Only If We Know God’s Work Can We Follow God to the End

Xiaoli Weihai City, Shandong Province

Now, some brothers and sisters, when encountering some environments of sufferings or painful trials, often utter these complaints: Why is it that we believe in God but what we encounter are all things painful to the flesh? It is said that God loves man, but where is God’s love? Just look at us these believers in God: We have left our families and given up our careers; we rush about all day; we are rejected by our relatives, slandered by the world, and persecuted by the great red dragon; and we also have to experience God’s chastisement, judgment, dealing, and pruning, and the trials and refining of all kinds of sufferings. What we undergo are all sufferings! Those gentiles who do not believe in God, however, eat well, dress well, and enjoy well, and also they do not need to suffer or be refined. Because of these, they always have complaints and often live in passive states. Some of them even feel they are unable to follow any further, and they start to write themselves off as hopeless and act recklessly.

Testimony of Faith - Salvation from Death’s Grasp | Eastern Lightning

Salvation from Death’s Grasp

She was sentenced to death by doctors, family members, and neighbors, and at the end of her life, she heard the voice of God. Instead of dying, she regained her life force with renewed vitality.

By Feng Mei

The sun shone brightly on the earth, giving it a golden coat. In a small farmhouse, a thick curtain blocked its arrival. The scene of a wistful room and the world outside the window is so contrary.

Quietly in the room, Feng Mei lay paralyzed in bed, her waxy face without the slightest color. Her body looked like a thin skin attached to a skeleton. It seemed painful to touch her skin with your hands.

Testimony of Faith – Eight-Year-Long Path … | Eastern Lightning

Testimony of Faith – Eight-Year-Long Path …

Eight years are both long and brief. As far as I am concerned, every day and every night is a torment to separated mother and son. What exactly is the reason that a mother would rather stand the pain of separation from her little son for 8 years? What’s on earth the story behind her?

By Weiyi, China

At dusk, He Ying went out from Sister Li’s home warily. When she was walking past a park, a faint scent of flowers drifted to her, and she took a deep breath of fresh air. Feeling relieved, she relaxed her pace and found a place to have a rest. Not far away, there were young parents and their child playing on the lawn. At times, the mischievous child rushed into his father’s embrace; at times he laid his cheek against her mother’s and whispered “Mom” in a sweet voice in his mother’s ear. The child’s whispers “Mom” hurt He Ying deeply, and feelings of grief and desolation all welled up in her heart.

Follow God Along the Rough Path (Movie Version) | Eastern Lightning

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Hymn
Follow God Along the Rough Path
(Movie Version)
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All that I ever have, I spend on God.
All I have I devote;
give myself to Him.
Family's forsaken me;
slandered by the world.
Well, the path to follow God is rough,
full of stones and thorns.
I gave my all
to spread God's kingdom far.
I have seen the seasons come and go.
I know whatever's ahead,
sorrow or joy.
God just has to ask and I'll obey.

Pledging My Life to Devotion

By Zhou Xuan, Shandong Province

April 3, 2003 was the most unforgettable day of my life. I went with a sister to preach the gospel to a potential believer. Little did I expect that she had been deceived by the rumors spread by the CCP, and she reported us to the police. As a result, four plain-clothes police came and aggressively forced the two of us into their vehicle and took us to the police station. On the road, my heart was extremely nervous, because there was a pager, a list of names of some of the members from our church, and a notepad in my bag.

Hearing God's Voice | Gospel Movie "A Late Answer" | Eastern Lightning

Tang Jie served the Lord zealously for nearly forty years and expected the return of the Lord Jesus eagerly all the time. Having given up her family and her career, she established many house meeting places. As the work of the Holy Spirit shifted, the church became desolate gradually. She tried every possible way to revive it, but in vain. During this process, God’s gospel of the last days came upon her church. To “defend the Lord’s way,” she wrote a pamphlet to fabricate rumors against, slander, and attack Almighty God’s work of the last days, and sealed her church to hinder the believers from listening to the messages. However, increasingly more believers returned to Almighty God. At the end of her tether, Tang Jie fell into misery, confusion, and helplessness….

After the Afflictions, I Have a Firmer Love for God

6. After the Afflictions, I Have a Firmer Love for God

Zhang Ren    Jiangxi Province

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My name is Zhang Ren, and I’m a Christian in the Church of Almighty God. Since I began to know things, I saw my parents labor hard in the fields from morning till night every day for making money. Although they exerted much effort, they couldn’t earn much money after one year’s labor. So my family had been living a very poor life. When I saw those influential people live well without needing to labor hard, I envied them from the bottom of my heart.

From Suffering Is Emitted the Fragrance of Love | Eastern Lightning

4. From Suffering Is Emitted the Fragrance of Love

Xiaokai, Jiangxi Province

I’m an ordinary country woman and, because of the feudalistic idea of only valuing male children, I was unable to raise my head in front of others for shame at having borne no son. Just when I was suffering the most, I was chosen by the Lord Jesus and, two years later, I accepted the salvation of Almighty God. Moreover, I understood much truth from within the words of Almighty God and my heart obtained true release. However, while I was performing my duty to repay God’s love, I was twice arrested by the CCP government and I suffered brutal torture and torment at the hands of the CCP’s pawns. Just when I was on the verge of death, the words of Almighty God guided me and inspired me and caused me to stand witness in the midst of Satan’s cruel harm, thereby strengthening my determination to follow God and love God for all my life.

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Love God Without Complaints | "Follow God Along the Rough Path" (Official Music Video)

Follow God Along the Rough Path

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You spend yourself for God, I devote myself to Him,

forsaken by family, slandered by the world.

I put all my heart and soul into expanding the kingdom of God.

The path to follow God is not easy at all. I have seen the turning of the seasons.

To satisfy God’s requirements, I obey His arrangements.

I welcome the joy and sorrow ahead. I’ll suffer all my life. I will satisfy God’s heart!

Danger and distress draw not a single complaint from my mouth.

I’ll suffer all my life. I will satisfy God’s heart!