I. Introduction

Good morning, everyone! Today, I would like to share the fourth part of the Joy series. As you know, a crucial characteristic of Chinese Mingding Destiny is joy. If you are not joyful, I cannot stop you. But today, when I talk about joy, some people will ask: Teacher, how can I be joyful? Isn't this telling you how to be joyful? Only those who create can be joyful. The statement that only those who create can be joyful is very important!

Alright! Today, during this season of Chinese New Year, we often say: Happy New Year! Do we say: Gong Xi Fa Cai! (Wish you prosperity!)? If a Christian sends a card, and I say: Wishing you a Happy New Year and Gong Xi Fa Cai!, people might think it is very unspiritual. Ah, may all your wishes come true! I don't think these words are particularly good. Later, I thought of a way: May you become a creative person in the New Year! This sounds pretty good. May you become a joyful person in the New Year, this also sounds good. Today, I want to talk about the fourth part of our Joy series: Only Creation Brings Joy!

Have you ever asked yourself why you are not joyful? Are there any among us who are not joyful? Actually, I tell you: I meet so many people who are not joyful. One of the most important reasons is their lack of creation. You know, not creating is actually a tragedy in a person's life! What is the difference between humans and animals? The difference between humans and animals is that humans can create and invent many things.

Later, I found that many people are not joyful, and I thought selling joy is a good business. Do you all agree? Look at how Guo Degang has made his business so successful just by telling comic dialogues. Just by performing sketches, look at how Zhao Benshan has made his business so successful! Later, he bought a private jet. Ah, the market for joy is so big, I will join in the fun. What am I doing here? Making everyone joyful! But I am not just telling a joke that makes you laugh and then it's over. In my words: today you laugh and it's over, tomorrow you laugh and it's over, and then it’s over!

I am telling you, these things I talk about really will bring joy. If you have interacted with me, you will find that chatting with me is enjoyable. Sometimes I lead everyone in prayer, and after we pray, even if you are depressed, you feel comfortable. It is much more effective than comic dialogues! So I think if you are not joyful, you have come to the right place. If you are not joyful, you don't live well, and you have many illnesses. How do you explain this?

Have you all noticed recently that when COVID came, it cleared out a lot of people who were not joyful. Have you all noticed that? Cancer cleared out a lot of people who were not joyful. Have you ever seen joyful people get that? Diseases! The big killers in the disease market are still pondering: who to pick? They look around and say: pick this one. Give him cancer; give him cerebral thrombosis, or myocardial infarction. They are looking for people who are not joyful.

So you will find that not being joyful is the number one killer! Not being joyful will attract many demons. I find that many people are not joyful, they create problems for themselves. They have food, drink, clothing, and shelter, but they are not happy. They like to watch things that make them unhappy, eating and drinking with resentment. I tell you: that's really pathetic! If you can't even be joyful, can you still be human? You can't do anything else, but you are really good at finding things to make yourself miserable, becoming a misery expert. Not only are they miserable themselves, but when others chat with them, the misery spreads to them.

If you chat with someone and feel miserable when you get home, I tell you: don't go there next time. If you go there again, you will bring back a lot of misery, and then you will have to pray with me: Teacher, I am miserable. I say: Why are you miserable? I met my friend yesterday, and my friend chatted with me, and I felt miserable when I got home. I said: What did you talk about? They talked about: Oh, you have to be careful! You have to keep a close eye on your husband. I saw your husband walking down the street with another woman, talking to another woman. Creating problems! Have you all heard of this? If you like to listen to that, then it's troublesome. If it were me, I would turn around and leave: I don't want to know. People like this specialize in opening misery clinics, but it's not really a misery clinic.

It's not like that here. When you listen to me, the misery turns into comfort, and you come back again. The market is huge, and everyone needs it throughout their life. I have talked about finding joy in labor, but many people are not joyful in labor. Later, what did I talk about? You need management to be joyful. Why? Because many people are not joyful in labor because they don't have management, they just do things blindly, speak blindly, listen blindly, and do things blindly. How can they be joyful? Only managed labor brings joy! How should this labor be done? Why? Because management solves problems. Is there any job without problems? Every job has problems.

If you are an accountant who manages the accounts in a mess, I met someone a while ago who managed the school's accounts. She didn't know which students had paid and which hadn't, and she couldn't figure it out. What kind of accountant is that? How could she not be upset? The boss said: Give me this data. Oh no, she's upset! Give me that data, she's upset! Why? Without management, how can you solve problems? The most crucial thing is what? The most crucial thing is a lack of money! If you labor without management, the boss will give you the worst evaluation at the end of the year. Others get bonuses, but you don't; others get raises, but you get a pay cut; others have good jobs, but your job is stressful; less money, less return. But if you manage, you have money and returns.

