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For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this? Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer, Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of w**e, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom. Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request: For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage. Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so? And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. And the king arising from the banquet of w**e in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king. Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of w**e; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of king's mouth, they covered Haman's face. And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon. So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
Esther 3:14-16; 7:2-10
According to the Word of God, we should believe Him by faith in His name. And Stand on His Promises. He said many times that He would allow no evil to befall us who have committed our lives to Him and who Live Holy - (Psalm 91:1-7). Jesus is Our Jehovah Nissi (our banner in victory) and He Loves them Who Love Him in Spirit and Truth, and Protects us in with His Power, for He is (Jehovah Shaddai) and can do the impossible.
Fasting, is something we do when we need to “loose the bands of wickedness, to undo theheavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke” (Psalm 58:6). Esther proclaimed a 3 day fast for all of the Jews to prevent the destruction of her people. She proclaimed the fast to have the strength to go in to talk with King Ahasuerus and that she would be accepted by him. The Lord intervened in her fast and not only was she received but her wishes were granted.
This was all because she stood on the promises of her God - Jesus. Additionally because she was found faithful. If we are faithful to the Lord and Trust Him, when times are Good, Bad, or Worse. God is Faithful and is able to do “exceeding, abundantly, above, all we ask or think, according to the power that workers in us. By the Holy Ghost which is that same Power that is spoken of by Paul in 2 Corinthians 4, when he wrote - “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us” (2 Corinthians 4:7).
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