Remember that God is King (Esther 6:7)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 29 January 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on Esther 6:7, David Platt reminds us that God is the King over everything and everyone. Explore more content from Radical.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:04.5	Esther chapter 6, verse 7.
0:07.6	And Haman said to the king, for the man whom the king delights to honor.
0:14.9	So Haman says this to the king, thinking that the king is going to honor him without getting into the rest
0:23.5	of the story right now, that's not actually what ends up happening.
0:26.9	But the whole picture here, when I read this verse, that I want to lead us to pray according
0:33.6	to, is the reality, the biblical truth, that the king's heart is ultimately in the hands of God.
0:45.9	We see that truth clearly.
0:48.3	Proverbs chapter 21, verse 1, the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, and he moves it wherever he wills.
0:58.1	And so as we see in Esther chapter 6, Haman talking about what the king's heart is going to decide to do.
1:05.7	It's a good reminder to all of us that ultimately the hearts of kings are in the hands of God.
1:14.8	There is no king in this world, no ruler in this world, no president in this world that is
1:21.8	ultimately sovereign over anything. Ultimately, our king, the God we're about to pray to, is sovereign over
1:31.7	everything. Now, there's obviously mystery to how all of this plays out as kings do all sorts of
1:39.5	things, sinful, pagan, evil kings, not just today, but in the Old Testament doing all sorts of things.
1:48.0	But the constant reminder and encouragement we have in God's word is that ultimately,
1:55.9	God is king, is sovereign over at all. And so we pray,
2:07.7	Oh God, you are the king, capital K king, to whom all kings will one day bow. All presidents will one day bow. All queens, all rulers, all dictators,
2:23.4	all generals and commanders and people with all kinds of positions,
2:30.5	every knee will bow. In heaven, on earth and under the earth, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, is king overall. and so we take our rightful place today at your feet we bow before you
2:43.8	our hearts our lives we say you are the king and we are so glad you're the king. You're the king of our hearts,
2:54.0	the king of our lives, the king of our families, the king of your church, the king of the nations.
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