Want to have money? Liking to work is the way. You have to like to work. Love labor. Have you heard of this? Love labor, take pleasure in labor, and exert your management effectiveness in labor to solve problems. I tell you that's really good! Don't drift along. Drifting along makes you miserable and not joyful. So you know, when I hire employees, I don't like to hire Christians. Why don't I like to hire Christians? The reason is simple, Christians don't do a good job, Christians hand over all the work to their God, they entrust everything. Christians are lazy!

So Chinese Mingding Destiny wants to solve the laziness of Christians. Don't drift along! People say: I drift by faith. Are you all used to this sound? By faith, by the grace of God, I drift along. Can you drift by the grace of God? Can you be lazy by the grace of God? No! You all know that if you are lazy by the grace of God, that is not God's will. Christians often misuse these things to an outrageous extent! How can they be joyful? Then they feel miserable when the boss says something, and they come back to pray.

So I want everyone to start learning management. Last time I talked about management, and this time I talk about creation. Do you know that the highest level of management is creation? Why creation? Creation has high returns! Ordinary, daily management streamlines things, and that only improves efficiency by 10%, 20%, or 30%. But creation, do you know how much it is? About ten times. So someone wrote a book called The 10x Rule with Moore’s Law.

Now we are competing on creation. You know, in management, there is finance, human resources, projects, marketing, children, classroom management, and many other managements. You can learn some skills in these areas, but if you can innovate, if you can dig out the rules, and you become a creative person, then you are amazing! So we must often ask ourselves, what have we created? What have we managed? If you haven't managed anything, how can you be joyful? Just listening to comic dialogues, just scrolling through Douyin, if you are not miserable, that would be a miracle! What have you created? You haven't created anything. No wonder you're not joyful, just listening to sketches.

Do you all know that I am really a manager? I have never liked chaos since I was a child. I manage household chores in an organized manner. And I am also a person who often creates new things, even in household chores, I will invent many new methods. Maybe others already have them, but I don't, so it is a creation for me. If you want to know how many things I have done and how many small inventions I have made, I often come up with some money-saving, effective, and useful good methods. I do household chores super fast, no one can compare, why? I have tricks.

When it comes to management, or when it comes to creation and invention, I can tell you tons of stories. For example, one day a good friend of mine who does the same job as me in another company came to ask me, he said: Do you have this problem? I said: I don't. He said: How come you don't have this problem? I said: I have tricks. Do you know what the problem is? A very simple problem.

They were bidding for a two million dollar project, and selected a company, and then implemented it according to the bidding requirements. But you need to know that it is very difficult to write the requirements clearly, you cannot write them clearly, you cannot write many and not clear. So how did he come up with the requirements? He asked his internal users. The internal users began to write requirements for him, two hundred pages, you cannot see anything even if you read those two hundred pages. Then the bidding process began. He was enduring the pain of being a sandwich between the internal users and the external bidders. Can you all understand what I am saying?

Why? Because the user said: This is not what I want. Then the supplier said: This is what you wrote in the bid. What can you do? He went back to the user and asked: Why did you write it like this? The user said: That's what I thought at the time. Isn't that a divergence? He asked me: How do you do it? How do I do it? I study the user's matter clearly, and I write the bid. I write clearly what I can write clearly, and I say what I cannot write clearly: This is calculated on a per-day basis.

If the bid is not written clearly, it is like the renovation of the house is not written clearly, like: You want anything: “I want this, I don’t want that.” Add money! Add one hundred thousand. Familiar? I want the bricks like this, I don’t want them like that. Add another fifty thousand. I tell you: the merchant is very happy, people are waiting for this time, people have already trapped you. Why do you let people trap you? Are you stupid? So I manage and create many new tricks and new methods. The merchants come to fool me? They don’t come to fool me. Why? They can’t fool me! It’s good enough that I don’t fool them! So naturally there are fewer troubles, and I have less misery. I walk the dog after work, and I am happy, and then I go to church to serve.

So I invent many methods, and they also save money. A few days ago, a brother, my colleague, had a swollen foot, and I had a trick. Do you know what trick? An unofficial trick. This unofficial trick cannot be used to make money, it is used to save money. Do you understand? Merchants cannot do this. If I were to be a merchant, I would have to do what they do. I tell you, get a bloodletting needle. Isn’t your foot in pain? And then puncture many small holes, use a cupping jar to pull out the dirty blood. He’s a brother, and the sisters have menstruation, so, you don’t have this, no place to detoxify.

