Ep 29: For Such A Time As This: Lessons from Esther

Cultivate with Kelly Minter

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Talk Radio

5 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

We often wonder if our lives have a specific purpose in our specific place and time. Does God want to use our positions, backgrounds, giftings, personalities… for such a time as the one we’re living in? In this week’s episode we’ll look at the life of Esther, a woman whom God providentially used to save an entire population of Jews. God used her heritage, upbringing, relationships, and position to bring this to pass. But, mostly, I believe that God used Esther’s trust in Him to bring deliverance however He saw fit. We’ll talk about facing our fears, how to determine if something is God’s will, executing plans within community, and trusting the sovereignty of God. You don’t want to miss this episode! For the full show notes visit kellyminter.com/podcast

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0:00.0	From K-Love books, We're So Blessed is a new 40-day family-oriented devotional written to help your family recognize God's hand in your everyday lives, and to realize how truly blessed you are as a child of God.
0:13.9	Authored by three siblings who make up the Christian music group Kane, We're So Blessed, offers a personal glimpse into their childhood and family,
0:22.1	plus activity ideas and questions your family will love.
0:26.0	We're So Blessed is available now wherever you buy books.
0:29.5	A link is also in today's show notes.
0:34.1	Access More.
1:11.8	Yeah. Access more. Welcome to the Cultivate Podcast. I'm Kelly Minter, and I'm so glad that you are here with me today. I hope that your day has been going well. Mine has been good. It has been busy. I did actually go to the dentist today. So maybe I should have downgraded my assessment from good to like a nominal day because you know how it is when you have a day where you go to the dentist.
1:17.6	But thankfully, I'm grateful we can get our teeth cleaned. That is a blessing. We love. We appreciate our dentists. But yeah, no, it's been a good day. In fact, I've got a chicken soup, a homemade
1:22.7	chicken soup on the stove right now. It should be simmering. I hope it's not boiling because that
1:29.3	would be so problematic while I am tucked away in my office recording this podcast. My house is
1:36.1	very torn up there. I think I've mentioned I have a little bit of construction going on,
1:40.2	and so I am in the only reasonably orderly room in the house and the door is shut and I'm
1:47.6	pretending that my life is in order.
1:49.8	But it's really not.
1:51.1	But that's okay.
1:51.9	Maybe that will give you some encouragement if you are feeling a little disheveled or flustered today.
1:56.8	We over the next three minutes are going to take a deep breath.
2:03.0	We are going to open our Bibles to the Old Testament book of Esther, and we are going to talk about what it means to live for such a time
2:10.6	as this. And wrapped up in living for such a time as this, we're going to look at how to face our fears,
2:17.4	how Esther faced her fears, how Esther
2:18.1	faced her fears, how she made a plan, even when she didn't know the specific will of God,
2:24.9	how she knew the general will of God, and how she executed a plan within the context of community,
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