Rivers to Cross
Our Daily Bread Podcast
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | I am with you as I was with Moses, Joshua 3.7. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:12.0 | Rivers to Cross was written by Tim Gustafsson and read by Stephen Tabor. Joshua, chapter 3, verses 9 through 11 and 13 through 17 |
| 0:26.2 | Joshua said to the Israelites, come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God. |
| 0:34.2 | This is how you will know that the living God is among you, and that he will certainly drive out before you, |
| 0:40.9 | the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Parasites, Gurgishites, Amorites, and Jebusites. |
| 0:48.5 | See, the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go into the Jordan ahead of you. As soon as the priests who carry the Ark of the Lord of all the earth will go into the Jordan ahead of you. |
| 0:55.3 | As soon as the priests who carry the Ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, set foot in the |
| 1:01.0 | Jordan, its waters flowing downstream will be cut off and stand up in a heap. So, when the people |
| 1:08.1 | broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests, carrying the Ark of the |
| 1:12.5 | Covenant, went ahead of them. |
| 1:15.1 | Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. |
| 1:19.0 | Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched |
| 1:23.9 | the water's edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap, |
| 1:30.7 | a great distance away, at a town called Adam in the vicinity of Zarathen, while the water flowing |
| 1:36.4 | down to the Sea of Araba, that is the Dead Sea, was completely cut off. So the people crossed over |
| 1:44.1 | opposite Jericho. The priests, who carried the |
| 1:47.5 | ark of the covenant of the Lord, stopped in the middle of the Jordan, and stood on dry ground |
| 1:52.7 | while all Israel passed by, until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground. |
| 2:01.0 | Rivers to Cross, written by Tim Gustafson. |
| 2:05.4 | When Chris McAndalus wandered off the grid and into the Alaskan wilderness, he expected to |
| 2:11.2 | return. But he crossed the Teclanika in April, well before summer ice melt would |
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