FAITH CAPSULE: Do not replace yourself from where He places you.

Esther: 1-17

As a child of God, are you in the right place engaging the right purpose of God for your life? Wherever you are or how you are will not stop God’s work on your behalf. He said in Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”The word of God is speaking to us and He is aware of where we are and all that we are going through. God’s plans for us are a testimony to the fact that we should remain focus at all times. Mordecai was a Jew that was captured and carried away by Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon. Mordecai brought up Esther, his uncle’s daughter, after the death of Esther’s father and mother. The place for Mordecai was at the king’s gate. The Bible recorded in Esther 2:21-22, “In those days, while Mordecai sat within the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthana and Teresh, doorkeepers, became furious and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. So the matter became known to Mordecai, who told Queen Esther, and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name.”Bigthan and Teresh were eventually terminated for the plot against King Ahasuerus and it was documented in the favor of Mordecai. One would think the report ended up just in documentation. However, the report later turned out to be an avenue for deliverance for the Jews when Haman wanted to have all Jews in the land destroyed. On the night of the day that Harman’s generated law to destroy the children of Israel was passed, the king’s lost of sleep led to the deliverance of the Jew. While the king was not able to sleep, he read the documentation that saved his life through Mordecai. Esther 6: 1-2, “That night the king could not sleep. So one was commanded to bring the book of the records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. And it was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, the doorkeepers who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.” The king was provoked to honor Mordecai based on the chronicle documentation of how his life was saved by Mordecai. As a result of the place and purpose in the life of Mordecai, the Jews were released and a new turn took its toll in the life of Mordecai as he went from gate to great in the hand of the King Ahasuerus. Do not replace yourself from where He places you.

Prayer for today: Ask for God’s hand to keep you from missing out in the place of God’s assignment for your life.