The king's heart is in the hand of Jehovah

When the sisters asked me to bring a meditation, the book of Esther and the life of Esther, Queen Esther, came to mind. The connection that I make in my mind is the fact that in Esther's book there is a dynamic where politics and government events are flowing in a specific direction. But at the moment another parallel dynamic is also emerging, and that is the dynamic of the spirit and of prayer.

Actually, the entire book of Esther, which I invite you to read if you haven't read it, is a chronicle of how prayer and spiritual processes prevail over human processes and governmental processes. And that's why we're here tonight, because we believe that God is more powerful than any direction that men want to give to the affairs of government.

Proverbs chapter 21, verse 1, came to mind as a theme verse for this meditation. It says here:

“…As the divisions of water, so is the king's heart in the hand of the Lord…” Hallelujah! Beiner's heart is in the hand of God. The heart of the tea party… And the hearts of those who seem to do one thing but are actually doing something else, even their hearts are also in God's hands to direct it.

And what verse 21 also says, the second part, is that God inclines the heart of the king or authority to everything he wants, he inclines him to everything he wants.

The Bible over and over emphasizes the fact that the course of nations, the course of history, the course of any moment in history is first and ultimately under the control of the God who is the King of history. . And on that foundation Christians throughout history in moments of urgency, in moments of need, of crisis, have bent their knees as a community to ask for God's intervention and that is what we are doing tonight and we believe that it has an irresistible power.

Human beings scheme and try to do their will and there is always intrigue in the places of power and government. And in governments they are almost always looking for other interests, they are looking for their own power, personal interests or those of their party instead of looking for the interests of justice, which is what is good and correct.

And we see this character named Haman in the book of Esther who is a politician who is looking for his own power, he is looking for personal things, using improper machinations. He does not respect life or justice. He is looking for his own interest and his own greatness, he does not care about the deaths of thousands of people, he only wants to enlarge his own power, and he tries to manipulate the means of power to move things in his direction.

And he manages to do it to a certain extent, he manages to manipulate the king himself into being forced to implement bad and false policies against the Jews to the point where maybe it seems like there's no way out.

And then we see that a person emerges, Esther, who is placed in Persia, in a strategic place by the Lord to carry out an intervention that God has already destined since the beginning of time.

I believe that in a sense the Christian and Latino people have a place like Esther, a role to play at this moment in history for our older people. It is a role of intercession, it is a role of taking advantage of that energy and that blessing and that gift, that spirituality that Ester had and that God has given us, Hispanics, who pray and believe in an almighty God.

I think that we definitely have to do all the things that Alfa and the other community agencies do and the political efforts that are being made in favor of the Latino community, we have to work hard and we have to make interventions at the political level and at the governmental level.

I strongly believe what that Bible verse says, help yourself and I will help you. It is not in the Bible. Do not think that the pastor is illiterate. I love that other one that says, to God praying and with the hammer giving.

Despite these efforts at the human level, we know that this battle has to be fought also, and perhaps above all, in the arena of the spirit world and spiritual warfare. That is why we always have to place our hope in the God who changes the unjust hearts of all men, regardless of party, because there is injustice in all parties at this time.

Let's not put our hopes, brothers, in a party or in a man or in a woman. Our first and last hope is in the almighty God who can change the hearts and directions of the parties. I believe that we have to approach things that way and so by doing that, we glorify God and this motivates the Lord to intervene at the historical level and do what he has to do.

And you know, the upshot of the story, Esther sends the entire Hebrew nation to pray for her and fast for her while she herself also fasts and prays. It was a desperate situation, the king had given an irreversible edict that the Jews were to be destroyed on a certain day in particular.

Esther could not enter the chamber, the king's chamber, she did not have an appointment and although she was the king's concubine and the main queen, she had no governmental right to initiate contact with the king to request an intervention on the king's behalf.

In other words, everything was locked up, locked up like the walls of Jericho. And we could perhaps say that at this time – in the same way things have been stagnant for many years on the side of both parties. President Bush wanted to pass something for immigration reform but there was political resistance and the Democrats maybe not wanting – not maybe, who didn't want him to get credit for doing it, they prevented the reform that he wanted to pass. And now the Democrats seem to want to do it and President Obama seems sincerely committed, but the Republicans in the madness, in the tea party neurosis, that we could talk a lot about it but I'm not going to go into that detail right now, why is it that this exists, they are also opposing it and cutting off both hands, preventing this people, who can be of great renewal for the very values they support, from not receiving.

Now we see the thing backwards that now the Democrats and President Obama who wants to pass immigration reform but many of the conservative Republicans want to prevent it thinking, not recognizing that many of the Latino people that they are resisting represent the same values that they have in the social environment, but in a form of neurosis they are resisting something that would be for their own good in many ways.

It seems that everything is locked right now. Brothers, the only one who can open this impasse is the almighty God, the God of history. We know the story, Esther prays, her maidens pray, the Hebrew people pray and the Lord takes all of that and leads and directs it so that God's people win a great victory and their lives are preserved and they get away with it in great way and there is a great blessing for the Hebrew people.

Even today in the 21st century, the Jews celebrate the day of Purin, the Purin festival, precisely as a reminder of that great event and that great victory.

Let us believe in the God of history, let us put our hope in him, let us cry out to him and the Lord will do justice because I believe that this is from God and this is the time for it to be done. Glory to the Lord.

Let's stand up. I know we are going to have a prayer time right now. Let me start with time. We ask, Lord, that you move the heart and move the levers of the government and of society itself, of the different segments of society, Father, the unions that oppose and the groups of different interests, Lord, ethnic and cultural that are They oppose this immigration, Lord, and the meanness of the hearts of many as well, Father.

May you break those ties, beloved Lord, and may an anointing of grace and mercy fall in the places of power, Holy Father, and may you move in a supernatural way so that a transforming change can take place, Father, in the name of Jesus we cry out to you and declare that this is a spiritual process, Lord.

Right now we send waves of power and authority over Washington, over every legislature, Lord, of this nation, over every pulpit, Father, and we ask that You move with power, Father, and that there be a change.

We adore you, Lord, we bless you, thank you, we declare your lordship. To you the glory, the honor, and the power, Father, and the people of God say, amen. Glory to the name of the Lord. Hallelujah!