Testimonies to the Holy Spirit Guiding People Back to Almighty God

36. Zhou X, female, 49 years old, from Heilongjiang Province, formerly a believer from the Martyrs’ Church. In 1999, a sister in our denomination accepted Almighty God’s end-time gospel. Our leader then wantonly slandered and blasphemed Almighty God’s work, saying that what that sister believed in was a cult. After hearing it, I totally accepted what he said. One day I met that sister; I also condemned her, saying that she had become an apostate and a cultist. Later, another sister accepted Almighty God’s end-time gospel too, and I dragged her back as soon as I learned it.

One day in late August 2001, many small white blisters the size of mung beans suddenly appeared on my left palm one next to another and itched tremendously. In October, such blisters also appeared on my right palm one by one; and by December, both my palms were covered in blisters.

At the beginning of January 2002, I went to the place for a cure where my cousin lived, and she brought me to Doctor Wu’s clinic. There I met a sister, and she preached God’s end-time gospel to me. But I thought to myself, “I can’t believe in it. What if it is wrong?” So I said to the sister, “I only believe in Jesus. Apart from him, I believe in no one else!” My cousin persuaded me to have a go at seeking it, but I talked back to her with harsh words.

After I returned to my cousin’s home, during that night, the back of my hands and the area from my cheeks to my ear roots were covered in blisters the size of rice grains. They were next to each other, red and swollen. However, I did not realize that it was a punishment for my resistance against Almighty God. I went to Doctor Wu’s clinic again to treat my disease, and the sister testified about Almighty God to me one more time. I wanted to call the leader of my denomination to ask whether I was allowed to accept or not, but there was no telephone beside me. Fretful and afraid, I had no choice but to kneel down and pray to God, “O God, I don’t know whether this work is done by you or not. If it’s done by you, please inspire me….” After praying in bitter tears, I felt especially calm within. Then, I picked up the book of God’s word and read. As I read it, I found that the word was indeed something that man was unable to speak and that only God could speak such word; so I accepted it at once. Right on the same day, the blisters on my face and on the back of my hands disappeared, and those on my palms were significantly reduced too!

However, after I went back home, I often doubted it, unable to believe with certainty; and I always worried that I had believed wrongly. Strangely enough, whenever I had doubts in my heart, the condition of my hands got worse. In February, the blisters on my hands grew to the size of soybeans; and whenever the blisters swelled up, I ran a fever and was unable to do any work. In May, I went to all the major hospitals in Harbin for a cure, and the specialists diagnosed it as Pasfulosis palmaris et plantaris. They said that there was no precedent for this kind of illness being cured and that it could only be controlled through medicines. Although I took medicines after I returned home, my condition still changed either for better or worse in accordance with my state. When I was in a good state, the condition became better; when I had doubts, it got worse. It repeated in that way until August 2002 when I made my firm resolve to pray to God, “O Almighty God! I fully surrender myself to you. I won’t doubt it anymore! I will believe in you even if my hands rot away! I won’t go to the hospital for it anymore!” Right on the next day, all the blisters on my hands disappeared, and from then on, I recovered completely. I truly saw God’s love and his wonderful salvation and believed in Almighty God’s end-time new work with complete certainty.

37. Wu X, female, 62 years old, from Heilongjiang Province, formerly a believer from the Pentecostal denomination. In 2000, a sister preached the end-time gospel to me; but since I saw that other sisters in our denomination did not accept it, I did not accept either. In late June 2003, brothers and sisters came to preach it to me many times, but I still did not believe it. I thought to myself, “If he is the true God, he can smite man. I don’t accept it and I’ll see whether he can smite me or not!”

One day in late September, I carried a bucket of swill to feed pigs at about 7:30 in the morning. While on my way, I suddenly felt a gust of wind howled behind me and blew me down all at once. (But it was windless at that time.) With one hand touching the ground and the other pressing the bucket handle, I did not dare to make a move or take a breath because of the pain. After a while, I slowly stood up and moved into the room little by little. Then I lay on the kang and could not get up anymore. My family hurriedly carried me into a car and sent me to the municipal hospital. After an X-ray examination, the doctor diagnosed me as having strained lumbar muscles and nothing serious. Then my family brought me back home, but the pain was so severe that I did not dare to make a single move.

In just this way, I was made into a paralytic by this sudden “wind” and totally lost the ability to look after myself. When it came to the fourth day, my condition did not get better at all; so I started to receive intravenous infusions. I thought to myself, “Can this be God’s discipline? My body was so healthy and strong; how could a single fall cause me such a serious injury?” After three or four days of infusions, my condition still did not get better. Worse of all, the back of my hands swelled up and the medicine just could not be dripped into my veins. At that time, I thought, “Could it be that it was God’s smiting that came upon me?” So I immediately prayed to God, “O God, if you have really become flesh, please let the brothers and sisters come again. I will accept it as long as someone comes to preach!”

