Proverbs 22:17-19:
Listen (consent and submit) to the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my knowledge; 18 For it will be pleasant if you keep them in your mind [believing them]; your lips will be accustomed to [confessing] them. 19 So that your trust (belief, reliance, support, and confidence) may be in the LORD, I have made known these things to you today, even to you.
There are no wiser words in all of the world than the precious Word of God found in the Bible! Pay attention to the Holy Spirit Who lives in you as He teaches you what this Word means to you personally! Then make sure that you become a DOER of that Word! Good and Godly results await!
Galatians 6:7-9:
7 Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and only that is what he will reap. 8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. 9 And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.
No outward "show" of righteousness or religion has ever pulled any weight with the One, True, Most High, Living, Almighty God of the Bible! He has given us His Word so that we can learn of Him; recognize sin and avoid it; build ourselves up in faith; speak His Word and get the same result that Jesus got when He spoke the Word during His ministry on earth! When we sow the seeds of God's Word into our own lives and into the lives of the people we are responsible for, we can fully expect to see the results that His Word promises! Set your face to never, ever, give up or quit and you WILL have a great harvest; here in this life and in the next! Thank You, Jesus!
Esther 9-10 show the total reversal of the predicament that the Jewish people had faced! Now they were the ones with the advantage over those who hated them and they even had the help of the king's people! Esther 9:2-4:
2 The Jews gathered together in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on such as sought their hurt; and no man could withstand them, for the fear of them had fallen upon all the peoples. 3 And all the princes of the provinces and the chief rulers and the governors and they who attended to the king's business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them. 4 For Mordecai was great in the king's palace; and his fame went forth throughout all the provinces , for the man Mordecai became more and more powerful.
Mordecai was blessed, honored and elevated in stature in this godless nation because both Mordecai and Esther obeyed the One, True God! The extent of the honor given to Mordecai is revealed in chapter 10. We, who have a better Covenant, based on better promises (Hebrews 8:6), can expect even greater favor as we continue to stand strong and obedient on the Living Word of God! But remember "due season" and refuse to quit! God's timing is ALWAYS perfect! Amen! here is Hillsong with "God Is Able":
Shalom in Him!
