Hi friends, I'm Mike Whitmer, and I'd like to welcome you to today's encouragement from

our daily bread.

I titled today's reading, Lyft.

During our tour of an aircraft carrier, a jet fighter pilot explained that planes need a 56

kilometer per hour wind to take off on such a short runway. To reach this steady breeze,

the captain turns his ship into the wind. Shouldn't the wind come from the plane's back? I

asked. The pilot answered, no. The jets must fly

into the wind. That's the only way to achieve lift. God called Joshua to lead his people

into the winds that awaited them in the promised land. Joshua required two things. Internally, he needed to be strong and very

courageous, and externally, he needed challenges. This included the daily task of leading thousands

of Israelites, facing walled cities, demoralizing defeats, Aiken's theft, and continual battles.

The wind that blew in Joshua's face would lift his life, as long as his thrust, came from God's instructions.

God said, he must be careful to obey all the law. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, meditate on it

day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it.

Then you will be prosperous and successful.

Are you resolved to follow God's ways no matter what?

Then look for challenges.

Fly boldly into the wind and see your spirit soar.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Joshua

1, verse 1 through 9.

After the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua, son of none, Moses

aid, Moses my servant is dead.

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