Experiencing God’s Salvation in Times of Peril

By Gangqiang The year when I first went to work in the city, one of my relatives persuaded me to believe in Bodhisattva, saying that Bodhisattva would protect me in disasters if I believed. I thought at that time: I just want to find a reliance that will sa...

By Practicing God’s Words I Resolved the Generation Gap Between My Daughter and Me

By Juangu In today’s society, it is hard for parents and children to communicate with each other, and this problem has been a focus of people’s attention. After exchanging a few words with each other, they will be unable to say more, and they even will cont...

A Kitchen Tale

By Liangliang “Do you think I’m handsome? What do you say?” asked Chef Erpang abruptly in the back kitchen. He stood 1.7 meters and weighed nearly 90 kg. We roared with laughter and said jokingly, “Yes, yes, yes. You’re so good-looking. …'' After laughing, ...

I Have Broken Free From the Clutches of Jealousy

By Jingxin At the end of October 2016, I accepted the gospel of God. After that, I often had meetings with several brothers and sisters, reading God’s words, sharing experiences, and singing hymns to praise God. I felt that this kind of church life was very...

Four Principles Christians Should Possess to Live Out Normal Humanity

By Shicheng As a Christian, we all know that we should live out normal humanity. When interacting with brothers and sisters, we should love each other, understand, forbear and forgive each other, and help each other. This is the Lord’s requirement for every...

I Have Understood How to Pray to Be Heard by God

By Liu Shuo One day, I came back home from the church meeting, my legs aching. I sat on my bed, patting my two legs and humming a hymn quietly, “We have to praise Jehovah, because all things are out of Him. He is the Ruler of the heavens and earth and all t...

I Saw God’s Almightiness and Sovereignty in a Fire

By Jizhen One day in late October of 2014, at past 3 p.m., my husband ran home in a great fluster. As soon as he crossed the threshold, he said breathlessly, “A large fire has broken out in the north fields. It’s going to spread to our house. There is no ti...

Testimony in Marriage: Who Resolved My Family’s Conflicts?

By Zhuiqiu I’m a cosmetologist and my husband is a farmer. We got to know each other during a Chinese Valentine’s Day activity found in Malaysia: throwing mandarin oranges. One year later, we had a church wedding in the presence of a priest as our witness. ...

After I Conducted My Business With Integrity, I Enjoyed God’s Blessings (II)

By Lin Qiang One day, a fashionable lady in her forties came to my shop and directly asked: “I want to have my hair dyed. What’s the price?” I daren’t charge wicked price as before, so I frankly replied: “Forty, fifty, or sixty; you can choose as you wish.”...

After I Conducted My Business With Integrity, I Enjoyed God’s Blessings (I)

By Lin Qiang I was born in a poor family. Since I could remember things, I had led a life of being discriminated against. So, I promised myself: In the future, I must make a lot of money and live a rich life above others, to let people look at me with new e...

In Times of Illness, How Should Christians Pray in a Way That Aligns With God’s Will?

By Su Yu The sky was particularly quiet at night, filled with stars, which decorated the sky and made the sky warm and full of magical feeling. But a Christian named Liu Xin was in no mood to enjoy this night scene. Instead, she showed a painful and sad exp...

Being an Honest Person Leaves Me Feeling Peaceful and at Ease

By Keqiu Recently, I found a job, doing the cleaning in a hostel. For me who is elderly, it’s no problem to do the work of labor. I wouldn’t cause troubles in work, so I would not be afraid of being scolded by my boss. As you see, I’m a person who cares muc...

By Relying on God, She Recovered From Her Late-Stage Cancer

By Xiaojuan Xiaojuan had suffered from a stomach problem for some time. She couldn’t help but think of her dead relatives: Her mother died of rectal cancer long ago; after a period of several years, so did her elder sister and elder brother; later, one of h...

God Resolved the Hatred in My Heart

By Li Fan People often say, “Things turn into their opposites when they reach the extreme.” Deep love can turn into hatred. The more you love, the more you hate. Only those who have experienced the pain can truly have such feelings. And Xiao Yun is the one ...

In a Dangerous Caesarean Section, I Sincerely Relied on God and Gained Protection

By Jiang Li My daughter has already begun walking, but I still clearly remember the “pain” that had happened to me on the day of her birth. I am very happy to be looking at her smile today, but all this happiness was hard fought. If it weren’t for God’s sal...

