Our lives can feel cursed.
14 The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life…
- Genesis 3:14
5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage to him, Haman was filled with fury. 6 But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus... 13 Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.
- Esther 3:5-6, 13
17 And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
- Genesis 3:17-18
11 ...But as for me, I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”
- Esther 4:11
God has the power to reverse every curse!
10 Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry; take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Leave out nothing that you have mentioned.” 11 So Haman took the robes and the horse, and he dressed Mordecai and led him through the square of the city, proclaiming before him, “Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.”
- Esther 6:10-11
28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
- Romans 8:28
A process of worship and spiritual warfare positions us to experience God’s Divine Reversals.
When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry.
- Esther 4:1
15 Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai, 16 “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”17 Mordecai then went away and did everything as Esther had ordered him.
- Esther 4:15-17
Elements of Spiritual Warfare
Fellowship
for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.
- Proverbs 24:6
Fasting
29 And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”
- Mark 9:29
Finishing the Fight
...Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”
- Esther 4:16
