By Xiaowen, Chongqing City
“‘Love’ refers to an emotion that is pure and without blemish, where you use your heart to love, to feel, and to be thoughtful. In love there are no conditions, no barriers, and no distance. In love there is no suspicion, no deceit, and no cunning. In love there is no trade and nothing impure” (“Pure Love Without Blemish” in Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs). Continue reading “A Youth Without Regret”
Relevant Words of God:
Today man sees that with the grace, love, and mercy of God alone, he is incapable of truly knowing himself, and much less is he able to know the substance of man. Only through both the refinement and judgment of God, and during the process of refinement itself, can man know his deficiencies, and know that he has nothing. Thus, man’s love of God is built upon the foundation of the refinement and judgment of God. Continue reading “Whether one’s testimony is true if they believe in God only to enjoy His grace”
Nowadays, disasters around the world are becoming ever more severe. Earthquakes, pandemics, floods, droughts, insect plagues, etc. occur frequently, and especially the COVID-19 virus, which broke out in 2019, has spread all over the globe. People are dying in droves all around the world and many more are in a constant state of panic, sensing that the great disasters are upon us. No one knows how long this pandemic will last or how many lives it will claim. Those who believe in God, however, know in their hearts that all things happen with God’s permission, and that absolutely nothing can happen without it. So what is God’s will in permitting these disasters to come upon us? Continue reading “The Plague Is Upon Us: How to Obtain God’s Mercy and Protection”
She realizes that Almighty God is the returned Lord Jesus and follows the footsteps of the Lamb. What are the mysteries surrounding the Lord’s coming in the last days?
The main character is a co-worker in her church who has believed in the Lord for years and has been eagerly awaiting the Lord’s return. Her pastor often says that when the Lord returns, He will appear on a cloud in His spiritual form, and any news of the Lord coming in the flesh is fake. She firmly believes this beyond any doubt. But one day, in a Bible study group, she hears someone testify that the Lord has returned in the flesh, that He’s expressing truths and doing the work of judgment beginning with the house of God. She gets her guard up and doesn’t dare look into it, but she’s also afraid of missing her chance to welcome the Lord’s coming. After delving into it, she comes to understand the mystery of the Lord’s appearance and work in the last days. She gradually lets her guard down and recognizes the voice of God in Almighty God‘s words. She realizes that Almighty God is the returned Lord Jesus and follows the footsteps of the Lamb. What are the mysteries surrounding the Lord’s coming in the last days? This video has the answers for you.
Continue reading “2020 Christian Testimony Video | “The Mystery of the Lord’s Return””In the Bible, it is recorded in Zechariah 14:4, “And His feet shall stand in that day on the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall split in the middle thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.”
By Zhang Lan, South Korea
Editor’s Note: In the Bible, it is recorded in Zechariah 14:4, “And His feet shall stand in that day on the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall split in the middle thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.” Many Christians think after reading this verse that the Lord Jesus will return in Israel in the last days. Nowadays, the Mount of Olives has long since been broken, and we also now see disasters happening more frequently all around the world, with wars and terrorist attacks occurring all the time, blood moons constantly appearing, and all the prophecies in the Bible concerning Jesus’ return have basically been fulfilled. And yet we still haven’t heard the news of the Lord’s return coming from Israel. The place where the Lord Jesus will return to has therefore become something many who long for the Lord’s return would most like to know. The Christian Zhang Lan was no exception but, by seeking, she discovered the place where God would appear in the last days, and she welcomed the return of the Lord. Let’s now take a look at Zhang Lan’s experiences.
Continue reading “Where Will the Lord Jesus Return? I Find the Answer”Almighty God says, “Being caught up” is not being taken from a low place to a high place as people imagine. This is a huge mistake. Being caught up is referring to My predestining and selecting. It is targeted at all those I have predestined and chosen. ”
Lord comes down, no one will know, not even the angels in heaven or the Son. Just as Almighty God says, ‘At the break of dawn, unbeknownst to any, God came to earth and began His life in the flesh. People were unaware of this moment. Maybe they were all fast asleep, maybe many who were watchfully awake were waiting, and maybe many were praying silently to God in heaven. Yet among all these many people, not one knew that God had already arrived on earth’ (‘Work and Entry (4)’ in The Word Appears in the Flesh). Continue reading “A Catholic’s Testimony: Understanding the True Meaning of the Rapture, I’ve Welcomed the Lord’s Return”
Almighty God says:”Everywhere God goes, He has scattered ‘seeds of disaster’ of all kinds. This is one of the ways, in which God works. Without doubt, it’s an act for saving man, and what He bestows is still a kind of love. It’s still a kind of love.”
Disasters around the world now constantly occur, such as the bushfire in Australia, the eruption of the volcano in the Philippines, the rare plague of locusts in 25 years in the east of Africa, the sharply spread of coronavirus, and so on. When faced with disasters welling up, what should we do to have God’s protection? Read the article now.
Ying Xin, Beijing
On July 22, 2012, the day after Beijing’s flood of July 21, I hurried over to visit a sister who had just accepted God’s work of the last days two months previously. No sooner had I entered her village when the scene I saw before me stunned me speechless! I saw that the roads had collapsed, revealing their foundations beneath the asphalt. Everywhere were stone fragments that had tumbled down from the mountain, the larger of them weighing a few tons. Mud had piled up to thirty centimeters deep, and the rainwater running off the mountain slopes had already formed into a small river…. The entire village was in a total mess, completely beyond recognition.
I passed through the village, and halfway up the mountain I saw Sister Li (the new sister). She described to me how the disaster had unfolded.