How I Resolved the Conflicts with My Sisters-in-law and Achieved a Harmonious and Happy Family

By Xiaoyi Before I got married, I always saw the sisters-in-law in my neighborhood argued with each other over trivial family affairs, and even created a widespread uproar. I thought: It is often said, “A tree lives with its bark; a man lives with his face,...

In Danger, God Is My Only Support

By Liu Cheng In 2002, my wife and I accepted God’s work of the last days. Through reading God’s words, I knew that man’s life comes from God and each person’s fate in life is ruled over and arranged by God. However, in actual life, I was busy earning money ...

The First Apology From the Father to His Son

By Sun Liang Wang Hao opened the door after a tiring day, what he saw was the messy dining table scattered with some instant noodles packaging and a bowl of leftover soup. Thinking that his son ate instant noodles everyday, Wang Hao felt upset. He kept repe...

After the Lord Jesus Performed Miracles, Why Did He Tell Others, “See That No Man Know It”?

By Wang Hong Matthew 8:4 records that after the Lord Jesus cured a man of leprosy, He said to him, “See you tell no man; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.” Matthew 9:30 shows that...

I Have Finally Found the Way of Promoting Marital Harmony (II)

By Qainbei Later, we read another passage of God’s words, “In the last days, Christ uses a variety of truths to teach man, to expose the substance of man, and to dissect the words and deeds of man. These words comprise various truths, such as man’s duty, ho...

What Is the True Faith in God?

By Miao Xiao Every brother and sister in the Lord has their own different experiences of coming before God. However, so similar are most Christians’ experiences of faith in God after believing in the Lord: We read the Bible and pray to the Lord day after da...

I Have Finally Found the Way of Promoting Marital Harmony (I)

By Qianbei Sweet Coupledom In Malaysia, every year during the Lantern Festival, many places have the event “throwing of mandarin oranges.” On that day, many single girls will write their telephone numbers or contact information on mandarin oranges and th...

I’ve Learned to Rely on God in the Face of Difficulties

By Titie After I got married, my husband was always dissatisfied with me. He often said to me, “See! You are useless.” His criticisms made me very sad and defiant. From then on, I thought I had to work hard by myself and not let others look down upon me. Be...

I Find a Happy Life

By Kemu I was born into a normal peasant family. My mother was diligent and hardworking, while my father was a lazy alcoholic. Every time he lost his temper with my mother after getting drunk, my younger brother and I would hide under the quilt with fear. L...

No Longer Engaging in Intrigue Against My Colleague, I Live Out the Likeness of a Christian

By Zheng Xin After Spring Festival, I found a job of sewing buttons and packaging in a small privately-owned clothing factory. In order not to miss meetings, I told the boss that I was to do piece work on a flexible schedule and get paid according to the am...

Christians’ Practicing Principles in Dealing With Other People

Matthew 22:37-39 says: “Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like to it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” T...

God Is My Only Support When I Was Suffering From Illness

By Shi Mei By October 14, 2015, it had been snowing hard for days on end, leaving thick, white snow on the ground and on the roof of my house. In the morning when the snow stopped, I went to the courtyard to sweep away the snow on the garden shed. Unexpecte...

Only by Being Honest Person Can We Have Human Likeness

By Shi Xin I’m a project contractor and often contact construction industry. In the spring of 2002, I left my hometown for Shandong Province, China. At the beginning, when I worked for others, I tried my best to do it and made money through my hard work, ne...

Sincerely Depending on God in All Things Is the Wise Choice (II)

Jing Xin Most of my clients speak English, and in order to keep my job, I need to improve my English. In fact, I also want to learn English well, so that I can evangelize to foreigners. Therefore, I threw myself into learning English. I prayed to God at fir...

The Guidance of God’s Words Enables Me to Get Well Along With My Roommates

By Wang Hua “Please mop the floor after you wash your clothes!” “Please pick up your fallen hairs and put them in the waste basket in the future; don’t throw them about like this.” “I’m really wondering who didn’t clean up the floor after combing the ...

