The Church of Almighty God | Movie Review | Finding a Harbor for the Soul: Understand the Film Where Is My Home in 6 Minutes

The Church of Almighty God | Movie Review | Finding a Harbor for the Soul: Understand the Film Where Is My Home in 6 Minutes

The Church of Almighty God | Movie Review

Recommended: Where Is My Home (English Dubbed / Full Movie)：https://youtu.be/moHa5xIOZ18 This film was adapted from a Christian’s real-life experiences; this moving story is full of twists and turns and profoundly meaningful.

The director related this story by combining an overt storyline with a covert storyline, delving into a deeper understanding of “home.” In the overt storyline, tragedy befalls the protagonist Wenya—her parents divorce when she’s two years old and establish separate households. She lives with her father, but her stepmother refuses to tolerate her. Her mother is constantly busy with her own business and has no time to look after her. Little Wenya is constantly bounced around between her father, her mother, and the homes of friends and relatives. After growing up, she and her father come to rely heavily upon each other, but she is faced with one misfortune after another. Just when her college entrance exams are right around the corner, her mother has a stroke, and her father has late-stage liver cancer; she has no choice but to enlist the help of friends and relatives, but they all drift away, one after another. Wenya falls into very difficult circumstances …

Wenya’s paintings serve as important props in the film. They appear a number of times from beginning to end as an emotional expression, reflecting the process of change she undergoes deep in her heart and furthering the development of the plot. At first her paintings show the four-person family living together happily, but later she and her father appear on one piece of paper while her mother and sister appear on another. The happy family was split into two. When Wenya asks her sister in her childlike way, “Why do all the other kids only have one home, but we have two?” her sister places the two pieces of paper together and says, “Here, now we’re all together.” The two children’s innocent dialogue is starkly contrasted with the cruelty of reality, inspiring love and affection for Wenya in audience’s hearts. And providing more food for thought: As modern society continues to focus on money more and more, affections between relatives and friends become more indifferent, and social phenomena such as left-behind children and old empty-nesters become more serious. What do these things really mean for humanity?

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The Church of Almighty God | With God, I’m No Longer Empty and Helpless

The Church of Almighty God | With God, I’m No Longer Empty and Helpless

The Church of Almighty God | A sister is reading Almighty God's Words

I Degenerated as My Heart Strayed From God

I was told in the Sunday school when I was a child that God is the Creator and that all things come from Him. However, with my age increasing, I learned from knowledge that the world was materialistic and that all things came into being on the basis of evolution. In the beginning, I wondered why my school’s teaching was different from what the teacher said in the Sunday school, and which was actually right. But, gradually, as I learned more and more knowledge, I was assimilated by materialism in the textbooks. I started to depend on the knowledge I’d grasped to solve all kinds of difficulties I met in my life and study. Whenever the difficulty was resolved, a sense of admiration for knowledge crept up in my heart. Gradually, knowledge became the standard by which I judged whether one had wisdom or not, and I even hoped to change my fate relying on knowledge. From then onward, I forgot to pray to God and rely on God in everything; instead, I depended on myself to deal with everything and looked up information when there was an issue. The image of God became more and more blurred in my heart. As such, I chose to follow the trend—pursuing knowledge and worshiping it.

Higher Levels of Education Do Not Equal a Happy Life

In 2000, I realized my dream and was admitted into a top university in China. I thought I had embarked on a happy life since then, but things didn’t turn out the way I had imagined.

