Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

The devotional for today was written by James Banks, and it's titled, Leaning into God.

Harriet Tubman couldn't read or write.

As an adolescent, she suffered a head injury at the hands of a

cruel slave master. That injury caused her to have seizures and lapses of consciousness for the rest of

her life. But once she escaped slavery, God used her to rescue as many as 300 others. Nicknamed Moses by those she freed,

Harriet bravely made 19 trips back to the pre-Civil War South to rescue others. She continued

even when there was a price on her head and her life was in constant danger. A devoted believer in Jesus.

She carried a hymnal and a Bible on every trip and had others read her verses, which

she committed to memory and quoted often.

I prayed all the time, she said, about my work everywhere.

I was always talking to the Lord. She also gave God credit for the

smallest successes. Her life was a powerful expression of the Apostle Paul's instruction to the early

Christians. Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

When we lean into God in the moment and live dependently in prayer, praising him despite our

difficulties, he gives us the strength to accomplish even the most challenging tasks.

Our Savior is greater than anything we face, and he will lead us as we look to him.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from 1st Thessalonians, chapter 5 12 through 24 now we ask you brothers and sisters to

acknowledge those who work hard among you who care for you in the lord and who admonish you

hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work live in peace with each other other, and we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are

idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone.

Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone

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