Almighty God Saved Me Through His Punishment

 Almighty God Saved Me Through His Punishment

Li Meirong

Zhumadian City, Henan Province

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My name is Li Meirong, and I was a preacher in “the Sunday Meeting.” Because I was a long-time believer with seniority, I was given the name “Li Daogao” (which means my teaching was high) by the brothers and sisters. This is their opinion of me: Though without a high education, she can memorize the whole Scriptures; though without much power, she can “summon wind and rain” in the church. I was always proud of it. When the gospel of Almighty God was preached to our church, to show my “loyalty,” I resisted and condemned it frantically, hence God’s new work was hindered greatly in our area. I acted as a real antichrist and an unpardonable evil man. In the end, the punishment of Almighty God awoke me. Looking back, I was heartbroken with remorse…

It was in October, 1999. Our leader preached in a co-workers’ meeting, “Now there appears a false way, the ‘Eastern Lightning.’ It’s very aggressive! They believe in a female Christ. It’s an underworld organization. They are drawing people in from everywhere by all kinds of means. If you refuse to accept after hearing their preaching, they’ll gouge out your eyes, cut off your nose, and break your legs. From now on, you shall never receive any strangers. Whoever does it will be cast out of the church! …” Hearing what the leader said, I felt hatred and fear for this way. I thought to myself, “The ‘Eastern Lightning’ followers are so malevolent. It’s really a cult. I will fight against it with my last breath!” On my return, I immediately conveyed the words of the leader to the brothers and sisters and also devised a set of methods against the “Eastern Lightning.” I repeatedly told them to report to me or call “110” once they found the preachers of the “Eastern Lightning.”

One day in May 2000, no sooner had I come back home from the fields than a sister came and told me that two preachers of the “Eastern Lightning” were at her home. After hearing that, I rushed there. On seeing two stranger brothers, I burst into a storm of abuse: “You scums, what are you doing here? Want to snatch my ‘lambs’? You’re daydreaming!” “Sister, we just come to preach God’s gospel of the last days. We mean no harm to you. Besides, the ‘sheep’ all belong to God…” “Don’t talk nonsense here. Go away! Otherwise, I will call ‘110’!” I roared, driving them away.

On the morning of August 7, 2000, two strange sisters came to preach again, and I snarled at the sight of them, “You’re so cheeky! You stick to anyone you contact. Get out! Don’t foul my threshold! … You yourself believe in a queen and even want to take me in. A vain idea!” “Sister,” one of them said solemnly, “You condemn God’s work blindly without making any discernment. Do you not fear God?” I got furious, grabbing the broom and hitting her violently, and swearing ferociously, “You devil, God will punish your kind! …” They had no choice but to go away with tears. At that time, I was like a victorious “hero,” very pleased with myself.

God’s disposition is as a consuming fire. How could He tolerate my wild resistance against Him? One day in September, when I was cooking at home, I suddenly felt dizzy and weak at the knees, and I fell on the ground and fainted. It was a long time before I was found and sent to the hospital by my neighbor. The doctor diagnosed me with cerebral thrombosis. I was hospitalized for one month and spent 5,000 yuan on medical treatment. But the disobedient I didn’t realize it was God’s punishment. So, after I got out of the hospital, I still did everything to seal off the church and hinder the spreading of God’s gospel of the last days.

In the early spring of 2001, my daughter accepted God’s new work, and she came with a sister to preach it to me. I roared at my daughter wildly, “Damn rat, you believe in a cult behind my back. You’ve really disgraced me! Don’t come to my house any more. I’m not your mother and you’re not my daughter. I’ll have nothing more to do with you from now on. Just believe in your female Christ! …” The sister hurried to exhort me, “Aunty, aren’t we believing in one God? How could there be many Gods?” “Who believe in one God with you? You are of a heresy, a cult, and an underworld organization!” I said, in great anger. “Aunty, whether it’s right or wrong, you may have a listen and discern.” My daughter also pleaded with me with crying, “Mom, listen to me once. Sit down to have a listen!” “Get out! I have preached for years. How can I be fooled by you!” With this, I drove my daughter and the sister out mercilessly.

Due to my resistance, Almighty God’s punishment came to me again. One night in February, 2001, I suddenly got a tight feeling in my stomach. I thought that I ate too much and it would be all right after I rubbed it. However, the pain became more intense as I rubbed it, and in the end, it was so severe that I writhed on the bed. After a doctor’s examination, he told me that there was a tumor the size of a fist in my stomach, and the operation was impossible, which could only cause death. My husband had to bring me back from the hospital. During the several months, I suffered from the unbearable pain all day long, and truly tasted the pain of hell. I thought to myself, “I’ve served the Lord for years and guarded the church faithfully. Why does the Lord treat me in this way? Is the ‘Eastern Lightning’ I resist and condemn the true way? Is the One I resist the true God? …” At the thought of this, I felt very frightened. Then I had a heart to seek.

