I’ve been believing in God for a few years, and I don’t know much about God because I don’t pursue the truth. When things come to them, they can do whatever they want, rarely rely on God, look up to God, have no status of God in their hearts, and even misunderstand and complain about God when they come to some hardships and trials. However, seeing God’s love and salvation for me, truly experiencing the power of God’s Word, and understanding God’s good intentions to save me, I have the confidence to believe in God’s path of truth.
Diagnosed with “menopause”, unacceptable
After giving birth, I didn’t recuperate, I fell into confinement disease, I got severe arthritis, the pain was unbearable, and I couldn’t cure it by seeking medical advice everywhere. One day in June 2012, I heard from a relative that there was an herb that could cure arthritis, so I immediately took that herb, but after 3 months, I didn’t have my period, I went to the hospital for a check-up, and the doctor said that I was not pregnant. I went to the pharmacy and bought menstrual medicine, but it didn’t work for more than a month. Then I went to the Chinese medicine hospital to prescribe Chinese medicine for more than a month, but it still didn’t work. The condition gradually worsened, my memory began to decline, I lost everything I wanted, I felt very swollen all over my body, sometimes my neck was swollen as if it was about to explode, I had no strength at all, I was not comfortable standing or sitting, so I had to sleep in bed and have no appetite for eating. At that time, I was in a bad mood every day, very irritable and depressed, my skin slowly became gray, and my face was wrinkled. Once, my relatives were surprised when they met me: “I haven’t seen you for a few days, why are you so old all of a sudden, and you look like you are forty or fifty years old?”
In the first month of 2013, I went to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital for a check-up, and the doctor diagnosed me with “menopause”. The doctor asked me, “What medicine have you taken?” I told him the truth, and the doctor said, “I have seen more than a dozen patients like you, all of whom have been sick by eating this herb, and some of them are younger than you, but I have prescribed her medicine for 6 months and has not been cured, this disease is not easy to cure!” When I heard the news, I was so frightened that my hands and feet became weak, and I walked in a trance, and I felt like the sky was about to fall, and my mind was blank. I’m only in my 30s, how can I get this disease? Can I be cured?
When I got home, I locked myself in my room, didn’t bother to talk to my family, couldn’t eat, and lay in bed all day with tears on my face, really unwilling to accept this reality. I kept thinking in my heart: Could it be that the equipment in that hospital was broken down and the examination was not accurate? I went to the People’s Hospital again to see a specialist, but the results of the examination were still the same, and I was completely desperate.
Helpless, I found support in God’s Word.
From then on, I lived in agony every day, and I washed my face with tears all day long, thinking: Why am I so unlucky? How could such a thing happen to me? Now that I am getting older than my mother-in-law, how can I go out to meet people in the future? I want to die. Then I suddenly thought of God, yes, why don’t I rely on God? Thinking of this, I felt as if I had grasped a life-saving straw, and I immediately came to God and prayed, “God! I am so miserable, I have only reached menopause in my 30s, how should I face life in the future?” O God, please save me. ”
Then I saw God’s Word: “Almighty God is the Almighty Doctor! To live in sickness is to be sick, to live in spirit is not to be sick, and as long as you have a breath, God will not let you die.” God’s Word is so sweet! Myths are the cure! Humiliate the devil and Satan! Touch the myth to rely on, God’s Word will save the heart quickly! There is no peace in all things. “When a person is sick or not, God’s will is in it, and when a person is sick, he does not understand God’s will, and he does not know how to carry it out, and he thinks that it is caused by his ignorance, but does he not know that God’s goodwill is in it? “God’s Word, with its authoritative power, has given me some faith and a lot of confidence in my heart. Reflecting on my performance during this time, although “menopause” is not a terminal disease, I have been tormented by it to the point that life is worse than death, my heart is negative and hopeless, and I even misunderstand and blame God, thinking that it is bad luck to have this disease. I always think that I got menopause because I took the wrong medicine, and I live in self-blame every day, but I don’t come to God to seek to touch God’s heart, resulting in depression every day, isn’t this foolish?
Then I saw a passage from God’s Words: “The myth of eating and drinking has worked, the spiritual life can be normal, no matter what the trials you encounter, or what circumstances come you, or when you are physically sick, or when your brothers and sisters are alienated from you, or when your family is in trouble, you can eat and drink normally, pray normally, and live the church life normally if you reach this point, it means that you are on the right track.” This passage gave me a way to practice, and I understood that no matter what happens, I should seek to understand God’s mind and maintain a normal relationship with God. Even if you are sick, you should not be subject to it, you should focus on living before God, do your duty, read God’s word when you should read God’s word, pray when you should pray, meet when you should meet, and I have to submit to God’s arrangement.
After understanding God’s heart, I felt strong in my heart, and I began to practice and enter, as long as there is something in the church that I need help to do, I will try to do what I can, and whenever I have time, I will read God’s Word and seek and pray to God for everything. Before I knew it, the feeling of exhaustion eased a lot, and I felt more energetic, and I thought to myself: it seems that my illness has been saved. Therefore, I am more active in doing my part.
