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: "Even in ‘prison’
rejoice 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 112 and for the laymen
edition or Standard Edition, on page 73. 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 ---“Believe to the end, even if all men go
astray and you are left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then
and praise God in your loneliness.” Words of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky
spending years in prison in Russia. ---The rejoicing letter of Phillipians is
from a prison. Paul. ---Did you know that you can be in a
prison even if you are not? ---Yes. This world is actually a prison
with Satan as the Warden but Jesus and the Holy Spirit as cellmates. Powerful
cellmates. ---No one will lift a finger to you with
the indwelling Spirit of God. ---I do not want to allegorize the whole
Bible as many did. But our habits and tastes and feelings and passions can
imprison us. ---Overcome is the motto. All is the goal.
Can is the promise. Victory is the freedom of spirit in rejoicing always in the
Lord. ---Attended a baptism yesterday. One of
our Sabbath School Lesson members. ---When she came to church in the morning
of her baptism, she was imprisoned with her jewelry. She came with big white
earrings and a white necklace around the neck. ---But when the Spirit of God baptized her
in the water, they were all off! ---After the baptism she grabbed the
necklace but the earrings she left off. ---In time she will be free from them
also. And her red and pink fingernails and toe-nails. Rejoice in the Lord for
freedom of soul and spirit. With the Spirit in us. ---She was a school teacher and another
SDA school teacher met her in 2002 at a school meeting for education. ---Some cultures do things together as a
family. Others sleep separately, husbands and wives. When in a group they eat
separately, males and females. ---In some cultures it is unheard of to
have the wives’ father-in-law or mother-in-law living with them. Only the husband’s
parent may. ---Cultural habits may imprison people
too. ---People suffer under cultural habits
too. Rejoice in the Lord always.