I remember when I was about to graduate from the university, I began to hesitate whether I should apply to domestic or foreign graduate schools. Once on the road, I met an alumna by accident, whom I had not seen for long. Having known she was then a real estate sales clerk, I was very astonished and said to her: “How come you work as a sales clerk? You did so well in your major. Isn’t it a pity that you gave it up?” She said coolly: “Don’t make a fuss. The school is an ivory tower. After you graduate and come out of it, you’ll know little of what you’ve learned in college can be put into practice. So, I changed my profession. Do you still remember XX? Her family sold their house to afford the money for her study abroad. Unfortunately, she couldn’t find a job for which she was trained after returning home. On top of that, she is proud and arrogant, so she failed to attain a high post and is unwilling to take a low one. As a returnee, she now stays at home all day unemployed and lives off her parents.” Hearing her words, I couldn’t help but feel melancholic in my heart: The two alumnae were both high-achieving students in our school. Now, however, one has altered her profession, and the other has been at home unemployed after returning from study overseas. Why can’t they control their own fates with high academic achievements? At that moment, I was a little doubtful about the words of “Knowledge can change one’s fate.” I wondered whether the knowledge I’d learned could really bring me a guarantee for my future.

Continuing My Education in the U.S. and Resisting the True Way

In 2004, I graduated as expected, and meanwhile obtained an opportunity of further study in the U.S. with a full scholarship. At that time, I, who had suspected the words of “Knowledge can change one’s fate,” seemed to see the dawn. Back then, America had been hit hard by the 911 terrorist attack and launched a clampdown on all types of visas. I didn’t know if I could be granted the visa successfully. I submitted my visa application with an attitude of trying. Beyond my expectation, it was approved smoothly. When I first arrived in America, I spent most of my time in studying, for I thought only knowledge could provide a solid foundation for me to gain a foothold in this country. In the following days, to receive a doctorate became one of my main objectives in my life.

In 2007, my mother accepted the work of Almighty God, the returned Lord Jesus. Then she preached the gospel to me, saying: “The Lord Jesus has returned to flesh and done a stage of new work….” Years of higher education made it hard for me to listen patiently to the opinion of one who was much less educated than me. Owing to my chasing and admiring knowledge, in the days that followed, when my mother preached the gospel to me again, I maintained an attitude of refusal. In this way, I shut out God’s work during the last days several times.
Overcome with Loneliness While Climbing the Peak

In 2013, I fulfilled my wish of obtaining a Ph.D. However, during half the year when I was preparing for the doctoral qualifying examination, I was tormented with unspeakable suffering, and my mental nervousness and stress went beyond description. Almost all the books in the library related to the subject of my dissertation had been borrowed and looked through by me. Because I had no time to cook, I ate instant noodles every day. I slept only on the ground, for I was afraid to oversleep due to the comfort of sleeping on the bed. I kept reading every day like the walking dead. Sometimes when I suddenly thought of a question I couldn’t answer, I’d feel quite alarmed and not sleep until I found out the answer, fearing deeply to miss anything that might appear in the exam paper. One morning, I looked into the mirror, and noticed my face was sallow and bloodless and that my eyes were unfocused. I couldn’t help but be struck with sadness. My best years had been buried in knowledge, and in the end I was left looking like this. I indeed felt distressed and tired. However, I’d gotten all the way to this point; if I gave up, all my previous efforts would come to naught. In helplessness, I had no option but to bite the bullet and continue on … In the eyes of other people, probably I was successful, for I not only came to America but succeeded academically. All of this seemed to be so perfect. But I often felt empty and lonely inside. I didn’t know where my next stop would be and what on earth I should pursue.

The Hard Time After Bearing My Child

In the same year, I got married to my husband. It was not long before I became pregnant. Because my husband worshiped knowledge as I did, he had borrowed varieties of books and disks from the library ever since, which explained the advantages of breast-feeding from different angles and how a new mother could produce milk more quickly and better. I thought we were in full preparation for our child’s arrival.

But then, something unexpected happened: I had no milk after my child was born. In desperation, my husband and I asked for help from the lactation counseling in the hospital, where I was advised to use the breast pump machine to produce milk every three hours day and night, with twenty minutes at a time. Then, I did what the doctor told me. My milk, however, became less and less, and it disappeared completely half a month later. I knew from the books that it was a normal process, and that if I persisted in using the machine, my milk would increase. So I could only continue to do it. Each time I put up with the pain of the caesarean and sat up in bed to do as directed in the middle of the night, there was always a feeling of inexpressible bitterness spreading in me. Why did I still have no milk after following the doctor’s instructions with care? Was scientific knowledge not worthy of trust? Later, I tried every means, food and medicine in the books without exception that were beneficial to producing milk. However, I just had one disappointment after another. Meanwhile, the relationship between my husband and I was frozen. He complained about me a lot. There was nothing left within me but helplessness and extreme grievance.

