God will get rid of the trouble that your haters are trying to bring into your life. Just trust him, just stand true, just be kingdom first, and the word of God tells you that God is going to fix it for you. He's gonna turn it around. Just when you think the story of your life is headed towards disaster, God will often flip the script. Hello and welcome to Destined for Victory featuring Pastor Paul Shepard.
You see it time and again in Scripture, an Israelite army is outnumbered. God's people are about to be overtaken by the Egyptians. A young Israelite boy faces a giant with only a slingshot and a few rocks. And then it happens. The underdog wins.
The Red Sea parts. The stone finds its mark. This is God at work in the lives of His people. And today you'll be reminded that if you profess faith in Christ, you are one of His people. Stay with us, but just in case your schedule doesn't allow it, remember to visit our website, pastorpaul.net, where you can hear any recent Destined for Victory message on demand, including today's.
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Now, let's listen closely to Pastor Paul's destined for victory message: God will fix it for you. The Bible is downright funny. Heyman leaves. thinking he the man show enough. He left.
The presence of the king, he left that banquet hall feeling on top of the world. But as he left the palace He had to go past Mordecai. who sits there at the gate. And everybody else at the gate, as soon as they see Heyman, they bowing and scraping and giving honor. And more cut just standing there.
And the Bible says. Haman became furious. But he restrained himself. But he got home, and he's so full of rage, he's got to exhale. Calls his friends.
Calls his wife And does two things. He brags. And belly aches. You know anybody who brags and belly aches? Because the whole world revolves around them.
They are so full of themselves, they can think of nothing else but their own state.
So he bragged on his riches and he bragged on. And I'm the only one invited to these banquets. Had one, just came from one now, and tomorrow going to another one. Just me and the king, I'm the man. He said, But there's this one Jew I'm sick of him.
And his wife and friends said, Listen, What you need to do is have a gallows built. And they even gave him the specs. to build it seventy-five feet high. And then You need to get the king's permission to hang Mordecai on it. And old Mad Haman said, Good idea.
I'm sick of him. All right, we'll have it built right now. And in the morning I'm gonna go get permission. Tomorrow dat brother goin' hang. Oh, but Not only Does God give?
A second dose of unusual favor. But number two, God preempts Heyman's plan. Haman's plan now is underway. They're building this gallows, which is where you hang folks in those societies that have hangings. Goes on even today.
Remember Saddam Hussein? That's how he died. By hanging. It still happens today. And so.
They're preparing To have the gallows being built, and the idea is in the morning. The day of the second banquet. He is going to ask permission. After this banquet, he's going to ask permission. for this hanging.
But I love how God preempts the enemy's plans. You know, the Bible says in one place, no weapon formed. Against us will prosper.
Now you got to get the glory of that. It doesn't mean the weapon won't be formed. See, a lot of times we see the weapon being formed. You're dealing right now with a lot of formed weapons. I'm dealing with a lot of formed weapons.
The weapon is formed, is loaded, is locked, is trained. But the Bible said it won't prosper. If you shoot, you gonna miss. If you try, you're gonna fail. What happens here?
Chapter six, our text. That night The night what night? The night the gallows being built. What night? The night they're plotting for Mordecai's destruction.
What night? The night that he has a plan, which, if it goes unchecked, Will result in the destruction first of Mordecai, and as we already know, there's a plan underway to destroy all of the Jews. But he wants Mordecai to be the first, most conspicuous death. Because he wants to parade around the fact that this man tried to defy me. And look at what it got him.
So God preempts it. I want to let somebody know God sees your enemies. He sees what they're doing. He hears their little secret conversations. He's in their little meetings.
He's in their little strategies. He knows what they're doing. He hears their whispers. He sees their Texas. God see, He's looking right at them.
Listening to all their little conversations, their little snide remarks, God is right there. Nothing gets past our God.
Now this is just for your eyes only. This is what we gonna do. God sees all that mess. And here's What happens? The king Can't go to sleep.
God can work in unusual ways. The king can't go to sleep. King has insomnia. That night Yeah. I can't get to sleep.
