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: Held by the Promises of God | 5 Minutes with Jesus | April 10, 2026
- The purpose of our life's and the best days
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- And the worst, is to become more like jesus.
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- That's the goal of our lives.
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- To become more like jesus.
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- And the promise of romans 828 is that no matter
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- What happens to us, god will bring good from it.
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- Doesn't say that
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- Everything is good, because clearly that's not true.
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- But nothing is wasted by god.
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- You have not wept.
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- One single tear that fell to the ground
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- Unnoticed.
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- Do you know
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- There are over 7000 promises in the bible?
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- That's pretty amazing.
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- But i want us to look at just three of those key
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- Promises that hold on to us
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- When we are struggling to hold on by ourselves.
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- So promise number one.
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- Nothing can separate us from god's love.
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- Let's just start with what could arguably be called
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- The most important promise of all.
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- The promise of the love of god.
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- When paul wrote to the church in rome.
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- This is romans chapter eight, verses 38 and 39, he said this,
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- And i am convinced that nothing
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- Can ever separate us from god's love.
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- You should read the rest of those verses there.
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- So good.
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- Well, the intent of the greek word here translated
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- As convinced when he says i'm convinced.
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- It has a much bigger story to tell.
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- It's in the greek perfect tense, so it can read
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- As i have become convinced and i remain convinced.
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- Now that's very significant for us.
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- What paul is saying is that
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- When he came into relationship with christ, which,
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- If you remember, was a pretty dramatic conversion,
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- You can read about in acts chapter nine.
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- Remember he saw he heard from christ.
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- He was blind. he was knocked off his horse.
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- He was convinced if i'd been writing
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- A letter home to my family
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- That night, i'd be like, i am convinced jesus is alive.
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- He was convinced that nothing and no one could
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- Ever separate him from god's love.
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- But when he's writing those verses now to the church
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- In rome, do you realize it's almost 20 years later?
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- Paul writes
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- This letter,
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- Having been through some of the most devastating times,
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- And he makes the statement, i was convinced, and i'm
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- Still absolutely and utterly convinced that nothing,
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- Nothing could separate us from god's love.
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- You know, be easy for paul in the first flush
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- Of relationship with jesus to make such a statement.
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- He actually came face to face with the risen christ
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- On the road to damascus,
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- Blinded by the light of christ presence.
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- He asked the question, who are you, lord?
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- And the voice replied, i'm jesus,
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- The one you are persecuting.
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- Well, from that dramatic conversion he was all in.
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- Sold out to christ. life for paul.
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- From that moment on was one challenge after another.
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- Do you remember? i mean, he was beaten.
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- He was imprisoned.
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- He was stoned and left for dead, starved,
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- Shipwrecked, having walked through all of that.
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- He speaks to you and to me.
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- And he says, i was convinced, and i'm still convinced
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- There is nothing that can separate us from god's love.
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- Not divorce, not cancer.
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- Not bankruptcy.
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- Not failure, not self-doubt.
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- Not betrayal.
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- Write your own story.
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- And here
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- There is nothing in heaven or earth or under the earth
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- That can separate us from god's love.
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- That's a promise.
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- Okay, let's look at promise number two.
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- Everything will work out for our good.
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- One of the things that brings anxiety, it makes us
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- Panic, is when life feels kind of out of control.
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- If we live with a conviction that because god loves us,
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- He will orchestrate the details
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- Of our life in a way that makes sense to us.
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- We will be disappointed and disillusioned.
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- More than that,
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- We'll be tempted to believe things have gone terribly wrong.
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- Romans 828 is one of the most quoted verses of scripture.
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- I think often it's one of the least understood.
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- Here's what it says.
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- And we know that god causes everything to work together
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- For the good of those who love god and are called
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- According to his purpose for them.
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- Well, on a quick read, it can sound as if everything
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- Will be good and feel good to those who love god.
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- That's not what the text says.
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- When we read on the next verse.
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- So we get a better understanding.
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- Says this.
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- For god knew his people in advance,
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- And he chose them to become like his son,
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- So that his son
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- Will be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
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- The purpose of our life's and the best days
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- And the worst, is to become more like jesus.
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- That's the goal of our lives.
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- To become more like jesus.
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- And the promise of romans 828 is that no matter
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- What happens to us, god will bring good from it.
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- Doesn't say that
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- Everything is good, because clearly that's not true.
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- But nothing is wasted by god.
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- You have not wept.
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- One single tear that fell to the ground unnoticed.
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- I love how, warren.
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- We are speaking rights to our struggles.
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- Living by faith means obeying god's word in spite of feelings
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- Or circumstances or consequences.
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- It means
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- Holding on to god's truth, no matter how heavy the burden.
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- I had dark the day,
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- Knowing that he is working out his perfect plan.
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- And then listen to this.
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- It means living by promises and not by explanations.
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- Living by promises, not by explanations.
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- Okay. promise three.
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- God will give us new strength,
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- But those who trust in the lord will find new strength.
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- Very loved verse from isaiah chapter 40.
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- I love this whole verse as it's translated
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- This is how it reads there.
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- But those who wait for the lord will gain
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- New strength and renew their power.
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- They will lift up their wings like eagles.
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- They will run and not become weary.
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- They will walk and not grow tired.
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- We can rest our lives
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- In god's unshakable promise.
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- I would really encourage you to find 1 or 2 of the promises
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- From god's word that speak to your heart today,
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- And write it out on a sticky note.
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- Memorize it.
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- If you've come to a stage where you can't
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- Memorize things, i totally get that.
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- Write it somewhere and put it where
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- You're going to see it all day.
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- There's something beautiful about
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- Meditating on the word of god, and you might think, well,
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- Meditation, that's eastern religion. no, no, no.
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- That belongs to us is simply means to eastern meditation.
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- You're emptying your mind.
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- And christian meditation,
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- We're filling our mind with the word of god.
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- Find a promise
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- That speaks deeply to you and meditate on it today.
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- And know god's promises are unshakable.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, i want
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- To thank you for all the promises
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- That you've revealed in your word.
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- Thank you that you have promised that from every situation
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- We find ourselves in life, you will bring good.
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- It didn't say it will be good or that it will feel good,
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- But that you have spoken your word over it.
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- That you will bring good from everything.
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- So, lord, today we thank you for your promises.
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- And i ask lord that by your holy spirit
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- You would bring them to our mind
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- So that we can meditate on your word
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- And find strength for these days and the days ahead.
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- And we ask it in the powerful, wonderful,
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- Beautiful name of jesus. amen.
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