Esther...Session 6

I CANNOT believe it took me this long to post about the Esther session last week. I couldn't wait to leave the bible study last Monday night b/c I wanted to come home and tell Aaron all about it and then immediately call my sister.

Several minutes into the DVD Beth Moore said something to the effect of, "I know you all are sittin' there wonderin' when we are going to fill in the blanks on your study guides". She said we were going to have to do some digging this week to get the message, but that it'd be well worth it.

She was right!!!!

By the end of the study we were all speechless. Once again...fabulous this week.

****If you are a woman....you all must track down a church in your area that is doing this study. Then you must commit to going every week...no matter what comes up. You will NOT be disappointed. (Have I mentioned that???)*****

Ok...a few notes....here goes...

~Thank Him for what He has already done and for what He has left to do.

~Isn't it AWESOME to look at life and say, "That had to be God!"

~Everything happening in the narrative of Esther is allowed by God - He is using everything in the narrative to bring it back around. He is using the fear, anger, desperation, all of it to bring it back around.

~I loved it when Beth Moore said, "It's mighty good theology when God doesn't seem anywhere near."

~God caused King Xerxes insomnia that very night.

~The pivot point usually comes at the climax of the story. Not so in Esther. The pivot point is when King Xerxes couldn't sleep that night and called for the chronicles of his reign and questioned whether or not Mordecai had ever been rewarded for what he did. It did not occur at the climax, when Esther called out Haman.
~If the two had met it would have been Esther's doing. Instead it was all God.

~Esther was called to do the what not the how. She didn't have to wonder how to save her people. All she had to do was do what she was called to do, be obedient to God.

~Beth Moore spoke about reversal of destiny and peripety, a sudden change.
She pointed out that the greatest peripety happened while we were asleep.
As we lay our head down at night we'll never know what He has planned.

John 20:1