My Life Principles Left Me Damaged | Eastern Lightning

45. My Life Principles Left Me Damaged

Changkai    Benxi City, Liaoning Province

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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.

The Hymn of God's Word The Authority and Significance of God's Incarnation | Eastern Lightning

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The Hymn of God's Word
The Authority and Significance
of God's Incarnation
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Man's stature, knowledge,
love, and loyalty,
obedience, and all that man sees
have come from
judgment by the word.
Your faith stands
because of His word.
Through this man sees
God's amazing work.

A Hymn of God's Words The Incarnate God Has Greater Concern for His Followers | Eastern Lightning

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A Hymn of God's Words

The Incarnate God

Has Greater Concern

for His Followers

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After God became flesh,
living life among mankind,
He saw man's depravity,
the situation of their life.
God in the flesh
deeply felt man's helplessness,
how pitiful they are;
He felt their sadness.
God gained more compassion
for the human condition,
and more concern for His followers
from His instincts in the flesh.

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.

44. I Am Willing to Accept the Supervision of All | Eastern Lightning

44. I Am Willing to Accept the Supervision of All

Xianshang    Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province

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A little while ago, every time I heard that the district preachers were coming to our church, I would feel a bit ill at ease. I didn’t reveal my feelings outwardly, but my heart was full of secret opposition. I thought: “It would be best if you all didn’t come. If you do come, at least don’t work in the church with me. Otherwise, I’ll be restricted and unable to commune.” Later, the situation got so bad that I actually hated their coming. Even as such, I didn’t think there was anything wrong with me and certainly didn’t try to know myself in the context of this situation.

Guileless People Are Not Necessarily Honest People | Eastern Lightning

43. Guileless People Are Not Necessarily Honest People

Cheng Mingjie    Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province

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I consider myself to be an outgoing and forthright kind of person. I speak with people in a very straightforward manner; whatever I want to say, I say it—I’m not the type to beat around the bush. In my interactions with people I tend to be a pretty straight shooter. Often, I get cheated or ridiculed for too easily placing trust in others. It was only after I started going to church that I felt I had found a place I could call my own. I thought to myself: In the past my guilelessness has put me at a disadvantage and made me vulnerable to the deception of others; but in church God wants honest people, people who have been scorned by society, so I don’t have to worry anymore about being too guileless. I felt especially comforted when I heard that God loves the honest and simple, and that only the honest shall receive God’s salvation. When I saw how distressed my brothers and sisters had become as they began to recognize their treacherous nature but could not change it, I felt even more relieved that, being honest and straightforward, I wouldn’t have to go through such distress. One day, however, after receiving a revelation from God, I finally realized I wasn’t the honest person I thought I was.

The Significance of Prayer | Eastern Lightning

The Significance of Prayer

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Prayer is one of the ways how man cooperates with God, to call upon His Spirit and to be touched by God. The more you pray, the more you'll be touched, enlightened and strong-minded. People as such can be made perfect soon. The more you pray, the more you'll be touched, enlightened and strong-minded. People as such can be made perfect soon.