Fellowship From the Brother Above – February 2, 2026 (Part Seven)

Question 14: Our goal is to cultivate new believers so they can independently undertake work, but when we follow up on their work more closely, they say they feel a lot of pressure. I’d like to ask: In the process of cultivating new believers, how can we strike the right balance so that we can cultivate them as quickly as possible without making them feel too much pressure?

Answer: If you feel pressure in your duty, how do you relieve it? (By understanding the truth.) Once you understand the truth, do you still feel pressure? (No.) Once you understand the truth, there is no more pressure. Look, was there pressure on Noah when he built the ark? (Since he bore a burden, he didn’t feel any pressure.) Noah didn’t feel much pressure. If he had felt any pressure, the ark would not have been built. When people bear a burden in their duty, they feel no pressure; if they don’t bear a burden, they feel pressure. It’s like a man who wants to get married and so needs to buy a house and a car—all of this requires money. Does he feel pressure? (Yes.) Then what should he do? He has to work two or three jobs to earn more money. Is he tired from working two or three jobs? (He is.) Some people don’t feel tired because they bear a burden; because he’s doing it to get married, no matter how great the pressure is, he doesn’t feel it. When someone bears a great burden, all pressure disappears. Is that not how it is? (It is.) Tell me, with so much work to do in the church, do I feel pressure? (Since you bear a burden, brother, you feel no pressure.) I just feel that all problems can be resolved. Work must be done step by step, and fellowship on any topic must be given step by step. I simply pray to God, rely on Him, and keep at the work without stopping. Gradually, the problems are all resolved. When God’s house first started making movies, I also felt a lot of pressure. I didn’t know how to make movies, nor had I studied filmmaking or screenwriting. What was I to do? I prayed to and relied on God and looked for talented people in these fields. I quickly found people who could write scripts or make movies and had them cooperate. After they wrote the scripts, I helped to review and revise them. Although I didn’t understand it and couldn’t write scripts well at the start, I knew how to fellowship on the truth principles. Everyone just cooperated in this way, and the Holy Spirit also constantly worked and led us, so the movies got better and better. Later, God personally guided the making of several movies: The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything, My Belated Testimony, and My Pastor Husband and I. The scripts for these films were written directly by God, and they were filmed under His personal guidance. Later, when they were taken to Christian film festivals, the directors and producers there praised them, saying, “These are God-given works! These movies are from God; without God’s guidance, no one could make movies like these.” These works were all personally guided by God. Is this not God working directly? Are these not God-given works? Then, tell me, is all this work in God’s house not being done by God Himself? Is the Holy Spirit not guiding it? (It is.) Therefore, with God nothing is impossible. As long as you have this faith, constantly pray to Him, and strive to cooperate with Him, your work will get better and better, and your path will become brighter and brighter. By the time God’s work ends, all those who have done their duty and followed God with all their might—and all those who love and pursue the truth—will have gained the truth and been perfected by Him. Look—don’t those who do their duty sincerely make gains? (Yes.) It’s just like in the New Year’s showcase—everyone who participated in the program had an experience, and said, “We have seen God in our duty. When we pray to Almighty God, He helps us and gives us strength. God is right by our side. He really is the true and living God!” You see, they made such great gains from merely rehearsing for the program, and their duty is only just beginning. If a person can do their duty every day for years on end—if they can persist in doing their duty for three, five, or ten years—how great will their gains be? They will be immeasurable. Therefore, remember this: The process of doing your duty is the process of being perfected by God. Tell me, how am I able to resolve problems by fellowshipping on the truth? Mainly, through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, along with a bit of practical cooperation on my part; this is how I’ve been training over all these years and made many gains. It won’t work if you don’t train or pay a price—you won’t be able to obtain the work of the Holy Spirit. In the past, when I fellowshipped on the truth in gatherings, I could fellowship for twelve hours without even needing to drink water. I held gatherings like that every day and wasn’t tired at all. Why was that? When someone has the Holy Spirit’s work, they don’t feel tired, and they always have endless things to say. Some people listened to my