City Harvest Church Weekend Sermons

Endurance and resilience were the hallmarks of Jesus’ ministry. As Christians, our lives must likewise be defined, not by our achievements, but by how we overcome failure, keeping an attitude of never giving up and always desiring to bounce back from setbacks. Preaching out of Hebrews 12:1, Pastor Aries Zulkarnain teaches that while supernatural miracles are great, if we only look out for the spectacular, we may miss out on the “ordinary” revelation from an extraordinary God. Two truths: one, we are called to run a race of faith that is given by the Lord, not our own “fantasy run”. The race of faith builds endurance, not a way of escape. Two, we are to lay aside every weight that hinders our run: addictions, toxic behaviours, anything that is not pleasing to the Lord. As we run our own race set for us by God, we can finish it well by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Walking in the power and divine life of God requires brokenness in the life of a believer. When something is broken, it gets tossed out because it has lost its usefulness. But for the believer, “invited brokenness” is where we will find God’s transforming power. This is the kind of brokenness that causes us to be aware of how sinful and flawed we are, and how the love of God can heal us and lead us to a life of complete dependence on Him. God wants us to come before Him without false pretence, but in complete honesty and brokenness. Just like how Mary broke the jar to release the fragrance of the anointing oil, true brokenness releases the presence of God within us to touch us and position us to reign with Christ.

God desires to launch us into an exciting and powerful adventure with Him, but it requires us to choose to live by four things: 1) Faith; 2) the Word; 3) the Holy Spirit; 4) godly counsel. Coupled with the anecdotes that Pastor Kong Hee shares in this sermon, you will be encouraged to pursue a life marked by a God-given adventure of faith that knows no limits!

At some point in life, every person will encounter a problem that seems insurmountable but with God, all things are possible. In this faith-building message, Pastor Aries Zulkarnian brings us to Mary and the other women who wanted to anoint Jesus’ body and were worried how to enter the tomb, but when they arrived, they found the stone had already been rolled away. When we face problems, let us be reminded to look up (Col 3:1). Two things that give us the right spiritual mindset towards failure: 1) Believe in the resurrection power of Jesus in you. We must decide to activate our faith to believe that God can transform a dead end into a glorious future, by the same power in us that raised Jesus from the dead. 2) Believe in the love of God for you. God will never give up on you, so you must not give up on yourself. Let this message encourage you that God Himself will restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.

Life is filled with success and failure, mountain-top and valley-low experiences. Preaching out of Psalm 23:4-5, Pastor Wu Yuzhuang delivers this encouraging message on walking through difficult times. Valleys may be inevitable and unpredictable, but they are temporary and they serve a purpose: we only build faith in the valleys of life, we are closest to God when we are in our deepest valleys. There are 4 things a believer needs to do when he finds himself in the valley: 1) Refuse to be afraid, because when God is for you, no one can be against you. 2) Refuse to be discouraged; discouragement is a choice. 3) Seek God’s presence, not the absence of evil. 4) Find the footprints of Jesus; keep walking through the valley till you reach the other side. Without going through the valley, we will never receive the anointing. As God has promised, He will transform our valley of trouble into a gateway of hope (Hos 2:15).

Founder of Speak Life Global, an international travelling prophetic ministry, Pastor Gary Heyes delivers this powerful message about being a person that God can use to touch someone else. A Christian should carry a sensitive spirit, one that hears from God and speaks life to the weary. God pours out His grace upon us to be the person He wants us to be, to be the prophetic voice on Earth. To be used by God in this way, a believer needs three things: 1) Discernment, which requires an ongoing journey of praying, listening to God and growing in intimacy with him. 2) Faith, which will always involve risk. But God doesn’t only tell us what to do, He makes a way for us to do it. 3) Obedience, which is a timely response to act on what you have seen and heard. Sharing powerful real life experiences with a touch of humour, Pastor Gary inspires every believer to step out and be the next person God uses to impact a life.

Do you value your walk with God, or do you value His blessings? In this sermon, Pastor Aries Zulkarnain challenges the believer to examine his attitude towards God, drawing from Exodus 33. God told Moses He would still bless the children of Israel as they continued their journey toward the promised land, but He would not go with them. The Israelites had taken His love for granted. What about us? How can we measure how much we truly treasure the Lord? Pastor Aries lists three questions we must ask: one, do we still value God’s presence in our lives? Are we like Moses who refused to journey on if God’s presence did not go with him and the people? Two, do we value God over good? If you can only see God when things are good, then when bad times come, you will not be able to see the good in God. Finally, do we value God’s heart? God cares about our feelings, but do we care about His? Let this sermon teach you how to value your relationship with God.

Expounding on Psalm 121, Bobby Chaw shares an encouraging message about three things that the people of God were proclaiming whenever they sang this psalm, which is one of the Songs of Ascent. As the believers proclaimed this psalm, they were lifting their eyes to God with a fearless gaze of longing and expectation. Be strengthened in your heart as you realise how God's love is so tangibly present in every situation of your life!

In this encouraging message, Pastor Lin Junxian studies people throughout the Bible who were marked by God’s presence. In the Old Testament, Moses and the children of Israel refused to go anywhere until God was with them, guiding them as a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night. In the New Testament, Jews were surprised by the transformation of Peter, who had been with Jesus. Likewise for the church today: CHC’s pioneers built this church by the power of the Holy Spirit, and now the future lies in the hands of the new generation of believers who are marked by His presence.