By Bai Yang The Lord Jesus said, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like to it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:37–39). To love our neighbors as ourselves is something the Lord Jesus asks of us, and it is also the
By Song Ping, Spain Every Christian wants to welcome the Lord’s return and be raptured into the heavenly kingdom; I’m not an exception. I paid special attention to the prophecies about the Lord’s return. As long as I heard who could interpret the biblical prophecies, I would hurry to listen. But as I gradually received many interpretations of prophecies, I became increasingly confused about them, because they were all explained according
By Liu Yan I have believed in the Lord for so many years. However, when someone asked me, “For what purpose do you believe in God?” For a moment, I didn’t know exactly how to answer. About this question, I had asked my brothers and sisters in the Lord. They gave me various answers. Some said, “Believing in God is to be a good person and live as a real
“God doesn’t help me after I pray each time”, it’s also the confusion of most brothers and sisters in Christ. What does it mean? It means that the Lord doesn’t answer our prayers any more. Why doesn’t the Lord answer our prayer? I sought the answer with brothers and sisters and summarized a few reasons and the paths to gain God’s favor in our prayers. Firstly, we should examine ourselves
In this busy age, the fast-paced life causes our hearts to be occupied by all kinds of people, things, and matters, so that we have very little time for quietening ourselves before God, drawing close to Him or contemplating Him. Because our hearts frequently grow apart from God and we don’t give them to God, we cannot gain the work of the Holy Spirit and don’t have God’s guidance and
Now it’s already the period of the last days and the prophecies about the Lord’s return have almost been fulfilled. It is high time to welcome the Lord’s coming and all Christians are earnestly longing for the Lord to come and rapture them to the kingdom of heaven. We all want to be like what it says in Revelation 14:4 “These are they which follow the Lamb wherever he goes.”
Answer: When the Lord Jesus came to do the work, He expressed many truths and performed lots of signs and wonders, but very few people could recognize that He was the coming Messiah. However, the Samaritan woman could recognize the Lord’s identity from her short conversation with the Lord. This is not easy. What are her secrets to recognizing the Lord Jesus was the coming Messiah? According to the records
Answer: We all know that praying is a way to draw near to God. But some brothers and sisters have prayed for some time yet can’t feel the presence of the Holy Spirit, and thus feel anxious. Actually when this happens, the most effective way is to come before God and seek God’s will. The Lord Jesus taught us, “But you, when you pray, enter into your closet, and when
Answer: True prayer is not about how to call out, how many words to say, or how nicely one speaks, but depends on whether we can speak from the heart with God sincerely. Because the Lord Jesus said, “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24). In our life, everyday we’ll encounter something to pray for. When something happy
Answer: Now in this fast-paced world, everyone feels the pressure of life is very heavy. Bustling about for things like family, career, and children, many brothers and sisters cannot normally read the Bible, pray, or attend meetings. They stray further and further from God, and often feel empty and miserable in the depths of their hearts. Then, how can we keep a normal relationship with God in a busy life?
