What is Daily Morning Devotion?

Daily Morning Devotion is reading the Bible and praying early in the morning before you go out for your daily routine. It is suppose to be done early in the morning when you are on top of your bed before going outside your house.

Daily devotion helps in so many ways as you are thanking God for showing you another day and also asking Him to bless your day and keep His face shining and to lead your path as you go out today so that He will show you favor.

And also using the opportunity to pray for others also.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022

TEXT: Esther 4:1-9

1. When Mordecai learned all that had been done, he tore his garments and clothed himself in sackcloth and ashes. He went into the middle of the city and cried out with a loud and bitter cry.

2. He came as far as the front of the king’s gate, because no one was allowed to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.

3. In every province where the order of the king and his edict reached, among the Jewish people there was great mourning, fasting, weeping, and lamenting, and many lay down on sackcloth and ashes.

4. When Esther’s young women and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was greatly distressed. She sent clothes for Mordecai to put on so he could take off the sackcloth that he had on, but he would not take them.

5. Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, whom he had assigned to her, and she ordered him to go to Mordecai to find out what was happening and why it was happening.

6. Hathach went to Mordecai in the city square that was in front of the king’s gate.

7. Mordecai told him everything that had happened and the exact amount of money that Haman had said he would pay into the king’s treasury in order to destroy the Jewish people.

8. Mordecai gave Hathach a copy of the written decree ordering the Jews’ destruction that had been issued in Susa. Mordecai wanted him to show it to Esther, to explain it to her, and then to instruct her to go in to the king to seek his favor and plead with him for her people.

9. Hathach went and told Esther what Mordecai had said.

(International Standard Version Holy Bible)

TOPIC: MORDECAI’S LAMENTATION

Haman deceived King Xerxes to endorse an edict which gave all non-Jewish residents of the empire permissions to “destroy” (Esther 3:9) all Jews, including Mordecai.

Haman strengthened this edict with a personal donation of “ten thousand talents of silver to the king’s treasury” (Esther 3:9). Therefore, Mordecai “tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the city, wailing loudly and bitterly.”

This was in accordance with the Jewish custom of seeking the face of Yahweh an interceding for salvation and deliverance (Esther 4:1). This marked the beginning of Persians’ attempts to wipe out the nation of Israel. But every attempt from that moment failed. The Arab world tried during the 6 Day War with Israel but it failed. When God is with you, no power or force on earth can overcome you.

QUESTION: Are suffering today simply because you belong to Jesus Christ?

PRAYER: Help us to stand strong and never be intimidated into denying You because of our faith in You, in Jesus name, Amen.