Everyone has a story. Each story consists of challenges and successes. Sometimes situations we cannot control determine our stories. At other times, our choices clearly write every line. This is one of those times. The choice we make will determine the pages that follow. Over the last few weeks, we’ve shared stories from single moms, …
What difference does orphan care make? What difference can you make? How could taking one orphan under your wing really matter in the long run? Well, it mattered in Persia many years ago. In fact, it saved a nation from the evil plans of their enemies. Imagine losing your parents, being torn away from your …
Week 8 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 2 – Esther Cont’d – Mordecai’s Influence: Esther 2:20; 4:1-17 Esther’s obedience continued even after she had been made queen. Chapter two, verse seventeen tells us that she was made queen in Vashti’s place. The king threw a feast, he gave out money and gifts, made …
Week 8 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 1 – Esther Cont’d – Stopping the Fatherless Pandemic: Esther 2:10; Proverbs 22:6 Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.” That Mordecai took this to heart can be plainly …
Week 7 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 5 – Esther Cont’d – Mordecai’s Care: Esther 2:7,11 “And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his …
