 God is good. We thank the Lord for giving us an opportunity once again to be here this morning. I am happy and delighted to know that we are yearning to learn from God who created us. Each time when He has given us an opportunity, we want to hear more and more. We want to sing His praises for His, our God. And therefore this morning, I am inviting the online worshipers and the fiscal church that we unite together for our morning devotion. And as we said this week in our morning devotion, we have a theme that is leading us that is saying, let God be God. And we already heard from our yesterday's speaker that God can come in in a situation that you think it is too hard to solve. And when God steps in, things are going to be different because He has a solution for every problem. And this morning, I want us to be able to focus our study on the book of Esther and see what God asks for us. When we are saying, let God be God, what comes out clearly from the book of Esther. In our mind, back in our mind, we should be able to know that there are situations in life, that there are things that come in life that we are unable to address, we are unable to know what we are supposed to do. But here today, I am letting you know that let God be God in every situation. And before we do our reading, may we pray. Father, because you are God, I want to invite you this hour that you speak to us and you let us know how deep you are rooted in our lives and how you can control our situation and help me to be able to bring this one into our hearing that God can be able to go out and say that now I have let everything at the feet of Jesus because if you control every situation, speak to us this morning we pray in Jesus' name. In the book of Esther, I know many times we rush to see what Esther did but this morning I want us to be able to coin our thinking and see what God has even from other minor people in the book of Esther and clearly you and me know that in the book of Esther, the word God is not mentioned anywhere but it is that God who is able to move actions in the book of Esther is able to drive the characters who are appearing in the book of Esther to be able to come out and share the mightness of Jesus Christ and they are able to let us know that God has been God all the times from ancient, the present, into the future because him, when he is in the situation he will drive that situation in the best way he knows how. Then in the book of Esther we find that the king of Texas is having a banguit then he calls people to come and have some time with him then people come and marry and make some good times together then at some point he requests that now let Queen Vashiti be brought to the congregation and the way that the king requested Vashiti to be brought before the people it was not pleasing for Vashiti and Vashiti declined and when Vashiti declined it now gives us a new playground for other things to be able to occur and when she said no the king was furious not by himself also and other people who were supporting him and they said now king we need to look for a new queen because this one she has disobeyed your command then they went out to search for new maids after assessment after some time they were to come and be assessed and be ready now to be accepted as the king's queen then now Queen Esther comes into the limelight then when Queen Esther comes she is given an opportunity but remember back in your mind Queen Esther she is coming to the palace to the people where she is not supposed to be known because she was a Jew and this was another community altogether and we know Queen Esther did not want to be able to tell these people who she was and even when she was brought to the palace her uncle who was Modekai told her not to be able to say who she is and Queen Esther was able to keep to that now the story changes when Queen Esther she is in the palace there is this man called Haman Haman comes in the picture because he was so close to the queen he was like the king he was the advice of the king then when he comes in he is having some issues with the Jews and the first person he had an issue with was Modekai and Modekai is an angle to who to Queen Esther and these people are Jews they are living in a foreign land but they are also in a small number and when you are in a foreign land you are in a small number you want to maintain maybe your smallness you don't want even people to know more about you but Queen Esther and Modekai they have been brought into the limelight for us to know the way God can stand in situations and be able to be seen by people who do not want to see that God can work miracles in their life now Haman plots to kill the Jews and you see this man he was evil man he wanted the best for himself so he want even Modekai to bow down when he is passing for him to be able to know that I am the commandant chief I can able to do this and that now that story I can shift it now to chapter 4 of the book of Esther and I am interested in a few verses then we continue you see Modekai and Esther they have devised a method for them to be able to stay in this country and now Modekai has asked Esther do not disclose who we are but as you are staying there remember you are a Jew and you are not going to say that you are not a Jew but you are not going to tell them now the king the king is confronted by Haman and Haman comes with advice to be able to kill these people verse 8 of chapter 4 says and he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given to Shushan to destroy them to shoe it unto Esther and to declare it unto her and to charge her that she should go in unto the king to make supplication unto him and to make request before him for her people that was what Modekai did to Esther he sent a message to Esther that Esther can you go to the king and display this note that this decree has been made for the Jews to be killed in Shushan and make sure you go to the king and make our supplication that our people can be spared and now when Hata came Esther the words of Modekai Esther gives a feedback and he says all