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Paula White (Preaching)
Welcome to Paula Today I am so excited. God's word is your answer and I believe that the Lord has positioned you for such a time as this. You're in a divine, supernatural miracle working season and just like Esther, who knows if you've not come to the kingdom for such a time as this? Now when I talk about Esther, I talk about God putting you in posture, in position for his purpose, his intention, his determination, his will. I'm not speaking gender specific only to females. This is a person that knows God has a plan and I'm standing in the gap for my family, for my generation, for my nation. God has put you in a place. The question is, can you discern it? Will you be like Esther and say, hey, if I perish, I perish. But if God be for me, who can be against me? Now let's get into the word. You're not going to miss your moment.
Paula White
So who knows if you've come to the kingdom for such a time as this? Your spirit. Does your spirit ever feel it? Do you ever feel like there's more? There's more than just making money. There's more than just working 9 to 5 there's more than just living a satisfied life. There's more than just doing what they think I should do, called successful. There's more. Anybody's spirit Ever feel it? Come on. You know why. Ecclesiastes 3:11 he has made everything beautiful in its time. He has set eternity in the hearts of man. Eternity is in you. It's in the hearts of men. Yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. You hear me say it often, but your spirit has a memory of your future that sometimes your mind is struggling to comprehend because you begin to recognize you are A sent person. Sent people act very different. They talk different, they walk different. Everything is different because you recognize. I didn't just show up. I'm not here by coincidence. No such word. But I am sent. Everything is very purposeful and a simp person recognizes that they are here on an assignment by God with a purpose to fulfill. You all have a purpose to fulfill. And sometimes we see something as this is greater or that's blessed. But we're reminded through so much of the word of God how the body all fits together jointly and how every one of us has something very important to do for God. God uses us and he uses us in our full capacity where that his glory can come through our life and show the evidence of who he is. Think about it, Joseph. Think about it, Daniel. Think about it, Esther. So on Purim we remember who is it that will reach for, lay hold of, appear, strike, punish and defeat for the dominion, the reign, the rule. Because you know, there are two kingdoms that are clashing. And whichever grabs the greater power will be the one that rules and reigns. I believe the kingdom of God is going to rule and reign. I believe the kingdom of God will advance. I believe the kingdom of God will prevail. So as you know, Daniel, Esther, Joseph, as you know, Esther, when you know who you are, then you know and can begin to understand what you're called to do. Your why, your purpose, your so what in life. Because there has been a work that's been fabricated for you. That's why he says that Jesus of Nazareth has anointed you. It means he's furnished you. He furnishes you with everything you absolutely need. Angela, if you don't have it, you don't need it. Why you're always looking outside yourself, Pastor Todd. If you don't have it, you don't need it. Esther, you've been called for such a time as this. So then you have to say, okay, well, where are we in the kingdom of God? Make this modern day for us, Pastor Paula. Because we have to be able to discern the promptings and the movings of the Spirit. We really, the more there is a vacuum of leadership and the more intense things are, the more needed you are. So you're going, man, I can't believe what all is going in the world. You should be going, man, look what's going on in the world. Because that means that you're a solution sent. You're an answer to someone's problem corporately and individually. And I believe during this time that Deep starts calling Deep that the Spirit of God is saying, come on, we already know. We've taught this. I saved this, I've said this for the last several years. We are living in days of transition. We're in transitional times. And just like I said when I was talking about vision or probably almost any other sermon, I'm going to keep nailing this because you've got to be like the sons of Issachar to be able to discern the times. I said, I don't know if Jesus is coming back. Jesus doesn't know if he's coming back. I mean, he knows he's coming back. He just doesn't know when he's coming back. Even the Son does not know the hour. Only the Father knows. I'm ready, I'm hopeful, I'm expectant. I try to put oil in my lamp at all times and be a wise virgin. I try to live for God the best I can. But what I do know is not prophetic. What I do know is just understanding, like a tribe of Issachar, that we are in days of transition. Which means there's constantly one thing ending and another thing beginning. One era ending another thing beginning, one thing ending, another thing beginning transitional times. David Houle, the futurist, you know, that wrote the book the Shift of Ages and Times, said that the period, the 20 year period between 2017 and 2037 would be the most transitional time in any period in history. And that we would be living in a transition of any 50 year period, more than any other generation that's ever existed. Shifting. Every leader understands something. It's important when we talk about Esther, because you've got to know you've been raised up for such a time. Take hold of what is eternity coming into the earth. Not Chronos, eternity. Such a time as this. So every leader knows that the. The game or the. The. The. The. The name to everything going on now is change. Can you move with change? Transitional. So