Seeing my distress, my mother held my hand and said: “You’ve always considered that knowledge can solve any problems. You think you can control everything with your little knowledge, which is totally unrealistic. If man has no idea of knowing God and is unwilling to submit to God’s sovereignty and arrangements, he will be the only one who suffers in the end.” Hearing her words, I thought of how I had strictly followed the instructions in the books since I got pregnant but to no avail. At that time, I truly realized knowledge could not decide everything. Having gone through this thing, I somewhat had a change of heart. I was determined to be humble and investigate Almighty God’s words sincerely.

Returning Before God and Seeing the Dawn

After a period of investigation, I was sure that Almighty God is the Lord Jesus’ return in 2016. God has become flesh and done a stage of work of judgment and chastisement during the last days. There has been no work of the Holy Spirit in the churches of the Age of Grace long ago. From then on, I returned to the house of Almighty God, actively took part in the meetings and read God’s words. I saw God’s word: “You may put it simply that a field of knowledge is nothing more than knowledge. That is a field of knowledge that is learned on the basis of atheism and lack of understanding that God created all things. When people study this type of knowledge, they do not see God as having dominion over all things, they do not see God as being in charge of or managing all things. Instead, all they do is endlessly research, explore, and seek out scientific answers in that area of knowledge. However, if people do not believe in God and instead only pursue research, they will never find the true answers, right? Knowledge only gives you a livelihood, it only provides a job, it only provides income so that you don’t go hungry, but it will never help you know God, it will never help you believe in Him, obey Him, and knowledge will never keep you far from evil. The more you study knowledge, the more you will desire to rebel against God, to research God, to tempt God, and to go against God” (“God Himself, the Unique V” in Continuation of The Word Appears in the Flesh). “From when man first had social sciences, the mind of man was occupied by science and knowledge. Then science and knowledge became tools for the ruling of mankind, and there was no longer sufficient room for man to worship God, and no more favorable conditions for the worship of God. The position of God sunk ever lower in the heart of man” (“God Presides Over the Fate of All Mankind” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). Pondering what was exposed in God’s words and reflecting back on the road I had taken, I truly felt that knowledge may give man a livelihood or a good job, but it can never solve the emptiness in man’s heart or determine his fate. Rather, it only makes man arrogant, stray from God and disobey God. Thinking back to those times of my mother preaching the gospel to me, it was precisely because I was highly educated while she was uncultured that I was reluctant to bow my head and listen to her views, and thus rejected God’s new work time after time. Yet it proved that Almighty God, in whom my mother believed, is indeed the Lord Jesus’ second coming, the one true God. As for feeding my child, since I became pregnant I had depended on scientific knowledge. When I didn’t have milk for breast-feeding, I still tried to seek a way out from those doctors well versed in medical knowledge. Nevertheless, knowledge didn’t solve my problem in the end despite me suffering a lot. And then, looking back to all these years, though I had received my Ph.D., which could be said to be an achievement in the field of knowledge, I often felt empty and couldn’t find the direction of life as my heart rebelled against and was far away from God. It can be seen from this that knowledge can become a tool for Satan to corrupt man and tempt man into pushing God away if man cannot regard knowledge correctly. Just like many scientists in the world. They have profound knowledge but they eventually die in emptiness because they don’t believe in God.

