Today’s Devotion
Topic: The Man The King Wants To Honor!
(Self Assessment 101)
Part 3
Background: Last week, we saw how the Lord used Mordecai’s enemy, Haman, to bless and honor Mordecai.
Haman felt so humiliated about what happened. As if that wasn’t enough, he was impaled on the pole he set up for Mordecai.
Beloved when we commit every situation we face into the hands of God through prayers, He doesn’t only deliver us from the hands of our enemies. He also turns all traps set for us against our enemies.
Today many believers get scared immediately they hear about an evil plot that has been planned against them.
Mordecai told his fellow believers after he heard about the evil plot against his life and they immediately went into serious prayers and fasting.
Text: Esther 7:5-10
“Who would do such a thing?” King Xerxes demanded. “Who would be so presumptuous as to touch you?” Esther replied, “This wicked Haman is our adversary and our enemy.” Haman grew pale with fright before the king and queen. Then the king jumped to his feet in a rage and went out into the palace garden. Haman, however, stayed behind to plead for his life with Queen Esther, for he knew that the king intended to kill him. In despair he fell on the couch where Queen Esther was reclining, just as the king was returning from the palace garden. The king exclaimed, “Will he even assault the queen right here in the palace, before my very eyes?” And as soon as the king spoke, his attendants covered Haman’s face, signaling his doom. Then Harbona, one of the king’s eunuchs, said, “Haman has set up a sharpened pole that stands seventy-five feet tall in his own courtyard. He intended to use it to impale Mordecai, the man who saved the king from assassination.” “Then impale Haman on it!” the king ordered. So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai, and the king’s anger subsided.
Questions:
i. According to vrs 5,how important do you think Esther was to the king?
ii. After Esther exposed Haman’s evil intentions to the king, did you expect Haman to grow pale instead of trying to defend himself as proud as he was?
iii. If you were in Queen Esther’s shoes, would you have pardoned Haman? Why?
iv. From vrs 9,do you think Haman had enemies at the king’s palace?
v. From your own point of view, what do you think made Haman set up such a tall pole in his backyard all because of Mordecai?
vi. In your opinion, why did the King excuse himself after hearing about Haman’s evil plans?
vii. “….and the king’s anger subsided”,can you link this statement with God being satisfied after sacrificing his only begotten son on the cross of calvary?
viii. What have you learnt from today’s assessment?
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