This chapter speaks of God's mercy upon us when we have sinned and turned away from Him, and then return. Our God is truly good, for He has already given us the path to live a good life, which is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and strength! But many do not believe in this path. Many think, I must do business, I must climb the ladder of officialdom, I must have power and money... So this is a perpetual topic: how exactly can one live well?

Do You Want to Live a Good Life?

I often ask everyone: Do you want to live a good life? The answer is: Yes, I dream of it! I also often ask: Do you want to be rich? The answer is: Yes, I dream of it! I also ask: Do you want to have a beautiful love? The answer is: Yes, I dream of it! I think people are not foolish; they all know they want to live a good life. If I ask you: Do you want to live a good life? If you answer: I don't want to live a good life, and I ask: Do you want to live a poor life? If you answer: I want to live a poor life, and I ask: Why do you want to live a poor life? and you answer: Because a poor life is more spiritual, frankly, I don't meet many people like that. If I do, there's probably something wrong with their head.

So I'm thinking, everyone wants to live well, except for those who have problems. What kind of Gospel are we preaching? We are preaching a Gospel of living well! Some people say this is prosperity Gospel. I ask them, What do you preach then? Failure Gospel? I think failure Gospel is no good; success is better than failure. Actually, I don't care what label is put on it, what it's called; I care about what God says. God has pointed out a path for us to live well, but people don't believe it. The principle is very simple: if we have a very rich, very capable Abba Father, who is in charge of the universe, and the earth is just a very small part of what He manages, then can our God not provide for your such small needs on earth (a person doesn't need that much in this life)? Our God is perfectly capable of providing. So our Lord Jesus spoke very interestingly: Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.(《Matthew》 6:26 )

The crows on earth, black and ugly, even the Heavenly Father feeds them. How much more so with us, such a noble person? How could the Heavenly Father not feed you, such a noble person? I have done many experiments because I have great faith in God. My faith is such that even in Jerusalem, you won't find someone with such great faith! A brother came to me and said he had been crying for three days. I asked him what he was crying about. He said, My wife is pregnant. I thought, pregnancy is not death; what's there to cry about? He said, I can't afford to raise a child. I said, Oh! That's the problem! How could you not afford it? Children come into the world with their own provisions! We must know definitively that every child comes into this world with their own provisions; you are definitely not preparing them. The brother listened to my words and happily went back. Now his child is several years old.

Do you want to live a good life? Everyone should want to live a good life, but where is the path? The path is in trusting God! God told us about trusting God long ago, but many people don't believe it and insist on struggling. When I see those people struggling, I feel tired for them. I sigh at how foolish these people are. How can they not trust such a good Abba Father? Such a good Abba Father grants us grace, leading us into the promised land flowing with milk and honey. We only need to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, and strength. This is not difficult, but people often make mistakes in their choices.

What is Your Choice?

See, I am setting before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess. But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. (《Deuteronomy》30:15-20)

What is your choice? What amazes me most among us is that many people experience many of God's graces, but before long, they say, I have not experienced God's grace. When I see such people, I really want to punch them. And those who have just experienced God's grace, like my mother's case, which is very classic. She had a lump on her wrist, back pain, etc. The first solution she thinks of is to apply plaster. Did applying plaster help? No. Her back pain is always healed by my praying for her. When she sprains her hand or foot, my prayer completely loosens it up, but when she gets those injuries again, the first thing she thinks of is still applying plaster. It's really annoying.

I'm thinking, many people are like this. They experience God again and again, but they don't know to trust God when they encounter problems. When the Israelites had no water in the wilderness, they complained to Moses, Were there no graves in Egypt that you brought us to die in the desert? God gave them water, and water flowed from the ground. Later, when the Israelites ran out of water again, they complained in the same way, instead of choosing to pray together to God, that God would surely give them water. God's patience is truly amazing! The Israelites complained again and again, and in the end, Moses couldn't bear it. God told him to command the rock to bring forth water, but Moses struck the rock with his staff. This strike prevented him from entering Canaan.

Those who serve often experience God, and in the process of serving, they often experience testimonies of serving. The brothers and sisters among us have personally experienced God's grace because of our service. We haven't forgotten your experience of God's grace, but you yourself have forgotten it. This really astonishes me. If I had a staff in my hand, I would hit these people. How can they be so confused? How can people not make a choice? How can they not know, after experiencing so much grace, so many testimonies, and then make a clear choice? Later, I realized that they feel that God's statutes and ordinances are too troublesome to observe, and that keeping and following God's way is too difficult! And something about Mingding Destiny, where did I get Mingding Destiny? I just want to live well.

