Shammah Temple Fellowship: Sermon of Sunday February 16, 2025
By Pastor Samuel Ndayiragije
Theme: Creating a prayer environment in Believers’ life
Reference scriptures: Esther 4:1-3, 12-14
Esther’s book has a lot of sweat words as it mainly teaches how God changes times and seasons for those who love Him. Mordecai, a guard in the king’s palace, revealed to Esther that she could eventually come closer to the kind and eventually become the queen as Vashti was unlikely to stay in that position longer. Esther, a prayer worrier, God-believing woman, got persuaded to help his fellow Jews, who were about to be eliminated by Haman.
Esther’s blessing to be in the palace was not her own blessing, she decided to stand for her own people, even though that was not safer for her than just keeping quiet. However, she was ever convinced that safety couldn’t matter for her to live a fulfilling life as Jews were going to be exterminated. She built a prayer environment as spend her time on her knees, praying to God and fasting for the salvation of the Jews.
All the battles are not to be fought physically with arms, but with prayer and fasting, supplications to God. Esther understood the assignment. She also knew when to speak and when to not speak.
When prayer has become part of Believers’ life, they do not speak the way they want, they do not just react to everything anyhow, they are connected to God’s wisdom and understand what every other person cannot understand. God’s wisdom is all we need to lead our lives in a godly way. The more our spirit is connected to that of God, the less mistakes we make in our lives’ big decisions.
After building a prayer environment, God remembered her past good actions. Godly works are never wasted; sooner and later, they will be remembered and serve us in crucial times of our lives.
When that life-saving was to be taken by the king, from Esther’s prayers, God took his sleep away and he found himself ready the kingdom history books. This is the time he discovered that Mordecai once saved King Xerxes’ life and had never been thanked for the act. The king decided he should be rewarded.
In a banquet at the palace, Haman, who had conspired against all the Jews, was asked by the king what should be done for a man who once saved the king and who deserved to be rewarded. The prayer started to work in favor of those who had spent days on their knees crying out to God for their lives.
Haman, not knowing who they were talking about, answered, “For the man the king delights to honor, have them bring a royal robe the king has worn and a horse the king has ridden, one with a royal crest placed on its head. Then let the robe and horse be entrusted to one of the king’s most noble princes. Let them robe the man the king delights to honor, and lead him on the horse through the city streets, proclaiming before him, ‘This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!’” (Esther 6:6-9).
This is exactly what was done, by Haman, under the king’s order, to the man who Haman had vowed to kill with his fellows. God’s wisdom through Mordecai and Esther, who later showed the letters, which ordered to exterminate the Jews in the kingdom. All the plans were exposed to the king and Haman was the one to be hung and the Jews glorified.
It took prayers, perseverance, God’s wisdom to get the salvation these people needed. Through prayer, God brings wisdom in our lives, He remembers our past good actions, and saves our family, our people. May we be able to create a permanent prayer environment in our homes.