God’s Word reveals that I am deeply remorseful in my dealings.
More than 20 days passed, and one day, I suddenly felt soreness and weakness all over my body, I was slumped in bed, and I unconsciously felt a little negative in my heart, thinking: During this time, I have actively my duty, and I have never shirked anything in the church, and I have felt better and better, and there is hope for seeing a better doctor, but why is it not working today? Do I have to find a big hospital to see, if there will always be a place that can cure my disease? But after thinking about it, the expert doctors in both hospitals said that this disease cannot be cured, and I have never heard of a famous doctor who can cure “menopause”. At this time, I completely lost faith in God, living in sickness, and the more I thought about it, the more desperate I became, especially when I looked at the withered grass outside the window that was swaying from side to side by the wind, and then looked at my old face, and suddenly felt so desolate and miserable. Helpless, I knelt on the bed and prayed to God: “God, when will my illness get better, I can’t go out and do my duty, God! ”
After praying, I saw God’s Word: “I have found that no matter what comes to me or what I treat, I always protect my interests, I care about my flesh, I always look for reasons and excuses for myself, and I have no truth at all, but I defend my flesh, plan for my future, ask God for grace, and think of any good.” Why do we demand too much from God? This proves that human nature is greedy, that there is no reason at all in front of God, and that everything man does, whether it is prayer, fellowship, or preaching, in short, what man seeks, what he wants, what he desires, what he desires, what he asks for from God, what he asks for from God, what he hopes to receive from God. If you believe in Him, if you believe in Him, if you believe in Him, then you will not dare to make demands on Him, and you will not be qualified to make demands on Him, whether it is unreasonable or reasonable.
If you have true faith, believing that He is God, you have no choice but to worship, only obedience. “God’s Word was like a sharp sword, which completely exposed the meanness in my heart. Looking back on the past 20 days, I have been actively engaged in church work, and I think I have been faithful and confident in God, and it is all because God can heal my illness as soon as possible and free me from the torment of illness. But when I saw that my illness was not getting better, I became discouraged and despaired, and even complained about misunderstandings and blamed God, and I was tired of doing my duty, because I did my duty to receive grace and be healed by God, and I was not willing to do my duty.
Isn’t my purpose just to make a deal with God? We are all created by God, and a breath of breath is also given by God, so how can I, a corrupt person, be qualified to ask God for terms and demands, isn’t this too irrational? The more I think about it, the more I feel that I believe in God and do not treat God as God, and I have no face to come to God. At this time, I realized that my previous views of believing in God were wrong, so I made up my mind in front of God: I am willing to turn back to God, I don’t want to ask God according to my will, no matter whether my illness will be cured in the end, I am willing to submit to God’s arrangement, and do my part as a creature to repay God’s love!
Submit to God’s mercy and miraculously appear, deeply loved by God.
Thank God for letting me understand God’s heart, and since then I have put this disease in God’s hands, often meeting with my brothers and sisters, and living the church life, my mood has improved, and my face has a smile, and it is no longer the worried face of the past. Sometimes I still worry about my illness, but I can immediately realize that this is Satan’s desire to make me blame God and resist God through my illness, I should not fall for Satan, I should risk my life to satisfy God. So, I kept my heart quiet in front of God, read God’s words to find out God’s heart, and prayed silently from my heart: “God, whether my illness is good or not is in your hands if you let my illness be cured, I will be cured, if this illness is not good for my life, I have no complaints, I am willing to obey, pursue the truth, change my satanic nature, and do my duty to satisfy you!” In this way, I sought again and again through prayer and defeated Satan’s thoughts through God’s Word. One day not long after, I unexpectedly found out that I had a period, and at this moment I cried with emotion and thanked God from the bottom of my heart. Seeing God’s all-powerful sovereignty and the authority and power of God’s Word, God said: “Almighty God is an all-powerful doctor! To live in illness is to be sick, and to live in the spirit is not to be sick”, “Myth is the cure! Humiliate the devil and Satan! Touch the myth to rely on, God’s Word is quick to save the heart! There is no peace in all things.” These words are too practical. Doctors say that menopause cannot be cured, but I just put into practice God’s Word, reversed my view of making a deal with God, and experienced God’s work with a heart of obedience to God, and then I was healed by God, from the doctor’s diagnosis of menopause to the recovery of the disease, in just over 20 days, I saw God’s wonderful deeds, God is so wise and so omnipotent! Although God’s environment does not fit my concept, it is the best. If I hadn’t taken the wrong medicine, I wouldn’t have come to God to pray to God and touch God’s heart, and I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to experience God’s work and experience the truth and reality of God’s Word!
In the following days, my face slowly became rosy, my memory was restored, my eyes were gone, and what was even more amazing was that the arthritis that I couldn’t see well everywhere was cured. Once on the street, a friend I hadn’t seen in a long time said, “Why are you younger than before, you look four or five years younger than before.” Once I met an acquaintance again, and he said, “Why are you so pale and so beautiful now?” I know very well in my heart that this is God’s care and protection and wonderful work.