the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces do know that whosoever whether man or woman shall come unto the king into the inner court who is not called there who is not called there is one law of his to put him to death except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter and that he may live but I have not been called to him to come into the king these 30 days the issue was go to the king but Esther is giving a feedback to Modekai saying you see our king you don't walk into the king's place and just present your case but unless the king calls you into his palace but he has not called me for the last 30 days so I do not know how am I going to address that one then Hattak makes the feedback to who to Modekai but 13 then Modekai commanded to answer Esther think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house more than all the Jews is just reminding Esther do not think that because you are in the palace you are going to escape as much as the Jews be killed you are not going to escape then Esther for if thou altogether holdest their peace at this time then shall there there an enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from other place but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed and who know it whether thou had come to the kingdom for such a time as this remember friends Esther is like they are exchanging with Modekai Modekai is the one who brought up Esther and Modekai understands Esther very well she is telling Esther Esther please go make a supplication plead for us before the king that our people may not be killed but Esther is like now I can't be able to make that one because the king has not given me an opportunity but she is being reminded that do not hold your peace knowing that you will be able to be out of this but you see sometimes when we are in some situations we could think that now we have nothing that we can be able to do but at the same time Modekai is reminding Esther but you can be able to do something for our people and he is telling him you never knew why God brought you to this place as such a time as this then now something that now brings God into the picture of Modekai and the rest of the people in verse 16 then Esther says go gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan and first first year for me neither eat nor bring three days, night and day I also and my maidens will fast likewise and so will I go into the king and to the king which is not according to the law if I perish if I do what I perish Esther has decided that now I have to take this thing by my might that I go to the king but the issue here is I go if I perish I do what I perish be sure I am going yes but if the king decides to erase me from the face of the earth it's okay but if you will be able to give me an earring it's okay let me tell you friends our God when he sees that situations are hard in our lives he will give us courage for us to be able to go forward no matter what comes on our way that's why you see Esther is coming with such a courage he's saying as much I am seeing that God is invisible is not around to be able to take care of my situation I will go to the king but before I go to the king I will leave up my praises and my supplication to the king of kings who is God hello to the king of what the king of kings why? he knew the king who is king of Texas might be able to turn her away or might be able to take the decree of the country and say now because I am not called you here you are entitled to death it's okay Esther says I will go if I perish I do what I perish my friends this morning you do not fear any situation that you are in God is working as much as his absence sometimes you want to see that God is just working here with us as much as you feel that God is absent from your situation he is right there just make a what a step of faith and say that God even if I die I am sure I will die and rest and I am your God and Esther says I will go to the king go fast 3 days 3 nights this fasting was a way of letting God to be the the controller of the situation and is a way of telling us as much as God is not mentioned in the book of Esther he is coming visibly in the prayer and fasting many times after all this church this church that you people if you want to to feel the presence of God try God in prayer try God in fasting but that God can be able to come down and change your situation as hard as it seems to be as that way it is so hard for you to be able to walk in even if it is it is at the rock end God will stand with you what happened Esther went in and you know what happened chapter 5 verse 1 says now it came to pass after fasting and the Jews were fasting Esther was fasting with her maids then now it came to pass on the third day that Esther put on a royal apparel and stood in the inner court of the king's house over against the king's house and the king sat upon the royal throne in the royal house over against the gate of the house and it was so when the king saw Esther hello when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court that she obtained favor hallelujah in the sites and the king held there to Esther the what the golden scepter see what God can do when God comes into our situation even the hardest king even the rock heart of our king can be able to be smashed and be ready to accept the power of God and Queen Esther when she was she dress well in her own apparel good and ready to go and present the supplication of his people when the king saw Queen Esther he extended the golden scepter God can be able to stand for you even the time you never even think of in the darkest corner of your life God can be able to to stretch his scepter golden scepter before you and when he has done that my friend even the hardest people to be able to recognize that God can be God anywhere they are able to say that this one is not no human work no human power can be able to stand on this this one is another power let me tell you when Harman saw this when Harman heard that the king was able to was able to stretch was able to hold the golden scepter to Queen Esther I think