A Different Kind of Love

By Chengxin, Brazil

A chance opportunity in 2011 allowed me to come to Brazil from China. When I had just arrived, I was overwhelmed with fresh and new experiences and filled with curiosity, and I had a good feeling about the future. But after some time, this fresh and new feeling was quickly replaced by the loneliness and pain of finding myself in a far-off foreign land. Every day I went back home all alone and ate by myself, staring at the walls around me day by day without anyone even to talk to. I felt so lonely, and would often cry in secret. Just when I was feeling at my most distressed and helpless, the Lord Jesus brought me into a gathering by means of a friend.

Best Christian Music Video | So Happy to Live in the Love of God | "Christ's Kingdom Is a Warm Home"

Best Christian Dance Song| So Happy to Live in the Love of God | "Christ's Kingdom Is a Warm Home"

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Christ’s kingdom is my warm home, it belongs to all of God’s people.

Christ walks and speaks in the church and lives together with God’s people.

The judgment and chastisement of God’s words is here, as is work of the Holy Spirit.

God’s words water, supply and guide us, and our lives grow.

This is the kingdom ruled by Christ, it is a fair and just world.

Uncovering the Mystery of Judgment

By Enhui, Malaysia

    My name is Enhui; I’m 46 years old. I live in Malaysia, and I have been a believer in the Lord for 27 years. In October 2015, I moved to another city to take up a job. My new colleagues were all really into Facebook, which they used for chatting, finding new friends, and making posts. Seeing that I didn’t have a Facebook account they set one up for me, and I gradually learned how to go online and use it. When I had the time, I would take a look at the postings of some brothers and sisters in the Lord and I’d share them and like them. Sometimes I’d make some posts about praising the Lord or share the Lord’s grace with the people in my friends group. Every day was really fulfilling for me.

The Road to Purification

By Christopher, Philippines

My name is Christopher, and I’m a pastor of a house church in the Philippines. In 1987, I was baptized and turned to the Lord Jesus and then by the Lord’s grace, in 1996 I became a pastor in a local church. At that time, I was not only working and preaching in many places around the Philippines, but I was also preaching in places such as Hong Kong and Malaysia. Through the work and the guidance of the Holy Spirit, I felt that I had inexhaustible energy in my work for the Lord and endless inspiration for my sermons. I would often offer support to brothers and sisters who were feeling negative and weak. Sometimes when their nonbeliever family members were unfriendly toward me, I was still able to be tolerant and patient; I didn’t lose faith in the Lord and believed that the Lord could change them. So, I felt like I had changed a great deal since becoming a believer. However, starting in 2011, I was no longer able to feel the work of the Holy Spirit as strongly as before. I gradually lost new enlightenment for my sermons and lacked the strength to break free from living in sin. I could not help losing my temper with my wife and daughter when I saw them doing things I didn’t like and scolded them out of anger. I knew that this was not in keeping with the will of the Lord, but often I could not help myself. This was particularly distressing for me. In order to free myself from a life of sinning and then confessing, I put more effort into reading the Bible, fasting and praying, and looked everywhere for spiritual pastors so we could seek and explore this together. But all of my efforts came to naught; there was no change to my life of sin and the darkness within my soul.

English Christian Song | "Only Through Painful Trials Can You Know God's Loveliness"

A Hymn of God's Words

English Christian Song | Only Through Painful Trials Can You Know God's Loveliness

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Pursuing God's satisfaction is practicing God's words with love for God. No matter the time, if others lack strength, inside, your heart still loves God anyway, deeply yearns for and misses God, this is actual stature. Only through hardship and refinement can man know of God's loveliness. Having experienced till now, man knows part of God's loveliness. But it's still not enough, 'cause man is so lacking. He must experience more of God's work and all the refinement of suffering, man's disposition then can be changed, man's disposition then can be changed.