Peoples Gospel Church's "Listening to God" Devotional

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+005   CHAPTER 5 (ESV) 9 And Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai. 10 Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home, and he…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+004   CHAPTER 4 (ESV) 13 Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think to yourself that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. 14 For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+003   CHAPTER 3 (ESV) 1 After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, and advanced him and set his throne above all the officials who were with him. 2 And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+002   CHAPTER 2 (ESV) 16 And when Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign, 17 the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+001   Esther The book of Esther explains why Jews in the Persian period began celebrating a new festival called Purim. The Law of Moses had earlier described how God’s mighty acts of deliverance lay behind holidays such as Passover and Tabernacles. The book of Esther shows how God intervened once…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+013   CHAPTER 13 (ESV)   23 In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. 24 And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people.…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+012     CHAPTER 12 (ESV)   27 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, with thanksgivings and with singing, with cymbals, harps, and lyres. 28 And the sons of…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+011     CHAPTER 11 (ESV)   1 Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem. And the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while nine out of ten remained in the other towns. 2 And the…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+010   CHAPTER 10 (ESV)   32 “We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly a third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God: 33 for the showbread, the regular grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed…

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+009   CHAPTER 9 (ESV)   9 Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth on their heads. 2 And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of…