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: Bring Your Doubts to God | 5 Minutes with Jesus | November 11, 2025
- If you're
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- Struggling with doubt today, tell god
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- Whatever it is, bring it to him and tell him.
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- Tell him the truth. god loves it.
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- When we come to him honestly and pray like that.
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- Dad. in mark's gospel, i believe that.
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- Help my unbelief.
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- Yeah.
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- Do you ever feel weighed down by doubt?
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- You don't want to doubt god, but honestly,
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- You're just
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- Struggling to believe that
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- God sees what's going on in your life right now
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- And is going to intervene and help you.
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- It's a beautiful, very honest story found in mark's gospel.
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- A dad came to jesus and asked him if you could heal his son.
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- He's asked christ disciples
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- To pray for the boy, but they hadn't helped at all.
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- He asked jesus to have mercy on his son and heal him
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- If he could.
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- Jesus response was very upfront.
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- What do you mean? if i can?
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- Jesus said that anything is possible if you believe.
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- Well, i love how the father answered.
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- The father instantly cried out.
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- I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief.
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- What an honest prayer.
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- And jesus accepted the father where he was, and reached out
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- And healed his son.
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- I wonder why we think we need to pretend with god.
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- He knows everything.
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- He knows our hearts are struggles.
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- The things we are afraid of.
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- The things we don't know how to fix.
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- The beautiful thing about life with god,
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- With faith is that you start where you are.
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- You don't have to pretend that you've got all together.
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- Whenever i'm struggling with doubt, i open my bible.
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- Now, i'm sure that sounds very basic to you,
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- But honestly, for me it's life and breath.
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- Not because i find easy answers,
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- But because i find myself
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- In my times of self-doubt, of insecurity.
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- I anchor myself to the word of god,
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- And i remember that i'm not alone.
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- Even when i feel like i am.
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- Feelings can be powerful.
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- Liars.
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- The feelings don't have brains.
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- Some of david's most vulnerable psalms,
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- The ones that bring comfort and hope,
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- Were written what he felt most alone and abandoned,
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- Not only by friends but by god himself.
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- In psalm 13 he
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- Writes, o lord, how long will you forget me?
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- Forever.
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- How long will you look? the other way?
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- How long must i struggle with anguish in my soul,
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- With sorrow in my heart.
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- Every day.
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- How long will my enemy have the upper hand?
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- Turn and answer me, o lord my god.
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- Restore the sparkle to my eyes.
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- I will die.
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- Pretty honest time.
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- I've probably read that psalm 100 times,
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- But what struck me recently
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- Was the fact that even though
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- David feels as if god has forgotten him,
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- That's who he takes his complaint to.
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- That's where he takes his cry, his pain.
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- He's exhausted. he's depressed.
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- He's been on the run from king saul.
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- Who wants to kill him.
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- And david is simply at the end of his rope.
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- He doesn't want god to help him tomorrow.
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- He needs help, and he needs it now.
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- And in his desperation, feeling so alone, he cries out to god.
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- He prays, turn to me and have mercy.
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- I'm alone and in deep distress.
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- I problems go from bad to worse.
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- Oh, save me from them all.
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- If you're
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- Struggling with doubt today, tell god
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- Whatever it is, bring it to him and tell him.
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- Tell him the truth. god loves it.
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- When we come to him honestly and pray like that.
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- Dad. in mark's gospel, i believe that.
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- Help my unbelief. let's pray.
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- Lord, thank you that you know us so well.
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- You know that we long to trust you more.
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- So that's what i pray for.
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- Lord, would you teach us how to trust you more?
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- But in the meantime to come to you as we really are,
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- To be honest and real.
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- Because you've loved that.
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- And i thank you in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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