Old Testament - Joshua 1–8; 23–24, "Be Strong and of a Good Courage"
Come Follow Me for Us
Melanie Stroud
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about Joshua, courage, and what it means to step into the Jordan before the waters part. I share Jen's powerful conversion story and how her faith reminds all of us that we can do hard things when we know the gospel is true. I also talk about Jericho, keeping the commandments with exactness, and trusting that when the Lord asks us to keep walking, the walls really can come down.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Come Follow Me for us, a weekly podcast devoted to helping us gain a deeper love for the Savior in his gospel through a weekly study of the scriptures. |
| 0:09.9 | Hopefully this study will help further prepare us to accompany the Savior as he beckons. |
| 0:13.6 | Come follow me. |
| 0:18.0 | And as always, I'm your host, Melanie Stroud. |
| 0:24.9 | This is Joshua 1 through 8 and 23 through 24. Be Strong and of a good courage. And I just want to say that I was going on a trip and so Sunday |
| 0:33.6 | night I wrote the podcast and I sat down to record it so it could be all done before I left. |
| 0:39.6 | And as I spoke, my words fell flat. |
| 0:42.4 | I didn't feel the spirit. |
| 0:43.9 | And I didn't know why because it was so good. |
| 0:46.7 | This is such a good lesson and there's so many good things in there. |
| 0:49.4 | And I was so frustrated and I couldn't understand why it wasn't working. |
| 0:53.2 | And so I finally just gave up, |
| 0:57.0 | erased it and said, well, I'll have to do it later in the week. And then when I got on |
| 1:03.2 | the plane, I thought, well, I'll edit an interview that I did with this woman back in February |
| 1:08.0 | that I've been waiting for the right time and it just kind of hasn't felt |
| 1:11.6 | right and so I opened it up and started editing it and I realized why I didn't have anything |
| 1:18.4 | to say and it was because her interview is what needs to be said this week about having courage and about stepping into the Jordan before it |
| 1:30.4 | splits and sometimes the Lord asks us to do things that we don't understand but when we press |
| 1:34.9 | board and do them with faith then the miracles happen in our life and so and I'm sorry that |
| 1:42.8 | the audio quality isn't the best. |
| 1:45.0 | I am using a little lapel mic in a hotel room, but it'll all work out just fine. |
| 1:51.0 | I just want to give a little background to the story and where we are. |
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