Q1: How should we pray for non-believing relatives? Is it alright to perform healing, deliverance, and exorcism for them?

I believe the crux of the matter lies in whether we are willing to bless them. They are, in fact, in dire need of blessings, aren't they? Why do they need blessings so much? Because they are often severely troubled by the devil. If we directly ask, Do you want to believe in the Lord? and the family member says, I don't want to, then the conversation can only end there.

Never use such a method to evangelize to family: Do you believe or not? If they say, I don't believe, then we should consistently extend grace to our family. What does it mean to extend grace? For example, you can share testimonies with your family. They also desire to receive grace, but because they are deeply controlled by demons, their words don't reflect what they truly want to say.

If you discern carefully, you can hear them say, I don't want to, or I want to be sick, or I want to be this way. People become very peculiar. Therefore, in such times, we need to bind the demons behind them. You can target those demons in your private prayers, and we should often encourage them without straining the relationship.

See, you don't even need me to lead you in prayer! Do not rebuke; rebuke does not solve problems. Don't damage the relationship. If the relationship is damaged, they will be bound even more deeply by the devil, and you will have even less leverage. So, what do we need to do?

First, establish a positive, high-standing image of yourself in the family. Your influence in the family is crucial. Later I realized that if you have no influence in the family, you can't do anything. If in your family people see you as worthless, and you see yourself as worthless, and that's your image in the family, then you say, I'm going to evangelize to you, and you all should believe in the Lord with me, then the family responds, I might believe someone else, but you, forget about it! That's a problem.

We often like to say, Well, I can pray! But in my view, you might as well work on establishing a positive image for yourself in the family. A positive image does not necessarily mean compromising. If you are just trying to please everyone, you won't have a positive image. Don't misunderstand. A positive image is when everyone feels you are worthy of admiration and respect. This isn't achieved through worldly means but through a genuine and authentic representation.

Religious behavior cannot convince family members. Therefore, if we carry religious behaviors, I don't think that's what God wants, nor is it what He wants you to do. So what can we do? Once we have that influence in the family, people will naturally be willing to let you pray for them. When you share testimonies, your family might not have much faith in you, but they might develop a bit of faith in the changes that have occurred in you.

Then, if you have the opportunity, you can ask if they would like your leader to minister to them. They are very eager to receive that, but don't completely give up just because someone says something negative. That's not an approach of faith.

Q2: I hear dog noises coming from my child. What's happening?

In the Ten Commandments in Exodus, you will find mention of animals. God does not allow us to carve images of animals, whether from the sea, the land, or the air, nor are we to bow down to these images. This suggests that many spirits have shapes. We can reasonably believe that we humans are made in God's image.

Then I ask you: what are dogs on earth made in the image of? They are made in the image of dogs in heaven; horses on earth are made in the image of horses in heaven. I think what is reflected on Earth is an image of the spiritual realm. Dogs also have an image in the spiritual realm. Don't think I'm talking about superstition; I'm not. Actually, there are many records of animals in the prophetic books, such as Isaiah and Ezekiel.

Hearing dog sounds during prayer with a child indicates that the sound is a demonic spirit. Be careful when a dog's bark appears during a child's prayer. There is a famous pastor whose teachings involve dog barking. He says that some people's tongues sound like dogs barking when they pray in tongues, which is scary. The assumption is that such tongues can scare away demons, but I don't think the Bible teaches that, so brothers and sisters should step out of these myths.

Know that our God is a noble God, and people are noble. Humans are made in God's image and have God's glorious image. Many people like to ask, What's your zodiac sign? I'm a monkey. I'm a snake. I'm a dog. People have invented many things that turn people into beastly images. That's not God's image; that's the work of the devil.

So we need to know for sure that hearing cat noises or dog noises during prayer is not a healthy state. Would you want someone to go out and speak like a dog barking? Woof woof woof, how frightening. Otherwise, the sounds of horses neighing, dogs barking, or chickens crowing would turn everything upside down. You must know that in this situation, only one thing can drive out the demon, which is not giving up. Why a dog's bark and not other animals? Because a dog is a very worldly thing. Dogs and horses are very worldly things.

Q3: Is seeking God's blessing the same as being blessed by God? Sometimes, I really want to seek God's help in work and life, but then I think: as long as I work hard to grow and carefully obey God's word, God will naturally bless me. So, in these difficulties, I don't seek God like asking for bread.

The Bible doesn't really teach us to pray for our work, our marriage, or our family; there are no such records. The Bible wants us to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to us. These things are not obtained through asking.

I think it's normal for us to have these confusions, because we have mixed up the concepts. We think seeking God's blessing is the same as receiving God's blessing. But if you read the Bible carefully, did Abraham ask for blessings? No. Abraham asked to be a blessing to all nations on earth. So if we have selfish desires, then we will take our own affairs too seriously.

Who doesn't have difficulties at work? Everyone has difficulties at work. If our eyes are only focused on these difficulties, then we are in trouble. What we are seeking is not something else, but what God wants to add to us. If we are people who are seeking blessings which is called seeking Mingding Destiny. Look at Jacob seeking God to bless him: I will not let you go unless you bless me. Bless what? To bless him to return safely to Canaan and take over his father's covenant, which is very important.

So, I think we should fulfill our own responsibilities, solve our own problems and weaknesses, and grow in God's word and in serving God; if you carefully obey the word of the Lord your God, God will bless everything you do. I think in dealing with our own difficulties, we don't seek God in a way that we ask for bread. The Bible has not taught us to use the attitude of asking for bread to ask God to help you solve your problems.

But in seeking Mingding Destiny and seeking the Holy Spirit, there is such teaching. To seek God's blessing is to seek God's Mingding Destiny, and to be blessed by God is conditional: to carefully obey God's word.

