Eastern Lightning | Gospel Questions & Answers

Question 1: Living abroad, we are quite busy with our work and with things at home and sometimes we don’t have time to read God’s words or attend meetings.I feel that this is not putting God first, however, and I feel in my heart that I owe God.I’d like to ask how we can find a better balance between our work, our families and seeking the truth？

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Bible Verses for Reference:

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Mak 8:36-37).

And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat; neither for the body, what you shall put on. The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment (Luk 12:22-23).

The Tabernacle of God Is With Men

One day, I went to my sister’s house to check on our mom. Before leaving, my sister gave me a book, urging me to be sure to read it carefully. I thought to myself: This book that my sister gave me is certainly a spiritual work. It just so happens that my spirit feels quite parched right now, it does not feel like the Lord is with me, and I do not feel illuminated from reading the Bible. When I get back, I ought to read this book carefully. Perhaps it will give me something.

How can you pursue the truth so that you are not taken in by lies? What are the principles of practice? (1)

Relevant Words of God:

My words represent Me, Myself. Remember this! Do not have doubts; you absolutely must be certain. This is a matter of life and death! This is a terrible thing! As soon as My words are spoken, what I want to do has come to pass.

from Utterances and Testimonies of Christ in the Beginning

What is the nature of the problem of man not knowing the significance of God’s name and not accepting God’s new name?

Relevant Words of God:

In each period of time, God will begin new work, and in each period, there will be a new beginning among man. If man only abides by the truths that “Jehovah is God” and “Jesus is Christ,” which are truths that only apply to a single age, then man will never keep up with the work of the Holy Spirit, and will forever be incapable of gaining the work of the Holy Spirit.

Almighty God's Word "Knowing the Three Stages of God's Work Is the Path to Knowing God" (Part One)

      Almighty God says, "The three stages of work are at the heart of God's entire management, and in them are expressed the disposition of God and what He is. Those who do not know of the three stages of God's work are incapable of realizing how God expresses His disposition, nor do they know the wisdom of God's work, and they remain ignorant of the many ways in which He saves mankind, and His will for the whole of mankind.

It Is Very Important to Know the States of the “Hidden” Passivity

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22 It Is Very Important to Know the States of the “Hidden” Passivity

Wu Ming    Heze City, Shandong Province

We often have some passive states within us. For example, some people become passive because they are short of money; some become passive because the day of God has not come after so long a time; some become passive because they achieve no results in their work; some become passive because they have been pruned and dealt with; some become passive because they see that they remain unchanged; some become passive because they have serious transgressions and are worried that they cannot be saved; and so on.

Eastern Lightning | An Immediate Necessity Is to Resolve Perfunctoriness and Deceit in Service

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21 An Immediate Necessity Is to Resolve Perfunctoriness and Deceit in Service

Jingxin    Zhengzhou City, Henan Province

During this period of time, the above constantly emphasized that all God’s chosen people should eat and drink God’s words around the seven corruptions and required that they resolve these seven corruptions as soon as possible so that people’s belief in God and service to God could be secured. But people have not attached great importance to the requirement from above.

Eastern Lightning | Honest People Are the Real Smart People

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20 Honest People Are the Real Smart People

Wang Hui    Fuyang City, Anhui Province

In the many words God has expressed, God has required us many times to be honest people and made it clear many times that he likes honest people, blesses honest people, and saves honest people. And he also definitely tells us that the ones who will live forever in the kingdom are honest people.

The Church of Almighty God | It Is So Important to Pray Genuinely

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18 It Is So Important to Pray Genuinely

Zhuiqiu    Jiuquan City, Gansu Province

Doctrinally most believers in God know that prayer is very important and we should all pray genuinely. But in our real life, we do not pay attention to praying genuinely. Most of the time, we pray to God perfunctorily and deceitfully. For example, many times we rest content with praying several times a day without caring whether we have achieved results, and sometimes we even do not know what we have said in our prayer.

The Church of Almighty God | We Should Pay Attention to Seeking God’s Intention

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17 We Should Pay Attention to Seeking God’s Intention

Fenjin    Lanzhou City, Gansu Province

Seeking God’s intention in everything is God’s requirement for each of us and is even more a requirement everyone who serves God has to meet. However, most of us have little entering in in this aspect. No matter whether we eat and drink God’s word, perform duties, carry out the work arrangements, or encounter difficulties, we all act in whatever way we like and do not seek God’s will at all. Sometimes even though we seek, we do it as a mere formality.

