According to Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, there's comfort in knowing that God is in control.

Don't stay up at night, fretting and worrying and trying to figure out, what am I going to do when I get out of college?

How am I going to get a job? What am I going to do about this or about that?

God knows. God cares. God is going ahead to make preparation. That's God's providence.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, co-author of You Can Trust God to Write Your Story.

For March 7th, 2025, I'm Dana Gresh.

Thank you. I'm Dana Gresh. If there's anything we've been learning from Esther, it's that God has a plan, and he's working it out.

You might find that easy to see when you're reading a story like Esther's, but it can be more difficult

when you don't know how your story is going to end. Let's listen as Nancy continues her study

called Esther, God's woman at God's time. We're picking up today in Esther chapter 2, verse 19,

and as they say, the plot thickens. Esther is now in the king's palace

and has become actually the queen of Persia. She has been selected out of hundreds of other women.

The king has had favor on her. He has taken this young Jewish girl, probably a teenager.

He's taken her to be his queen. We've read the end of the story,

so we know what God was up to. But Esther and her cousin Mordecai, who was her adopted father,

had no clue what God was doing. But we see that God was working in his providence in and through

their circumstances. Now, verse 19, when the virgins were gathered together the second time,

these are the women of the king's harem. Mordecai, Esther's adopted father, was sitting at the

king's gate. Now, you know if you've read other passages of scripture, such as the book of

Ruth, where the king's gate comes into play there. Proverbs 31 talks about the man sitting at the

gate of the King. The King's Gate was the place where commercial and legal business was

transacted. And it suggests that now Mordecai had risen to some position of responsibility.

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