Young Women’s Ministry
Esther’s Joy Young Women’s Ministry
Mission: Esther’s mission is to lead girls of Maine and USA into a beautiful team of new young women of Integrity and committed for transformed grace. Esther 2:4
Vision: To educate, learn and transmits the knowledge of young girls to become successful godly women who obey and will lead by example. Esther’s courage risked her life but still made her plans through prayer, fasting, wisdom and command.
Scripture tells us that Esther was “taken” (Esther 2:8). Where? To a place not of her choosing – she was taken to a harem! And, she was told to stifle her identity as a Jewish woman.
The book of Esther is a true story, lived and written centuries ago. God’s Sovereignty well founded and prepared a place and offered an opportunity, and His people, Esther and Mordecai, chose to act. As a beautiful girl of a Jewish descent is elevated at a circumstances of disobedience of queen Vashti.
4 Blueprint: 1. Esther becomes queen (1:1-2:23); 2. The Jews are threatened (3:1-4:17); 3. Esther intercedes for the Jews (5:1-8:14; The Jews are delivered (8:15-10:3). The book of Esther is an example of God ‘divine guidance and care for his people. God’s sovereignty and power are seen through this book. Although we may question certain circumstances in our lives, we must have faith that God is in control, working through both the pleasant and the difficult times so that we can serve him effectively.
The book of Esther speaks to God’s providence as He, who is immortal and invisible, sovereignly controls everything for His purposes.
During the incredibly stressful process of this Persian beauty pageant, Esther is not motivated by greed. She is satisfied with the advice from her “coach,” and she shows grace to all who cross her path! Who is this woman? It gets better. As Queen, she rejects any thoughts of supreme power and continues to listen to the counsel of her cousin, Mordecai. She waits upon her dictatorial husband while risking her life, and overnight becomes the spokeswoman for her people, whom she can now acknowledge.
Esther requests a banquet, where we imagine that she will plead for the lives of her people. But she does not plead at all – instead, she requests a second banquet. I’m perplexed. Then I realize that Esther is exercising “God room.” The plot is – not to plot – on the part of Esther. She is waiting on God to enter in and orchestrate the events. Esther does not rush in and manipulate; rather, she remains poised in the “pause” and lets God be God.
What about me? “Oh, Lord, please cultivate these qualities in me!” How can I become unsatisfied with the superficial? I want to be moldable in His hands and open to His reproofs. I desire to be totally dependent upon Him – giving God room to act – as I am taken out of my comfort zone. How I pray that, like Esther, I may wait expectantly and joyfully on Him – seated in that “God room”!