Pray - ask God to speak
Read - Esther 4:1-17
Re-tell the passage in your own words

Questions:
1. What do you like about the story of Esther?  (watch the video below if you need a summary.)
2. The writer of Esther seems to have left God out of the story. This may be a clever way of asking the reader to search harder for the evidence of God in the every things of life? Where do you see God present in the story even if God is not mentioned?
3. Have there been times in your life when God seemed absent? What was that like? Did God become evident eventually?
4. Read Psalm 121. What does it say about God's presence?
5. How might needing to search for God's presence or look harder grow greater faith in us?
6. Mordecai puts a big request to Esther in 4:8 and again in 4:13-14. What was the possible cost to Esther in these requests?
7. Have you ever been faced with the need to do the right thing at a great cost?
8. What might it be like to consider that God wants to use you, as you are right now, with the assets you have, in the place you find yourself? Will you respond as Esther did "for such a time at this"?
9. What is God impressing upon you today as a result of having a closer look at The Book of Esther?
10. For a deeper dive into Esther click here for The Bible Project Overview.