Calling All Esthers 1: Standing up for your Generation

1 Samuel 15:18-19, 23b

18And the Lord sent you on a mission and told you, ' Go and completely destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, until they are all dead.' 19Why haven't you obeyed the LORD? Why did you rush for the plunder and do what was evil in the LORD's sight? 23...So because you have rejected the command of the LORD, he has rejected you as king." NLT

  

The above passage  refers to Saul, son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin, who was chosen to be the first king of Israel (1 Samuel 10:21,24). The Scripture reveals that he was chosen to be king for the task of removing everything that was oppressing the people of God from their midst. In the same way, God chooses a person from a family to break the curses in their generation and rescue back the things stolen by the enemy. For this, the person will have to learn to war against the things that do not glorify God or keep Him from manifesting His goodness and the promises made many generations before.

But, just like King Saul, when the person chosen by God fails to war under the direction of the Holy Spirit against the “Amalekites” which stand for every Antichrist influence that infiltrated the family through sin and disobedience and has brought signs of spiritual death, physically, relationally, and financially instead of the abundant life Christ died to give them, that Antichrist influence gets stronger. The enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10) and one of the ways he does that is shown in verse 19 of the passage above. Saul did not obey the command of the Lord to utterly and completely eliminate the presence and influence of the enemy because he was fixed on the plunder more than on the command of the Lord.

Likewise, this affects families, ministries, businesses, nations and leaders in general that accepted the call but gradually started doing things in their own strength and apart from the leading of the Holy Spirit and commands of the Lord. This caused them to forfeit their positions as leaders and deliverers. Although these people may have loved God and wanted to follow Him, they got distracted with the riches and the cares of this world and became focused away from what was most important—the removing of every demonic influence and doctrine that has kept the family, business, ministry, nation, etc. from knowing, following, and serving the Lord. 

By getting familiar first with God and His ways then they would have been able to help those under their covering get familiar with the ways of His Kingdom so they could learn to obey His commands and principles as well. But many instead chose to follow the ways of the world, that is ruled by its Antichrist influence due to their lack of knowledge and of discipline which caused them to succumb to the lust of the flesh and the pride of life.

Numbers 23:19 says, God is not a man, so he does not lie. He is not human, so he does not change his mind. Has he ever spoken and failed to act? Has he ever promised and not carried it through? NLT. 

For this reason, in His faithfulness, God will wait for the next generation and as many generations as it takes to fulfill His promises when another chosen person in the family line accepts the calling of being the curse breaker and deliverer of the family line who makes a way for the coming of the Lord to manifest everything promised from the time of Abraham (Numbers 14:31-35).

We see this in the book of Esther. There does not seem to be much information in the Bible about her family line—only that her father and mother had died and that she was raised by her cousin Mordecai who was an exile from the tribe of Benjamin and a descendant of Kish (Esther 2:5-7) just like King Saul. This is the linkage she had to the tribe and family line God wanted to deliver and turn into a deliverer of her people the Jews in her generation because Saul failed to do what was commanded to him in his generation to save his family line as well as the other Israelite tribes. 

We see this because Haman, whose position was as Xerxes  right-hand person was an Amalekite and descendant of Agag, the king whose life was spared by King Saul (1 Samuel 15:7-9) as an utter disobedience that cost him the kingdom and gave entrance to demonic oppression. The prophet Samuel did away with the evil king, but Saul's failure was still recorded in eternity and God saw the need to raise someone else in another generation to help Him fulfill what He had promised to their forefathers.

Esther had to be prepared and trained in the palace before she could step up to the position God had prepared for her since her position to be queen was a strategic one. This strategic position served as a means to open the way for the deliverance of her family as well as the entire Jewish race that was living in the kingdom under Xerxes’ rulership. Through Esther’s position as queen and the favor she received from the Lord through the king and the eunuchs, she was able to expose the enemy during an also strategic and time-sensitive act (she prepared and invited the king and Haman to eat a dinner meal with her) that helped set her people free. Not only that, but she was also capable of empowering her people through the decrees made for them to fight back and plunder the enemy.

God is calling all Esthers (male and female) around the world in these end-times to accept the call and be trained and developed, so they too can have clean hearts and pure hearts free from idolatry that will bestow them access to the strategic positions God has for them to fight the enemy and take back the promises given to their families many generations ago for they are called for such a time as this. In the same manner Esther was granted favor by the king, God gives us favor that enables us to not only set our generations free, but through us He empowers them to identify the schemes of the enemy and fight back and recover everything that had been lost in other generations.

This happens when we give our lives to the Lord and accept His calling and purpose for our lives because it is always to set us and others free from oppression so we can be released to advance and expand His Kingdom. We are called to be His vessels that take dominion in our spheres of influence and fight the enemy of our generaqtions not only for ourselves, but also on behalf of others and so that the next generations can be capable of walking strong in the Lord and in the power of His might (Ephesians 6:10). As a result, they will be able to reach higher heights, broader territories, and can accomplish far more than we can and are free to fight what comes against them in their generation because they have learned through our example to destroy the works of the devil just like Jesus did and do it also on behalf of others.

Moreover, Esther was obedient to her cousin Mordecai. Likewise, it is very important that we become obedient and dependent of the leading and the admonitions of the Holy Spirit at all times and learn to hear His voice of wisdom. This includes waiting for the right timing to act on the command of the Lord just like Esther waited for the right moment and occasion (a strategic dinner) to expose Haman, the enemy of the Jews and turned the tables on behalf of her people. To Him alone be all the glory. ∎

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