my mother shared Almighty God's gospel of the last days with me.

I started reading God's words every day

and I often gathered and fellowshiped on God's words with others.

I remember a passage of Almighty God's words I read in my devotionals one day.

I saw clearly from God's words

that God created mankind and all I have has come from Him.

I should repay His love and do the duty of a created being.

Thank God!

So, I started sharing the gospel with people I knew.

One day, in December 2012,

I was illegally detained by the police for preaching the gospel

and held for 14 days for "disrupting social order."

My parents and husband came to visit me

at the detention center on my seventh day there.

When I walked into the visiting room,

I saw my mom and dad standing there waiting

and my husband holding our 1-year-old son.

Tears started welling up in my eyes when I saw them all there.

I greeted my parents quietly,

then I rushed over to my husband and took the baby from him.

I felt so sad at that moment.

We'd all been together as a family,

but then I was illegally detained by the Chinese Communist Party out of nowhere

just for having faith and sharing the gospel.

Now I was seeing my family in a detention center.

My husband said,

"I told my troop leader what happened after I found out about your arrest

and they said that you should give up your faith.

You're a college graduate, you have an education.

Your future will be ruined if you keep believing in God!

They also said that if you don't give it up,

I'll be kicked out of the Party and the military.

I'll even lose my job transition bonus next year!

I can disregard all of that,

but you really have to think of your son and the family.

It won't be like this if you end up getting arrested again.

You'll be sentenced to prison, and then what will happen to our son?

He'll never get into university, be a civil servant, or join the military.

How will he find a place for himself in society?

Is he going to have to live in shame forever?"

Hearing him say this left me feeling even more upset.

My heart ached as I held my son, and I thought,

"If I really do end up in prison someday,

could my son grow up healthy

without his mother by his side and from such a young age?

Would he be laughed at and discriminated against?

If my husband does get kicked out of the Party and the army,

then his future is shot."

I just couldn't bear to think of it anymore.

I choked back my sobs and didn't say a word.

Seeing I wasn't saying anything, my husband said angrily,

"Our leader said

that if you don't promise to give up your faith, I should get a divorce.

You have to make a choice!"

When I still didn't say a word,

he took our son back and stormed out.

I felt like a knife had been put through my heart

and I couldn't hold my tears back any longer.

On my way back to my cell, I felt puzzled.

I wondered why would my husband have told his leader about my arrest so quickly.

It made absolutely no sense!

He knew that wouldn't help me or him in any way.

Why did he share everything so freely?

Right.

I gave it some thought,

and felt he must be covering his own bases.

When this occurred to me, I really didn't even want to accept it.

I was really suffering.

I couldn't help but think

that faith in God is right and completely natural, there's nothing criminal about it.

When believers get together,

we just read God's words, do our duty, share the gospel, and pursue the truth.

Besides, doesn't the national constitution clearly allow freedom of belief?

So why would the Communist Party oppress us so much

and push my husband to divorce me?

I just couldn't make sense of it.

When I got back to my cell,

I shared my confusion with a sister from the Church.

She quietly recited a couple passages of Almighty God's words for me.

Amen!

Then she shared this fellowship:

"In the last days, God has become flesh and come to earth to speak and work.

He expresses truths which cleanse and save mankind,

and those with heart and spirit hear God's voice and turn toward Almighty God.

But the Communist Party is an atheistic party.

It fervently hates God and the truth,

and it's afraid everyone will learn the truth from Almighty God's words,

then they'll follow and bear witness to Christ,

and forsake and reject it.

Then nobody would show support for it anymore

and its wild ambition to keep the Chinese people caged and controlled forever

would be destroyed."

That's right.

"That's why it throws itself into fabricating all sorts of rumors and lies

to slander and condemn Almighty God

and it puts the force of the whole nation

into hunting Christ and persecuting Christians."

Yes.

"It wants to completely wipe out God's work on earth

to protect its own atheistic dictatorship."

She also said

that the CCP claims to allow freedom of belief,

but that's just to cover up its evil persecution of religious beliefs.

It's a tactic to fool the people of the world.

In China, there is no real freedom of belief and no human rights.

Having faith in China

means facing persecution from the Communist Party's satanic regime.

- That's a fact. - It is. Yeah.

After her fellowship,

I could see the Communist Party's evil nature of hating God and the truth more clearly

and I really felt how incredibly evil it is.

I'd been deeply poisoned by its atheistic education since I was little.

I'd always seen the Party as the "great savior" of the people,

and I really adored it.

I believed and did what it said without any reservations.

Now I could see how foolish that was!

I also thought about something my husband said

when I shared the gospel with him.

He said,

"The Central Committee has ordered that The Church of Almighty God be wiped out

and the level of combat readiness in our troop has been elevated to three.

Anyone who believes in Almighty God is seen as an enemy.

And our weekly political lessons we receive in our Communist Party classes

are all about The Church of Almighty God now.

