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| Sheila Walsh: Say Yes To God | 5 Minutes With Jesus | July 20, 2026
- I used to tease my mom when i was a teenager,
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- As she had a little picture
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- Above her bed that simply said these two words, yes, lord.
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- And i would say to her, mom,
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- You don't know what you're saying yes to.
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- Her reply was always the same i know who i'm saying
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- Yes to.
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- Love reading god's word.
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- And honestly, the more you read, the more you learn.
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- But more than that, the more you feel god's presence.
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- Plus, all the hebrew and greek words
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- When you go deeper are so rich with meaning.
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- Well, recently i was interviewing
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- A friend of mine, yael eckstein, who's president and ceo
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- Of the international fellowship of christians and jews.
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- We were talking about what
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- Life is like in israel at the moment
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- And how she, as a mom, deals with her 19 year old daughter
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- Being in the army,
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- As well as life for her three younger children.
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- Yeah, i'll mention a hebrew word that i wasn't familiar with,
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- But it's had a profound impact on me ever since.
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- The word is, and you may be familiar with this.
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- The word is hineni, and it means here i am.
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- She said that when she's praying for her
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- Family, she's moved from asking god
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- Why certain things happen to asking god, what?
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- What do you want me to do here?
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- So what? not why?
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- So i began to look in scripture for that word
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- And the circumstances surrounding it.
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- And it's challenged how i live in these days.
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- In genesis chapter 22, verse one, we read sometime
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- Later god tested abraham's faith.
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- Abraham. god called.
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- Yes, he replied, here i am he.
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- Hineni, take your son.
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- Your only son.
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- Yes. isaac, whom you love so much.
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- And go to the land of moriah.
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- Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of
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- The mountains, which i will show you the next morning.
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- Abraham got up early.
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- What's so clear to me from abraham's story is that
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- Here i am is far more than just a geographical location.
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- It's not just saying, here i am.
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- It's saying i'm all in.
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- Whatever you ask me, i say yes.
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- And exodus chapter three moses is looking out for his
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- Father in law's flock, and he saw bush on fire.
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- But the leaves were not burning up there.
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- The angel of the lord appeared to him
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- In a blazing fire from the middle of a bush.
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- Moses stared in amazement.
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- Though the bush was engulfed in flames, it didn't burn up.
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- This is amazing, moses said to himself.
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- Why isn't that bush burning up?
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- I must go see it.
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- When the lord saw moses coming to take a closer look,
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- God called to him from the middle of the bush.
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- Moses, moses, here
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- I am, he, nanny moses replied.
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- That's the word he nanny again, here i am.
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- And the prophet isaiah responded with the same words
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- You might remember in isaiah chapter six we read.
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- Then i heard the lord asking, whom should
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- I send us a messenger to this people who will go for us?
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- I said, here i am.
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- Send me all of these heroes of the faith in god's word,
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- And many more said the exact same thing to god.
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- Here i am.
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- And when i think of the things
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- That were being asked to do, one thing becomes so clear to me.
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- This is not about religion.
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- It's all about relationship and trust.
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- I've always struggled with what god asked abraham to do.
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- He was told that through this son,
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- His ancestors would be as numerous
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- As the stars in the sky.
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- And now he was being asked to sacrifice that very son.
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- When i read that abraham got up early
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- The next morning, it challenges my faith.
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- If god asked me to do something that felt unthinkable,
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- Would i be setting my alarm to make sure i could get to
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- As soon as possible?
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- But i believe that abraham's trust in god was so great
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- That he believed that
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- Even if he had to bring the knife down on his son isaac,
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- God would bring him back to life.
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- To say he nanny to god is to say whatever you're asking of me.
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- My answer is yes, and we can only do that
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- When we understand who he is and how much we're loved.
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- When we doubt who god is, it's very hard to say.
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- Here i am because we don't trust his character.
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- I used to tease my mom when i was a teenager,
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- As she had a little picture
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- Above her bed that simply said these two words, yes, lord.
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- And i would say to her, mom,
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- You don't know what you're saying yes to.
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- Her reply was always the same i know who i'm saying yes to.
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- That changes everything.
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- So a few thoughts.
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- Number one, ask god to help you trust him more.
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- Number two, let reading god's word change you because it will.
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- Number three, say yes to god because you trust him
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- In all the little and the big things.
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- Number four grow in your faith so that when you hear god
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- Whisper, your answer immediately is, here i am.
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- When we know who god is, we're able to pray with abraham,
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- Moses, isaiah, and especially jesus.
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- Here i am, he nanny.
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- I'm all in lord. let's pray.
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- Lord, i want to thank you that you've given us
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- Such an honest record of your dealings with people.
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- From the very beginning
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- Of the hard things you asked and how you were present.
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- So i ask right now, lord, that you would help
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- Us, help us to understand who
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- You are, more so that we're able to give an unreserved.
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- Yes, here i am, lord.
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- I ask it in jesus name. amen.
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