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: Maintain a Positive Mindset | 5 Minutes with Jesus | March 10, 2026
- God isn't looking for a
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- Holy place to meet with us because of jesus.
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- We are the holy place and god
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- Is always waiting to meet with us wherever we are.
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- And a closet in the shower and an office
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- As we walk the dog, as we wait in line at the grocery store,
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- At a chemotherapy appointment, anywhere.
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- Everywhere.
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- This truth is overwhelming.
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- God invites you and me to come into his presence.
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- We have an all access pass
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- To the king of kings.
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- Did you know that in biblical hebrew
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- There is no word for mind?
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- What is presented in the old testament
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- Is the heart which is seen as the center of our being,
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- Our will, our thoughts, our imagination.
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- In the new testament, the word for mind is nous.
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- But we often see the heart and mind brought together,
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- As in like philippians chapter four verse six.
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- Don't worry about anything.
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- Instead, pray about everything.
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- Tell god what you need and thank him for all he has done.
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- Then you will experience
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- God's peace which exceeds anything we can understand.
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- His peace will guard your hearts and minds
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- As you live in christ jesus.
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- One of my favorite texts from the prophet
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- Isaiah is found in isaiah chapter 26, verse three.
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- We read, you will keep in perfect peace
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- All who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you.
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- So how do we do that?
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- How do we fix our thoughts on the lord?
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- It seems to me that there are two main ingredients
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- The power of the word of god
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- And the cooperation of our own minds.
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- Let me explain what i mean by that.
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- As i read this illustration in the niv application
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- Commentary on the bible, which i found really helpful,
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- And it's kind of a simple thing, but it might help you.
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- Modern airliners are guided by their onboard computers.
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- Pilots are told where they are and where they're to go
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- By those computers.
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- But airports still have runway lights.
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- Pilots
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- Check the accuracy of the computer
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- By visually watching those lights.
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- So also the christian.
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- We are guided by our minds,
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- Which are in the process of being renewed by god's spirit
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- So that they perfectly reflect god's will.
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- But because that process will never be completed in this life,
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- We still need the external guidance of god's commands
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- As set forth in scripture.
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- Here are two of
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- The most important disciplines i've put into place in my
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- Own life.
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- To help me fix my thoughts on the lord.
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- The first one is going to seem very obvious,
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- But honestly, for me it's life changing.
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- Soak your life in god's word.
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- I was brought
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- Up in a small baptist church to have a daily quiet time,
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- And once i was done, i felt like i was finished for the day.
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- But the more i began to understand that god's word
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- Is a living love letter to us, the more i moved reading
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- The bible off my to do list and onto my who i am list.
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- I heard someone say once that jesus saved their lives,
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- But the word of god was saving their minds.
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- I totally get that.
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- The more time we spend in god's word, the more we
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- Read wallpaper.
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- If you like our minds to what is true,
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- Not just to something that was stuck there years ago.
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- I don't know if you've if you ever tried to get wallpaper off.
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- That's what i grew up with in scotland and it's not easy.
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- You have to keep at it slowly tearing it off piece by piece.
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- So too, with our minds, with thoughts and beliefs
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- Have been there for years.
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- We scrape them off with the truth of god's word,
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- While the next seems equally obvious.
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- Prayer.
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- When we make prayer,
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- Some mysterious thing that we have to be
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- In the right place and position to do,
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- We miss out on the joy of
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- Relationship that prayer invites us into.
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- One year.
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- But my husband barry and i decided
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- That we were going to make the closet under the stairs.
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- Our prayer closet.
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- Well, on the first day, barry realized
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- That when you close the door, the light turns off.
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- So he took on a flashlight with them.
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- I didn't really like that idea.
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- So i brought in three candles, which worked until i knocked one
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- Over and set fire to my screams in the desert devotional.
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- Well, the next day,
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- Barry prayed for so long i was a little concerned.
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- So i opened the door and i found him
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- Fast asleep on the floor beside the dog.
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- By the end of week one, i banged my head on the slop
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- Ceiling twice, had needed to open
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- The closet door to let the dogs in, and i discovered
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- That i'm actually a little claustrophobic.
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- So our prayer closet experiment failed miserably.
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- Trying to
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- Find a holy place didn't work for us.
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- But the truth is,
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- God isn't looking
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- For a holy place to meet with us because of jesus.
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- We are the holy place and god
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- Is always waiting to meet with us wherever we are.
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- And a closet in the shower and an office
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- As we walk the dog, as we wait in line at the grocery store,
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- At a chemotherapy appointment, anywhere.
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- Everywhere.
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- This truth is overwhelming.
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- God invites you and me to come into his presence.
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- We have an all access pass to the king of kings.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, it's such a joy that we get to talk to you.
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- Such a joy that you wait for us.
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- That you love to hear from us.
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- And lord, for many of us, we felt
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- As if we're just not good at prayer.
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- Help us to understand that it's not about religion.
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- It's about relationship.
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- Do you just want to hear our hearts?
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- So i do ask you, holy spirit, would you teach us how to pray,
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- How to share all of our lives with the lord?
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- I ask in jesus name, amen.
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