This lesson teaching plan is prepared for Sabbath School Class on June 13, 2026.

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Key Text: “And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us” (Romans 5:3-5, NKJV).

Read in Class: Mark 4:35-41.

Study: What lessons on faith can you take from here?

Apply: What is your usual response when you face a storm in your life? How do such moments impact your relationship with God? When have you lived out 2 Corinthians 5:7?

Share: Sailboats can’t move without wind. Can you share a time when the “stormwinds” actually got you to a better place? See Do You Have Enough Faith Not to Ask Jesus to Calm the Storm?

Read in Class: Mark 5:21-34.

Study: What happened, and what can we learn?

Apply: How did this woman in such great need demonstrate the ideas in Romans 5:3-5? What might this look like in your life?

Share: Share why you think Jesus thought it was important to identify the woman in the crowd, even though she was already healed?

Read in Class: Job 19:23-27 and Job 23:8-12.

Study: What was Job’s attitude towards his setbacks?

Apply: What has been your attitude when life served you a setback? How did God’s grace carry you though, maybe even when your faith was not there?

Share: Share how you maintain your integrity when you are trying to do everything right, but everything keeps going wrong.

Read in Class: Luke 24:13-27.

Study: What were the differences between Jesus’ perspective and the other two men’s perspectives concerning the event they were discussing?

Apply: What is your attitude when God allows setbacks when you do not undersand why He allowed them?

Share: What are your go-to passages when you are experiencing a setback?

Mission: Can you think of someone who is experiencing a setback? Can you reach out to them this week and offer a prayer and word of encouragement?

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Daily Lesson for Sabbath 6th of June 2026

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Read for This Week’s Study

Mark 4:35-41; Mark 5:21-34; Romans 5:3-5; Job 19:23-27; Job 23:8-12; Luke 24:13-27; Romans 8:18,28.

Memory Text:

“And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us” (Romans 5:3-5, NKJV).

One evening, as the sun dipped over the horizon, a girl was walking home when a dark storm blew in. She quickened her pace, knowing there was still a way to go. A lone raindrop fell on her cheek, then another, and, before she knew it, she was drenched. She started to run toward the front door of her home, where her father rushed to meet her. He had been watching her from the front window. As he wrapped a blanket around her shoulders, he asked her, “I saw you just now, in the rain. Why, with every bolt of lightning, did you stop running to look up and smile?”

“Oh, I stopped to look up,” she said, “because God was taking my picture!”

What is our response when the storms of life come or when we have certain setbacks in our relationship with God? Do we put our head down as the rain pelts upon our backs or do we look up, knowing and trusting that God is there as we turn our face toward Him?

This week, we’ll explore some responses we often have when life is challenging. We’ll consider how we might use life’s setbacks to strengthen, not weaken, our most important relationship.

*Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, June 13.

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Inside Story for Friday 5th of June 2026

This mission story illustrates the “Mission For All” objective of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s “I Will Go” strategic plan, which says in part, “Christ mingled, showed sympathy, ministered to needs, won confidence, then invited people to follow Him. The goal is to take a genuine interest in people, leading them to Christ and inviting them to unite with the Seventh-day Adventist Church as disciples of Christ who make disciples.” Read more at IWillGo.org. Watch a short YouTube video of Miriam at bit.ly/Miriam-IS.

Miriam, a 41-year-old mother in Zambia, didn’t feel well. Her head pounded. Her body ached. Dark sadness filled her mind.

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With a heavy heart, she went to the opening night of a weeklong evangelistic meeting in Livingston. At the meeting, she was befriended by a Seventh-day Adventist woman named Majorie. Miriam poured out the pain of her heart and asked for prayer. Majorie prayed for her.

Then something unusual happened. The next day, Miriam was stirring a pot of maize porridge on a fire outside her house at 11 a.m. Like many Zambians, she did her cooking outdoors because a national power shortage had left many homes without electricity. As she stirred, she sensed a voice say, Go and read the Bible right now. Leave your pot and read the Bible.

