Nancy DeMas Walgamuth hears from women with so many questions.

Why did God put me in this marriage?

Why did God put me in this workplace?

Why did God put me in this community?

Why did God put me in this country, in this place, in this circumstance?

We don't know.

But we trust God's providence that he has a purpose for putting us there.

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

to Write Your Story. For March 5th, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh.

Today, we'll hear about a teenager caught up in a culture that disrespected women.

I hope you're encouraged to see how God remained with her as she navigated a dangerous world.

Nancy's continuing a series called Esther, God's Woman at God's Time. We've spent the last several days in Esther chapter one, which takes place in the third year of the rule of King Xerxes.

And during that chapter, we see that his queen Vashti resists his demand to come and appear at this lewd, drunken feast,

and he deposes her, she's now off the throne. This whole first chapter took place

while Xerxes was preparing to launch an offensive war against the Greeks. The king does not

immediately replace Vashti. Instead, he sets off to invade Greece.

So when we pick up in chapter two and it says after these things, this is actually four years later.

And what has happened in the meantime between chapter one and chapter two is that the king has

suffered a humiliating loss to the Greeks.

I remember we said that Hagerus, or Xerxes, as he's called,

and some of your translations, was an arrogant man.

He was an angry man.

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