Read: Esther 5-10
Esther knew that what she was about to do was so serious that it would need prayer and fasting. Jesus told us that to get some people free it would take prayer and fasting. Esther was wanting to free a nation from the anti-christ spirit. She knew they would need more than just prayer. Sometimes it takes fasting to bring down a stronghold.
As the whole Jewish nation fasted, God reversed the curse that Haman had devised and put it on him and his family instead. That is exactly what happens when we pray, fast, and fight the enemy. The plans that he has planned for us return to him. The Jews not only got to defend themselves but they won. Fear of who they were fell on the people and they joined them. Mordecai, who had been a gate guard was promoted to Haman’s job and given respect and honor. He worked for the good of the people instead of his own honor like Haman. Esther won the love and respect of her husband and the nation. Purim became a Jewish national holiday. Purim means to cast lots. It reminds us that the lots have already been cast and we win. All we have to do is to appropriate that victory and claim it. It might take prayer and fasting to overcome but the victory is ours.
I noticed that they didn’t ever take any of the plunder of their enemies. The enemy has nothing that we want. Everything good comes from God.
This is encouraging to us about our nation. We can fast and pray for America and expect the Lord to reverse all the negative things the devil has planned for her. We need to have the boldness and courage of Esther to go before God and ask for the impossible. We need to have the passion for our nation that Mordecai had that we will not just stand by and let our nation be led to destruction under an evil government.
Lord, we pray that God’s people will seriously pray and fast for our nation and fight for a reversal of evil and the rise of a standard of righteousness.
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