Inside Story for Friday 22nd of May 2026

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Lindsay didn’t go to Solusi University, a Seventh-day Adventist institution in Zimbabwe, because of her faith. She wasn’t Adventist. She didn’t go because she had friends there. She didn’t know anyone on the campus. She went to Solusi because she didn’t want to be caught in a falsehood.

As Lindsay completed high school, she dreamed about studying at a university. But then her parents broke the news that they didn’t have the money.

“You have to understand,” Mother said. “I promise that you will go to the university, even if it takes time.”

Mother was a tailor, and Father sold the dresses, curtains, and sofa covers that she made. But the business wasn’t doing well when Lindsay finished high school, and her parents decided to move to Botswana.

Father tried to encourage her. “Things will get better,” he said.

Lindsay helped with the family business for the next five years. Old friends called from Zimbabwe to see how she was doing.

“What’s happening in your life?” they asked.

“I’m studying just like you,” she replied.

As time passed, she nearly gave up on her dream of going to a university.

Mother’s business gradually improved. She got more customers and opened a shop. One day, she and Father called Lindsay over and, with smiles, announced that she could choose a university to continue her studies.

Lindsay was thrilled, but she was unsure where to go. She considered the University of Zimbabwe, but friends were studying there, and she didn’t want them to know that she hadn’t been studying. She looked at Midlands State University, but friends also were studying there. She had friends at every university except one: Solusi. So, she decided to go there.

When Lindsay arrived, she was unfamiliar with the Adventist Church. But she went to church every Sabbath and, eight months later, was baptized. Her parents celebrated her decision to live for Jesus.

Today, Lindsay Chikanda is 24 and finishing her first year of studies. She is ready to tell her high-school friends the truth, saying, “I’m so sorry, but I didn’t tell you the truth. I wasn’t studying. I actually was in Botswana because my parents couldn’t afford to pay my tuition, and I was working with them. But then I came to Solusi, and I found God. Would you like to know God, too?”

Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/26b-08-inside-story-going-to-solusi-to-hide/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=26b-08-inside-story-going-to-solusi-to-hide

Daily Lesson for Friday 22nd of May 2026
Further Thought:

We are justified (pardoned and set right with God) by faith (Romans 5:1).

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We are then also sanctified (given power to be like Jesus) by faith (Acts 26:18). When we invite Jesus into our lives, we also become God’s children by faith (John 1:12). We live by faith in the Son of God (Galatians 2:20).

“Nothing is apparently more helpless, yet really more invincible, than the soul that feels its nothingness and relies wholly on the merits of the Saviour. By prayer, by the study of His word, by faith in His abiding presence, the weakness of human beings may live in contact with the living Christ, and He will hold them by a hand that will never let go.”—Ellen G. White, The Ministry of Healing, p. 182.

“Their faith must be strengthened by fervent prayer and fasting, and humiliation of heart. They must be emptied of self, and be filled with the Spirit and power of God. Earnest, persevering supplication to God in faith—faith that leads to entire dependence upon God, and unreserved consecration to His work—can alone avail to bring men to the Holy Spirit’s aid in the battle against principalities and powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world, and wicked spirits in high places.”—Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 431.

Discussion Questions

Summary: God gives each person a measure of faith as a foundation for a relationship with Him. As the Author and Finisher of our faith, Jesus modeled the power of faith for us all. When our faith is small, when we come with weeping and supplication and have a surrendered heart, God will work miracles in our lives (see Jeremiah 31:2-4,9,11-12). He will lead us in His straight ways so that we do not stumble any longer, and we will have peace. Jesus is the perfect example in all things, and having His faith will identify us as His people in the end times.

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Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/26b-08-further-thought-having-faith/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=26b-08-further-thought-having-faith

Daily Lesson for Thursday 21st of May 2026

As this world comes to a close, part of the three angels’ messages describes God’s people keeping the commandments of God and having the faith of Jesus.

If you study how Seventh-day Adventists have understood justification by faith, you’ll see that in the 1890s, an understanding of the faith of Jesus and the three angels’ messages was greatly emphasized in the church. Up until then, the church had put a great deal of emphasis on the law, and it needed more of a gospel emphasis. Ellen G. White summarized it well: “The com­mandments of God have been proclaimed, but the faith of Jesus Christ has not been proclaimed by Seventh-day Adventists as of equal importance, the law and the gospel going hand in hand.”—Selected Messages, book 3, p. 172.

Although Hebrews 11:1-40 lists godly men and women who had strong faith, no one has had faith that is comparable to Jesus’ faith.

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When we have the faith of Jesus, this means not only that by obe­dience to Him and His Word we will emulate the faith that He had in God, but also that we will have an active and living daily experience with Jesus. It’s knowing and acting on the fact that without making Jesus the center of our daily lives, we can’t have a saving relationship with God.

Having the faith of Jesus means to have Jesus abiding in us, and thus His faith in our hearts, for Jesus is the true foundation of our faith. At times our faith might be weak and feeble. But Jesus is worthy (Revelation 5:9), and we can have His faith, both reflected in our own experience and being credited to us, by His gift of grace to all who believe.

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Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/26b-08-the-faith-of-jesus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=26b-08-the-faith-of-jesus