Thank God! I have never experienced such a trial before, I believe that God is not at all, I do not pursue the truth, I have no faith in God, I just follow the crowd. But from this experience, I have come to know my own despicable heart of believing in God, and I have also seen God’s wonderful deeds so that I no longer follow the crowd of believing in God, I have also truly realized that believing in God should obey God and fear God! All glory be to God, amen!
As I drove home from the library in tears, I crashed into a car parked on the side of the road. At that time, I heard a sentence very clearly: “Can you control everything?” This sentence woke me up like a slap in the face. I used to think that there was nothing in this world that I couldn’t do, but now that my son is sick, I don’t even know the name of the disease. So what am I? The Bible says, “What is a man? God? Do you care about him?” When I saw this sentence before, I thought, I have two PhDs, how can I still say that people are what they are? But now, with the facts in front of me, what am I before God? At that time, the Bible passages that I read in middle school and the years of seeking truth from God all came to mind. I asked myself, “If Jesus Christ is the true God, why don’t I kneel before Him and commit my life to Him?”
I asked myself, who can help me? I know money doesn’t solve the problem, psychologists can’t help me, they will find problems, but they can’t solve such problems. Finally God solved my problems. He said, “Come to me, all those who labor and are heavily laden, and I will give you rest.” That night, I confessed my sins before God, and when I received Jesus Christ by faith, my life was reconnected with God, and He led me through this very difficult road. I knew that I could not raise this son on my own. That night, God shattered my ego.
When I knew the name of my son’s disease, I took him everywhere to see a doctor, but no doctor would take him. They told me not to waste money because there was no cure for this disease. At that time, I began Xi to learn to be a disciple of the Lord, and I prayed for everything, hoping to find a doctor for my son who could heal him. My husband was not a believer at that time, and he said, “That’s your God, and I don’t believe in him, how can I pray with you?” I said, “Don’t you want our son to get better?” So we both prayed about it every day and after three months, we found a Christian psychiatrist who was willing to pray for three days to see what God had to say. Three days later, the psychiatrist called and decided to treat my son, because he found that my son had an IQ of over 145, a very competitive personality, and was not yet six years old, and his temperament was not yet determined, so he decided to take him in.
Then he offered me three conditions:
1. Bring him here twice a week, once for $145, and the disease may drag on for twenty years without any progress, and you can’t say that I cheated you out of your money.
2. You are about to quit your job and not become a doctor because your son will finish his day’s homework in three minutes, and then go to someone else.
3. Talk therapy for my son, because he has been refusing to speak. The doctor said that you just need to teach your son to say “Mommy” every night. For these conditions, I asked the doctor to give me a night to pray.
I didn’t want to pray, I wanted to quarrel with God, I wanted to ask him, can I have both, I want my son, I want my career. I was so confused that I couldn’t pray, and I didn’t know what I was talking about, so I went to the Bible. I said to God, “Where is there now that a man will be fruitful and multiply?” When I prayed again, I was deeply moved in my heart, it turned out that this is God’s priority, God let me know that because my life comes from Him, he should be the first in my life at all times, the second is my family, and the third is my career. But my son’s medical care and Xi need money for everything, so I applied for a research job that could be done after my son fell asleep, so I got into the Xi habit of sleeping only four hours a day.
Every time I take my son to the psychiatrist, it feels like I’m going to send money because my son is like this every day. I’m an impatient person, God uses this to make me develop patience, every day after dinner, I want to grab my son’s chin so that his eyes can look at the shape of my mouth, and then teach him to call him “Mom”. Four years later, one day when I was taking him to see a psychiatrist, the doctor suddenly came out like a madman and said, “He said “NO.” On the way back with my son that day, I said to God, “God! You asked him to say such a difficult word that says NO requires nine nerves and muscles, please let him call me Mom tonight.”
I was very nervous all night, but at half past ten, when his tears fell, I stiffened my heart and refused to stop, I asked God to give me the power and fulfill his promise, and after ten fifty o’clock, he used all his strength to feed, and suddenly cried out: “Mom”, every time I talk about this testimony, I still can’t help but cry, because I have been waiting for this mother for ten years.
Today, my son has finished his junior year of college, has become a believer, can read the Bible by himself, and can write computer software. This is not the work of man. The thirteen medical doctors did not heal him, but when they saw my son healed, they all believed in the Lord. No one can heal my son except God. That night, when he opened his mouth to call “Daddy”, my husband’s joy was indescribable. He was usually very hard and refused to believe in the Lord, but that night he believed and accepted the Lord. At his baptism, he testified: “This God is not only in the pastor’s sermons, but also in the Bible, this God lives in our family of three, and I experience His faithfulness every day, how can I not believe Him?” God has saved our whole family, and His grace to us is innumerable.
