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: Trust God in the Waiting | 5 Minutes with Jesus | November 21, 2025
- I don't know what you're facing today,
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- But i want to invite you into the greatest adventure
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- Of trusting god.
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- No matter what's going on.
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- Because he is worth it.
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- No, i has seen no ear, has heard,
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- And no mind has imagined what god has prepared
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- For those who love him.
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- Trust in the lord with all your heart.
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- Do not depend on your own understanding.
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- Seek his will and all you do.
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- And he will show you which path to take.
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- I've meditated on this text for years.
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- And you know, it's natural as humans to want to understand,
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- To go with what makes sense to us
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- That god is inviting us to trust him.
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- Even with all the if questions.
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- If god is a god who is loving, why did this happen?
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- If god is powerful, why didn't he stop that from happening?
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- If god, why?
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- If god, why?
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- I think this is one of the greatest challenges
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- To holding on when life feels out of control.
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- We know that if god wanted to change our circumstances,
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- He could.
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- He could save our marriage.
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- He could heal our child.
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- He could help us get a job.
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- He could help us have a baby.
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- So why would we hold on to the one who could help us?
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- If he doesn't?
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- Will we still love and worship god?
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- We don't always understand.
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- Every single one of us must wrestle with these questions.
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- When it feels as if life is falling apart.
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- Let me tell you what trusting god looked like
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- Up close and personal, and the lives of two of my
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- Very closest friends, brant, and generally travel.
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- The travels
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- Have been our closest friends
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- Since we moved to texas many years ago.
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- We used to live
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- Just a few houses down from them and our boys grew up together.
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- I have so many fond memories of sitting with gently in lawn
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- Chairs on the driveway,
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- Watching the boys on their bikes
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- Or their skateboards and summer evenings
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- Taking turns bandaging them up
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- When they attempted a new trick that didn't go well.
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- We used to laugh at the reality
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- That if anything was going to
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- Go wrong at any house in the neighborhood,
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- It would be the travis house.
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- But nothing could have
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- Prepared her for what was about to happen.
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- Just before christmas in 2010,
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- That december, brant had a seizure.
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- One morning, as he was about to take the boys to school.
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- Well, after several tests,
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- The doctors discovered that he had a brain tumor
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- When he came through the first surgery with flying
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- Colors, but his doctor couldn't remove all the tumor.
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- It was dormant for some time and then began to grow again.
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- After 17 months of chemo and radiation,
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- A second surgery was needed, and then gamma knife radiation
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- And a third surgery.
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- The team of doctors left no stone unturned
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- Throughout the entire painful journey,
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- When hope would rise, only to fall again.
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- I watched brant and gently continue to
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- Hold onto jesus unwaveringly.
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- The week before brant passed, now in hospice
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- Care, gently posted this scripture passage.
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- No, i has seen no ear, has heard,
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- And no mind has imagined what god has prepared
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- For those who love him.
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- When brant took his final breath on earth,
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- Gently, simply wrote, he made it
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- His home.
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- That's what they lived for.
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- He held on all the way home.
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- What i saw in both brant and gently,
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- Was a faith in christ that lasted over the long haul.
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- No matter how long things seemed to be out of control,
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- Brant never once in ten years asked, why me?
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- He trusted god even when he didn't understand.
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- I don't know what you're facing today,
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- But i want to invite you into the greatest adventure
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- Of trusting god.
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- No matter what's going on.
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- Because he is worth it.
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- Let's pray.
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- Father, i want to thank you that when we walked through things
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- That we did not see coming, you have promised to be with us.
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- I thank you for the faith of my friends.
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- Lord, i pray right now for anyone who is struggling
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- Walking through something
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- They did not see coming, something that feels too much.
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- Lord, by your holy spirit, will you give them the strength
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- And the grace and the peace that you promised us
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- When we walked through difficult situations?
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- Be very near to them now, lord.
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- In jesus name, amen.
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