PASTOR TIM JUPP

" From the very first page of the Scriptures, we learn that our God is a God who speaks. God’s speech sets him apart from false idol gods who have a mouth but cannot speak. The responsibility of God’s people is to listen to their speaking God. Listening to God is a mark of righteous character and covenant faithfulness."   -- "God speaketh once, yea twice,  Many times and divers ways...

The bones of Elisha scream out, that the power of God has not gone anywhere; the power of God has not diminished in any way shape or form. God is still on the throne and God is speaking this morning through the authors of the Hebrew chronicles we call the Kings. He screams to me through words that echo through the halls of memory; words of Ron Jupp, Don Howard and Bernard McCarty; words of the sac...

" Christians are living defeated and/or powerless lives because they fail to realize, they are not equipped for defense. We must learn to strategize and have a plan of attack. We must put on the whole armour of God to be equipped for that attack.                        Our training is spiritual, but our battle is strategically subservient to the deliverer.       Our victories and our peace co...

Nobody is privy to God’s secret timetable regarding His appointed judgments.      It seems as if life will continue to go on as in the past without any divine intervention. But God sets judgment in motion in top secret fashion. Ahab’s drama is approaching its final curtain. Right on cue, Jahu now makes his entrance. Israel will be purged at last of Ahab’s house and the worship of Baal it has intro...

One cannot help but conclude that God is still active among His children, believers and unbelievers, righteous and unrighteous. The hand of providence moves the lives of those aware of it and not. Make NO mistake; God is still on the throne. NO man, woman, church, country or kingdom will stand that God is against or will fall that God is for. I think God moves His pieces on the board of life most...

As clearly as the four lepers and the young prophet in training all have the eyes of their heart opened to the redemption at hand, the two kings Ben-Hadad and Jehoram absolutely never get it. They each experience God’s repeated mercy, yet neither are able to see it.   Though God be shown merciful and loving, though He is exposed to be long suffering and patient and though He is seen to be the God...

The theme on provision and redemption through God’s mercy continues in this section. Remember that Elijah had predicted that Ahab’s sons would meet utter obliteration. Yet in this story, God shows tremendous mercy and patience to Jehoram but he never sees what Elisha’s humble servant sees.  The captured Syrians soldiers are fed and released: Nahaam heart would have seen God’s mercy but Ben Hadad’s...

" By His nature He is inclined to bestow blessedness and He takes holy pleasure in the happiness of His people. The goodness of God is the drive behind all the blessings He daily bestows upon us. Out of God’s goodness flows our redemption. God acts according to the ordinary working of the laws of creation and operations of His providence. But when the Enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit o...

The miracles of scripture are not for putting on a show. Miracles of scripture are not for great stories to tell the kids. The miracles of scripture are to remind you that God can do whatever He wishes to do. They are really about His sovereignty, and they are about His love for His children, to whom He shows mercy. It's about His glory, because He lost you and He wants you back.            H...

"The desperate disease of man gave occasion for the introduction of that divine remedy which God alone could have devised and supplied. By the plan of mercy, and the great gift which was needed for carrying it out, the Lord found means to display his boundless love to guilty men." (Commentary) Naaman, the Syrian was cured! The general had become a father figure to a child of God before t...

There is only one thing that can destroy the power of sin - the blood of Jesus Christ. Reject Jesus, and there will be death in the pot. Trust Jesus, and there will be no harm in the pot. God’s provision will always be sufficient even in the darkness. The second story reinforces the first that God can and will make a way to feed His people their daily bread, both physically and spiritually but we...

One of the great mercies of God is that He is well acquainted with our sorrows. He is a God who enters in to our lives, whether is be great joy or great grief. God often afflicts His children in the most sensible manner, that He may afterwards give them stronger tokens of His love, by delivering them, and giving them a happy issue out of their afflictions, and making those afflictions confirm them...

