Latest / A Chapter a Day Bible Reading / February 15 - Esther 7
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- 0:12Hello friends. Shawn here gee, it's good to
- 0:16have your company as today we are going to as we do every day
- 0:20crack, open our Bibles and read a chapter together, to see what
- 0:24it is. That the god of the universe
- 0:27wants to communicate with us. What a rush, what a privilege,
- 0:32what an incredible thing that we get to do.
- 0:35Holy Spirit, open our hearts, and let your word ring.
- 0:40True to us. Today, as it has done for all
- 0:44these years to your Believers around the world.
- 0:48We are yours and we are ready. So friends, let us read together
- 0:54or this pointy end of the story. As we see you.
- 0:58A climax come to a head between está morta, guy the king and
- 1:04Haman. As we read together, Esther
- 1:07chapter 7, So the king and Haman went to
- 1:22Queen Esther's banquet on this second occasion while they were
- 1:26drinking wine. The King again, said to Esther,
- 1:30tell me what you want. Queen Esther, what is your
- 1:35request? I will give it to you even if it
- 1:38is half the kingdom. Queen Esther replied.
- 1:43If I have found favor with the King and if it pleases the king
- 1:48to Grant my request, I ask that my life and the lives of my
- 1:54people will be spared for my people.
- 1:57And I have been sold to those who would kill Slaughter and
- 2:02annihilate us. If we had merely been sold as
- 2:06slaves, I could remain quiet for that, would be too trivial a
- 2:10matter to Warrant. Disturbing the king.
- 2:13Who would do such a thing, King, Xerxes demanded who would be so
- 2:19presumptuous as to touch you. Esther replied.
- 2:24This wicked Haman is our adversary and our enemy Haman
- 2:30grew pale with fright before the king and queen.
- 2:34Then the king jumped to his feet in a rage and went out into the
- 2:39palace. Garden Heyman.
- 2:41However, stayed behind. To plead for his wife with Queen
- 2:45Esther for. He knew that the king intended
- 2:48to kill him in despair. He fell on the couch, where
- 2:51Queen Esther was reclining. Just as the King was returning
- 2:55from the palace Garden, the king exclaimed.
- 2:59Will he even a salt to the queen right here in the palace before
- 3:04my very eyes? As soon as the king, spoke his
- 3:09attendance covered heyman's face signaling his Doom Then harbona
- 3:15one of the Kings eunuch said, Heyman has set up a sharpened
- 3:19pole that stands 75 feet tall in his own Courtyard.
- 3:24He intends to use it to impale mortdecai, the man who saved the
- 3:29king from assassination, then impale Heyman on it.
- 3:34The king ordered, so they impaled Heyman on the pole.
- 3:38He had set up for more to guy and the Kings anger subsided.
- 3:54Jesus, you've put us in the right place at the right time.
- 3:59We don't even know what that is. We don't know what's coming
- 4:02because we don't see the vast distances that you see in your
- 4:06foresight, but we do trust in you, and we do know that you are
- 4:13planning and moving pieces around your world For Your
- 4:17Glory. So we Just Surrender ourselves
- 4:21into your service Place us where you would have us.
- 4:25Move us into the spaces that might not be comfortable for us,
- 4:29but have an everlasting impact for your kingdom and give us
- 4:33your courageousness. Your boldness.
- 4:37That we would be willing to speak when your spirit urges us.
- 4:41Come, Holy Spirit. Give us your fruits so that we
- 4:46can be the people who would be faithful to you and your mission
- 4:52in the lives that you give us. We just pray all of this in your
- 4:56name, Jesus. Amen.