One day in May of the same year, my daughter and the sister came to see me again. Because of the illness, I dared not resist any more. I asked them, “The Lord Jesus is a male, but why do you say He has returned as a female?” The sister asked me, “What is God’s substance?” “His substance is Spirit.” “Since His substance is Spirit, does the Spirit have a gender? Gender is for created beings. There is no gender with God before He becomes flesh, and He has a gender only after He is incarnated and puts on the shell of a man. This flesh can do His work and represent Himself either in a male shell or a female shell.” Then she opened the book of God’s word and read: “Each stage of work done by God has a real significance. When Jesus arrived, He was male, and this time He is female. From this, you can see that God created both male and female for His work and with Him there is no distinction of gender. When His Spirit arrives, He can take on any flesh at will and the flesh represents Him. Be it male or female, both represent God as long as it is His incarnate flesh. If Jesus arrived and appeared as a female, in other words, if the conception by the Holy Spirit was to an infant girl and not a boy, that stage of work would have been completed all the same. If so, this stage of work would have to be completed instead by a male and the work would then be completed all the same. The work done in both stages is significant; no work is repeated or conflicts with each other. … If only the work of Jesus was done without the complement of this stage in the last days, then man would forever hold onto the notion that Jesus alone is the only Son of God, that is, God only has one son, and that any who comes afterward with another name would not be the only Son of God, much less God Himself. … There are some who believe that as long as He is a male who comes, He can be deemed the only Son of God and a representative of God. … If this stage of work is not done in the final age, then all mankind would be shrouded in a shadow of notion about God. If so, man would think himself to be of a higher status than woman, and women would never be able to hold their heads high. At such time, no female would receive salvation. People always believe that God is a male, and He always loathes woman and would not give woman salvation. If so, then is it not true that all women created by Jehovah and also corrupted would never have the opportunity to be saved? Then would it not have been pointless for Jehovah to have created woman, that is, to have created Eve? And would not woman perish for eternity? Therefore, this stage of work in the last days is to save all mankind….” Hearing this, I was brightened within: I always had notions about God’s gender in the past, and that is because I was too foolish and blind, and did not know God’s substance or understand God’s kind intention to save men!

But at the thought of the leader’s words, I felt worried. So I asked the sister, “Some people say you are of an underworld organization. Is it true?” “Aunty,” the sister said, “If we were really of an underworld organization, could we spare the lives of those who resisted God’s work and beat and cursed us? Besides, if their words were true, the victims would have reported it and the government wouldn’t sit back and do nothing. But in fact, throughout the whole country, is there anyone who has their eyes gouged out and ears cut off because of believing in Almighty God? Aren’t they rumors fabricated out of thin air by those who have ulterior motives?” The sister’s words caused me to think, “Yes, if they were of an underworld organization, how could I still live well like this after I repeatedly drove, abused, and beat them?” The sister read me another passage of Almighty God’s word: “The work of every age is begun by God Himself, but you ought to know that whatever the work of God, He does not come to start a movement or to hold special conferences or to establish any sort of organization for you. He comes only to carry out the work that He ought to do. His work is not restricted by any man. He does His work however He wishes; no matter what man thinks or knows, He focuses only on carrying out His work. Since the creation of the world, there has already been three stages of work; from Jehovah to Jesus, and from the Age of Law to the Age of Grace, God has never convened a ‘special conference’ for man, nor has He ever assembled all mankind together to convene a ‘special global working conference’ in order to expand on His work. He simply carries out the initial work of an entire age when the time and place are right, and through this ushers in the age to lead mankind in their lives.” At that time, I woke up as if from a dream and saw the light. Facing every word of truth of God, the disobedient me finally fell down before God and accepted Almighty God’s work gladly.

Through eating and drinking the word of Almighty God, I understood many truths I didn’t understand before and became more certain about God’s new work. The recollection of my disobedience and resistance against God threw me into deep remorse. Many times I confessed to God with tears, “O Almighty God, in all these years, I resisted You while believing in You, yet I thought I was loyal to You. I’m so blind and ignorant! I really hate it that I listened to my leader’s words without discernment, wantonly spread rumors to seal off the church, desperately hindered Your gospel of the last days from spreading in this area, serving as a Pharisee, and I even insulted, abused, and beat the brothers and sisters who preached Your good news to me. I’m really a heinous person deserving to die, worse than a beast! I should have been cursed according to my doings, but You awoke me through punishment and aroused me with Your words filled with power and authority, so that I saw Your wide, long, high, and deep love. Your selection of me is really Your exceptional grace and uplifting for me. Your kindness to me is so great that I cannot repay it enough, but I am willing to offer up my whole being to testify Your deeds.”

After accepting Almighty God’s new work, I began to cooperate in God’s gospel work. Soon, over thirty people in our church came before God. All the Glory be to Almighty God! Unexpectedly, several months later, the tumor in my stomach miraculously disappeared and other diseases all healed, from which I even more saw God’s wonderfulness. I thanked and praised God from the bottom of my heart!

Dear spiritual brothers and sisters, don’t believe the lies of those deceivers any more, and don’t resist God’s work because of believing rumors as I did. It will be too late to repent when God’s punishment comes. Think about it! Brothers and sisters, don’t adhere to your foolish way! When this opportunity is missed, it never comes again! It will be too late to repent when the gospel work of Almighty God comes to an end in the mainland China!