Whether you appreciate this popular young artist with diversified development or not, from this article, you can see that this Christian mother knows her son’s talent and persistence in not giving up, which has created today’s Jay Chou~
Jay Chou comes from a broken family and is “willing to give everything for his mother” because when he was the loneliest and most helpless, it was his mother who supported him with warm and loving arms, Jay Chou, an emperor superstar who was obsessed and worshiped by thousands of teenagers for his singing, and had a deep affection for his mother Ye Huimei because when he was the loneliest and most helpless, it was his mother who supported him with warm and loving arms. So Jay Chou has always said, “As long as my mother is happy, I am willing to give everything for her!”
The home of a musical genius cracked
Jay Chou was born in January 1979, his mother Ye Huimei is an art teacher at Tamkang Elementary School in Taipei, and his father is a physics teacher at Tamkang Middle School. When Jay Chou was 4 years old in kindergarten, Ye Huimei sent him to the Danjiang Shanye Preschool Music Class to learn piano. As soon as the usually lively and active little Jay stood in front of the piano, he was surprisingly quiet, and he could repeat it after listening to the teacher play it once, and the teacher told Ye Huimei that this child was very talented!
To cultivate Jay’s musical quality, Ye Huimei advocated using her family savings to buy a good piano for Jay and asked the best piano teacher to tutor Jay. Jay’s father thinks that there is no need to be so serious, boy, be casual, there is no need to invest all your savings. In the end, Ye Huimei still bought a piano for Jay behind her husband’s back, which made Jay’s father very unhappy. When he was in the third grade of primary school, Jay happened to hear the world-famous song “Swan Lake” and was fascinated by the sad and poignant tune of the cello.
Jay’s father scoffed at his wife Ye Huimei’s “desperate” approach, and when he came home, he accused Ye Huimei of not being the same, there was less and less warmth in the family, and there were more and more quarrels.
Jay didn’t know why his father always had to quarrel with his mother, so he used his immature poems to record his confusion and sadness:
Since I was a child, I only had my mother’s warmth, why was my father so fierce
If it’s true, I have a pair of wings, two pairs of wings, and I can go at any time
Secretly set off I will take my mother.
This sad poem Jay later composed a song for, which is the song “Dad, I’m Back” which made thousands of fans sad.
When Jay Chou was in the second grade of junior high school, his parents finally divorced. 14-year-old Jay Chou wrote: “Mom and Dad don’t love each other, is this the true meaning of life?” Silence, stubbornness, and rebellion have shaped another Jay Chou.
The world does not know the wandering in the anguish of the king
Jay Chou has a musical talent, but his schoolwork is terrible. The total score of the high school joint examination is only more than 100 points, and he has not even been admitted to ordinary high school, and the future is bleak, and the mother and son are relatively speechless.
Because he plays the piano well, plays the cello well, and is often active on the basketball court, Jay Chou has become the object of attention and discussion among many female students. However, Jay Chou is often expressionless, rarely showing a smile, except for their outstanding music scores, almost all other subject scores are red, teachers think he is mentally inferior, and his English teacher even bluntly said to Ye Huimei that Jay Chou has intellectual disabilities. Ye Huimei fell into deep thought, but she still decided to train Jay Lun to become a talent, at least to be a pianist. Ye Huimei did not blame Jay, she believed that Jay’s indifference and rebellion to the point where he is today was caused by the disharmony of the family, and she was convinced that her children had no intellectual disabilities, so she tried to “tame” Jay Chou with sister-brother care, stipulating that she had “three nos”: no nagging, no accusation, and no coercion of her son.
Sure enough, as the teachers predicted, Jay Chou was not admitted to university. After Ye Huimei inquired in many ways, she encouraged Jay Lun to take the music department at Taipei University, but he was not admitted. Jay Chou gritted his teeth and took the test for the second time, but he still failed. Mom and grandma are worried about Jay’s future, what can this child do in the future?
Jay Chou, who was extremely confused, had nothing to do, so he had to wait for his military service in the Navy, during which he got ankylosing spondylitis, which is frustrating because there is no cure for this disease, and it can only be relieved by drugs, and in the late stage, the whole body will even be stiff like a zombie, which may also lead to paralysis. Ye Huimei and her grandmother wept when they talked about Jay.
Mother’s love and care soared into the sky
After the illness was relieved, Jay Chou went to work in a restaurant, and as a serving worker, he was almost deducted half of his monthly salary because he often knocked over the dishes. There is a piano in the restaurant, and Jay Chou plays the song “Chopin Dance” in his spare time, which stuns the boss, and the boss has an idea, telling Jay Chou not to serve the plates, so he plays the piano in the restaurant, and then invited TV reporters to hype, which not only made the restaurant business boom, but also saved a lot of money for hiring a pianist.
Ye Huimei felt Jay’s musical potential, and she signed up for her son’s entertainment program “Super Fierce Rookie King” on Taipei Starlight TV. Jay Chou carefully created a song “Dreams Have Wings”, but he was not confident in his singing, so he invited a singer to sing. The singers couldn’t understand his style, and his piano accompaniment was so weird that the audience booed, and a fledgling performance was completely messed up.
