City Harvest Church Weekend Sermons

As part of the Global Pentecostal Summit, Professor Doug Petersen brings a message about Jesus’ deep love for little children, which are chronicled in five stories in the Gospel of Mark. Sharing how he was called to help children and how God used that obedience to turn Latin America Child Care (now ChildHope) into an international programme that has helped over 2 million children in poverty. The fact that children are precious to God is recorded over and over again in Mark, emphasising how children belong to the Kingdom, and when believers touch the life of a child, they touch the heart of the Heavenly Father. Listen to this sermon and be encouraged to make a difference to a little one. 

Guest preacher Bishop Mosa Sono from Grace Bible Church in South Africa brings a power-packed reminder that time is finite and Christians need God to help us life a life worth something. Preaching out of Psalm 90, Bishop Sono highlights that if we let it, time can be a tyrant, which causes us to be chasing time instead of being in the present. So how can one maximise his time? By not wasting it on the unimportant things, like carrying yesterday’s problems and worries into the new day God has given; by increasing the value of every day; by putting God first and by leaning hard on the grace of God. Listen to this message and learn how not to waste another day.

Guest preacher Dr John Avanzini returns after eight years with this powerful message for City Harvest Church. Faith and fear come from the same place—David ran away from Goliath with the army, but when he heard about King Saul’s reward, he returned and killed the giant. When God wants believers to do something, He gives us motivation. Jesus was motivated by the reward of saving the world. To take hold of what God has in store for us, we must lift up our eyes to see what He sees. Just as Jesus always looked to see what the Father was doing, believers must learn to see it and get hold of it in the spirit. Then, with our mouths, we speak our miracle and breakthrough into existence. Listen to this message and be encouraged to be a person who speaks and sees the things of God.

Guest preacher Phil Pringle delivers a powerful reminder in this sermon that unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain (John 12:24). Being a follower of Jesus involves death, pain and suffering. It is only when a Christian completely surrenders what he has to the Lord, when his vision and dream dies, that God brings life to that dead situation. This happened when the little boy gave his small lunch to Jesus and wound up feeding the multitudes. This also happened when Abraham brought Isaac up the mountain to sacrifice him in obedience to God. Be encouraged by this message to not withhold what you have from God. God will take you if you give yourself to Him.

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.