4 Ways to Quiet Your Heart Before God

4 Ways to Quiet Your Heart Before God By Liujing Over the past few years when I believed in the Lord, I persisted in praying and reading the Bible every day, and always went out to work for the Lord, but I felt that I was still estranged from the Lord. Even when sometimes I prayed or read the Bible, my mind would wander away into other things, being bothered by some trifling matters in my daily life, and then I was incapable of quieting...

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Knowing God Can Help Us Shake Off Worries

Knowing God Can Help Us Shake Off Worries By Lin Lin Photo by Giorgio Montersino – CC BY-SA 2.0 Worries are the invisible ties with which Satan bind our heart. Once we get ensnared in Satan’s net, we would lose faith in God and finally be shoved into the abyss of death. In today’s rapidly changing and competitive society, we are assailed by various kinds of worries without release. Worrying that we can’t win others’ affection,...

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Obey God’s Sovereignty, Ordinary But Wonderful

Obey God’s Sovereignty, Ordinary But Wonderful Gao Qian At nightfall, under the dim light, I was looking at the fallen leaves outside the window with a thread of slight grief welling up in my heart. Thinking that I lacked proficiency at my work, didn’t do things as well as others, and suffered loss of face, I felt I was dwarfed by others, and could not help but be a little depressed: Why do so many unpleasant things appear in my life? Why am...

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Put Aside Our Notions to Welcome the Lord’s Return

Put Aside Our Notions to Welcome the Lord’s Return Wang Hui We often live in our notions and imaginations, which can give us wonderful hope or become the motivation of our life. However, once the reality doesn’t line up with our imaginations, that can have serious consequences for us.I have heard such a story: Once there was an old lady and her two sons. When the sons were small, their father went abroad to work. The father often sent money...

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God Creates the Miracle of Life

God Creates the Miracle of Life Li Qi I had gone through an unhappy marriage and I started a new family in 2007. After marriage, due to my physical unfitness, I had habitual abortion. In 2011, I was over the child-bearing age, but luckily, I was pregnant once again. To give birth to the baby smoothly, I strictly followed the doctor’s advice to have tonics and take rest; I had examinations and injections of tocolytic agents regularly in the hospital,...

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A Trader’s Regret

A Trader’s Regret Xingwu I once heard a thought-provoking story: A trader who had been away from home for many years decided to return home, and he would walk through a vast desert on the way. With the gold coins earned through years of hard work and enough food and water, he set out on the journey happily. However, soon the blistering heat of the desert was unbearable for him. He must lighten the load so as to walk out of the desert as soon...

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