God’s Timing – Me From the Inside Out

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God’s Indisputable Presence

Posted on May 22, 2025May 22, 2025 by

From the journal of the LGG Study, For Such A Time As This, p157

Read: Esther 7:5-6 and SOAP: Psalm 37:28

For the Lord promotes justice,
and never abandons his faithful followers.
They are permanently secure,
but the children of the wicked are wiped out.
Psalm 37:28

If we were to backtrack on our journey through Esther’s story, we would see that there was a time when telling the king about her heritage was not on Esther’s agenda. However, when Mordecai pushed her on the issue with his “for such a time as this” speech, she acquiesced with the condition that the people would pray and fast for a period of three days, and she would do the same.¹ As we have seen. While God’s name has not been mentioned, the evidence that He not only heard the prayers but answered them is indisputable.

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. ¹⁴If 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 4:13-17

Today’s journal entry says it best …

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Trust God’s Timing

Posted on May 18, 2025May 18, 2025 by

From the journal, For Such a Time As This, by Love God Greatly, p145/w5d1

Read: Esther 6:10-11 and SOAP: Proverbs 25:6-7

Don’t demand an audience with the king
or push for a place among the great.
⁷It’s better to wait for an invitation to the head table
than to be sent away in public disgrace.

Just because you’ve seen something,
Proverbs 25:6-7

Have you ever watched a contest and at the end, just as the announcer says, “the winner is…” the loser, certain that she has won, begins to step forward – only to hear some other name announced? As I read today’s portion of Esther’s story, this scenario filled my mind. I can’t help but imagine Haman, who was so certain that the King meant to honor him that he gave details of all he hoped to receive from King Xerxes, never dreaming the rewards and honor would go to his arch nemesis. I can only imagine the shock and displeasure/anger at hearing Mordecai’s name instead of his own. However, the humility and anger he must have felt having to clothe Mordecai in the royal garments worn by the king and lead him around on a horse the king had ridden – all the while shouting out a statement of the king’s wish to honor Mordecai. All of this was a far cry from the death he had planned for Mordecai and ‘his people.’

Pride goes before destruction,
and haughtiness before a fall.
Proverbs 16:18

Today’s journal entry from the LGG journal, p 145, is a wonderful commentary and correlation between today’s portion of Esther’s story, the SOAP passage from Proverbs, and Proverbs 16:18, where we are given a warning about the dangers of pride. May it be a rich blessing and an encouragement to lay down any pride or self-seeking attitude we might be battling.

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For Such a Time As This

Posted on May 7, 2025May 7, 2025 by

based on w3d4 of the LGG Study, For Such A Time As This / p105

Read: Esther 4:12-14 and SOAP: verse 14

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 4:14

I’ve said it before, but this is one of those appropriate times to repeat myself – lol. Because I grew up in a Christian home and was in church all of my life, Esther’s story is more than familiar to me. So, it’s easy for me to assume that everyone has heard of Queen Esther and her story, and undoubtedly the words: “For such a time as this.” But the first time I taught this book to a group of women, at least three out of the six were unfamiliar with the story. Since then, I have always been careful not to make that assumption when I write or teach. Whether this study is the first time you’ve heard these words or you’ve heard and spoken them many times, I pray they are imprinted on your heart and mind. I pray you will be encouraged by them. I pray they will be used as inspiration to follow where God leads or perhaps to encourage others along your path. As they were for Esther, they can be for you, words that change not only your life but the lives of countless others.

Esther had replied to Mordecai’s plea that she talk to the King and make known the situation and plead for the lives of her people. She knew the rules and the danger of approaching the King without an invitation. So she sent Mordecai a reply with her concern/reason for not going. I love that Esther had a Mordecai in her life – who spoke truth into her life

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