It’s wisdom to seek the Lord before taking a step! Esther 4
In the Book of Esther we see two different approaches to meeting with an earthly leader, but both looked for spiritual guidance and aid!
Haman the Agagite(enemy of the Jews) had been honoured by King Xerces above all the other nobles. ‘All the royal officials knelt down and paid honour to Haman(be careful who or what you kneel down to/worship today!) but Mordecai the Jew would not kneel down or pay him honour’. Esther 3:2 Haman was enraged 3:5, but having found out that Mordecai was a Jew, he looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai’s people. The genocide of the Jewish race, all living within Xerces’ kingdom, would have prevented the Messiah coming(Hitler wanted to prevent His return with death camps). Both men used witchcraft to direct their plans.
“In the 12th year of King Xerxes,… they cast the pur (that is, the lot) in the presence of Haman to select a day and month (to destroy the Jews). And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar”. Esther 3:7
Mordecai learn’t what had happened and contacted Esther through a eunuch called Hathach. Mordecai told him what happened, gave him a copy of the edict and told Esther to ‘go into the king’s presence and beg for mercy and plead with him for her people’. 3:8 Esther pointed out that to go into the king’s presence uninvited meant death unless he extended the gold sceptre to her. Thirty days had passed since she’d been called to go to the king. Mordecai told her that she wouldn’t escape if she kept silent but deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place and she and her father’s family would die. The roles then changed and Esther gave Mordecai her instructions;
“Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the King even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish. So Mordecai went away and carried out all of Esther’s instructions”. Esther 4:16,17
This was a National emergency for the Jewish people, but the point was they sought God’s help. Three days of corporate fasting before Esther would go forward. There’s always the temptation to jump in and do something in our own strength or ability, but it’s much better and safer to seek Heaven’s support.
God has blessings for our lives and the enemy may try to block these, but when we turn to God he won’t prevail.
God bless and keep you as you walk with Him in the these days.