preaching for over two weeks and said, “How is it that your sermons are fresh every day and you never repeat yourself? What’s going on?” This is the Holy Spirit’s work; this is how the Holy Spirit works when He uses a person. I fellowship what the Holy Spirit enlightens me with—do the listeners benefit? (Yes.) Then, someone asked, “With the Holy Spirit working on you like this, what do you yourself gain?” My heart also benefits; I am the first to benefit. The Holy Spirit enlightens me first and then uses me to fellowship it out, so I gain a lot! It is the same for you in your duty: If you have the Holy Spirit’s enlightenment and guidance, the more you experience, the more you will gain. In what areas will you gain more? In your knowledge of the Holy Spirit’s work, God’s words, and God’s work. When you gain more and more knowledge of the Holy Spirit’s work and more and more knowledge of God’s words and the truths He expresses, will you not come to know God? The process of believing in God is the process of coming to know God. The ultimate goal of believing in God is to know God and to achieve submission to and worship of Him. If you do not know God, then when you say you can submit to and worship Him, it is just empty words. Therefore, doing your duty is the process of enjoying God’s work and knowing Him. If you do not do your duty, you will gain nothing. Doing your duty is so precious! Doing your duty isn’t just about exerting some effort to repay God’s love; the most important thing is that you can enjoy God’s work and the Holy Spirit’s enlightenment and guidance, and that in the end, you can understand many truths and have knowledge of God. Then, your duty will achieve the result of bearing witness to God, and you will become someone who follows God’s will—is this not being perfected by God? (Yes.) What result is achieved by being perfected by God? When Peter was perfected by God in the past, God said that among the saints of all ages, Peter was the person with the most knowledge of God. This is the result achieved by being perfected. If you follow God but never do your duty, can you achieve such a result? (No.) Therefore, no matter what suffering you endure in doing your duty, you will find enjoyment and make gains during this process. These are things you gain through the work and enlightenment of the Holy Spirit. You will gradually realize, “How is it that the more I fellowship on the truth to resolve problems, the clearer the truth becomes to me? Through fellowshipping on the truth to resolve problems, the Holy Spirit enlightens and guides me, and I understand more of the truth; I now understand truths that I didn’t understand before.” You see, being used by the Holy Spirit or having the Holy Spirit’s work in your duty is a good opportunity to gain the truth and a good opportunity to be perfected by God. Therefore, no matter how much you suffer in your duty, it is a good thing; the more you suffer, the more you gain. Tell me, can a person work themselves to death by doing their duty? (No.) Not a single person has ever died from exhaustion by doing their duty. Look at me; I’ve been doing my duty for all these years—has exhaustion caused me any problems? (No.) You have listened to me preach; I can speak for as many hours as you can sit. What does this show? When someone has the Holy Spirit’s work, they don’t feel tired! This isn’t like doing manual labor in the nonbelieving world, where you get tired after working for a bit. This is serving God, this is doing your duty, and when someone has the Holy Spirit’s work, they don’t feel tired. Have you experienced this? With the Holy Spirit’s work and guidance, you don’t feel tired. If you don’t have the Holy Spirit’s work and you just try to do it on your own, it is truly exhausting and fatiguing! Therefore, when we do our duty, we must pray to God in our hearts and have a heart that is willing to expend itself for God, a heart that repays God’s love, a heart that wants to satisfy God, and a heart that submits to God. Then, the Holy Spirit will work and guide us, and we won’t feel tired doing our duty. When our heart is in the right place, we won’t be tired. It’s just like when parents busy themselves earning money to provide for their children—do they feel tired? They aren’t tired at all; they do it willingly and even enjoy it. Why do they enjoy it? Because they’re counting on their children to care for them in their old age, and so they don’t feel tired from doing anything for their children. So will we, as created beings, feel tired in doing our duty to repay God’s love? Anyone who has a conscience won’t feel tired. They believe, “It is only right for created beings to expend themselves for God. Even if a person had ten lives, they should expend them all for God—given that we only have this one life, how much more necessary is it to expend it for God! We must cherish this opportunity and wholeheartedly expend ourselves and live for God.” Therefore, as created beings, we must live for God once. Stop living for yourselves and for the enjoyments of the flesh. This is something that anyone with a conscience can do.

