Is There a Secret To Prayer? – Spiritual Growth | Eastern Lightning

Is There a Secret To Prayer? – Spiritual Growth

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 gain enlightenment and guidance of the Holy Spirit in reading God’s word, we can never depart from prayer. Actually, every believer in God is eager to achieve results in praying to God, eager to receive God’s blessings, gain enlightenment and guidance from the Holy Spirit, and thereby live before God. However, now many brothers and sisters find that they often pray to God but receive no enlightenment, which causes them to be passive and weak in spirit. Thus, a lot of people could not understand this: Isn’t prayer just speaking to God? Why can’t I receive enlightenment from God and achieve results though I pray often? Could it be that there is a secret to prayer? In the past, I was also puzzled by the same questions. Later, after reading some words in a spiritual book, I found there really was a secret to praying.

My Interactions With a Weird Neighbor | Eastern Lightning

My Interactions With a Weird Neighbor

By Xiaowu

Picture of the Church of Almighty God

     “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, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake has forgiven you” (Ephesians 4:32). It is because we are all sinners without the distinction of high and low. To live out the image of the Lord is the common objective of our pursuit.

How To Come Out of the Suffering of a Broken Marriage? | Eastern Lightning

It is found that most people’s ideas of love and marriage are “Love is exalted above everything,” and “Marriage is priceless”; while there are also many people who have been hurt by love, and even are very badly bruised. She, protagonist of the following story, hassuffered the same unfortunate fate. But thanks to God’s salvation, her life takes a big turn.

By Qingxin, Burma

When I was in middle school, pop music and various kinds of movies, TV plays, and novels flourished, which deeply affected me. Especially the romantic fictions written by Qiong Yao, a famous writer in Taiwan, had the biggest influence on me. Famous sentences like “What on earth is love, that makes lovers vow to stick together in life and death?” and “Love is exalted above everything” all became my motto as well as the philosophy that I abided by in my life.

God Rescued Me From Drowning – Christian Testimony | Eastern Lightning

God Rescued Me From Drowning – Christian Testimony

By Xin Min

     I am a Christian who believed in God in October 2012. Although I attended meetings and read God’s words, I had little true knowledge of the authority and power of God’s words. It was not until in an unexpected experience that I gained some understanding and knowledge of the authority and power of His words.

What Is True Faith in God? | Christian Family Movie "Red Re-Education at Home" | Eastern Lightning

    Zheng Yi is a Christian. When he heard about the CCP government's brutal persecution of Eastern Lightning and the arrest of Christians during his work in the United States, he pondered, "The CCP is an atheist party, a satanic regime that resists God most. Under the frenzied persecution and suppression by the CCP, Eastern Lightning has still become increasingly prosperous. It most likely is the true way." So he examined Eastern Lightning on the website of The Church of Almighty God. He discovered that Almighty God's word is the truth and the voice of God.

#2 The CCP Is the Plotter of Fake News of McDonald's Murder in Zhaoyuan - Massimo Introvigne

#2 The CCP Is the Plotter of Fake News of McDonald's Murder in Zhaoyuan - Massimo Introvigne

    On November 20, 21, 2017, just in two days, seventeen reports attacking The Church of Almighty God (CAG) were published intensively on Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) mouthpieces media in Hong Kong (HK), citing the rumors and fallacies consistently fabricated by CCP to discredit and condemn CAG. Again, May 28 McDonald’s Murder in Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province, in 2014 was used as a tool to attack and slander CAG. Prof. Massimo Introvigne, an Italian sociologist, the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), who carried out an in-depth study on the murder, debunked and made clarification as follows.

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Massimo Introvigne Reveals Truth of Zhaoyuan McDonald's Murder and Says the Real Xiejiao Is the CCP

At the international conference on Religious Persecution and the Human Rights of Refugees in Seoul, South Korea on October 23, 2017, Professor Massimo Introvigne made a detailed analysis of the inaccuracies in the Chinese Communist government's definition of a "cult." He also clearly stated that The Church of Almighty God has been the religious group most seriously persecuted by the Chinese Communist government, leading to the incarceration and sentencing of hundreds of thousands of their followers who have committed no crimes. They have only been incarcerated and sentenced because of their affiliation with The Church of Almighty God.