They don't know that living well is inseparable from Mingding Destiny. Brothers and sisters, if you want to live well, you must learn to choose. You must choose to have Mingding Destiny. With Mingding Destiny, and then you look at the statutes, ordinances, service, ministry, gatherings, reading God's word, prayer, healing, deliverance, and casting out demons... they all become easy. People are really interesting. They think that keeping and following God's way is a difficult thing, but if they serve the enemies sent by Jehovah, they think it's great. They think days blessed by God are difficult, but they feel comfortable with days cursed by God. Are these people out of their minds?

The past 100 days have been incredible. In serving my mother, I have seen firsthand how difficult it is to change people! These 100-plus days have been like a tug-of-war. Today she's delivered, tomorrow she's back. She goes back and is delivered again, delivered and goes back again. For example, my mother said she was going to die several times. My mom said, Call your brother; I'm going to die. I said, Let my brother come and get your urn? My mom answered, Ah. I grabbed her by the collar with one hand and lifted her out of bed (ordinary people might think I was abusing the elderly). I made her stand up and then led her in prayer. After praying, I had her walk around. She walked and prayed again. After praying, she loosened up, and then my mom smiled at me and said, With this body of mine, I can live for another ten or eight years without any problems. Isn't this life-threatening? Nothing's wrong, but she lies in bed, moaning and saying she's going to die. It happened again a few days ago. My mom said, Quick, get my eldest son over here. Buy me a ticket to send me back to my hometown. I'm going to die. I wondered, Why is she dying again? As a result, after my sister led my mother in prayer, my mom said, Oh, I'm not going to die. Why am I listening to the lies of the devil? This time, my mother understood. I think people's nature is really hard to change, but thank God, my mother is changing! These past two days have been a tremendous turnaround. I'm really overjoyed.

Is Choosing to Obey God's Commandments Really That Difficult?

Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, 'Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?' Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, 'Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?' No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so you may obey it.(《Deuteronomy》 30:11-14)

Obeying God's word is very simple; it is in your heart, in your mouth! If you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth, you will be saved. I hold on tightly to this sentence. This sentence is the key to our healing and deliverance! When a patient declares with his mouth, I can't do it, then he really can't. If you let him declare with his mouth, I can, there definitely won't be a problem, then there definitely won't be a problem! The problem is all in people's hearts, in their mouths! If you believe in your heart that God can definitely heal you, and you start declaring it with your mouth, you will be healed! One person's faith can turn this generation around, one person's faith can move a mountain into the sea, one person's faith can make the impossible possible, because one person's faith can allow God's power to be manifested in us! This power is the power to raise the dead!

Speaking of my mom, she's experienced a lot. Some time ago, I was still in my hometown. My mom is old, and I want to spend more time with her. I put in a lot of effort to persuade her to come to my place of business and live with me. If I take her with me, I'll fix it, and I can make her live very prosperously. Because I know how to make choices, I know how to live well. I'm very clear that I can make my mom live very well. So I brought her over, but before bringing her, I persuaded her! Persuaded her! She wouldn't leave that old Mudanjiang no matter what. That old Mudanjiang meant too much to her. She lived there for 70 years; she had a deep affection for that old Mudanjiang! Actually, what is there in Mudanjiang? There's nothing. It's very cold in winter, you can't go out, it's more than 20 degrees below zero. If you wear some clothes, the cold air quickly freezes through you. Life there is very hard. So I prepared to bring her over and stay with her.

In the past year, I went back to Mudanjiang N times. One day, someone gave her a free physical examination. The doctor took an X-ray of her. After looking at the X-ray, the doctor said, Old lady, your lumbar spine should be paralyzed! Stand up and walk for me to see. My mom stood up and walked for him to see. The doctor said, Huh?! How can you walk? You shouldn't be able to walk! My mom said, I can walk! The doctor said, You shouldn't be able to walk! Finished! After my mom came back from the hospital, her back started to hurt. She took a lot of breaks before getting home. After barely getting home, her back hurt terribly. When she got home, I asked her, Where did you go? She said, I went for a physical examination. I said, What's wrong? She said, The doctor said I have a paralyzed waist. You see, it's in your heart, in your mouth. She started to believe in her heart that she was a paralyzed person, she started to declare with her mouth that she was a paralyzed person, and as a result, her back really hurt terribly. I took her to pray again, let her believe in her heart, declare with her mouth, and after a while, her back started to loosen up.

