Li Fang, China
In the fall of 2002, Sister Zhao from my denomination, the Church of Truth, brought her niece, Sister Wang, to my home to tell me some great news that the Lord has come back. After a few days of reading the words of Almighty God and listening to the sister’s detailed fellowship, I understood that from the creation of the world until now God has performed three stages of work in order to save mankind. Other truths that I also came to know were God’s adoption of a different name during each stage of the work, the significance of God’s name for each age, and the mystery of God’s incarnation, etc. These truths really allowed me to open my eyes wide and see my fill. I said to myself: “It all sounds crystal clear, and Almighty God very probably is the returned Lord Jesus so I’d better make sure I grasp this chance and read more of Almighty God’s words.” Before leaving, Sister Wang left some books of God’s words for me. Whenever I had time during the day, I read God’s words. The more I read the more I loved reading them and the more I felt that they were the words of God. After three days I became anxious. I thought: “My son, who is also a believer, and many brothers and sisters in our church still don’t know this great news about the return of the Lord. I’d better hurry up and tell them.”
The next day early in the morning I went to my son’s home. I said
happily to him: “This is such a great book. You should read it as soon
as possible.” My son glanced at me and asked: “What book? You seem
pretty delighted. Just put it down there and I’ll take a look at it when
I have time.” I thought that as all believers were looking forward to
the Lord’s return my son would be happy to learn that the Lord has
already returned.
I would never in a million years have imagined, however, that three
days later my son would show up at my home in the company of six
religious figures. One of them was Pastor Xia from my denomination, and
the others were pastors and preachers from my son’s denomination. I was a
bit stunned to see them, as I couldn’t figure out what was up and why
so many people had come to see me. A pastor surnamed Li looked closely
at me for a moment and with a look of concern on his face he said:
“Auntie, we’re all believers in the Lord, one big family. Your son tells
me that someone has given you a book, but you really shouldn’t read it.
Now it’s the last days, and the Lord Jesus said: ‘Then if any
man shall say to you, See, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For
there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show
great signs and wonders; so that, if it were possible, they shall
deceive the very elect’ (Mat 24:23-24). We believe that these
words of the Lord Jesus mean that anyone who says that the Lord has
returned is a fraudster who we must guard against and refuse to listen
to. Right now in the whole religious world there is only Eastern Lightning that is publicly bearing witness to the Lord’s return, so,
whatever you do, don’t have anything to do with them. Don’t read any of
Eastern Lightning’s books either. Their way is different from our faith,
so don’t listen to them. You don’t understand the Bible very well, and
you have small stature, so you’re easily deceived. We’ve been preaching
for many years and we understand the Bible well. We’ve travelled all
over China and we’ve seen a lot and our life is bigger. We’ve come today
specially to rescue you, so you’ve got to believe us and not try to
have it your own way.” When I heard this I thought to myself: “This
pastor seems to be concerned about me and what he said isn’t wrong. I’m
old and not very well educated, and I don’t understand the Bible that
well. I certainly can’t discern as well as they do.” At this point
Pastor Xia said: “I’m a pastor, and the Lord has given me His flock to
manage. So it’s my responsibility to make sure that you don’t stray from
the true way. If I don’t look after the Lord’s flock I won’t be able to
settle my account with the Lord. Sister, don’t run around to other
groups like this. If you get stolen from us by Eastern Lightning then
all these years that you’ve believed in the Lord will be wasted!”
Looking at their tense faces and hearing the serious tone in which they
were talking to me made me feel a bit frightened. I thought: “That’s
right. If I start believing wrongly then won’t all those years of faith
be wasted?” But then I thought: “The words in that book seemed so good,
so right. These pastors and preachers haven’t read the words of Almighty
God, so how could they say that it isn’t a true way?” So I said to
them: “The way you put it makes it seem like that really is the case but
what I heard from them completely matches the words of the Lord in the
Bible!” When they heard me say that they all started talking at once,
saying so many things to scare me that I became dizzy and confused and
experienced a lot of emotional turmoil. I sat there like an idiot,
unable to say a single thing. Then they wanted me to pray with them and
utter some curses, but I didn’t go along with it so they started to
terrorize me again. Finally, my son said: “Let me deal with this matter
of my mom’s.” Then he took the two hymn books named “Follow the Lamb and
Sing New Songs” and the cassette tapes of hymns as well as a book of
God’s words named “Judgment Beginning With the House of God” from the
cupboard and gave them to the pastor to take away.
