A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES

                                   BORN FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS PART XVI

"I, Esther, asked the king for another dinner.... He very kindly accepted.... I knew that I had to wait for the right moment before I could share with him my concerns about my people, the Jews.... During the second dinner, I sensed the time had come for me to bring up the subject of my people.... I pleaded with him for a new edict to be written that would overrule the previous edict... The king heard me... He approved the writing of a new edict.... My people will now be able to defend themselves against their enemies.... I believe that God will be with them and cause them to be victorious."... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn of Esther's plea for her people...


              ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES

                            BORN FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS PART XVI

The next day the king returns for another banquet and this time Esther pleads her case before the king as you can read in Esther 8:3-8

Esther again pleaded with the king, falling at his feet and weeping. She begged him to put an end to the evil plan of Haman, the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews. Then the king extended the gold sceptre to Esther and she arose and stood before him. "If it pleases the king," she said, "and if he regards me with favour and thinks it is the right thing to do, and if he is pleased with me. let an order be written overruling the dispatches that Haman, the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, devised and wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king's provinces. For how can I bear to see disaster fall on all my people? How can I bear to see the destruction of my family? King Xerxes replied to queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, "Because Haman attacked the Jews, I have given his estate to Esther and they have hanged him on the gallows. Now write another decree in the king's name on behalf of the Jews as seems best to you, and seal it with the king's signet ring - for no document written in the king's name and sealed with his ring can be revoked.."

Esther finally shares with the king her concerns for her people. The king hears her plea  and has another decree written, which states that her people will be able to defend themselves against any attacks of their enemies.