By Zheng Rong, China

A Walk Down Memory Lane

One fall afternoon, the warm sunlight floods every corner of the streets and the plaza, a gentle bre ... Read more »

Devotions on Encouragement | Break Free From Life's Worries | Get Closer to God Every Day
Why is life so full of suffering? How can we cast off pain and find true happiness?
Here are the answers. Read now to learn how to approach God and escape worries and pain.

Xiaonan, as you know, before I believed in God, I also regarded such axioms and fallacies as “One’s destiny is in his own hand” and “Distinguishing oneself and bringing honor to his ancestors” as true sayings, and I always wanted to make a lot of money through my own efforts, live life at the top and make others look up to me, and I believed that I would have joy and happiness once I had achieve ... Read more »

Devotions on Encouragement | Break Free From Life's Worries | Get Closer to God Every Day
Why is life so full of suffering? How can we cast off pain and find true happiness?
Here are the answers. Read now to learn how to approach God and escape worries and pain.

Dear Li Rui,

How’ve you been? I remember that I once asked you a question: In today’s society, there is so much pressure to compete and everyone feels that life is so exhausting and hard, so how are we supposed to live happily? You said to join you in your  ... Read more »

On today’s Sunday Worship, there came a new preacher Brother Wang. He asked us: Do you know what true faith in God is? Bothers and sisters raced to answer this question. Sister Chen said, “Believing in God is to believe in and acknowledge the existence of God, and acknowledge all things are created by God.” Brother Li continued to say, “Often read the Bible, pray, attend gatherings and spread the gospel”. Sister Zhang said, “To recite those important charters and verses”…  All brothers and sisters all talked about their views. To be frank, though I have believed in God for years, I didn’t think about this question intently. The preacher’s question let me focus on this issue.
Preacher Brother Wang continued, “T ... Read more »

We everyone has our own ideal of human life and goal of a struggle, all want to stand out in this society and become a person of considerable standing. In the past, just like many of my friends, I bitterly struggled for my ideal, to achieve my dream, I had been perfectly happy to spend myself, there is no power to escape from it even if I had undergone much pain. As such, I had no choice but to adapt myself to survive this society. After I struggle for many years, my dream come true and become a boss everyone around envies. However, these things bring me not much happiness and joy but lots of annoyance and pains that wearied me totally. In pain, many times there arise such a question in my mind: Why can renown that we bitterly strive for not bring us happiness and joy? How can we shake off these pains and obtain a happy life? Actually, I could extricate myself from such pains and live a happy life before but could not find a path of practice. Today I sh ... Read more »

No Longer Constrained by the Thought of Death Through the Guidance of God’s Words

Yuan Xiu woke up in the middle of the night in incredible pain, feeling like something was piercing her very bones. She was pouring sweat and soon started to vomit. The pain was so tortuous that she was totally unable to go back to sleep. She felt that just like cancer, her liver ascites was going to steal her life away from her; she also knew that she could no longer blame God or make any demands of Him.

It then occurred to her that only God’s words can soothe her soul and relieve her suffering, and so without hesitation she sat up, grabbed her book of God’s words, and read this: “Since the Creator has determined a fixed set of ... Read more »

 “I believe in God so why would I suffer from this kind of illness? Why wouldn’t God protect me?” When we become ill we always tend to have these kinds of complaints about God. The woman in this story is no exception. When her condition deteriorates she starts to blame God because she’s unable to endure the torment of her illness, but when she genuinely prays to God and submits to His orchestrations and arrangements, she’s able to calmly face her own mortality and her condition miraculously improves. Do you want to know what her experience was? Please read on.

Testimony of Faith: An Elderly Woman’s ... Read more »

Devotions on Encouragement | God’s Blessings: I May Not Be Rich, but I’m Very Fortunate (Part 2)

I Struggle to Cast Off the Bonds of Money and Come to Appreciate the Authority of God

Not long afterward, God tested me. One day, the church arranged a duty for me which required several days to perform. I knew that God was exalting me by giving me this duty and I really wanted to get started, but the time needed to perform my duty just happened to clash with my job. I thought of how my mortgage payments and my children&rsqu ... Read more »

I haven’t seen sister Sophia many times in fellowships. Each time I called her, she always says she is busy and then hangs up our call hurriedly. I worry about her, for she always busies herself with her life and works so that there is no time to come before God. I can only pray for her.
Today, I suddenly received a message from Sophia. She said in the message that she hadn't a regular dinner time recently, as a result, her stomach diseases suddenly attacked, it hasn’t recurred for years. She is so painful that she couldn’t eat, sleep even work. 
Seeing her messages, I feel sad for Sophia. I think of the words of the Lord Jesus, “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Matthew 16:26). The words of the Lord let us see the consequence ... Read more »

Kang Quanxi

Huhhot City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

I was born into a Christian family. Under the influence of my family, I began to read the Bible and practice living a godly life from childhood. As I grew older, I began to assiduously study the background of the Bible and the church history, and I could hardly tear myself away from the messages of Brother Nee and Brother Lee. Later, I became a leader and a national and international co-worker of the Local Church in Inner Mongolia. Since childhood, by God’s grace I had enjoyed God’s numerous blessings and experienced God’s salvation several times. But when God, who endured great humiliations and sufferings, was incarnated in this filthy and corrupt place again to do the work of salvation, I rejected, opposed, attacked, slandered, and even blasphemed Him. Whenever I think of th ... Read more »