Sincerely Depending on God in All Things Is the Wise Choice (I)

Jing Xin I came to the United States alone in 2012 and I met Sister Wendy through God’s amazing plan in June 2017. She bore witness to me God’s work in the last days, God’s creation of the universe and all things, God’s three stages of work to save humans, ...

The Story of My Foreign Roommates and Me

By Ganen “Ganen, I’m going on a journey. It’s not safe to carry money and the bank card with me, so please keep them for me. Thank you!” “Ganen, this cosmetic does some good. Please use it, and your pimples will disappear.” “Ganen, are you free now? L...

Experiencing God’s Words in My Real Life, I See God’s Deeds

By Xin Xin In order to live, I rented the second floor of a shopfront, starting a cosmetics shop. Although it is not that popular, my income is enough for my yearly expenses. I live a simple life year after year. In the winter of 2015, my friend came to fin...

I Never Lose Anything by Being an Honest Person

By Duo Ji I worked designing patterns in a printworks. In a modest office worked only my boss, my colleague Xiaozhang, and I. In the boss’s eyes, Xiaozhang, who had been a designer there for more than a year, was a hardy, humorous, and capable person, and s...

By Sincerely Relying on God, You Will See a Miracle

By Xiaoping Every time when I think about the viral Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease (HFMD) in 2012, my heart is still fluttering with fear. This sudden plague caused a particularly high mortality rate among the kids suffering from HFMD. My son was one of them. Howe...

Twenty Years Later, I Forgave My Mother Who Abandoned Me

By Kemu In the darkness of the night, I scramble down a seemingly endless lane, looking every which way, but unable to find my way home and wracked with anxiety. All of a sudden, my mother appears in the distance walking toward me and I’m overtaken with a s...

Emerging From the Haze of My Husband’s Betrayal, I’ve Found True Life

By Lin Min The Expectation of Dreams My parents had quarreled with each other every day since I could remember. I often thought: Maybe Cupid has made a mistake. Otherwise, why do they always quarrel with each other? I won’t do that as they do when I grow...

In the Shocking Moment, It Was God Who Saved Me

By Zong Mei In May 2012, I accepted the kingdom gospel of God. Although I believed in God, I only considered believing in God as a religious belief, and felt that it was all right for me to believe and confess just in my heart. When the brothers and sisters...

I Have Found the Way to End the Strife With My Competitor

By Xiaoyue In the bright light of a morning sun, I went into a mall with a springy step. Then I entered my quaint little clothing store and started going through the dazzling and fashionable clothes. Suddenly the quarrels of two female store owners broke th...

God’s Words Guide Me to Find the Way to Get Along With My Daughter Who Lives From Paycheck to Paycheck

By Song Ling Children’s Excessive Consumption Brought Their Mothers Annoyance One Sunday, I was chatting with several mothers in Lan Bei Park. Aunt Liu said helplessly, “Yesterday my child spent a few hundred yuan on four dresses. Today she is going t...

Practicing Being Honest, I Witnessed God’s Blessings

By Gengxin Once, to earn a greater profit, I cut corners and used inferior cotton filling to deceive my customers. But as I searched for meaning, I came to realize that the value of our lives isn’t about how much wealth we accrue, but instead is about how t...

A Rumpus at Midnight

By Xia Tian Through the windows and blinds the silvery moonlight filtered into the bedroom. Xiadong opened her dry and sleepy eyes a little. She took a look at her thirteen-year-old son and ten-year-old daughter. It was time for her to call the children to ...

Being Honest in Doing Business, I Gained a Lot (II)

By Zhuiqiu Going Back to My Old Ways and Realizing How Deeply Satan Has Corrupted Me After some time like this I was beginning to think that I was doing business in line with God’s requirements and that I had already become an honest person. But when fac...

Obeying God’s Sovereignty Brings a Light to My Life

By Xiaoyu Under the influence of my 16 years of school career, from primary school to the university, my mind was occupied with satanic philosophies and theories. I wanted to rely on my knowledge and my hands to fight for an enviable life, owning mansions a...

Being Honest in Doing Business, I Gained a Lot (I)

By Zhuiqiu I Go With the Flow to Make a Living The hairdressing business could be considered one with ridiculous profit margins. A lot of business owners sell low-cost hair care products at prices more than ten times higher than their actual cost, and th...