After they left I was so upset that I couldn’t even eat my dinner, so
I came before the Lord and prayed: “Lord Jesus, is what those pastors
said true or not? It seems like they’re really concerned for my life. If
I don’t listen to them, will I put my faith in the wrong place? Oh
Lord, if You really have returned as Almighty God and I don’t accept You
then wouldn’t I be closing the door on You? Wouldn’t I just be like one
of the foolish virgins? Oh Lord, through reading the words of Almighty
God these last few days I feel that I’ve gained a lot of spiritual
supply. I’ve truly and honestly felt this, but could I be wrong? Now
that they’ve taken away my books and my cassette tapes of hymns I feel
really sad. Please show me the way as I don’t know what to do….” After
praying I suddenly remembered that Sister Wang had given me another book
of Almighty God’s words and I hid it deep inside the cupboard. When I
realized that I still had this book I felt a little bit better. But then
I thought about what those pastors had said, and I was still at a loss
about what to do. Should I read that book or not? That night, I hardly
slept at all, my mind in turmoil. Again and again I prayed to God in
tears …
Early the next day my son came to take me to my former church
meeting. I was very much undecided, but my son dragged me down to the
meeting place and even told a preacher that I’d nearly been stolen by
Eastern Lightning and he asked her to do her best to persuade me to
stay. In an instant, the preacher and all of the brothers and sisters
surrounded me. The preacher took hold of my hand, and in a gentle voice
said: “Auntie, whatever you do, don’t listen to anyone else preaching.
If you start believing wrongly, when the Lord comes to rapture the
congregations then you’ll be left behind, won’t you? You have small
stature, so if anyone gives you any kind of book to read it would be
better for you to ask us first. Let us check on it for you….” The
brothers and sisters were also all very keen to persuade me to stay, and
I was moved to tears by their “love.” When they saw how moved I was
they made their point once more: “If anyone from Eastern Lightning comes
to visit you again, don’t let them in. Don’t have anything to do with
them!” I nodded in agreement.
It was only a few days later that Sister Wang came to see me again. I
told her: “The pastor read this passage from the Bible to me: ‘Then
if any man shall say to you, See, here is Christ, or there; believe it
not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall
show great signs and wonders; so that, if it were possible, they shall
deceive the very elect’ (Mat 24:23-24). In the last days false
Christs shall appear and anyone who says that the Lord has returned is a
fraudster. I don’t understand the Bible, and my stature is small, so
I’m easily misled. I don’t dare to listen to any other messages, so I’m
not going to let you in. Don’t come again.” With great sincerity Sister
Wang said: “The Lord Jesus said this to ensure that we would guard
against false Christs during the last days but He didn’t intend for us
to also turn our backs on Christ. If there are false Christs it’s
because the real Christ has already appeared, because without the real
Christ the imposters have nothing to imitate. Those words of the Lord
Jesus tell us that we have to learn to discern; they aren’t saying that
we should refuse to listen to the gospel of the Lord’s return just
because false Christs will appear during the last days. Otherwise, how
will we be able to welcome the Lord’s return? Actually, the Lord Jesus
has already clearly described the characteristics of false Christs. The
main ones include manifesting signs, performing miracles, healing the
sick and exorcising demons, and copying the work that the Lord Jesus had
already done in order to deceive people. So during the last days anyone
who impersonates the Lord Jesus to preach the way of repentance and who
can manifest a few simple signs or heal the sick and exorcise demons is
a false Christ. Almighty God, who is the Lord Jesus returned in the
flesh in the last days, doesn’t repeat the work that the Lord Jesus had
already done but does new work on the foundation of the Lord Jesus’ work
of redemption. Almighty God has ended the Age of Grace and has opened
the Age of Kingdom by expressing truths to do a stage of work of judging
and cleansing mankind. Almighty God will thoroughly save all those
people who have been redeemed but still live in sin by removing the
shackles of their sinful nature and taking them away from Satan’s dark
influence. Mankind will thus be taken to their wonderful final
destination. Only God Himself can do this work; none of the false
Christs can.” Although what the sister was saying seemed reasonable, the
things that the pastors had told me were still swirling around in my
head. My mind was agitated and unable to focus and I didn’t want to hear
any more of her fellowship. So I told her that I had something to do
next door, which was a lie, in order to get away from her. Sister Wang
came back to my home many times after that but I always avoided her. My
neighbor told me: “She doesn’t look like a bad person so what are you
afraid of?” In my heart I knew that Sister Wang was a good person, but
as I was of small stature I was afraid of getting my faith wrong.
