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: Letting Go of Fear | 5 Minutes with Jesus | November 5, 2025
- Has living
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- In our uncertain age stolen your peace?
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- A time to get alone with god today.
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- Let him remind you that he is.
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- And he always will be.
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- Forever and ever, your refuge, your strength
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- And your peace.
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- I love the scripture from second timothy chapter one verse
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- Seven for god gave us a spirit not of fear,
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- But of power and love and self-control.
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- When you hear a verse like that, how do you feel?
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- If you want to take a moment right now
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- And think about the areas in your life that fear shows up.
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- What would that look like?
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- Well, yeah,
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- It feels as if our world is getting crazier every day
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- And there's so many things to be afraid of.
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- I think one of the areas in life that's most challenging
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- Is thinking of all the what ifs.
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- You know what? if i lose my job?
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- What if i can't pay my bills?
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- What if something happens to my children?
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- What if i get sick?
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- How do we
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- Live in such a way that we can face what is true
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- And real, yet not let fear control our hearts and minds?
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- I've been challenged by a man i've actually never met.
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- He's a soft spoken, gentle man with silver hair called
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- Louis sako.
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- He's an archbishop
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- And patriarch of the chaldean church in baghdad, iraq.
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- He recently survived an assassination attempt,
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- But that kind of danger hasn't kept him from ministering.
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- And one of the most difficult places on earth, a place
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- Where bombs explode and evil is on the march.
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- A place where his life is under constant threat.
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- So why does he stay?
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- This is what he said.
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- We're consecrated.
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- We give our lives.
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- We should be courageous.
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- Our world today consume especially frightening.
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- How do we live courageously?
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- How can we be the beautiful fragrance of christ
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- And the peace of christ?
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- At a time when ordinary moments are increasingly invaded
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- By seemingly random acts of violence?
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- Well, in the old testament, gideon faced the same challenge.
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- When we first meet him in judges chapter six.
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- He is threshing
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- Wheat in a winepress to hide from the midianites
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- For seven years.
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- Israel had been suffering
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- Terrible oppression and the midianites harsh rule.
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- This enemy moved through the land
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- Like locusts, consuming or destroying
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- Everything in their path.
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- The israelites had been forced to live in caves to survive.
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- So when the angel of the lord appeared
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- To commission gideon to deliver israel from midian.
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- Their conversation reveals that living under the constant
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- Threat of the midian invaders had taken a toll on gideon.
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- He was discouraged.
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- He was insecure.
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- He was worried, and he was afraid.
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- Makeup is unthinkable that a man like gideon
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- Could go on to become a mighty warrior or judge for
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- The nation of israel together or something.
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- That's what happened.
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- So what made the difference?
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- The answer to that question is found in judges chapter six,
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- Verses 22 through 24, under a terrible tree
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- Near the winepress, where he had been threshing wheat.
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- A fearful, anxious, traumatized gideon met with god,
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- And that encounter transformed the man revealed.
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- Gideon built an altar to god on the site to commemorate
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- The moment the power of god changed his life,
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- And he named the altar.
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- The lord is peace.
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- So that's how we live in crazy days.
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- We meet with god.
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- Has living in our uncertain age stolen your peace?
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- A time to get alone with god today.
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- Let him remind you that he is.
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- And he always will be.
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- Forever and ever, your refuge, your strength and your peace.
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- Let's pray.
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- Father, thank you that you are our peace.
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- Even when life seems so unpredictable.
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- And things happen every day that we didn't see coming.
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- Nothing surprises you.
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- So i just ask right now, lord, in jesus name, grace,
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- I he would gift us with the gift of your peace
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- That we would remember to look to you
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- When life gets scary, because you are the one who holds us
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- And we thank you jesus name, amen.
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