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

This is the day the Lord has made....

...let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24

Aaron and I have been waiting for this day. He more than me. I want so much to encourage him and lift him up everyday. I feel like I do a lousy job of it. So today while the girls and I were driving to Max's school to pick Max up, that bible verse just popped into my head. It was as if God were sitting in the passenger's seat, He switched off the CD and said listen up, "This is the day I made, how about you and your man rejoice in it instead of worrying when the news is going to come".

Message received loud and clear. As soon as we pulled up to the school, I pulled out my cell and texted my beloved.

I find myself so often wishing for the hours of the afternoon to quickly pass by instead of rejoicing in every minute of that God has made just for us.

My First Award...

Thank you, thank you, thank you to my great friend Amanda . She gave me my very first blog award. I LOVE it! I can't wait to post it on my blog and pass it on.

The award, however, comes with rules.

The rules of the award:

1) Choose a minimum of 7 blogs that you find brilliant in content or design.

2) Show the 7 winners names and links on your blog, and leave a comment informing them that they were prized with "Honest Scrap." Well, there's no prize, but they can keep the nifty icon.

3) List at least 10 honest things about yourself.

Ok...first things first....

The blogs I am awarding...

Stacy

Carrie

The Stay at Home Missionary

Amanda

A Holy Experience

Amanda did 5 so I am doing 5 :)

There are so many blogs that I love. It's become quite the addiction in my life.

Here are 10 things about me:

1. I love reading blogs. I wish that I could write as eloquently as some of the ones I read. I love that so many women take time out of their busy days to tell me the best deals I can find out there. I find comfort in those blogs that speak of their relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. I am amazed at the strength and faith at those who mourn and grieve through their blogs. I love knowing that no matter where in the world you are a mom, your stories are eerily similar. Oh, why do I find blogs so intriguing?
2. I believe that God put my family smack dab, right in the middle of this little town in Kentucky at this exact time for a reason.
3. I think expensive purses/bags are silly. Why should I spend hundreds of dollars on something that will never have more than a 20 dollar bill inside of it?
4. I am still proud of my 3-point record in high school.
5. I think I am most proud of giving birth to Maggie with no drugs. (God knew to make it quick though...He knows I couldn't take much more than a half hour.)
6. As much as I sometimes complain about how much my kids drive me batty....there is nothing else in the world I'd rather be doing than simply being their mommy.
7. I couldn't be the mom I am without my husband.
8. I would love to fulfill the destiny God has laid out for me in such a way that would make Him proud.
9. I lived in MI all my life and didn't go over the Mackinac Bridge until I was 23.
10. I have a great life. My childhood was great, I have great parents, college was great, my married life is great, my kids are great, my friends are great.