Nancy DeMoss Walgamoov says, when you have a request, a lot depends on how you ask.

I think sometimes the way we approach people in leadership explains why they don't respond in positive ways.

Because we don't give them a chance to breathe. We don't give them a chance to think.

If they feel attacked, same as you, when your children come to you, if they're attacking you, if they say, I don't agree with your decision, you shouldn't have

made that decision, I don't have to do that. Is that going to make you want to reconsider

your decision? Not hardly. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth,

author of Brokenness, The Heart God Revives.

From March 17th, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh.

Well, it's St. Patrick's Day, everywhere on green today, eating cabbage and corned beef.

Nancy's in a series that is looking at events surrounding a different holiday, the Jewish

Festival of Purim, which was just celebrated last week.

Now, in case you didn't know, that holiday exists still today because God frustrated the cruel plans of Haman,

one of the characters we've gotten to know in our current series, Esther, God's woman at God's time.

Here's Nancy.

Now, just to back up here for a moment, in the last session, we saw that the king couldn't sleep,

so he read the chronicles, he realized that five king couldn't sleep, so he read the chronicles.

He realized that five years earlier, Mordecai had saved his life, but nothing had ever been done

to honor him. So he says, who's in the court? And he wants to find out what can be done to

honor this man. Haman happens to be standing out in the court at the crack of dawn. It's Providence. We saw that. Because Haman has just built a gallows on which he wants to impale Mordecai. He's coming to ask the king to give him permission to do that.

Heyman's agenda and the king's agenda are very different at this time, but God is the one who is in control of the timing.

So, verse 6, Haman comes in and the king says to him, what should be done to the man

whom the king delights to honor? And Haman said to himself, whom would the king delight to honor

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