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: Living a Life of Thanksgiving | 5 Minutes with Jesus | November 28, 2025
- Take a moment to
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- Imagine how your relationship with god would be enriched.
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- If you consciously developed some holy habits
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- That put you in his presence, even for just a moment,
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- Several times throughout the day.
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- Now, before you get overwhelmed, i'm not talking about a huge
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- Amount of time here.
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- What i do regularly throughout the day is i just stop
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- What i'm doing.
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- I turn my heart towards my heavenly father
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- And i thank him for his love.
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- When paul wrote
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- His letter to the colossians, which is modern day turkey,
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- He was under house arrest in rome.
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- He's never had the opportunity
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- To visit the believers in the church there,
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- But he was concerned for them
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- That they would be able to stay true to the gospel
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- And not be carried away by new and different ideas.
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- In many ways, life's not so different today.
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- So many people are wandering away
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- From the truth of god's word to messages
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- That sound better to them or suit their lifestyle.
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- I read yesterday something that i found disturbing.
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- More people
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- This year have been reading the bible, which is awesome,
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- But a fewer number believe that it can be 100% trusted.
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- I have never been more convinced in my life of the power
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- Of god's word
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- To transform our lives and keep us close to jesus.
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- If you read the whole letter, it's clear
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- That paul could have filled it with compelling arguments.
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- Dismantling lies that some were beginning
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- To believe, but instead
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- He writes about jesus.
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- His letter is filled with the beauty of who jesus
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- Is his lordship and sufficiency.
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- In chapter three, he writes, let the message about christ,
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- In all its richness fill your lives.
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- Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives.
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- Sing psalms
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- And hymns and spiritual songs to god with thankful hearts.
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- And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative
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- Of the lord jesus, giving thanks through him to god the father.
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- Whatever you do or say, do it as a representative
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- Of the lord jesus.
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- What a beautiful reminder of how we should live every day.
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- No matter where we are, who were with what's expected of us.
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- We do it as a representative of christ.
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- I love the way eugene
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- Peterson presents this passage in the message bible.
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- Let the peace of christ keep you in tune with each other, in
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- Step with each other.
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- None of this going off and doing your own thing
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- And cultivate thankfulness at the word of christ.
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- The message. have the run of the house.
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- Give it plenty of room in your lives.
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- Instruct and direct one another using good common sense
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- And sing.
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- Sing your heart set to god.
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- But every detail in your lights, words, actions,
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- Whatever be done in the name of the master.
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- Jesus thanking god the father every step of the way.
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- I love that it says, cultivate thankfulness.
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- That makes it clear that it doesn't
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- Always come naturally to us
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- When there's so many distractions in life.
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- But thankfulness is a habit that we can develop.
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- Habits are powerful.
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- Pulitzer prize winning poet mary oliver wrote, the patterns
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- Of our lives reveal us, our habits measure us.
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- Miss oliver, she's right.
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- When we take time to think about our habits
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- Honestly, we're able to see pretty quickly what we love.
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- What i believe our good habits also have the power to shape
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- Our lives.
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- It can be tools to strengthen us in our walk with god.
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- I take a moment to imagine how your relationship with god
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- Would be enriched if you consciously developed
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- Some holy habits that put you in his presence,
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- Even for just a moment.
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- Several times throughout the day.
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- Now, before you get overwhelmed, i'm not talking about a huge
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- Amount of time here.
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- What i do regularly throughout the day is i just stop.
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- I'm doing.
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- I turn my heart
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- Towards my heavenly father and i thank him for his love.
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- I'd love to be able to say that this is my original idea,
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- But it's as old as church history.
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- It's the same heart behind the commonplace practices
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- Such as morning and evening prayers and bible reading.
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- Morning and evening are still a great place to begin.
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- Like in the morning, we can pray with the psalmist in psalm 90.
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- Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love that
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- We may sing for joy and be glad all our days and the evening.
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- I love to read psalm 141.
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- Accept my prayer as incense offered to you
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- And my upraised hands as an evening offering.
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- Then we move into a new day, and we do it with a heart
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- Representing the lord jesus and everything we do.
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- Let's pray.
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- Or that is our desire
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- To represent our lord jesus christ in everything we do,
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- Wherever we show up today, whoever we're speaking to,
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- Whatever situation.
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- Help us to be a representative of who you are.
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- Jesus.
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- Let us be your fragrance in this world
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- And we ask it in your powerful name.
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- Amen.
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