Through reading God’s words, I had a correct understanding and orientation of knowledge. I didn’t worship knowledge blindly any more but viewed all things by God’s words. Because I read God’s words every day, I understood more and more truths and my relationship with God became more and more normal. In my daily life, I learned to rely on God and on longer depended on knowledge. Under the guidance of God, I felt very assured and also saw God’s deeds. Once, I was cooking lunch in the kitchen while my son was playing in the backyard alone. Suddenly, the west German shepherd of my neighbor ran out of his house into our backyard, barking fiercely toward my son, who was playing by himself attentively. I rushed out and swept him into my arms, only to find he was already frozen with fright. It was not until I took him into the house that he came to his senses. Then he cried loudly. In the following three days, my son was spiritless all day and cried frequently. He wouldn’t like to be put on the ground and was exceedingly afraid of going out. Seeing my son cry all day with tears on his face, I felt painful and tormented inside. Just when I was at a loss, I thought of the word of Almighty God: “You should know that all things in the environment around you are there by My permission, I arrange it all. See clearly and satisfy My heart in the environment I have given to you” (“The Twenty-sixth Utterance” of Utterances and Testimonies of Christ in the Beginning in The Word Appears in the Flesh). Then I came to God and prayed: “Oh Almighty God! In the past, I believed only scientific knowledge could save man. If my son was frightened before, I would immediately refer to the relevant materials about his condition on the net or take him to see a doctor. But now I am sure all is in Your hand. I’m willing to give my son into Your hand and let You arrange it for me. If he is indeed sick and needs treatment, then I’ll take him to see a doctor.” After the prayer, my heart slowly became calm. When he cried again, I picked up my mobile phone and played the MV of the Church of Almighty God, God Has Brought His Glory to the East. A miracle happened. My son stopped crying and started to listen to the hymn absorbedly. Seeing my son slowly improved, I gasped in admiration in my heart: “Oh Almighty God! You are truly the God who dominates all things! A crying child can be made quiet before You in a second.” Later, as long as my son began to cry, I’d play the hymns of God’s word to him. No matter how hard he cried, he would gradually stop his tears while listening to the hymns. From this, I saw God’s wondrous deeds. The authority and power of God’s word could not be replaced by any doctor steeped in scientific knowledge. Seeing my son getting better, I was full of reverence and gratitude to God, and had a hope inside: When my son is old enough to understand things, I’ll bring him before God, and guide him to treat knowledge properly. I cannot let him blindly worship knowledge and be harmed severely by it, and finally become a person who resists God.

Now, it has been over a year since I accepted the work of Almighty God. I deeply feel only God can save man and that only God’s word is the beacon for man. Just as God’s word says: “Whether the words spoken by God are, in outward appearance, plain or abstruse, they are all truths indispensable to man as he enters into life; they are the fount of living waters that enables him to survive in both spirit and flesh. They provide what man needs to stay alive; the dogma and creed for conducting his daily life; the path, goal, and direction through which he must pass in order to receive salvation; every truth that he should possess as a created being before God; and every truth about how man obeys and worships God. They are the guarantee that ensures man’s survival, they are man’s daily bread, and they are also the sturdy support that enables man to be strong and stand up. They are rich in the reality of the truth of normal humanity as it is lived out by created mankind, rich in the truth by which mankind breaks free from corruption and eludes Satan’s snares, rich in the tireless teaching, exhortation, encouragement, and solace that the Creator gives to created humanity. They are the beacon that guides and enlightens men to understand all that is positive, the guarantee which ensures that men will live out and come into possession of all that is righteous and good, the criterion by which people, events, and objects are all measured, and also the navigation marker that leads men toward salvation and the path of light” (Preface to Continuation of The Word Appears in the Flesh).

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The Church of Almighty God | Christ's Kingdom Is Realized Among Men

I Almighty God incarnate appears in the last days in the East, just like a righteous sun arising; mankind has seen the true light appear. The righteous and majestic, loving and merciful God humbly hides among men, issuing truth, speaking and working. Almighty God is face-to-face with us. The God you thirsted for, the God I waited for, today appears to us practically. We sought the truth, we yearned for righteousness; truth and righteousness have come among men. You love God, I love God; mankind is so full of renewed hope. Peoples obey, nations worship the practical God incarnate.

