4: 14 вЂ“ 16) Many had failed and fallen because they are walking alone without a guide, father or mother. Do you have a father? Who are you responsible to? Who can look at you eyeball to eyeball and tell you вЂyou are wrongвЂ™? (Read Est. She remained connected to God through her uncle all through her life in a sin laden environment. She had to live with Mordecai her uncle after the death of her father and mother (Est. 2:15) lived in a strange land under a Godly counsel. THE NEED FOR A FATHER, MOTHER OR GUIDE: Esther the daughter of Abihail (Est. What is your name and who are you? Many of us answer Christian names or titles but we behave like unbelievers. We judge names not only by its source but by the character, dignity and integrity of the bearer. The name we answer is important but there is more to it than just answering those names. She was not popularly known by her Jewish name yet with this foreign name she became a woman of substance.

WHAT IS YOUR EXCUSE TODAY? IS IT YOUR NAME?: The name Esther was from Persian stara meaning star or from Ishtah, a Babylonian goddess given to Hadassah (her Jewish name meaning myrtle). It would not be an excuse in heaven because God himself knows all about our locations just as He wrote toВ seven churches which are in Asia unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. DonвЂ™t allow your location determine your faith but rather transform your location with your faith. The Scripture says if we faint in the days of adversity, our strength is small. However, we must not backslide or go back or renounce our faith in the face of battle or adversity. But I assure you, theirs is a lost battle because Jesus has won it all for us. But He had prayed that the father should not take us out of this world but preserve us yet we are faced with the battles for supremacy as the seeds from the kingdom of darkness are now fast moving to take their pounds of flesh on us. Please reason it out, how hostile was EstherвЂ™s environment? Are we not in the same hostile environment today? Jesus Christ bruised the head of Satan and gave us victory. Hamman was actually asking for his own pounds of flesh for what Samuel did to his fore father.

Now the descendants of Saul(Jews) are now in the trap so to say of the descendants of Agag. Agag was the king brought home by King Saul whom he should have killed but was eventually beheaded by Samuel, the Prophet. Imagine the beginning of the battle between the house of Mordecai and Hamman.

Mordecai (EstherвЂ™s Uncle) was a Benjamite and descendant of Kish, the father of Saul while Haman was the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, and a descendant of the Amalekite king conquered by Saul (Ex. Must we then fold our arms seeing the Devil take over our rightful possessions? What made Esther excelled in her foreign and hostile land? Let us consider together the exemplary life of Esther tracing her background. And instead of finding solace in the church, we are often disappointed with the corrupt and sinful practices from the altar to the pulpit. LOCATION OF ESTHER: Many of us today blame our unfruitfulness as vessels of God on our hostile and sin laden environment.

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