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Sheila Walsh: Have You Given It to God? | 5 Minutes With Jesus

July 1, 2026 | S E | 5:19

Sheila Walsh: Have You Given It to God? | 5 Minutes With Jesus
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: Have You Given It to God? | 5 Minutes With Jesus | July 1, 2026
  • I think one of our
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  • Greatest challenges in prayer is feeling god's presence.
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  • We live in a sensory age where we're bombarded by ads for quick
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  • Fixes and miracle drugs that claim to make us feel
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  • Better and look better in ten minutes.
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  • But prayer isn't supposed to offer a simple solution.
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  • It's meant to be a place to take our needs and lay them
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  • At the feet of jesus.
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  • When it comes to the end of a day.
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  • Do you feel tired?
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  • Just like worn out?
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  • I wonder how many of us are weighed
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  • Down by the stuff we drag around day after day.
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  • I mean, baggage is inevitable.
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  • Who among us can walk through life
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  • Without picking up some shame or fears or insecurities?
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  • The question is, why do we persist in hanging on
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  • To those things,
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  • Jealously gardening our junk as though it's worth keeping?
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  • Scripture reminds us to cast our cares and our father
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  • Because he loves us,
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  • And he won't let his children buckle under the load.
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  • Were promised in psalm 55,
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  • Give your burdens to the lord, and he will take care of you.
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  • He will not permit the godly to slip and fall.
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  • In first peter five verse seven, we read, give all your worries
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  • And cares to god, for he cares about you.
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  • Even though we have god's open invitation to unpack our heavy
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  • Bags, we seem to find that very hard to do.
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  • We'd rather cart
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  • The weight around and take god up on his offer.
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  • I was speaking at a conference recently
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  • And i asked the audience two questions.
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  • Number one,
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  • What would it look like if, when we came through these doors
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  • This morning, all our baggage became visible?
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  • Not your pillow or your snacks, but the stuff
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  • We pushed into
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  • The cellar of our souls because we don't know what to do
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  • With it.
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  • My second follow up question was this
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  • If you saw your baggage, would you want to take it home?
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  • Or would you want
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  • To take christ up on the offer of that glorious exchange
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  • At the end of matthew chapter 11?
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  • Then jesus said, come to me, all of you who are weary
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  • And carry heavy burdens, and i will give you rest.
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  • Take my yoke upon you.
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  • Let me teach you, because i am humble and gentle at heart,
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  • And you will find rest for your souls.
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  • For my yoke is easy to bear,
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  • And the burden i give you is light.
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  • I love how eugene
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  • Peterson paraphrased these two verses in the message.
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  • Are you tired, worn out, burned out on religion?
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  • Come to me.
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  • Get away with me and you'll recover your life.
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  • I'll show you how to take a real rest.
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  • Walk with me and work with me.
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  • Watch how i do it.
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  • Learn the unforced rhythms of grace.
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  • I won't lay anything heavy or ill fitting on you.
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  • Keep company with me, and you'll learn
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  • To live freely and lightly.
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  • Why do we hold on to our baggage
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  • When we're invited to unload it in prayer?
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  • We'll ask that question on my facebook page one night.
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  • And these are some of the answers i received.
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  • See if you can relate to any of them.
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  • What if i'm just fooling myself
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  • Into believing that god is really listening?
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  • You know, what proof
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  • Do i have that my prayer makes any difference at all
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  • With everything that's going on in the world?
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  • Why would god care about my concerns?
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  • Somebody else said,
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  • I think god listens to some people and not to others.
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  • Somebody else said,
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  • I don't think i'm one of god's special ones.
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  • A failed to much and somebody said, if god's really listening,
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  • Shouldn't i be able to like, feel his presence?
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  • I think one of our greatest challenges in prayer is feeling
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  • God's presence.
  • 00:03:50.720 --> 00:03:51.954
  • We live in a sensory age where we're bombarded by ads for quick
  • 00:03:51.954 --> 00:03:56.092
  • Fixes and miracle drugs that claim to make us feel
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  • Better and look better in ten minutes.
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  • But prayer isn't supposed to offer a simple solution.
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  • It's meant to be a place
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  • To take our needs and lay them at the feet of jesus.
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  • Prayer is not something that belongs on our to do list,
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  • But rather on our how to live list.
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  • You know, be sad if when we finally stand
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  • Before the lord and he asks us, did you enjoy the journey?
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  • We say, i did.
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  • I think i would have enjoyed it more if my bags weren't
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  • So heavy.
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  • Think about that.
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  • Maybe it's time to let go and lay your baggage
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  • Down at the feet of jesus.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Thank you, lord, that that's your invitation.
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  • That's not something we dreamed up.
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  • You invited us to come to you and lay our baggage down.
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  • That what you will give to us is not ill fitting.
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  • It's light.
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  • And we can watch you and learn from you.
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  • And i love, lord that it says, learn to live,
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  • That it doesn't come.
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  • We don't come, preprogramed, but we have the opportunity
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  • Every day to learn a little bit more about what it means to
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  • Walk with you.
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  • Thank you.
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  • In jesus name, amen.
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