Esther 2: 7, 10, 15, 20, 22
7 Mordecai had a
cousin named Hadassah, who had no father or mother. So Mordecai
took care of her. Hadassah was also called Esther, and
she had a very pretty figure and face. Mordecai had
adopted her as his own daughter when her father
and mother died. 10 Esther did not tell anyone about her
family or who her people were. Mordecai had told
her not to. 15 Esther
daughter of Abihail, Mordecai’s uncle, had been adopted by Mordecai. The time
came for Esther to go to the king. She asked for only
what Hegai suggested she should take. (Hegai was the
king’s eunuch who was in charge of the women.) And everyone who saw Esther
liked her. 20 And Esther had still not told
anyone about her family or who her people were. That is what Mordecai had told
her to do. She still obeyed Mordecai just as she had done when he was bringing
her up. 22 But Mordecai found out about their
plans and told Queen Esther. Then Queen Esther told the king. She also told him
that Mordecai had found out about the evil
plan.
Esther the Girl who Followed and Delivered a Nation.
(Esther 4:8, 10 &
11, 13 &14, 15&16,)
Mordecai
also gave him a copy of the order to kill the Jews, which had been given in
Susa. He wanted Hathach to show it to Esther and to tell her about it. And Mordecai
told him to order Esther to go into the king’s presence. He wanted her to beg
for mercy and to plead with him for her people.
Then
Esther told Hathach to say to Mordecai, “All the royal officers and people of
the royal areas know this: No man or woman may go to the king in the inner
courtyard without being called. There is only one law about this. Anyone
who enters must be put to death. But if the king
holds out his gold sceptre, that person may live. And
I have not been called to go to the king for 30 days.”
Then
Mordecai gave orders to say to Esther: “Just because you live in the king’s
palace, don’t think that out of all the Jews you alone will escape. You
might keep quiet at this time. Then someone else will help and save the Jews.
But you and your father’s family will all die. And
who knows, you may have been chosen queen for just such a time as this.”
Then
Esther sent this answer to Mordecai:
“Go and get all the Jews in Susa together. For my sake, give up eating. Do not
eat or drink for three days, night and day. I and my servant girls will also
give up eating. Then I will go to the king, even though it is against the law.
And if I die, I die.”
How
Do We Order this Child?
“And Manoah said, Now
let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him? And the angel of the Lord said unto
Manoah, Of
all that I said unto the woman let her beware. She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the
vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her
observe.” (Judges
13:12-14)
“ But the angel
said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife
Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. And thou shalt have joy and
gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth. For he shall be great in
the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy
Ghost, even from his mother's womb. And many of the children of Israel shall he
turn to the Lord their God. And he shall go before him in the spirit and
power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the
disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the
Lord.” (Luke 1:13-17)
For
It is God, Who is the Parent.
Philippians 2:13
“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and
to do of his good pleasure.” (KJV)
“[Not in your own
strength] for it is God
Who is all the
while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His
good pleasure and satisfaction and delight.” (AMPC)
“Better yet, redouble
your efforts. Be energetic in your life of salvation, reverent and sensitive
before God. That
energy is God’s energy, an energy deep within you, God himself willing and working at
what will give him the most pleasure.” (MSG)
Prayer
points
• Please
Lord come and uproot every idea, philosophy, training we have received and we
are following regarding the education, training, and upbringing of our
children.
• Dismantle
every structure of parenting that the old man has already deposited and is
already ingrained into our family life.
• Please
come and rewrite every programme of the old man that have been existing before
now in my home in terms of parenting, disciplining for children, caring for
them, training them, teaching them.
• The
NEW man, Christ is inside me now, Lord please I give you space and chance,
break down every arrangement prior till now in my mind about what my children
must become and achieve in their life.
Prayer
points
• Lord,
please begin to give us specific, detailed instructions about how you want to
raise our young ones in this way of the cross.
• Lord,
begin to show us what you sent our children and young ones to the world to do.
