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: Make Room for Peace | 5 Minutes with Jesus | January 13, 2026
- If you're like me,
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- There have been times when you've picked up your phone
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- Or turned on the television.
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- Planning to spend just a few minutes in front of the screen.
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- Only be shocked to be shocked later
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- By how much time has actually slipped away.
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- This isn't about condemnation.
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- No, no,
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- It's about taking a few minutes to think about how distracting
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- Our world can be and choosing to protect our time
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- With the father.
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- Too many times, i finally got myself
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- To shut off the phone or television.
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- Just kind of wishing
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- I'd actually spent that time differently.
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- But i've never regretted a single second
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- I spent in the presence of my heavenly father.
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- And i'm sure the same goes for you.
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- I love the book of romans.
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- And toward the end of his letter to the church in rome,
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- Paul writes this i pray that god, the source of hope,
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- Will fill you completely with joy and peace.
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- Because you trust in him.
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- Then you will overflow with confident hope
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- Through the power of the holy spirit.
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- Peace seems to be something that's missing in our world,
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- And not just between nations,
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- In our own hearts and lives.
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- There's so many distractions around us every day
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- And scrolling on our phones.
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- It's become like an olympic sport.
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- Have you ever noticed how much time you spend on social media
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- And been horrified?
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- I know i have, but we have been offered a better way to live,
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- And the powerful closing chapters of c.s.
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- Lewis the chronicles of narnia series, the old narnia,
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- In all its wonder and beauty, was being swept away to make new
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- For the new narnia perfect and eternal.
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- The kings and queens of old
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- Had all been called back to narnia from earth,
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- So they might forever rule in paradise with aslan.
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- All except one.
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- One queen was missing.
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- If you've read the story with.
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- Here's a little excerpt.
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- Where is queen susan?
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- Tyrion asked.
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- My sister susan answered peter shortly, and gravely,
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- Is no longer a friend of narnia.
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- Oh, susan, said jill.
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- She's interested in nothing nowadays except nylons
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- And lipstick and invitations.
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- Well,
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- It seems that susan had become so captivated
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- By the lovely things of this world
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- That when the moment came for her to permanently
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- Take her place as queen in the new narnia,
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- She could no longer hear aslan's call.
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- You know, there's something about that.
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- Just like susan was so easily distracted by a world
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- That's filled to the brim with things to do.
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- Places to go and amazing things to see.
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- Even on a recent trip to one of the poorest barrios
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- In the dominican republic.
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- I saw satellite dishes on corrugated iron roofs.
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- Western entertainment was flooding into homes
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- That often struggled to put food on the table.
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- So is any wonder we find it challenging
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- To hear that still small voice of god, whom
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- We are surrounded by so many bright and shiny distractions.
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- So many buttons to push,
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- So many screens to swipe and post to like.
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- If you're like me,
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- There have been times when you've picked up your phone
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- Or turned on the television.
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- Planning to spend just a few minutes in front of the screen.
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- Only be shocked to be shocked later
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- By how much time has actually slipped away.
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- This isn't about condemnation.
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- No, no,
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- It's about taking a few minutes to think about how distracting
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- Our world can be and choosing to protect our time
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- With the father.
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- Too many times, i finally got myself
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- To shut off the phone or television.
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- Just kind of wishing
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- I'd actually spent that time differently.
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- But i've never regretted a single second
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- I spent in the presence of my heavenly father.
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- And i'm sure the same goes for you.
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- In matthew's gospel, chapter six, jesus says this.
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- Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth where moths
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- And vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
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- But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
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- Where moths and vermin do not destroy,
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- And where thieves do not break in and steal.
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- But where you treasure
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- Is there your heart will be also.
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- I don't know about you, but this year
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- I'm thinking to myself.
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- I don't need more stuff.
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- What we need is more of jesus.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, thank you for that call back to you.
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- Thank you that you've invited us to lay up our treasures
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- In heaven.
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- And lord, we know that where we've placed our treasures,
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- That's where we've placed our heart.
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- And it's our earnest desire
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- That rather than trying to accumulate more stuff
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- This year, that we would spend more time in your presence,
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- And that that's where our heart would truly be.
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- We ask it in jesus name,
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- Amen.
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