{"id":4808,"date":"2013-02-22T00:02:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T06:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=4808"},"modified":"2013-02-18T11:13:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T17:13:22","slug":"a-new-decree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=4808","title":{"rendered":"A New Decree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cThen the King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and Mordecai, the Jew, Behold I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him have they hanged upon the gallows, because he had laid his hands upon the Jews.\u00a0 Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king\u2019s name, and seal it with the king\u2019s ring: for the writing which is written in the king\u2019s name, and sealed with the king\u2019s ring, may no man reverse\u201d (Esther 8:7-8).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s verses, we find two people who have risen to prominence. One is a Jewish orphan girl crowned queen. The other is her guardian made prime minister of the king.\u00a0 God\u2019s hand was upon the lives of Esther and Mordecai.\u00a0 Mordecai\u2019s first edict was to make a new decree to counter the previous one.\u00a0 This new decree gave Jews the right to defend themselves against those who would try to harm them.<\/p>\n<p>The old hymn, \u201cIt is No Secret What God Can Do\u201d resounds through the story of an orphan girl named Esther.\u00a0 Other words of that song are \u201cwhat He\u2019s done for others He\u2019ll do for you.\u201d\u00a0 He is still in control and can work in your life just as He did in Esther\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Winchester<br \/>\nMissouri<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRAY TOGETHER: <\/strong>Pray creativity and ample meeting times for brainstorming groups assisting with content for the 2013-2014 Program and Plan Book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThen the King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and Mordecai, the Jew, Behold I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him have they hanged upon the gallows, because he had laid his hands upon the Jews.\u00a0 Write &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=4808\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4811,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions\/4811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}