Q4: Can you explain again the myth that because Paul had poor eyesight, healing and deliverance are false?

Because Paul had an eye disease, they thought, Look, Paul has an eye disease, so God doesn't heal, so it's normal to have a disease. But did Paul's eye disease affect his life? Actually, his eyes haven't been healed by God, God heals him often, otherwise his eyes would have been ruined long ago. How was his eyes healed initially? It seemed like many scales fell from eyes.

Because God's light shone on his eyes, he immediately became blind, and later someone prayed with him, and many scales fell from his eyes. Isn't that healing? In fact, people need to rely on God's Spirit at all times. I don't think we can say there is no healing and deliverance because Paul has an eye disease. There isn't a shred of connection. These are two different things.

Q5: Are all animal images evil spirits?

Not quite. Actually, in the Bible, animal images are created according to the image of the spirit, that is, according to the things in the heavens. But man is created in the image of God. Even if it is not an evil spirit, if it is an angel, people cannot worship angels, you understand? This is not a good thing. Alas, an angel is attached to you. What kind of talk is this? I think there is no need to ask such questions. What people pursue is not this matter, but the restoration of God's glorious image in us.

Q6: How to better distinguish between judging and rebuking people?

Judging people is not for edification, it is just talking idly. Rebuke is for edification, understand? If there is a problem with this person, and then gossiping behind their back, this is called judging. If it is on the people being pastored, correcting the problems on them, that is called edifying people. Judging people is not edifying people, but just gossiping, because it is neither his responsibility, nor his work, nor his service, it is just that he is idle and gossiping.

Q7: For example, how to effectively improve your position in the family? How to improve your right to speak in the family? What else can you do besides praying when you and your family are separated by the Taiwan Strait?

This is a complex issue, let me talk about how to effectively improve your position in the family. A person's position in the family is closely related to the image he creates. If someone in the family is a person without reason, then he cannot have a position. If the basic principles are not met, let alone have the Tao.

So, a person's position in the family is climbed up step by step, and this climb is closely related to shaping your own image. So how to improve the family's position? It is actually to shape your own character, shape your own image, and then improve your own strength. If you are a complete loser in the family, unable to do anything well, how can you have a position?

I think Abraham in the Bible was not a loser, he was a powerful Abraham. We only see Abraham's faith, but not Abraham's strength. Abraham was strong, he trained his three hundred and eighteen servants into elite soldiers who could fight, but he did not rely on his own strength.

So I think, if a person's leadership ability is very strong, his position in the family is influential. If your image in the family is very poor and you often do some unreliable things, how can you have influence? How can you have a right to speak? So improving your position in the family is a long-term thing.

I think, we who worship God must worship God in spirit and in truth, and never use religious forms. But when I say this, everyone easily ignores what should have been done, then it will be troublesome. Although I said it clearly, maybe you don't receive it clearly, then how you receive it is beyond my control, what should I do? I would also like to help you solve this problem.

I think in addition to praying, the most important thing is to have a positive and great image in the family, but this image is never a good person's image, but a powerful person's image. You must be a very strong and powerful person, and then exert your influence, that is the key. People who don't do well basically have a negative image in the family. If your family's perception of you is negative, then what is your essence? You should think carefully, and don't serve God with a religious appearance.

Q8: The child has to go to a classmate reunion on Saturday. I told him not to feast and love the world, but the child can't listen and must go. How should I deal with it?

Actually, I think so, when doing something, I first look at the effect of doing it. We really want to keep our children, but in reality, what we can do is very limited, because he is a free person. You say, don't go, but he just wants to go, and you can't do anything if he goes. Then your image becomes nothing in him, and it will be useless for you to speak later.

So what to do? In fact, religious people often say not to feast and love the world, what is the effect? There is no effect. Why do we do things that have no effect? If it were me, I would say: Child, go well, but be a smart child, come back and share with mom what you can get?

Understand? Don't go against it, but take advantage of the situation to do healing and deliverance, or take advantage of the situation to do cultivation work. If you go against it, there will be no effect, right? But when he makes an obvious mistake, he is ruthlessly disciplined, it doesn't matter, he will still thank you after the discipline. Just don't let me catch you, if I catch you, I'm really sorry, this is the rule, I have already established it.

But many of our parents don't keep the rules themselves, including many believing children who don't have much Tao towards their parents. I just can't find a way, I just mess around, I only know how to use religious terms, this thing should be avoided.

You ask me how to deal with it, in fact, this thing cannot be said to be dealt with in this way or that way, this is about a principle issue, that is, how is your influence on your child established? Actually, there is no need to worry, one success or failure cannot determine the hero. Don't think that it's something if the child goes to play once, it's actually nothing.

Q9: How to pray for family members with terminal illnesses who do not believe?

I have ministered to many people in this situation. It is a very, very difficult thing for an unbeliever to have a terminal illness. The reason is: the curse of the terminal illness has reached an irreversible point. The spiritual terminal illness will become the physical terminal illness. In fact, it is a very difficult thing. His thoughts have become so dirty that there is almost no chance.

I encourage everyone to quickly become an influential person and effectively bring them into the kingdom of God before your family members get terminal illnesses. If their curse has not fermented to that extent, then there is still hope. If it has fermented to a terminal illness, although I really want to give you faith, but according to my past experience in ministry, it can be said that it is really not a positive experience.

So what to do? First, give him faith and hope. Second, if your relationship with him is very good and very close, start fixing him, maybe there is still a chance. What does it mean to fix him? Let him begin to be able to surrender under you. People who surrender will be blessed, even if the bad habits have not changed, but if he is willing to surrender, he can still be healed, I am afraid that he will be stubborn and rebellious to the point of being completely incurable.