Sisters, you detoxify every month, that is grace. That is God's grace to give you, who let you know good and evil so heavily? So detoxify every month. Brothers have no place to detoxify, I use cupping to detoxify him, apply a little alcohol, take a piece of hand paper towel, and then I use that paper tape. You know, very cheap, a big roll, you can buy a bunch of them. Wrap it, cheap, less than a dollar to fix it. I have a trick, I ask the next day, how is it? Much better. After another day: How is it? Let's prick it again. you can go to the hospital to earn my money? Even those who sell gauze and sell tape can't earn my money! My trick is so powerful, but you can't use this trick to make money, if you use this trick to make money without packaging, then what do the customers do? This is just our internal unofficial trick. I tell you, I have many tricks.

You know the most annoying thing about cleaning the house is that many things have legs, it is difficult to mop the floor if you bump into something with legs, I put all the things in our house on the wall, so it is faster to clean! My time is limited, I have to do the work outside, I have to do the work at home, and then I have to serve God, where do I have the time? My time is created, I am always pondering and studying. So sometimes I find that some brothers and sisters do not have tricks to make money, tricks to save money, but a bunch of tricks to lose money! This really has to change! So, I encourage everyone to make their brains work better. In our own homes, we abandon the superficial things of marketing. So, I created many ways to solve problems. If the problem is solved, can he be miserable? He is no longer miserable. Doing housework, He is also joyful!

The Chinese Mingding Destiny that I founded is actually a creation theology, definitely not a lazy theology. Why? Because we are deeply influenced by the first chapter of Genesis: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. I ask you if the first sentence is important? I tell you, you must know how to read. If you don't know how to read, you turn to the middle, and you must read the beginning and the end carefully. In Go, you need golden corners, silver edges, and grass belly. Don't put a stone in the middle, that will be fatal. So our God is the God who created the heavens and the earth. Today, I am encouraging you to learn to create.

I ask you: Can you see what Sunzi can create? You definitely don't have my trick, I have many tricks! I tell you: Don’t say I look at one, I can take good care of ten for you, and I still have time to cross my legs. Why? I have that kind of creativity of God inside me so the return is very high. Brothers and sisters, do you want to be a creative person? After talking for so long, I just want to motivate you, you must have the desire to be a creative person! Don't just look at the salary, just looking at the salary is not good, you have to have a trick to get that salary. For example, there is a person who earns one thousand, two thousand, or three thousand a month, and now they earn more than ten thousand. You have to have tricks! In the past, they earned three, five, seven, or eight thousand, and now they earn tens of thousands! Before, he was an ordinary small accountant, and now he has become a large accountant. Do you know what small accountants and large accountants do? Small accountants just enter data, and large accountants handle complex accounting issues such as equity.

Chinese Mingding Destiny likes originality, and we like to solve problems. Do you know how many problems Chinese Mingding Destiny has solved? Really too many problems have been solved. So we are not restricted by this kind of tradition. We need to step on the shoulders of others. Our self-created 101 Course was written after many difficulties. Our 201 Course and 301 Course are our originals. I write a lot, and my output is also a lot. Our management concepts and management philosophies are original; our Bible study methods are also original; the software we use, such as project management, decoration concepts, and life matters, are all original.

We do not have this traditional restriction, and even I myself have a little originality every day and every year. The current me is completely different from the me when I was a child. If I was like that when I was a child, can I still be like that today? When I was a child: Mom, I want milk. Now, at several decades old: Mom, I want milk. Pinch your mouth, and that’s called: Drink milk. Mom, I want to eat fried dough twists. Pinch your mouth: This is fried dough twists. What from childhood? There is no from childhood, only creation. Creation brings joy, because people become more and more joyful in growth. Later, I discovered a rule: people cannot live in tradition, people need to live in creation. So we are constantly moving forward on the shoulders of tradition, and then today's things become next year's, and now's things become next year's tradition. We must continue to move forward on this shoulder, although it is difficult to walk, but it is full of joy.

I encourage everyone must be a creative person, every year, every day is full of creation, full of joy. Why create? When I was a child, I suddenly had an idea: I observed people, like my parents, going to work, coming back from work, eating, and then sleeping. Then the next day, going to work, coming back from work, eating, and sleeping. I observed how people live the same way every day? Especially when we were young, every day was definitely the same: cornbread, Chinese cabbage, and large radish, with ash oil inside, you don't even need to think about it, it is definitely the same. Occasionally it is different, so I especially looked forward to the New Year at that time, because I could eat good food. Later, I thought: If people live the same way every day of their lives, one day is enough to live. It's so boring to do this every day! I thought: This is so boring! Today, I try very hard to make every day different, so you will find that my living environment, what I do, every day is different. Every day is improving, every day is upgrading, so it has become the me today, every day is different until now.

