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: Is This the Holy Spirit? | 5 Minutes with Jesus | April 23, 2026
- I love the
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- Fact that we get to be god's boots on the ground.
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- We serve a mighty god who longs to speak to his children.
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- If this is kind of new to you, ask the holy spirit to help you.
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- And don't be afraid of making a mistake.
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- God is on the move, and you and i get to be a part of it.
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- How can you tell the difference
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- Between like, a gut feeling or a spiritual prompting?
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- How do you know if what you're feeling is from god or not?
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- So i had a remarkable experience with that.
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- While i was the co-host of the 700 club
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- On the christian broadcasting network.
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- Now, i was raised
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- In a small baptist church on the west coast of scotland.
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- We didn't talk much about
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- Miracles.
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- If someone was sick,
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- We would absolutely pray for them.
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- But i don't remember seeing anything
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- That i would describe as an absolute miracle.
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- So when i joined pat robertson as his co-host in 1997,
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- He asked me about the spiritual gift of words of knowledge.
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- He asked if that was something that i was used to experiencing,
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- And i told them i wasn't, but i also told them
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- I was open to anything god wanted to do.
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- I believed then, as i believe now,
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- That nothing is impossible with god.
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- So one day
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- During our live broadcast, pat and i were praying together.
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- I had the strongest impression in my heart and spirit
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- That god was healing a young boy who had been deaf since birth.
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- I would love to tell you that.
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- I immediately spoke that out in faith, but i didn't.
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- I kept thinking that the feeling would go away
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- Even as
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- Pat was calling out things he believed that god was doing
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- At that very moment.
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- I'm not proud to tell you this, but honestly, i prayed god,
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- If this is something you do, please don't pat,
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- Because i don't know if this is just me
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- Or if this is really you.
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- But that feeling would not go away.
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- Well, finally,
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- Pat did something that he didn't usually do with me.
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- He turned to me and said, sheila, has god
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- Told you something?
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- So i spoke out.
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- I said, i believe that god is healing a little boy
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- Who has been deaf since birth.
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- Now, you would think that would have been
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- A victorious moment, but honestly, i was so concerned
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- That simply spoken out something that
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- Perhaps was in my own mind,
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- Rather than something that god was actually doing.
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- A few days later,
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- One of our prayer counselors came down and told me
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- That a mom had called in and said
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- That her little boy had been healed.
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- He'd been deaf since birth, but during the program,
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- When god gave me that word, his hearing was restored.
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- Being the woman of faith that i am is ridiculous.
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- I wanted proof.
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- I asked our team to find out from the boy's pediatrician
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- If he really had been deaf since birth.
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- As i said,
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- I'm not proud of this, but it's just the honest truth.
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- Then we've got the whole story back and it blew me away.
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- This little darling boy had been sitting
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- With his back to the television when the 700 club was on.
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- And god gave me that word.
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- And at that very moment,
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- His hearing was completely restored.
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- When i think about that now, one of the things
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- That's so apparent to me is this was 100% about god.
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- I'd love to say that i spoke out full of faith, but i didn't.
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- All i did was say a simple,
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- Shaky yes to god.
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- Through the years, i've learned to discern the voice of god
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- From my own thoughts
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- And respond to the holy spirit's promptings.
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- And honestly, sometimes it's something as simple as being
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- In a store or an airport and being prompted to ask
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- Someone if i can pray for them.
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- So let me ask you, what about you?
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- Are you ever just
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- Going on with your normal day and you feel prompted
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- To call someone?
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- And when you do,
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- You realize it's just what they needed at that moment.
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- I love the fact that we get to be god's boots on the ground.
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- We serve a mighty god who longs to speak to his children.
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- If this is kind of new to you, ask the holy spirit to help you.
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- And don't be afraid of making a mistake.
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- God is on the move,
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- And you and i get to be a part of it.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, thank you that you accept
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- Even when our faith is as tiny as a mustard seed.
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- Lord, we want.
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- I'm asking right now that you would increase our faith.
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- Our world is in so much trouble.
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- We want to live
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- As those who bring your presence wherever we go.
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- So, lord jesus, teach us to listen to your voice,
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- To hear those promptings of the holy spirit,
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- And to speak out in boldness in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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