Christian Life: The Correct Way to Teach One’s Child and Be a Caring Mother

By Lexin, Hong Kong

Introduction:

“Mom, you used to be so strict with my studies that I never had any time to play. You’ve changed so much for the better now and you speak so gently. I love you, mom,” said the innocent, lively young girl cheerfully as she lay flat by her young mother’s ear, and the young mother’s face flushed with happiness.

God’s Love Spreads All Over the World

Hymn

God's Love Spreads All Over the World

I

Almighty God, a righteous, holy God,

Your pure love is

like drifting snowflakes,

white and beautiful, with a faint scent.

Softly enchanting,

it floats down on me

and dissolves into my love.

Your familiar voice reaches out

and calls to me.

I Found a Life More Meaningful Than Making Money

By Fang Hao, China

Lately a saying on the internet has been popular, “Without money, how will you support your family ties, solidify your love, and connect with your friends? With your words? Forget it! People are too busy for that!” In a society turned entirely to money, everything is dominated by such pragmatic considerations, everything material and immaterial are tokens that can be exchanged for money, and the number of bills in your pocket decide your value and status. If you have much money, others will scramble to serve and flatter you, but having no money makes others look down on you and make friends and relatives avoid you. As the saying goes “In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty; in time of adversity, not one amongst twenty.”

Only God's Intimates Are Worthy of Serving Him

A Hymn of God's Words

Only God's Intimates

Are Worthy of Serving Him

I

Those who serve God

should be His intimates,

be loved by God and be loyal to Him.

Whether in front of

or behind others you act,

God's joy you are able to gain

and you'll stand firm before God.

No matter how others treat you,

you will walk your own path,

give your cares to God's burden.

This is being an intimate of God.

This is being an intimate of God.

God's intimates are His confidants.

Seek to Love God No Matter How Great Your Suffering

A Hymn of God's Words
Seek to Love God
No Matter How Great Your Suffering
I
The faithful in China face so much
persecution and hardship.
Most people
don't understand God's will,
thinking suffering is valueless:
They're oppressed for their faith,
rejected by the world,
their homes are troubled too,
their future all too bleak,
all too bleak.
The suffering of some
becomes too much,
so much that they want to die.

Marching on the Path of Loving God

The Hymn of Life Experience

Marching on the Path of Loving God

I

I do not care

about the path ahead;

only doing God’s will

as my vocation.

Neither do I care

about my future.

Since I’ve chosen

to love God,

I’ll be faithful to the end.

No matter how great

the dangers

and hardships are,

or how rough and rugged

the path ahead,

since I

aim toward the day

God gains glory,

I’ll forsake everything

and strive to go forward.

What Is the Meaning of Christmas, and Are You Truly Worshiping the Lord Jesus

By Siyuan

The Origins of Christmas

 What Is the Meaning of Christmas, and Are You Truly Worshiping the Lord Jesus

      Every year, as Christmas approaches, shops on the street arrange a dazzling display of Christmas presents, with Santa Claus and Christmas trees, and so on. Festooned in trees and on buildings there are many-colored lights, and whole cities are decorated with lanterns and colored hangings, and everywhere there is joy and excitement. To Christianity, Christmas is a very special holiday, and several months before Christmas, many churches will begin to busy themselves preparing everything necessary for the Christmas holiday. On Christmas Day, the churches are filled, and brothers and sisters get involved in the celebrations, eating Christmas dinner, putting on performances and worshiping the Lord Jesus, and so on. Everyone’s face is flushed with happines.

The Church of Almighty God | Who Was It That Rescued Her Marriage?

Yang Zi, China

She had just turned twenty, she had a graceful figure and appeared as pretty as a flower, and there were many suitors pursuing her. But she didn’t pay this any mind until one day when her friend invited her to come out and she by chance met Lin. Lin was almost 6 feet tall, he was tall and handsome, with a dignified bearing. He spoke with humor and with wit, and was able to attract her in an instant. And Lin too was quite interested in her. The two of them started seeing each other very soon, and after a few months they got married. Before long they had a child of their own, and this made her feel very blessed. But good things don’t last forever. Just when she was starting to enjoy everything and long for a beautiful future, she discovered that Lin was not engaging in honest work every day. All day long he was idling about, and he would even go out often and get in fights and gamble.

Seeing God’s Hand in the Hardships of Selling and Buying a Home

Ma Ling

Part 1

Deep in the night when all was quiet, Ma Ling stood in silence by the window thinking about a conversation she had had with a church leader that day.

Testimony of a Christian: I Have Wealth More Valuable Than Money

By Shunxin, Thailand

Editor’s Note: If you have someone like this in your life, someone who wants to become wealthy but never succeeds, and who lives in torment, how should you help him escape his misery? What follows is the experience of author Shun Xin, whose predicament was precisely this, but today she can calmly evaluate her monetary gains and losses, and has found a wealth more valuable than riches. How did she emerge from her torment? And what is this wealth more valuable than money? Let’s discover these things through her story.

The Church of Almighty God | A Restaurant’s Harvest

Cong Xin worked as a waitress in a restaurant, and she had always been a conscientious worker. But for some reason, the manager had recently started to lose his temper with her indiscriminately. Ever since she was small, Cong Xin had always wanted to excel and to do her best at everything she did, and even her stepfather very seldom spoke ill of her. But now she had to face the restaurant manager who was purposefully making things difficult for her. So many times, Cong Xin had wanted to get into a blazing row with him, but when she thought of how she was a believer in God and that she must be someone with humanity and reason, she would realize that she could no longer act however she wished, as she had done before she believed in God.

