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----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 8:29 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Tuesday May 19 >I will be gone the rest of the week to a Pastor's Conference. Therefore, I >am going to send all of > this week's Daily Bible Readings in advance. > > Esther 4-6 (The Message) > > Esther 4 > 1-3 When Mordecai learned what had been done, he ripped his clothes to > shreds and put on sackcloth > and ashes. Then he went out in the streets of the city crying out in loud > and bitter cries. He came > only as far as the King's Gate, for no one dressed in sackcloth was > allowed to enter the King's > Gate. As the king's order was posted in every province, there was loud > lament among the > Jews-fasting, weeping, wailing. And most of them stretched out on > sackcloth and ashes. > 4-8 Esther's maids and eunuchs came and told her. The queen was stunned. > She sent fresh clothes to > Mordecai so he could take off his sackcloth but he wouldn't accept them. > Esther called for Hathach, > one of the royal eunuchs whom the king had assigned to wait on her, and > told him to go to Mordecai > and get the full story of what was happening. So Hathach went to Mordecai > in the town square in > front of the King's Gate. Mordecai told him everything that had happened > to him. He also told him > the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to deposit in the royal > bank to finance the > massacre of the Jews. Mordecai also gave him a copy of the bulletin that > had been posted in Susa > ordering the massacre so he could show it to Esther when he reported back > with instructions to go to > the king and intercede and plead with him for her people. > > 9-11 Hathach came back and told Esther everything Mordecai had said. > Esther talked it over with > Hathach and then sent him back to Mordecai with this message: "Everyone > who works for the king here, > and even the people out in the provinces, knows that there is a single > fate for every man or woman > who approaches the king without being invited: death. The one exception is > if the king extends his > gold scepter; then he or she may live. And it's been thirty days now since > I've been invited to come > to the king." > > 12-14 When Hathach told Mordecai what Esther had said, Mordecai sent her > this message: "Don't think > that just because you live in the king's house you're the one Jew who will > get out of this alive. If > you persist in staying silent at a time like this, help and deliverance > will arrive for the Jews > from someplace else; but you and your family will be wiped out. Who knows? > Maybe you were made queen > for just such a time as this." > > 15-16 Esther sent back her answer to Mordecai: "Go and get all the Jews > living in Susa together. > Fast for me. Don't eat or drink for three days, either day or night. I and > my maids will fast with > you. If you will do this, I'll go to the king, even though it's forbidden. > If I die, I die." > > 17 Mordecai left and carried out Esther's instructions. > > Esther 5 > 1-3 Three days later Esther dressed in her royal robes and took up a > position in the inner court of > the palace in front of the king's throne room. The king was on his throne > facing the entrance. When > he noticed Queen Esther standing in the court, he was pleased to see her; > the king extended the gold > scepter in his hand. Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter. > The king asked, "And > what's your desire, Queen Esther? What do you want? Ask and it's > yours-even if it's half my > kingdom!" > 4 "If it please the king," said Esther, "let the king come with Haman to a > dinner I've prepared for > him." > > 5-6"Get Haman at once," said the king, "so we can go to dinner with > Esther." > > So the king and Haman joined Esther at the dinner she had arranged. As > they were drinking the > wine, the king said, "Now, what is it you want? Half of my kingdom isn't > too much to ask! Just ask." > > 7-8 Esther answered, "Here's what I want. If the king favors me and is > pleased to do what I desire > and ask, let the king and Haman come again tomorrow to the dinner that I > will fix for them. Then > I'll give a straight answer to the king's question." > > > 9-13 Haman left the palace that day happy, beaming. And then he saw > Mordecai sitting at the King's > Gate ignoring him, oblivious to him. Haman was furious with Mordecai. But > he held himself in and > went on home. He got his friends together with his wife Zeresh and started > bragging about how much > money he had, his many sons, all the times the king had honored him, and > his promotion to the > highest position in the government. "On top of all that," Haman continued, > "Queen Esther invited me > to a private dinner she gave for the king, just the three of us. And she's > invited me to another one > tomorrow. But I can't enjoy any of it when I see Mordecai the Jew sitting > at the King's Gate." > > 14 His wife Zeresh and all his friends said, "Build a gallows seventy-five > feet high. First thing > in the morning speak with the king; get him to order Mordecai hanged on > it. Then happily go with the > king to dinner." > > Haman liked that. He had the gallows built. > > Esther 6 > 1-2 That night the king couldn't sleep. He ordered the record book, the > day-by-day journal of > events, to be brought and read to him. They came across the story there > about the time that Mordecai > had exposed the plot of Bigthana and Teresh-the two royal eunuchs who > guarded the entrance and who > had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes. > 3 The king asked, "What great honor was given to Mordecai for this?" > > "Nothing," replied the king's servants who were in attendance. "Nothing > has been done for him." > > 4 The king said, "Is there anybody out in the court?" > > Now Haman had just come into the outer court of the king's palace to > talk to the king about > hanging Mordecai on the gallows he had built for him. > > 5 The king's servants said, "Haman is out there, waiting in the court." > > "Bring him in," said the king. > > 6-9 When Haman entered, the king said, "What would be appropriate for the > man the king especially > wants to honor?" > > Haman thought to himself, "He must be talking about honoring me- who > else?" So he answered the > king, "For the man the king delights to honor, do this: Bring a royal robe > that the king has worn > and a horse the king has ridden, one with a royal crown on its head. Then > give the robe and the > horse to one of the king's most noble princes. Have him robe the man whom > the king especially wants > to honor; have the prince lead him on horseback through the city square, > proclaiming before him, > 'This is what is done for the man whom the king especially wants to > honor!'" > > 10 "Go and do it," the king said to Haman. "Don't waste another minute. > Take the robe and horse and > do what you have proposed to Mordecai the Jew who sits at the King's Gate. > Don't leave out a single > detail of your plan." > > 11 So Haman took the robe and horse; he robed Mordecai and led him through > the city square, > proclaiming before him, "This is what is done for the man whom the king > especially wants to honor!" > > 12-13 Then Mordecai returned to the King's Gate, but Haman fled to his > house, thoroughly mortified, > hiding his face. When Haman had finished telling his wife Zeresh and all > his friends everything that > had happened to him, his knowledgeable friends who were there and his wife > Zeresh said, "If this > Mordecai is in fact a Jew, your bad luck has only begun. You don't stand a > chance against him-you're > as good as ruined." > > 14 While they were still talking, the king's eunuchs arrived and hurried > Haman off to the dinner > that Esther had prepared. > > > > > > > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