Ye Huimei was anxious, and she mustered up the courage to find the host Wu Zongxian, and showed him the score of “Dream Has Wings”. Wu Zongxian was the boss of Taiwan’s Alpha Music Company at the time, and his first impression of Jay Chou was not good, so he picked up the score and glanced at it, his eyes lit up, and the score was not only copied neatly but also very complicated. The discerning man immediately changed his mind: “This kid is okay, call him to work in my company tomorrow!”
Jay Chou joined the music company as a music production assistant, and with the encouragement of his mother, he took the initiative to help his colleagues buy boxed lunches every day, everyone had a good impression of this taciturn but diligent young man. And Ye Huimei is always worried that Jay Lun is indifferent and stubborn, and he is not good at words, for fear that he will inadvertently offend the boss and employees, so she often stands at the door of the company during off-duty hours, prepares some delicious pizza and fried chicken for the employees, and asks them to bear with Jay. After going back and forth, Ye Huimei is more familiar with the company’s employees than Jay Chou, and colleagues know that Jay Chou has a good mother.
Jay Chou quickly wrote a large number of songs, but what made Wu Zongxian feel incomprehensible was that the lyrics he wrote were always weird, and almost no one in the music circle liked them. Once, Jay Chou took his proud work and sent it to Wu Zongxian for review. This time, Wu Zongxian didn’t even look at it, so he crumpled the song into a ball and threw it into the trash can next to him. Jay Chou’s tears couldn’t help but flow out.
Mom comes to the door of the company every day has become a landscape, if you give up, I’m so sorry Mom, Jay Chou is stubborn to support, he eats and lives in the office, and creates at the speed of one song a day. Ye Huimei visited Jay Lun in the company every night, looking at her son who was getting thinner, she held back her tears and tried to say some happy words of encouragement, and then took back the dirty clothes that Jay Lun had changed to wash them. For more than a month, when Wu Zongxian went to work at 8 o’clock every morning, he could always see Jay Chou’s new work on time. Finally, he was deeply moved by the young man’s diligence and talent, and he “sniffed” that Jay Chou’s songs had a faint smell, and promised to find a singer to sing the songs he wrote.
Wu Zongxian recommended Jay Chou’s “Knowing Tears” to the king singer Andy Lau, but Andy Lau rejected it after a glance. Soon, he recommended his “Nunchucks” to Zhang Huimei, who was popular in the Chinese music scene, but unexpectedly, Zhang Huimei refused without hesitation. Wu Zongxian decided to give Jay Chou one last chance to sing the songs he had written, and if that didn’t work, he had no choice but to ask Jay Chou to leave! He called Jay Chou to his office and said very solemnly:
“Aaron, give you 10 days, and if you can write 50 songs, and I can pick 10 out of them, then I’ll help you make a record. 」
The boss’s words stimulated Jay Chou excited, and after he called his mother to tell him, he ran to the street to buy a large box of instant noodles. He thought, that even if he fought hard, he had to do the last fight. Jay Chou wrote 50 songs as promised, and each song was written in a reasonable structure and neatly scored. Wu Zongxian finally had an approving smile, he picked out 10 songs and made Jay Chou’s first album “Jay” in early 2001.
The company didn’t have much hope for the record, and it would be nice if it could recoup the production costs. However, after “Jay” came out, it was like a violent typhoon that swept across Taiwan, and it was quickly snapped up by fans. “Jay” won three awards in one fell swoop: Best Pop Music Singing Album, Best Producer, and Best Composer in Taiwan that year. The success of “Jay” caught the company by surprise, and Taiwan’s singers were shocked, asking where Jay Chou came from. If the first album was a small achievement, then Jay Chou’s second album “Fantesi” has formed a storm, sweeping the entire Chinese music scene in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and various awards have come one after another.
Jay Chou finally succeeded, he deeply understands that without the warmth of his mother’s light in the dark, he would not be able to support himself today, his mother has never remarried for him, and every bit is a love for licking calves. He gave all his income to his mother, and even though he had an apartment, he still went home every weekend to enjoy family fun with his mother and grandmother.
Ye Huimei had mixed feelings, her husband’s ridicule, the teacher’s shaking of her head, and the hardships of life all went with the wind.
After Ye Huimei retired, Jay Chou was always worried about his mother’s loneliness, as long as he was in Taiwan, he would go home to live with his mother. On weekends, he will ask his mother to watch a midnight movie together, his mother likes to watch classic movies, and Jay Chou will accompany him to watch them, Jay Chou likes to watch avant-garde films, Ye Huimei also accompanies his son to watch them, and the warm current of happiness lingers in the hearts of mother and son. Jay Chou’s fourth album is called “Ye Huimei”, which is a gift from his son to his mother.
On September 1, 2013, Jay Chou, the singer-songwriter of “Sanfang”, stood on the Sunday podium of the New Life Group Church in Taipei, publicly announcing that he had been officially baptized last year and joined the “big family of the Lord’s love”.
Jay Chou said that “Jesus Fashion” is the most popular faith and the most fashionable worship.
