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: Use Your Gifts | 5 Minutes with Jesus | March 4, 2026
- We are the body of christ.
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- And every one of us has been gifted to serve.
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- The gifts are given so that we can help each other.
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- In first corinthians chapter 12, verse seven.
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- Paul writes,
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- A spiritual gift
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- Is given to each of us so we can help each other
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- To one person.
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- The spirit gifts the ability to give wise advice to another.
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- The same spirit gives a message of special knowledge.
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- The same spirit gives great faith to another
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- And to someone else.
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- The one spirit gives the gift of healing.
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- When i was a teenager, my school music
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- Teacher told me that i had a gift
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- And she gave me the lead
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- Role of maria in the school production of west side story.
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- I was terrified.
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- To help me gain some confidence,
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- My mom decided to send me for private singing lessons.
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- I'll never forget the first night
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- The teacher's name was mr.
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- Twiddle harry hwiddle.
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- He sat at the piano
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- And played a short melody and asked me to sing it back to him,
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- Which i did.
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- At least i thought i did.
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- But he told me that i sounded like a cross between a sheep
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- And a machine gun.
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- Not the feedback
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- I was hoping for, but i learned an important lesson that night.
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- Gifts grow when you use them.
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- He helped me to see that although i had a pretty good
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- Voice, i needed to practice to become comfortable singing,
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- To learn how to breathe properly
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- So that i didn't pass out halfway through a song.
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- Well, it's the same with all of our god given spiritual gifts.
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- The church has missed out when we sit back and expect
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- Our pastor and a few others to do everything.
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- We are the body of christ, and every one of us
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- Has been gifted to serve.
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- The gifts are given so that we can help each other.
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- In first corinthians chapter 12, verse seven.
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- Paul writes
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- A spiritual gift
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- Is given to each of us so we can help each other.
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- To one person, the spirit gifts the ability to give wise advice
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- To another.
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- The same spirit gives a message of special knowledge.
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- The same spirit gives great faith to another
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- And to someone else.
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- The one spirit gives the gift of healing.
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- Let's look at the example of the gift of faith.
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- I've read this amazing story about george mueller
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- And one of my commentaries on first corinthians,
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- And it was told to mrs.
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- Charles cohen, and this is what she wrote about mueller.
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- I went to america some years ago with captain of a steamer
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- Who was a very devoted christian,
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- Off the coast of newfoundland
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- He said to me, the last time i crossed here, five weeks ago,
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- Something happened
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- Which revolutionized the whole of my christian life.
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- She said we had george mueller of bristol on board.
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- I had been on the bridge 24 hours and never left it.
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- George mueller came to me and said, captain,
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- I've come to tell you that i must be in quebec
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- Saturday afternoon.
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- It's impossible, i said, very well,
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- If your ship cannot take me, god, we'll find some other way.
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- I have never broken an engagement for 57 years.
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- Let us go down into the chart room and pray,
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- The captain said.
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- I looked at that man of god and thought to myself,
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- What lunatic asylum can this man have come from?
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- I never heard of such a thing as this, mr.
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- Mueller.
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- I said, this fog is so dense.
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- And he said, no, my eye is not on the density of the fog,
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- But on the living god who controls
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- Every circumstance of my life.
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- He knelt down and prayed one of the most simple prayers.
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- Am i need finished?
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- I was going to pray, but he put his hand
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- On my shoulder and told me not to pray.
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- First of all, he said, you don't believe he will answer.
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- And second, i believe that there's no need
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- Whatever for you to pray because god's already answered.
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- I looked at him and he said, captain,
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- I've known my lord for 57 years,
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- And there's never been a single day
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- That i've failed to get an audience with the king.
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- Get up, captain, and open the door,
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- And you'll find the fog gone.
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- I got
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- Up and the fog was indeed gone.
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- On saturday afternoon, george mueller
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- Was in quebec for his engagement.
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- Two things i want to say about that.
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- First, george mueller didn't start out like that.
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- That kind of faith grew as he took one
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- Small, simple step after another.
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- He started where he was with the faith he had.
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- And as he stepped out and god met him, then his faith grew.
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- Secondly, the captain of the ship said something happened
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- Which revolutionized the whole of my christian life.
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- George mueller's faith
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- Had a profound impact on the life of the sea captain.
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- We are not given gifts to build ourselves up,
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- But rather that our brothers and sisters would be built up.
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- That is the beauty of the body of christ.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord i want to thank you for the examples
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- You have left us of godly men and women who have started
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- Where they were and stepped out, and little steps.
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- And as they've done
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- That, you've met them in that place of faith has grown.
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- So, lord, we ask that for ourselves.
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- Will you help our faith to grow?
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- Help us to start where we are, lord,
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- And to pray for what we can believe.
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- And then as you move.
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- Help us to move, to pray and believe for greater things.
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- All for the glory of your son jesus christ, in whose
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- Name we pray. amen.
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