II Almighty God expresses the truth and brings judgment, revealing God’s righteous disposition. By the judgment, chastisement and trials of words, He conquers and perfects a group of overcomers. God’s words, wrathful and majestic, judge and cleanse mankind’s unrighteousness, completely destroying the age of darkness. Truth and righteousness rule on earth. The world all cheers, all people rejoice; God’s tabernacle arrives among men. The universe stirs and nations worship, God’s will is carried out on earth. The world all cheers, all people rejoice; God’s tabernacle arrives among men. The universe stirs and nations worship, God’s will is carried out on earth. Christ’s kingdom is realized among men. 

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The Church of Almighty God | A Classical Documentary | The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything

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The Church of Almighty God | The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything

Is Mankind Really in Control of Its Own Fate?

Many people think that their fate is in their own hands—but will you still believe this when faced with disaster? Will you not feel shock, fear, and horror? Will you not feel small and insignificant, will you not sense the fragility of life? Who can save us?

Almighty God says, "What part of God’s disposition should we understand from here? God had despised man because man was in enmity to Him, but in His heart, His care, concern, and mercy for humanity remained unchanged. Even when He destroyed mankind, His heart remained unchanged. When humanity was full of corruption and disobedient toward God to a certain extent, God had to, because of His disposition and His essence, and in accordance with His principles, destroy this humanity. But because of God’s essence, He still pitied mankind, and even wanted to use various ways to redeem mankind so they could continue to live. Instead, man opposed God, continued to disobey God, and refused to accept God’s salvation, that is, refused to accept His good intentions. No matter how God called to them, reminded them, supplied them, helped them, or tolerated them, man did not understand or appreciate it, nor did they pay attention. In His pain, God still did not forget to give man His maximum tolerance, waiting for man to turn around. After He reached His limit, He did what He had to do without any hesitation. In other words, there was a specific time period and process from the moment God planned to destroy mankind to the official start of His work in destroying mankind. This process existed for the purpose of enabling man to turn around, and was the last chance God gave to man. So what did God do in this period before destroying mankind? God did a significant amount of reminding and exhorting work. No matter how much pain and sorrow God’s heart was in, He continued to exercise His care, concern, and abundant mercy on humanity. What do we see from this? Undoubtedly, we see that God’s love for mankind is real and not just something He is paying lip service to. It is actual, tangible and appreciable, not fake, adulterated, deceitful or pretentious. God never uses any deception or creates fake images to make people see that He is lovable. He never uses false testimony to let people see His loveliness, or to flaunt His loveliness and holiness. Aren’t these aspects of God’s disposition worthy of man’s love? Aren’t they worth worshiping? Aren’t they worth cherishing? At this point, I want to ask you: After hearing these words, do you think God’s greatness is merely words on a sheet of paper? Is God’s loveliness just empty words? No! Certainly not! God’s supremacy, greatness, holiness, tolerance, love, and so forth—all of these various aspects of God’s disposition and essence are put into effect every time He does His work, embodied in His will toward man, and also fulfilled and reflected on every person. Regardless of whether you have felt it before, God is caring for every person in every possible way, using His sincere heart, wisdom, and various methods to warm each person’s heart, and awaken each person’s spirit. This is an indisputable fact. No matter how many people are sitting here, each person has had different experiences of and feelings toward God’s tolerance, patience, and loveliness. These experiences of God and these feelings or acknowledgments of Him—in short, all of these positive things are from God. So by integrating everyone’s experiences and knowledge of God and combining them with our readings of these Bible passages today, do you now have a more real and proper understanding of God?"

