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| Sheila Walsh: New Year, New Mindset | 5 Minutes with Jesus | January 1, 2026
- Why would god want to keep us
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- And his promises to us so often when we have just messed up?
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- But the bible reminds us of a truth we too often forget.
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- A truth that shines as clear as daylight.
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- Because god cannot help himself.
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- The force of his righteousness and mercy,
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- Which were from everlasting and formed a covenant with us,
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- Are the unchanging foundation
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- Upon which his promises are built.
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- God does not change,
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- Nor do the glories of his person and the salvation
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- He has provided for us.
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- God's promises are as dependable as he is
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- Because they are him.
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- Like.
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- I love this text
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- From second corinthians chapter one, verse 20.
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- For no matter
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- How many promises god has made, they are yes in christ.
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- And so through him the amen is spoken by us
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- To the glory of god.
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- When you think of promises,
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- You don't want to think of what's broken, of brokenness
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- As human nature, to want a sure thing.
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- And for someone to back up the certainties.
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- Guaranteed. no questions asked.
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- But it's just like god to think of the unthinkable,
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- To show us that the impossible is possible.
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- That there is one kind of brokenness
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- That holds everything together and in which promises are kept.
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- For me, choosing to study the promises of god and depth
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- Began with a letter.
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- I get very few actual mail delivered to my mailbox
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- These days.
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- Most of my friends communicate
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- Via email or text, probably like you.
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- So handwritten envelope on my desk
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- Was something of a novelty.
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- I picked it up and tore it
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- Open with curiosity, and then i began to read.
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- I've never met the woman who wrote to me,
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- But apparently she heard me speak at an event and sensed,
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- Like, connection with me.
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- She wrote about some of the struggles
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- She's been through in the past few years,
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- And honestly, they were not small things.
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- Illness, financial hardship and the break up of her marriage.
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- But amid all these hardships, one line arrested my attention
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- Because of its profound simplicity.
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- Here's what she wrote.
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- I would not have made this far without the promises of god.
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- I would not have made it this far
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- Without the promises of god.
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- I read her letter again.
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- On one hand, there was enormous human pain, but on the other.
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- Words on paper from a god we can't see.
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- And the invisible help of the holy spirit.
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- Or at
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- The some of the scales might have seemed imbalanced.
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- The tangible hardships of her life or your life
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- Left her body, heart and soul stripped bare in some seasons.
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- Yet her confidence was compelling, beautifully
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- And almost heartbreakingly compelling.
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- And her words did not read to me like wishful thinking,
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- But as an absolute proclamation that she has lived out in i.
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- One of those i know that i know that i know tear based ways.
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- And honestly,
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- I thought of friends and others i've met in my 30 years
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- Of speaking to women around the world.
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- I've remembered people who face similar difficult circumstances
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- And struggled to find hope in the midst of their messes.
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- I've read through notes left on my facebook page.
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- Notes slipped into my hand at the end of a speaking event
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- From the darkest caves of countless hearts,
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- But i've heard that same primal cry,
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- The same questions over and over from those who want to know.
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- Has god forgotten me?
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- Does my life matter?
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- Is there a plan somewhere in all of this mess?
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- Why didn't god heal my marriage?
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- How do i know that god even heard my prayer?
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- Sometimes in our pain or in our panic, we forget god.
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- We forget his promises.
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- Why would god want to keep us and his promises to us
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- So often when we have just messed up?
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- But the bible reminds us of a truth we too often forget.
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- A truth that shines as clear as daylight.
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- Because god cannot help himself.
- 00:04:25.578 --> 00:04:28.581
- The force of his righteousness and mercy,
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- Which were from everlasting and formed a covenant with us,
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- Are the unchanging foundation
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- Upon which his promises are built.
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- God does not change,
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- Nor do the glories of his person and the salvation
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- He has provided for us.
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- God's promises are as dependable
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- As he is because they are him.
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- As i studied the word promise in the old testament,
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- I came across a very interesting fact the two hebrew words
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- We translate into english as a promise are the hebrew
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- Words debar, meaning to say an omer, meaning to speak.
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- So in other words, when god says something and god speaks,
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- That's as good as it gets.
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- When god speaks, he cannot lie.
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- So we can build our lives on his promises.
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- Let's pray.
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- Father, thank you that you are not man, that you should lie.
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- Thank you for every promise you have ever made.
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- We can stake our lives on.
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- So today, lord, despite what might be going on around us
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- Or even within us, we cling to your promises.
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- We know that you are good. that you are for us.
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- And you have promised to give us a future and a hope.
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- In jesus name,
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- Amen.
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