Even though I know that your faith is a good thing,

the Communist Party is in power, and the weak cannot defeat the strong.

What can you do but obey it?"

Thinking about all these things he'd said made me so angry!

The Communist Party is going against Heaven.

It wants to put all of its force against God,

not only treating believers like national criminals, condemning and oppressing them,

but intimidating and inciting the masses to stand on its side.

Even my husband was intimidated and misled.

He didn't know right from wrong and oppressed my faith.

The Communist Party doesn't want anyone to follow God and take the right path,

but to believe in and follow it.

That's evil, despicable, and shameless!

I hated and cursed those Communist demons from my heart!

- They deserve to be cursed. - Yes.

They are really evil.

They were threatening me with my son's and my husband's futures

to get me to betray God.

I knew I couldn't give in to their tricks.

No matter how my husband pressured me,

even if it meant going to prison, I'd keep following God!

Amen!

At night I lay in bed

thinking about all the happy times I'd had with my son.

He was still just a little boy and had a long road ahead of him.

I wondered if my faith would impact his future.

I started to weaken at this thought,

so I silently prayed to God, asking for Him to watch over my heart.

I thought of a passage of God's words after my prayer.

I thought, "That's right.

God rules over all, and my son's fate is in His hands, too.

He has the final say, not any human being."

That's right.

"So what good will worrying do?"

Then I said a silent prayer, entrusting my child to God.

After I did that, I felt so much better, and I wasn't as worried.

Thanks be to God!

That's how I got through my 14 days locked up

thanks to the faith and strength God gave me.

Thank God!

When I was released, my dad drove me home, and my husband sat in the back.

My husband said to me, eyes red from crying,

"The leader's been doing ideological work on me this whole time.

I have to report on you.

They said that if you keep believing in God,

I'll be dismissed unless I divorce you.

This is driving me crazy!

I'm begging you—give this up.

You'll go to prison if you're caught, and our family will be torn apart!"

As he spoke these words to me, I could see that he was crying

and I felt a surge of heartache.

I quickly prayed to God in my heart, asking Him to keep me strong.

Then a passage of God's words came to mind.

I realized it was just one of Satan's tricks.

Satan wanted to use my husband's threat of divorce to push me into betraying God.

I couldn't fall into its trap!

So I said this to my husband:

"I don't want to tear this family apart.

You've noticed that I've changed since becoming a believer.

We don't fight anymore and our family's getting along better and better.

You've heard Almighty God's words and brothers' and sisters' testimonies.

You know having faith is good.

But now the CCP wants to condemn and arrest me,

get you fired, kick you out of the army, and get you to divorce me.

Who's really trying to break this family apart?

Instead of hating the CCP, you're joining it in persecuting my faith.

Haven't you gotten right and wrong all mixed up?

You know what kind of party the Communist Party is.

It hates God and the truth, and it's a sworn enemy of God.

It's arrested and persecuted so many Christians, it's done so much evil.

Can it really escape God's punishment?"

That's right.

- It's true. - Yes.

"God said long ago,

- Amen! - Yes, God did say this.

"Disasters are growing all the time.

When the great disasters come,

the Communist Party will be the first to be destroyed by God,

and when that happens, all who followed it and opposed God will perish.

They won't know a day of peace.

Don't ask me to give up my faith again.

I will never stop believing in God!"

Thanks be to God!

When he saw I wasn't going to give in,

he slapped me across the face in rage.

How could he do that!

I could see that it was the Communist Party that had incited him to treat me like that.

It was really painful for me, and I hated the Party deep in my heart.

I thought,

"The more you oppress me, the stronger my faith grows!"

Back at home, my husband wouldn't let up.

"If you have to, just practice your faith at home.

I won't report you to the leader, okay?"

I thought,

"I've enjoyed so much of God's grace and blessings, and sustenance of truth.

Without sharing the gospel or doing my duty, is that even faith?

Besides, just staying at home without gathering or fellowshiping on God's words,

I'd grow in life so slowly."

Yes.

I knew I couldn't listen to my husband.

Then he started trying to sweet talk me:

"I know I haven't taken good care of you.

I've wronged you.

I won't go in to work for a while. I'll stay home with you and our son.

I'll go anywhere you want with you

and buy you whatever you want.

I just want you to be happy!"

I wavered a bit when I heard him speaking to me so sweetly,

but I quickly realized that it was another one of Satan's tricks.

I said a silent prayer

that I'd keep my faith and do my duty no matter what.

Wonderful.

- Thank God! - Amen!

But after that, my husband started following me wherever I went.

I was afraid others would be endangered if he reported me,

so I didn't dare meet brothers and sisters.

I really longed for my life before I was arrested.

I thought about how back then,

I could gather and have fellowship with brothers and sisters and do my duty.

But now,

I couldn't join gatherings and was restricted at every turn.

I couldn't practice my faith or live normally.

And my husband, cowed by the government,

was determined to get me to give up