It was a great challenge for him to write the popular hymn “Jesus Fashion” for the church because it was not only for the brothers and sisters and the gospel friends but also for “God to hear”.
Moms are an important spiritual help
In Jay Chou’s life, he has met many “noble people”, among them, his mother Ye Huimei, and “Maji” friend Liu Genghong are not only “mentors and helpful friends” in his life, but also important others who led him to know and experience Christianity more deeply through “life testimonies”.
“If I meet Jesus now, I will say thank you to him and thank Him for giving me a good mother,” Jay Chou said, adding that when he went to the radio program of the church to Brother Wu Jianheng during the promotional period of the release of his latest album “12 New Works” last year, he drew the topic “If Jesus were with you now, what would you say to Him?”
Jay Chou said that God rewarded him with his talent for making music, and led him to have some achievements in the entertainment industry, and he wanted to give thanks to God for everything, especially his mother Ms. Ye Huimei.
Jay Chou’s mother cultivated that he could insist on developing on the road of music, and supported him unconditionally, Liu Genghong has been “accompanying” him when Jay Chou has not yet made some achievements in the entertainment industry and “has no friends”, not only playing with him, but also becoming his “good brother” in life and spirituality, and because his mother and Genghong continue to pray for him, now he can become a member of JESUS FASHION, and he and Genghong also open a film company together. Restaurants, become business partners.
Thank you to the church and friends for their prayer companionship
Gu Qiyun, the senior pastor of New Life Group Church, recalled that more than 10 years ago, Liu Genghong had just led Jay Chou to the church, and now he can stand up and testify for “Jesus Fashion” through music creation, Pastor Gu said that judging from Jay Chou’s achievements in the entertainment industry, it is already “Jesus Fashion”, but the Jay Chou he knows has always adhered to the attitude of “having the courage to try and break through himself”, constantly pursuing professional excellence and his spiritual thirst is also increasing day by day.
Pastor Gu Qiyun emphasized that for the New Life Group Church, many people do not get along with Jay Chou with the attitude of “superstar fans”, but like Liu Genghong, they naturally make friends with him and establish a relationship of mutual trust, everyone can discuss life and faith issues together, pour out their hearts and care for each other, and as time slowly accumulates, Jay Chou finds a sense of trust and security in the New Life Group Church, and when God’s time comes, he is baptized and joins this big family of Lord love.
“Evangelism, we must build relationships slowly and gradually, so that life can affect life,” Jay Chou said that when he first came to the New Life Group Church to participate in fellowship and Sunday services, he was often moved by poetry and found that music has the effect of healing people’s hearts. Jesus Fashion”.
Poetry is dedicated to God
“It’s a big challenge for me to write songs for God, and it’s not easy, because not only people in the world are listening, but even God is listening,” Jay Chou said. Music can lead more people to know God and understand God’s plan to create heaven and earth, in the past, he came to the church and was Xi sitting silently in the audience as audience. Don’t interfere with the meeting, this time to be able to stand on the stage and share God’s leadership and grace for him, and the spirit and poetry of Jesus Fashion, If we can continue to preach, more people will be able to come into church and know Jesus.
Share the positive power of love and faith
From 2011 to 2013, Jay Chou also served as the care ambassador of “iQier” together with Liu Genghong. Jay Chou said that God allowed him to have some influence among the young people, and his mother, Ms. Yip Wai Mei, taught him Matthew 6:3 from a young age, and when he has the ability, he should use his actions to encourage and help those disadvantaged groups, which is what he should do.
Lin Zhaocheng, CEO of the Angel Heart Family Foundation and deacon of Taipei Bread of Soul, said that in the process of contacting Jay Chou, he could feel that he lived a completely different life from many artists because of “listening to his mother’s words”, especially Jay Chou understands his position and influence in the entertainment industry, he strives to stand firm in his behavior and teachings of holding on to the truth, and when they meet together, they will pray for each other’s blessings together. God’s time has come, so it will come naturally.”
“Be thankful to God in everything, because everything is God’s guidance and reward,” Jay Chou encouraged his brothers and sisters.
周杰倫的媽媽栽培他可以堅持在音樂路上發展，並且無條件支持著他，而劉畊宏更是在周杰倫還沒有在演藝圈闖出一番成績，「還沒有什麼朋友」的時候，就一直用心跟他「相 交陪」，不僅陪他打球，也成為他在生活及靈命上的「好弟兄」，也因為媽媽和畊宏持續地為他禱告，現在他可以成為 JESUS FASHION 的成員，他和畊宏也一起開電影公司、餐館，成為事業上的夥伴。
Born in Hong Kong in 1951 in Cixi, Zhejiang, I am a fourth-generation evangelist in my family who spent the first 14 years of my life on a godly seminary campus. My parents, who were teachers in seminary and middle school, bent their knees together in prayer every day. The school rules are very strict, no smoking, drinking, dancing, playing mahjong, playing cards, or watching movies. However, life is quite westernized, because the school’s headquarters are in the United States.
