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Out of the Ashes, Hope will Arise

Christine Beer

Date: 9 June 2019

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Every bursted bubble has a glory!Each abysmal failure makes a point!Every glowing path that goes astray,Shows you how to find a better way.

So, every time you stumble, never grumble.Next time you'll bumble even less!

For up from the ashes, up from the ashes, grow the roses of success!

For every big mistake you make be grateful!That mistake you'll never make again!Every shiny dream that fades and dies,

Generates the steam for two more tries!There's magic in the wake of a fiasco!

It gives you that chance to second guess!Then up from the ashes, up from the ashes grow the roses of success!

Disaster didn't stymie Louis Pasteur!Edison took years to see the light!

Alexander Graham knew failure well; he took a lot of knocks to ring that bell!So, when it gets distressing, it's a blessing!

Onward and upward you must press!Till up from the ashes, up from the ashes grow the roses of success.

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Thomas Edison – “I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways how not to make a lightbulb”

Louis Pasteur – “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity”

Alexander Graham Bell – “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us”

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Rise from the Ashes

“To emerge as new from something that has been destroyed”

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Esther 4 – 5 v 4 Living Bible (TLB)4 When Mordecai learned what had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the city, crying with a loud and bitter wail. 2 Then he stood outside the gate of the palace, for no one was permitted to enter in mourning clothes. 3 And throughout all the provinces there was great mourning among the Jews, fasting, weeping, and despair at the king’s decree; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.4 When Esther’s maids and eunuchs came and told her about Mordecai, she was deeply distressed and sent clothing to him to replace the sackcloth, but he refused it. 5 Then Esther sent for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs who had been appointed as her attendant and told him to go out to Mordecai and find out what the trouble was and why he was acting like that.6 So Hathach went out to the city square and found Mordecai just outside the palace gates,

7 and heard the whole story from him, and about the $20,000,000 Haman had promised to pay into the king’s treasury for the destruction of the Jews.

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8 Mordecai also gave Hathach a copy of the king’s decree dooming all Jews and told him to show it to Esther and to tell her what was happening and that she should go to the king to plead for her people. 9 So Hathach returned to Esther with Mordecai’s message. 10 Esther told Hathach to go back and say to Mordecai, 11 “All the world knows that anyone, whether man or woman, who goes into the king’s inner court without his summons is doomed to die unless the king holds out his gold sceptre; and the king has not called for me to come to him in more than a month.”12 So Hathach gave Esther’s message to Mordecai.13 This was Mordecai’s reply to Esther: “Do you think you will escape there in the palace when all other Jews are killed? 14 If you keep quiet at a time like this, God will deliver the Jews from some other source, but you and your relatives will die; what’s more, who can say but that God has brought you into the palace for just such a time as this?”

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15 Then Esther sent this message to Mordecai: 16 “Go and gather together all the Jews of Shushan and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day; and I and my maids will do the same; and then, though it is strictly forbidden, I will go in to see the king; and if I perish, I perish.”17 So Mordecai did as Esther told him to.5 Three days later Esther put on her royal robes and entered the inner court just beyond the royal hall of the palace, where the king was sitting upon his royal throne. 2 And when he saw Queen Esther standing there in the inner court, he welcomed her, holding out the golden sceptre to her. So, Esther approached and touched its tip.3 Then the king asked her, “What do you wish, Queen Esther? What is your request? I will give it to you, even if it is half the kingdom!”4 And Esther replied, “If it please Your Majesty, I want you and Haman to come to a banquet I have prepared for you today.”

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Mordecai – positions himself in a very public place where he would be seen

Elijah – travelled into the desert alone and prayed that he might die

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• If the King was angered by Esther’s bold approach she could be executed

• If nothing was ventured, all the Jews would lose their lives

• Esther fasted and asked all the Jews in Susa to fast as well

• She was committed – “If I perish, I perish.”

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• The door has been opened and out of what seemed impossible, new hope is beginning to stir

• We can choose to run away, or we can choose to act

• Good does come from bad• Hope does come from sorrow• Trust does come through faith• Strength can come after weakness

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• Water you turned into wine – Into the darkness you shine, out of the ashes we rise, there’s no-one like you, none like you.

• Raise a Hallelujah – I’m gonna sing in the middle of the storm, louder and louder you’re gonna hear my praises roar. Up from the ashes hope will arise, death is defeated, the King is alive!

• Rise – Yes, I will rise out of these ashes, rise from this trouble I have found, and this rubble on the ground. I will rise, because he who is in me is greater than I will ever be, and I will rise.

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Out of the Ashes, Hope will ariseIt was the day the world went wrong, I screamed til my voice was gone

And watched through the tears as everything came crashing downSlowly panic turns to pain as we awake to what remains

And sift through the ashes that are left behindBut buried deep beneath all our broken dreams we have this hope

Out of these ashes beauty will rise, and we will dance among the ruinsWe will see it with our own eyes, out of these ashes beauty will rise

For we know joy is coming in the morning, in the morning beauty will rise

So, take another breath for now and let the tears come washing downAnd if you can’t believe, I will believe for you because I have seen the signs of spring

Just watch and see, out of these ashes beauty will rise and we will dance among the ruinsWe will see it with our own eyes, out of these ashes beauty will rise

For we know joy is coming in the morning, in the morning.

I can hear it in the distance and it’s not too far awayIt’s the music and the laughter of a wedding and a feast

I can almost feel the hand of God reaching for my face to wipe the tears awayAnd say it’s time to make everything new, make it all new

This is our hope, this is a promise, it will take our breath awayTo see the beauty that He’s made out of the ashes.

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Matthew 19 v 29

“With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible”

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