Oak Grove Heights UPC

05/31/2026

05/30/2026

Church is a Saturday Night Decision!

05/29/2026

Looking for a home church? Need a change in your life? Been thinking about visiting? Here’s your sign! It’s time!

05/28/2026

There is a difference! It’s time to be the CHURCH!

05/28/2026

Pray for your Pastor and the leadership of our assembly daily as we go forth God will give strength, wisdom and anointing cover us in Jesus Name.

SOME BATTLES ARE WON BECAUSE SOMEBODY HELPED YOU KEEP YOUR HANDS UP.

“But Moses’ hands became heavy; so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. And Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.” — Exodus 17:12 (NKJV)

This verse is powerful because it does not hide the human weakness in the middle of divine victory. Moses was not standing effortlessly all day in supernatural strength without pressure. His hands became heavy. The burden was real. The strain was real. The battle below was real. And yet the victory was tied to what happened on that hill.

That matters because many people still imagine strong faith means never getting tired. They think maturity means never needing support, never reaching a limit, never feeling the weight of prolonged battle. But Exodus 17 crushes that fantasy. Moses was leading, interceding, and still he became weary. The issue was not whether he got tired. The issue was what happened when he did.

Aaron and Hur stepped in.

That is what people miss.

The battle in the valley was connected to the support on the hill. In other words, some victories are not only about your personal strength. They are about who helps hold you steady when your strength runs thin. That is deeply challenging in a culture that celebrates self-sufficiency. We want to be the one standing alone, carrying everything without help. But Scripture honors the men who recognized weariness and refused to let a servant of God collapse under it.

Some of you are losing strength in a battle you have been carrying too long. Family pressure. Financial pressure. Intercession for a prodigal. Hidden grief. Ministry weight. Long delays. Spiritual warfare. And if you are honest, part of your pain is not just the battle itself. It is the loneliness of trying to hold your hands up without support.

This verse speaks directly into that.

There is no shame in heaviness.
There is danger in pretending you do not feel it.

Moses needed a stone to sit on and people to help him endure. That does not make him less powerful in God. It shows the wisdom of God in how victory is often sustained. Sometimes the miracle is not that you suddenly feel no pressure. Sometimes the miracle is that God sends the right people to hold you steady until the sun goes down.

And this also confronts the people around the weary. Some believers are quick to celebrate public victories but slow to support the hidden strain behind them. Aaron and Hur did not give Moses inspirational words and walk away. They got under the burden. They stayed. They held the weight with him. That is covenant strength. That is what love looks like in a real battle.

Stop glorifying private collapse like it is humility. Stop thinking needing support means you failed. Stop waiting until your arms drop all the way before letting someone help. And if God has put an Aaron or Hur assignment in front of you, stop standing back. Somebody’s battle may be turning on whether you help them hold steady.

The hands got heavy.
The support got real.
And the victory held.

Some triumphs do not come because nobody got tired.

They come because somebody refused to let the weary fight alone.

05/24/2026

Just a reminder!!!!! We will not be having Sunday School in the morning! We will start at 10:30 with our worship service!!!

05/23/2026

Love not in word only, but in deed and in truth 1 John 3:18

05/21/2026

When the Heart Grows Hard
Psalm 51; Hosea 10:12;

Springtime conjures up visions of beautiful flowerbeds and bountiful vegetable gardens. It also reminds the serious gardener that much work lies ahead before spring planting can begin.

The warm sunshine and spring rains alone are not sufficient to rejuvenate the soil. They serve only to further harden it, leaving it suitable only for weeds to push their way through. And good seed sprinkled over crusty soil merely entices hungry birds and field rodents. The wise gardener knows to till the soil until it is soft and pliable. Only then is it ready for seeding.
And so it is with the human heart. After a cold spiritual winter—a winter of trials, discouragement, and spiritual lapses—the heart can turn as crusty as the soil in a garden plot or a farmer's field. And it too needs to be broken up until it is tender again

King David is a man whose tender heart grew cold and hard—a heart in need of spiritual tilling.

Instead of leading his men out to battle, David was lounging at home when he noticed lovely Bathsheba bathing on her rooftop. His eyes lingered too long, and he sent for her. Later, upon learning that Bathsheba was carrying his child, he schemed to cover up his sin: first by bringing her husband Uriah home from battle, hoping he would be intimate with her, and then by arranging his death. With Uriah dead, David took Bathsheba to be his wife, believing his sin was hidden.

But God knew, and sent the prophet Nathan to confront him with a parable of a heartless rich man who had stolen a poor man's pet lamb. Sin had so blinded David that he did not recognize himself in the story until Nathan accused, "You are the man!" (2 Sam 12:7).

Unlike his predecessor King Saul, who repeatedly refused to acknowledge his sins but blamed others, David humbled himself and repented. Psalm 51 reflects his prayer of repentance. In it, he cried, “Create in me a clean heart, O God…. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart – These, O God, You will not despise" (Ps 51:10,17, NKJV).

Though we may never sin as grievously as David, our hearts too can harden—sometimes even during the course of everyday life. If it happens, we must allow God's Word and Spirit to plow up the stale soil of our hearts. As Hosea admonished the Israelites, "Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, till He comes and rains righteousness on you" (Hosea 10:12, NKJV).

Prayer: Jesus, help me to allow Your Word and Spirit to keep my heart always soft and my thoughts in alignment to your word.