Fasting for Breakthrough: How Esther Saved a Nation (Part 1)
God's people owe their very existence to a young Hebrew girl named Esther. It's true. God chose to work out his plan of deliverance for Israel through the courageous actions of an ordinary teenager. Sometimes I think we underestimate the power of a young person who loves God.
Esther's story didn't start out pretty. The Jews had been taken from Jerusalem into captivity years earlier by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon (Esther 2:5-7). Babylon was then defeated by Persia. When we first meet Esther, she's among the Jews living in the Persian empire. They were a displaced people longing for home…
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