It's two in the morning. My eyes just as wide open Unusual unusual. He is so troubled by his insomnia. He calls For the book of records. What is the book of records?
It is a book. That chronicles the events, key events in the kingdom. Just for historical purposes. It's really for generations to come so that later on they will have a historical record of what happened before we got here. That's all it is, is a history book.
History is being made kingdom by kingdom, and so the chronicles are just how they documented what happened. And who? would under normal circumstances Say, I can't go to sleep.
So read to me everything that happened. He could have called for dancers. He could have called for food or wine. He could have done any number of things. What pops into his head is: read me the history book.
Recent history book. It's a God thing. They start reading. And they get to a point Where it talks about something so Seemingly incidental. That we didn't even bother to really talk about it.
earlier in the series 'cause I knew it was coming up here. What happened? At one point, it's mentioned in Esther chapter 2, verses 21 through 23. At one point, two of the king's bodyguards got mad. And they decided, you know what, let's take him out.
You know, a bodyguard has the kind of access Where they can get you in a certain position and bump you off. That's why you got to know who guarding you. And these two brothers got furious and said, let's take him out. And they were plotting. But Mordecai, who hangs out at the gate, Heard 'em blottin'.
He said word into the palace Tell my cousin Esther, tell the Queen. These brothers out here getting ready to knock off the king. Esther hears that Blows the whistle. Says honey You know two of your bodyguards? You know Big Fane in them?
Got to bring it up, got to bring it up. They are plotting to kill you. King said, What? Had him Killed. But he had him killed and just went on with his business.
While he's hearing the record of that event and recalling that that had happened. He stopped. Here he is, wide awake. Got nothing else to do? He's thinking, his mind is sharp, alert.
He said, You know, what did we do? For the man. Who spared my life? And they looked in the book and said, We didn't do anything for him. And the king said, Oh, no, no, that's not going to work.
We got to have something done for him. He said, Who's here that I can set up? A strategy to bless this guy. Who's in my court? Who's around?
It's early in the morning now. Here come Haman.
Now you know why he's showing up. But he got up early. Cause he wanna have a hanging. And he figure I'll slip in early. Before the second banquet, And get this done.
He slips in. To the outer court King is in the inner court saying, I got to do something for Mordecai. Who's here to help me do it? And they said, Hey, man, I'll do it. Go get in.
That's wonderful. Go get in. Heyman comes in. And the king says, What should the king do? For a man he wants to really holler.
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855-339-5500. Just when Haman thought he had victory over Mordecai, God wrote a different ending.
Now, from the book of Esther, here's the second half of today's message. God will fix it for you. You know Heyman Fuller himself. He's all man. He getting ready to hook me up some more.
So He starts asking for everything. Thinking it's for him. Get him a car, that's the horse. But it wasn't just any old horse. He said a horse that has the royal treatment on it.
So like get him a Maybach Maserati. Bentley Whatever your favorite car is. That's what Haman's asking for. And get one of your chief royals. One of your royal princes.
Who will go ahead of him, oh and put on him Designer clothes, I mean robe. That the king has worn. Hook him up with designer clothes, hook him up with a Bentley. And have somebody go ahead of him. And declare his splendor to all who can hear.
King said, good idea. You said, get a royal to go ahead of him, that's gonna be you. And the person all of this is for is Mordecai. You believe this? He goes in wanting to have him killed.
He comes out. Ahead of Mordecai, everybody, Mordecai coming. Mordecai the man. All y'all bow, Mordecai coming through. That's his Bentley coming right behind me.
Oh, God will fix it for you. Quit tripping over what the enemy's doing. Yes, the enemy's doing what he's doing. Great are your challenges, great are your haters, great are your persecutors, great are the things standing in front of you, but your God is greater. Nobody greater than him.
Nobody greater than him. He is alpha and omega. He is beginning and the end. He is first and the last. The devil might start it, but God's going to finish it.
He will work it out for you. Let the devil do what he will do. God is going to work it out for you. Gave a second dose of unusual favor. Yeah.
God Preempted Hayman's plan. And now God flips the script. And what was meant for your destruction. Watch this now. I'm not quite done.
