By Zhuiqiu, China

In the past, every time I was faced with some difficulties when performing my duty, or did my work badly, I thought it was because my caliber was too poor. As a result, I often lived in a negative, passive state. I would frequently use my poor caliber as an excuse to offload duties I felt hard onto other people, and felt there was nothing wrong with this, that I was thinking of the church work when I asked other people to do something because my caliber was poor, and I couldn’t do it well. It was only thanks to reading the words of God that I turned this erroneous view around, realizing that I was looking at things through my own conceptions and imaginings. I also learned something about my own corrupt disposition.Read More »

These testimonies of faith will show you the way of practice when you have problems and confusion in faith or life, so you can become resolved in your faith to follow God.

By Xinche, South Korea

In June 2018, I joined rehearsals for the Kingdom Anthem choral performance. Thinking I’d get up on stage and sing the hymn to praise and bear witness to God, I was so honored and proud. I also prayed to God, saying that I’d do my best to practice and do my duty well. When I first started practicing my facial expressions and dance moves, I was really diligent and put effort into it, but since I didn’t know anything about singing and dancing and my expressions were kind of stiff, there was a clear gap in ability between me and the others. Our instructor was always pointing out my issues. After a while, I started getting discouraged, feeling like no matter how hard I worked, I’d never get any better, and when positions were assigned, the brothers and sisters who were good singers and dancers would definitely be in front, and I’d just be filler in the back row. I gradually became less proactive in rehearsals and I started showing up late whenever I could. For our first filming, I was put in the very back row, off to one side.Read More »