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: God Hears Your Prayers | 5 Minutes with Jesus | June 9, 2026
- So what is christ promising to us
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- When we remain in him and his words remain in us?
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- He is promising the greatest thing
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- Ever offered to a human being to become more like jesus.
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- The more we remain in christ,
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- The more we want the things that he wants.
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- And then the fruit that's produced in our life
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- Says love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
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- Goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
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- Those.
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- I remember a conversation i had with a young woman
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- One night after i'd spoken at a conference.
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- She asked me this question.
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- What do you believe in god for?
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- I thought, it's a great question.
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- And i told her
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- That was believing
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- For a friend of mine to be completely healed of cancer.
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- So i asked her the same question, and she went into her
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- Purse and pulled out a picture of a red mercedes convertible.
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- I was a little confused and asked her what she meant.
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- She was believing for it.
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- She said that's what jesus had told her.
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- We sat and talked for a while that night, and i realized
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- That she'd taken this idea from part of christ's
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- Final conversation with his closest friends.
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- Recorded in john's gospel.
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- First, in john 15 five, jesus said, yes,
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- I am the vine, you are the branches.
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- Those who remain in me and i in them will produce much fruit.
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- Then further on john 15 seven, we read this.
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- But if you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you
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- May ask for anything you want, and it will be granted.
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- You know, i understood her confusion,
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- But was reminded again of how easy it is
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- To take a verse, or even in this case, part of a verse,
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- Out of context and completely misunderstanding.
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- If jesus had simply said, ask for anything you want
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- And i'll give it to you.
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- It might be easy to interpret it that way,
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- But that's not the whole verse.
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- Jesus said, if you remain in me
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- And my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want
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- And it will be granted. so what does that mean?
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- What does it mean to remain in christ?
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- In this passage,
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- Christ is talking about what it looks like to abide,
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- To rest in him.
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- Using a picture that would be very familiar
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- To his listening audience
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- As they grow everywhere in the middle east, and that's vines.
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- Vines grow all over israel.
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- And if you want the very best fruit,
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- They have to be carefully pruned.
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- New young vines aren't
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- Even allowed to bear fruit for at least three years.
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- They're drastically cut back each year.
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- And then when the fruit does come, it's full
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- And it's beautiful.
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- In the 80s and 90s, there was a movement
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- Called the prosperity gospel,
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- Which might have sounded good on the initial hearing,
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- But an actual fact offered far less than christ does.
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- And it was centered on self.
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- What would make me happy?
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- What do i think i need?
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- I'm reminded of christ's words in matthew chapter 16, verse 24.
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- Then jesus said to his disciples,
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- If any of you wants to be my follower,
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- You must give up your own way.
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- Take up your cross and follow me.
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- If you try to hang on to your own life, you will lose it.
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- But if you give up your life for my sick, you will save it.
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- And what do you benefit
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- If you gain the whole world but lose your soul?
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- I actually love the way
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- That eugene peterson paraphrases these verses in the message
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- Then jesus went to work on his disciples.
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- Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead.
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- You're not in the driver's seat.
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- I am.
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- Don't run from suffering.
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- Embrace it.
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- Follow me and i'll show you how.
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- Self-help is no help at all.
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- Self-sacrifice is a way.
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- My way to finding yourself.
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- Your true self.
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- What kind of deal is it to get everything you want
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- But lose yourself?
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- What could you ever trade your soul for?
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- Scripture lays it out clearly for us.
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- Number one, let god lead.
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- Number two.
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- Trust and follow his will.
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- Number three.
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- Don't lose yourself trying to find yourself.
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- Your identity is in christ.
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- So what is christ promising to us
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- When we remain in him and his words remain in us?
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- He is promising the greatest thing
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- Ever offered to a human being to become more like jesus.
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- The more we remain in christ,
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- The more we want the things that he wants.
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- And then the fruit that's produced in our life
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- Says love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
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- Goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
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- Those beat a red mercedes convertible any day of the week.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, thank you
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- That you're teaching us what it means to seek after you.
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- We live in a world that is so consumer driven,
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- Where it's like the latest this and the new that,
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- And yet you've told us what it means
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- To take up a cross every day and follow you.
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- And that's what we want.
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- Lord, prune us where you need to so that the fruit that's
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- Produced in our life brings you joy and honors your name.
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- We ask it in jesus name, amen.
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- Those.
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