From: How Was I Conquered by the Word of God

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How time flies! Fourteen years have flashed by since I followed Almighty God. In these years, although I have undergone various trials and hardships and frustrations, with the company of God’s word and God’s love and mercy, I’ve been especially enriched in my heart. During these fourteen years, what was most deeply engraved on my heart was my being arrested in August, 2003. After I was arrested that time, I was cruelly tortured by the CCP police and was almost disabled. It was Almighty God who cared for and kept me and led me with his word of life time after time, so that I overcame the cruel tortures of the devils and stood testimony. In the experience, I deeply felt that the power of Almighty God’s word is transcendent and Almighty God’s life force is great. I firmly believed that Almighty God is the only true God who rules over everything and controls all things and is even more my only salvation and reliance. No hostile force can take me away from God’s hand or hinder my footsteps of following God.

That night, I remember, two sisters and I were having a meeting. Suddenly, we heard the dog bark and some people come over the wall outside. Immediately after that, we heard someone ram the door rapidly and shout, “Open the door! You’re surrounded!” We cleared up the things quickly and were going to leave. Just then, the door banged open. Several strong flashlight beams flashed at us, and we were blinded by the lights. Instantly, a dozen or so people rushed into the house. They forcibly pushed us to a corner of the wall and shouted loudly, “Don’t move! Behave yourself!” Then, they rummaged through the house like bandits. At that time, I heard two shots outside the door, and then someone shouted, “We’ve caught them! There’s three of them!” They handcuffed us and pushed us into a police car. Then I came to know that we were arrested by the police. After we got in the car, a vicious policeman roared with an electric baton in his hand, “Everyone, listen! Nobody shout! Whoever shouts, my electric baton will be on her. Even if I beat you to death, I won’t violate the law!” On the way, two vicious policemen wedged me into the middle of the seat. One of them wrapped his legs around mine and pressed me to his chest, saying with lust, “It’s a waste for me not to take advantage of you today!” He held me tightly while I struggled hard to free myself. Later, a vicious policeman said, “Don’t mess things up! Hurry to finish the task and report.” Then he let me go.

The vicious policemen took us to the police station and locked us in a small room and handcuffed us onto iron chairs separately. One of them watched us and didn’t allow us to speak. That vicious policeman asked us harshly about our names and where we lived. Because of nervousness, I didn’t know what to answer. So I prayed to God silently, asking God to give me wisdom and the words I should say. At that time, God’s words inspired me, “…no matter what you do, put the interests of God’s family first, accept God’s searching, and obey God’s arrangement.” (from “How is Your Relationship with God?” in The Word Appears in the Flesh) Yes! I should put the interests of God’s family first. No matter what torments I will suffer, I can by no means get the brothers and sisters involved or sell them out, much less betray God. I should stand testimony for God and can by no means be a Judas. So, no matter what he asked, I just turned a deaf ear to him. The next morning, they prepared to send us to the detention house. That indecent vicious policeman said with a false smile, “We spread a dragnet and caught you at last. We won’t feel relaxed until we arrest you.” Having said that, he handcuffed me and seized the chance to push my breast twice with his two hands. I was very angry. I was really surprised that in broad daylight the people’s police could do such a thing. They are simply a gang of bandits and gangsters of underworld! They are really disgusting and hateful!

In the detention house, in order to make me speak out my family address and things of believing in God, the vicious policemen first asked a policewoman to use soft tactics to persuade me and draw words out of me. Seeing that I didn’t speak, they forcibly videotaped me and said that they would play it on the TV to ruin my reputation. However, I knew that I only believed in God and pursued to walk the right way of human life and didn’t do anything disgraceful, much less do anything violating the law. So I said to them, “Do as you want!” Seeing that their scheme didn’t work, the vicious policemen used malicious means to torture me. Like treating a felon, they put on me handcuffs and shackles weighing five kilos and escorted me to a car to take me out for interrogation. Because the shackles were too heavy, I could only walk with my heels rubbing the ground. I walked with great difficulty, and after only a few steps, the skin of my feet was chafed. After I got into the car, they immediately covered my head with a black bag, and two vicious policemen sandwiched me between them. I was shocked in my heart, “These devils don’t have humanity. I don’t know what malicious means they will use to torture me. What if I can’t bear them?” So, I prayed to God immediately, “O Almighty God! Facing the coming situation, I’m somewhat weak in my flesh. May you keep me and give me faith. No matter what cruel tortures come upon me, I’m willing to stand testimony to satisfy you and never betray you.” After I was taken into a room, they took the covering off my head and had me stand for a day. At night, a vicious policeman sat opposite me with his legs crossed and said ferociously to me, “Answer my questions properly! After you answer them, I’ll release you! How many years have you believed in God? Who preached to you? Who is your church leader?” Seeing that I said nothing, he roared, “If I don’t give you some color, you won’t speak!” Then, he ordered me to hold up my hands above my head and stand motionless. After a short time, my arms began to ache and I couldn’t hold on, but they didn’t allow me to put them down. It was not until I couldn’t raise my arms and sweated all over and shivered that they allowed me to put them down. But they didn’t allow me to sit and kept me standing until daybreak. My legs and feet became numb and swollen and painful.

