Esther 5 & 6

In this session covering Esther chapters 5 and 6, Mir Lashbrook opens with the truth that Esther's courage as she stood before the king wasn't summoned in a moment but forged over a lifetime — shaped by loss, adoption, and the steady example of Mordecai's own fearless conviction — landing on the defining theme: courage is fear surrendered to faith, and when God wants to make a queen, He doesn't give her comfort, He gives her crisis. Drawing from Charles Spurgeon, Amy Carmichael, and a moving personal testimony about her own cancer diagnosis — including a mammogram image where the biopsy marker and surgical seed formed a perfect cross over the tumor site — Mir walks through what it means to bear a cross before wearing a crown, and why the oil of anointing never comes from easy places but from the crushed ones. The session closes on Esther chapters 5 and 6's hinge point: the king's sleepless night, the perfect reading of the chronicles, and Mordecai's sudden elevation at the exact moment it was needed — all pointing to the truth that what looks like coincidence or delay is God arranging His perfect will, and that no matter what trial you're walking through, He has marked the spot and He is right there.