After I returned to the meeting of my former church I heard the
preachers still saying things in the sermon that they’d said before.
They always talked about how to guard against Eastern Lightning, or
donating to the church, or they repeated a lot of boring old stuff about
how much they had worked and suffered for the Lord and how much God’s
grace they had obtained…. They could not even say a little bit of
something fresh and bright. I quickly grew fed up of listening to them,
and started to doze off. On another occasion, a brother from another
church came to give a sermon, but it was more of the same stuff about
how he’d walked across mountains to do the Lord’s work and how much he’d
suffered, how many people he’d converted through spreading the gospel
and how many churches he’d set up. He used the sermon to blow his own
trumpet. Listening to him made me feel very uncomfortable, and I came to
the opinion that he wasn’t bearing witness for the Lord but just
bearing witness for himself. On another day, I’d just arrived at the
meeting place when one of the sisters said to me: “Today we’ve got a
20-something female theology student giving the sermon.” I was very
happy to hear that and told myself that I was going to pay special
attention because she would definitely give a better sermon than our
preachers did. But the student started her sermon with how to guard
against Eastern Lightning, and then went on to talk about how she’d
given up her regular studies at the age of 16 to enter the seminary to
study theology, how she’d worked and suffered outdoors in spite of the
rain, how many places she’d been to…. The more I heard, the more fed up I
got. I thought to myself: “This is all just old wine in new bottles!
Why do they keep on trotting out the same old boring stuff? None of this
has got anything to do with their experience or knowledge of the Lord’s
words, nor is it leading us in following the Lord’s way or practicing
and entering into His words.” I’d already been back at the meetings for
over a month but I hadn’t gained anything from them. The more I listened
to these messages, the drier I felt in my spirit, and I thought that I
would die of spiritual thirst if I carried on believing like this. The
more I thought about it, the more upset I got.
After the meeting I walked home with a heavy heart. I thought about
the book Judgment Beginning With the House of God that Sister Wang had
given me, which stated that people shouldn’t be arrogant and shouldn’t
exalt themselves but should honor God as great and exalt God. But these
preachers were all bearing witness for themselves, honoring themselves
above all else, and getting others to look up to them. It seemed to me
that what the book said was right! So that evening when I was alone at
home I took out the copy of Judgment Beginning With the House of God and
read some of it. The more I read the more my heart soared, and I really
felt that these words could be sustenance for my life. I was puzzled as
to why our pastor wouldn’t let me read such a good book. Our pastor
often said that he was responsible for my life and yet he only seemed to
know how to bear witness for himself in his sermons. He never told me
how to gain life. I remembered a period when I was very weak and didn’t
want to go to the meetings. The pastor never came to visit me or offer
support. But how come as soon as I started getting some spiritual
nourishment from reading Almighty God’s words he showed up to force me
into listening to them repeating the same old stuff? That’s not taking
responsibility for my life! I suddenly realized just how wrong I’d been,
and I blamed myself bitterly: Almighty God’s words could give supply to
my life, and they probably came from God. How could I have been so
stupid and blind as to believe what the pastor had said and give up
investigating the true way? I also thought about how Sister Wang had
always given me loving support, and had borne witness to God’s work of
the last days for me so that I had the chance to gain God’s salvation of
the last days. But I wasn’t all that nice to Sister Wang, and even
avoided seeing her on a number of occasions. I shouldn’t have treated
her like an enemy. When I thought of this I felt extremely sad. So I
came before the Lord and tearfully said a prayer of repentance: “Lord, I
treated that sister who brought me the book of God’s words as an enemy
and turned my back on her. This isn’t a case of abandoning someone but
is actually a case of refusing Your salvation. Lord, now I know that I
shouldn’t have listened to those pastors and given up investigating
God’s work of the last days. I wish to repent to You, but I don’t know
how to find Sister Wang. Please help me find her.” After praying, I
picked up the book again and read it late into the night. The more I
read the more I felt that the content was good, and the more I came to
despise the pastors for preventing me from reading the words of Almighty
God.