From Continuation of The Word Appears in the Flesh

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The Church of Almighty God | Reading Almighty God's Words

I was born and raised in a clan steeped in the Catholic tradition. My siblings and I were educated in Catholic institutions. The priests, nuns, and my mother taught us to say the rosary and pray to the statues of the saints and of the Blessed Mother. There was another practice in the Catholic Church: making repetitious prayers with our fingers in the “holy” water or our hands on the statues. The priests said that we would be purified by doing so. However, as I advanced into my teenage years, I stopped believing that touching those so-called purifying objects would cause our sins to be forgiven or our illnesses to be healed. And I began to doubt that keeping those religious rites could make us approved by God and gain blessings from God. There were always some questions in my mind: Where on earth is God? Why do we always need to deal with the priests and contact God through touching statues? In the Catholic Church, I did not have a direct contact with God or feel His presence, so there was emptiness in my heart. Although I believed in God, I felt my belief didn’t make any sense because the church was full of dogmas and rules which were made by men and I could not receive any life provision. Afterward, I quit observing those religious dogmas and regulations and no longer went to the church to attend Mass and other religious services. 

When I grew up, I worked as a teacher for five years in a remote Indo-Chinese refugee camp where many of my students were Buddhists. They invited me to a temple but I did not convert, because I knew that only the Lord Jesus is the true God. Though the Buddhist scriptures seemed appealing and reasonable to me as they taught people to be merciful and showed them how to practice, I didn’t think they were the truth. I wanted to find a church which truly belonged to God, so that I could gain the truth from Him.

In 1994, my friend invited me to their church (a Catholic charismatic renewal group that emphasized gifts of speaking in tongues, healing sickness, casting out demons and so on). There was Mass every day. She asked me to attend at least one prayer meeting and one Bible study a week. There, I learned to pray to God in a personal way. I felt that it seemed to be the spiritual church I had been looking for. However, I later discovered that some people in the church were like the Pharisees. At that time, as my family broke up, my older daughter and I experienced discrimination by them. They said that people with such a background like ours were not welcome in their church. My daughter was very young then, but she had to suffer all this as well. I felt confused again and started to wander and no longer got involved with that religious group.

After that episode, another friend of mine who was a born-again Christian invited me to their Sunday worship. That group focused on preaching biblical theology. They treated the Bible as a precious treasure which could tell them everything. She also took me to attend various church services. I saw that their faith was on the basis of the Bible and I also learned something from their preaching. I no longer prayed to Mary, saints, or martyrs. However, the pastors differed greatly in their interpretations of the Bible. Originally, I had intended to worship God and gain the truth in that group. But I was not sure whose interpretation was in line with the truth and I didn’t get any supply at all there. Moreover, they set down some regulations. For example, a wife should consider her husband as the head and must obey him. My friend was a widow and was planning to marry again, but a pastor advised her against it. He said that it violated the Bible. Though I was comfortably off, I felt thirsty and dark in the spirit. I always prayed to God and tried to discover the reason. I didn’t know the direction of my life and felt like a spiritual drifter.

Until 2015, my younger daughter told me that the Lord has returned and that God has been incarnated as a female and expressed the truth to do the work of judgment in the last days in China. She asked me what I thought about it. I became interested in it. I thought that God is almighty and wise, that no one can fathom His wonder, and that He can do His work in many ways incomprehensible to man. For example, the Lord Jesus Christ was born in the most unexpected place—a manger. So I had no doubt that God is incarnated as a female to do His work. My daughter also told me that the Old Testament and the New Testament are the historical records of God’s work in the Age of Law and the Age of Grace. Now God does the work of judgment in the last days, the third stage of work in God’s entire management plan, based upon the redemptive work in the Age of Grace. Those words sounded very novel and aroused my curiosity. Seeing I was interested in what she fellowshiped and showed no opposition to it, my daughter tried to persuade me to fellowship with a sister in the Unites States. However, I was unwilling to deal with foreign churches at that point, so I refused her request and did not investigate God’s work in the last days.

