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Esther 2: 1- 17
12 Each young woman’s turn came to go into King Ahasuerus after she had completed twelve months’ preparation, according to the regulations for the women, for thus were the days of their preparation apportioned: six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfumes and preparations for beautifying women. 13 Thus prepared, each young woman went to the king, and she was given whatever she desired to take with her from the women’s quarters to the king’s palace.
Every woman has a physical womb, to carry a foetus to term. The maturation of a womb in order to carry a child to term involves a process. The womb can form, accommodate and produce children - one, two, three or more (if drugs are taken). Apart from the physical womb, God expects my heart to accommodate many. To become a travailing woman in my generation, the womb of my heart must be enlarged. For Hadassah i.e. Esther, her making into destiny was not automatic. Esther’s preparation as a young woman was emphasised in the book of Esther chapter 2. It involved a process – a balanced process to fulfil God's purpose for her life.
Discipleship is the balanced process I must go through. It will prepare me as it prepared Esther for the fulfilment of her purpose - the deliverance of her people in her generation. My preparation through discipleship cannot be overemphasised, if I will carry and deliver many lives (husband, children, relatives, friends, disciples, nations etc.) from the decadence, evil, devastation and corruption in this generation, (Esther 2: 7; 12- 13).
Esther was of the fifth generation in captivity after the generation of Mordecai, Jair, Shimei, and Kish. Regardless of my status, it is for God’s purpose. This implies that the so-called captivity I might have found myself in as a single, married woman is for God’s purpose. Thus, it is a not determinant factor of what God wants to do in my life and generation because the Lord knows that there is SUCH A TIME that will arise in my lifetime and generation (Esther 4:14).
- In my captivity Lord, please find me useable (Esther 2 vs5).
- Connect me to my Mordecai and Hegai, who will prepare me for the fulfilment of Your in my life.
- May my heart be found willing Lord to come as you call on me regardless of the natural occurrences (joy, sufferings, blessings, pains) around my life – Esther vs. 2: 2- 7
- Do a work in me that will make me and prepare me for the deliverance of my generation. Lord, complete the work you have started in me.
- Beautify my life for Your glory Lord. Make me fair for You Lord (Psalm 45; Esther 2: 7b).
- Lord, please let the compelling need, passion and desire for change, divine transformation overwhelmed my heart that I will no longer be at ease in Zion until I become what you have purposed me to be - a woman in travail building lives on my knees.
- Make me sensitive to the needs of my generation (groaning, pains, cry etc.) in which I have found myself, my Lord.
A quiet, obedient woman (vs. 10) – very obedient, (how many times have I been charged not to reveal, say or do something and I have disobeyed?).
- Grant me the grace that will make my obedience complete (spiritually, physical, character, morally, financially etc.) so that you can avenge all disobedience in my life and this generation.
Hebrews 6:7-8New King James Version (NKJV)
7 For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God;8 but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had neither father nor mother (Esher 2 vs. 7). Hadassah means a myrtle - a perennial shrub with white flowers that were used for perfume.
A woman in travail seek to be profitable to the Lord, she seeks help so that she can help others by studying the word of God, praying always, obedient to disciplers so that her root can become deepen in Christ until she experienced transformation and can bring change to her own generation. What are you bringing up for the Lord on your knees?
- Lord, let me pour all my life into discipleship. Let me not be a truant like Vashti. When you call to beautify my life either openly or secretly, let me respond appropriately.
- Make me perennial (recurrent, perpetual, continuing, persistent, lasting) spiritual woman in Your Kingdom – rooted, planted and fruiting in Christ. I don’t want to be an annual, vegetable, biennial (periodic) child of God.
- All Your investment yield all You want (Hebrews 6 vs 7).
- Let me not bear thorns or bring forth thorns in any areas of my life. Lord do not reject me let alone near cursing (Hebrews 6 vs 8). if there are nay areas my life is producing thorns or in the lives of my children, Lord please show mercy today.
- Enlarge my heart to be able to accommodate and bring up all the children (husbands, biological children, disciples, persecuted children, uncles, brothers, aunts, cousins, neighbours, employees, employers), nations etc. you have given to me (like Mordecai and Hegai).
- Lord, strengthen my feeble knees in the place of prayer. Make me a praying woman.
- Lord, make me spiritual (woman, wife, mother, relative, friend, daughter-in-law, neighbour, employee, citizen, employers, employees, students, business partners, etc.).
- Let me be an Esther (full baked). Let me not be half baked like Vashti who eventually missed out because of a single feast (Esther 2: 4 & 17).
