4. The Principles of Upholding a Normal Relationship With God

        The Principles of Upholding a Normal Relationship With God

  1. You must first of all give your heart to God and allow God to take charge, frequently have real prayer and association with God, and obtain the guidance of the work of the Holy Spirit;

  2. You must frequently eat and drink of God’s words, fellowship the truth, practice the truth and fulfill your duty in order to repay God’s love;

  3. In all things, you must harbor right intentions, accept God’s scrutiny, put the interests of God’s family first. You must not make plans for yourself, and you must obey God’s arrangements;

  4. You must seek the truth in all things, seek to love God in your heart and practice loving God, and allow God to take charge and hold power in all things.

  Relevant Words of God:

  People believe in God, love God, and satisfy God by touching the Spirit of God with their heart, thereby obtaining His satisfaction; when engaging with God’s words with their heart, they are therefore moved by the Spirit of God. If you wish to achieve a proper spiritual life and establish a proper relationship with God, you must first give your heart to Him, and quiet your heart before Him. Only after you have poured your whole heart into God can you gradually develop a proper spiritual life. If people do not give their heart to God in their belief in Him, if their heart is not in Him and they do not treat His burden as their own, then everything they do is cheating God, and it is all the behavior of religious people—this cannot receive God’s praise. God cannot get anything from this kind of person; this kind of person can only serve as a foil to God’s work, like a decoration in the house of God, taking up space, and is a good-for-nothing—God does not use this kind of person. … If your heart can be poured into God and keep quiet before Him, then you will have the opportunity and the qualifications to be used by the Holy Spirit, to receive the enlightenment and illumination of the Holy Spirit, and even more, you will have the opportunity for the Holy Spirit to make up for your shortcomings. When you give your heart to God, you can enter more deeply into the positive aspect and be on a higher plane of insight; in the negative aspect, you will have more understanding of your own faults and shortcomings, you will be more eager to seek to satisfy God’s will, and you will not be passive, and will actively enter in. This will mean that you are a correct person. …

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  If you want to have a proper relationship with God, your heart must turn to God.… When one does not give his heart to God, his spirit becomes obtuse, it becomes numb and unconscious. This kind of person will never understand God’s words and will never have a proper relationship with God; this kind of person will never change their disposition. … When you are able to give your heart to God, you will be able to perceive every subtle moving within your spirit, and you will know every enlightenment and illumination received from God. Hold onto this, and you will gradually enter into the path of being perfected by the Holy Spirit. The quieter your heart can be before God, the more sensitive and delicate your spirit will be, and the more your spirit will be able to perceive the moving of the Holy Spirit, and then your relationship with God will become more and more proper.

God Listens to Reasonable Prayer

By Xin Ling 

One day, I happened to see such an interesting story in my son’s Pupil Weekly: A little girl tripped on an examination question. She answered the capital of America was New York rather than Washington. So she prayed, and asked God to move its capital from Washington DC to NewYork.A little girl tripped on an examination question. She answered the capital of America was New York rather than Washington. So she prayed, and asked God to move its capital from Washington DC to NewYork.

Believing in God Just for Blessings and Ascending to Heaven?

By Zhao Yu 

 Recently, once when I was browsing the web, I saw a book Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus. This title, striking and novel, immediately attracted me. Having believed in the Lord Jesus for so many years, I never thought about such questions: According to the present situation of my belief in the Lord, am I a believer or a fan? And do I have genuine faith in the Lord?

Church Life Movie | "Awoken" | How Christians Break Free From the Shackles of Fame and Status

Her name is Chen Xi, and since she was little the education and influence of her parents and her schooling made her always want to stand out from the crowd and seek to be above others, so she was diligent in her studies and would spare no effort. After believing in God Chen Xi read a great deal of God's words and came to understand some truths. She saw that the only correct path in life is to believe in and follow God and became an enthusiastic seeker, and was very proactive in performing her duty.

The Church of Almighty God | Reflection on Getting Lost

                                                     By Xiaowei

    It was six o’clock at dusk when I came out from a sister’s house, and the evening lights were already lit. The street was full of traffic and people. I mounted my electric scooter and joined them carefully. Owing to my near-sightedness, I felt a little difficult when I rode through the crowd. In addition, I had only moved here and was not familiar with this road at all. 

The Church of Almighty God | God Is the Source of Man’s Life: I Overcame the Disease

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                                                 By Wang Mei

In 2005 my daughter was born. I, as a first-time mother, felt very happy. Looking at my daughter’s lovely little face, I forgot my labor pains and felt the happiness and joy I had never had. After my confinement, when I was enjoying the happiness of being a mother, a disease came upon me quietly and broke my happy life.