I’m so grateful to the Lord for listening to my prayer! The next day
at noon, when I was eating lunch, Sister Wang came to my house. I told
her about everything that had happened since I last saw her. When she
heard that I’d been unable to gain supply in religious church she read
out a passage of Almighty God’s words for me: “God will
accomplish this fact: He will make all people throughout the universe
come before Him, and worship the God on earth, and His work in other
places will cease, and people will be forced to seek the true way. It
will be like Joseph: Everyone came to him for food, and bowed down to
him, for he had things to eat. In order to avoid famine people will be
forced to seek the true way. The entire religious community is suffering
severe famine, and only the God of today is the wellspring of living
water, possessed of the ever-flowing wellspring provided for the
enjoyment of man, and people will come and depend on Him” (“The
Millennial Kingdom Has Arrived” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). Then
the sister fellowshiped this with me: “God is the wellspring of living
water, and only God can supply life for people. When people leave God
they will be in darkness and wither and die, just like a branch that has
broken off from the tree trunk. In our faith in God, we must closely
follow the footsteps of the Lamb, accept God’s work as it appears now,
and come before God in order to be able to gain the work of the Holy
Spirit and the nourishment and supply of God’s living water of life. Why
is it that we can’t get sustenance from listening to those pastors and
elders in religion? There are two reasons for this. One is that those
pastors and elders don’t abide by the Lord’s commandments and don’t put
the Lord’s words into practice. They don’t have real life experience and
have no real knowledge of God and much less have hearts that fear God,
which shows in the way they don’t at all exalt God or bear witness to
Him in their work and preaching. They only blow their own trumpets and
bear witness to themselves. By completely deviating from the Lord’s way
they have turned into typical false shepherds who deceive people. This
is why they are loathed and rejected by the Holy Spirit and never get
His enlightenment and guidance. And this is the main reason why the
religious community is so desolate. The other reason is that the Lord
has already returned to do the work of the new age. The Holy Spirit’s
work on people of the Age of Grace has already come to an end, and is
now being done on the group of people who are up to speed with God’s new
work. But the pastors and elders do not at all investigate God’s new
work and do not follow God’s footsteps and accept His leadership. All
they do is crazily resist God, condemn God’s work of the last days, and
slander and blaspheme Almighty God, the Christ of the last days. They do
whatever they can to prevent believers from investigating the true way
and returning to God, and thus have become just like the Pharisees who
nailed the Lord to the cross. They have already been condemned and
eliminated by God, so there is no way the Holy Spirit could work on
them. So, if we want to receive life sustenance we must align ourselves
with the Holy Spirit’s current work, accept the things that God is
currently expressing, and accept the leadership, supply, and shepherding
of Almighty God, the Christ of the last days. This is the only way for
us to gain truth and life. This proves what the Lord Jesus said: ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life’ (Jhn 14:6). ‘But
whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst;
but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water
springing up into everlasting life’ (Jhn 4:14).”
After listening to Sister Wang’s fellowship about God’s words I had a
sudden realization as to why the pastors, elders, and theology students
had nothing worthy to preach: They don’t have truth! They resist God,
and that’s why the Holy Spirit left them long ago. When they preach they
only have intellectual knowledge to rely on, but they don’t have the
enlightenment of the Holy Spirit and that’s why their preaching is not
helpful to people. But there was still something that I didn’t
understand, so I asked Sister Wang: “All those pastors and elders say
that they’re very familiar with the Bible, that they’ve been to seminary
school and have much life. I don’t understand the Bible that well and
believed that they were really more mature than me in life, so that’s
why I listened to them. So now I can’t decide whether they really have
much life or not. Sister, do you think that they really have much life?”
Sister Wang replied: “No one can say that they have life. This is all
decided according to God’s words.