The Church of Almighty God | The Seven Thunders Roll

A Hymn of God's Words

The Seven Thunders Roll

The seven thunders roll,shaking up the world,rending through the sky,changing heaven and earth.Piercing is the sound.Where can man run and hide?Heaven and earth are changed by thunder and lightning.Man lies dying.A fierce storm rolls in across the universe,fast as thunderbolt;heavy rain pours in.Each corner of the ear this bathed in this storm and nothing impure remains, oh, oh.The whole world is washed and nothing unclean stands.Who can hide from the stormy rain?Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.When destruction comes,all enemies will fall,defeated help less into the raging torrent.They're swiftly taken to their deserved end,defeated hopeless,rushed away to their death.

The Church of Almighty God | How Should I Face It, After Testing Positive for Hepatitis B?

How Should I Face It, After Testing Positive for Hepatitis B?

I was struck by an illness that came out of nowhere, and in the blink of an eye I had become mired in pain and despair, and I lost all hope for life. Nevertheless, through God’s wonderful salvation, I came to understand that God’s will was behind my illness, and I saw God’s wondrous deeds. Remembering the events of that time, they are as vivid to me now as they were then.

The Truth Showed Her the Way to Get Along With Others (Part 3)

Xiaomo

Soon after, as the duty became more difficult, the four people in Jiandan’s group came across a new problem. While they were checking the articles, they would often come across some issues they didn’t thoroughly understand and sometimes they would get quite worried. When they discussed the issues together, if one person suggested a solution and the other two were all of the same opinion, they would not wait for the fourth person to have their say. Jiandan felt that if the majority held the same view then it should be right, and that by doing this they could be considered to be performing their duty in accordance with principles.

Why the Lord Jesus Gave the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven to Peter

Yang Qing

Baffled From Reading the Bible

When I got up early in the morning, I made a prayer, then opened up the Bible to Matthew 16:19, where the Lord Jesus says to Peter: “And I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Reading this passage of scripture, I became confused, thinking: “Peter didn’t do any great work nor were the epistles he wrote very famous. On top of that, when the Lord Jesus was arrested and stood trial, Peter denied Him three times. Why didn’t the Lord give the keys of the kingdom of heaven to other disciples, but only to Peter?” I searched and searched through the Scriptures, but nothing resolved my confusion. I had no choice but to go off to work.

Why the Lord Jesus Gave the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven to Peter

Almighty God Has Given Me a Second Chance at Life

Two ordinary brothers and sisters, Beijing

August 15, 2012

July 21, 2012 was a most unforgettable day for me, as well as the most important day of my life.

That day, a heavy rain was falling in Fangshan District in Beijing—the heaviest we had seen there in sixty-one years. A little after 4:00 p.m., I walked out onto the street to have a look and saw that water was everywhere. Our family car was already afloat, and the only reason it had not been carried away by the current yet was that something in front of it was blocking it from moving.

Regenerated in God’s Word——Eastern Lightning

Regenerated in God’s Word | Eastern Lightning

Wang Gang Shandong Province

  I was a peasant. As my family was poor, I kept working everywhere to make money, just wanting to live a better life through my own labor. However, in real life I saw that the lawful rights and interests of a rural worker like me couldn’t be guaranteed at all. My wages were often withheld for no reason. Deceived and exploited by others again and again, I couldn’t get the payment I deserved for a year’s hard work. I felt that the world was too dark! People lived by the law of the jungle like animals and contended with and fought against each other. There was simply no place for me to live. When I was extremely distressed and depressed in my heart and lost confidence in life, a friend preached Almighty God’s end-time salvation to me. From then on, I often had meetings with the brothers and sisters, and we prayed, sang, and fellowshipped about the truth together. We learned from each other and made up for each other’s deficiencies, and I felt especially happy and released. In the Church of Almighty God, I saw that there was no deception or distinction of position among the brothers and sisters. We were all simple and open and lived in harmony. In order to cast off the corrupt disposition and live out the likeness of a man and thus be saved, all of us were striving to pursue the truth, which let me taste the happiness of life and understand the value and meaning of life. Therefore, I always felt that I should preach the gospel so that more people who lived in darkness could come before God to be saved by God and see the light again. So, I joined in preaching the gospel to testify God. However, I never expected that I would be arrested by the CCP government for preaching the gospel and suffer the extremely cruel tortures and imprisonment.

What’s the value of life?——Eastern Lightning

What’s the value of life?

  For thousands of years, mankind works and rests on the same land. For generation after generation, we spend our lives on the go. We can't help thinking: Why do people repeat the same fate? What’s the meaning and value of living?

What’s the value of life?

God’s hands! ——Wonderful! Wise! Great!——The Church of Almighty God

God’s hands!——Wonderful! Wise! Great!

  The vast universe is in motion regularly. All living beings live and multiply following an unchanged principle of living, which cannot be changed or bypassed by no one. Only the Ruler can command and manage all of these with His mighty hands and ceaselessly provide for us humans, comfort and care for us, so that humans live for generation after generation. Then, how should we know the wonderfulness, wisdom and greatness of the One that holds sovereignty over everything?

God’s hands! ——Wonderful! Wise! Great!

Why Do We Live? And Why Do We Have to Die?——Eastern Lightning

Why Do We Live? And Why Do We Have to Die?

   God says: “among all things and in the heavens there is but One from everlasting to everlasting who holds sovereignty over everything.”

 Why Do We Live? And Why Do We Have to Die?