Question 15: Some newly elected leaders and workers are able to do some work, but they have a weaker comprehension of work arrangements or various work principles. Sometimes, it is very difficult to implement a task for them, and it doesn’t achieve good results. In the end, we still have to implement it for the brothers and sisters ourselves, but we worry that by doing this, these new believers won’t get a chance to train. What is the appropriate way to practice in such a situation?

Answer: Cultivating people to do their duty sometimes requires giving them opportunities to train. Once you’ve fellowshipped the principles of doing church work with the leaders and workers, you must let them train. You could say, “It’s your turn to host the gathering this time. Did you understand the principles we just fellowshipped?” If they say they did, then get them to host the gathering according to those principles. After they’ve trained once, ask them, “How did you feel about hosting the gathering this time? Were there any inadequacies or shortcomings?” If they haven’t noticed any, then point out what you saw. Tell them what their strengths and weaknesses as a host were that time. The next time they train in hosting, they will be able to consciously correct their weaknesses and continue to give play to their strengths. They will have made some more progress, and gradually, they will get better and better at hosting gatherings. So, you must give people opportunities to train. After fellowshipping on the principles, get people to train and put them into practice themselves. How does that sound? (Good.) Following a period of repeated fellowship, training, and guidance, and as they train more, they will gradually become able to work independently, and you will no longer need to worry about them. If, no matter how you fellowship with or guide them, they simply cannot learn, this shows that their caliber is too poor and they are not suited to this duty. In that case, arrange for them to do whatever duty they are suited for. If you can’t teach them no matter how hard you try and you always have to help them do their work, then who is going to fulfill your own primary remit? Always helping them do their work is not the way to resolve the problem. Therefore, anyone who cannot learn how to do the work regardless of the fellowship, training, and guidance they’ve been given is not fit to be a leader, and must be dismissed and reassigned.

Question 16: Some leaders and workers are mainstays of the gospel work, but they have jobs and cannot do their duty full-time. They already have little time to preach the gospel, and if they then have to follow up on church work, the results of the gospel work might decline. I’d like to seek fellowship on how to help them learn to do the work and set clear priorities.

Answer: There aren’t many people who can do their duty full-time right now, so you have to choose some people who do their duty in their spare time to take on the work. But people who do their duty in their spare time have limited time, so how they should arrange their work depends on their caliber. Based on their individual caliber, arrange for them to do whatever duty and work they are suited for in their spare time. You cannot place overly high requirements on people in this regard, and you cannot ask too much of them. Currently, they can only do their duty in their spare time; would it be appropriate to require them to achieve the same results as someone who does their duty full-time? (No, it wouldn’t.) Doing their duty in their spare time means that, after all, their time is limited, so the results of their work will also be limited. Some people only have three or four hours a day to do their duty. To ask them to complete a full day’s workload in that time is lacking in reason—it is asking too much of them! You must not ask too much of people. However, you can find ways to help them achieve good results while doing their work in a short amount of time. That requires fellowshipping the truth principles with them so that they understand the truth, which will allow them to resolve problems faster and improve their efficiency at doing their duty. In this way, although they do not spend a long time doing their duty, they will get pretty good results. For example, some people can only resolve two problems in a two-hour gathering, but others can resolve ten problems in the same amount of time. Tell me, which person is more efficient in doing their duty? (The one who resolves ten problems is more efficient.) They resolve ten problems in just two hours. They don’t speak much, but they are clear, concise, and to the point, so that after people listen to them, they are left with a clear understanding. Such a person is efficient in doing their duty. Some people only gain one person after a month of preaching the gospel, but others can gain one person in three to five days. That is being efficient. So why are they so efficient? It is because they have thoroughly explained the most crucial issues. Once a potential gospel recipient has clearly understood the most crucial issues and has clarity in their heart, then they won’t be misled when they hear any heresies, fallacies, or negative propaganda. They will think, “Those are all false—they are all baseless rumors. I have already become certain that Almighty God is the Lord Jesus returned.” Once they have become certain about God, no negative propaganda or baseless rumors can knock them down. You see, if a person can grasp what is key when they do their work, they will quickly achieve results in doing their duty. This is achieving twice the result with half the effort. So, for those who can only do their duty in their spare time, you just need to cultivate them by helping them achieve good results in a short amount of time. Don’t ask them to put more time into doing their duty; that would be asking the impossible. If someone says they only have a little time to do their duty—say, only two and a half hours a day—then you must ponder how they can achieve good results and resolve problems more thoroughly in those two and a half hours. You must put effort into this key point. In this way, although they only do their duty in their spare time, the results they achieve will not be inferior to those of a person with average caliber who does their duty full-time. If they can achieve these results, that is enough. What do you think of doing the work in this way? (It’s good.) Even though they don’t spend that much time on doing their duty, if they have good caliber and speak clearly and to the point, they will be able to resolve a problem with just a few words. Therefore, the results achieved by a person of good caliber in two hours of doing their duty are similar to the results a person of average caliber achieves in a whole day. If we were to calculate it in terms of wages, the work done by a person of good caliber would be more valuable. They could earn two hundred dollars for two hours of work, while someone else would earn the same amount only after a full day of work. The value of the latter person is much lower than that of the person of good caliber. So, you must train people to know how to do their duty well when they don’t have much time. Do you understand? (Yes.)

