For such a time as this...

Esther 4:14 (NLT)

14 If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?”

1. You have a purpose.  

Important days are the day you were born.  The day you were born again, and the day you realize what you were born to do.  We are born by God and for God.

  

To know what you are to do, you must talk to the designer of you.  We don't determine our purpose, but discover it.   

Your purpose is not a place.  If you focus on being the right person, God will put you in the right place. 

  

As a young person, you learn it.  As an adult you earn it.  As a mature adult you return it.  

Esther 4:14 (NLT)

14 If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?”

Don't ask God to bless what you're doing.  Why not do what God is blessing?

2.  You don't have to be perfect.  

We are not perfect, but we serve the one who is. 

To deliver a vision, you must first carry it. 

Esther married a pagan king.  She hid her nationality.   She messed up. 

The grace of God will meet you right where you are.  It never leaves you where it finds you.  

Grace is the kiss of heaven.   The grace that saves us is the grace that changes us.  It empowers us to please God. 

Religion is all about appearances.  Relationship is all about authenticity.   

Just because we mess up does not mean that we are eliminated from the purposes of God.  God gets glory in our brokenness.

3.  Use your platform to make a difference.  

Esther 4:15-16 (NLT)

15 Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: 

16 “Go and gather together all the Jews of Susa and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will do the same. 

And then, though it is against the law, I will go in to see the king. If I must die, I must die.”

It's not about me.  It's about what will happen to others if I don't.  

God used Esther to save her people from certain destruction.   Say Holy Spirit what are you saying to me in the message? 

Mike Haman, Church of the Highlands