During the recent weekday churchwide prayer meetings in City Harvest Church from 29 January to 2 February 2024 via Zoom, Rev Dr Kong Hee taught on how to grow from faith to faith.
The following is an excerpt on "Trusting Faith" by Rev Dr Kong Hee for your edification.
"Trust is of a higher level than belief.
Belief is a confidence in what God can do; trust is a commitment to who He is (Psa. 34:8).
A person's belief can fail and be shipwrecked (cf. Luke 22:32; 1 Tim. 1:19), but trust is eternal (Psa. 125:1). God wants to perfect your faith to such a high level that you could be like Job -- "Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him" (Job 13:15, NKJV).
Consider Shadrach, Meshech, and Abdednego:
"If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and He will deliver us from your majesty's hand. But even if He does not, we want you to know, your majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up" (Daniel 3:17-18, NIV).
What made Shadrach, Meshech, and Abdednego heroes of faith was not their belief, but their trust in God. The only reason God allows you to go through hardships is to purify and strengthen you, and to bring you closer to Him.
God wants to bring you to a high level of trust because He has greater blessings in store for you. Not merely temporary ones, like bringing your prayer requests to pass, but blessings that are more permanent and far-reaching than what you can ever imagine!"
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