The next morning, the vicious policemen interrogated me again, and I still said nothing. They took off one end of my handcuffs (with a chain). The head of the vicious policemen fiercely struck the bends of my legs with a stick 10 centimeters thick and 70 centimeters long, so that I knelt down on the ground. The stick was then between the bends of my legs. Then, they pulled my arms from under the stick and forcibly handcuffed my hands. Immediately, I felt suffocated and felt it difficult to breathe. The tendons of my shoulders seemed to be going to snap and my lower legs were so tense that they seemed to be going to break. I shivered all over from pain. About three minutes later, I swayed from side to side and couldn’t hold on. I flopped on the floor and fell flat on my back. Then, one of the four vicious policemen directed, another two on both sides of me held the stick with one hand and pulled my shoulders upward with the other, and another one raised my head with his hands and pushed my back with his foot, making me sit up slowly and continue to squat. Just like that, I fell down and was supported up, being tormented repeatedly for about one hour. Not until they were sweating tired and breathless did the head of the vicious policemen say, “All right, all right. I’m exhausted!” Then they removed the torture device. I was feeble all over and collapsed there like a heap of mud, gasping for breath. At that time, the skin of my wrists was rubbed off by the handcuffs, and the skin of my feet was rubbed off by the shackles, and they dripped blood. It was so painful that I dripped sweat all over. The sweat flowed to the wounds and I felt painful as if being cut by a knife. In extreme agony, I kept crying in my heart, “O God! Save me! I can hardly bear it!” At that time, God’s words inspired me, “When man gives up his life completely, nothing is difficult. No one can daunt him. Is there anything more important than ‘life’?” (from “The Interpretation of the Thirty-sixth Piece of Word” in The Word Appears in the Flesh) God’s words enlightened me all at once, “Satan knows that man loves the flesh most and even more fears death. It simply wants to make me fear death and thus betray God through torturing my flesh. This is satan’s scheme. However, God is just using satan’s scheme to perfect my faith and faithfulness to him and make me bear testimony for him before satan, thus shaming satan.” After understanding God’s will, I had faith and strength again within and also had the resolution that I would stand testimony for God even if I had to die. When I resolved to give up my life to satisfy God, my pain all over was relieved a lot, and I didn’t feel distressed or bad in my heart. Later, the vicious policemen removed the torture device for me and ordered me to stand up. They gnashed their teeth, saying, “If you don’t speak, we’ll let you stand all the time. We’ll see how long you can hold on!” Just like that, they made me stand until dark. In the evening when I went to the washroom, as my feet had become swollen and festered and bled because of wearing shackles, I could only move little by little by rubbing the ground. I walked with great difficulty. Every time I moved a little, my feet felt gnawingly painful. A very clear line of blood was left on the ground. It took me nearly one hour to get over a distance of about thirty meters and walk back. That night, I kept rubbing my swollen legs with my hands. Neither stretching them nor curling them up was comfortable, and I felt extremely bad. But what comforted me was that I didn’t betray God because of God’s keeping.

On the morning of the third day, the vicious policemen used the same means to torture me. Every time I fell down, the head of the vicious policemen grinned hideously, saying, “A brilliant fall. One more!” I was supported up and fell again. He said, “This pose is nice. It looks good. One more!” Just like that, they tormented me repeatedly for about an hour. Finally they got tired and stopped with sweat all over their face. I fell flat on my back to the ground, feeling very dizzy and shivering unceasingly. I couldn’t open my eyes due to the salty sweat. A feeling of nausea settled in my stomach, and I just wanted to vomit. I felt I was breathing my last. At that moment, God’s words came to my mind, “‘For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.’ … Because the great red dragon is the persecutor of God and the enemy of God, people in this place all suffer humiliations and persecutions for believing in God. So, this word is accomplished in you group of people.” (from “Is God’s Work So Simple as People Imagine?” in The Word Appears in the Flesh) God’s words made me understand that in believing in God and following God in China, the country where the devil rules, we are bound to undergo many humiliations and persecutions. This is also the time when we bear testimony for God and manifest God’s glory. God wants to make a group of overcomers through satan’s persecution, thus defeating satan. Today I can offer my portion for God’s glory and this is my honor! Led by God’s words, I spontaneously had a strong power in my heart and declared to satan, “Hateful old devil, I’ve made up my mind. No matter how you torture me, I’ll never yield to you, and I’ll pledge my life to stand on God’s side.” Seeing that I still said nothing, the head of the vicious policemen was so angry that he removed the torture device and roared, “Stand there! I’ll see how long you can be stubborn. We’ll have a long war against you. I don’t believe we can’t deal with you!” I had to get up with great difficulty. My legs being swollen and painful, I really couldn’t stand and could only lean against the wall. In the afternoon, the head of the vicious policemen said to me, “Others have confessed after being ‘swung’ once. You can hold so long. Your legs have become like this, yet you still won’t tell. I really wonder where your strength comes from….” He also stared at me, roaring, “So many people have confessed before me. How dare you fight me? It looks like you wanna be imprisoned. We’ll sentence you to eight or ten years, and let those prisoners beat and scold you every day and torture you to death!” At his words, I thought, “I have God with me. Even if you sentence me to eight or ten years, I’m not afraid.” Seeing that I didn’t say anything, he became so angry that he slapped his thigh and stomped his feet and cursed, “It cost me several days to deal with you alone. If everyone is like you, how can I do my work?” Hearing his words, I laughed to myself. I saw that satan is too incapable and is really a loser in God’s hand! At that time, I spontaneously thought of God’s words, “God’s life force can vanquish all power and even more surpass all power. His life is perpetual, and his power is transcendent. No created being and no hostile force can overpower his life force.” (from “Only the Last Christ Can Bestow to Man the Way of Eternal Life” in The Word Appears in the Flesh) Every word of God is the truth. Today I have personally experienced and tasted it. For three days, I haven’t eaten, drunk, or slept and have suffered such cruel tortures, but I can still hold on. This is completely the strength God gives me. It is God who has been caring for and keeping me. Without God as my rear guard, I would have long collapsed. God’s life force is really so transcendent and great. God is so almighty! Having seen God’s deed, I had more faith to bear testimony for God before satan.

