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| Sheila Walsh: Waiting For Our Savior | 5 Minutes with Jesus | December 4, 2025
- I don't know where you are in your own faith journey.
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- How long you've waited for a promise to be fulfilled.
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- But as we move into this holy season.
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- Can you open your heart again to hope, to expectancy?
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- Can you trust that god is for you?
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- That he is with you?
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- You may have been hurt, disappointed.
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- You may have stopped looking for miracles.
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- A pause just for a moment.
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- And remember, no matter what you are waiting for.
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- The greatest gift has been given.
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- He was given for you his worth, you know.
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- Even though he was wrapped in the most fragile, unexpected
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- Wrapping of all.
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- I didn't think i'd be digging up
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- Barry's christmas stocking in february.
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- Where else would i put such an unexpected gift?
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- I never thought i'd be a mum.
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- Barry and i didn't marry until i was 38 years old.
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- And although that's certainly not too old to have a child,
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- I was afraid to hope.
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- So i'll never forget that morning.
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- It was a friday.
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- I remember that because the local weatherman
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- Said we would have an unusually warm weekend for february.
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- Barry had left for his office
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- And i was cleaning out the bathroom cabinets,
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- A job that had been on my list for weeks.
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- I filled a bucket with hot water and disinfectant,
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- Pulled on some rubber gloves, and surveyed the landscape.
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- We are that couple, the ones who shove
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- Everything into any space that has a door that closes
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- Fully intending to sort it out in a couple of days
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- That turn into weeks and then months.
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- So i pulled everything out from under the sink
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- And in the drawers and began scrubbing the surfaces.
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- Apparently, barry was collecting used toothbrushes,
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- But with the old came the new.
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- He had packages with.
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- Yes, i counted 56 brand new razors.
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- The man is a mystery.
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- As i was putting the right things back in the right places.
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- I picked up a box and paused several months
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- Before i purchased a large box of pregnancy testing kits
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- And as i looked in the box, there was just one left.
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- Honestly, i was going to start out
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- With a sad looking toothbrushes, but i'm scottish.
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- We don't do that. have you taken the test?
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- I sat on the bathroom window ledge just as the phone rang.
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- Well, it was my sister frances calling from scotland
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- And we chatted for about 30 minutes
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- And when i returned to the bathroom, i picked up the test,
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- Wipe down the surface, and threw the test in the trash.
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- And it was as it fell in slow motion
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- As how it seemed spinning in the air.
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- Landing with the result site down.
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- Why didn't i look at it before i threw it away?
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- You might wonder.
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- I think, honestly, i had looked too many times
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- Over, too many months,
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- And had come to believe that this gift was
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- Not was for others, not for me.
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- No matter how much i wanted it to be
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- Sat beside the trash can for some time
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- Before i finally picked it up and turned it over.
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- Stared at it for a while
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- As big tears began to run down my cheeks.
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- I was going to be a mom.
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- I shoved everything back in the drawers
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- And under the sink and thought,
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- How do i tell barry to call him now?
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- Not over the phone.
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- I decided that as this was the greatest gift,
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- I should treat it like that. so i put the little test
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- In a little box and a gift wrapped it.
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- Then i put that box in a slightly bigger box
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- And wrapped that,
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- By my rough calculations,
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- Our little one would be born in december.
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- So i find a friend, barry's christmas stocking.
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- Put the box in that and wrap the stocking.
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- When we were engaged,
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- Barry told me that he'd waited all his life to be a dad.
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- You know, waiting is hard.
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- If i've had to wait for news about a loved one for an update
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- On a diagnosis for your child's college acceptance letter,
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- For a long held
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- Dream to be fulfilled, you know that only too well.
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- Perhaps you're waiting now.
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- The hardest thing about waiting, i think, is to keep hope
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- Alive.
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- To still believe.
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- To stay open and expectant.
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- I often wonder what waiting was like for god's people.
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- As the old testament closed its pages.
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- Now, over 300 prophecies about the coming messiah
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- In the old testament,
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- All written hundreds of years before his birth.
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- How do you
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- Keep hope alive 160 years,
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- 700 years before the birth of christ?
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- The prophet isaiah wrote.
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- For a child is born to us, a son is given to us.
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- The government will rest on his shoulders,
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- And he will be called wonderful counselor, mighty god,
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- Everlasting father, prince of peace.
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- His government and its peace will never end.
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- He will rule with fairness and justice
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- From the throne of his ancestor david for all eternity.
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- Passionate commitment of the lord of heaven's
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- Armies will make this happen.
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- They weren't just waiting.
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- Any child.
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- They were waiting for the one.
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- The one who had changed everything.
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- Earlier in this prophecy, isaiah wrote that the virgin
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- Will conceive a child.
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- She will give birth to a son, and we'll call him emmanuel,
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- Which means god is with us.
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- God with us.
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- What a promise. yeah, what a wait.
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- I don't know where you are in your own faith journey.
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- How long you've waited for a promise to be fulfilled.
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- But as we move into this holy season,
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- Can you open your heart again to hope, to expectancy?
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- Can you trust that god is for you?
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- That he is with you?
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- You may have been hurt, disappointed.
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- You may have stopped looking for miracles.
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- A pause just for a moment.
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- And remember, no matter what you are waiting for.
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- The greatest gift has been given.
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- It was given for you.
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- He is with you now.
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- Even though he was wrapped in the most fragile,
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- Unexpected wrapping.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord jesus, how could we ever find the words
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- To thank you for what you did?
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- That you are willing to come and be born as a child.
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- To live among us. to show us what god is like.
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- And lord, i pray right now for anyone who's struggling.
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- Disappointment.
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- Anyone who's in a waiting season.
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- Lord, will you give us the gift of your presence?
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- That we would wait in expectancy.
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- We ask in jesus name. amen.
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