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: Faith in the Waiting | 5 Minutes with Jesus | May 25, 2026
- Perhaps some sundays you think
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- I'm just going to stay in bed and i'll watch a message on tv?
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- Honestly, it's not the same.
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- Now, some people have to do that,
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- Like through sickness, and it's a wonderful resource.
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- But there's power when we meet and worship together.
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- Honestly, i've dragged myself into church some sundays
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- And come out so grateful to god for the worship
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- And the fellowship and the message.
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- I have a question for you.
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- How do you hold on when you feel as if you're just stuck?
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- You know, things were good for a while
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- And they might be again in the future, but at the moment
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- You just feel stuck and nothing good seems to be happening.
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- Not only that,
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- It feels as if god's not even hearing your prayers.
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- How do you hold on to hope then?
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- How do you trust god
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- When you can't see his hand on your life at all?
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- The temptation in times like these
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- Is to feel like we've been abandoned, to wonder
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- What did we do to make god move away from us?
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- One of the things i've learned about my feelings
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- Is this very simple feelings don't have brains.
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- They can lift us up one day and drop us like a hot potato
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- The very next.
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- Trust in god is way more than a feeling.
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- It's an absolute conviction and decision to believe
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- That god is good and he is in control.
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- One of the things that helps me most
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- When i feel stuck is to remember god's promises.
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- Now, i'm sure you're thinking, well, that's easy to say,
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- But not so easy to do.
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- And you're right.
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- But we get to choose what we major on.
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- If you can worry, you can meditate on the promises of god.
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- Same process, but very different results.
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- So here's a few verses that help me when i feel a bit lost.
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- First of all.
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- First peter five 5 to 7.
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- So humble yourself under the mighty power of god,
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- And at the right time he will lift you up in honor,
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- Give all your worries and cares to god,
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- For he cares about you.
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- I love that.
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- Give all your worries and cares means just that.
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- There's nothing too small to take to god.
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- He cares about it all.
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- Number two,
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- I love psalm 56, verse eight.
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- You keep track of all my sorrows.
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- You have collected all my tears in your bottle.
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- You have recorded each one in your book.
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- I want you to know you have never cried a tear
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- That heaven didn't see and care about.
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- Even when it feels as if nothing is happening.
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- Number three in galatians chapter six, verse nine,
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- Paul writes this.
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- So let's not get tired of doing what is good
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- At just the right time.
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- We will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up.
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- I love that he writes that he's acknowledging
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- That we're going to feel like giving up sometimes.
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- That doesn't make you a sinner, simply makes you human.
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- Number four, in hebrews chapter ten, verses 23 through 25,
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- The writer says,
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- Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope
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- We affirm, for god can be trusted to keep his promises.
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- Let us think of ways
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- To motivate one another to acts of love and good works.
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- And let us not neglect our meeting together,
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- As some people do, but encourage one another.
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- Especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
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- He's encouraging us not just with the rock
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- Solid truth that god keeps us promises,
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- But he's reminding us how much we need each other.
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- Perhaps some sundays you think
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- I'm just going to stay in bed and i'll watch a message on tv?
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- Honestly, it's not the same.
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- Now, some people have to do that,
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- Like through sickness, and it's a wonderful resource.
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- But there's power when we meet and worship together.
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- Honestly, i've dragged myself into church some sundays
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- And come out so grateful to god for the worship
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- And the fellowship and the message.
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- Number five christ's little brother james writes this.
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- God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation.
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- Afterwards, they will receive the crown of life
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- That god has promised to those who love him.
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- Crown of life.
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- What a promise.
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- Hold on to the promises of god.
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- Let's pray.
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- For i'm so grateful that throughout scripture
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- There's a clear acknowledgment that at times life is hard.
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- At times we don't understand.
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- At times we struggle.
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- But in your words, there are more than 6000 promises.
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- And we are taught that you are not man, that you should lie.
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- That we can stake our lives on the very promises of god.
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- And we choose to do that in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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