Believing in the heart and confessing with the mouth is simply a magic weapon. Brothers and sisters, you must believe that we are people with magic weapons in our hands. We have treasure in these earthen vessels. This treasure can draw on God's power. There are also some people; I'm simply convinced by them. There was a person whose eyes were not working; he prayed, prayed, and got better; he had to buy a ticket to Beijing to get checked, he had to have the doctor say that his eyes were better. He then he believe his eyes are well. What kind of person is this? Didn't you know your eyes were better? Better is better, why do you need to check? It cost money, it would be better to give offerings. Often some people are very strange, in fact, quite a number. I say XX person's disease, I prayed, he was healed. Then the Singaporean tell me , Go to the hospital for a checkup. I glared at him, what to check up? Already healed, don't you know？For example, your legs can't walk, then no you come can walk, do you still need to get checked. I feel it's very interesting, many people think need check up. I think you previously can't walk, now can walk, then you talk to the doctor, let doctor see if i can able walk, is not this very strange meh?

Today our God is not in other places, is in your heart, is in your mouth. Do you believe in your heart? If you believe in your heart, you will keep and follow God's command. If you declare it with your mouth, you will receive grace. Simple just si beh 神啦! I believe! Why do I believe? I like to believe! I willingly believe! Then I receive a lot of grace. Is God's Word so difficult? When we gather, it's not like we're asking you to carry 50 kilograms of rice; opening your mouth to pray is not like asking you to carry 50 kilograms of rice; it's not like asking you to haul half a ton of firewood. In the Northeast, you have to burn firewood and coal, and you haul a whole cart of coal, you have to throw it in basket by basket. I used to do this kind of work when I was young; it's not like scooping pig manure; it's not like killing pigs; is there anything so difficult huh? Praying is just moving your upper lip and lower lip, it's that simple. Sitting on the kang [ platform bed ] in the Northeast, the house is very warm, just sit there and you move your upper slip and lower lip, in your heart head believe God, then start prayer liao, is that simple.

There are even more interesting people, he's ask me , How can you pray for so long ah? I turn ask him how long. He's say 一个小时 liao. I say then you leh? He say i can only can pray ten minute, my longgest is ten minute. I say can pray ten minute then can pray twenty minute leh, Pray two ten minute then issit twenty minute mah? Three ten minute then issit trirty minute mah?? Can pray thirty minute, then again pray thirty minute issit one hour mah? Got one then got two, got two then got three issit right mah? Then just repeat d, issit d. I really is si beh wonder.

People's heart and mouth is a spiritual organ, can draw God grace come down, but people think 太难 liao this thing. When I'm serving, I frequently encounter this one. Pray, pray, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah then till halfway didn't start pray in tongues d, so haiz start liao leh, in less than five second then start to close mouth waiting there. You tell me what you waiting for leh? I just feel si beh wonder only mah, when i serve this kind of people one, I say if you again like that right, I pinch you. One pinch then he pray liao d, One pinch then he pray liao d, finally he overcome the cannot pray long time habit d.

Actually, We God word is not difficult one leh, is a very easy thing. l give you a koy 问题 leh, koy problem very easy wan, tomorrow morning you come my side, i give you on thousand, tomorrow morning three o'clock i wait there, actually none of the people come one leh. They think i joke with them only. i really prepare liao one thousand dollar hoh, of course only the first people come got one lah, the second people come none liao. didn't have that much one thousand dollar hoh, in the end all no come one. I say why all people didn't come ah? Some people say si beh cold d. I say si beh cold, go out work earn one thousand dollar hor, also not easy one leh. Because they believe or not ma!

Don't believe issit all of human origin of all problem d, is do not believe in heaven there 有 one 神. this 有 one 神 He will takes care of us, He will protect us , He will supply us, He will grace give us all the needs in our life leh, He can let us live out a beautiful life one.

People just do not believe geh, that one really sibei stupid sia!So today I want to my book do advertisement leh. I write one book leh, very nice one! very lelong one book, myself write d, the book is call 《Don't believe is human all origin of all problem leh》, Genesis chapter one to eleven leh , study bible section leh. I think I write si beh good leh. Someone say, Why you think the this thing you write 特别好? Because is myself write, I think 特别好 liao, I还等 people what right? I don't wanna wait peopel say lah, myself first say mah.

