Faith Bible Church Singapore

For a Christian to grow up spiritually, he is to be grounded in the fundamentals of Christianity. It is our desire that we be deeply rooted in these fundamentals that wherever God places us we will abide by it. This is especially true in our church, where God is sending people abroad. In whichever foreign land we may abide for a season, to excel and to prosper in that land, we must abide by His Word.

Isaiah 1:19

9 If you are willing and obedient,
you will eat the best from the land; NIV

We must obey the fundamentals. They are:

1. Do Not Forsake the Assembly of the Saints

Hebrew 10:25

25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another — and all the more as you see the Day approaching. NIV

Before we move overseas we should ask God to help us find a local church to attend over there. Parents should pray for their children to find and integrate into a local church when they move abroad for studies. If possible try to look for the local church that you may visit once over there.

We heard of a family who used to attend a big church in Singapore but after moving to Shanghai for eight months, they lost interest in going to church.

2. Continue to Pay Your Tithes and Give Offerings

Tithes belong to God and when we obey Him in tithing, the windows of heaven will continue to be opened and His blessings will continue to rain on whatever you sow in that land. God’s blessing will continue to fall on whatever you put your hands to in the natural.
As you continue to give offerings then you are sowing financial seeds. God’s blessings will water your seeds and multiply it back to you.

For it is written in Malachi 3:8-12 that God will prevent the devil from stealing your finances.

3. Fellowship with God in the Word

Keep your devotional time with God by reading the Word daily. In doing you are

1. Feeding your spirit with the Word
2. Fellowshipping with God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ

Then constantly we are keeping the communication channel with God open; for God to flow us with His love, to instruct us, to warn us, to continue to direct us, to give us wisdom to deal with any situation that comes our way.

4. Fellowship with God through Prayer

Keep our devotional time with God in prayer. In prayer we are fellowshipping with God as well. Prayer continues to keep our spirit and faith built up, alert, and sensitive to the Holy Spirit. This way we continue to sharpen our spirit to His leading. Prayer is vital to our spiritual life just as breathing is to living. When we keep this line of communication open with God, then it is easy for Him to tell us things and show us things to come. Through prayer tremendous power was made available that preempted many things in times gone by and many events were made known before the time and preparations were initialised. (more…)

When there was famine in the land of Canaan (the land of promise) and the famine was grievous, Abraham went down to Egypt. But Abraham did not remain in Egypt, which was a more prosperous and advanced nation. He returned to the land of Canaan which the Lord had told him to go and he became very rich. (Genesis 12:1-10; 13:1-4)

Famine came to the same land of Canaan during the time of Isaac and God spoke to him not to go down to Egypt because his father, Abraham had obeyed the Lord perfectly. Isaac sowed in the land of famine and he reaped a hundredfold. Isaac became very rich.

When Joseph was sold into Egypt there came seven years of famine to the land of Canaan and Egypt. But God had provided seven years of plenty before the famine and the entire family of Jacob was preserved in Egypt through Joseph, the son of Jacob.

Before Jacob died, he prophesied that God would bring Joseph back into the land of his fathers.

Genesis 48:21-22

21 Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you and take you back to the land of your fathers. 22 And to you, as one who is over your brothers, I give the ridge of land I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.” NIV

But that did not happen. Joseph stayed too long in Egypt, beyond the grace of God and he died in Egypt. When Joseph died, he said to his brothers that God would bring them back to the land of their fathers – the land of promise.

Genesis 50:24

24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” NIV

Eventually Joseph’s brothers all died in Egypt and the generations after that stayed in Egypt until a new Pharaoh came to power who did not know Joseph. So the nation of Israel had no more favor with Pharaoh and they were oppressed by the new Pharaoh.

The problem with Joseph and his brothers was that they stayed in Egypt far too long. Firstly, Egypt was not the promised land and secondly, they should have returned to Canaan after the famine.

Don’t stay in “Egypt” beyond the grace of God! The wealthy place is where God told you to go and don’t stay in “Egypt” for too long and never return to “Egypt” at all cost.