Lessons on Living from ESTHER TO WHOM CREDIT IS DUE

ESTHER 5:11 : Then Haman told them of his great riches, the multitude of his children, all the ways in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and servants of the king. A proud woodpecker was tapping away at a dead tree...

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Lessons on Living from ESTHER FINDING MERCY

ESTHER 5:2 : So it was, when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, that she found favor in his sight, and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther went near and touched the top of the scepter. In...

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Lessons on Living from ESTHER GIVE IT ALL

ESTHER 4:16 : “Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I...

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Lessons on Living from ESTHER FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS

ESTHER 4:14 : “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?” On October 3,...

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Lessons on Living from ESTHER GOOD GRIEF

ESTHER 4:1 :When Mordecai learned all that had happened, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city. He cried out with a loud and bitter cry. In the cartoon strip Peanuts, Charlie Brown often exclaims, “Good grief” While he...

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Lessons on Living from ESTHER A ROOT OF BITTERNESS

ESTHER 3:8-9 :Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from all other people’s, and they do not keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not fitting for the king...

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Lessons on Living from ESTHER FOCUS ON THE POSITIVE

ESTHER 3:5 When Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow or pay him homage, Haman was filled with wrath. A group of people were shown a large sheet of white cardboard with a small, black dot in the center. The leader of the group asked them, “What do you see?”...

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Lessons on Living from ESTHER NOT ASHAMED

ESTHER 3:2-4 : And all the king’s servants who were within the king’s gate bowed and paid homage to Haman, for so the king had commanded concerning him. But Mordecai would not bow or pay homage, then the king’s servants who were within the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why...

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Lessons on Living from ESTHER BECAUSE IT’S RIGHT

ESTHER 2:21-23: In those days; while Mordecai sat within the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, doorkeepers, became furious and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. So the matter became known to Mordecai, who told Queen Esther, and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name....

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