Esther 4

Thus when the Sea divided it self, just upon Israels cry to Heaven, Exodus 14:10 When so signal a victory is given to Asa, immediately upon that pathetical cry to Heaven, Help us O Lord our God, 2 Chron. 14. 11, 12. When Ahitophel shall go and hang himself, just upon that prayer…

Every long prayer is not forbidden; for our Lord Jesus himself continued all night in prayer (Luke 6:12). And in extraordinary duties of fasting, length seems to be very necessary; (Esther 4:16) they fasted and prayed together for three days and nights, without eating any bread.…

So many times, to the great grief of their hearts, may God's children be laid aside as useless vessels; the world may cast them off as unworthy to live among them. It is not for the king's profit to suffer them (Esther 4:8), and 1 Corinthians 4:13. [illegible], We are made as th…

There is a fitness in reference to the work, which the thing now made might have, which hereafter happily could not attain. Thus came Esther to be Queen in a fit time, for Mordecai's safety, the succor and deliverance of the Nation of the Jews; for though she might have possesse…

O Christian, believe in your physician (John 3:15): that whoever believes in him should not perish. Say as Queen Esther (Esther 4:16): I will go in to the King, which is not according to the law, and if I perish, I perish. So say: the Lord Jesus is a physician to heal me — I wil…

The idols were cut off, and the word of God so mightily prevailed, as that those sects which were used to delude the people, Scribes, Pharisees, and Sadducees, were blasted in the eyes of all the people, and generally the Gospel had free passage granted to it, by the mighty hand…

And so (Jeremiah 9:1; 13:17; 14:17; Isaiah 22:4). We read of Mordecai, when he saw his people in danger of being destroyed with a temporal destruction (Esther 4:1), that he rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with…