Not many days after, a sister really came again. Overjoyed, I said to her, “My illness is exactly God’s smiting on me. I have to accept it!” Then the sister brought me the book and the cassettes, I, lying on the kang, listened to the cassettes. I heard the words of God, which said, “Your faithfulness is on your lips. Your knowledge is based on your thinking and notions. Your labor is for the blessings of heaven. Then what can your faith be like? Today you still take an attitude of disregard toward these many truths. You do not know what God is or what Christ is. You do not know how to fear Jehovah or how to enter into the work of the Holy Spirit. You do not know how to distinguish God’s work from man’s deception. You only know to condemn any truth from God’s mouth, which does not agree with your thought….” Hearing those words, I felt that they were indeed what God said. Then, my doubts disappeared, and I accepted it gladly.

Over ten days later, I miraculously recovered from my illness. Really thank Almighty God! Although I was so disobedient, God did not treat me according to my disobedience but gave me the opportunity to receive salvation. I will make an all-out effort to perform my duty to repay God’s love!

38. Liang X, male, 38 years old, from Heilongjiang Province, formerly a believer from the Three-Self Church. In July 2002, Brother Gao in our denomination came with excitement to preach Almighty God’s end-time gospel to me as soon as he accepted it. However, I not only refused to accept it myself but also disturbed and dragged back the three brothers and sisters who had just accepted it. Moreover, I said to them many blasphemous words against God; such as that it was a heresy, a cult. With a loving heart, Brother Gao came to fellowship with me over ten times altogether, but I always turned him down. He advised me, “You shouldn’t blaspheme God even if you don’t believe. Otherwise, God will punish you!” I said, “Let it be. I’d rather receive the punishment than believe in your god!” My heart was hardened, and I still said slanderous and blasphemous words frequently.

In November of the same year, I suddenly got renal calculus and was not cured until I had undergone medical treatment for over twenty days. Immediately afterward, my son got hemorrhagic fever and was also treated for over twenty days. Unexpectedly, right after he recovered from his illness, my renal calculus recurred. After the spring festival of 2003, surprisingly, I got hemorrhagic fever too. When I had it treated in the hospital, the doctor found that my diabetes had developed into four “+.” Meanwhile, my wife and daughter caught flu frequently. During that period of time, Brother Gao kept persuading me to accept God’s end-time work, but I still persisted stubbornly.

By March 2003, my diabetes got worse and worse. I drank three or four thermos bottles of hot water a day, ate a lot, and had a fast digestion; however, I was getting thinner visibly, and my eyeballs hurt so that I could neither watch TV nor look at the fluorescent lamp. I was reduced to a skeleton even within over a month. My arms and legs were so feeble that I felt tired and was unable to return home after walking only 50 meters away. My eyes bulged out and my vision was blurred. The skin on my body fell off piece by piece, and I almost lost a normal person’s appearance. Everybody in my village talked behind my back, saying that there was no way I could recover and that I simply needed to prepare for my funeral.

One day, Brother Gao came to advise me again, “Accept quickly. You have offended God’s nature. You’ll die if you don’t wake up to reality now!” I said, “If I were to die, let it be so” However, I thought back to the things that had happened during this period of time: All the four members of my family got illnesses one after another, and the medical expenses cost us nearly 10,000 yuan. With the debts we had owed before, our debts came to more than 30,000 yuan. I started to regret believing in God. How come I did not have peace after believing in the Lord?

A few days later, Brother Gao came again to fellowship with me. At that time, I had truly come to a dead end. I thought to myself, “Since I’m going to die soon, I’ll listen to it!” After listening to his fellowship, I found that it did make sense and that there was nothing really wrong; so I said, “Let me read the book by myself!” Then I started to read the book of God’s word from the beginning of April 2003. Unexpectedly, the more I read it, the more I was absorbed in it. Especially when I read God’s word of exposing man, which hit the nail on the head and was by no means what a man was able to speak, I felt greatly supplied. At last, I believed in God’s end-time work with certainty.

Right on the fifth or sixth day after I started to read God’s word, I did not feel so thirsty anymore and my vision somewhat recovered as well. Feeling thankful and remorseful, I read God’s word every day; and my condition gradually got better accordingly. Twenty days later, I went to the municipal hospital for a reexamination; it turned out that my “blood sugar” and “urinary sugar” both returned to normal. The doctor at the Specialist Outpatient Department of Diabetes was very surprised, “How come you recovered so quickly? There is no radical cure for this illness. Once you get it, you will not be able to stay away from medicines for the rest of your life. But how could you thoroughly recover in such a short time?!”

The doctor’s words made me understand completely. Immediately after I got back home, I prayed to God, “O God, my illness is actually your discipline, but this is exactly your love for me. Otherwise, a corrupt man like me cannot come before you! In the future, I’m willing to try my best to preach the gospel to people and tell my experiences of resisting God to them so that more people can come before you!” Two months after I accepted Almighty God’s new work, my health was restored completely and I was able to work normally. That year, thanks to God’s blessing, the land of my family, though the worst among all in our village and abandoned by others, produced the largest amount of grain in the village. Right in the same year, I paid back 30,000 yuan I owed. I really thanked God for his love. Although I had resisted and blasphemed him so badly, he did not destroy me, but on the contrary, gave me the opportunity to receive salvation. So I made a resolution: From now on, I will make an all-out effort to perform my duty and expend myself to satisfy God!