What does it mean to have life? What
things specifically should be manifested? The Lord Jesus said: ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life’ (Jhn 14:6). And Almighty God said: ‘Whether
you are in possession of reality or not is not based on what you say,
rather, it is based on what you live out. When God’s words become your
life and your natural expression, only this counts as reality, and only
this counts as you possessing understanding and real stature. You must
be able to withstand examination for a long period of time, and you must
be able to live out the likeness that is required of you by God; it
must not be mere posturing, but it must flow naturally out of you. Only
then will you truly have reality, and only then will you have gained
life’ (“Only Putting the Truth Into Practice Is Having Reality” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). ‘Why
is it said that many people have no life? Because they do not know God,
and thus it is said that they have no God, and have no life’
(“Only Those Who Know God Can Bear Testimony to God” in The Word Appears
in the Flesh). From God’s words we can see that Christ is the truth,
the way and the life. Truth can act as people’s life, so gaining truth
is the same as gaining life, and having life indicates that someone has
gained truth and known God. Someone who doesn’t understand truth and
doesn’t know God will not have a heart that fears God and will be unable
to live out the reality of God’s words. This means that they have no
life. If someone doesn’t have God’s words as their life then they still
live by Satan’s poisons. They often reveal their corrupt
dispositions—arrogance, conceit, selfishness, despicableness,
crookedness, cunningness, and so on. And even if they believe in God
they are still unable to fear God and stay away from evil. They often
lie, cheat, commit sins, and resist God. How could they ever be called
people who have life? If they say they have life it’s just the same
fleshly life, the satanic life that is full of corrupt dispositions that
are in opposition to God, and not the new life, which comes from
experiencing God’s words and gaining the truth. So though the pastors
and elders may be familiar with the Bible, and possess knowledge of the
Bible and theological theories, that doesn’t mean that they know God and
fear God and that they understand truth and have the work of the Holy
Spirit. And it certainly doesn’t mean that they practice the Lord’s
words or obey Him. Instead, what we see is that they usually exalt and
bear witness to themselves, and generally try to get believers to
worship them. What they reveal is the likeness of Satan—being arrogant
and conceited, lacking fear for God, and always pretending to be good in
order to fool people. Neither in their work nor in their preaching can
they speak of any real knowledge of the Lord’s words or any practical
experience that is beneficial to other people. No matter how many years
you listen to them you will never understand any truth and your life
will never grow. They have no knowledge of God or of His work, and when
God has returned to flesh in the last days to express truths and do His
work of judgment they frenziedly resist, condemn, and blaspheme Him
without the tiniest bit of fear in their hearts. What kind of life do
they have? They totally have the life of Satan. They’re just like the
Pharisees who knew the Bible well and thought that they had sincere
faith in God and had life but who didn’t know God and even resisted and
condemned the Lord and nailed Him to the cross. This tells us that just
because someone knows the Bible it doesn’t mean that they have truth and
life. The only people who have life are those who understand and
practice truth and who know God, have a heart that fears Him, and can
live by God’s words. Those pastors and elders say that they have much
life, and this is only fooling believers and deceiving themselves.”
After listening to Almighty God’s words and the fellowship of Sister
Wang everything became much clearer in my mind: Just because someone
knows the Bible well and can explain the Bible it doesn’t mean that they
understand truth, know God or have life. I used to think that people in
high positions or who had studied theology or had Bible knowledge all
had much life. But now I see that my viewpoint was totally absurd. It
seems that people who don’t have truth are unable to discern, and so are
easily fooled. So I then asked Sister Wang a question: “Almighty God
speaks so well. All we have to do is read His words carefully and we’ll
realize that these are the words of God, God’s voice. So how come the
pastors and elders don’t accept this and even do their utmost to resist
and condemn Him?” Sister Wang replied: “During the last days, Almighty
God has come and expressed all of the truths that corrupt mankind needs
to be cleansed and saved. These truths are the way of eternal life that
God has bestowed upon us. As long as people seriously read God’s words
they will admit that these words are the truth, the life, and the way
and are the foundation and the guide for mankind’s survival. This is a
fact. Although most pastors and elders resist and condemn God’s work of
the last days, and try to prevent people from reading Almighty God’s
words, this doesn’t mean that they can’t hear God’s voice in them. Some
pastors and elders can’t preach anything useful so they steal Almighty
God’s words and preach them to their congregations, claiming that they
are enlightenments that the Holy Spirit offered to them. So we can see
that they are completely able to tell that these words are the
expression of the truth. But why do they still frenziedly resist and
condemn Almighty God? This has to do with their nature and substance of
hating the truth. If we think back to when the Lord Jesus first started
doing His work, He manifested many miracles, especially the feeding of
the five thousand with five loaves of bread and two fish. An even more
astonishing miracle for the people throughout the land of Judea was when
He brought Lazarus back from the dead. So, many of the common people in
those days recognized from the Lord’s words and work that He was the
coming Messiah. But the leaders of the Jews didn’t accept the Lord
Jesus, and instead resisted and condemned Him and in the end conspired
with the Roman government to crucify the Lord. Why did this happen? Was
it because they couldn’t hear the authority and power in the Lord Jesus’
words and recognize that they were from God? Was it because they were
in some way inferior to ordinary Jews? No! It was because they saw that
more and more people were accepting the Lord Jesus’ way. They were
afraid that if all of the ordinary folk believed in the Lord Jesus then
no one would follow or worship them and they would lose their status and
their livelihood. They clearly knew the Lord Jesus was God and yet
purposefully resisted Him; this revealed their antichrist essence, which
is resistance to God and hatred of the truth. The Lord Jesus bitterly
rebuked them when He said: ‘But now you seek to kill me, a man
that has told you the truth, which I have heard of God…. Why do you not
understand my speech? even because you cannot hear my word. You are of
your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a
murderer from the beginning, and stayed not in the truth, because there
is no truth in him’ (Jhn 8:40, 43-44). In present times, the
words of Almighty God have revealed with crystal clarity the nature and
essence of the current leaders of the religious community. Almighty God
said: ‘Those who read the Bible in grand churches recite the
Bible every day, yet not one understands the purpose of God’s work. Not
one is able to know God; moreover, not one is in accord with the heart
of God. They are all worthless, vile men, each standing on high to teach
God. Though they brandish the name of God, they willfully oppose Him.