let's see it from a biblical standpoint. Esther, you ready? Say bring it on. So here we are. When you're in transition, it means you're moving from one place to another, right? The Greek word, as we know, and I go over and over, means metathesis, which is an uprooting of one thing for a laying down of another thing. Meta means change. Thesis is a statement that is laid down, to be argued about. So metathesis implies in translating or picking up of the thing laid down and setting it in an altogether new context. Let me put it in a word that you would know you cannot put new wine in old wineskins because you'll lose both. You'll lose the outpouring of the spirit, but also the structure. So how do we not abandon the foundations of our past while we build on the present and into the future? Esther, transition times, metathesis is removing those things that can be shaken as a created thing in order for those things which cannot be shaken to remain. So when you're in transitional time, there's a metathesis. It means that everything watched that can be shaken will be shaken. So that which is not eternal will not remain. How do you know you haven't been raised up for such a eternal stay with me? Cause, Esther, you can't be shaken. Vashti can. I'm gonna get to her in a minute. But, Esther, come on. This puts a new confidence. I need somebody to lift your head and say, I'm starting to track with you, Paula. I'm starting to go there. Let everything else be shaken. Let all this. Let the economies, let the governments, let this. Let the nations. But, Esther, eternity cannot be shaken. Where do I carry eternity? I don't carry it in my head. My head. I gotta shut this thing down. It'll mess me up. Dr. Paul. I carry it in my spirit. The more I am here, the better we all are. The more you are in here, the better your family is. Don't mess up your moves. You'll make a wrong move like that. If you're not in spirit, you'll be with the wrong person that'll set you up and destroy your life in one moment. I'm promising you. It happens that fast. You'll make the wrong move. Out of a money situation, you'll take a job, you'll move to this place. Because you're here and you're not here. You'll change everything. And the grace of God is the worst case, is you'll be delayed. Delayed. That's your worst case. So, Esther, Eternity. Let it all shake. It has to shake. Let it all move. It has to move. Because anything built by the hand of man's not going to be able to stand anyway. Only that. That has been done by God. So you're going? Well, why are these people leaving my life? They have to. You've been trying to hold on to it. You built that. God didn't build it. You brought it together. God didn't bring it together. Stop looking with this. Here. You ready? Nothing caught God by surprise.
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Paula White (Preaching)
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Paula White
You ready? Nothing caught God by surprise, Esther. So let's keep going with it. What looks like chaos on the surface actually has that pattern that moves towards an intended end. It's chaology. You guys know it. You find it in Genesis chapter one. The spirit of God moved. God spoke. And what happens? God always starts out of chaos to bring cosmos order. So if we're in days of transition, we're leaving one thing we're coming into new to come into the order of God that he has for that moment, that season, that eternity. Guess what's happening? This. Anybody with me with this? But you're trying to go stable. Stable. But my mind likes peace. You don't have peace. It doesn't come from your mind. It comes from your spirit. But I like joy and have joy. But I like to know the future. You know a little bit about it. You know the very end of it. This is called faith. This is called that the just shall live by faith. The just shall live by faith. I thought they lived by comfort.
Paula White (Preaching)
No.
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I thought they lived by assurity. No. Hey, Elijah, I've got another mission trip for you. Go down to that brook. Okay. The brook dried up. Well, I thought you sent me there, God.
Paula White (Preaching)
I did.
Paula White
Because I'm going to use something that is a scavenger and the most unlikely source to resource you. Because I need you to know, on the mountaintop in the valley, Jezebel chasing you in the cave at the brook, that I am your source, I am your provider, I am your God, I am your deliverer. So talk to me, Esther. Ready? So what looks like a mess, actually. Always has a message. It's never that setback, it's a setup. Micah, chapter seven, verse eight. You already know it. Rejoice not against me on my enemy. Don't throw your party yet. See, you better let Haman know. Watch out, you might have the ring. I'll get there. You might have the goods from the king, but I'm telling you, watch out, don't throw the party yet, because my God still has the final word. Rejoice not yet, oh my enemy. When I fall. Not if, when, when, when, when. When I go down. That's all part of the turbulence. It's all part of part of it. When I go down, I shall arise again. When I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be light unto me. Come on, somebody get a word in their spirit. Because right now it looks dark in your family, dark in your finances, dark in the world, dark in whatever you're walking into. But God says, my light shall shine again when you fall. Come on. You will arise. You'll come into your being is what arise means. So here we go. You come into your being. That's because you know who you are. And this is where you embrace radical disorientation, chaos, in order to experience a creative transformation. Cosmos, the order and the plan of God. Somebody look at your neighbor, say, I'm not being left out, it's my time. Purim, Purim, Purim. Come on. Understand the principles.
Paula White (Preaching)
So what do you do, Esther?