What should be done, then, to get more brothers and sisters to rise up and do their duty? It depends on how your watering work is going. If, through prayer, you obtain the work of the Holy Spirit and within three months of watering new believers, they are clear when it comes to visions and are willing to forsake everything to do their duty, then it shows that you have watered them well. If you’ve been watering someone for a year and they still have no energy, or are negative and unwilling to do their duty, then it shows that you haven’t watered them well. If leaders and workers do not understand the truth, their work efficiency will be very low and the results they achieve will be very limited. It’s the same as it is with teachers: If the teacher is bad, the college admission rate of their students will be low, but if the teacher is good, the college admission rate of their students will be high, and most of their students will get into university. What if most people in a church are negative and weak and unwilling to do their duty, and the leaders and workers cannot resolve this themselves? They must find a way! If you do not have the truth reality yourself and cannot achieve good results in watering the brothers and sisters, then you must find someone who has the truth reality and who is effective at watering to hold a gathering and water them. After such a person waters them once, everyone’s enthusiasm for doing their duty will increase a little. After they water them again, their enthusiasm will grow even more. Through constant watering in this way, new believers will gradually be watered successfully. You must find ways to do the work like this. If you are not capable yourself, then look for someone to cooperate with you or help you. Or you can get the brothers and sisters to watch more movies, experiential testimony videos, hymn videos, dance videos, and so on from God’s house. You must use any means that can inspire and motivate people. In the end, this will inspire the enthusiasm of most people in the church. Once they understand the truth, they will be willing to expend themselves for God and offer themselves up. Thus, more and more people in the church will do a duty, and more and more people will be willing to preach the gospel. If you can achieve these results through your work, does it not mean that you’ve successfully watered these people? This is the result achieved by watering people with the truth. If you do not know how to water people with the truth when doing watering work, the brothers and sisters will shrivel up like seedlings in a drought and will not bear even the slightest burden in their duty. This is a failure to water them well. If you are able to water people with the truth and water the brothers and sisters well, so that they understand the truth, then they will be enthusiastic about expending themselves for God. After every gathering, they will be fired up and eager to go, having the resolve to offer themselves up and voluntarily forsake everything to expend themselves for God. I tell you, if you truly water people well, their drive to forsake things and expend themselves for God will be so great that you won’t even be able to restrain them. Some people won’t even need you to say anything; they will take the initiative to request to do their duty full-time, and may even give up their jobs, marriages, and families to expend themselves for God. When people understand the truth, they have this kind of great resolve. Therefore, whether the brothers and sisters become more dedicated and careful in doing their duty depends on how you water them. If you pray to God and rely on Him, and God works on you, you will be able to water people well. The better you water them, the more of them will do a duty; the better you water them, the fewer of them will be negative; the better you water them, the greater their enthusiasm will be, the clearer the truth regarding visions will be to them, and the more stable the foundation of their belief in God will be—they will have no more notions and will have an inexhaustible drive to expend themselves for God. When people have the work of the Holy Spirit, they can do the work of the church well, and any kind of work will be no trouble at all for them. Take a look at the pastors and elders of the religious world; what work are they able to accomplish? Can they talk about their life experiential testimony in their gatherings and sermons? (No.) Can they make good movies and videos that testify to God? (No.) The pastors and elders of the religious world do not have the work of the Holy Spirit and cannot accomplish any work. They are all Pharisees. In their gatherings, they just spout words and doctrines. When people who believe in the Lord hear these Pharisees spout words and doctrines, can they get the drive to expend themselves for God? It is impossible for them to have that drive. Therefore, the pastors and elders of the religious world cannot accomplish any work at all! But today, we do the work of the church with the guidance of God’s words and the work of the Holy Spirit. No matter what the problem is, it can be resolved as long as we pray, rely on God, and seek the truth. You must have this faith.