Today’s Reading:
Esther 7
Esther 9
Romans 16
I’m so happy when I think of you, because everyone knows the testimony of your deep commitment of faith. So I want you to become scholars of all that is good and beautiful, and stay pure and innocent when it comes to evil. And the God of peace will swiftly pound Satan to a pulp under your feet! And the wonderful favor of our Lord Jesus will surround you.
Romans 16:19-20 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
I’m assigning people to targets. From the enemy’s vantage point it will look like business as usual. It will look like nothing has changed. But I have handed out and continue to hand out commissions, assignments and tasks to My people. They are wartime ready, and they are making wartime maneuvers. What appears from the outside to be business as usual is deceptive, because My people are making wartime maneuvers. The assignments they carry are for war. I will wage war against the enemy with My people of peace. I Am the God of Peace who has come to crush Satan underneath your feet.
And the king said to Esther on the second day also as they drank their wine at the banquet, “What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to half of the kingdom it shall be done.” Then Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me as my petition, and my people as my request; for we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed and to be annihilated. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have remained silent, for the trouble would not be commensurate with the annoyance to the king.” Then King Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who would presume to do thus?” Esther said, “A foe and an enemy is this wicked Haman!” Then Haman became terrified before the king and queen.
Esther 7:2-6 NASB1995
My people of peace will make wartime maneuvers with their hands, their lives, their mouths and their checkbooks. War on My terms looks different. I determine the terrain, the conditions and the strategy for victory. I surprise and repel the enemy every time. When My warriors are obedient to My voice, I secure victory every time.
Now in the twelfth month (that is, the month Adar), on the thirteenth day when the king’s command and edict were about to be executed, on the day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, it was turned to the contrary so that the Jews themselves gained the mastery over those who hated them. The Jews assembled in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who sought their harm; and no one could stand before them, for the dread of them had fallen on all the peoples. Even all the princes of the provinces, the satraps, the governors and those who were doing the king’s business assisted the Jews, because the dread of Mordecai had fallen on them. Indeed, Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai became greater and greater. Thus the Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying; and they did what they pleased to those who hated them.
Esther 9:1-5 NASB1995
Haman is being defeated, and you will see his ten sons on the gallows soon. This is not a distant word. This is a now word. Haman’s decree has been reversed, and the punishment, the just desserts are incoming. This is a time of rude reality for Haman and for all connected to him by blood and word and deed. Those with Haman will hang on the gallows that were made with their own hands for My people. The time of the reversal is here. It’s now. It’s imminent. It’s upon us.
Watch as they try to scatter like cockroaches when the light is turned on. They are completely boxed in. They have nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, nothing with which to cover themselves. They are fully trapped and fully exposed. Be busy about My assignments. Carry out the work I have placed in your hands. These are wartime assignments — even if they look like business as usual, even if they look like an expansion of business as usual. And live your life as a song of worship. Be in an attitude of thanksgiving, worship and great expectation. The hanging of Haman and his ten sons is here.
How to Respond
- Live in obedience and with an attitude of awe of the Lord, worship and expectation.
- Pray, Lord thank You for seeing the evil that is being done to Your people. Help me to do my part. Help me to be a warrior of peace who is busy about my Father’s business. I don’t want to be distracted or delayed. I want to be laser focused, and I am fully committed to the assignment You have placed in my hands.
- Declare, the God of peace will soon crush Satan underneath my feet. — Romans 16:20
- Declare, I will be a spectator as the wicked perish in judgement. For they will be paid back for what they’ve done. — Psalm 91:8
- Decree, this is the time of Divine reversals. The evil that the enemy sent to destroy the people of God will be his own demise. The judgement and timing of the Lord are perfect. The justice of the Lord is incoming. Pride will be the fall of the enemy and all who are covenanted to him and closely connected to him. The Lord’s obedient warriors of peace will have every victory!
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