Esther 1:1-22

Setting the stage for Esther’s arrival

• A half-year party followed by a seven-day fiesta

• Queen Vashti Summoned
- It was never God’s design that a wife

to her husband’s

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• Dealing with Vashti’s refusal – A royal decree issued to all wives in the kingdom
• God opens the way for Esther
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, pushing, and rearranging events and changing minds until he brings out of, even the most warped and secular settings, a decision that will set his perfect plan in place.

Mark this down in permanent ink: God is

! But his ways are different than ours (Isaiah 55:8-11).

Three Timeless Lessons:

1. God’s plans are
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   even when the events of this world appear godless.
2. God’s purposes are
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   by moral or marital failures.
3. God’s people are
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   from high places because of handicap or hardship.

Whether you see him or not, he is

this very moment.