Paula White
You draw near. See, the reaction in the natural is what go away. But what do you do? You've got to draw near. You've got to realize there are two kinds of people. And during any kind of shaking, the Bible reveals these kinds. We know there's tares, there's wheat, right? And only the Lord of the harvest is going to be able to know when the winds blow, when the storm comes. There's two types of foundations. A firm One. Come on. There's sand and there's a rock. There's two kinds of people. Those who draw near and those who draw back. You'll never know what's in you until you get under the pressure. You'll never know if you're gonna draw near. You're gonna draw back. You think, man, I'm gonna walk through that boat and make it until it happens to you. And only when that pressure gets on you, do you know how you're gonna respond. Is it gonna be like salt out of compulsion?
Paula White (Preaching)
You'll be reactive.
Paula White
Or like David, you'll encourage yourself and you'll fasten. Hold onto something that's deep within you, that anchors you through every storm. All the turbulence, all the agitation. Strong, eternal, sent. Purpose, plan, Sovereign, trust. Hope. God, we got this. I don't need a lot of adjectives, nouns, verbs, but I just named the ones I need. We got this. But don't you know, every single day, ask people close to me. Ask Pastor Todd, ask John. Every single day I have something happen that's enough to rock my faith almost every day. I mean, not just make it a bad day. I mean rock my faith. God, hope, faith, trust, believe. Such a time as this. Purpose, alignment, sovereignty. Never step into a day that God is not already ordained. God ordained it. The devil doesn't get that pleasure of ordaining my days. God's ordained them. Elder Devil can't. He doesn't have that kind of power over you. He. He didn't do this. Nope. Ordained by God. If I have a face to face with Satan, bring it on. What you trying to do here, God? What are you doing? You've been called for such a time as this. She drew near. And we'll get to it. The Hebrews word means this. There are two kinds of people that God reveals in times of transition. It's actually found in the book of Hebrews. Hebrews is all about. It's when the children of Israel provoked God during the days of perdition. Because they drew back. They drew back. So they provoked God and they died. That's not a good ending, by the way. Drawing back is not a good ending. You want to draw near. What do I mean? The Hebrew. Hebrews means a bar to cross over. The word Hebrews, it means transition, rendered passed over, come over, overcome, or get to the other side. So the whole. The very word Hebrews means to cross over, to get to the other side. Now, there are four basic aspects that carries movement in relationship, one to another. To draw near, to get to the Other side, to cross over, to transition. It meant this. When you draw near, it's four basic aspects. Number one, it meant to go beyond or further. Number two, it speaks of movement between two places. It's a metaphor which means to exceed. And then it carried this moral, spiritual meaning to transgression. Hebrews chapter nine or ten. Excuse me. Hebrews chapter ten, verse 19 through 39 defines these two kinds of people. One, those who draw near, full of faith and an assurance of faith. And those who draw back into perdition and they shrink back and they're destroyed. Look at somebody say, come on, draw near. Draw near. Draw near. Now, why did they draw back? Anybody want to tell me why they drew back?
Paula White (Preaching)
Fear.
Paula White
That's an absolute reason. But there was something particular that was happening in the book of Hebrews that made them draw back. Persecution. Fear was a result of it. Persecution. When you start getting under persecution, it's not like being a Christian in the 90s. It's different. Start talking a whole lot about your Jesus. Take a real stand. It's not quite as popular. In fact, there are people losing their lives all over the world for standing for Christ. Don't make me really get on this, Esther. Because persecution, the chaos, they couldn't handle the pressure. Not realizing it was the very pressure that was producing greater faith and perseverance and all ultimately the promise of God. Pressure's working for you, not against you. Pressure's working for you and not against you. I said something on Sunday. You're bigger than the storm. The Holy Spirit just brought it to me again. You're bigger than the storm. You're bigger than the storm. Come on, Esther. You're shaking because you're like, what's going on? You're bigger than the storm. This is not the day to draw back, but it's a day, as Esther prophetically demonstrated, to draw near, it was a matter of life and death. You ready? So you all ready? I'm looking for my Esther now. Now I'm just getting down to everybody who's listening. She's looking to. God's looking for. For that person who's been sent for such a time as this that's not living their own life, but living for Jesus Christ, going for the kingdom of God. It's time you draw near. The spirit of Haman is a destroying spirit. Spirit that the only thing it knows is the blood of Jesus that is inside you and the power of God. And you're sitting there trying to compromise with it. I don't know if it's really A baby. I don't know if I should really come to church. What do you know? And if you don't know, it's okay. Take time and figure it out. But. Figure it out. Figure it out. Figure it out. Figure it out. If not raised up for such a time as this, when you walk in eternity, Esther, I promise you, you'll strike, punish and defeat the enemy. So Purim is about deliverance. It's about a joyous occasion to remember what God's done. But I also think it's a monumental moment to remind you, to remind me that there's no such thing as ordinary moments. You're chosen. You're a child of God. There's no such thing as an ordinary moment. There's no such thing as just an ordinary moment. Every one of you had to be here tonight to hear this word, to activate you in your purpose. Maybe it's to bring deliverance to your family. Maybe it's to bring deliverance to a nation. Maybe it's to bring deliverance to people. But I can tell you one thing. It's not to sit back cowardly because Haman is raging and plotting, maybe making plans to destroy God's people. God has called you for such a time as this.