Fast-forward to February of 2016, and my daughter printed fifteen pieces of God’s word for me to read. She opened The Word Appears in the Flesh and turned to the Preface. I saw some of God’s words, “Though many people believe in God, few understand what faith in God means, and what they must do to be after God’s heart. This is because, though people are familiar with the word ‘God’ and phrases such as ‘the work of God,’ they do not know God, much less do they know His work. No wonder, then, that all those who do not know God are possessed of a muddled belief. People do not take belief in God seriously because believing in God is too unfamiliar, too strange for them. In this way, they fall short of the demands of God. In other words, if people do not know God, do not know His work, then they are not fit for God’s use, much less can they fulfill the desire of God. ‘Belief in God’ means believing that there is a God; this is the simplest concept of faith in God. What’s more, believing that there is a God is not the same as truly believing in God; rather, it is a kind of simple faith with strong religious overtones. True faith in God means experiencing the words and work of God based on a belief that God holds sovereignty over all things. So you shall be freed of your corrupt disposition, shall fulfill the desire of God, and shall come to know God. Only through such a journey can you be said to believe in God” (Preface to The Word Appears in the Flesh).

After reading those words, I felt very shocked in my heart. In all the sects I had ever gone to, they all claimed that they were believers in God, but none of them was serious about what belief in God meant, much less able to explain it clearly. The Catholic Church treated holding to the dogmas and rites as belief in God, such as chanting various scriptures, attending Mass and confessing to the priests. The Christians treated reading and explaining the Bible, attending meetings, praying, and working for the Lord as belief in God. Some sects considered belief in God as the following: speaking in tongues, healing sickness, casting out demons, pursuing miracles, and so on. Buddhism regarded worshiping clay statues as belief in God. However, Almighty God uses only one sentence to fully articulate the meaning of belief in God. Though I was unable to completely understand the inner meaning of this sentence, I felt that this definition of belief in God could not be spoken by any man but by God. It is God’s voice and is the truth. At that moment, I thought: I finally found the God who can bestow upon me the truth and supply me with His word. Nonetheless, I didn’t understand what God’s management plan was.

In March 2016, because of the designs of God, I had my first fellowship with Sister Jane and Brother Martin. Sister Jane fellowshiped about God’s six-thousand-year management plan with me. She said, “Thanks be to God! Today we come together to seek the truth, which pleases God most. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Almighty God’s words can solve all our confusions.” I said, “Now I’d like to know what God’s management plan is.” Sister Jane first read Almighty God’s words, “All of God’s disposition has been revealed throughout the six-thousand-year management plan. It is not revealed only in the Age of Grace, only in the Age of Law, or even less so, only in this period of the last days. The work done in the last days represents judgment, wrath and chastisement. The work done in the last days cannot replace the work of the Age of Law or that of the Age of Grace. However, the three stages interconnect into one entity and are all the work done by one God. Naturally, the execution of this work is divided into separate ages. The work done in the last days brings everything to a close; that done in the Age of Law is of commencement; and that done in the Age of Grace is of redemption” (“The Mystery of the Incarnation (4)” in The Word Appears in the Flesh).

“In the work of man’s salvation, three stages have been carried out, which is to say that the battle with Satan has been split into three stages prior to the complete defeat of Satan. Yet the inner truth of the entire work of the battle with Satan is that its effects are achieved through bestowing grace upon man, and becoming a sin offering of man, forgiving the sins of man, conquering man, and making man perfect. As a matter of fact, the battle with Satan is not the taking up of arms against Satan, but the salvation of man, the working of the life of man, and the changing of man’s disposition so that he may bear testimony to God. This is how Satan is defeated. Satan is defeated through changing the corrupt disposition of man. When Satan has been defeated, that is, when man has been completely saved, then the ashamed Satan will be completely bound, and in this way, man will have been completely saved. And so, the substance of man’s salvation is the battle with Satan, and the war with Satan is primarily reflected in the salvation of man. The stage of the last days, in which man is to be conquered, is the last stage in the battle with Satan, and also the work of man’s complete salvation from the domain of Satan” (“Restoring the Normal Life of Man and Taking Him to a Wonderful Destination” in The Word Appears in the Flesh).

