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WHATEVER YOU ARE GONG THROUGH, MOST OF THE TIME IT VANISHES AWAY IN THE MORNING
Your psalms verses:
 ² O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
³ O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
⁴ Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
⁵ For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
⁶ And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
⁷ Lord, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.
⁸ I cried to thee, O Lord; and unto the Lord I made supplication.
⁹ What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
¹⁰ Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord, be thou my helper.
¹¹ Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
¹² To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.

The Lord your God watch over you daily. This is why  your weeping endures for one night.

THE BANQUET

WHOSOEVER DIGS A PIT SHALL FALL IN IT

Esther Plans a Banquet

Est 5:1 Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.

Est 5:2 And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.

Est 5:3 Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom.

Est 5:4 And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.

Est 5:5 Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

Est 5:6 And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.

Est 5:7 Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is;

Est 5:8 If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.

~ Haman's Pride

Est 5:9 Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.

Est 5:10 Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.

Est 5:11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

Est 5:12 Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.

Est 5:13 Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

Est 5:14 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

Haman caused his own downfall. First, he convinced the king to change the rule about judging matters that were relevant to himself. If the king had not had the power to judge matters in which he was an interested party, Haman's case would have gone to a tribunal, and he would not have been killed. However, because Haman convinced Achashverosh that Achashverosh should have the power to decide these matters, Haman had no recourse once his death sentence was pronounced by the king. In addition, if he had not erected an inordinately tall gallows, Charvonah would not have been able to point it out to Achashverosh, and Haman's death sentence might not have happened so swiftly, leaving him no time to beg for mercy. It was only because Haman wanted the whole city to see Mordechai hanging that Charvonah saw the gallows from afar and pointed it out to Achashverosh. Lastly, if Haman had only listened to his wife's request to take down the gallows, the gallows would not have been there for Charvonah to see. Haman's obstinacy caused him to leave the gallows up, and caused his downfall.

  Esther 5-6 

Pastor Catherine Taylor

PSALM 35-DEFEAT ALL YOUR ENEMIES

Read with understanding:

Psalm 35

King James Version (KJV)

35 Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

² Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
³ Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
⁴ Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
⁵ Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase them.
⁶ Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord persecute them.
⁷ For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
⁸ Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
⁹ And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
¹⁰ All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
¹¹ False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
¹² They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
¹³ But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
¹⁴ I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
¹⁵ But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
¹⁶ With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
¹⁷ Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
¹⁸ I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
¹⁹ Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
²⁰ For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
²¹ Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
²² This thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
²³ Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
²⁴ Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
²⁵ Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
²⁶ Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
²⁷ Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
²⁸ And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
     Some how you have been having bad dreams about your enemy and have no idea how to confront them in the spiritual settings, now you have upper hands of your enemy when you read this Psalm daily.