After getting to know the Lord and getting to know God, I found a soulmate, because our God is the God of creation. In Jesus Christ, every day is new, is that true? Truly Amen! Every sermon is a creation, every Bible study is a creation. Although I myself like to eat twice-cooked pork, I will definitely not talk about my Bible study to twice-cooked pork. I really like to eat twice-cooked pork, if you invite me to dinner, don't forget to order twice-cooked pork. And what I say is verbatim. Do not think that I can cope with it, I will not cope with it. Although I speak verbatim, and I repeatedly ponder it. I tell you it is very hard, but after speaking, I am particularly joyful, because it is a creation. So people who create with me are infinitely good, infinitely joyful people.

Then someone asked: Teacher, how can I become a creative person? How can I be joyful? Isn’t this being slowly explained? Oh, half an hour has passed, and I have only encouraged everyone, and have not said how to create? How to be joyful? Today, I will talk about a few elements of creation.

II. Scripture

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (Genesis 1:1)

III. Prayer

God! Today, let us live out Your glorious appearance, today, let us become a people pleasing in Your eyes, God! Today, let us receive the power of the Holy Spirit to become a creative person. Let us every day in Jesus Christ be full of creation, let us every day in Jesus Christ be new, God! Today, let us become a new creation, let us come out of traditional concepts, constantly push forward, let us more and more like You, God! Give us faith, give us strength, give us Your Word, let us act according to Your Word, and be able to live out Your glorious image! In the name of Jesus Christ, we declare: The God we believe in will accomplish it for us! In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen!

IV. Scripture Background

I especially like the background of this scripture. Although it is old hat, it is definitely not twice-cooked pork. The background of this scripture was written by Moses. How could Moses know how God created the heavens and the earth in the beginning? Actually, Moses didn’t know, he was not there. So if he wasn’t there, how did he know? Because he spoke with God face to face on the mountain, and God told him. So what did God tell him this thing for? I also think it’s strange. When I read the Bible, I was a little different from others. Why do I have this concept of creation? Because after I finished reading it, I said: God! What are you telling me this thing for? In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth; I can’t go back and verify this either, and I wasn’t there.

Moses should have known, he was on the mountain. It’s just that later people have been missing someone like me, so they don’t have this solution. My way of reading is different. My way of reading: Ah! In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth; what are you telling me this thing for? Then I went to ask God, I said: God! What are you telling me this for? God is too lazy to pay attention to me, but you can’t stop me from having this drive! You rarely see someone with this drive. Why? Because I am full of hope for the word “creation.” I think: “Wow! Creation is good!” Especially in our era, do you say there are many things that have been created? Douyin, WeChat, Alibaba, Taobao, and Pinduoduo were all created, all created by people.

This is a different generation. In the past, a company had to develop slowly. Now companies are like blowing bubbles; they go up to the top 500 in the world after a gust of wind. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. If we want to know later, we are talking about how God created the heavens and the earth. In the future, when you write articles, you have to write like this: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Next, what are you talking about? Talk about how God created it? It turns out that we humans are created in God's image, so we create the same way God creates. This is the answer God gave us.

After seeking and seeking, I discovered that the data I read before seemed to be not quite right. Why is it not quite right? They are just talking about God’s creation, what are they talking about that thing for? There is an English word called “For Your Information,” can someone help me translate it? What does “For Your Information” mean? The abbreviation is FYI. When you send an email, there are a lot of things, and then you write in front: FYI, it means to let you know. If I know everything, it becomes a full-time job. It is just to let you know, there is no other meaning. That’s called “For Your Information.” Then I said: “What are you telling me about this thing for? It doesn’t have much to do with me.”

Later, I discovered that its relationship is big, because there is a paragraph later: What God created is given to Adam and Eve to manage. That is to say, today God still carries His will, that what He created will be handed over to us to manage. How do you manage? If it is still in the farming era, that would be fatal today! Every day, you are toiling hard, there is no creation, but modern people have created a series of tools, and farmers have become modernized farmers. In the past, 90% of farmers supported 10% of the people, and now 2% of farmers support 98% of the people. Is that amazing? Amazing! Modernization is amazing, all created by people.