Testimony to God’s Grace: I Recovered From Illness Due to God’s Wondrous Protection

By Xinzhi When I was young, my family was poor. My mother had mental illness, so the heavy burden of my family fell upon my father alone. He had traveled many places to seek a cure for my mother’s illness but to no avail. At that time I thought: I must stud...

How to Give Effective Help and Support to Brothers and Sister: Grasp 3 Principles

By Yinzi The Bible says, “But the end of all things is at hand: be you therefore sober, and watch to prayer. And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. Use hospitality one to another without gr...

In a Crisis, Whom Can We Lean On?

By Xinzhi Believing in God, although I often read God’s word, attended meetings and fellowshiped with brothers and sisters, I had little knowledge of God’s almightiness and sovereignty. When my wife encountered a disaster and was on the verge of death, I sa...

Not Fighting for My Interests, I Get Along Peacefully With My Friend

By Jianxin, Malaysia Considering Myself a Generous Person at One Time I work as a salesperson in a communication store. I always believed that I was generous and that I could get along with anybody. I remember one time, at a meeting, a sister asked me wh...

In a Flood, God Protected Me From Danger

By Chunxia On August 3, 2017, it drizzled all day. In the evening, it was raining harder and harder to the point that torrential rain was pouring down. I heard the news of some villagers evacuating the country. At that point, I packed the books of God’s wor...

After My Friend Becomes My Rival …

By Anqi Morning sunshine quietly came into Anqi’s room through the French window and warmed the whole room. Anqi went to the window and opened it, greeted by a whiff of fresh air. She looked up at the bright sky with a smile, feeling much more at ease. A ni...

What I Gained After Getting Cancer

By Wu Dan My family was poor when I was young, and I lived a tough life and was often jeered and sneered at by my relatives and friends. From that point on, I made up my mind: I must make a lot of money and live a rich life in the future, so that others wil...

When the Colleague Shirked Her Duties at Work, She Acted This Way

By Zhang Jie In a fine afternoon in early summer, the sun was high in the sky and roasting the earth. It was almost time for students to leave school. The murderous heat didn’t mean to fade away and the air was thick with heat, so that the normally active l...

During My Career, I Learned to Rely on God

By Tangtang, Japan On April 9, 2017, I came to Japan from China. And on the fourth day, I went to work in a car fitting factory—to mat produced-fittings with grinding tools. The temperature was over 40 Celsius degrees in the workshop with no air conditionin...

Four Principles Essential for You to Get Along Well With Others

By Wang Jing Interacting with others is a profound lesson for everyone, and Christians are no exception. We all want to handle interpersonal relationships well. So I would like to share with you four principles of practice. First, in our interactions wit...

Looking for a Job Abroad: By Relying on God, I Gained More Than a Job

By Jiejing In April, 2015, I came to Japan, a beautiful country which I had been longing for for a long time. Seeing the good environment and citizenship here, I was eager to find a job, so that I could reside here. Later, a senior told me that it was di...

4 Essential Principles of Christians Interacting With Others

By Wang Zihan For many people, dealing with people is the biggest problem they have. In real life, we will encounter many people. Some are to our liking, but some just rub us up the wrong way. As Christians, how should we treat the people around us? What ki...

In a Sudden Car Accident, God’s Saved Me

By Yaru, Sweden One morning in November, 2015, the road was slippery because of the ice, and I was driving my motorcycle home. When I was about five hundred meters from a T-junction, I saw a silver-white car parked near it. Without knowing that the car was ...

When Her Friend Vied With Her for Business, How Did She Act?

By Yuxin Early in the morning, the sun was rising. The pale blue sheers shone goldenly under the bright sunshine. Yuxin opened the window. An expression of a slight happiness appeared on her face when she thought of her successful talk with a big client two...

By Relying on God, I Gained More Than a Satisfying Job

By Lele, South Korea A single person, a huge suitcase, an international flight, an unfamiliar city in a foreign country: that was the scene when I went abroad for the first time in my life. With no family or friends or acquaintances around me I had never be...

After She Obeyed God’s Orchestration, She Was Miraculously Recovered

By Xiaojuan I have believed in God for many years, but in the past I had little understanding of God because I didn’t pursue the truth. When things happened, I seldom relied on God or looked to God, but just did as I wanted. There was no place for God in my...

