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: Remembering God’s Faithfulness | 5 Minutes with Jesus | November 26, 2025
- We look back.
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- We remember god's faithfulness.
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- Can you do that today?
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- Where has god been faithful in your story?
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- It might have taken some time to see it,
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- But as you reflect now, it's clear.
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- God was faithful that god will be
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- Faithful now.
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- A man called asaph is the second
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- Most prolific author of the psalms, after king david.
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- He's been credited with writing 12 psalms
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- Under the inspiration of the holy spirit.
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- He was a very honest, transparent man
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- Who brought all of who he was and what he was going through
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- To the lord.
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- In psalm 77 he writes.
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- I cry out to god. yes!
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- I shout,
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- Oh, that god would listen to me when i was in deep trouble.
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- I searched for the lord all night long.
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- I prayed with hands lifted toward heaven, but
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- My soul was not comforted.
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- Do you ever felt that way?
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- You cry out to god and you wonder
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- If he's even listening to you.
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- That right.
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- But praying through a whole night and finding no comfort.
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- Perhaps you've been there.
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- Perhaps you're even there now.
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- My mother in law,
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- Eleanor, was diagnosed with cancer in her mid 60s.
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- She begged god to heal her.
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- The heavens seemed silent to her cries.
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- She questioned god's love for her
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- Because she wasn't being healed.
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- Remember conversations she and i had in the middle of the night
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- Not long before her death?
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- She told me that she believed that if i was the one
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- With cancer, god would heal me.
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- We worked together that night as i assured her
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- That god didn't love me.
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- One grain of sand more than he left her.
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- Then she asked me this question.
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- And why doesn't he answer my prayers?
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- I've been praying for so long.
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- I want to be around to see christian grow up.
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- We sat in silence for a while.
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- I had no words, but my heart was aching.
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- I began to sing one of her favorite hymns and she joined
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- And her voice was weak, but she was holding on to the truth.
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- Great is thy faithfulness, o god, my father.
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- There is no shadow of turning with me.
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- Thou changes not, that compassions they fail not,
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- As thou hast been forever will be.
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- Great is thy faithfulness.
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- Morning by morning new mercies i see all i have needed.
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- Thy hand provided.
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- Great is thy faithfulness, lord, unto me.
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- A few days later, eleanor went home to be with christ,
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- The one who loved her even in the silence.
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- On the day of reviewing.
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- Christian stayed with a friend as he was only three years old,
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- And william, barry and i drove to the funeral home
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- And then looked like she was asleep.
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- Her hands were folded over her chest.
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- She was wearing a cream and gold suit
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- She had worn to our wedding.
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- Her beautiful fiery red hair that never had a single gray in
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- Her life had been pushed a little too far
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- Back in her forehead,
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- So i gently pulled it down and into place.
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- My hands brushed against her face.
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- So cold.
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- Finally, i pinned a photo of her and christian,
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- Which she'd asked me to place in a casket
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- On the little satin pillow above her head.
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- Well done mom, i said.
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- You made it all the way home.
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- You held on.
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- I wrestled with elena's questions for a long time.
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- Why is heaven silent when we need to hear
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- God's voice?
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- Why would god hold back healing when he can't heal?
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- Does he love some of us less than others?
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- Why is he silent for me?
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- Never needed to hear his voice more than at that moment.
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- I find myself going back to psalm 77.
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- Asaph asked that very question.
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- So what did he do that helped him
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- Through his dark night?
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- If we read on, we find out this is what he says.
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- But then i recall all you've done.
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- Oh, lord, i remember your wonderful deeds of long ago.
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- They're constantly in my thoughts.
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- I cannot stop thinking about your mighty works.
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- So i guess that's what we do.
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- We look back.
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- We remember god's faithfulness.
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- Can you do that today?
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- Where has god been faithful in your story?
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- It might have taken some time to see it,
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- But as you reflect now, it's clear.
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- God was faithful that
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- God will be faithful now.
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- Let me pray for you.
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- Lord, we do want to thank you for your faithfulness.
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- We thank you that your mercies are new every single morning.
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- But lord, i pray right now
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- For those who are struggling with unanswered prayers.
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- Our prayers not answered the way that we begged for.
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- Lord, sometimes we don't get the answers we want.
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- But you have promised us your presence.
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- And i pray that now, in jesus name, amen.
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