On the evening of the 21st, this sister’s husband was cooking in a little shed next to their stone house. The two of them were talking and laughing together, never imagining how terrible this rainstorm could become. When the sister discovered that water was pouring into the knee-high galoshes she was wearing, she suddenly had a very bad feeling. She shouted, “We’re in trouble! Quick, let’s run up onto the mountain!” As soon as she said this, they saw a flood of water rolling down the hill, inundating the ground a meter deep. In that moment, the sister was scared silly; in her urgency, she pulled her husband and began to climb up the slope with the help of some locust trees behind the house. Only about a minute after they had reached high ground, the torrent rushing down the mountain unleashed a landslide of rocks and boulders and debris. The electric scooter, bicycles, and the little shed in the courtyard, and even a corner of the stone house, were abruptly swept away by the fierce current.
Afterward, the sister said, “While I was watching all those things get swept away, I didn’t feel afraid; on the contrary, in my heart I felt especially calm and at peace. Even though our things were gone, I still had God. Because the force of the current was so enormous, anyone who fell into it would undoubtedly have died—yet we were fine. This is because Almighty God saved us.” When the sister returned home to tidy up, she happened upon her copy of Selections of the Records of the Three Stages of God’s Work, on the bed, completely intact and undamaged. The water had not submerged the bed or gotten the book wet, even though all the other things in the room including the desk and chairs were floating. The sister said excitedly, “God deliberately left this book for me. From today forward, I must do my best to follow Him!” She also said that ordinarily, after coming home from work and getting changed, she would just leave her clothes everywhere, but that that day she had hung them up instead. Only later while sorting through her things had she discovered that two thousand yuan left in a pocket of her clothes. This was all thanks to God’s protection. When the sister and I walked behind her mushroom-growing shed, an even more wondrous sight met our eyes: The road leading from the shed to the villa area was piled thirty or forty centimeters high with rocks and boulders; these had blocked the torrent rushing down the mountain from surging up against her mushroom-growing shed and stone house, and caused it instead to part and flow away. The flood and stones seemed to have grown eyes. God’s actions truly are miraculous!
Actually, God’s purpose in disasters is not to completely destroy humanity, but rather to use the calamity to shake our souls awake and enable us all to see through life amidst catastrophe, and thereby disentangle ourselves from Satan’s net and return to God to receive His salvation and protection. At the same time, God wants to use disasters to make us genuinely know Him, to see His actions, and to be gained by God. This is God’s love and mercy for us humans. The lyrics of the hymn of God’s utterance, “God Descends With Judgment,” are sung thusly: “God is now descending upon the nation of the great red dragon. At the same time He is facing the universe, so that the whole firmament is shaking, so that the whole firmament is shaking. Is there a single place not being judged by God? Or a place that doesn’t exist under the plagues God pours down? Everywhere God goes, He has scattered ‘seeds of disaster’ of all kinds. This is one of the ways, in which God works. Without doubt, it’s an act for saving man, and what He bestows is still a kind of love. It’s still a kind of love. … God wishes to make more people come to know Him, make more people see Him, and so come to revere God whom they haven’t seen for long but who is real today. God whom they haven’t seen for long but who’s real today.”
Brothers and sisters, in this time of frequent disasters, how should we choose our path? How should we walk our final beat while remaining considerate of God’s will? The bigger the catastrophe, the more anxious God gets. Let us all be able to understand His earnest thoughts and eager intentions, so that we can actively take the initiative to act in coordination with God, accept God’s calling and His commission, lead even more souls before Him, and, in the final, crucial moment, offer up our entire being to Him by spreading the gospel of the kingdom!
Source From: The Church of Almighty God
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God’s word: “Some people particularly idolize Paul: They like to give speeches and work outside. They like to meet together; they like when people listen to them, worship them, and surround them.
Later, I was elected as a leader of the church by my brothers and sisters. When I encountered issues in the beginning, I would often listen to suggestions from brothers and sisters, and did not care about how others would think of me. But it did not take long for my desire of pursuing fame and fortune to begin to expand again. Since I started fulfilling this duty earlier than the sister I was partnered with, brothers and sisters would naturally come to me more when they had difficulties. Gradually, I started getting carried away and thought that I was superior to that sister. When in meetings with that sister, I would always talk about some seemingly important doctrines to show off and win recognition and admiration from brothers and sisters, as well as to make them feel that I was better than her. Once, during a small group meeting, a thought came to my mind after the sister had just communicated for a little while: I must communicate more, or else brothers and sisters would think I am not as good as her. Thus, I butted in when there was a pause and began communicating non-stop. Continue reading “I Have Only Just Begun Walking the Right Path of Life （part-2）”
God says: ‘Because the greater their status, the greater their ambition; the more they understand of the doctrines, the more arrogant their dispositions become.
Under God’s care and protection, my illness gradually improved. One day, the church leader arranged for me to take on hosting duties. After hearing this I felt very unwilling to do it. I believed that acting as a host was a waste of my abilities, but I also couldn’t refuse, so I grudgingly agreed. While I was hosting, some brothers and sisters were meeting at my house and they asked me to be outside the door to keep watch. Once again my inner thoughts arose: Just acting as a host, keeping an eye on the door—what will I get out of this? In the past I stood behind the pulpit and I was so haughty, but in my duty today I don’t have any face or any status. My rank is so low! So after a period of time, my internal resistance became greater and greater, I felt more and more wronged, and I was no longer willing to fulfill that duty. Continue reading “An Arrogant Believer’s Process of Transformation （part-2）”
Praise Almighty God 