We live in a world where situational ethics is just about all you see.

People do what they think is right based on the current situation.

God wants us to be people who live by resolve.

You don't live by convenience.

You have convictions.

I'm going to do right because it is right.

What's more important to you, what God says or what people think?

Hello and welcome to today's Destin for Victory,

featuring the teaching ministry of Pastor Paul Shepard.

In the book of Esther, the people of God have to ask themselves that very question when they're threatened by the King of Persia.

How did they handle the crisis, and what does it mean for you and me?

The answers come your way in just a moment, but before we get to Pastor Paul's preaching today,

I wanted to share with you a conversation

that we had about today's message, bringing Christ into your crisis.

I ask him to talk about why it's so hard to let God fight our battles for us, and here's

what Pastor had to say.

Well, you know, people say that the first law of nature is self-preservation. And when it comes to dealing with the crises

that we face as followers of the Lord, our minds tend to kick into overdrive, trying to figure out

how to solve our problems, just like everybody else. The difference is we who are followers

of Christ know that we don't have to figure everything out. What we have

to learn to do is give those challenges, those crises to the Lord because he cares about us

not only in good times, he cares about us in the difficult times. In fact, he is the one

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