Paula White (Preaching)
When I talk to you about Esther, I'm talking from a prophetic place of power on the position of Esther, not gender specific, but that God has a posture, a position, a place for you. And just like Esther and like myself, you are also sent to the kingdom for such a time as this. This is a day of deliverance. And on this day I want to pray along with my ministry, my staff, and agree with you for your deliverance, your freedom from the forces of darkness, and also specific declarations of favor over you, just like Esther. Now here's what God wants is saying in this prophetic season, if you hold your peace, if you do not participate, if you hold back now, if you miss this moment, there will still be enlargement and deliverance for God's people and his purposes. But God can't use you. He doesn't use spectators. He uses participators. You have to partner with God. Don't miss your moment. Let anything holding you back be broken off your you. Right now, in Jesus name, you are in position and God is opening doors that no man can shut for such a time as this. I want you to go forward boldly into your destiny in the courage and in the spirit of Esther. So what are you going to do? Honor God? Whatever you can do, please do so. I Want to hold your response in my hands. Physically touch your prayer request in my hands. I want to intercede for you as I lift it up to God. Get ready as you discover the spirit of Esther for your life. God wants to use you because you make all the difference and God is putting you in position. Activate Favor for your life right now.
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Just like Queen Esther, God is putting you in position for favor. You have come to the kingdom for such a time as this. Call, write or go online as you sew a ministry gift today of $52 or more. Standing on Esther five two. Esther obtained favor in the King's sight and she approached the King and touched the tip of the scepter. We will rush to you a very special silver plated Esther pendant necklace and 20 inch chain complete with a scroll that reads for such a time as this. And we want to give you an opportunity to sow a $217 Esther offering and agree in faith by standing on Esther 2:17. The king loved Esther. She won grace and favor in his sight. He set the royal crown on her head and made her Queen. Call, write, go online or text to give and activate Favor for your life today.
Paula White (Preaching)
If you don't have a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and you don't know that heaven will be your home, don't live burdened like that. God loves you with an everlasting love and he wants a real relationship with you. Would you please pray this prayer with me? Say Father God, I come to you in the name of Jesus. Forgive me for all of my sin. I receive Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior. If you prayed that prayer, welcome to the family of God. It's not the last step, but it is the first step. Go to paulawhite.org get your free digital download. What is it to be Born again Salvation the building blocks of faith I'd love to be your pastor. Let's do life together. Send me your prayer request and your praise report. I'm believing God and standing with you. God bless you.
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Exploring Divine Purpose, Spiritual Transition, and Courage through the Story of Esther
This episode of Real America’s Voice features a special preaching segment by Paula White focused on the biblical character Esther. Addressing listeners from a prophetic and pastoral perspective, White urges her audience to recognize their divine placement and purpose “for such a time as this,” likening the spiritual atmosphere of today to Esther’s era. She delves into topics of transition, chaos, discernment, faith, and courage, encouraging believers to draw near to God during times of upheaval and step into their destinies with confidence.
On Destiny and Chaos:
“What looks like a mess, actually. Always has a message. It's never that setback, it's a setup.” (16:49)
On Divine Endurance:
“You’ll never know what’s in you until you get under the pressure...Only when that pressure gets on you, do you know how you’re gonna respond.” (18:34)
On Perseverance:
“Pressure’s working for you and not against you.” (22:41)
On Seizing the Moment:
“There’s no such thing as just an ordinary moment. Every one of you had to be here tonight to hear this word, to activate you in your purpose.” (25:30)
On Drawing Near Amid Persecution:
“This is not the day to draw back, but it’s a day, as Esther prophetically demonstrated, to draw near, it was a matter of life and death.” (24:30)
Paula White delivers a motivational and prophetic sermon revolving around the biblical story of Esther as a blueprint for living boldly in uncertain and changing times. Emphasizing purposeful living, discernment, and spiritual courage, she challenges listeners to embrace discomfort and chaos as arenas for growth, to persevere in faith under persecution, and to seize their unique moment in history as “sent” individuals. The core message: You are positioned for a purpose—rise to meet it, draw near to God, and do not shy away from your destiny.