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: The Price of Obedience | 5 Minutes with Jesus | April 28, 2026
- Saying yes to god
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- Costs us, but also changes us.
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- It's the greatest adventure offered to us on this earth,
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- To say yes to god with our hands raised
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- And our faces tear streaked at times.
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- And matthew's gospel jesus says, if any of you wants to be
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- My follower, you must give up your own way,
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- Take up your cross and follow me.
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- If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it.
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- But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.
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- And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world
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- But lose your own soul?
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- We're not always given the outcome.
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- We want, but we are always
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- Given the presence of jesus,
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- Which changes absolutely everything.
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- Be. when you think of giving god an unconditional
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- Yes to whatever he might want to do with your life,
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- What would that feel like to you?
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- In some situations it wouldn't be no life changing.
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- Perhaps you believe that god wants you to change your major
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- At college, or get a new job.
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- But what if it was something that was really going
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- To cost you everything that's precious to you?
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- I was 37 years old when barry and i got married.
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- So having children
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- As quickly as possible was a high priority for us.
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- But as for many couples, months
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- After months, there was disappointment.
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- And we'd honestly come to a place of thinking
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- Simply wasn't possible.
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- When we discovered that we were pregnant.
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- I would be 40 years old when christian was born.
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- So the doctor was a little more concerned about my care.
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- The first few weeks i was as sick as a dog
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- And as happy as a lark.
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- I loved being pregnant
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- Until one visit with my doctor.
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- She told me that the results from some extra tests
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- That she had run made it clear that our son would not survive
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- Outside the womb.
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- I remember we drove home in silence that day.
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- She has suggested a termination, which we obviously refused,
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- But our hearts were broken
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- For the next few weeks and months.
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- I had to go into the hospital regularly for fetal monitoring.
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- I went through so many emotions.
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- I was so sad.
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- Then for a time, honestly, i was angry.
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- I remember saying, why would you give us
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- The promise of this child just to take him away?
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- And then i would go back to being heartbroken again.
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- But one day changed everything for me.
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- We were living by the sea in california at that time,
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- And i had a favorite rock to sit on each morning
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- With my bible and a cup of good coffee.
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- I started to have out with the lord that day.
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- To be really honest, i remember walking into the sea
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- Up to my ankles and praying out
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- Loud something like this. lord,
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- You've
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- Never told me that my life would be easy,
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- But you promised that you would never leave me.
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- You promised.
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- So i'm holding you to that.
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- I cannot do this without you.
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- So right now.
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- Right now.
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- I'm giving you this precious love.
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- And i'm asking for your will to be done.
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- My heart is that you.
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- Heal him.
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- But if you decide to take him home,
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- I need you 24 over seven.
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- Every single moment.
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- You know, the funny thing is, it's hard to describe
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- The piece that wrapped me up that day.
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- I remember lifting my arms to the sky in worship,
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- With tears pouring down my face and saying, i trust you.
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- I say yes to you.
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- Now, our story turned out very differently than what
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- The doctor told us.
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- She had put the wrong
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- Woman's results in my chart and mine and hers.
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- And there was never anything wrong with our little lamb.
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- I still
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- Pray for the woman who got the other call.
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- Saying yes to god costs
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- Us, but also changes us.
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- It's the greatest adventure offered to us on this earth,
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- To say yes to god with our hands raised
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- And our faces tear streaked at times.
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- And matthew's gospel jesus says, if any of you wants to be
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- My follower, you must give up your own way,
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- Take up your cross and follow me.
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- If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it.
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- But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.
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- And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world
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- But lose your own soul?
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- We're not always given the outcome.
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- We want, but we are always
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- Given the presence of jesus,
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- Which changes absolutely everything.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, i want to pray right now
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- For those who are hurting.
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- I pray for those who are in a season of waiting.
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- I pray for those who got the ads that they didn't want.
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- I pray for those who, when they sat in the doctor's
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- Office, got the diagnosis.
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- They didn't want.
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- I pray for those who are struggling financially.
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- I pray for those, lord, who are sitting at this very moment
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- In a devastating place.
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- And lord, i thank you
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- That we are invited to bring all of that to you.
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- Lord, you don't promises that everything will go in a way
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- That makes sense to us, but you do promise as your presence.
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- So we hold you to that jesus.
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- That you are with us even at this moment.
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- And i thank you and your powerful name.
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- Amen.
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