Sunday, January 28, 2018 – Revelation 2:17 | The Church of Almighty God

He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the churches; To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna. … 

                                                                                                    – Revelation 2:17 

    Thoughts on Today’s Verse… 

     This word “what the Spirit said to the churches” appears repeatedly in the Book of Revelation. What does it mean? And what does “the hidden manna” refer to? Recall the story of Exodus: God rained manna from heaven, and manna is their bread.

Confusion Was Solved, I Finally Returned to God | The Church of Almighty God

                                               By Xunqiu, Japan

    After getting married, I needed to face a new home environment. In order to protect my relationships with my husband’s family, I spoke and acted cautiously every day, fearing that I would make mistakes. So, I felt a lot of pressure in my heart. At that time, when I saw the believers in the Lord in my village lived with much joy, I just couldn’t figure that out: Why are they so delighted? Out of curiosity, I also went to the church to attend a meeting.

Christian Music Video | Live in the Light | "The Prayer of God’s People" | The Church of Almighty God

   Christian Music Video | Live in the Light | "The Prayer of God’s People"

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God’s people are raised before His throne, many prayers in their hearts.
God blesses all who return to Him; they all live in the light.
Pray the Holy Spirit enlightens God’s word that we fully know God’s will.
May all people cherish God’s word and come seeking to know God.

Trust in God Through the Persecution With Faith | The Church of Almighty God

    In Chinese culture, parents always hope children stick around to take care of them when they grow older, but due to the persecution from the Chinese Communist Party, the aged parents had to ask their only son to leave home quickly. What is this all about?

Reflection on A Pastor’s Suicide: How to Face Our Uncertain Lives? | The Church of Almighty God

Bill Lenz, a founder and longtime senior pastor of Christ the Rock Community Church in Wisconsin, died by suicide after struggling for months with depression, the church said in a statement on its Facebook page. Life is full of uncertainty. What should we face our lives?

51. I Experienced God’s Salvation | The Church of Almighty God

                Cheng Hao    Yongzhou City, Hunan Province

By the grace of God, my wife and I were promoted to the second-line gospel team to fulfill our duties. A little while ago, my wife was promoted to team director, while I, as a result of my own arrogance and wanton behavior, lost the work of the Holy Spirit and was sent home to reflect on my actions.

8. Regenerated in God’s Word | The Church of Almighty God

                              8. Regenerated in God’s Word

                                       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.

84. The Transformation of a Fallen Man | The Church of Almighty God

                    84. The Transformation of a Fallen Man

                                  Tong Xin Fujian Province

     I was born in the countryside. I came from a line of humble farmers and on top of that our family was few in number, so we were often bullied. When I was 13 years old, there was a child beaten by someone from outside of our village. The villagers falsely accused my father of instigating it and they said they were going to search our house and confiscate our property, take away our pigs and even beat my father.

24. Awake in the Tribulation of Persecution —A Seventeen-year-old Christian’s True Experience of Being Persecuted | The Church of Almighty God

24. Awake in the Tribulation of Persecution —A Seventeen-year-old Christian’s True Experience of Being Persecuted

                                     Wang Tao Shandong Province

    I’m a Christian in the Church of Almighty God. Compared with the kids at my age, I’m the luckiest, for I was uplifted and selected by God and accepted the end-time work of Almighty God with my parents at the age of eight. At that time, although I was young, I was very willing to believe in God and read God’s word. As I constantly read God’s word and listened to the fellowship of the uncles and aunties, over the years, I understood some truths.

29 Experiencing the Tribulations, I Was Accompanied by God’s Love | The Church of Almighty God

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   29 Experiencing the Tribulations, I Was Accompanied by God’s Love

                                     Wang Yu Henan Province

    My name is Wang Yu. I’m 76 years old. In 1978, I believed in the Lord Jesus because of illness. I received much grace during my believing. Because of that, I was very zealous in working for the Lord, giving messages and preaching the gospel everywhere and also hosting the brothers and sisters.

33 God’s Love Is Boundless | The Church of Almighty God

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                               33 God’s Love Is Boundless

                                         Li Qing Shandong Province

    I suffered many hardships in the world. My husband died a few years after we married, and since then, the family burden completely fell on me. I lived a hard life with my young child and was always cold-shouldered and bullied by others. Weak and helpless, I was in tears every day, feeling it so hard to live in the world…. Just when I was in depression and despair, a sister preached Almighty God’s end-time work to me.

126 Almighty God’s Love Melted My Long-frozen Heart | The Church of Almighty God

                                              Zhang Zhongyou

                                    Shenyang City, Liaoning Province

    I am from Shenyang City, and was a leader of the True Jesus Church. In 1995, a flood brought our family business to the verge of breakdown, so I went to a Christian church to seek a tower of strength. In the second half of 1996, I entered the True Jesus Church.