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Esther 4 Part 2–For Such a Time as This

Esther was  faced with a very difficult choice.  Her people faced certain obliteration.  The irreversable decree had been sealed and notice posted throughout the land. Mordechi encouraged Esther to go to the king and intercvede on Israel’s behalf.  Esther knew that if she approached the king without being summoned, she could be killed, but failiing to approach the king meant certain death for her people.  Mordechi made two very important observations.
  1. If you sit silently, God will use someone else to save Israel, but all traces of your family will be destroyed.
  2.  Who knows, but that your rise to prominence was orchestrated for such a time as this.
Esther sent the people off to fast and to pray. She and her staff did the same. At the end of the day she would do what she knew to be right and if she dies, well she dies.
 
As God’s people, we need to have the same attitude as did Esther. We will be faced with trials and opportunities where our faith will be tested.  In those times, we have to decide to trust and obey.  If we fail to do so, God will use others to achieve His plan.  But, we can rest assured that our blessing will be stripped away.  Conversely, if God blesses us, and we find ourselves in a position to assist others, who knows but that we have come to our position for such a time as this…We must stand ready to pray and to act for the furtherence of the Kingdom. Even without discussing Gods’s intervention, His leadership, guidence and direction are evident in all that we see and do.  
 
God Bless You

 

Then she instructed him to say to Mordecai, 11 “All the king’s officials and the people of the royal provinces know that for any man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned the king has but one law: that they be put to death unless the king extends the gold scepter to them and spares their lives. But thirty days have passed since I was called to go to the king.”

12 When Esther’s words were reported to Mordecai, 13 he sent back this answer: “Do not think that because you are in the king’s house you alone of all the Jews will escape. 14 For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”

15 Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: 16 “Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”

17 So Mordecai went away and carried out all of Esther’s instructions.

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This is an amazing Journey. I hope you will hear from the Lord, as you seek Him with your heart. Matthew 6:33

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