So now there's the plan that has been shared with Haman. You know, Heyan wants to throw up. He's standing there feeling sick as he knows how to be. And it's not over yet. This is the morning now.
This is the day of the second banquet.
So the second banquet comes. Haman's got to go start getting preparations made, get the Bentley picked out, all that stuff. I mean, the horse, and all of that.
Now the second banquet comes. And The king is just basking in the love of his wife. and all this nice treatment. And he said, baby. What's up?
What you want? And he reiterates, I'll give you up to half the kingdom. Time comes for her to say what's on her heart. She says Well boo. I and my people.
Have been earmarked for destruction. This is the first time he's hearing she's a Jew. I and my people have been earmarked for destruction. She said A plot has been hatched. To kill us, to wipe us.
Off of the face of the earth. She said, if we were merely being targeted to be called into slavery or something, I wouldn't trouble you with this. She said, but this isn't about slavery.
Somebody trying to kill me, all of my people. They trying to kill your wife. The king got Furious. Said, who would have The goal. To do something like that.
She looked over. Yeah. Oh, I love those scriptures. She looked over to him. And you know what happened?
The king got up, he was so mad, he didn't know what to say or do in that moment.
So he got up and walked out. into the garden area to try to figure out How am I going to kill this man? While he's out there contemplating Haman in desperation. Yeah. comes and falls on Esther!
I mean, he is just panicking. She's on her couch. And he comes and just grabs her and falls on her. And he's laying over her or grabbed her, whatever position is, it doesn't look good. And the king walks back in.
Oh, I'm telling you what God will do for you. The king walks back in While this is going on, Why he's saying, please don't have me kidding. Please, I'm so sorry. And the kingboard just said, Oh, no, you didn't. No, you don't have your grumpy hands Oh no.
Oh no, you're not. And the king said. The very gallows that he had built.
So that Mordecai would die on it. Take him out right now. And hang him on his brand new gallows. And let me tell you something. From there, it gets better and better.
For God's people. Just recreationally, I want you to read the rest of the book to just see how God opens doors. They start living under an open heaven. They start living under the blessings of God. Not only does Mordecai get spared and the people get spared, it gets way better than that.
Before they hung Haman, the king said, Oh, wait a minute, before you hang, give me that ring. That ring of authority. He took it off of Haman and put it on Mordecai. A Jewish man now wears the king's ring. That means he walks around with kingdom authority.
When he speaks, it is as though the king spoke. And he's now a royal. He's now in charge. The people are not only spared, but later on, God gives permission to the Jews to turn around and to kill their persecutors.
Now, remember, in Old Testament times, the way you got rid of sin was you got rid of sinners. You got to understand, get that straight. We're not in that now. We're not in that dispensation now. You can't go around killing your haters.
That's not the will of God now. Jesus died for our sins. The way you get rid of sin now is you go to the cross. You don't pick up a gun, don't pick up a sword. You go to the cross.
But God will get rid of the trouble that your haters are trying to bring into your life. Just trust Him, just stand true, just be kingdom first, just pray and fast and look to the Lord, get heaven's attention, and the Word of God tells you that God is going to fix it for you. He's gonna turn it around. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Thank you, Lord. Your trouble's great, but your God is greater. Your haters might have a little power, but God has all power. He hears what they're doing. He knows what they're plotting.
And God says, I'm gonna have the last laugh. And I'm going to see to it that my will is done. Big kingdom first. Get your life lined up in every detail with the will of God. And watch to see what God will do.
to manifest his glory in your life. Let this truth sink deep into your spirit today. No weapon formed against you will prosper. Nothing can prevent you from reaching the victory to which you have been destined in Christ Jesus.
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You can also mail your gift to Destined for Victory, Post Office Box 1767, Fremont, California, 94538. I don't know how long you've been walking with God, but let me tell you something. He won't kill your giants till you're standing in front of them most times. He's sovereign and can do what he wants, but God's them all. Is to let the giant stand there and talk about you and your mama.
Now that's tomorrow in our message. Trust him. Until then, remember. He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion. In Christ, you are destined for victory.
