FAITH CAPSULE: The power of the third day resurrection is relevant to your resurrection this third month of the year.
Esther 4, 5
In the bondage of over four hundred years, the children of Israel reminded God when their crying got heaven’s attention and God attended to them. It does not matter how long you have been buried spiritually, emotionally or financially but it matters that your cry to God will trigger your resurrection in this third month. God encourages us to remind Him, “Put me in remembrance; let us contend together; state your case that you may be acquitted.” (Isaiah 43:26) The power of the third day resurrection is relevant to your resurrection this third month of the year if you will remember to remind God. The children of Israel reminded God of His covenant when their crying got to God.
The miracle of third answered to deliver Moses from dying at birth. The Bible recorded how Moses’ mother hid him for three months (Exodus 2:2) and placed him in an ark of bulrushes. After three months of hiding, the ark brought Moses to the attention of Pharaoh’s daughter. It is written, “…She saw the child, and behold, the baby wept. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children” (Exodus 2:6) Jesus’ resurrection on the third day, Moses’ coming out of hiding and going directly into compassionate hand of one’s that made law to kill him was not magic or luck but miracle of the third.
When Harman’s conspiracy to destroy all the Jews throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus was in place, it was the miracle of the third that answered for the deliverance of all the Jews. Queen Esther was alerted of the impending danger and she took it upon herself with three days fasting and prayer. After the fasting of three days, Queen Esther needed to go into the inner court of the king. Inner court of the king was described in Esther 4:11, “All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that any man or woman who goes into the inner court to the king, who has not been called, he has but one law: put all to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter, that he may live…” Despite Esther’s understanding of what could happen by going to the inner court of the king without being called by the king, she made her way into the inner court after her three days fasting. Esther 5:2, “So it was, when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, that she found favor in his sight…” On the third day Esther found favor where failure is the answer. Trust God for your own testimony in this third month.
Prayer for today: Ask for God’s miracle of third day; third month or third year.