back in his mind he was trembling and asking what is wrong with this king but God was standing on behalf of Esther it was not Esther anymore it was God who was crawling in the upper hand of Esther God was shining forth because when in every situation we let God be our God He will stand firm and make everything to be possible before the kings of the world what is it that you think that God cannot be able to do your marriage your children your job what is it you feel that God cannot be able to move go right there talk to your boss tell him I want to worship on Sabbath that is what God has want as saying the decree is remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy I will not come and work on Sabbath just go even if you lose that job God will provide another one what is it that you feel that God cannot be able to do you are woman who is troubled in your marriage that you feel I have been in my marriage for a long time I do not have children or I gave back to children and they died my friend do not be confused to go to which doctors and sorcerers just forge forward God would be able to uphold once again I remember when the king was able to hold out the golden sceptre Esther came in and said and when the king saw her he said queen God do you want and queen Esther was able to lay down her request she said king please you are welcome for the banquet first day welcome for the banquet second day and he did not know something was cooking my friends let me remind you that this haman as much as he was plotting to be able to kill the Jews he did not know that the invisible God was visibly in the life of Esther and the other Jews and he was going to shine forth whether he was whether haman was able to agree or not and that's why you find haman it was a promise that was made back in the book of Exodus chapter 17 verse 14 when the Amalekais did not want the Israelites to pass when they were going to the promised land and they were staying there as a sampling block and God promised and said that see that I will destroy the Amalekais and this haman is one of the grand grand grand children of the Amalekais and when he is being destroyed in the book of Esther it is the promise of God that God had promised many many years before it's becoming to a reality friends it can take years hello it can take years and years and years but God has promised that if you let him be God in every situation he will destroy all your enemies hallelujah he will destroy he will move away he will roll the big stones in your life and give you a free way of living therefore in chapter 6 verse 1 then that night on that night on that night could one could not the king sleep and he commanded to bring the book of the records of the chronicles that were read before the king and it was found written that Modekai had told of Bigda and teresh two of the king's jambalins the keepers of the door who sought to lay hand on King Haswerus do you know what happened took at the wrong story shot when the king knew the good records of Modekai he called Haaman and asked Naaman what good thing do you think that a man who places the king should be given and he said Modekai in his own mind because he knew the one who is close to the king he said let that man be given a good apparel and be driven all around someone ahead of him saying this is what can be done to the man that the king rejoices he did not know it was going to be his enemy who was going to receive that one and he was told what you have suggested do the same thing to Modekai and Modekai received that honor friends this morning let God be God in your situation let God be what you can be lifted high up you can be given the honor that you want so long as you uplift the name of who the name of God in your life God can seem to be far away in many of our situation but he is present hallelujah he can seem to be absent but he is present our only issues human being is to open our minds open our eyes wide open to be able to see what God can do and remember this there is no common man who can be able to understand spiritual things it's only the one who has let Jesus Christ to reign and to be able to guide his life who can be able to understand the things of heaven spiritual things are spiritually discerned but things of this world they can be discerned by another person because we are common people but spiritual things they must be given spiritual dreams and remember the absence of God in our situation sometimes it is an invitation for you to be able to look closer to Jesus Christ and move to Jesus Christ hallelujah and even if it means death move because God knows on how to preserve his people let God be what be God as I invite our choristers to come and lead us in the song 439 lemme remind you this the silence of God speaks a lot the silence of God speaks a lot when you let God be God even in silence he is still speaking halo even in silence and remember the grace of God is sufficient for each and every other person that when we move to God he is always moving closer to us when we move towards him he is moving closer to us because he knows that without his power we cannot be able to move and therefore friends this morning remember the book of Esther has been given as a lead for us for us to be able to know and understand that even the invisible God when he is given an opportunity he becomes visible in our actions and character of this life and I pray that this God may be able to drive us as we are nearing home as we are getting we are getting prepared to go back home and we know that God is coming again and when we ask our friends and when they seem not to have an answer our God when given an opportunity he will remain to be our God hallelujah and therefore this morning I'm inviting you if you have any prayer requests write it down we have prayer boxes at this end and when we have sung this song we are going to go on our knees plead our case before God and tell God we have allowed you this week that you be God in our life even if it is death if I go to the king's place if I perish I perish but I know God will hold on and to ask