There is a specific assignment for every child/young person, Lord open our eyes
to your purpose in the name of Jesus.
• Lord,
begin to build these children/teenagers according to your own pattern,
according to your own purpose for the life of each child.
• Oh! Lord,
please teach us how to order our them in the direction of the cross, in the
direction of your heart, in the direction of becoming truly your agents of
transformation in not too many days from now.
• Open the
hearts of our children and teenagers to us, let them open up to us, to you
word, please grant us access into their hearts via your word in the name of
Jesus.
• Create a
hunger, an appetite for the word of God for the life of Christ in the hearts of
our young ones.
Prayer
Points
• Some of
our young men and young women may have already developed their own structure,
pursuit, ambition based on this world system. Let us cry oh! Lord please bring
them back in.
• Let us
beg the Lord this afternoon for our young adults, some have gone away already,
some have not seen the cross truly, some have seen hypocrisy in our lives and
they have revolted against the cross. Please let us beg the Lord to show us
mercy and bring them back to the way for the cross.
• Lord
please send your word to them wherever they are, Oh! God we beg you send your
word like a hammer, a hammer of their size and break open their hearts in the
name of Jesus
• Show us
mercy concerning our prodigal young men and women, Lord please bring them to
their senses and let them trace their way back home.
• Have
mercy on us Oh Lord, have mercy on us. Recover our young men and women oh! Lord
we beg you in the name of Jesus
Audio
/ Visual Aids
• Tell
me and I forget.
• Show
and I remember.
• Involve
me and I understand.
• Discipleship
is where God tells us about the life of Christ and shows us that life in
others.
• It’s
like seeing Jesus living in our house as our mummy, our daddy, our aunties, our
uncles.
• So
we can see how Jesus will live His life if He was living in our house and we
can then follow Him.
• Mordecai
was Esther’s audio, visual aid.
Mordecai,
Esther, Audio / Visual Aid
“Accept my work and learn
from me. I am gentle and humble in spirit. And
you will find rest for your souls. The work that I ask you to accept is
easy. The load I give you to carry is not
heavy.”
(Matthew 11: 29 & 30)
“And He appointed
twelve to
continue to be with Him,
and that He might send them out to preach as
apostles or special messengers.” (Mark 4: 14)
“ The two
followers heard John say this. So they followed Jesus. Jesus turned and saw them following him. He
asked, “What do you want?” They said, “Rabbi, where are you staying?” (“Rabbi” means “Teacher.”) Jesus
answered, “Come
with me and you will see.”
So the two men went with Jesus. They saw the place where Jesus was staying and stayed there with him that day. It was then about four o’clock. These
two men followed Jesus after they heard about him from John.” (John1:37-40)
Prayer
points
• Accelerate
the outworking of the new creation life and the manifestation of the
personified
Christ inside my life so I can be the correct visual aid for the
young people in my circle of influence.
• Please
help me not to delay, procrastinate, postpone the workings/operations/ of every
aspect of the “Mystery of the Gospel” in my life.
• Let every
segment begin to work actively, day to day, moment by moment in my life.
• Lord I
plead with you this afternoon, help my life as a mother, a father, a nurse, a
handler for your young people. Let me be the correct audio/visual aid showing
nothing else but the life of Christ.
• Don’t let
me portray anything else from now all, all the rubbish they have collected from
me, as I begin to actively declutter, let them also begin to see and begin to
declutter.
• Let me
carry the death of Christ in my body daily, burying all dead works out of
sight, allowing the resurrection life to manifest, affect and impact my
children not mainly in teaching but in living.
Let us allow the Holy Ghost to pray through
you for your children. Teenagers, young adults, even adlut children both birth,
adopted, foster, those we look after in children/teen/youth departments in our
churhces and christian organisations.
Call them by their very names and beg
the Lord for their lives dear Holy Spirit please intercede through us this
afternoon in Jesus name.
