The Importance of Fasting

Haman had succeeded in bringing a plot in which the entire Jewish nation in the territory of the kingdom of Persia was to be destroyed. And the decree had gone out, but there was in the king’s palace a Jewess whose nationality was not known, Esther. And her cousin Mordecai sent a message to her and said,

“Don’t think that you’ll escape more than other other Jews in the king’s palace, because who knows if you’re there for such a time as this?”

And Esther rose to the challenge, and she said,

“Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law: and if I perish, I perish.”

The whole situation was totally reversed, and it ended up in a triumph for the Jewish people. What changed history? What was the turning point? When God’s people fasted.