On the morning of the fourth day, the vicious policemen forced me to stretch my arms level and half squat, and put a stick on the backs of my hands. After a short time, I couldn’t hold on. My hands drooped and the stick fell on the ground. Then they picked up the stick and fiercely beat my knuckles and knee joints. Every hit made me feel a heart-piercing pain. After the beating, they continued to force me to half squat. After several successive days of torture, my legs already became swollen and painful. I squatted just for a while, and then my legs couldn’t bear it and I slumped down on the ground. They pulled me up, but when they let go of me, I fell again. They did it again and again. I fell so many times that my butt felt painful to the touch and I was bathed in sweat from the pain. Just like that, they tortured me for about an hour. Then, they forced me to sit on the ground, and brought a bowl of highly concentrated salt water and forced me to drink it. I refused. A vicious policeman pinched my cheeks hard, and another vicious policeman held my head with his arm and squeezed my mouth open with his other hand and poured it into my mouth forcibly. The salt water stung my throat so much that I felt bitter and astringent. Immediately my stomach seemed to be burning like fire, and I felt so bad that I just wanted to shed tears. Seeing my miserable look, they said ferociously, “After you drink the salt water, you won’t bleed so easily when we beat you.” That gang of devils not only mocked and tortured me but also insulted me. In the evening, a vicious policeman came to me and squatted before me. He stretched his hand out and touched my face. While touching, he said indecent words. I became so angry that I spit in his face. He flew into a shameful rage and slapped me fiercely. Spots of light burst before my eyes, and my head buzzed. He said ferociously, “Our various cruel tortures are still to come. Even if we torture you to death, no one will know it. If you don’t speak, you’ll feel a lot more!” In the night, lying on the floor, I couldn’t move. I asked to use the restroom, yet they told me to pick myself up. I exerted all my strength to stand up slowly. After taking one step, I fell on the ground. Having no choice, a policewoman dragged me to the restroom. There, I lost consciousness again. After I woke up, I was already in the room. I saw that my legs were so swollen that they were shining, the handcuffs and shackles were deeply stuck into my flesh, and the wounds oozed pus and blood. I felt unbearably painful. I remembered that the vicious policeman had said that they would still torture me by various ways, so I became somewhat weak in spite of myself. I prayed to God, “O God! I don’t know how this gang of devils will torture me. I can barely take it. May you lead me and give me faith and bestow to me strength, so that I can stand testimony for you.” After the prayer, I thought of the sufferings God has undergone for saving mankind in being incarnated twice. The Lord Jesus was mocked, flogged, and insulted by the soldiers and people, being put a thorny crown around his head, and was finally crucified alive. Today God is incarnated again and takes a greater risk to work. The CCP government’s hunting and persecution and the religious world’s frenzied resistance and rejection and condemnation, God bears them all silently, without any complaint. I also thought of God’s words, “Aren’t the sufferings you encounter today the sufferings God undergoes? You are suffering with God, and God is accompanying man in the suffering; isn’t it so? Today you all have a part with Christ in his tribulation and kingdom and patience, and only thus will you gain glory in the end! It’s meaningful to undergo such sufferings, isn’t it? You can’t make it without the will. You should know what the meaning of the suffering today is and why you should undergo the sufferings. Find some truths from this and understand some of God’s will, and you will have the will to suffer. …” (from “How to Know Man’s Nature” in Christ’s Talks with Church Leaders and Workers) Yes! God has long undergone the suffering I undergo today. God, being innocent, suffers for saving corrupt mankind, while today I undergo the sufferings for my being saved. Compared with the sufferings God undergoes, this little suffering I undergo is simply not worthy to be mentioned. Only then did I taste how great are the suffering and humiliation God undergoes for saving us and feel that God’s love for mankind is so great and selfless! I became attached to God and had a thirst for God in my heart. This suffering made me see more of God’s mightiness and authority, and taste that God’s word is the power of man’s life and can lead me to overcome all kinds of difficulties and dangers. This suffering refined my faith and steeled my will power, and made up for and perfected my lacking. I have understood God’s will and known that today I can undergo this suffering and it is God’s great grace, and with God’s company, I’m not lonely. At that time, I couldn’t help singing the hymn of life experience, “God is my rear guard; what shall I fear? I will war against satan to the end. God uplifts us, so we should give up everything and have a part in Christ’s sufferings. I will ready my love and offer it all to God to descend with God in glory.” (from “The Kingdom” in Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs)

