a double edged sword.
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- And the story
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- That christ uses to illustrate these points
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- Is very interesting one.
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- He asks the crowd this question you parents,
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- If your children ask for a loaf of bread,
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- Do you give them a stone instead?
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- Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake?
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- Of course not.
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- That that would be very significant
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- To his listening audience that day,
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- Because a little round limestone stones by the edge of the lake
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- Looked exactly
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- Like the kind of small loaf
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- A mother might pack in a child's lunch.
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- But what mother would trick her child that way?
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- In the same way,
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- If your child asked for a fish, would you give them a snake?
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- Well, galilee is full of eels, but
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- Jewish dietary laws forbid eating eels.
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- So would a mother
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- Give her hungry child something they couldn't eat?
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- And the greek tense used here for ask is what's called
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- The present imperative, which means keep doing it.
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- Keep asking.
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- God will never get tired of hearing from you.
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- Never. so, number one, pray.
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- Number two, tell god about all your needs.
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- Number three, keep asking.
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- I love this saying that jewish rabbis have about prayer.
- 00:04:37.500 --> 00:04:41.571
- Human beings can hardly hear two people talking at once.
- 00:04:41.571 --> 00:04:45.241
- But god, if all the world calls to him
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- A one time hears their cry.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord will never understand that here on earth,
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- Because our understanding is so limited.
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- But the fact that
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- That there are believers right at this moment in china
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- Talking to you,
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- And we're here in the studio and and people in russia
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- Are talking to ukraine all around the world.
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- And you
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- Hear every single one of us, lord, that's amazing to us.
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- So teach us what it means to come as expectant children
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- And to ask, believing that you're a god
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- Who delights to give good gifts to his children.
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- We ask in jesus name, amen.
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