Then she fellowshiped, “God’s words have made it clear that the three stages of God’s work are God’s management plan of saving mankind. In the beginning, mankind didn’t have knowledge of the Creator, how the heavens, the earth and all things were formed, or how to worship God. God decreed the laws and commandments under the name of Jehovah and used them to lead and restrict man so that they could learn how to serve and worship Him. If man committed sins, they could sacrifice the offerings required by God to redeem their sins. Those who violated the commandments would be put to death while those who obeyed the laws would receive God’s blessings. At the same time, people came to know they were sinners. In this way, people could see God’s disposition was curse, burning and mercy. In the late phase of the Age of Law, people could no longer keep the laws and all lived in the curse and condemnation of the laws. So, God became flesh as the Son of man and was nailed to the cross for mankind’s sins under the name of the Lord Jesus, and completed the work of redeeming mankind. As long as man came before the Lord Jesus to confess and repent, He would forgive their sins and no longer regard them as sinners. Then people were qualified to pray to Him and receive His grace and blessings. From it, people could see God’s lovingkindness, compassion and tolerance. Though the Lord Jesus has forgiven man’s sins, He didn’t forgive man’s sinful nature. So, people are still arrogant, self-right, self-important, self-conceited, selfish, greedy and evil and are controlled and bound by their satanic natures, unable to extricate themselves. In the last days, God becomes flesh as the Son of man again and does the work of judgment with His word under the name of Almighty God to purify man and save man thoroughly from sin. As long as people accept and obey the work of judgment God does in the last days, they can know the truth that they have been corrupted by Satan, know God’s majestic, wrathful, righteous and holy disposition, understand and gain the truth, and live by the truth. And finally they will get rid of satanic dispositions like arrogance, self-conceit, crookedness, craftiness, selfishness and contemptibleness, no longer be deceived, tempted or used by Satan, overcome the influence of Satan and obey God truly, and thus be thoroughly saved by God. This is the result achieved by God’s six-thousand-year management plan. Each of the three stages of God’s work is indispensable and goes higher and deeper than the last. In the end, man will be saved completely from Satan’s domain.”

Almighty God’s words and the sister’s fellowship surprised me a lot. It turned out that God has such a specific plan of saving mankind. The three stages of God’s work in the Age of Law, the Age of Grace and the Age of Kingdom are not independent but are linked one to the next. They are done by one God, who takes different names in different ages. I also saw that God’s work is very practical, that Almighty God is not the vague God in man’s imagination but God incarnate, who carries out His work among man practically as an ordinary person. The work God does now is to judge and chastise man, so that Satan will be defeated finally and man will be perfected by God. I realized that God hopes man can grow in life amidst His management plan and that He cares about the human beings He created.

In the following days, we often had meetings online, read Almighty God’s words and fellowshiped about the truth. I understood more and more truths, such as the truth about God’s incarnation, how God judges and purifies man in the last days, and the differences between God’s work and man’s work. I’ve seen that there are no regulations or rites in the Church of Almighty God. Everything is based on reality. We fellowship about the truth according to our corrupt dispositions, and equip ourselves with the truth according to what we lack. No matter what we do, we regard the truth as principles. The Church of Almighty God is completely ruled by the truth and God’s word, and is the church I had been yearning for. Now through reading Almighty God’s words every day, sharing our experiences and knowledge, and trying our best to practice what God asks us to do, I have a feeling of fulfillment in my spirit. In the Age of Grace, though I had been calling to God, I could only hold to the religious rites in the church and could not be supplied in my spirit. Since I joined the Church of Almighty God, I’ve felt even more that Almighty God is a practical God, who lives among us and provides us with everything necessary to our life.

Thinking back upon the past, to seek the truth and look for a church with God’s presence, I went to many churches in different denominations. However, they observed regulations and rites, worshiped idols, or equipped themselves with biblical knowledge and theology. I could not feel God’s presence at all and didn’t gain the truth, which made me feel more and more discouraged and disappointed about faith in God. Today, I finally found the source of the truth—Almighty God, and returned to God’s family. From now on, I will no longer wander around. Instead, I will quiet my heart before Almighty God, read His word seriously and equip myself with more truths, so that I can grow in life quickly and perform my duty well as a created being to satisfy Him.