Adam was managing in the Garden of Eden. It should have been very hard in the beginning, but God left him a space to learn to create, to learn to create many tools, to create many things that can manage the entire place in an orderly manner, and it is not hard. If Adam faces the yellow earth...

So, what I want you to know today is what you should manage? Chaos. When God created the world, it was empty and chaotic, and then God created. If you are facing an empty and chaotic situation, it is an opportunity for creation. As a result, the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and an empty, chaotic, and disorderly situation became an orderly situation. Ah, it is really good!

You enter a room and see that the child's room is very messy. You say, Child, clean it up. The child says, I won't clean it up. You say, Why? The child says, Chaos is good. It's not messy. I don't think it's messy. You say, Why? The child says, It's chaotic, but I can find things quickly. When his mother came to me and told me about this, I said that his logic barely works for himself. But if every employee in a company is like this, it is easy for you to find things, because you hide a certain tool in a corner, and others cannot find it, but you can find it easily. Can a company be managed like this? That kind of thing is petty. That is not management, that is chaos.

So when you see something chaotic, you need to know what is behind it. Later, in my ministry, I discovered that those who cannot create see a lot of work when they look at things. They think, How can I do so much work? Then they procrastinate, and the environment becomes chaotic. It is natural for it to become chaotic, but for it to become orderly is the effect of management!

So, I want to tell you the background of this passage. When Moses wrote it, I felt it was particularly good. Fortunately, he wrote it for people like us today, so that we can become creative people. I tell you, creation will definitely become orderly, and only order can bring joy. Chaos cannot bring joy. Therefore, in my ministry, I have found that those who are sick and have many illnesses often have very dirty and chaotic homes. Do you understand now? If you do, tidy up your home environment. If you see your son making a mess and not tidying things up, it means he has not learned to manage since he was a child. How can he possibly be successful in the future? You say, He thinks he will be successful. Then let him slowly become successful.

V. Chaos is the Beginning of Creation

You know, I have a bit of a cleanliness habit. When I see something messy, I get upset. If you are upset, can you be joyful? When you see chaos, you are not joyful. I tell you, when things are chaotic, the overall efficiency is very low.

Do you know what administrative management is? It is to organize the company's finances, accounts, people, and organization in an orderly manner. To organize the company's assets, objects, and items in an orderly manner. This is the most basic administrative management. In other words, administrative management does not involve any strategy. So, administrative management and strategic management are two different things. You manage your strategy, and strategy manages the future. Administration manages the present and the past, and must not be chaotic.

So, today you know that if you see chaos, what should you do? If you clean it up, it gets dirty again. If you clean it up, it gets dirty again, and you get even more upset. You need to find out where the problem is. When you find a solution, that is called creation. You find a solution because you didn't know there was a solution before, but now you have a new solution that works. After you clean it up, it will no longer be chaotic.

Therefore, in corporate management, what should be established? A process should be established. This process is set up for people, and people should operate according to the process, with standard operating procedures. This is to clean up the basic things. So, do you know today? Seeing chaos is an opportunity for creation, the beginning of creation. When you see chaos in the church, you know that it lacks management, lacks a state of creation, and that is the beginning of creation. When I began to observe the confusion among Christians and see the problems in churches today, I tell you, I have collected a lot of information.

When I worked in a company, I saw the problems in the company. Some of them were within my responsibility, and some were not. For those that were not within my responsibility, I wrote them down. Then you know what? I thought about how to deal with the problems. If I were in charge, how would I do it? I tell you, I secretly learned a lot of things. That is all creation. If it was within my responsibility, I would do it. Everything I did, I did cleanly.

Therefore, when I saw the problems in the church and the confusion among Christians, I wrote them down. After I wrote them down, I did a lot of research, and the research led to creation. As a result, the Chinese Mingding Destiny was founded. The Chinese Mingding Destiny is specifically designed to solve all kinds of chaos. It can not only explain the root causes of these problems, but also solve them.

So, how can people be joyful if problems are not solved? Chaos and a complete mess. Chaos and children crying. I tell you, everyone is upset. Why? Because they lack solutions. You need to have tricks. I have many tricks. If you want to deal with your child, come to me and I will show you how to do it.

One day, I went to someone's house because he had a fractured leg. After I prayed for him, his fracture was completely healed. He was very happy and wanted to invite me to dinner, so I went to his house. As a result, the child was crying, running around, making noise, and jumping. It was impossible to talk in that house because the child was crying so loudly. The family members said, Shut up, shut up. I guess there are many people among us who do this, right? Shut up. Are there any? Yes. As a result, when you shout Shut up, the child cries even louder. I saw the adults were sweating profusely, and I laughed. Then I said, Get out of the way, let me handle it. After I handled it, the child hugged my neck and was very affectionate with me. You need to have tricks.