On the fifth day, the vicious policemen continued to make me half squat. My feet and legs were so swollen that I couldn’t stand at all. Several vicious policemen surrounded me and pushed me back and forth. Someone even seized the chance to take advantage of me. But I could only be played with by them like a puppet. I was dazed by the torture. Just when I couldn’t endure it, suddenly footsteps sounded outside, so they hurriedly ran to close the door and stopped playing with me. I knew God was showing mercy to me, relieving my suffering. In the evening, a vicious policeman sat before me. He took off his leather shoe and stretched his stinky foot before my face. And he said indecent words, “What are you sitting there thinking about? Are you thinking about men? What about the smell of my stinky foot? It’s good, isn’t it? I think it suits you.” Hearing his obscene words, I broke out into a rage. I glared at him. Seeing his shameful and evil look and thinking that they tortured and humiliated me at will time and again, without any humanity and even worse than beasts, and were exactly a gang of unreasonable devils, I bitterly hated this devil! Through my personal experience in those days, I saw that the people’s police I adored before are actually so shameful and evil. It even more stirred up my will to rebel against satan and stand testimony to satisfy God!

On the sixth day, I began to feel sleepy. A head of the vicious policemen said triumphantly, “The time you feel sleepy finally comes. Wanna sleep? No way! I’ll make you break down! I’ll see how much longer you can hold on!” Those vicious policemen took turns watching me. Whenever I closed my eyes, they would strike my legs with the stick or pull my hair and kick my feet. Sometimes they kicked my festering wounds, and I quivered from the pain. In the end, my head ached as if it would explode. I felt my head was spinning and then fell on the ground and fainted…. Faintly, I heard a doctor say, “You haven’t allowed her to eat or sleep for several days. You’re too hard-hearted! The shackles have stuck into the flesh. She can’t wear them anymore.” After the doctor left, the vicious policemen changed my shackles to ones that weigh 2.5 kilos and force-fed me some medicine. Then I woke up. I knew that I could survive all because of God’s mightiness, and it was God who was keeping me secretly and relieving my torture and alleviating my suffering through the doctor’s mouth. I had more faith in God within and had the resolution to fight against satan to the end. God is my rear guard and my shelter. Without God’s permission, no matter what cruel tortures satan uses, it can’t torture me to death.

On the morning of the seventh day, I really couldn’t hold on and dozed off constantly. Seeing it, a vicious policeman kept trampling my toes hard and pinching the back of my hand and slapping me. In the afternoon, the vicious policemen asked me about things of the church again. I hurriedly prayed to God, “O God! I’m muddled from staying up. May you keep me and give me a clear heart, so that I can stand testimony at any time.” Thank God for his keeping. Although I had been tortured for seven days and six nights, without eating, drinking, or sleeping, I was very clear in my mind and still said nothing. Later, the head of the vicious policemen brought out the name list of the gospel preachers that I wrote to interrogate me and asked me to speak out others. I had tasted enough of the tortures of those vicious policemen, and I could by no means let other brothers and sisters fall into their hands. So, I called to God to give me strength. When he was not paying attention, I suddenly went forward and grabbed the name list and put it in my mouth and ate it. Two vicious policemen shouted abuses at me in exasperation, rushed toward me, and pinched my mouth hard and fiercely slapped my face. Blood flowed from the corners of my mouth, I lost my bearings, and my face became swollen.

Getting no result from the interrogation, they could only give up and took me back to the detention house. Seeing that I was badly wounded, the policemen there didn’t accept me, fearing that they would take the blame if I died there. The vicious policemen had to take me to the hospital for oxygen therapy. After they sent me back to the detention house, I was in a coma for four days and nights. The prisoners woke me up, and later I fainted twice more. In the end, the CCP government sentenced me to one year and nine months of hard labor on the charge of “taking part in a cult.” However, because they tortured me black and blue all over and I was paralyzed and unable to walk, the labor camp refused to take me in. So, the police put my video on the TV. Three months later, my husband got the news and spent 12,000 yuan to bail me out so that my sentence would be executed outside the prison. When my husband came to pick me up, I couldn’t walk because I was seriously injured, so he had to carry me into the car. After going back home, I was diagnosed as having two segments of my lumbar misplaced. I couldn’t take care of myself and became a disabled person. I thought I would be bed-bound for the rest of my life. But later, because of God’s mercy and the medical treatment, I recovered gradually after one year. I really saw God’s almightiness and God’s love to me. I could perform the duty of a created being again. Thank God!

Through experiencing this persecution and tribulation, although I have undergone some sufferings, I have gained the treasure of life. I have not only seen clearly the CCP government’s devilish substance, but have even more seen God’s wonderful deed and the authority and power of God’s word, and felt the infinity and immensity of God’s life force. When I was weak and helpless, it was God’s word that gave me strength and courage, so that I had the faith to break through the dark force of satan; when my flesh couldn’t bear the cruel tortures, it was God who manipulated people, matters, and things to help me out of difficulty; when I was tortured by the devils and fainted, God worked on me wonderfully, delivering me from danger…. In my experience, I saw that God was right by my side and cared for and kept me and accompanied me to go forward all the time. God’s love to me is so great! God is my life and is my help and reliance at any time. I’m willing to dedicate my body and heart to God and pursue to know God and live out a meaningful life!

