Daily Devotion

EXPOSITION: Despite all the things Christ knew and the good things He did, He did not seek to be popular among men, yet still, He was known by many. He was concerned about pleasing God. This enabled Him to know the ways of the God who sent Him and did ...

EXPOSITION: Apostle Paul, who used to persecute the church and later encountered Jesus Christ, appealed to the church of Corinthians in the meekness and gentleness of Christ. From the popular events in the Bible concerning Paul, one could realise that ...

EXPOSITION: The reverse dictionary explains “cheap action” as unkindly or insincerely using a situation to benefit oneself or to harm someone else. Popularity can simply be explained as acceptance, recognition or regard. Therefore, cheap popularity ca ...

This week we have looked at some excerpts from the book of Esther. We have learnt that we should give credit to people who are due and not take people’s glory. This was what Esther did for Mordecai (2:22) and through that, God saved Mordecai and the enti ...

EXPOSITION: The very night that Haman plotted the downfall of Mordecai, God also had planned the honour and deliverance of Mordecai and the Jews. On that night, the king mysteriously could not sleep. He therefore requested for the records of his reign ...

EXPOSITION: Upon all the honour that the king showed Haman, he was still not satisfied because Mordecai was alive. “But all this gives me no satisfaction as long as I see that Jew Mordecai sitting at the king's gate" (5:13, NIV). His wife and friends ...

EXPOSITION: Haman’s plot to annihilate the entire Jewish race was met with “…great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing.” When Esther wanted to give an excuse that she could not go to the King’s presence because she had not been ...

EXPOSITION: Mordecai sent to Esther an authentic account of the plot against the Jews and charged her to intercede on their behalf. He sent her a true copy of the edict that Haman had secured so that she will see what imminent danger she and her peopl ...

EXPOSITION: In chapter 4, we read that when Mordecai heard all that Haman had plotted against the Jews, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes. In those times, the Jews wore sackcloth in times of great calamities, penitence and trouble amo ...

EXPOSITION: After Esther had become queen, one day Mordecai found out that two officers of the King, namely Bigthana and Teresh, had conspired to assassinate the King. Mordecai quickly told Queen Esther who in turn reported it to the King. “But Mordec ...