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: Keep Praying When It Feels Impossible | 5 Minutes With Jesus | October 9, 2025
- A lifetime.
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- It's not too long to pray.
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- I know it can be so easy to become discouraged and wonder
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- What difference your prayers are making.
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- I want you to know every prayer is heard.
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- Keep praying and don't give up
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- Because god is always on the move.
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- Und.
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- And his first
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- Letter to the thessalonians, paul wrote this.
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- Always be joyful.
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- Never stop praying.
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- Be thankful in all circumstance, for this is god's will for you
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- Who belong to christ jesus.
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- Does that feel as if you've prayed over and over
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- But you don't get an answer?
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- And when that happens, are you ever tempted to just give up?
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- You know, if you've prayed
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- And you've prayed and prayed and nothing changes,
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- I know how hard it can be to keep praying
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- When it feels as if nothing is happening.
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- But i learned
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- A really important lesson from a lovely scottish man
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- In my church when i was growing up in scotland as a teenager.
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- I have a profound memory of his faithful prayers.
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- He refused to stop praying,
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- Even when it seemed as if god wasn't listening.
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- Every tuesday night i go with my mum to our church
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- Prayer meeting.
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- Now, ours wasn't a very large church,
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- So maybe, i don't know, 30 or so people met every week.
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- But one of my favorite members, versus
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- A gentle older man from way up north in the highlands,
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- I'll call him angus.
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- Every tuesday he prayed the same prayer.
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- He asked god for his wife's salvation.
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- She was a lovely woman
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- Who occasionally came to our coffee mornings,
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- But never to church services.
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- Some nights he would pray in his soft, lilting scottish accent
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- And others.
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- Other nights he wouldn't be able to finish.
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- His tears poured down his rough cheeks.
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- I have to tell you, i worked with him
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- Many tuesday nights.
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- Well, he'd been a pilot after giving up his farm
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- And had retained his pilot's license for one summer's day.
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- He flew me up to the island off the north coast of scotland,
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- For he'd been born.
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- He thought i'd enjoy the flight up the coast,
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- And he wanted to show my friend and i
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- The little church, or kirk, as he called it,
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- Where he'd been raised.
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- I remember looking at the window
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- Of a small plane as we got closer and closer
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- To the fields of sheep,
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- And wondering where on earth we're going to land.
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- There's no landing strip.
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- I yelled over the noise of the propellers.
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- Just watch. laugh, he yelled back.
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- We'll just have to let the sheep know we're coming.
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- Sure enough.
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- As we flew over one of the fields, the sheep ran
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- For their life and we landed safely and walked up the narrow
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- Cobbled alley to the church where he was raised.
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- The doors were open, so we went inside.
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- The floor squeaked with stories from long, long ago.
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- As we walked to the front
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- For the sun was streaming through the lone stained
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- Glass window.
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- We sat in the stillness for a while,
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- And then i said, do you mind if i ask you a question?
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- Angus said, no, let's go ahead.
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- Well, it's about your wife.
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- Do you ever wonder why god hasn'
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- Well, he was quiet and
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- Thoughtful for a moment, and then he said this.
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- He's never failed me yet, lass.
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- I don't reckon he'll start now.
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- There's so much more.
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- I wanted to ask him,
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- But the look of love and reverence on his face
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- As he gazed up at the picture in the window silenced me.
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- I found out later from my mum that night that angus
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- Had been praying for his wife for over 40 years.
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- Well, years later
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- I was home on a break from seminary when angus died.
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- The church was packed for his funeral.
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- This gentle man's life had touched so many.
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- A pastor preached a beautiful message about angus
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- And long obedience in the same direction,
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- And his utter devotion to christ.
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- But at the end of the service,
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- I noticed that his wife was still sitting in the front row.
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- Our pastor by her side.
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- I assumed he was comforting her, so i left them alone.
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- But later that day, i discovered that he'd been leading her
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- Into relationship with jesus.
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- When she saw the church packed with those who loved her husband
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- And heard the compelling message
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- About the one who had led angus all his days,
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- She finally bowed and his savior became her savior that day. to
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- Lesson i learned a lifetime.
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- It's not too long to pray.
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- I know it can be so easy to become discouraged and wonder
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- What difference your prayers are making.
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- I want you to know every prayer is heard.
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- Keep praying and don't give up
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- Because god is always on the move.
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- Psalm six verse nine says this
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- The lord has heard my plea.
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- The lord will answer my prayer.
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- Let's pray.
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- Father, i thank you that you are a faithful god.
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- That not one prayer falls to the ground unhurt.
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- But do you hear every prayer?
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- And lord, i ask now for
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- For those who maybe become discouraged in their praying
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- Because they're not, see an answer.
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- Lord, will you give them the courage and the commitment
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- And the perseverance to keep praying?
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- Understanding that a lifetime is not too long to pray,
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- And that when we pray, things happen in heaven
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- And we thank you in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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