Another point is that Hong Kong is a Cantonese-speaking city, but most of the aunts and mothers-in-law in the school speak Mandarin. So I had to understand Mandarin since I was a child. My parents are English teachers. His father didn’t talk much, he was well-dressed, and his students called him the king of hygiene. Chopsticks must be used at home, and the ice cream outside is only allowed to eat from the dairy company and Anyuan, and nothing else is clean. The family is not wealthy, but they must have a monthly budget to buy special fruits, and in any case, they also teach piano to our children.
When we were nine years old, our Sunday school teacher, my father’s student, taught us John 3 and told us to go home and receive Jesus Christ as our personal Savior. And when he came home, he did the same. Very simple, with no dramatic change. It was mid-October 1960. But I started reading the Bible and participating in youth fellowships on campus. Listening to the devotional ministry every week, I often watched her cry, and I knew that my relationship with God was a struggle.
At the age of fourteen, in August 1965, he attended two summer parties. Tearful confession and repentance in the first camp. In the second meeting, now known as the Hong Kong English Soul Training Association, he gave himself into the hands of the Lord, and the next morning after the meeting, he offered himself to the Lord and served the Lord full-time. At that time, I didn’t know anything about ministry, I just wanted to be a missionary in Africa, and I didn’t know anything else.
Fourteen years passed in peace. God showed me the godliness of the elders around me and cultivated a simple faith. The primary school is in the neighboring Pui Dao Primary School, which is a Chinese school, but the English teacher is very good. The middle school is an English school, but the Chinese teacher is very good. Xi piano at the same time. I can say that I never wanted to get ahead in society and do something. Loving God and serving God is the way to go in life, and I don’t know what else to do.
Three weeks after the dedication, my family arrived in the United States. My father was already studying theology at Wheaton, and I completed the 10th and 11th-year classes in that Chicago suburb, which was equal to the first and second years of high school. In the past two years, I have enjoyed the love of American believers and learned to live in American society. Every Saturday morning, go to the laundry to do your laundry. Although he has been learning piano since he was a child, in those two years, he received the most important piano lessons of his life in that town. That black teacher gave me some principles that I still use and use in other subjects as well!
In 1967, my father accepted the invitation of the Chinese Church in Philadelphia to pastor. It was a church supported by six major denominations. I completed my final year of high school in Philadelphia, a public high school with boys, mostly Jews. There were not many church members, and I began to reach out to the second generation of Peranakan teenagers. Every Saturday I would help my father type and make a Sunday weekly. During my three years of middle school in the United States, I worked part-time work, sometimes as a delivery boy, sometimes as a supermarket helper, and sometimes as a child tutor at a Salvation Army camp. My horizons in life began to expand. It is not clear how the giving will be fulfilled, but there is a great distance between the church and society.
He began college in 1968 and attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. It was the age of the hippies, and young people protested against everything with adults, full of ideals, against the Vietnam War, against the military industry and the government. The campus was like a revolution all day long. There was also a hippie among the teachers. At that time, there were Chinese students from Westminster Theological Seminary in the Philadelphia Bible study class, who taught us inductive Bible study, and at the same time gave us some theological and apologetic knowledge. They later founded the Chinese Theological Research Institute in Hong Kong.
At that time, I realized that formal theological training was necessary to serve God and that the humanities were the best preparation. Therefore, when I major in history, I am studying the history of Western philosophy. Graduated in 1971. During my college years, I read Dr. Zhang Lisheng’s “Critique of Humanism” and Xue Hua’s “Rational Avoidance”, which laid a very important foundation for apologetics. Apologetics and theology have taught me that the simple faith I experienced as a child can stand the test of reason! But the most important thing is to prepare for the discipline of Bible study. Since 1968, he has participated in the summer meetings of the Messenger of Christ Society and has participated in various aspects of ministry.
In the summer of 1971, Pastor Wang Yongxin sent me to the Philippines for a short mission. At that time, the term short-term mission had not yet been invented! There for fifty-nine days, the first evangelistic meeting in my life, the first outdoor sermon. For the first time, he led a Bible study in a stock market. Make unforgettable memories. In the fall of 1971, he entered Westminster Theological Seminary. The Reformed theology he received was a lifelong backup, but he didn’t know how to preach in the Chinese church at that time.
The deepest influence of Westminster theology on me is that since Christians are sinners who have found grace, they should always repent. Also, the church on earth is valued by God. God is Lord in every aspect of our lives. The Bible is our supreme standard. Van Terre’s apologetic theology is something I will never forget. In 1970 and 1973, he participated in the Student Mission Conference of the American Campus Fellowship, which was held at the University of Illinois. Hearing Pastor Stothe’s first-class expositional sermons broadened my ministry horizons. As for the path of ministry, it is still unclear.
Married in 1972, children were born in 1974 and 1978. In 1975-76, I studied for a master’s degree in theology, mainly to give myself a chance to test whether or not to study for a doctorate. In 1975-76, I went to a Chinese church next to Yale University, but Brother Zhang Bangheng of the Seminary Student Scholarship Committee advised me that if I could, I should study for the kingdom of God. As a result, I listened to his persuasion and studied Chinese history and church history at Temple University for four years from 1976 to 1980.
