MFM Daily Devotional for Friday 9th June 2023
Read MFM Daily Devotional for Friday 9th June 2023 Mountain Top Life Devotional Message by Dr. D.K Olukoya
TOPIC: Lessons From The Life Of Mordecai (1)
BIBLE IN A YEAR
2 Chronicles 32–33; John 18:19–40
MEMORY VERSE
Psalm 5:8 – Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies, make thy way straight before my face.
MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES
Do all that is within your power to help somebody today, because they may end up being your saviour tomorrow.
PROPHETIC WORD FOR TODAY
Henceforth, you will be in the right place at the right time, in the Name of Jesus.
FIRE SCRIPTURE
Esther 2:5-12
5 Now there was a Jew from the tribe of Benjamin named Mordecai. Mordecai was the son of Jair, and Jair was the son of Shimei, and Shimei was the son of Kish. Mordecai was in the capital city, Susa. 6 Mordecai had been carried into captivity from Jerusalem by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. He was with the group that was taken into captivity with King Jehoiachin of Judah. 7 Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah. She didn’t have a father or a mother, so Mordecai took care of her. Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter when her father and mother died. Hadassah was also called Esther. She had a very pretty face and a good figure.
8 When the king’s command had been heard, many young women were brought to the capital city of Susa. They were put under the care of Hegai. Esther was one of these women. She was taken to the king’s palace and put into Hegai’s care. Hegai was in charge of the king’s women. 9 He liked Esther. She became his favorite, so he quickly gave Esther beauty treatments and special food. He chose seven slave women from the king’s palace and gave them to Esther. Then he moved Esther and her seven women servants into the best place where the king’s women lived.
10 Esther didn’t tell anyone she was a Jew. She didn’t tell anyone about her family background, because Mordecai had told her not to. 11 Every day Mordecai walked back and forth near the area where the king’s women lived. He did this because he wanted to find out how Esther was, and what was happening to her.
12 Before a young woman could take her turn to go in before King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments—six months with oil of myrrh and six months with perfumes and cosmetics.
MFM Daily Devotional for Friday 9th June 2023 MESSAGE:
Let us give a little background of the setting of this story before we continue. After the Babylonian Empire was defeated and replaced by the Persians in 539 BC, the centre of government for the Jewish exiles transferred to Persia. Earlier, the Babylonians had conquered and exiled the Jews throughout their empire (2 Kings 24:1). Babylon, also called the Neo-Babylonian Empire, broke the supreme ruling power of Assyria and controlled the world from 605-539B.C.
The Babylonian Empire lasted about 70 years. It was the same seventy years of Judah’s captivity. Babylon was finally ruled by King Cyrus of Persia (539 BC), who allowed the Jews to return to their home land.
The setting of the story of Esther and her uncle Mordecai is the city of Sushan, the Persian capital. It took place during the reign of King Ahasuerus (his Hebrew name). Mordecai was Esther’s adoptive father, mentor, confidant and cheerleader who stood for the rights of their Jewish community. The life of Mordecai might seem secondary in the extraordinary story of Esther in the Bible, but he was more than just her uncle. He welcomed her as his own daughter.
He was instrumental in ensuring the safety of not only Esther and the Jewish people, but of exposing treachery in the kingdom of King Ahasuerus, Esther’s husband. His actions within Esther’s life story in the Bible characterised attributes that we can relate to or wish we embraced more of in life.
The first lesson here is that he was a loving and accommodating man. He did not cast Esther away when her parents died. We know what is happening in many societies these days. When parents die, their family members will take over properties and neglect the children of the deceased. They will neglect the children and subject them to deprivation and suffering. Conversely, Mordecai loved Esther like his own daughter and brought her up like one.
God is watching how you treat others.
PRAYER POINTS:
MORNING
1. O Lord, let my life be full of Your kind of love for others, in the Name of Jesus.
2. Anything assigned to frustrate my help for others, scatter, in the Name of Jesus.
3. O God my Father, help me so that I can help others, in the Name of Jesus.
EVENING
4. My Father, let me be in the right place at the right time, in the Name of Jesus.
5. Powers of evil placement, I am not your candidate, die, in the Name of Jesus.
6. Darkness, jump out of my life, in the Name of Jesus.
7. Every hand of Haman in the affairs of my life, wither, in the Name of Jesus.
MFM Daily Devotional for Friday 9th June 2023 Mountain Top Life ©2022. 𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 is a daily devotional by Dr. D.K Olukoya (General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries Worldwide).
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