From in :God Is the Power of My Life

Recommendation:The brief introduction of the Church of Almighty God

                            :Eastern Lightning

 

God’s Word Created Miracles of Life——The Church of Almighty God

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God’s Word Created Miracles of Life

Yang Li    Jiangxi Province

When I was a child, my mother died. I shouldered the family burden at a young age. After getting married, I was even more loaded down with the burden of life. Having fully tasted the hardship and misery of life, I gradually became depressed and silent and fiddled my life away day by day. In 2002, when the brothers and sisters preached Almighty God’s end-time work to me, I accepted it readily and also brought my husband and children before Almighty God. From then on, the brothers and sisters often came to my home to have meetings. We fellowshipped about God’s word and sang hymns and danced to praise God together.

After the Afflictions, I Have a Firmer Love for God——The Church of Almighty God

After the Afflictions, I Have a Firmer Love for God

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Zhang Ren    Jiangxi Province

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. And I made a firm resolution that I would build up a career or get an official post after I grew up, so as to shake off our poverty and backwardness and let my parents live the life of the rich. However, after I strived for this ideal for years, it was still not fulfilled, and we still lived a very poor life. I often felt depressed and sighed for my accomplishing nothing, and I gradually lost my confidence in life. Just when I was discouraged and disappointed at life, Almighty God’s end-time salvation came upon me. From Almighty God’s word, I knew the root of man’s suffering in living in this world and also understood how to live in a most meaningful and worthy way. From then on, I, lost and helpless, found the direction of life, came out of depression and decadence, had vitality and vigor, and saw the hope of life. Later, in order that those who still lived in misery and helplessness could also receive this rare salvation, I ran around preaching God’s end-time salvation actively. But unexpectedly, during my preaching the gospel, I was arrested by the CCP government twice and suffered brutal and inhuman tortures…. In the dark den of the devil, Almighty God had always been with me, and his word gave me faith and strength, leading me to overcome satan’s influence of darkness time after time, so that my love for God became stronger.

The Persecution and Tribulation Made Me Love God More——The Church of Almighty God

The Persecution and Tribulation Made Me Love God More

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Liu Zhen    Shandong Province

I’m Liu Zhen, aged 78 this year. I’m an ordinary Christian in the Church of Almighty God. Thank Almighty God for choosing me, a rural old woman looked down upon by the worldly people. Since I accepted the end-time work of Almighty God, I prayed and listened to the recital of God’s word every day and had meetings with the brothers and sisters. I felt very happy in my heart and lived in the happiness I had never had. As I was old and my legs were stiff, I couldn’t go out to have meetings.

Praise God Filled With Authority and Power | Rock Music "Chinese Choir 11th Performance"——The Church of Almighty God

Chinese Choir 11th Performance

The Lord Jesus has descended on a white cloud among us with His judgment, His righteousness, and His original disposition, revealing to mankind the true God who bestows His mercy abundantly and casts out His anger fiercely. All the time, He forgives man with His mercy and warns man with His anger. His mercy, lovingkindness, majesty, and wrath inspire man’s sincere reverence. Because of His holiness and righteousness, man sees the hope, sees the appearance of light and righteousness, and sees the scene that the Redeemer has already returned on a white cloud. Only God can see through the evil and corruption of the world, only God can console this mankind who is moaning, and only God can save man from the boundless sea of misery! With God, everything has been predestined. God’s people will listen to God’s voice. Under God’s righteous judgment, all those who truly love God will return to God’s throne.

1. All Nations Come to Your Light

All Nations Come to Your Light

You open Your broad bosom

and caress the moaning mankind. (Ay….)

You wave Your mighty arms

and show Your shining eyes. (Ay….)

Your love and mercy recycle endlessly. (Ay….)

Your hidden glorious countenance reappears. (Ay….)

In the lastingly desolate world, (ay…)

brilliant rays are shining again. (Ay….)

Ah hey … ah hey … ah hey…. (Ay….)

This evil and fallen world

needs the reappearance of the Redeemer. (Ah….)

You bring hope to mankind

and end the two-thousand-year expectation. (Ay….)

You open Your broad bosom and caress the moaning mankind.

You wave Your mighty arms and show Your shining eyes.

Your love and mercy recycle endlessly.

Your hidden glorious countenance reappears.

In the lastingly desolate world, brilliant rays are shining again.

This evil and fallen world needs the reappearance of the Redeemer.

You bring hope to mankind and end the two-thousand-year expectation.

You open Your broad bosom (open Your bosom)

and caress the moaning mankind (the moaning mankind).

You wave Your mighty arms (wave Your arms)

and show Your shining eyes (show Your eyes).

This evil and fallen (evil and fallen) world

needs the reappearance of the Redeemer (the reappearance of the Redeemer).

You bring hope to mankind (hope to mankind)

and end the two-thousand-year expectation (the two-thousand-year expectation).

Ah hey … ah hey … ah hey….

All nations come to Your light. (Ah….)

They will be free from the attack of the evil one. (Ah….)

Let the darkness never exist. (Ay….)

Let Your holy name be praised forever! (Ay….)

Let Your holy name be praised forever! (Yeah!)

