Eastern Lightning | Tasting the Love of God in the Midst of Adversity

Eastern Lightning | Tasting the Love of God in the Midst of Adversity

Tasting the Love of God in the Midst of Adversity

                                      Chen Lu    Tong lu County, Zhejiang Province

I was born in the 1980s in a village—we had been a family of farmers for generations. I threw myself into my studies so that I could test into college and escape the village life of poverty and backwardness. When I started high school, I encountered The History of Western Art, and when I saw so many beautiful paintings such as “Genesis,” “The Garden of Eden,” and “The Last Supper,” only then did I realize that there was a God in the universe who had created all things.

Eastern Lightning | My Life Principles Left Me Damaged

My Life Principles Left Me Damaged

My Life Principles Left Me Damaged

Changkai    Benxi City, Liaoning Province

The common phrase “All lay loads on the willing horse” is one with which I am all too personally familiar. My husband and I were all particularly guileless people: When it came to matters that involved our own personal benefit or loss, we weren’t the type to haggle and fuss with others. Where we could be forbearing we were forbearing, where we could be accommodating we also did our best to be accommodating. As a result, we often found ourselves cheated and abused by others. It really seemed that in life, “All lay loads on the willing horse”—if you have too much kindness in your heart, if you’re too accommodating and modest in your affairs, you’re very liable to be cheated. With these thoughts in mind, I resolved to not subject myself to all this abuse and live in frustration anymore: In future matters and in dealings with others, I vow not to be too accommodating. Even after I accepted Almighty God’s work, I still applied this principle in conducting my behavior and interactions with others.

Eastern Lightning | Being Reborn Through the Word of God

Being Reborn Through the Word of God

Wang Gang    Shandong Province

I am a farmer and because my family is poor, I always had to travel all over to find temporary jobs to earn money; I thought that I could make a good life for myself through my physical labor. However, in reality, I saw that there were no guarantees for the legal rights of migrant workers like me; my salary was frequently withheld for no reason at all.

Gospel Music | "Song of the Overcomers" | God Has Made a Group of Overcomers in China

Gospel Music | "Song of the Overcomers" 

God Has Made a Group of Overcomers in China

Song of the Overcomers

God’s kingdom is expanding in humanity’s midst.

It is forming in humanity’s midst.

It is standing up in humanity’s midst.

There is not any force that can destroy God’s kingdom.

Eastern Lightning | A Youth Spent Without Regret

A Youth Spent Without Regret

Xiao wen    Chongqing City

“Love is a pure emotion, pure without a blemish. Use your heart, use your heart to love and feel and care. Love doesn’t set conditions or barriers or distance. Use your heart, use your heart to love and feel and care. If you love you don’t deceive, grumble, turn your back, look to get something in return” (“Pure Love Without Blemish” in Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs). 

How to Know God Incarnate | Christian Song | "Only by Working in the Flesh Can God Gain Mankind"

How to Know God Incarnate | Christian Song

"Only by Working in the Flesh Can God Gain Mankind"

Only by Working in the Flesh Can God Gain Mankind

Through the practical God’s word,

man’s weaknesses and rebellions are judged and revealed.

Then man receives what they need.

They see that God has come into this human world.

The work of the practical God intends to save everyone from Satan’s influence,

rescue them from filth, from their disposition corrupted by Satan.

Being gained by God means to follow His example as man’s perfect model.

Follow the practical God, live a normal humanity,

keep His words and demands, fully keep what He says,

and achieve what He asks, then you will be gained by God.

Eastern Lightning | The Word of the Holy Spirit | Almighty God's Word "Are You a True Believer of God?"

The Word of the Holy Spirit | Almighty God's Word 

"Are You a True Believer of God?"

Almighty God says, "I have held man to a very strict standard all along. If your loyalty comes with intentions and conditions, then I would rather not have any of your so-called loyalty, for I abhor those who deceive Me through their intentions and extort Me with conditions. I only wish for man to be loyal to none other than Me, and to do all things for the sake of and to prove that one word: faith. I despise your use of sweetened words to make Me rejoice. For I always treat you with complete sincerity and so I wish for you to also act toward Me with a true faith. When it comes to faith, many may think that they follow God because they have faith, otherwise they would not bear such suffering. Then I ask you this: Why is it that you never revere God though you believe in His existence? Why, then, do you have no fear of God in your heart if you believe in His existence? You accept that Christ is the incarnation of God, so why do you hold such contempt and act so irreverently toward Him? Why do you openly judge Him? Why do you always watch His movements?