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| Sheila Walsh: When God is Silent | 5 Minutes With Jesus | July 10, 2026
- Have you
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- Ever believed god and stepped out in faith?
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- Perhaps those around you said you were crazy,
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- But you believed you'd heard from god.
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- And so in faith you moved forward.
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- So having taken that job or quit that job,
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- Having moved across the country, having joined that church
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- For ever, it was you expected that because you had stepped up,
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- God would do.
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- But things didn't work out
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- Quite the way you thought they would.
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- And you wondered, did i get it wrong?
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- Did i really hear from god, or was my family right?
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- God's timing is rarely on our schedule.
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- We tend to measure our understanding of god's ways
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- And will by the outcome that we see that god
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- Is far more interested in who we are becoming in the waiting.
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- Those.
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- Have you ever been in one of those places
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- Where you're waiting for an answer from god?
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- And heaven just seems silent, and you're not praying
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- For something selfish like a parking spot
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- At the mall at christmas,
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- But for something that really matters.
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- Do you hear nothing?
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- God's word is full of stories of men and women
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- Who waited for years to hear from god.
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- You know,
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- I think of abraham and sarah who became abraham and sarah.
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- If you were raised in church
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- As i was, it's easy to think that you know that story.
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- But as i've been studying it again,
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- I found it to be pretty mind blowing when god first
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- Introduced himself to abraham.
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- Abraham is 75 years old and he's a pagan,
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- About 2000 years before the birth of christ.
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- This is what god said to him.
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- The lord had said to abraham, leave your native country,
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- Your relatives
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- And your father's family, and go to the land that i will
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- Show you.
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- I will make you into a great nation.
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- I will bless you
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- And make you famous, and you will be a blessing
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- To others.
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- I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you
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- With contempt.
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- All the families on earth will be blessed through you.
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- So abraham departed as the lord had instructed.
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- As genesis 12
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- Has to be
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- So much more to the story than that, don't you think
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- I want the longer version?
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- Don't you wish you knew how god talked to him?
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- It had to be quite something for everyone to pack up his wife
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- And his nephew
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- And all his possessions and walk away from his home in her,
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- Which is modern day iraq.
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- He was leaving behind his birthright,
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- His inheritance, to follow a god.
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- He just met.
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- The land that god was promising him was 1500 miles away
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- Through hiran, which is modern day
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- Syria, and eventually all the way to canaan,
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- Which is modern day israel.
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- But abraham didn't know how far he would have to travel.
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- He simply believed god, and off he went.
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- Hundreds of miles from home, he and sarah found themselves
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- In a country where they couldn't speak the language.
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- They were old and they had no children.
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- Let me ask you a question.
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- Have you ever believed god and stepped out in faith?
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- Perhaps those around you said you were crazy,
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- But you believed you'd heard from god.
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- And so in faith you moved forward.
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- So having taken that job or quit that job,
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- Having moved across the country, having joined that church
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- For ever, it was you expected that because you had stepped up,
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- God would do.
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- But things didn't work out
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- Quite the way you thought they would.
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- And you wondered, did i get it wrong?
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- Did i really hear from god, or was my family right?
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- God's timing is rarely on our schedule.
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- We tend to measure our understanding of god's ways
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- And will by the outcome that we see that god
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- Is far more interested in who we are becoming in the waiting.
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- If you've been waiting for a long time
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- And god has been silent,
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- Let me to ask you to think about a couple of questions.
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- Number one, do you still right now believe he loves you?
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- What? answers don't come.
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- Do you still believe he is for you?
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- Jesus asked if he will find faith among us when he returns.
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- Will he? number two.
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- Do you believe that no matter how
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- Things appear around you, god is in control?
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- Do you believe he has a perfect plan for your life?
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- Do you believe his timing is perfect?
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- Until we settle how we will wait in the silence.
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- We will be unsettled in our lives
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- When we determine to trust god in the silence.
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- Our faith in who he is grow stronger.
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- I don't know where you are in the waiting.
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- I don't know who you are, but our father does.
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- One of the most healing things i do in times of god's
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- Silence is to meditate on his word.
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- These are some verses that
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- Continue to help me and i pray they help you to
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- In your waiting.
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- Number one lord, i wait for you.
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- You will answer, lord my god.
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- Number two in the morning, lord, you hear my voice.
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- In the morning i lay my requests before you
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- And wait expectantly.
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- Number three we wait and hope for the lord.
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- He is our help and our shield.
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- So wait in jesus.
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- Wait expectantly.
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- Wait and hope because of who he is.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, sometimes we don't understand your timing,
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- And sometimes we think
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- If we step out in faith that it will all go
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- The way that we thought it would go.
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- And very often it doesn't help us not to doubt you
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- When circumstances look different
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- Than what we thought they would be.
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- Help us to keep looking to you in the waiting, because i know
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- You care more about who we are becoming than what we are doing.
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- Help us, holy spirit, to rest in that.
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- In jesus name, amen.
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- Those.
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