It should come as no surprise of the God who supernaturally created the universe should choose at times to supernaturally intervene in it.     John MacArthur Psalm 145:9 The LORD is good to all, And His tender mercies are over all His works. Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.”He will never neglect the children of His own house! “I am poor and needy, yet the Lord thinks upon me...

The abomination was simply the straw that broke the camel’s back. The shear brutality of the battle against a peaceful brother nation was nothing more than an exercise in depraved carnage for personal retribution.  As it turns out, Jehoshaphat needed to see just how evil evil is to receive Jehu’s warning fully, that helping the wicked yields wrath. Well intended compromise tends to compromise well...

The cure was lasting, and not for the present only: The waters were healed unto this day, What God does shall be forever.     I know that whatever God does, It shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, And nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him. When God, by his Spirit, heals a soul, there shall be no more death nor barrenness ; the property is altered: what was us...

Are we willing to count the cost? Listen to heart of the story:“There it is Elisha, you’ve seen your mentor in all his troubles and now his horrific death. Will a double portion of his spiritual inheritance be enough? What troubles may come your way, confrontations loneliness, hatred? Are you sure you want to pick up that mantle?      Are you really willing to follow in his footsteps?” TEXT: 2 KIN...

There are lines crossed that require a response from a Holy God, even so, in His justice, God’s grace is revealed. When God chooses thunder to reveal His will into our lives, it is still a revelation of His loving mercy, though there is some finality to it. The Father is crying out for man’s repentance before His hand of wrath falls like lightning on the arrogant refusal of His gracious mercy. The...

Habakkuk  1:13 says, “Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil.” It is the very nature of God to hate evil. And God always acts in accord with His character. So the existence of evil requires punishment. God would not be God if He did not punish evil. “God’s great mercy and fierce wrath are both solid realities that stretch like railroad tracks to a point beyond our comprehension."   Dick Bro...

The lord, who is great in power and righteous in all His ways, restrains His anger to show us mercy, not destining us for wrath, but for salvation through Jesus Christ.  “The miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.” ― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest     Dane Ortlund - Not once are we told that God is &a...

Isn’t Elijah a lot like us? Didn’t the brother of our Lord declare “Elijah was a man of like passions as we are”.  James 5:17. So, why such an ending? Why would Elijah fear for his life after such a great victory? Where was the great prayer warrior now? Thus says the LORD: "Refrain your voice from weeping, And your eyes from tears; For your work shall be rewarded. Jeremiah 31:16 When all goes...

The resurrection was the single most important event in human history: on that one day our redemption was accomplished. The first Easter Sunday was one of the most grueling long days recorded in scripture. The emotional roller coaster the young church was put through must have been exhausting as debates and disagreements’ inflamed and threatened their very existence. But, our Lord would not have t...

When they hailed Him as King, sang Him Hosannas and put palms under His feet, ‘Jesus Read Their Palms’. Though Jesus loved Jerusalem, her people and their rightful praise, He knew their heart and though they gave Him a parade, He knew they were going to kill Him. Tragically, though they hailed Him as king and put branches under His feet He could read their palms and so, Jesus wept!  That infamy Je...

Baffled, befuddled and bewildered,  Elijah is suddenly filled with doubt and fear: he is shocked, stunned and staggers unready for the mind that can see the hand of God and still raise the fist to Him. Yes, such evil does exist; it twists and turns causing turmoil every which way. It is inexplicable, unreasonable and unfair because it is purely satanic! After the rain, some will repent and some wi...

There is a faith which God cannot refuse; to which all things are possible; which laughs at impossibility; which can move mountains and plant them in the sea.          F.B Meyer Re 5:7,8  Then He came and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne. Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a...

“Only when the fireworks were finished and a terrible hush fell over the mountain did Elijah hear something, and what he heard was so much like silence that it was only through the ear of faith that he knew it was Yahweh. Nonetheless, the message came through loud and clear: that there was no longer any question who had been the star at Mount Carmel” By devastating everything, Yahweh leaves no roo...