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Hello friend.
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My name is Denise Renner
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and I wanna welcome you to my program.
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We've been talking about
a very important subject,
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and that is Recovering All.
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Has the enemy ever tried
to steal something from you
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and it was a struggle to get back
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what you lost - or maybe you didn't get it back?
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That's what I wanna talk to you about.
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I wanna give you an example
today from the Old Testament
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of a person who lost so many things
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and it was all recovered back to her
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and more.
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Oh, you're gonna love this lesson today.
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Friend.
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Today I wanna talk to you
about a young woman who lost
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so much,
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but you're gonna see the process of
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how she recovered all and more.
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And that is Esther.
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We have a book in the Bible named Esther,
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and this is her story and it's so amazing.
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So what happened
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as the book opens is
this most powerful man
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in the world at that time, this king,
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he owned
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and ruled so much that he
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wanted to have a celebration and celebrate all of his riches
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and all of his glory and all of his power.
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Well, if you can imagine,
this celebration went on
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for 180 days - yes - a half
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of a year celebrating
about how great you are.
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And then at the end, he wanted to bring his closest
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peers to him and, and those,
he worked with his colleagues.
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And for 7 days, they just drink the best wine
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and as much wine as they could.
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So at the end of this drunken time
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with his friends, he decided there was one beauty
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that he hadn't brought out yet,
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and that was his beautiful queen, Vashti.
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Well, Vashti heard that she was invited
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and summoned to be before the king,
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and that he wanted to show
her beauty, and she refused.
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Well, it made the king mad
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and all of his counselors said, you have
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to punish her
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because all the other wives are gonna think
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that they have this kind of authority just
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to rebel against their husbands.
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So they made a plan, they exiled her,
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and they told the king that this is what you need to do.
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You just need to go
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and take as many young virgins out
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of the area there and
bring them to yourself,
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and then you can pick the one that you want
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to be your next queen.
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So all these soldiers went
out into all these homes
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and took all these young virgins
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and brought them to the palace.
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And there was one, and her name was Hadassah.
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She was a Jewish girl.
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She was taken care of
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by her cousin, Mordecai.
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And Mordecai loved God,
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and he of course trained her
to love God and trust God.
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And, but they came, those soldiers came
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and they kidnapped beautiful Hadassah.
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And the last thing that Mordecai said to her was,
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do not reveal your identity.
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And your name now is Esther.
It was a Persian name.
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So she is now taken with
all these other virgins,
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and they're brought into the palace.
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And so what they started doing
was they started giving them
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beauty treatments
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because they were getting them ready
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for their night with the king.
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And these preparations went on for 12 months.
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Well, what the Bible says in chapter 2:
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9 of Esther, it says that
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now the young woman pleased him - talking about the eunuchs
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that was taking care of all these girls,
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and she obtained his favor.
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So he readily gave beauty preparations to her
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besides her allowance.
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Then 7 choice maidservants were
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provided for her from the king's palace, and he moved her
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and her maid servants to the best place in the house
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of the women.
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And so Esther is just receiving all this
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kind of favor.
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Well, it came time - her 12 months had passed.
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She'd had all of her beauty treatments, she'd had all
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of her favor, and now it was time for her to come
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before the king.
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And the Bible says that,
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in verse 17 of chapter 2, it says,
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the king loved Esther more than all the other women,
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and she obtained grace
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and favor in his sight more
than all the other virgins.
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So he set the royal crown upon her head
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and made her queen instead of Vashti.
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So now we see that Esther,
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she now is Queen Esther.
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Now I wanna tell you,
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because we're talking about restoring all
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what she lost. When she was kidnapped,
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she lost her name.
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She eventually lost her virginity,
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she lost her family,
she lost her religion,
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and she lost her language - a lot to lose.
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But now God is starting to restore,
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and now he's restoring her dignity to her,
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but so much more
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to happen in Esther's life.
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Well, there's a wicked man by the name of Haman
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that this king begins to
put a lot of trust in,
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and he elevates him to a high position.
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Well, Haman would go down the streets
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and he would expect everyone
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to bow before him.
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Well, Mordecai refused to bow before him.
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And this made Haman so angry.
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And you're not gonna believe what this evil man,
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so evil because he's angry
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because one person would
not bow before him.
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And this is what he decides to do
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because Mordecai is Jewish, he knows that.
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So, because Mordecai won't
bow, this man's so evil,
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he wants to annihilate the whole Jewish
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nation - the whole Jewish people.
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So look in verse 13.
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So this is horrible news
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for the Jewish people - in chapter 3.
