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We are going to be doing something a little different with the UncommonTEEN Podcast in 2025. This year, I want to explore different people in the Bible who made a major impact for the Lord and lessons we can learn from them. This month, we are focusing on Esther. 

 

Isaiah 43:16-19 says, “I am the Lord, who opened a way through the waters, making a dry path through the sea. I called forth the mighty army of Egypt with all its chariots and horses (this is when the Israelites were held captive by the Egyptians and Moses came in to deliver them). I drew them beneath the waves, and they drowned, their lives snuffed out like a smoldering candlewick. But forget all that—it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.

 

 

When in verse 18 God says, “But forget all that!” He’s talking about the past...He doesn’t want our past to hold us back from what He has planned for us. 

 

Could you imagine if Esther held herself back because of her past? If she thought about how she was an orphan...that she was a nobody. If she curled up in a ball and gave up on life? I’m so thankful she didn’t do that. 

 

In verse 19, God goes on to say, “For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?”

 

 

God is telling us to look up! To get our faith up! He’s got a plan for our lives that is so much better than we even know! 

 

Ephesians 3:20 tells us that with God’s power at work in us, because we have gotten a revelation of how much He loves us, He is able to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.

 

 

I don’t know about you, but I can dream up some pretty big things. 

 

 

God tells us in this verse that when we get a revelation of how much He loves us and we step out in faith, He can do way more…infinitely more than we can even ask or think! We get a revelation of God’s love, by getting into the Bible and looking at verses on how much God loves us. 

 


Once we get that revelation of God's love for us, it's time to step out in faith! 

 

Esther knew that God was for her and that she didn’t have to fear. So, instead of bowing down to that fear, she chose to take God at His Word and seek Him. 

 

How do we grow our faith? 

1. Make a decision that you are going to trust God and His Word (the Bible). 
2. Get into the Word and listen to solid Biblical teachings. 
3. Meditate on the what you read in the Bible and what you are learning. 
4. Speak God’s Word over your life. 
5. Take action.

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