Where do the tricks come from? They come from research. What is research? It is slowly thinking about it. What is the problem? So, I don't want to explain the confusing problems in the church today because there are so many. Think about it, when people are in chaos, they are just upset. Can they joyful? Chaos cannot bring joy. However, once chaos is the beginning of creation, and you have already seen the orderly situation in the future through this chaos, you will feel better and have hope. Then you start to solve the problem. In fact, there are too many problems we need to solve today. We are still solving them and need more creation. Can our brothers and sisters be raised up to solve more confusing problems?

For example, problems with children, problems with children's education, and problems with professional work. Some people are getting old, eating a lot, but can't do anything. Isn't that a waste of life? What about the small business owners among us? How can small business owners do well in their business? How can they manage their employees well? These are all urgent problems that need to be solved. Many people don't even know whether they are making money or losing money when they do things, which is even more serious. The trash in our minds, our negative emotions of complaining, laziness, and a series of problems need to be solved.

So you say, we are just the beginning. The Chinese Mingding Destiny is just the beginning. What follows is the era of creation, and what follows is an era of Christian transformation. The transformation of Christianity is no longer limited to singing songs in church. Christianity is definitely not about setting up a big pot in the church and cooking some food for everyone to eat. The service of Christianity is definitely not about standing at the door and saying, Jesus loves you, when someone comes in. What is that called? I don't know what that is called. From now on, we will redefine the Christian faith and transform all brothers and sisters into creative people. If you have grandchildren, you need creativity to take care of them. You also need creativity to take care of your sons. We have too many problems.

VI. Letting the Spirit of God Move is the Key to Creation

Yesterday, a pastor told me that he had been praying in the Spirit less lately. Later, I thought, Yeah, I agree. But what is the problem? A Christian faith should not only focus on understanding, but also on spirituality. It should not only focus on spirituality, but also on understanding. So, what should we do? We should pray in the Spirit and also pray with understanding. We should sing with understanding and also sing in the Spirit. We should sing in the Spirit and also sing with understanding.

So, do you know that the Spirit of God moving is the key to creation? In fact, this is not difficult to understand. You know, many times when I face a dilemma and there is no solution, what I lack most is inspiration. What can you do without inspiration? It is very difficult without inspiration. You can't figure anything out with your little brain. It is useless to hold it in. You need inspiration. The Chinese invented the word 灵 (líng) which is so good. A person is flexible (灵活 - líng huó), a person has spirit (灵气 - líng qì), a person is clever (机灵 - jī líng). Look at how well this is said. I tell you, after a person dies, it is called 守灵 (shǒu líng - guarding the spirit). The spirit seems to be closely related to the spiritual realm.

If you read 聊斋志异 (Liáo Zhāi Zhì Yì - Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio) a lot, you will find many ghosts and gods in the spirit realm. So, where does this spirituality come from? The combination of a person's spirit and God's Spirit directly brings creativity. Think about it, what starts after a person knows that the Spirit of God is moving? Creation begins. Think about it, if all of us are cultivators, kneeling until our knees are calloused, and being filled with the Holy Spirit every day, but not creating anything, is that the Holy Spirit? It probably doesn't seem like the Holy Spirit.

I think everyone needs to re-establish a new concept today, that the Holy Spirit is moving there, doing what? Creating. The Holy Spirit is moving in us, doing what? Creating. So, you and I can be joyful when we become creative people, and the Spirit of God will be satisfied. Therefore, the spirit of religion makes people kneel there and pray, pray, pray... No one knows what they are doing. I don't know what they are doing, and I don't understand it very well.

If you go to the deep mountains and build a house to cultivate yourself, that's good. Is that the Christian faith? So, don't engage in these false peace and joy anymore. It is useless if you do not separate from the work of the Holy Spirit, from the creative work of the Holy Spirit. The so-called false peace and joy are of no benefit. Many confusions in Christianity today are closely related to this.

Therefore, praying in the Holy Spirit, praying in tongues a lot, I tell you, is to obtain God's revelation. If you ask me how the Chinese Mingding Destiny came about, it is because I spent a lot of time kneeling there and praying in tongues. But I tell you, I was not just kneeling there and praying in tongues. I was carrying many things that I wanted to ask God in my heart.

For example, I didn't understand the first chapter of Genesis, and I admitted that I didn't understand it. I read the materials, and I wasn't satisfied. I wanted to re-create a new interpretation of the first chapter of Genesis, so I prayed and asked God there. After two weeks, God's revelation came, so real. I tell you, even if you beat me to death, I couldn't come up with these things. It wasn't thought out, it was God's revelation.