Miriam didn’t know what to read in the Bible. She went inside the house, opened her Bible, and read the first chapter that she saw. She was amazed. She felt like God was talking directly to her.

She closed the Bible and finished cooking the porridge outside. Then she returned and read another chapter. It seemed like God was telling her, “Do you know that I still love you? Live how I want you to live.”

Joy flooded her heart. Her body aches disappeared, and her headache went away. She knelt down and prayed, “Forgive me, God.”

Miriam returned to the evangelistic meeting in the evening. She darted over to Majorie and told her about what had happened.

Tears came to Majorie’s eyes when she learned that Miriam had heard the voice telling her to read the Bible at 11 a.m. At that exact time, she had felt an urge to pray for Miriam at home.

“Find time to read the Bible every day, and don’t forget to pray all the time,” Majorie said. “The Bible and prayer are the key for everything.”

Months have passed since Miriam began reading the Bible and praying regularly. Her head has stopped pounding. Her body has stopped aching. The dark sadness that once filled her heart has been replaced with sunny joy and a fervent desire to live for God.

“The Bible has encouraged me,” she said. “God is working through the Bible. If the devil wants to bring confusion, I just claim the promises of the Bible and pray.”

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Daily Lesson for Friday 5th of June 2026
Further Thought:

The Bible often uses agricultural metaphors to describe our spiritual condition.

Hosea 10:12 is one example that captures what we have discussed this week:

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We sow, reap, break up the hard soil, and seek God to come close to us. The hard soil of our hearts must be prepared and ready for the rain (Holy Spirit) to fall on it. God can give us the desire to prepare the soil, but, ultimately, a relationship with Him is a partnership (see Philippians 2:12-13). We have to turn our heads toward Him, reach out to Him, and cling onto Him. Then He works in us to do the rest.

One great example of what clinging to God means can be found in these verses: “Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you. But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day” (Deuteronomy 4:3-4).

Discussion Questions

Summary: Identifying our sins in response to the Holy Spirit’s promptings and surrendering self in repentance are vital parts of having a thriving relationship with God. Knowing that we are completely forgiven and covered by Jesus’ robe of righteousness is the most transformative experience for a human being. Not only do we feel the weight of sin lifted, but we feel the love of God surround us as we are drawn closer to Him. This binds us to God, strengthens us spiritually, and compels us to love Him with every fiber of our being.

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Daily Lesson for Thursday 4th of June 2026

Nice clothing too often defines the rich by worldly standards. Some people say, “I dress this way to express who I am.” But in heaven, everything other than our relationships will fade away (Matthew 6:19-21, NKJV). Our personal identity should be wrapped up in Jesus and His perfect robe of righteousness.

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Jesus called the man without a robe “friend,” and despite his lack of response, they must have had a relationship. The man must have known about the robe but had chosen not to wear it. Jesus’ character is perfect and spotless, and He offers it to us that His church “should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white” (Revelation 19:8), “not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing” (Ephesians 5:27).

The white linen “is the righteousness of Christ, His own unblemished character, that through faith is imparted to all who receive Him as their personal Saviour.”—Ellen G. White, Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 310.

Adam and Eve wore a white robe of soft light before they sinned; after they sinned, they realized they were naked (Genesis 3:7) and made clothing of fig leaves. Then God replaced their fig leaves with clothing made of animal skins. There was a sacrifice that produced their garment. In a similar way, we accept Jesus’ sacrifice by accepting His robe of righteousness. “Naked and ashamed, they tried to supply the place of the heavenly garments by sewing together fig leaves for covering. . . . Nothing can man devise to supply the place of his lost robe of innocence. No fig-leaf garment, no worldly citizen dress, can be worn by those who sit down with Christ and angels at the marriage supper of the Lamb. Only the covering which Christ Himself has provided can make us meet to appear in God’s presence. This covering, the robe of His own righteousness, Christ will put upon every repenting, believing soul.”—Ellen G. White, Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 311.

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