Such a Time as This | Week 5 | Summer Baggage Series
For Such a Time as This
1 These events took place during the days of Ahasuerus, who ruled 127 provinces from India to Cush. 2 In those days King Ahasuerus reigned from his royal throne in the fortress at Susa. 3 He held a feast in the third year of his reign for all his officials and staff, the army of Persia and Media, the nobles, and the officials from the provinces. 4 He displayed the glorious wealth of his kingdom and the magnificent splendor of his greatness for a total of 180 days.
Esther 1:1-4 HCSB
5 In the fortress of Susa, there was a Jewish man named Mordecai son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite. 6 He had been taken into exile from Jerusalem with the other captives when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took King Jeconiah of Judah into exile. 7 Mordecai was the legal guardian of his cousin Hadassah (that is, Esther), because she didn’t have a father or mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was extremely good-looking. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter.
Esther 2:5-7 HCSB
3 After all this took place, King Ahasuerus honored Haman, son of Hammedatha the Agagite. He promoted him in rank and gave him a higher position than all the other officials. 2 The entire royal staff at the King’s Gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, because the king had commanded this to be done for him. But Mordecai would not bow down or pay homage.
Esther 3:1-2 HCSB
For Such a Time as This
1. Hold your Convictions
3 After all this took place, King Ahasuerus honored Haman, son of Hammedatha the Agagite. He promoted him in rank and gave him a higher position than all the other officials. 2 The entire royal staff at the King’s Gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, because the king had commanded this to be done for him. But Mordecai would not bow down or pay homage.
Esther 3:1-2 HCSB
11 Whoever does not fall down and worship will be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire. 12 There are some Jews you have appointed to manage the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men have ignored you, the king; they do not serve your gods or worship the gold statue you have set up.”
Daniel 3:11-12 HCSB
1. Hold your Convictions
2. Keep Your Integrity
21 During those days while Mordecai was sitting at the King’s Gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two eunuchs who guarded the king’s entrance, became infuriated and planned to assassinate King Ahasuerus. 22 When Mordecai learned of the plot, he reported it to Queen Esther, and she told the king on Mordecai’s behalf. 23 When the report was investigated and verified, both men were hanged on the gallows. This event was recorded in the Historical Record in the king’s presence.
Esther 2:21-23 HCSB
13 Letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces telling the officials to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jewish people—young and old, women and children—and plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month. 14 A copy of the text, issued as law throughout every province, was distributed to all the peoples so that they might get ready for that day.
Esther 3:13-14 HCSB
13 Still, none of this satisfies me since I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the King’s Gate all the time.” 14 His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows 75 feet high. Ask the king in the morning to hang Mordecai on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows constructed.
Esther 5:13-14 HCSB
20 Esther still had not revealed her birthplace or her ethnic background, as Mordecai had directed. She obeyed Mordecai’s orders, as she always had while he raised her.
Esther 2:20 HCSB
14 If you keep silent at this time, liberation and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father’s house will be destroyed. Who knows, perhaps you have come to your royal position for such a time as this.”
Esther 4:14 HCSB
For Such a Time as This
Many times we see coincidence where God sees providence. Do what is right, even when no on his watching, like Mordecai. Like Esther.
1. Hold your Convictions
2. Keep Your Integrity
3. Evil Will Not Prevail
7 The king and Haman came to feast with Esther the queen. 2 Once again, on the second day while drinking wine, the king asked Esther, “Queen Esther, whatever you ask will be given to you. Whatever you seek, even to half the kingdom, will be done.” 3 Queen Esther answered, “If I have obtained your approval, my king, and if the king is pleased, spare my life—this is my request; and spare my people—this is my desire. 4 For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and extermination. If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept silent. Indeed, the trouble wouldn’t be worth burdening the king.” 5 King Ahasuerus spoke up and asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme?” 6 Esther answered, “The adversary and enemy is this evil Haman.” Haman stood terrified before the king and queen. 7 Angered by this, the king arose from where they were drinking wine and went to the palace garden. Haman remained to beg Queen Esther for his life because he realized the king was planning something terrible for him. 8 Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the house of wine drinking, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually violate the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the statement left the king’s mouth, Haman’s face was covered. 9 Harbona, one of the royal eunuchs, said: “There is a gallows 75 feet tall at Haman’s house that he made for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” The king commanded, “Hang him on it.” 10 They hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s anger subsided.
Esther 7:1-10 HCSB
Evil will not prevail.
31 …If God is for us, who is against us?
Romans 8:31b HCSB
17 No weapon formed against you will succeed, and you will refute any accusation raised against you in court…
Isaiah 54:17a HCSB
13 This is why you must take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take your stand.
Ephesians 6:13 HCSB
1. Hold your Convictions
2. Keep Your Integrity
3. Evil Will Not Prevail
4. One Righteous Act Can Change Your Legacy
9 The king’s command and law went into effect on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar. On the day when the Jews’ enemies had hoped to overpower them, just the opposite happened. The Jews overpowered those who hated them. 2 In each of King Ahasuerus’s provinces the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who intended to harm them. Not a single person could withstand them; terror of them fell on every nationality. 3 All the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and the royal civil administrators aided the Jews because they were afraid of Mordecai. 4 For Mordecai exercised great power in the palace, and his fame spread throughout the provinces as he became more and more powerful.
Esther 9:1-4 HCSB
3 Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus, famous among the Jews, and highly popular with many of his relatives. He continued to seek good for his people and to speak for the welfare of all his descendants.
Esther 10:3 HCSB
Words of Knowledge:
• We believe the Lord is healing cancer (We have had a few reports of cancer being healed)and throat issues.
• We believe God is opening up finances.
• We believe there are those that God has given vision and ideas (maybe personal or business), yet they dismiss the ideas out of fear. We believe the Lord is saying they are from Him in order to add to your life and to His kingdom. He is healing you of the fear of failure that you may suffer.
• We believe God is healing issues with hips—Specifically the left side.
• We believe that God is taking away the anger that some may have been experiencing.
• We believe God is bringing order to chaos.
• We believe that God is healing ears, specifically issues with the left ear.
• We believe God is healing a newborn with brain issues /skull issues. There may have been a scare for potential retardation.
• We believe there are som who are being stretched. The stretching is uncomfortable and sometimes even painful. However, it is necessary for the growth God is giving you.
• We believe God is saying to parents, “We have done all that we should have done to raise our children the way HE would have us raise them. We didn’t necessarily do anything “wrong” with our children and “it” isn’t our fault. They have a good foundation, which we have helped to give them, and which was laid during their formative years. They were trained up in the way they should go. They will remember and they will come back to Him.”“Take heart, my child. I see them. I know them. I will keep them safe until they come back to Me.”
We believe there are those with a false sense of “Isolation.” They feel as if they are going through a season or situation alone. This is an absolute lie. The word says, “For the LORD your God will personally go ahead of you. He is always with you will neither fail you nor abandon you.” (Deut 31:6, Heb 13:5, Matt 28:20).
We believe God is opening wombs. There is someone who has been struggling to get pregnant for a year now. Through tears you have almost given up on the dream, but God wants to release a healing over wombs.
We believe God is releasing His redeeming power in marriages this weekend. He is going to restore marriages that have been in a broken state and give hope to those on the edge of divorce.
We believe, like the story of Job, someone is going through something and have every reason to deny God and abandon their relationships, but God is building them in faith and strength and is working it all out to completion.
We believe God is setting people free from anxiety attacks.