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| Sheila Walsh: Let Jesus Carry Your Burdens | 5 Minutes with Jesus | November 20, 2025
- We like explanations.
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- We want to know
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- Why god answered some prayers in a way that made sense,
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- Not others.
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- So how do we build up that faith muscle
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- So that we trust god with everything that concerns us?
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- Did you know that
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- There are over 6000 promises in god's words?
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- One of my absolute favorites is found in psalm 55, verse 22.
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- Give your burdens to the lord, and he will take care of you.
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- I love that promise is such an invitation
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- To bring everything that concerns us to jesus.
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- When god gives us a promise, we can stick our lives on it.
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- We live in a world that makes all sorts of promises.
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- Lose 20 pounds in two weeks on this diet.
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- Look 20 years younger after using this cream.
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- Let me just say it doesn't work.
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- Don't ask me how i know that, but god is not like that.
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- When god promises something, we know it's true.
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- One of the steps in my own healing
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- Journey has been thanking god for this promise.
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- I've consciously brought all my burdens.
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- I've carried for so long to him.
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- My father's death by suicide.
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- My depression.
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- My month in a psychiatric hospital.
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- I've laid up all at his feet.
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- Knowing that he cares for me.
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- Would you do that?
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- Would you, as an act of faith, bring all your burdens to god
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- And thank him that he's promised to care for you?
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- We can choose to live by promises
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- And not by explanations.
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- I love this quote i read from warren
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- Where he said, living by faith means obeying god's word
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- In spite of feelings, circumstances, or consequences.
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- It means holding on to god's truth, no matter how
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- Heavy the burden or how dark the day.
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- Knowing that he is working at his perfect plan,
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- It means living by promises and not by explanations.
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- Yeah, that can be hard.
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- We like explanations.
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- We want to know
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- Why god answered some prayers in a way that made sense,
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- Not others.
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- So how do we build up that faith muscle
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- So that we trust god with everything that concerns us?
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- I look to another favorite verse of mine.
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- As a teenager,
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- I grew up with the king james version of this verse said this.
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- But they that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength.
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- I took that very literally, and i had to just sit
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- And wait for god to give me new strength.
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- It was a long wait and nothing much happened.
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- I read this text very differently now.
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- To wait means to hope,
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- To look to god for everything.
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- I've become like a god stalker.
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- I talk to him all the time.
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- I read his words and i meditate on his promises,
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- Trusting that he is holding me and i'm holding onto him.
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- The more i know about god, the bigger he is.
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- It's like one of my favorite passages from c.s.
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- Lewis book, prince caspian.
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- This is the excerpt.
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- Aslan said, lucy, you're bigger.
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- That's because you're older.
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- Little one, answered he, not because you are.
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- I am not, but every year you grow,
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- You will find me bigger.
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- I love that.
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- The closer we get to jesus, the bigger he is in our lives,
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- And the more we understand and trust his promises.
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- What burden can you give over to the lord right now?
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- Let's pray.
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- Father, thank you for that invitation
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- To bring our burdens and lay them at your feet.
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- I thank you that the more we do that,
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- The more we cast all our cares on you.
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- The closer we get to you, and the more we understand
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- How big you are and how much you love us.
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- We thank you for that.
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- In jesus name. amen.
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