Fastingis a natural discipline that can bring supernatural results. I’ve seen fasting work when nothing else will. Moses, Elijah, Esther, Ezra, Job, David, Daniel, Peter, Paul, evenJesus… fasted. In fact, they didn’t just fast for a day or two, but both Jesus and Moses fasted for...
Is this the manner of fasting I would choose, a day to afflict oneself? To bow one’s head like a reed, and lie upon sackcloth and ashes? Is this what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the LORD? Douay-Rheims BibleIs this such a fast as I have chosen: for a man to ...
9-11Hathach came back and told Esther everything Mordecai had said. Esther talked it over with Hathach and then sent him back to Mordecai with this message: “Everyone who works for the king here, and even the people out in the provinces, knows that there is a single fate for every ...
So Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter. 3 Then the king asked, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be given you.” 4 “If it pleases the king,” replied Esther, “let the king, together with Haman, come today...
Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes (Daniel 9:3). There was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes (Esther 4:3). ...
Maybe because I have to be patient with the language and I know it will take some time, it is helping my brain to slow down. I highly recommend the Bookshelf read along. Terry says: February 2, 2023 at 10:39 am Bleak House is my favorite Dickens; Esther soothe my soul. And you...
But once in a while, when we take out this story for its annual reading, we scratch the surface and find something more substantive underneath: Vashti’s feminist rebellion, Esther’s bravery, a message of hope (or perhaps a revenge fantasy) for a people who have been persecuted for ...
In 2015, the Tel Aviv District Court awarded custody of the estate of Max Brod to the National Library in Jerusalem. At the heart of the decision was Brod’s own will. He left the manuscripts to Esther Hoffe for her lifetime with instructions that she donate the Kafka papers to a public...
Jesus is not coming back for the “Church Christian.” He is coming back for a pure and spotless bride, one full of his love and holiness. Heaven is not a cheap deal for the passive, who want to get in on lip service to God. ...
"Ecclesiastes ought to have been more complete. There is too much incoherent matter in it...Solomon did not, therefore, write this book."… "The book of Esther I toss into the Elbe. I am such an enemy to the book of Esther that I wish it did not exist, for it Judaizes too much...