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Esther Part 1
Esther 4
Main Idea: God’s providence is always greater then our own longings
Hello Everyone!
Welcome to Junior High Youth Group!
It is awesome to be with you all!
In case you don’t know me, my name is Zach and I am the director of student ministries here at Bethel.
I am excited to be speaking with tonight, because we are going to be covering one of my favorite stories in Scripture.
Esther--
So if you have your Bibles we are going to be in Esther 4 tonight.
If you don’t have one that is okay, the words will be on the screen, but might I encourage you to bring your Bible with you.
It is important to see the text and read the text for yourself.
As you are finding Esther.
I want to ask you guys a question:
Have you ever left like you just didn’t belong somewhere?
Or that you didn’t understand why you were placed some where?
Like lets be real here, Have you ever thought, why was I born to this family, in Galesburg, IL? Like why here, and why now?
Me:
I would often ask these questions when I wasn’t really satisfied with where my life was.
I would be frustrated about work, when I worked at Hy-Vee and I would often ask God or even beg God to let me go somewhere else.
When I was about 23 I remember getting my own bakery with Hy-Vee.
I became a bakery manager at one of the worse stories in the QC.
Davenport #1— This was the first store in Davenport.
It was built on Rockingham Road and it still is there today.
I took of this position and I was hopeful that I could turn this around.
I’m a pretty optimistic person and I was expecting the bakery to turn around.
You see it would lose thousands of dollars every month.
And I was going to change that.
So I tried and I tried and I tried some more.
That still wound not happen— I was working about 60-70 hours every week.
I had people that would call in and since I was the manger a would have to cover their shift.
I remember getting to bed one night at 11pm to only be woken up at 1:30am from the store saying that my donut frier wasn’t there.
I was at the store by 2am worked all day, was about to leave then my closer called in sick.
So I stayed till 8pm.
It was awful.
And I quickly became burnt out and I wanted a change.
and in less then 2 months in I was looking for another bakery to jump too.
I was told no by my bosses bosses.
It was the worse.
And I recall praying to God ask him why here, why do you want me to be here?
I didn’t get it.
It was miserable.
And I remember God just telling me to be patient.
and see what I see.
And here is what God saw— a community that was run down, the people coming into the store were poor, they were the lease of these.
They were run down and beat down, our store would get people coming in and stealing stuff weekly.
You know what the people needed, someone to care and someone to love them.
And that included the workers as well.
The workers just needed someone to believe in them.
Why was I put there— to care for people, to be a light for people, to encourage people.
I learned so much from that store once I stopped fighting to get out.
We:
But when we are in the thick of a crappy situation we tend to complain and whine about not wanting to be there.
We long to be somewhere else.
We want to be anywhere else.
So what do we do, we try to make it happen on our own.
We take matters into our own hands.
We pray to God, God why am I here, when I long to be there.
God I can’t wait to leave this stupid town.
People really don’t like Galesburg and I have no idea why?
We go to God and say, God I hate my family, why am I part of this terrible family?
God help me get out of here.
And look God wants to hear from you, but has it ever crossed your mind that maybe God has you exactly where you are suppose to be?
Like God’s providence is greater than your own longings.
God’s providence is God's caring provision for his people as he guides them in their journey of faith through life, accomplishing his purpose in them.
Like maybe your purpose is to be right where you are.
And hearing that may be very discouraging, but what I want to show you today is how God used someone through his provision to save His people.
God:
So lets go to God’s word and read about Esther.
But before we do, lets talk about Esther first, because you may not be aware of who she is or why she is important.
Okay there are 5 people you will want to remember.
We have Ester that is simple— she would become queen.
Mordecai who is Esther’s cousin that is taking care of her.
King Ahasuerus but we are going to call him King Xerxes.
We have the former queen Vashti
And lastly we have Hamon— say boo Hamon.
Okay let me give you a run down.
King Xerxes was having a party, because he can.
He is the king of Persia.
and his queen is Veshti
So the king is having a 7 day party.
It is massive and fun.
At the end of it all he commands his queen to come before his friends so he can show her off.
She refuses.
Here is why this is a big deal.
The king is the most powerful person in the land and he commands armies and other people and if the queen stands up to him and refuses his command how long before others do that as well?
It is like if a parent doesn’t respect his spouse eventually the kids will see that and they too will not listen or respect the other parent.
So she openly defies the King.
The king says oh no honey not today!
He sends her away and because he is the king he gets to get a new queen.
So they pull all the women together and Esther finds favor with the King.
Esther and her cousin Mordecai are both jews who are living in Persia, this is a big deal because the Persian people were not the biggest fans of the jews.
So they kept their ethnicity quite.
She becomes the new queen.
All is well and happy!
Now one day Mordecai hears two of the kings men plotting to kill the king.
He tells Esther, Esther tells the king, the king then has these men hung for their act of treason.
And Esther tells the king that it was Mordecai that told her this.
The king’s officials wrote it down.
That was that.
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