Lessons on Living from ESTHER STANDING ON THE INSIDE

ESTHER 1:20-22 : “When the king’s decree which he will make is proclaimed throughout all his empire (for it is great), all wives will honor their husbands, both great and small.” And the reply pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan....

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Lessons on Living from ESTHER KEEP YOUR COOL

ESTHER 1:17-18: “For the queen’s behavior will become known to all women, so that they will despise their husbands in their eyes, when they report, King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought in before him, but she did not come. This very day the noble ladies of Persia and...

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Lessons on Living from ESTHER STANDING FIRM

ESTHER 1:10-12: On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus, to bring Queen Vashti before the king, wearing her royal crown, in order to...

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Lessons on Living from ESTHER HAPPINESS IS . . .

ESTHER 1:1, 3-4: Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus (this was the Ahasuerus who reigned over one hundred and twenty-seven provinces, from India to Ethiopia). . . that in the third year of his reign he made a feast for all his officials and servants-the powers...

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Lessons on Living from DANIEL WILLING OR NOT

DANIEL 12:2 : And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt. In a cemetery in Hanover, Germany, is a grave covered with huge slabs of granite and marble and fastened with heavy steel clasps....

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Lessons on Living from DANIEL POWERFUL PRAYER

DANIEL 10:13-14 : “But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia. Now I have come to make you understand what will happen...

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Lessons on Living from DANIEL HUMBLE PRAYER

DANIEL 10:12 : Then he said to me, “Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard; and I have come because of your words.” A young seminary graduate stepped up to...

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Lessons on Living from DANIEL CORPORATE GUILT

DANIEL 9:4-5 : And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, “O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly...

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Lessons on Living from DANIEL THE BOOK OF BOOKS

DANIEL 9:1-2 : In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the lineage of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans – in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by...

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