Daily Lesson for Wednesday 31st of January 2024 Read Psalms 77:1-20. What experience is the author going through? Psalms 77:1-20 begins with a plea to God for help that is filled with lament and painful remembering of the past (Psalms 77:1-6). The psalmist’s whole being is mournfully turned to God. He refuses to be comforted … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Tuesday 30th of January 2024 Read Psalms 42:1-3, Psalms 63:1, Psalms 69:1-3, and Psalms 102:1-7. What causes great pain to the psalmist? Not only does personal and communal sufferings trouble the psalmist but also, if not more, God’s seeming lack of attention to His servants’ hardships. God’s absence is felt like intense … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Monday 29th of January 2024 Read Psalms 41:1-4; Psalms 88:3-12; and Psalms 102:3-5,11,23-24. What experiences do these texts describe? In what can you relate to what is said here? These prayers for salvation from illness and death demonstrate that God’s children are not exempt from the sufferings of this world. The Psalms … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Sunday 28th of January 2024 Read Psalms 74:18-22 and Psalms 79:5-13. What is at stake here? The psalmist seeks to grasp the great controversy between God and the powers of evil, and he points to God’s unfathomable forbearance, as well as to His infinite wisdom and power. The problem of evil in … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Sabbath 27th of January 2024 Read for This Week’s Study Psalms 79:5-13, Psalms 88:3-12, Psalms 69:1-3, Psalms 22:1, Psalms 77:1-20, Psalms 73:1-20, 1 Peter 1:17. Memory Text: “How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?” (Psalms 137:4). We do not need to get deep into the book of Psalms … Continue reading –>
Inside Story for Friday 26th of January 2024 By Joe Peola Margaret and her husband, Levana, were sitting one morning in their living room in Perth, Australia, after returning the previous night from a trip to Papua New Guinea, located some 2,000 miles (4,500 kilometers) away. Margaret was reflecting quietly on her father’s parting words … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Friday 26th of January 2024 Read Ellen G. White, “The Night of Wrestling,” pp. 195–203, in Patriarchs and Prophets. What can we learn from Jacob’s experience about the power of importunate prayer and unreserved trust in God? The Psalms strengthen our faith in God, who is the never-failing Refuge for those who … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Thursday 25th of January 2024 Read Psalms 3:4; Psalms 14:7; Psalms 20:1-3; Psalms 27:5; Psalms 36:8; Psalms 61:4; and Psalms 68:5,35. Where does help come from in these texts? The motif of spiritual and physical refuge and help notably appears in the context of the sanctuary. The sanctuary is a place of … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Wednesday 24th of January 2024 Read 1 Corinthians 10:1-4. How does Paul describe the Exodus story? What spiritual lesson does he seek to teach with it? Read Psalms 114:1-8. How is the divine deliverance of the people of Israel from Egypt poetically described here? What a poetic depiction of God’s marvelous deliverance … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Tuesday 23rd of January 2024 Read Psalms 17:7-9, Psalms 31:1-3, and Psalms 91:2-7. What does the psalmist do in times of trouble? The psalmist encounters various sorts of troubles and, in them, turns to the Lord, who is a refuge in every adversity. Trust is a deliberate choice to acknowledge God’s lordship … Continue reading –>