God said that you were created in my image, so you must become a creative person. Look at how well this is said. Then, you must let the Spirit of God move, and you will create. I said, Can't I create the universe? God said, It doesn't matter, you often face empty and chaotic situations. Let my Spirit move, and you will see creation. The power of creation will come upon you. It's wonderful. So, why is this? Because the Spirit of God moving is a useful formula today, and it is very useful today.

After I received this revelation, I tried it every time and it worked. A lot of praying in tongues. Therefore, the Apostle Paul prayed in tongues more than all of us, so he was very powerful. It doesn't delay time. After our God created this, you will find something very magical. Jesus did not establish a church on earth. Jesus preached for three and a half years, was crucified on the cross, and left, it was over. Was it really over? No.

As a result, He gave the promised Holy Spirit to establish the church of God, to establish the body of Jesus Christ. Do you understand? It turns out that God's creation is so perfect that He even left a part for us to do. God wants to work with us. The Spirit of God will come upon us, and we will fulfill God's good will and become creative people. I tell you, it is infinitely good. If you are a grandmother, it is good to hold your child and pray in tongues. But think about how to raise this child to grow up and become an adult. Is that okay?

VII. Speaking Out is the Key to Creation

Do you know how important our mouths are? Do you know if our mouths are important? Our mouths are very important. Think about it, what is the most work that a business manager does? The most work he does is to command people: You do this, you do that. The most work he does is to plan things well and then arrange them. Do you understand? In other words, speaking out is a very important thing. You say, Why is speaking out so important? Because the Spirit of God is moving. Because the Spirit of God makes things happen, not people, but the Spirit of God. It is by the Spirit of God that things can be accomplished.

So I think everyone can try it constantly today. Think about it, some people pray like this, they meditate silently. I once attended a prayer meeting that choked me to death. Do you know how choking it was? Everyone was kneeling there, and then they were all lying on the table. Some people were lying on the ground, and there was no sound. Everyone was praying silently. So I also prayed silently there. After I prayed silently, I took a small nap. The small nap was also good, and then do you know what happened? It felt like there was no energy. Think about it, whether it is good or bad things in this world, they are closely related to this person's mouth.

You must know that Hitler was a very outstanding orator, and then he stood on the stage and raised his arm, and Germany launched World War II. The Germans followed Hitler completely. Why? Because Hitler could speak. So today I am giving a negative example. No matter what he is, you must know that you are a manager, you must speak out. Whether it is praying or doing things, you must speak out. Because God created in this way.

Okay, I think our brothers and sisters can try it. Especially when you want to give up, you start to speak out, and it seems that you have the strength to be lifted up, and your faith will be lifted up. When our mouths begin to declare, I tell you, things will happen in the spiritual realm. It turns out that the things in the world are just a shadow of the things that are accomplished in the spiritual realm. If we do not know that the material world is a shadow of the spiritual realm, then you cannot understand that when God speaks, things are accomplished. So I am very clear about how important it is for people to speak out.

So from now on, brothers and sisters, you must gradually understand that God creates in this way. We learn from the model, we learn from the way, and we can learn. Okay, today I would like to give you an example of our speaking out: When I was doing the 101 course, I consulted a lot of materials, and then I prayed every day. I tell you, every day was an extremely painful torment. Why? Because the things in my head were very chaotic. I wrote a draft and threw it away, and then I wrote another draft and threw it away. In the end, it didn't look right.

Then I walked back and forth in my office. When some of my colleagues saw me walking back and forth, they asked: Teacher, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell? I said: It's a mess! It's chaotic inside! As a result, what happened? As a result, I began to declare. I spoke out and declared, and suddenly the first lesson of 101: The spiritual realm is real, and then the grace that God had prepared, the faith, blessings, and curses to receive grace, and the most critical main line was established.

So I thought that after I finished it, I could relax for a while. After a while, I started to write the 201 course. When I was writing the 201 course, wow! This time it was even more painful. Wow! Extremely painful, why? Some people said: Aren't you happy? But happy is happy, it's so happy. Ah, I was suffocating, walking around there every day. After three months of this, because I was not satisfied with what others wrote, I wrote my own set of 201 courses. How to study the Bible? How to do healing and deliverance? How to preach the gospel with destiny? Look at what I did, and it looks very neat, very clean, and very orderly.