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And the letters were sent
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by couriers into all the king's provinces
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to destroy, to kill,
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and to annihilate all the Jews.
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Unbelievable!
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I don't want you to just
look at this like a story.
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Try to put yourself in this place.
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What if, what if you were
going to be annihilated
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and your family and your
children and your mother
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and everything that you had
was gonna be taken from you
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and your life is gonna be over
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and it's gonna happen in one day?
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Listen to the rest of this verse - both young
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and old, little children
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and women in one day -
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one day. All those soldiers were gonna come out
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and just start slaughtering all the Jewish people:
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children, women, young
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and old, on the 13th day
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of the 12th month, which
is the month of Adar
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and to plunder all their possessions.
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cannot even imagine receiving that kind of news.
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And so Mordecai, he starts seeking God.
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And it says that he put
sackcloth and ashes on
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and he, he was outside
of the palace and and,
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and Esther heard that he was out there
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and like, why are you looking
so horrible down there?
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And of course she's looking very queenly
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and has all this wealth
and riches and power.
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And there is her beloved
Mordecai down there in
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sackcloth and ashes.
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And she wants to know why.
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Actually she even sends
him better clothes to wear
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and he refuses it.
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And what Mordecai says is in chapter 4,
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he said - And Mordecai told them to answer Esther:
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Do not think in your heart
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that you'll escape in the
king's palace anymore than
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all other Jews.
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For if you remain completely silent at this time,
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relief and deliverance will rise
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for the Jews from another place, but you
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and your father's house will perish.
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Yet who knows whether you
have come to the kingdom
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for such a time as this?
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Then Esther told them
to reply to Mordecai.
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I wanna point out
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before we go on that
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Mordecai knows something.
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Mordecai knows
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that the Jews will not be destroyed
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even though he just received
this horrible letter
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and it's going out to all the Jews.
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He doesn't believe
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that all the Jews will be destroyed;
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but he does believe if
Esther does not speak up,
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she will be destroyed and
the Jews will be saved.
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That is amazing.
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And that's the authority of which
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Mordecai was speaking from.
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The next verse says - Then
Esther told them to reply
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to Mordecai - Go gather all the Jews
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who are present in Shoshan, and fast for me.
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Neither eat nor drink for 3-days, night or day.
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My maids and I will fast, likewise.
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And so I will go to the king,
which is against the law.
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And if I perish, I perish.
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So Mordecai went his way
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and did, according to all
that, Esther commanded him.
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Esther had not been called
by the king for 30 days.
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And it was against the law to go
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before the king if you hadn't
been called by the king.
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And if you did that,
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and if he didn't hold
out his golden scepter
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to you when you came,
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they just immediately cut your head off.
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It was immediate death. And she knew that.
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And she knew that if she came before him,
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because she's breaking all law, she's breaking all protocol
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that she could lose her life.
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But she said, if I perish,
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I perish.
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You know, the Bible says in Revelation 12:11,
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it says, We overcome the devil by the blood of the lamb,
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by the word of our testimony,
and we love not our lives
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even unto death.
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Esther proved right there
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that she did not love her life even unto the death.
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She was gonna give up her life
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to help save the Jewish people.
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Well, as the story goes on,
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Esther does present herself to the king.
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He does hold out the scepter.
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He does let her life be saved.
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And he ask her, what does she want?
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She says, I want to have a banquet for you
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and for Haman.
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Well, that sounds like a strange request,
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but remember, Mordecai's been praying,
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all the Jews have been fasting. Esther's been fasting.
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All of her maids have been fasting.
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Everyone is in that place,
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a desperate place of seeking God
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for his answer.
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And when you seek God for his answer,
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the Bible says in James 4:8,
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that those that draw near
to God, he will draw near
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to them; and they're drawing as near
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as they can to God.
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And God is drawing near to them.
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And Esther has this wisdom, this dignity,
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to have this big banquet
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And so they come to that first banquet
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and he says, what do you want?
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And she says,
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let me give you a 2nd banquet.
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So the 2nd banquet happens.
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Now at this time something else happens.
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But remember, they're seeking
the Lord, so God is working.
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And before this time,
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two people had tried
to assassinate the king
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and the one who saved
their life, saved his life
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and reported it was Mordecai.
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And so it was written in the books
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that those two men tried to assassinate the king.
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And it was Mordecai who saved his life.
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Well, in chapter 6:1, we have an amazing verse,
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and I'll read it to you.
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And it says - That night the king
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could not sleep.
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So one was commanded to bring
the books of the records
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of the Chronicles, and they
were read before the king.
