07.07.20 Notes

Our Mission: Leading people into a growing relationship with Jesus

The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail
of their lives. Psalm 37:23 (NLT)

The Story: (Esther 1,2)

8 As a result of the king’s decree, Esther, along with many other
young women, was brought to the king’s harem at the fortress
of Susa and placed in Hegai’s care. 9 Hegai was very impressed
with Esther and treated her kindly. He quickly ordered a special
menu for her and provided her with beauty treatments. He
also assigned her seven maids specially chosen from the king’s
palace, and he moved her and her maids into the best place in
the harem. Esther 2:8-9 (NLT)

For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and
deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you
and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether
you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
Esther 4:14 (NKJV)

PRINCIPLE TO LEARN:
SEIZE THE MOMENT!

From one man, Adam, he made every man and woman and every
race of humanity, and he spread us over all the earth. He sets the
boundaries of people and nations, determining their appointed
times in history. Acts 17:26 (TPT)

Don’t minimize the powerful gift that operates in your life…
1 Timothy 4:14a (TPT)

Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called
into this life. I don’t see many of “the brightest and the best”
among you, not many influential, not many from high-society
families. Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and
women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses,
chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the
“somebodies”? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get
by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we
have – right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start
– comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That’s why we have the
saying, “If you’re going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God.”
1 Corinthians 1:26-31 The Message (MSG)