39. Chen X, female, 63 years old, from Liaoning Province, formerly a preacher from the Local Church. In June 1999, a sister in our denomination came to preach God’s end-time new work to me. However, I not only didn’t believe in it but also disturbed and dragged her back. Moreover, we cursed God’s end-time work in our prayers every day. In September, my daughter’s family had an accident, and then my son’s family. In mid-September, some other people preached God’s new work to me several times. Although I was full of notions about it and had an aversion to it, I accepted the book with curiosity, for I wanted to take a look at what exactly was written in the book. After reading it, I denied that it was God’s word and wanted to give it back. On September 23, I felt a sudden severe pain in my belly, and moreover, it gradually grew bigger. Even within five or six days, my waistline expanded from 63cm to 90cm. It was an effort to walk, and I was tortured half to death. Besides, my private parts bled. I was diagnosed with terminal uterine cancer. My husband called me names and even cursed me to die, and I also felt that I was going to die. When I was in despair, another sister came to fellowship with me, saying that I had offended God. At that time, I felt a shock in my heart. Thinking of the series of accidents that had happened to my family, I felt afraid and did not dare to continue hardening my heart anymore, nor did I dare to give the book back. And I prayed from the bottom of my heart, “O Lord! I am confused now. Is this book really the word that you said to the churches? Is it really the utterance of the Holy Spirit?” At that time, the Holy Spirit inspired me: “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” My heart was moved and I prayed again in grateful tears, “O Lord! Thank you for being with me. This book is indeed your utterance.” From then on, I accepted God’s new work and made a firm resolve to follow Almighty God to the end without change. Three days later, my condition got better, and my bleeding stopped. One month later, I fully recovered from my illness.

40. Wu X, female, 37 years old, from Liaoning Province, formerly a believer from the Local Church. In July 2001, my younger sister brought two unfamiliar sisters to my home, saying that they’d like to have a fellowship with me. It happened that I had not attended meetings for a long time and felt rather thirsty; I agreed to fellowship with them. A sister had a fellowship from Genesis to Revelation. After listening to it, I felt great enjoyment and was also quite convinced. Later, when she said that God had already come as a female and had done a new work, I was immediately reminded of the “heresy and cult” our elder had mentioned and the female Christ of the Eastern Lightning denomination. Without any consideration of my sister’s feelings, I spoke arrogantly, mocked them, sneered at them, and drove them away. Later, they came to fellowship with me over ten times in succession, but each time I used the Bible to fight with them and said some words of slandering and condemning God too.

Three months later, I felt uncomfortable physically: I had a swollen pain in my chest. So I went to the hospital for an examination. The doctor told me that I got cyclomastopathy. After it was treated with medicines for two months, it did not respond to the treatment. On the contrary, the lumps grew and filled my breasts, and they gradually turned harder and expanded to my armpits. I had no choice but to go to the hospital for an examination again. The doctor said, “You must have an operation. Otherwise, they may become cancerous.” On hearing it, I immediately felt my head swimming; and I was driven to distraction, not knowing what to do. My breasts soon swell to the size three times bigger than before. Lying down did not help, sitting down did not help, and even asking the Lord to heal me was to no avail. “If I were to have the operation, 20,000 yuan might not be enough and my operation might not be successful. If I were not to have the operation but to let my condition deteriorate….” I felt anguish and suffered distress to such an extent that I lost my courage to live. I had no choice but to start making arrangements for my funeral, leaving my last words and waiting for my life to drop…. Later, in the suffering and pain, there came into my mind the words that my sister said when she visited me: “You need examine yourself; it is because you are too rebellious that you have such an illness.” At that time, I suddenly felt enlightened in my heart and seemed to see a ray of hope. I hurriedly prayed to the Lord, “O God! I cannot discern whether the Eastern Lightning is true or false. Please help me! If it’s the work done by you, I definitely won’t resist it anymore. Please give me one more chance!” Then, I waited and expected earnestly….

One day in June 2002, Almighty God stretched out his saving hand to me. An old sister in our denomination came to my home unexpectedly and asked me to go and listen to the fellowship; I agreed without demur. Through listening to a brother’s fellowship and reading God’s word, I understood: The three-stage work is the entire work of God’s six-thousand-year management plan. God’s second Incarnation is what we corrupt people need. God’s being incarnated as a female is to counteract our notions so that we will not draw conclusions about God. Then, I put aside all my doubts, accepted and believed in Almighty God’s end-time work with certainty. Thank Almighty God for disciplining me through illness and tolerating my disobedience. He saved me from the abyss of death, brought me to his presence, and gave me the second life. I made a resolution: I will repay God’s love for the rest of my life and do my best to spread the gospel and testify about God! After accepting Almighty God’s end-time work, I stopped taking medicines. Only two months later, I recovered completely. Soon I joined the ranks of the gospel preachers.