He spent his weekends in the church, spending the first two years as a youth at an elders’ church in New York’s Chinatown, and the third year as pastor at a newly established Chinese church in Princeton. At this stage, God allowed me to practice preaching and learn some lessons—youth preaching should be Xi obedience! I didn’t learn it well at the time. In those years, it was very hard, and I took my children long distances every weekend, either to New York or to Princeton. There are still several years of part-time work to support the family. My love for the church began to develop.
In 1979, when I was about to graduate, considering the Chinese church, the organization had a lot of needs and many invitations. However, he felt the need for ministry training, so he applied to join the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA), a denomination with a strong emphasis on missions and church planting. They sent me to New York to plant a church. I learned a lot from my debriefing in the church in the southern United States. The American church knows how to accept newcomers from outside.
In the past six years, 1980-85, I began to learn Xi about broken lives, and began to find that seminary was not practical enough. Knowing that he couldn’t preach personally, he went to learn the Blessing Preaching Method. After a few years, there were more than 60 people in the church. 1986-89 I served at the headquarters of the Presbyterian Church, mainly looking for church-planting ministers among the Chinese. God didn’t give us new co-workers, so I left my job in 1989, and in the days after June Fourth, I founded China Outlook with three brothers, Chen Jimin, Liu Shaoping, and Mak Yupei.
The original goal of China Vision was to participate in the evangelistic work of Chinese scholars in North America. 1989-92 We explored the needs of Chinese mainland student workers in North America and visited various places for evangelistic work. In 1992-95, we supported two mainland scholars to pursue seminary studies. Today they are all well-known preachers. I was at the Chicago Chinatown Pastoral Society. It’s been a challenging time. Mainland scholars have ideals and strong thinking abilities, and they should learn theology in a short period. After mainland scholars come to Christ, they do not necessarily melt into the inherent Chinese church.
The Chinese church has had a tradition for many years, and newcomers, whether they are preachers or scholars, have to learn Xi adapt. I went on a journey with a few seminarians and preachers. In the crowd, under a thousand pairs of eyes, I struggled with the inferiority complex, the helplessness in myself. A deep sense of insecurity. Later, the Lord helped me to overcome, and I had no special experience, except that Jesus loved me, and I knew that it was enough because the Bible told me.
From 1994-97, I was in charge of the China Ministry at the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton University, and I also taught several courses in several seminaries, such as Asian History, Chinese Christian History, Gospel, and Chinese Intellectuals. Chicago is an opportunity to gain insight into the ways of American evangelical senior leaders. I saw that foreigners love Chinese very much, but not all of them are wise. During those years, my ministry focus shifted from pastoral to apologetics for the Chinese church. In February 1993, I wrote this burden before God.
In the summer of 1997, Uchiko accepted an invitation from a Christian bank in California, and we moved to Rosewood. Life has taken another big turn. Located on the Pacific Coast, Southern California is a young society with easy contact with Asia. There are many Chinese churches, such as the headquarters of overseas Chinese Christianity. On the church side, we joined the ministry of Holy Congregation in the West District, a simple, united church that has been preaching the gospel to college students for more than 20 years. At this stage, China Outlook revised our work objectives to concentrate on theology and apologetics, to maintain the biblical faith foundation of the Chinese church by publishing books and conducting short-term theological lectures.
God opened the door to Southeast Asia, and I often traveled to Singapore, Malaysia, etc. to attend classes. The Lord also allowed me to engage in theological education among Chinese scholars. Seeing the next generation of leaders rise, they feel a great responsibility, and they expect a lot from our generation.
At this stage, I deeply feel that life is short, what can I do for the Lord in my lifetime? What kind of legacy of faith can I leave to the next generation? Can the godliness I experienced as a child be passed on? The humanistic philosophy I learned in college is now influencing the Chinese theological community, and how should I respond? May the Lord be gracious and let me be faithful to the end.
泽林经过一个多月时间的训练，已可以坐下来半小时到四十五分钟了，他的进步比我预料的要快。经过三个月的学习，他开始会写自己的名字Louis（路易斯）。又花了一个月时间，他学会写他的姓Wong。到10月份，他已能写简单的句子。10月20日他写出了“Daddy I love you！”(爸爸我爱您！)。我见后立即把它传真给我丈夫。他看见那张传真后，激动得泪水不禁夺眶而出，他突然意识到原来他的儿子虽然不会讲话，但也是有感情的。他马上给我打电话，告诉我此刻他觉得比升职和加薪还要兴奋。
a real miracle（真是奇迹）！” 那时正巧泽林学校的校长，为了泽林的转校事宜，邀请了一些自闭症的专家开会。他们中有心理学家、语言学家、儿科医生、特殊学校的老师等。我就将此录影带拿去放给他们看，他们看后，没有一个人能做出解释。我则有些沾沾自喜，觉得自己的孩子虽然不会说话，但可能是个数学天才。
