City Harvest Church Weekend Sermons

Prayer does not begin with our desire for God. It begins with God’s desire for us—He has been waiting for us from eternity.

In this sermon, Pastor Kong Hee shows how prayer develops like love: we move from mental prayer, to prayer in the Spirit, and finally to contemplative prayer.

Jesus loves to pray—and He prayed often: at His baptism, before His ministry began, early in the morning, late at night, when facing major decisions, on the cross—and even today in heaven, Jesus is still praying.

In this sermon, Pastor Kong Hee unpacks five powerful benefits of prayer.

When Jesus teaches on prayer in Luke 11, He describes three progressive movements in prayer: asking, seeking, and knocking. Each step takes us into an ever-deepening relationship with God.
Asking in prayer is likened to entering the Outer Court of the tabernacle. Seeking God is entering the Holy Place. Knocking is coming into the Holy of Holies—coming into union with God.
Pastor Kong Hee encourages us to stay long enough to have long, unhurried discussions with the Holy Spirit. Only then will our lives be truly transformed.

As we step into a new year filled, Jesus invites us to remain rooted in what truly gives life. May we abide in Him through every season of life—not just in good times, but even through challenges and pruning. When we learn to abide in His Word, abide in His Body (the church community), and abide in His Spirit, we will bear lasting fruit through an intimate, enduring relationship with Christ.

In this new year, God wants to draw us back to a childlike obedience and pure faith in Him, one that is marked by humility, holiness, and personal responsibility towards sin. As believers, we are to guard the faith of others by not being a stumbling block in our lifestyle, dealing radically with outward sins and allowing God to transform our inward attitudes. Only then can we achieve an obedience that flows from a childlike heart before God.