“Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!” Esther 4:16 Continue reading
Religion & Spirituality
Memorable Scripture: For Such A Time As This
Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this? Esther 4:14 Continue reading
Memorable Scripture: Give your life.
“All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that any man or woman who goes into the inner court to the king, who has not been called, he has but one law: put all to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter, that he may live. Yet I myself have not been called to go in to the king these thirty days.” Esther 4:11 Continue reading
Memorable Scripture: Casting the Lot against You.
In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, the lot), before Haman to determine the day and the month, until it fell on the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar. Esther 3:7 Continue reading
Memorable Scripture: Obtaining Grace and Favor
Each young woman’s turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after she had completed twelve months’ preparation, according to the regulations for the women, for thus were the days of their preparation apportioned: six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfumes and preparations for beautifying women. Esther 2:12 Continue reading
Memorable Scripture: Recognizing God in Life
In Shushan the citadel there was a certain Jew whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite. Kish had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been captured with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman was lovely and beautiful. When her father and mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter. Esther 2:5-7 Continue reading
Memorable Scripture: Man’s way – God’s way
If it pleases the king, let a royal decree go out from him, and let it be recorded in the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it will not be altered… Esther 1:19 Continue reading
Memorable Scripture: Love & Respect
But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command brought by his eunuchs; therefore the king was furious, and his anger burned within him. Esther 1:12 Continue reading
Memorable Scripture: Contend, Curse, Struck, & Pull Hair
So I contended with them and cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters as wives to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or yourselves.” Nehemiah 13:25 Continue reading
Memorable Scripture: Separating – Godliness doesn’t mix with ungodliness.
So it was, when they had heard the Law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel. Nehemiah 13:3 Continue reading
Morning Thought with Pastor Tim 