If you’re searching for coincidence, lady luck, or twists of fate, you can buy a lottery ticket for two dollars. Tomorrow, you are almost guaranteed to be two dollars poorer. If you should beat the ridiculous odds and win, you’ve probably just purchased a lifetime of anguish. If you doubt this, just investigate the lives of the “winners” within a few short years down the road from the jackpot.

Who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Esther 4:14

But those who invest in serving God find the odds of success increase considerably. In fact, they are 100 percent! There simply are no “coincidences” in His perfect plans. Throughout history, God has placed people in just the right place at just the right time. Consider the Good Samaritan (Luke 10) or the Woman at the Well (John 4) In today’s scripture, a series of incredible “coincidences” lands Esther in the right place at the right time to save the entire Jewish race.

As you pray for America today, ask God to lead you to some lost, lonely people who find it hard to believe that God could love them – especially at Christmas time. You are here “for such a time as this.”

Recommended Reading: Isaiah 46:8-13