When Power meets Pride

•He started off showing how earthly power looks strong but breaks easy. Like King Xerxes had money, armies, and women but he was insecure and easily influenced. Haman too dude had power but couldn’t handle one man (Mordecai) not bowing to him. It all fell apart quick.

Basically, if your power isn’t from God, it’s weak no matter how good it looks.

•Then he said pride starts panicking when it can’t be in control. Haman’s pride made him wild out cause he couldn’t control the situation. And that’s real — pride wants to run everything, and when it can’t, it starts doing dumb stuff outta fear.

So when you feel like you gotta force things or get mad when people don’t respect you, that might be your pride acting up.

•After that, he said just cause God is silent doesn’t mean He’s not working. Esther’s story never even says “God,” but His hand was all over it. Like the timing, the favor, the way stuff played out — that was all God behind the scenes.

So even when you don’t feel God, or He’s not saying anything clear, trust that He’s still setting stuff up.

•He wrapped it up with this: when it feels like God is silent, look for His hand. Don’t assume He left just cause you don’t hear Him. Pay attention — He might be doing His biggest work in silence.

So pretty much:

•Earthly power can’t hold up if it’s not built on God

•Pride will crash you if you let it run your decisions

•God might be quiet, but He’s never absent

•Look deeper — His hand is in the timing, the people, the little stuff

•When life feels like it’s just chaos, trust the setup