Though they label themselves believers of God, they are ones who eat the
flesh and drink the blood of man. All such men are devils who devour
the soul of man, demons who purposefully disturb those who try to step
onto the right path, and stumbling blocks that impede the path of those
who seek God. Though they are of “robust flesh,” how are their followers
to know that they are antichrists who lead man in opposition to God?
How are they to know that they are living devils who specially seek
souls to devour?’ (“All Who Do Not Know God Are Those Who
Oppose God” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). These leaders of the
religious community today are just like the Pharisees of old: Although
they know the Bible well they know absolutely nothing about God’s work.
They see that the words of Almighty God are being accepted by more and
more people who long for and seek God’s appearance, and they’re afraid
that if the believers all believe in Almighty God then no one will
follow them anymore or donate money to them. So in order to protect
their status and their livelihood, under the banner of being loyal to
the Lord and protecting His flock they have manufactured all kinds of
vicious rumors to frenziedly resist and condemn God’s work of the last
days and done their best to prevent believers from seeking and
investigating the true way. So we can see that religious leaders are in
fact Pharisees who dislike and hate the truth. They are living demons
who eat people’s souls; they are antichrists who are being revealed by
God’s work of the last days.”
After listening to God’s words and the sister’s fellowship I had a
sudden realization and nodded my head a few times and said: “Now I
finally get why those pastors and elders, on hearing that there are
people bearing witness to God’s return, don’t seek or investigate it but
instead persistently condemn Him. Now I understand why those pastors
and elders are shouting that they are protecting me and are concerned
about my life when in fact they are doing their utmost to hold me back
and prevent me from reading God’s words and gaining the life sustenance
from God. It is all because everything they do is to protect their own
interests. They’re afraid that if people start following Almighty God
they won’t listen to their sermons or donate money to them so that’s why
they prevent people from investigating the true way. They really are
despicable, and they have come very close to making me lose my chance of
salvation. Now that I know how to discern better I’m going to refuse to
have anything to do with them. No matter what they do to disturb me,
I’m going to stand firm and follow Almighty God.” After that, I never
went back to my original church meetings again.
Not long after, two preachers from my original denomination came to
my house. One of them, Preacher Zhang, said to me: “Auntie, why haven’t
you been to the meetings? Have you been in contact with the people from
Eastern Lightning again? Whatever you do, don’t switch to their faith.
If you follow their faith you’re done for!” With a firm voice I replied:
“I got nothing from meetings with you recently and I grew ever darker
in my spirit and I wasn’t able to feel the Lord’s presence. But since I
started reading Almighty God’s words my spirit has been uplifted and now
I’m starting to understand truths and my life is nourished. I feel that
God is with me and that the Holy Spirit is working on me. Now I’m sure
that Almighty God is the returned Lord Jesus and that the truths
expressed by Almighty God are the living water of life. Only Almighty
God’s words can give me sustenance, and wherever I can gain life that is
where I shall go.” The other of them, Preacher Song, then said: “We
worry about you. We worry that you’ll deviate from the right way. You’re
immature in life.…” I said to her: “Maybe I’m immature in life, but God
will lead me anyway. Thanks for your concern, but you should think
about your own lives. My life is in God’s hands….” When they heard what I
had to say they left in a huff. As I watched them disappearing into the
distance I felt a huge sense of relief like I’d never felt before.
Afterward, they came back twice more, but seeing that I was totally
unmoved by their exhortations they never returned again. I thank God for
guiding me and allowing me to see through the true faces and wicked
hearts of those religious leaders, to see through Satan’s tricks and to
find my way out of the confusion and back to God. I’m now being supplied
with living water of life, and I will always follow and worship
Almighty God!
from The books of The Church of Almighty God How I Turned Back to Almighty God
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