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: Gratitude that Brings Peace | 5 Minutes with Jesus | November 27, 2025
- Isn't it time that we hit the
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- Emergency stop button, even for just a few minutes?
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- I want to invite you to do that today.
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- I love that christ promises peace.
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- When we pause the busyness and remember who he is.
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- Being thankful shifts our focus
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- From what we have to do to who we are.
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- God loves you so much.
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- He never intended for you to live a frenzied,
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- Exhausting life.
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- One of my favorite verses
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- That promises peace in our hearts and in our minds.
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- It's in the letter that paul wrote to the church in philippi.
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- Chapter four verse six and seven.
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- This is what he writes.
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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 has done.
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- Then you will experience god's peace
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- Which exceeds anything we can understand.
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- His peace will guard your hearts and your minds
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- As you live in christ jesus.
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- Paul's telling us that instead of worrying
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- About everything that's going on, we pray about it.
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- We bring it all to god.
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- We tell him what's going on in our lives and what we need,
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- And then we thank him for everything he's already done.
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- Then we're
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- Promised peace in our hearts and in our minds.
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- That's quite a promise in this crazy making world.
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- We live such fast paced lives every year.
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- Think about it.
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- In amusement parks all over the world,
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- Thousands of us
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- And one line up to ride the most gravity defying adrenaline.
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- This thrill rides we can find.
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- We wait in ridiculously long lines for our turn.
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- And then at last, we buckle up for the ride.
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- Few of us pay attention to the board.
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- 16 year old at the control panel,
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- Even though he's
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- The one with access to the large red emergency stop button.
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- The last safeguard
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- In the rare event that the ride goes to fast,
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- Spins a little too wildly and hurtles out of control.
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- Let me ask you,
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- If you ever wished you had a stop button for your life.
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- I know that at times i have.
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- Some days life feels like a thrill ride that has slipped
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- Past fun and into the realm of chaos.
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- It's an easy place to be in our modern world.
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- Gone are simpler, quieter days when evenings were spent
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- Visiting with neighbors on the front porch
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- Or with family around the dinner table.
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- Now, blinking screens and beeping
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- Notifications have been added to the menu
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- Of never ending entertainment options,
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- Able to fill every waking moment of the daylight hours
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- And even genres from our sleep at night.
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- As if that were not enough.
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- If you're like me, you sometimes feel as if you'd never,
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- Ever stop running from one activity to another.
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- Is it any wonder that we're anxious and deeply weary?
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- We simply were not made to live like this.
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- Running full tilt,
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- Dashing to one adrenaline fueled day to another.
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- Against a soundtrack
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- Created by phone calls, emails, texts, computers,
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- Tv, radio, and even on occasion, in person, human voices.
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- Isn't it time that we hit the emergency stop button,
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- Even for just a few minutes?
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- I want to invite you to do that today.
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- I love that christ promises peace.
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- When we pause the busyness and remember who he is.
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- Being thankful shifts our focus
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- From what we have to do to who we are.
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- God loves you so much he never intended for you
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- To live a frenzied, exhausting life.
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- Listen to the words of psalm
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- 127, verse two from the message bible.
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- It's useless to rise early and go to bed
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- Late and work your worried fingers to the bone.
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- Don't you know he enjoys giving rest to those he loves?
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- Jesus longs to give you the gift of rest,
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- And it can begin with just simply taking five minutes
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- A day, five minutes to shut out the noise, for five minutes
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- To find peace in the midst of a troubled world.
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- Five minutes to step out of the crosshairs of a culture
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- That's constantly demanding more, more and more.
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- Five minutes to receive god's sweet rest for our soul.
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- Spending time in god's presence.
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- Thanking him for who he is and all he's done for us.
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- Shows a crazy pace of life.
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- Slows it right down so that you can rest
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- In the safety of god's presence.
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- Let's pray.
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- Father, thank you that you invite us to come to you
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- Just to push that stop button on our life
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- Where things seem so crazy,
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- Just to pull aside with you, even for a few moments,
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- And remember who you are and because of who you are.
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- Remember who we are.
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- Thank you that you've promised peace
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- In the midst of chaos when we find our rest in you.
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- In jesus name, amen.
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