ESTHER – EMBRACING MY CALL

ESTHER – EMBRACING MY CALL
UNSUNG HEROES – Part 4
Vernon Zook
October 20, 2024

“For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan from before the beginning of time…” -2 Timothy 1:9 (NLT)

Story of Esther:

1. Esther embraced her .

“Mordecai sent this reply to Esther: “Don’t think for a moment that because you’re in the palace you will escape when all other Jews are killed. If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?” -Esther 4:13-14 (NLT)

2. Esther embraced her time of . 

“The girl (Esther) pleased him and won his favor. Immediately he provided her with her beauty treatments and special food…Before a girl’s turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes and cosmetics.” -Esther 2:9,12 (NIV)

3. Esther embraced the .

“And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.” -Romans 8:28 (NLT)

“Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?” VS. 14

You were called by God for such a time as this!

4. Esther with confidence.

(Esther) “All the king’s officials and even the people in the provinces know that anyone who appears before the king in his inner court without being invited is doomed to die unless the king holds out his gold scepter. And the king has not called for me to come to him for thirty days.”…Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: “Go and gather together all the Jews of Susa and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will do the same. And then, though it is against the law, I will go in to see the king. If I must die, I must die.” -Esther 4:11, 15-16 (NLT)

Don’t let the possibility of failure keep you from the probability of success.

Will you make the most of the situation God has put you in?