Failure to Listen for an Answer--Sept. 27, 2018

I ask you, Jesus, to let me hear

of your steadfast love in the morning,

and you grant my petition, but I fail to listen.

And nothing extraordinary happens, nor any

sign that my prayer has been answered.

Esther petitioned the king for her own life

and for the lives of her people.

She did not ignore the

king's answer.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 143; 147:12-20; 81; 116

Esth. 7:1-10

Acts 19:11-20

Luke 4:14-30

Selected Verses

Ps. 143:8

 Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning,
          for in you I put my trust.
Teach me the way I should go,
          for to you I lift up my soul.

Esth. 7:3-4a

Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have won your favor, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me--that is my petition--and the lives of my people--that is my request.  For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated.  …"

Acts 19:11

God did extraordinary miracles through Paul…

Luke 4:21

Then [Jesus] began to say to [the people in the Nazareth synagogue], "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.  …"