By Truly Relying on the Lord, She Survived Leukemia

By Ruan Ling, United States Ping was lying still on her sickbed, her face pale in the reflection of the lamplight. Since she had leukemia, she had been very depressed. Seeing patients in the ward pass away one after another, she felt fearful and helpless...

By My Relying on God, My Son Was Cured of Congenital Deafness

By Chen Xin Actually, when he could hear sound and call mama, my son was already over three years old. At more than one year old, he was diagnosed with congenital deafness. From then to the time when he could hear and speak, it was a particularly long proce...

An Old Woman With Intestinal Cancer: She Miraculously Escaped Death by Relying on God (II)

By Liu Wen God Revealed His Almightiness and So I Escaped Death As my relatives thought that I must die of the illness, they all came to the hospital to visit me, and had a discussion about preparing for my passing. When I was about to have the operation...

Learning to Let Go of Myself, I Feel Released in Spirit (II)

By Aimu, Malaysia The next morning, thinking of my commitment to God the night before, I felt a little regretful: Did I really need to apologize to my subordinates? Yes, they usually loved to gossip, but if I really apologized to them, and they told the oth...

An Old Woman With Intestinal Cancer: She Miraculously Escaped Death by Relying on God (I)

By Liu Wen My name is Liu Wen, and I am 79 years old. In 2006, I accepted God’s work of the last days. Then I performed hosting duty in the church. With hospitality, I often received the brothers and sisters who came for gatherings and I never made complain...

Learning to Let Go of Myself, I Feel Released in Spirit

By Aimu, Malaysia I am a mechanical engineer in charge of mechanical design and maintenance in a local heavy machinery company. I’ve been working there since I graduated from college. In no time at all, half a year had passed, and my work was coming along q...

After Receiving 46 Bumblebee Stings, I Saw God’s Wondrous Deeds by Sincerely Relying on God

By Yang Li It was one day in November 2017. As early winter is the right time to dig herbs to make money, after breakfast, I went to the mountain with tools to dig roots of atractylodes (a kind of herb). I walked searching for it, and around noon I arrived ...

Grasping 3 Principles Makes It Easy to Coordinate Harmoniously in the Service of God

By Ma Hui, Germany As we all know, only if we serve God with one heart and mind can we obtain the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and can the church’s work be blessed by God. For the Lord Jesus told us, “That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any ...

By Relying on God, I Was Saved by God in My Life-and-Death Moment

By Ping’an, China My name is Ping’an and I am 65 years old. At midnight on December 11, 2015, I suddenly had a heart attack. My heart started pumping very fast and I suddenly got short of breath. After a while, it felt as if my heart stopped beating for ove...

Under the Guidance of God’s Words, the “War Fires” of a Blended Family Has Ceased

By Zhou Min There was an ornate picture of the whole family hanging on the wall of the living room, and in which Zhou Min’s family of five all had a brilliant smile on their faces. Looking at this picture, Zhou Min was deeply touched because it had not come...

What Prayers Does God Accept?

By Chengxin Common Problems in Prayer We see someone praying for a long time, saying many things and speaking pleasant words, and we believe them to be a spiritual person who has a normal relationship with God, and that God will surely hear the prayers o...

How the 12-Year-Old Christian Can Get Along Well With Her Grandmother

“Grandma, you just can’t type in such a simple word. What did you learn in your primary school? You’re too stupid!” Linlin, a sixth-grade student, said to her grandmother impatiently. Her grandmother, sitting on the chair, said nothing but sighed. Not askin...

Who Is My Rock in Times of Life and Death?

My name is Liu Mei and I’m 62. Earlier this year, a sudden illness affected me and made me quite helpless. In that life-and-death crisis, I had no family by my side and I could only pray to God and rely on Him to save me. Through the experience, I saw that lif...

How an Eighty-Year-Old Christian Survived the Flood

By Xinsheng, China My wife and I are both over 80 this year and live on a hillside in the mountains. After believing in God, with His grace and protection, we two elderly folks are in good health. To repay God’s love, we perform the duty of safeguarding the...

God’s Word Led Me to Know How to Deal With the Troublesome Interpersonal Relationships

Troublesome Interpersonal Relationships Nowadays, everyone assumes their different roles in society and contacts all kinds of people. In this environment, our interpersonal relationships are as complex as a cobweb and are as profound and unfathomable as aca...

