Believe by Joel Osteen

Author:Joel Osteen [OSTEEN, JOEL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 2023-06-20T00:00:00+00:00

Get Your Hopes Up

In the Scripture, a man named Haman worked for the king of Persia. He had a very influential position, but he let it go to his head. All the people would bow down before him except for a Jewish man named Mordecai, who was a relative of Queen Esther. He knew it was only right to bow down before God. This made Haman so upset that he went to the king and said, “There’s a group of people who don’t obey your commands. They’re troublemakers, and they need to be killed.” He convinced the king to issue a decree that on a certain date all the Jews throughout the kingdom should be killed.

But one night the king couldn’t sleep. He asked his assistant to bring him the book of the chronicles that recorded the history of his reign. The assistant brought the book and started reading accounts to the king at random. There just so happened to be a recording of how Mordecai had exposed a conspiracy to assassinate the king. The king was so impressed that the next morning he called Haman in and said, “Haman, what do you think we should do for a man whom I delight to honor and has never been recognized by the city?” Haman was so arrogant that he thought the king was talking about him, so he played it up really big. He said, “King, I think we should put a royal robe on him, have a big parade, and someone should march him on a horse up and down the streets while proclaiming what a great man he is.” The king said, “I love that idea. Now go find Mordecai the Jew, and you do for him just what you said.” It was an amazing setback and humiliation to Haman.

Meanwhile, Queen Esther set up a meeting with the king and Haman, and she exposed what Haman was really trying to do. Instead of getting rid of all the Jews, the king got rid of Haman. He sent out another decree that overruled the first decree, and he gave Mordecai the position Haman had occupied. If you had told Mordecai in the middle of the trouble, when it looked as though the Jews would be annihilated, that by this time next year Haman was going to be gone, the king’s original decree was going to be overruled, and he was going to be in a position of honor, he could have thought, That’s too good to be true. How could all that possibly happen? God has ways that we’ve never thought of.

You may be in a difficult situation, people are coming against you, your finances don’t look good, there’s trouble in a relationship. You could be upset and worried, but stay in peace. It is not permanent. As with Mordecai, by this time next year, it’s all going to be turned in your favor. Because you honor God, He’s dealing with those enemies. He’s fighting your battles. Those people who are trying to stop you are not going to succeed.

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