Hey everyone, this is Mary Demuth, and this, I almost forgot my name there, and this is Pray Every Day,

where I pray you through the Bible verse by verse with joy and intention and gratitude for you.

I'm so grateful that the Lord has created you and fashioned you in your mother's womb.

You were created for a purpose.

You have a calling, And God has given you

a light to be able to spread that light all around your neighborhood and all around your family.

And so just shine today and trust that God sees you. He's with you. He is for you. And if he be

for you, who can be against you? Rest in that today.

All right, today I'm reading from Esther chapter 2 verses 14 through 23 in the world English Bible, and this is what it says.

In the evening, Esther went, and on the next day she returned into the second women's house to the custody of Shazgas, the king's eunuch, who kept the concubines.

She came into the king no more unless the king delighted in her and she was called by name.

Now, when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abbe Hale, the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go into the king.

She required nothing, but what Hegai, the king's eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised.

Esther obtained favor in the sight of all who looked at her.

So Esther was taken to King Ahasaras into his royal house in the tenth month, which is the

month to Beth in the seventh year of his reign.

The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his

sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast.

And there he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces and gave gifts according to the king's bounty.

When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting to the king's bounty. When the virgins were gathered together the

second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate. Esther had not yet made known her relatives

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