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And at that time,
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that's when he found out
about those two men who wanted
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to assassinate him,
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and that Mordecai was the
one that saved his life.
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And the king says, what
was done for this man
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who saved my life?
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And they said - No, nothing King, nothing was done.
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He calls Haman in
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who is completely behind the annihilation
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of the Jews and coerced the king
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to put his signature on it.
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And and so the king summons Haman
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and he says, Haman. He says - What should be done
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for the man that the king wants to honor?
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Well, Haman so full of himself, he thinks
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that the king wants to honor him.
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This is, I think this is one
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of the funniest things in the Bible.
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And so Haman says -
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Let a royal robe be brought which the king has worn,
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and a horse on which the king has ridden,
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which has a royal crest
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Then let this robe
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and the horse be delivered to the hand of one
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of the king's most noble princess
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that he may array the man whom
the king delights to honor.
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Of course, Haman thinks
it's him all the time
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when the king is speaking - then parade him on horseback
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through the city square and proclaim
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before him, thus shall
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who the king delights to honor.
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The next verse says - Then the king said to Haman - Hurry,
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take this robe and the horse and all that I have suggested
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and do this for Mordecai the Jew.
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And Haman had to do all this
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for Mordecai who he hated
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and walked down the street
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and proclaim, this is the man
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that the king wants to honor.
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Can you even imagine by this time,
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Haman is in such deception by all his arrogancy
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and his pride, that he's built a gallow
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for Mordecai to be hung on.
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He's planning more Mordecai's death,
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and the king is planning his praise.
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Well, the 2nd banquet comes
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and Esther, at this banquet,
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she reveals her identity.
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And the Bible says that at that banquet,
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the king turned aside
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and the Haman tried to
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to touch Esther.
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The king turns around
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and he says, you would
do this in my own palace
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to my own queen.
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And there's an interesting verse
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because I love when the king speaks.
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And it's verse 9 in chapter 7,
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and it says, the gallows 50 cubits high,
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which Haman made for Mordecai,
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who spoke good on the king's behalf,
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is standing at the house of Haman.
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Then the king said, hang him on it.
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There was no hesitancy about
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Haman's judgment.
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And Esther, in her sacrificial attitude,
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in her bravery: now, she'd lost everything.
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She'd lost her language, she'd
lost. She lost her virginity.
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She had lost her name.
She lost her religion.
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She lost her family.
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But when she stands up
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and when they seek the Lord and fast
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and pray,
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and she receives the
wisdom from God, everything
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was restored.
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The Jews were completely saved,
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and Mordecai was lifted up to the position of Haman.
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Oh, friend, you can't out give the Lord.
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You can't out give him.
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He's always gonna give back more to you than you ever gave.
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And if the enemy stolen something from you, it's God's will
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for you to recover it.
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And I want you to see how Esther,
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everything was stolen from her,
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but she recovered it
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all and more
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and a whole nation. The nation
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of Israel, to this day, celebrates that day
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that the Jews were saved.
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Well, I want you to stay with me
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'cause I'm coming right back
and we're gonna pray together.
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to get back something
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Maybe you never got it back
and you feel that loss?
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Did you know you don't
have to live that way?
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The Bible tells us that
Jesus paid the price
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to give us recovery power
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that can reclaim everything the enemy steals,
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kills, or destroys.
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Wasn't that encouraging to see how Esther,
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in her humility, it actually
opened the door for God
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to do amazing things.
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She lost her family.
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She lost her language,
she lost her virginity.
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She lost her religion.
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She lost it all.
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But in her humility,
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You cannot out-give God.
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God always gives back more than we give.
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And many times when we're facing a difficult situation
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and fear is screaming in our mind,
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or maybe somebody's opinion
is screaming in our mind about
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our situation,
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our power is when we humble ourselves
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and say, Lord, I don't care what they say.
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I don't care what I think.
I don't care what I see.
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I believe your word.
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And we humble ourselves to bow before God
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and proclaim who he is.
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And in doing that, we position ourselves
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to recover all.
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I wanna pray for you - Father,
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I pray for my friend right now.
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Somebody's listening right
now and you've lost a lot.
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But I'm telling you, you can recover all.
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Position yourself like Esther, seek the Lord.
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The Bible says if you
draw near to the Lord,
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he'll draw near to you.
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He'll draw near to you with his power and with his answers.
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Lord, I thank you for this opportunity to be
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with my friend today, and I pray in Jesus' name -
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Amen. Well, I'll see you on the next program.
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Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life -
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