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The book of Esther, as Mordecai has informed Esther about the King's edict to destroy, annihilate

all the Jews on a certain day.

And Esther is wrestling with what to do about this edict because she knows it would be

risking her life to even try to go to the King and to attempt to persuade him to change

an edict he'd made.

So Mordecai says to her, if you keep silent at this time, I love this phrase, relief and

deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place.

Like the faith of Mordecai here, he knows God is going to save his people.

He knows God's going to be faithful to his promises, to his covenant with his people.

He says relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place.

But you and your father's house will perish.

Mordecai says, and who knows whether or not you have come to the kingdom for such a time

as this.

Esther God has put you at this time and this place for the accomplishment of his purpose.

And you know the story, if you've read Esther, you know the story.

She risks her life after fasting and praying and calling others to fast and pray.

She goes to the King and asks him to change the edict he's made.

In other words, she's faithful in the time and place in which God has put her.

So I think the way we pray according to this verse is pretty obvious.

Because we pray you, because we know your purposes will be accomplished in the world.

We pray you that revelation and all that we read there will happen.

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