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| Sheila Walsh: Letting Go of Control | 5 Minutes with Jesus | October 28, 2025
- The true,
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- Unadulterated gospel of jesus christ
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- Is that god loves us so much
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- That he sent jesus christ to take our place on the cross.
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- When christ cried out, it is finished, he was saying,
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- The bill is paid in full.
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- In galatians chapter
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- Five, verses 22 and 23, we read this,
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- But the holy spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives.
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- Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
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- Goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
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- That's galatians chapter five,
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- Experiencing a negative event in childhood
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- Can heighten the need for control later in life.
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- If you've experienced sexual, physical, verbal spirit,
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- Ritual, or emotional abuse as a child,
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- The feeling of being out of control is crushing.
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- Many women and men struggle with many things,
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- Including eating disorders,
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- Later in life to try to cope with abuse from childhood.
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- Almost as if to say this is one area that i get to control
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- In those situations.
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- If you dig a little deeper underneath that need to control
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- Lies one of our greatest enemies of our soul.
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- Shame.
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- Life is scary to one who lives with shame
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- And what feels like the antidote.
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- Control is actually its own prison.
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- I know that because i lived that way for many years,
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- I can had no control over
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- My father's anger and ultimate death by suicide.
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- The confusion, fear, grief, and shame that produced in me
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- Pushed me into a desperate need to control something.
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- I didn't turn to food or alcohol
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- For my must weigh darker and more twisted.
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- I tried to control the love of god.
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- For years i lived under the burden
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- Of trying to be good enough for god.
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- But because it looked good on the outside,
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- I was never challenged by anyone.
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- I mean, if you show up drunk
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- At your bible study, people will notice
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- If your weight has skyrocketed, it shows up in the real world.
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- But if you're the one who volunteers
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- For everything at your church,
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- The one who leads the bible study, who speaks,
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- Who sits on
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- National television every day and talks about the love of god.
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- Only he knows whether you're serving at the pain of passion
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- And of a genuine calling or a devastating wound.
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- The true, unadulterated gospel of jesus christ
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- Is that god loves us so much
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- That he sent jesus christ to take our place on the cross.
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- When christ cried out, it is finished,
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- He was saying, the bill is paid in full.
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- He took the shame, the punishment on himself,
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- So that when we are in relationship with him,
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- When we trust the finished work on the cross we█re forgiven
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- Or loved and we're free.
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- There's nothing
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- That you and i could do to add what jesus has already done.
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- It is finished and you can be free in christ.
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- Can you
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- Bring to god whatever feels out of your control
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- And by faith say, i don't understand,
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- But i trust you, and i choose to let go.
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- The first verse i learned as a child was psalm 46, verse ten.
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- Be still and know that i am god.
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- The hebrew root.
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- That's translated be still actually means let go.
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- When we let go, we acknowledge to him, you are god.
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- Let's pray.
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- Father, thank you so much
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- That we don't have to control everything going on around us.
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- Lord, so often we feel like we should
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- And we feel like we can. but the truth is, we can't.
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- And yet we know that you are in control.
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- That no matter what's happening around us,
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- You are god and you are on the throne.
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- The holy spirit
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- Would you bring to our attention anything we are holding onto,
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- And help us, by your grace, to let go and trust you.
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- We ask that in jesus name, amen.
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