When I was doing the 301 course, the 301 course is not yet public, because it is related to the pastoral care of the church. Later, I did the 301 course, which talked about the pastoral care of the church. All of these are creative processes. All of these things are closely related to my speaking out. Then you say, what if a farmer does other things? I tell you, creation always starts from inspiration. When you start to declare with your mouth, your faith will be boosted. When your faith is boosted, your whole spirit will begin to have power, and you will become a creative person.

VIII. Persevere and Endure Until Things Are Accomplished

Everyone, do not think that those things I did came out with a breath of air. Everyone, do not think that those things I did were particularly easy, and I could just spout them out. There is no such thing at all, it has nothing to do with that. I have to tell you, it doesn't matter what you think. The key is whether you can understand what God is doing. It doesn't matter how you understand it. The most important thing is that you have to know what God is doing. In fact, God has already prepared the result for us. Accomplishment is what God will surely accomplish for us, but the problem is that we have to know what God is doing: God wants to mold our character, God wants our faith to be exercised, and our character to be molded, molded into a character that does not give up.

Faith is perseverance, perseverance is faith. In fact, patience itself is faith. Faith without patience is not faith at all. Why are Christians lazy? They always want to get it all at once. They don't want to go through this series of hardships, they just want to pick the fruit. They just want to say: I don't want to do anything. There is no such thing. I actually admire our God very much. Our God has been patient with us until now. But our God saw the future in faith, that His people will enter into His glory in the future. If you can persevere, that is called faith. If you can persevere, you can do it.

IX. Creation Needs to Be Divided into Stages and Levels

If you discover God's creation, He said what He created on the first day, and after He created it, did it look good? No. What did He create on the second day, and what did He create on the third day? What did He create on the fourth day? You will find that God did not lump all things together and do them in one day. The whole thing is actually divided into stages, levels, and steps. This is actually an engineer's training. Everyone should know that if you are not an engineer, I feel a little regret. Sometimes I listen online, and there are those who have a background in philosophy or literature who are preachers, and those who have an engineering background who are preachers, and I feel that they are not the same. What they talk about lacks this kind of engineer's level training.

You will find that software development needs to be divided into levels. You will find that a machine, as long as you can make something, don't think it's creativity, it's not. It's not creativity, it's creation! If you can make things, it must be in line with the engineer's thinking. Our God is an engineer. Our God is not a philosopher or an empty talker. Our God is an engineer. So today everyone must begin to accept the training of engineers. Today, brothers and sisters, I think we will bring many graces to our brothers and sisters.

Yesterday I listened to a colleague share with me that one of our children learned a lot of IT things from us. He stopped going to school and came to us to learn IT things. After he returned to school, he became very powerful. All of his teachers had a very good relationship with him and liked him very much. They let him be the assistant of that subject. Why? Because he is good at computers. The computer skills he learned with us are very useful. That is, everyone should know that it is divided into levels and stages, and then what is the specific goal of each level? Do it by level. This is the basic process for an engineer to create something. So I think God's creation is really interesting, and God's creation really gives us many revelations.

X. Creation Also Needs Rest

You must know that in the process of creation, each stage needs to be constantly abstracted, summarized, generalized, and organized. That thing must be quiet down, you can’t be busy doing this and that like a headless fly. So the seventh day rested, why did you rest? Because at this time you can sort out the theory in your mind. If you can grasp the theoretical concepts I talked about today, you really need to rest, and you can't be busy like a headless fly. It’s useless to be busy like a headless chicken. The Chinese call it a headless chicken, and the English call it a headless fly. But whether it is a headless chicken or a headless fly, it is a state of being busy and chaotic.

So brothers and sisters, start to rethink whether the new year is a year of panic and chaos, or a year of re-abstracting, summarizing, generalizing, and organizing what you do? This rest is very important, and rest plays a very important role in creation. I hope that brothers and sisters can become creative people because of today's sharing.

Okay, let's sing a hymn and prepare to receive today's offering. After the offering, we will have a Q&A session. If you do not understand the meaning of the offering, please do not offer. Brothers and sisters must know that offering is the beginning of being blessed, but if a Christian is full of thoughts of being blessed, you are in trouble. You better want to live out the glorious image of God. It is not good for a person to lack. Why is there a lack? It is because you lack in your heart. Why does God want us to offer? It is not that God needs our money. It is that God needs to train us to become a person who gives. Okay, brothers and sisters, let's start reshaping ourselves today, reshaping ourselves into a rich person and a creative person. Can you understand what I am talking about?

If you do not understand the meaning of the offering, do not offer it, because you will be cursed after the offering. If you think that you offer it because God lacks money, because the church lacks money, you are...