Eastern Lightning | Only If We Know God’s Disposition Will We Not Offend God

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15 Only If We Know God’s Disposition Will We Not Offend God

Xiaojin    Baoji City, Shaanxi    Province

Each of us has offended God’s disposition in the course of our belief in God. Though we often hate ourselves for that and make resolutions to mend our ways, we still offend God involuntarily when encountering things that do not match our notions or that affect our fleshly interests.

Eastern Lightning | Watch Our Tongues Lest We Offend God

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13 Watch Our Tongues Lest We Offend God

Jingwei    Yingkou City, Liaoning Province

It is stipulated in “Ten Administrative Decrees God’s Chosen People Must Keep”: “Do not judge God, do not talk about the things of God at will, do what man should do, say what man should say, do not overstep the scope, do not go beyond the boundary, watch your tongue, and guard your steps, lest you do things that offend God’s disposition.”

The Church of Almighty God | Ways to Know Our Nature

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5 Ways to Know Our Nature

Chen Mowen    Fuxin City, Liaoning Province

Now, we have all known that knowing ourselves is very important and is a prerequisite to the transformation of our disposition, and we have started to put effort into it. However, most of the time our knowledge of ourselves is only shallow and superficial, and no desired results have been achieved at all. So, up until now, we have not gained much transformation in our disposition.

Eastern Lightning | How to Resolve the Problem of Performing Duty Perfunctorily and Deceitfully

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3 How to Resolve the Problem of Performing Duty Perfunctorily and Deceitfully

Ding Yu    Weifang City, Shandong Province

Most of us desire to be faithful to God in our duties to satisfy God, but in performing our duties, we often treat God perfunctorily and deceitfully and cheat God in spite of ourselves, and are always unable to exert all our strength to perform our duties faithfully. So, we have never achieved the desired results in our work, and our life entering is also hindered greatly.

Eastern Lightning | Resolving The Arrogant Nature Brooks No Delay

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2 Resolving The Arrogant Nature Brooks No Delay

Yao Yixin    Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province

In the man’s fellowship attached to Christ’s Talks with Church Leaders and Workers, it says: “In pursuing the transformation of his disposition, one should pay attention to the problem of his arrogant nature, which is a hinge most easily neglected by him. If one has not gained the transformation of his arrogant nature, no matter how many doctrines he understands, it is useless, for this involves the matter of his life substance and the matter of whether he can be saved.

The Church of Almighty God | Frequent Liars Belong to Satan

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1 Frequent Liars Belong to Satan

Ke Nan    Pingdingshan City, Henan Province

In the man’s fellowship attached to Christ’s Talks with Church Leaders and Workers, it is said: “All people, after being corrupted by satan, have become the ones who are full of lies. Corrupt human beings lie about everything, and even none of their words is not mixed with a lie. They have all become experts in telling lies and master-hands in making up lies. It is very difficult to decide which of their words is true and which is false.”

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

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15 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?

Eastern Lightning | It Is Important to Know Ourselves but More Indispensable to Know God

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14 It Is Important to Know Ourselves but More Indispensable to Know God

Li Jing  Huaibei City, Anhui Province

In our experience, we often fall into such a state as this: In the things we encounter, we only focus on knowing ourselves and dealing with our corruptions, with the result that even though we come to know that we are nothing and not worthy a penny, we still have no motivation to love God, and sometimes we even give ourselves up as hopeless and completely lose confidence in ourselves. The following are some examples.

Eastern Lightning | Whoever Doubts God’s Word Will Be Eliminated

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10 Whoever Doubts God’s Word Will Be Eliminated

Heyi  Zhuanghe City, Liaoning Province

In words and in doctrine, we all acknowledge that God is faithful and whatever he says will be fulfilled, but many times we do not truly believe God’s word from the bottom of our heart and even often deny it in our practical experience. For example, God says: “Nothing is too difficult for me.” However, when we encounter some difficulties or when we achieve no results in the gospel work, we no longer believe this word but think that the practical difficulties are there and that even if we rely on God, we will not be able to resolve the problems or achieve the results.

The Church of Almighty God | A Brief Talk on “What Having Reality Is”

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9 A Brief Talk on “What Having Reality Is”

Si’en  Fuxin City, Liaoning Province

Many times God has required us to be a person who has reality. Then, what are the manifestations of “having reality”? Some leaders or workers think that they have reality because they have meetings with the brothers and sisters every day fellowshipping about the truth and have resolved many of their passive states and many difficulties in the church.