When we’re moving in line with God’s will there is abundant Favour. Esther 2
The Book of Esther doesn’t mention the Name of God, but His Hand is continually moving on behalf of His people – reminiscent of what’s going on today!
There were two queens in the Book, Vashti who refused to obey the call of the king and was banished from his side. Will this represent part of the present day Church?
We’re introduced to Esther in the second chapter of the book and told that she was an orphan, who’d been raised by her uncle Mordecai.
This young woman, who was also known as Esther, was lovely in form and features. Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died. Esther 2:7
A search was made to find a new wife for the king and Esther was taken to the King’s palace and put in the care of Hegai, who oversaw the harem.
9 The girl pleased him and WON HIS FAVOUR. Immediately he provided her with her beauty treatments and special food. He assigned to her seven female attendants selected from the king’s palace and moved her and her attendants INTO THE BEST PLACE in the harem.
Esther had Favour and received the Best from Hegai, the man in charge. God wants His children to have the Best. Matthew 6:33
Esther was instructed by her uncle not to reveal her ‘nationality and family background’. She was ‘forbidden and hidden’ in the palace of the king. God has many such people today in centres of power and when His time is right they will be revealed to the shock and dismay of our enemies.
The girls who were going to be sent to the king had to undertake a beauty treatment lasting a full twelve months.
15 When the turn came for Esther … to go to the king, she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. (She took advice from an expert) And Esther won the FAVOUR OF EVERYONE WHO SAW HER.
No doubt Esther was stunningly beautiful, but maybe something more attracted people to her. God can GIVE US OUTSTANDING FAVOUR when we need it too, just like Esther.
17 Now the king was attracted to Esther more than to any of the other women, and SHE WON HIS FAVOUR AND APPROVAL MORE THAN ANY OF THE OTHER VIRGINS. So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti. 18 And the king gave a great banquet, Esther’s banquet, for all his nobles and officials. He proclaimed a holiday throughout the provinces and distributed gifts with royal liberality.
Favour followed Esther and the king made her his queen in place of Vashti. Three times in this chapter we read of Favour for Esther, culminating in her rise to the king’s side. The Bride Church (not the harlot Church) will be shown Favour in the coming days, visible to all and there will be great Rejoicing.
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