If you’ve done part 1 and part 2, God has prepared you to speak with love! You can trust His Spirit to guide you.

Having said that, Esther shows us that the Spirit helps us to :

Pause for the power.Speak at the right time.

Pause for the Power

In Esther 5, we see that Esther didn’t give her request to the king at her first banquet. Instead, she invited he and Haman to a second banquet where she asked her husband to save her people.

It seems strange, and there’s no explanation in Scripture for Esther’s pause. There are some hints, though, and it simply seems to be a matter of God’s timing. In the middle, there was a pause where God was working.

Speak at the Right Time

In chapter 6, Esther finally speaks up to save her people. It’s worth noting, though, that she speaks at the end of a long process:

She listens to Mordecai’s despair over the edict and his advice.She feels the twinge of fear, knowing that her husband holds the power of life and death, but she moves ahead anyway.

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