How to Pray to Be Heard by God

By Cindy, United States All believers in God know that praying is the only way through which our spirits can connect with God’s Spirit, and that we cannot practice our faith without it. However, many of us have no idea what true prayer is though we make pra...

Why Should We Christians Pray Without Ceasing?

What does praying without ceasing refer to? Regarding the apostle Paul’s words “pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17), many people interpret them as constantly speaking to God and consider it a very difficult thing to accomplish. In fact, praying witho...

God’s Word Guided Me to Put Aside My Grievance Against My Neighbor

By Xiaowu He that despises his neighbor sins: but he that has mercy on the poor, happy is he” (Proverbs 14:21). To get along with others, apart from being tolerant and patient, what’s even more important is to understand: “And be you kind one to another,...

3 Easy Steps Toward True Prayer You Can Take

Hello, brothers and sisters! Recently, I have often gotten angry about some trifles for no reason at home. When I found my husband and my child had many faults, I prayed to the Lord and asked Him to keep my heart quiet and change their faults. But why could I ...

How to Treat a Friend Who Is Better Than You

By Hongmei  Xiaoxiao was an extroverted girl, and worked in a well-known advertising company. She made a lot of good friends there, and Xia Qing was one of them. Xia Qing was a very kind person who had compassion and patience for people. So Xiaoxiao would t...

Why Doesn’t the Lord Answer Our Prayers?

Xiaomei Brothers and sisters, peace to you in the Lord. Today let’s fellowship about the truth regarding prayer. As is known to all believers in the Lord, prayer is indispensable to us followers. If a Christian does not pray, he does not deserve to be called ...

Do You Know the Secret of Praying?

By Xiao Zheng It is known to each of us who believes in God that prayer is vital for our understanding the truth and practicing God’s requirements of us. Whatever tribulations we face, whatever difficulties we encounter in life, or whenever we desire to gai...

What Happened After My Friend Betrayed Me?

By Lu Min, Spain I used to think that friends should help and treat each other with all sincerity. Only until after I suffered the betrayal of my friend did I see that, compared with interest, friendship was so fragile and unworthy of mention. One day, a...

What Kind of Prayers Will God Listen To?

By Cheng Shi Prayer is a way for us Christians to maintain a proper relationship with God. Especially, prayers in the morning and at night are indispensable. Although Brother Zhang insisted on praying every day, he still felt the Lord didn’t listen to his p...

How Can We Pray Rationally?

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...

How Can We Get Along With Others in Harmony?

By Qingxi One day, a brother recounted his annoyance to me, “Recently, I’ve always looked down on a certain brother. Many of his practices are repellent to me. When encountering matters, he couldn’t rely on the Lord or seek the Lord. Moreover, on that day w...

I Build a Correct View on Faith in God After Experiencing an Illness

By Amelie, France Recently, I read an article about prayer on the internet, which caused me to recollect my former attitude toward prayer. When I was 9, I turned to the Lord, for I saw the manifestation of the Lord’s power in my mother. Having suffered many...

How Should I, a Christian, Treat My Unbearable Roommate?

By Ruxue Yuan Yi is my roommate. In the beginning, we got along well with each other. I took the lead in doing housework; as long as I had time, I mopped the floor and made dinner, not asking her to help with these things. I never tired of doing like this. ...

How to Pray Rationally for Our Ill Child

Prayer is an important way in which we establish a proper relationship with God. But why sometimes doesn’t God hear our prayers? How should we pray to receive God’s praise? I was confused by these problems in the past. But now I have a new knowledge of prayer ...

What Is True Prayer That Is in Accordance With the Lord’s Will?

By Zhang Xiaoping, China We Christians are all clear that praying is essential in our daily life. But as for why we need to pray, and what kind of prayers conform to the Lord’s will, we fail to explain these details clearly. We usually pray according to our...

She Was No Longer Afflicted by Jealousy

By Jianding, Hong Kong Editor’s note: In daily life, we are often jealous of people who are better than us and even may dislike and contend with them. The author of this article once lived in jealousy because her classmate was superior to her. She felt extr...

How Can We Have a Normal Relationship With Other People?

