The morning Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks.

Studying In the Crucible with Christ in the SSnet.org series Lesson 9, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: "Rejoicing in the Lord always” in Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson In the Crucible with Christ”.

The Opening Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God"

The Sabbath School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on page 111 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 72.

The SSnet.org site allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose your own language to see God speaking also to your heart.

Why do you not click on this now? https://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2022:3Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ322_08.pdf

---The lesson this week will focus on the Letter of Paul to Phillipians, a Letter of joy. “Rejoice in the Lord always and again I said rejoice”.

---I remember our home condition in times of trial.

---We went bankrupt because I was too young to know why, except my father lost his contract works at the new Railway building site with other contract workers as well.

---We lost almost everything. But, we had house worship every night. We attended church as before. From middle-class to very poor. Who cares when you worship the Creator of the Universe!

---Take everything. My soul belongs to God. No-one can take that. That was our attitude.

---Living in a house given to us by my uncle just next to his acres. Walls were not cemented. Two room building. No toilets. Longdrop for a toilet.

---No water. My father had to bring a drum every day for the water. Our house-worker (the custom in Africa) stayed with our family for 25 years of my life through thick and thin, wealth or bankruptcy.

---With mud my father built her a house and with cow-dung she made the floor as they do in Africa. With straw they built her roof.

---Roofplates were put together for our kitchen. No electricy. Candles.

---My father found another job and kept building which was his trade. His working team stayed with him! We kept having family worship every evening, kept praying, kept going to pathfinders, to church, to Sabbath-school lessons. Kept praising the Lord in our lives.

---As Charles Bradford said in his sermon “I wish I had a praying church” on Youtube: “A house or a cottage or why should I care”.

---Atheists like Karl Marx thinks our religious experience is an opium. It does change us, if that is what he saw. Did you know that he studied the book of Isaiah in university with Friedrich Engels with a theology professor?

---Agnostics think that it is just a normal human reaction to survive for even animals have to lick wounds after the got the wounds.

---There is more to it. If you remain faithful like Job, God picks up the scattered pieces of your life and glues them all together and exalts you levels higher! How do I know it? It happened with our family.

---When my brother died in a car accident that Friday night, the next morning early I saw my father standing among the fruit-trees, biting his fist and cry. He and God had a deep conversation. That is what is the best life option. Know Whom you should talk to. And do it!

---In Australia the Australians are proud of their prison numbers. They show it to you. Australia was apparently a prison country. A place to send criminals. But, they converted and stood up and live holy lives. New life but scars of the past memories remains. Now they laugh with an open mouth showing you the number.

---Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I said rejoice.