Today I am really want tell you,don't believe is all human origin of all problem one leh , why don't believe mah? Because he think he must work very hard,the result the more live till more no good sia. People wants great love, then become梁山伯 and 祝英台. If you are yellow colour hair white colour colour skin one,you find wants to have good dating, you will become Romeo and Juliet,anyway all siao one. If you very want live a good life,live啊! live ah! want 好好good 爽爽过a new year all can become杨白劳 and 白毛女 one. If you don't believe also its ok one lah,just think i just say say wind only mah.

The problem is you really know 过 good day 过 where 在 mah ? want all 过 all 好 过 must choice to following our 神 the law , order, decree lah. Because if people loves 神喜 he will live 荣耀full of all treasure in this sea one lahm. If you wants to please God , the most important is命定lailah. I wanna do adertisement for my book《創世纪》的chapter one till chapter eleven, I called《Don't believe is peopke problem》.《創世纪》的chapter tweleve till fiftry,total write three person, seperate to three book,亚伯拉罕 and 以撒one book,雅格 one book, 约瑟 one book, the亚伯拉罕 and 以撒one book calling《open 上信心 way 亚伯拉罕 and 以撒》, the second book calling《to pass 上信心路的雅各》,the third book calling《practice 上信心路the 约瑟》, how nice the names all. They people believe that is why has Mingding Destiny leh! MIngding Destiny issit this three books main heading there.

Turning and Returning to God Brings Renewed Blessings

Whenever I talk about choosing, I get quite excited. But what if you make the wrong choice? This is the fourth point: if you choose wrongly, can you repent? Is there still a chance? This is the theme of this chapter—turning and returning to God will surely bring renewed blessings.

Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord Almighty. But you ask, 'How are we to return?' (Malachi 3:7)

Therefore tell the people: This is what the Lord Almighty says: 'Return to me,' declares the Lord Almighty, 'and I will return to you,' says the Lord Almighty. (Zechariah 1:3)

There are many other places that speak of turning to God. Our God is full of grace! It doesn't matter if you make a mistake or suffer a curse, or if the Lord your God scatters you among the nations. If you begin to recall the blessings in your heart, saying: I still need blessings, I have taken the wrong path, O God! O God! My path is not right.

and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, then the Lord your God will have compassion on you and restore you from captivity. He will gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back. He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors. The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. You will again obey the Lord and follow all his commands I am giving you today. Then the Lord your God will make you most prosperous in all that you do, in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. For the Lord will again delight in you and bless you, as he delighted in your ancestors, if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. (Deuteronomy 30:2-10)

Moses wrote this long passage with great excitement. This is the blessing of turning back. Today, all of us have taken the wrong path and lived under a curse. When we lived miserably under a curse, we began to cry out to God in our hearts, seeking Him. When we turn back to God, He truly blesses us and blesses you. I was once a rebellious person, having violated God's commandments, statutes, and ordinances, but when I turned back to Him, God still blesses me today. I thank God for not crushing me. In fact, God only needs to move a small finger, and with a whoosh, He could crush me like an ant because I was rebellious. But thank God, our God never does that. Even to the most wicked person in the world, He does not crush them. He hopes they will turn back, but some people stiffen their necks and never repent.

Brothers and sisters, today, be a person whose heart is not so hard. If you choose wrongly, repent quickly. When you hear a testimony, repent quickly. When you hear the Word of God, repent quickly. When you hear what God says during Bible study, repent quickly. Know that living well is in God, in the Word of God. We have many testimonies. Will you still stiffen your neck? Today, brothers and sisters, let us begin again to be edified by many testimonies. It may not be your testimony, but that doesn't matter. Learning a lesson from others is the best.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, every time you hear a testimony, let your heart be awakened, write it down in your notebook, and turn your heart from hardness and rebellion. I am very surprised that people who have experienced God often mess up. Today, if you have experienced God, and you have messed up and are under a curse, you must begin to cry out to God in the curse, recalling the words of blessing to turn back to God. But if you turn back without experiencing those curses, that's great. So there is a saying: Choose the right thing the first time. If you can choose the right thing the first time, how much grace you will receive!

