God's Love Letter - The Book of Esther

A Jewish heroine saves Israel from extermination by their enemies.  Her success comes because of:
1. A great love for God.
2. A genuine love for her people.
3. A humble respect for authority.
4. A good relationship with a foreign king.

Sometimes your work is not in the centre of your church or your nation but at the heart of some foreign regime - but it's there God has work for you.
A Jewish orphan in exile becomes Queen of Persia and foils a plot to exterminate the Jews.

Esther 1:10-12; 2:2-4, 7-8, 11-12, 17, 19-20, 22, 23; 3;1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 13, 14;  4:8, 9, 10-17, 5:2-4, 6-8, 9-14; 6:1, 3-14; 9:17b; 10:3.

Destiny:  "For such a time as this"
- The privilege God entrusts you with in allowing you to contribute to His Kingdom purpose on the earth.
- Esther 4:13-14

• His faith and confidence in God's rescue
• A reminder - your favour from God is not just for your own comfort.
• There is a privileged purpose (destiny, opportunity) that goes with it.

You:  "You have come into the kingdom for such a time as this"

• The church is good for you - but are you good for the church?
• Can it be built on your faithfulness and grow from your fruitfulness?
• There is something for each believer to do - a work which can't be delegated to others.

The ship of your life - is it wrecked before it leaves the harbour?

• Are you living your agenda for God, or God's agenda for you?
• Do you separate your interests from God?
• Are you in the same vessel which carries your Lord and His disciples or have you constructed your own life, your own vessel, your own goals, separate from Him?
• You can't create a heaven for yourself - you will fail, your boat will be wrecked, you will be lost.
• Break that chain of selfishness that keeps you in slavery.
• Come to God - live unto Him, love others, let Him prepare an estate for you.  Don't set your own, apart from Him and His cause.
• Win the victory over sin or it wins the victory over you.  Serve God, not sin.

What have your ancestors left you with?
What will you leave yours with? - neglect?  treasure?


You are in the body of Christ for such a time as this.

• We've been lifted from the scrap heap and set among princes.
• But you're not the proprietor of what you have amassed - your the steward.
• You will have to give an account to God of your life - what was it used for?

You may have been raised out of poverty into comparative wealth.

• Like Esther, a position you never dreamed of.
• For such a time as this.
• He does not bless the hand for the hands sake, but for the sake of the entire body.

A foster child became Queen.
You are the key to a lock which no other key can open.

In God - you have a whole new capacity beyond what you thought you were capable of.
"Here and I, send me."

Conclusion:

• Be confident, you are safe.
• It looked so grim for Mordecai - he and his people - an irrevocable edict to destroy them.
• It looked grim for Esther - losing her loved ones at a young age.
• Yet in the face of death, she put her key in the lock God showed her and it worked - and saved her people.  What an Ancestor!