By Chen Rui, China The lost lamb: Hello everyone! I have a question, hoping you can help me. I’m a pushy person with a bad temper. When interacting with others, if they don’t do things according to what I’ve said, I can’t stop myself from getting angry a...

I Know How to Pray Rationally

By Bai Wei, China One day I got a call from my daughter, and she said, “Mom, the relocation certificate of my residence has been sent here from the hinterland, but my work is keeping me busy. Please help me get it registered at the relevant local department...

Interests or Friendship, Which Should We Choose?

By Lizhi, China Xu Jiao was an apprentice in a cake shop. Because of the increase of customers, a new apprentice called A’nan was employed. She and Xu Jiao are alike in age, and both of them are Christians, so naturally they had common language on many thin...

You Will Have Unexpected Gain After Being Quiet Before God

By Becky, United States It’s not easy for us Christians to learn to keep quiet before God in daily life, because our life is always occupied with something. We either are busy working and doing service or immerse ourselves in social media and the Internet, ...

What Are the Ways of Practice to Help and Sustain Brothers and Sisters?

By Bai Yang “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God” (1John 4:7). Although we know that the Lord taught us to love each other so that we can use our living out to bear witness to God, yet ...

Do Not Forget to Get Close to God Due to Busy Work

By Yi Mi It is said in the Bible that “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds throu...

What Should She Do Facing the Roommates Who Troubled Her a Lot

By Chenxi It was freezing cold in winter. The whole city was like a big icehouse. In the evening, Chenxi was on the way to the self-study classroom. Pulling up her collar higher, she rapidly put her hands into her pockets. She thought, how cold it was! Two...

How to Pray so That the Lord Will Listen

We pray to the Lord every day, but do you know what types of prayers the Lord doesn’t listen to? How can your prayers be accepted by the Lord? After reading the article “What Prayers God Doesn’t Listen to? How to Pray in Accord With God’s Will,” you will find ...

The Basic Principles for Christians Getting Along With Others

By Hanxiao After believing in the Lord, along with listening to more and more sermons, we have some understanding of the Lord’s words and also always put forbearance and patience into action according to the Lord’s teachings in interacting with others. For th...

How Does the Lord Answer Our Prayers?

By Wang Nan Many brothers and sisters in the Lord have such confusion: “I also sincerely prayed to the Lord, but it seemed that the Lord did not listen to and answer my prayers.” We are often confused by this. How can this happen? Is the Lord not the One who ...

4 Basic Principles for Living Out a Normal Humanity

By Shicheng As a Christian, we all know that we should live out normal humanity. When interacting with brothers and sisters, we should love each other, understand, forbear and forgive each other, and help each other. This is the Lord’s requirement for every C...

3 Principles of Prayer Christians Should Grasp

By Yuhua, China One day, I sought from one of my friends, who believes in God, about the matter of prayer: “Many times when I pray to God, I cannot see the leadership and guidance of God, nor do I know how to pray in a way that conforms to God’s will.” Hea...

Why Should We Christians Pray? Will God Listen to Our Prayers?

Hello brothers and sisters of Overcoming Church, Good day! Not long ago my elder sister preached the gospel of the Lord Jesus to me. After joining the church, I was told by my elder sister that every day we need to pray to the Lord. At that time I was confu...

How to Improve Personal Relationships

By Chen Xiaoran One day, I saw a problem on a gospel website, “Recently, there arose some problems in my interpersonal relationship with people around me. I always thought they had opinions and biases about me, and I was also dissatisfied with some ac...

Why Doesn’t the Lord Answer Our Prayers?

Xiaomei Brothers and sisters, peace to you in the Lord. Today let’s fellowship about the truth regarding prayer. As is known to all believers in the Lord, prayer is indispensable to us followers. If a Christian does not pray, he does not deserve to be c...

How Did She Escape the Bondage of Jealousy?

By He Xin What Caused My Mild Anxiety? In one evening, the breeze gently blew to the face, and made people feel cozy. Around a sparkling lake with several geese singing, there were many flowers among the grasses, and occasionally a few butterflies wo...

If You Keep Doing These Three Aspects of Prayers, You Will Get Closer and Closer to God

Every one of us who has faith in the Lord has known and experienced that prayer is very important, but we seldom think about whether our prayers are in accord with the Lord’s will. Some time ago, I read some spiritual books on the Internet and came to kn...