Key Thought: Our lives go through stages and changes. Some are good, some are not. Some we have control over, some we don’t. But we must remember as long as we are in Christ, He is in control.

April 6, 2019

1. Have a volunteer read Genesis 8:22.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. How is order seen in this passage?
3. Personal Application: Do you see any randomness or change in nature, or do you see order and design? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states: “What is so special about the weekly cycle anyway? It is just a man-made period of time and doesn’t affect us in any particular way.” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Job 1:13-19

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. Why does it seem that the troubles that happened to Job seem to be from God? The fire from heaven, the winds on the house. And some just seem like random violence from enemies?
3. Personal Application: How has your faith helped you amid the trials that unexpectedly interrupted your life? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “I don’t understand why God would promise to bless and prosper us, and then allow bad things to happen to us that causes pain, suffering, and loss. Some people get one bad thing after another until they are left devastated and speechless.”” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read Acts 9:1-6.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the main idea of this text is.
2. What great change happened to Saul and how did it happen?
3. Personal Application: What life-changing experience have you been through? Were there any lessons that you learned or should have learned? Share your thoughts
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states, “If you weren’t a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, what would be different in your life in how you live? Would you be the same or radically different?” How would you reply to your neighbor?

4. Have a volunteer read Ephesians 4:32.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the main idea of this text is.
2. What does it mean to be tenderhearted? Can you think of someone who might be considered tenderhearted?
3. Personal Application: How important is it to forgive others who have hurt us physically, emotionally, or verbally; intentionally or unintentionally? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared.”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

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