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 | February 25, 2026
- If jesus didn't think that being honest showed a lack of faith,
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- Why should you and i?
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- The good news of salvation
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- Is that you get to be honest.
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- You don't have to bury your emotions.
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- Christianity is not a place to hide.
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- It's a place to come into the fullness of light.
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- It's a place to come into the daily safety
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- Of christ's presence.
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- In the morning when i wake up.
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- I love to meditate on this verse.
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- Be still and know that i am god.
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- We find that in psalm 46, verse ten.
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- It's the first verse i learned as a child from my mother.
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- And it was the first verse
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- She learned from her godly grandmother.
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- And she told me that psalm 46 had been a source of strength
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- To scottish women through two world wars.
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- She said that during world war one,
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- When men from the highlands and islands
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- Were called up to fight, they would gather on the pier
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- Waiting for transportation over to the mainland,
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- And together with their loved ones,
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- They would sing this hymn from the church of scotland
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- Hymn book.
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- God is our refuge and our strength,
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- And strait's a present aid.
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- Therefore, although the earth remove, we will not be afraid.
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- The hebrew root of the word
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- Be still means to release,
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- Go slack, to let go.
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- I want to think about that truth.
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- Somehow i understand it more.
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- As a child, i would try to sit and be quiet
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- And think that he was god, but this verse has become
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- Part of my daily spiritual practice.
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- Let go and know that i am god.
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- Let go of what you're trying to fix.
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- Let go of trying to be in control.
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- Let go of the things you don't like about yourself.
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- Let go of your expectations of the day ahead.
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- Let go,
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- Let go,
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- Let go and know that he is god.
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- But you know we can only do that.
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- However, if we truly believe in the goodness
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- And the love of god.
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- Do you think he's good?
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- Do you think he's for you?
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- Do you think he cares not just about the world,
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- But about you personally?
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- Do you think he loves you as much on your worst days
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- As he does?
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- When you're in a good place?
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- Do you think he answers?
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- And here's your prayers.
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- How we answer these questions will determine
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- Whether we trust him with our confession, and whether
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- We will make him our safe place to tell the truth.
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- It will determine whether we will still worship him
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- When nothing in our life makes sense, when it seems
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- That the very god who loves us is silent.
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- You know, even christ had to face the silence of god
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- Had to make the decision to tell the whole truth.
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- And an article i read published by christianity today.
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- Zaya merrill wrote this the greatest glory
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- Jesus brought to god was not when he walked on the water
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- Or prayed for long hours,
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- But when he cried in agony in the garden of gethsemane
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- And still continued to follow god's will, even though it meant
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- Isolation, darkness, and the silence of god.
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- Crucifixion was the most despicable way to die.
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- And the roman world.
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- It was barbaric, shameful,
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- And excruciatingly painful.
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- When a condemned criminal was on his way to be crucified,
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- He was made to carry the cross beam himself.
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- It was clear to everyone watching
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- That this was a one way ticket.
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- He would not be returning yet.
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- Christ set his face toward the cross still.
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- Do you remember
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- What jesus told his friends in the garden of gethsemane?
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- Do you remember how he prayed?
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- He told them,
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- My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death.
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- Stay here and keep watch with me.
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- He went on a little further and bowed with his face
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- To the ground, praying.
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- My father, if it is possible,
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- Let this cup of suffering be taken away from me.
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- Yet i want
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- Your will to be done, not my.
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- Jesus didn't pretend that
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- He gladly embraced the agony of crucifixion.
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- He didn't spend some syrupy
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- Theological truth about the glory of suffering.
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- Instead, he told the truth first to his friends,
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- Then, in the stillness of his father's presence,
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- He was deeply troubled, distressed,
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- Anxious, and devastated.
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- And that's how he prayed.
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- So let me ask you this.
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- If jesus didn't think that being honest showed a lack of faith,
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- Why should you and i?
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- The good news of salvation
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- Is that you get to be honest.
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- You don't have to bury your emotions.
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- Christianity is not a place to hide.
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- It's a place to come into the fullness of light.
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- It's a place to come into the daily safety
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- Of christ's presence.
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- I highly recommend the practice of finding a verse
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- And meditating on it.
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- Find a verse that you want to sit with
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- For a while and commit it to memory.
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- Christian meditation is very different
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- From eastern meditation,
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- Where you're encouraged to empty your mind.
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- Christian meditation is filling your mind
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- With the word of god, and that is life changing.
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- Let me pray for you.
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- Father, first of all, i want to thank you for your word.
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- Thank you that you've left us a roadmap.
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- Thank you that we have this picture of your love
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- From the first words in genesis to the final revelation.
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- This has all been about you
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- Making it possible to find our way home.
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- Jesus.
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- Thank you
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- That you modeled for us what it looks like to be in pain
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- And where to take our pain.
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- Thank you that you took your pain
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- Into the presence of your father.
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- And then you poured out a whole truth.
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- Would you give us the grace to do the same,
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- Believing that we are invited to come as we are,
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- To be honest, to be real, to tell the whole truth,
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- And that we will find the grace to be able to get up again.
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- Thank you that you love us, even now.
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- In jesus name,
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- Amen.
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