You open Your broad bosom

and caress the moaning mankind. (Ay….)

You wave Your mighty arms

and show Your shining eyes. (Ay….)

This evil and fallen world

needs the reappearance of the Redeemer. (Ay….)

You bring hope to mankind

and end the two-thousand-year expectation. (Ay….)

Ah hey … ah hey … ah hey….

Ah hey … ah hey … ah hey … ah hey….

This evil and fallen world (ay…)

needs the reappearance of the Redeemer. (Ay….)

You bring hope to mankind (ay…)

and end the two-thousand-year expectation. (Ay….)

Ah hey … ah hey … ah hey….

Ah hey … ah hey … ah hey….

Ah hey … ah hey … ah hey….

from Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs

2. God Bestows His Mercy Abundantly and Casts Out His Anger Fiercely

God’s mercy and tolerance indeed exist,

but at the same time God’s holiness and righteousness in His casting out anger

make men see His unoffendable aspect.

When man can, can fully listen to God’s command and do as God requires,

God bestows His mercy abundantly on man, bestows His mercy abundantly on man.

When man is full of, full of corruption and is full of hatred and hostility toward God,

God will cast out His anger fiercely.

And to what extent will God cast out His anger?

To the extent that man’s resistance and evil deeds

will never again be seen by God or exist before God’s eyes.

To what extent will God cast out His anger?

To the extent that man’s resistance and evil deeds

will never again be seen by God or exist before God’s eyes.

Only then will God’s anger be gone.

No matter who a man is, if his heart has been away from God

and has departed from God, being irretrievable,

no matter how his body or his mind desires to

worship God, follow God, and obey God outwardly and subjectively,

once his heart has departed from God, God will constantly cast out His anger.

Worse still, when God casts out His anger fiercely,

when God has given man enough opportunities,

God’s anger will not be withdrawn,

and He will never, will never give, give mercy and tolerance to such a man.

This is the unoffendable aspect of God’s disposition.

To the kind, beautiful, and good things He is tolerant and merciful;

to the evil, sinful, and vicious things

He will cast out His anger fiercely, even constantly, even constantly.

These are the two principal and most prominent aspects of God’s disposition

that He has been expressing from beginning to end:

bestowing His mercy abundantly and casting out His anger fiercely.

This is the unoffendable aspect of God’s disposition.

To the kind, beautiful, and good things He is tolerant and merciful;

to the evil, sinful, and vicious things

He will cast out His anger fiercely, even constantly, even constantly.

These are the two principal and most prominent aspects of God’s disposition

that He has been expressing from beginning to end:

bestowing His mercy abundantly and casting out His anger fiercely.

This is God’s righteous disposition:

bestowing His mercy abundantly and casting out His anger fiercely.

This is God’s righteous disposition:

bestowing His mercy abundantly and casting out His anger fiercely.

This is God’s righteous disposition:

bestowing His mercy abundantly and casting out His anger fiercely,

bestowing His mercy abundantly and casting out His anger fiercely,

bestowing His mercy abundantly and casting out His anger fiercely.

from “God’s Work, God’s Disposition, and God Himself (2)” in A Continuation of The Word Appears in the Flesh

3. All Things Are in God’s Hand

Ah … ah … ah….

God once said such a word:

God is as good as His word, and His word shall be accomplished.

No one can change it, no one can change it.

Ah … ah … ah … ah….

Whether they are the words spoken in the past

or the words to be spoken in the future,

they will be fulfilled one by one, so that all people will see.

Everything (Everything) in the universe

is determined by God (determined by God).

Is there anything that is not in God’s hand (in God’s hand)?

Whatever God says will be accomplished. (Ah….)

Of men, who can change God’s will? (Ah….)

Nothing can hinder God’s plan from advancing. (Ah….)

God is working at all times. (Ah….)

God is planning His management at all times.

Of men, who can interfere?

Isn’t it God who personally orchestrates everything?

Today it has entered into this state (this state),

and this is still within God’s plan and prediction (plan and prediction)

and is what God has long predestined (predestined),

is what God has long predestined. (Ah….)

God’s people will listen to God’s voice, God’s people will listen to God’s voice, (ah…)

and all those who truly love God will return to God’s throne, (ah…)

return to God’s throne! (Ah….)

God’s people will listen to God’s voice, God’s people will listen to God’s voice, (ah…)

and all those who truly love God will return to God’s throne, (ah…)

return to God’s throne! (Ah….)

God’s people will listen to God’s voice, God’s people will listen to God’s voice, (ah…)

and all those who truly love God will return to God’s throne, (ah…)

return to God’s throne, (ah…)

return to God’s throne!

from “The First Utterance” of God’s Utterances to the Entire Universe in The Word Appears in the Flesh

From in: The Church of Almighty God

Recommendation: Eastern Lightning, the Church of Almighty God was created because of the appearance and work of Almighty God, the second coming of the Lord Jesus, Christ of the last days. It is made up of all those who accept Almighty God’s work in the last days and are conquered and saved by His words. It was entirely founded by Almighty God personally and is led by Him as the Shepherd. It was definitely not created by a person. Christ is the truth, the way, and the life. God’s sheep hear God’s voice. As long as you read the words of Almighty God, you will see God has appeared.