Queen Esther: Lesson Ten

God can turn sorrow into joy.

Esther asked the king for her life and the lives of her people.

Esther 7:3 (KJV): Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

Then she named Haman as the enemy.

Esther 7:6 (KJV): And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

Haman was hanged on the same gallows he had prepared for Mordecai.

Esther 7:10 (KJV): So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

Whatever a man sows, he will reap.

Galatians 6:7 (KJV): Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

The month that was set for their death was turned from sorrow to joy.

Esther 9:22 (KJV): As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

Weeping may last for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

Psalms 30:5 (KJV): For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.