Welcome to today's encouragement from the Our Daily Bread Devotional.

Our reading titled God's Mighty Power was written by Lisa M. Samra.

The seemingly impossible happened when Hurricane Force winds changed the flow of the mighty Mississippi River.

In August 2021, Hurricane Ida came ashore on the coast of Louisiana and the astonishing result was a negative flow,

meaning water actually flowed upriver for several hours.

Experts estimate that over its life cycle, a hurricane can expend energy equivalent to 10,000 nuclear bombs. Such incredible power to change the course of

flowing water helps me understand the Israelites' response to a far more significant negative flow recorded

in Exodus. While fleeing the Egyptians who'd enslaved them for centuries, the Israelites came to

the edge of the Red Sea. In front of them was a wide body of water and behind them was the heavily

armored Egyptian army. In that seemingly impossible situation,

Exodus 14 tells us, the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry

land, and the Israelites went through the sea. Rescued in that incredible display of power, the people feared the Lord.

Responding with awe is natural after experiencing the immensity of God's power, but it didn't end there.

The Israelites also put their trust in Him. As we experience God's power in creation, we too can stand in

awe of His might and place our trust in Him.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Exodus chapter 14, verses 21 through 23, and 26 through 31.

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land.

The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through

the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left. The Egyptians

pursued them, and all Pharaoh's horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea.

And now, picking up at verse 26, then the Lord said to Moses,

Stretch out your hands over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their

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