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The Lord's My Shepherd - Stuart Townend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN4tPkX0MG0

Best Version of Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring by Bach (With Lyrics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6OgZCCoXWc

London Philharmonic Choir - Once to Every Man and Nation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U21b6h8g7PM

Michael W. Smith - Ancient words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouTgX9hcwk4

Laudate Dominum de Mozart Barbara Hendricks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S43CKjIGVg

10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a command for Mordecai: 11 "All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that any man or woman who goes into the inner court to the king, who has not been called, he has but one law: put all to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter, that he may live. Yet I myself have not been called to go in to the king these thirty days." 12 So they told Mordecai Esther's words. 13 And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: "Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king's palace any more than all the other Jews. 14 For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" Esther 4:10-14 (NKJV)
     Lord Jesus, you have called us to such a time as this when the gospel is being threatened: help us to be worthy of the time.

15 Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai: 16 "Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!" 17 So Mordecai went his way and did according to all that Esther commanded him. Esther 4:15-17 (NKJV)
     Holy Spirit, please help us to gather with prayer and fasting for your church and your people.

15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves, 16 saying, "What shall we do to these men? For, indeed, that a notable miracle has been done through them is evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. 17 But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them, that from now on they speak to no man in this name." 18 And they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John answered and said to them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. 20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard." Acts 4:15-20 (NKJV)
     Father, please help us make the choice to obey you and your word.

27 "For truly against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together 28 to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done. 29 Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, 30 by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus." Acts 4:27-30 (NKJV)
     Holy Spirit, please give us boldness to proclaim and live out the gospel.

A Word Received: Look to me for courage in the day of battle. Lift up the arms of your brothers and sisters as Aaron and Hur held up the arms of Moses (Exodus 17:10-13) Woe to those who replace theology with ideology.

Albany Intercessor