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: Saying Yes To God | 5 Minutes with Jesus | April 27, 2026
- For me now, at this stage in my life,
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- I pray that simple prayer of my mom
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- Every single day and every night
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- As i put my head on my pillow.
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- Yes, lord,
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- It's not because i've become some great woman of faith.
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- It's because i've fallen in love with the greatness
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- And trustworthiness of god.
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- I don't always know what i'm saying yes to,
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- But i don't have a shadow of a doubt.
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- Who i am saying yes to.
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- I want to talk to you about saying yes to god.
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- One of my mom's favorite bible text to quote
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- Was that well-known verse in jeremiah 2911,
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- For i know the plans i have for you, says the lord.
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- Their plans for good and not for disaster,
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- To give you a future and a hope.
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- I remember saying to her, i would just like to
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- See the plans.
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- Perhaps make a few suggestions and then sign off on the plans.
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- She made it very clear to me that was not an option.
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- Her favorite quote, though, was something
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- A friend had sewed for her when she was newly married.
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- It was a little picture with just two words on it.
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- It was very simple.
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- The two words were yes, lord.
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- I remember saying to her one day, mom,
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- You don't know what you're saying.
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- Yes, to.
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- She was quiet for a moment, and then she said, no,
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- But i know who i'm saying yes to.
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- Those two simple words and
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- My mom's faith have impacted me for my whole life.
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- True faith and trust in jesus
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- Means we get to say yes
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- Before god even asks a question
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- Because of who he is.
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- I recently watched a television dramatization of the story
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- Of abraham and sarah, and it was very well done.
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- And it was so clearly a picture
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- Of how an understanding of the character of god
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- Enables us to say yes, no matter what.
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- I mean, think about their story.
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- Abraham and sarah had waited years and years with no child
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- Until god told abraham that they would have a son,
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- And his ancestors would be as numerous as the sand
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- On the seashore.
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- It was impossible.
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- Sarah was almost 90 years old when she gave birth to isaac,
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- And they were given the gift of understanding
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- That with god nothing is impossible.
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- But the trial of faith comes.
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- But god asks abraham to take this son
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- Of the promise and sacrifice him.
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- We read that abraham got up early that morning and set off.
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- His yes was complete.
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- The verse that i find most inspirational
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- Is genesis chapter 22, verse five.
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- Abraham says to his servants,
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- Stay here with the donkeys.
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- Abraham told the servants,
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- The boy and i will travel a little further.
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- We will worship there,
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- And then we will come
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- Right back, not.
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- I will come back, but we will come back.
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- I believe abram's trust in the goodness and character
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- And promises of god was so profound
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- That he believed that even if he had
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- To stick a dagger in his son, god would bring him back to life
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- Because of what he had promised would happen through this son.
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- For me now, at this stage in my life,
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- I pray that simple prayer of my mom
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- Every single day and every night
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- As i put my head on my pillow.
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- Yes, lord,
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- It's not because i've become some great woman of faith.
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- It's because i've fallen in love with the greatness
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- And trustworthiness of god.
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- I don't always know what i'm saying yes to,
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- But i don't have a shadow of a doubt.
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- Who i am saying yes to.
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- If you find yourself in a tough place right now
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- And you find it very hard, tell the lord that.
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- Talk to him about it.
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- Ask the holy spirit to help you,
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- But get to know the character of god more.
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- The more you know who god is and who jesus is.
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- The yes comes so much easier.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, i want to thank you for the great
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- Yes that you said when you came to this earth.
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- And even as you knelt in the garden of gethsemane
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- And knelt with the father's know over you.
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- You still said yes.
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- And you set your face toward the cross because you love us.
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- Lord, help us to get to know you more,
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- Because the more we know you, the easier it is to say
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- Yes to you because of who you are.
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- You are not a god who is out to punish us.
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- You're a god who came to redeem us, and you did it in jesus.
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- And we thank you in his powerful name.
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- Amen.
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