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Esther chapter 4 verses 15 and 16.

Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai.

Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa and hold a

fast on my behalf. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young

women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king

though it is against the law and if I perish I perish.

Two things I want to point out in these verses.

As Esther has heard from Mordecai that the king has made a decree to basically annihilate, kill all the Jewish people and Esther has a part

she can play, a critical part she can play in helping avert that by going to the king. Now she knows if she goes to the king

uninvited she could lose her life. That's why she says if I perish I perish. So two things I want to point out here one she's willing to

die for the salvation of the Jewish people like there is a surrender here that I pray for in my life. I pray for in your life that we would give our lives so that others might be saved.

That in and of itself is enough to drive us to pray.

But that's the point, the thing I want to point out even before that in this verse, before that statement if I perish, I perish, she says go and fast.

Tell all the Jewish people to fast and I'm going to do the same like seek God fast and pray and so

I I want to encourage you today,

even as this text is speaking to my own heart,

let's fast and pray for this salvation of people. And then let's lay our lives down so that others might be saved.

You just think, what does that look like in your life in light of people around you who don't know the gospel who don't know Christ.

Like are you willing to fast? Put aside food so that you might pray and just

bleed for God to bring them to Christ?

Are you fasting for the salvation of people around you.

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