Hello, my name is Sochill Dixon.

Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread, mutual encouragement.

After another week of being beaten down by more medical setbacks, I slumped onto the sofa. I didn't want to think about

anything. I didn't want to talk to anybody. I couldn't even pray. Discouragement and doubt weighed me

down as I turned on the television. I began watching a commercial showing a little girl

talking to her younger brother.

You're a champion, she said.

As she continued affirming him, his grin grew.

So did mine.

God's people have always struggled with discouragement and doubt.

Quoting Psalm 95, which affirms that God's voice can be heard through the Holy Spirit,

the writer of Hebrews warned believers in Jesus to avoid the mistakes made by the Israelites while wandering in the wilderness.

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God, he wrote.

But encourage one another daily.

With our lifeline of hope secured in Christ, we can experience the power-packed fuel we need to persevere.

Mutual encouragement within the fellowship of believers. When one believer

doubts, other believers can offer affirmation and accountability. As God strengthens us, his people,

we can offer the power of mutual encouragement to one another.

Today's our daily bread devotional scripture reading is from Hebrews chapter 3,

verses 7 to 19.

So, as the Holy Spirit says, today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion during the time of testing in the wilderness, where your ancestors tested and tried me,

though for 40 years they saw what I did. That is why I was angry with that generation. I said their hearts are

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