In the industry, there is a saying that is to do things right the first time. Let me give you an example of producing cups: The first time, 1,000 cups become waste products because of one mistake you made. The second time, if another 1,000 cups are produced, and again because of you committing an error, these 1,000 cups also become waste products; The third time, finally 1,000 cups are produced that are good cups, but how can these cups be sold? The cost is three times as much. How can you make money by selling them? It is impossible to make money.

Therefore, today I encourage brothers and sisters to have a concept called: Do things right the first time. If you don't do it right, it doesn't matter, but don't be stiff-necked. Some people believe in the Lord wrongly, and still stubbornly say that that's how I believe in the Lord, and that I want to be like Job. But Job only suffered for six months, and he turned around quickly. The problem is, did he turn around and have you turned around? Do you want to suffer like Job for the rest of your life? You are not Job, that is a curse! Living in a curse, thinking you are Job. People have not carefully adhered to, and think they have carefully adhered. People have not figured it out, but think they have figured it out. This is the tragedy of an era. Many people have not figured it out. The Bible clearly teaches that we must pray in the spirit and also pray with understanding. Many Christians do not pray in the spirit and do not care about it, thinking that what they are doing is very right. How is that possible? Turning a powerful gospel into a powerless gospel. That is like what Paul said: If the gospel you receive is different from the gospel I preached, let him be under a curse! (Galatians 1:8).

As a result, they live in a curse, and still say that this is how I believe in the Lord, so just do it that way, I am also helpless. Believing in the Lord correctly is seeing God's blessing with a transformation in health and a transformation in finances! Being sick is very painful, but if you think being sick is receiving a blessing, then enjoy this illness. The Bible says this:

If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the Lord your God— the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses. He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you. The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed. You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God. (Deuteronomy 28:58-62)

These words are so clear. Brothers and sisters in our church, I think you are very blessed because I lead you in Bible study and tell you God's will. If you choose wrongly once or twice, it doesn't matter. At any time, turn back to God, and God will bless you. But when we turn to God, the customs of this world, indulging the flesh and loving the world, will be a great obstacle, because these all sound very reasonable. This world often regards indulging the flesh as very loving. Indulging the flesh is not love, and compromise is not gentleness. Why do many people choose wrongly? It is because this world regards indulging the flesh as love, does not understand God's will, and regards the customs of this world as a truth. This is very deadly. Today I give you a requirement: things that are not written in the Bible, do not regard them as truth.

Brothers and sisters must carefully deal with loving the world, indulging the flesh, and the customs of this life, so that we can carefully adhere to God's commandments, so that our hearts can be filled with the Word of God, instead of being filled with the customs of this life, and so that our mouths may speak more of the gospel and transmit Mingding Destiny. Because it is key to obtain Mingding Destiny and enter into the blessing of Abraham.

This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. (Deuteronomy 30:19-20)

Today, if your heart is where your treasure is, your treasure will pierce your heart; if your heart is where your work is, your work will pierce you, your work will become the root of your pain; if your heart is on your children, your children will become the root of your pain; if your heart is on God's heart, loving the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and strength, then no pain can pierce you. Obey his commandments, and you will surely be able to live out a beautiful life!

I am very grateful to God that He has made me a person who serves Him happily, God has made me a wealthy person, God has made me a person who can bless many people, and God has made me a person with Mingding Destiny. Because I love Him, I serve Him with all my heart and with all my strength! It doesn't matter if I sleep a little more or a little less. Serving God is my life, and He is the source of my life. Many people come among us as strangers, and we serve them with all our heart and with all our strength. Because we serve this God.

Loving God is to shepherd God's sheep, taking care of them day by day, building up their spiritual life, so that they can eat enough spiritual food. Eating, drinking, and having fun cannot solve people's problems and cannot make people live well. If you really want to live well, then love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and strength! Because the Bible does not tell you that if you want to live well, you should eat, drink, and have fun with all your heart and with all your strength. The best example of eating, drinking, and having fun is Sodom, but when the fire from heaven came down, no one could escape.

My mother played mahjong for 60 years and smoked for 60 years, and as a result, she almost suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and almost lay in her own excrement and urine. I had to pull her out of Alzheimer's disease! It was so that she could live out a beautiful life! Live out Mingding Destiny! So that she could live in the grace of blessing! If you like to post about eating, drinking, and having fun in your social circle, then I encourage you to post more about your testimony of service, because life and death, blessings and curses are all set before you. You must make a wise choice!

May God bless everyone!