One bad thing after another happened to Esther, but God was with her.

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

In God's providence, he overruled a tragic situation for the good of his people and for the fulfillment of his redemptive plan.

And that's what God specializes in doing.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamoo, co-author of You Can Trust God

to Write Your Story.

For March 4th, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh.

If you're sometimes tempted to focus on your husband's faults, imagine being married to a drunken dictator with multiple wives.

That's the story Nancy began yesterday. It's a story that will help you hope in God, no matter whom you're

married to, what your future looks like, or what opposition you face. Here's Nancy in this series,

Esther, God's woman at God's time. We're still in the first paragraph of the book of Esther,

and we're looking at this first

chapter which gives us a backdrop for how Esther came to be the queen.

And we're seeing that the central character thus far as a man named King Ahazuerus.

That's Ahazuerus with a capital A.

Or as some of your translations say King Xerxes, say man.

And we've seen that this king, Xerxes, King of Hazuarez, is a man who has absolute authority.

At least he thinks he does.

He is the king over a vast empire, perhaps a hundred million people in population.

And he's a man who has great affluence, great wealth, and great arrogance. We saw in the last session that he brings all the noblemen,

all the important people of the kingdom together

for a six-month exhibition of his wealth, his splendor.

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