Banish Vashti

Last week was on “where is your ring?” which from feedback received, it blessed many. This week’s dose is just a step further. If you missed it, please do read before moving ahead here http://innovationresort.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/where-is-your-ring.html?m=1

Now we are going to see one of the effective ways to use your ring as a king that you are.

There was celebration in the kingdom of King Ahasuerus which lasted for six month. When it was all over, the king gave a special party for the palace servants and officials. On the final day of the in-house celebration, the king was half drunk. He instructed that the queen be brought to him with the royal crown upon her head, so that all men could gaze upon her beauty. Despite the authority and power of the king, she refused. She defiled the order of the king. Vashti!

According to the Midrash(commentary on Hebrew bible), Vashti was the daughter of King Belshazzar of Babylon and the great-grand daughter of king Nebuchadnezzar, the man who destroyed the first temple in Jerusalem. The night her father was murdered, there was much bloodshed and looting in the palace. Amidst the confusion, Vashti was unaware of the death of her father and ran to his quarters where she was captured by Darius, the succeeding king. Darius took pity on the young Vashti and gave her to his son Ahasuerus.

Vashti doesn’t belong to the King’s kingdom, she is not a product of the King’s nature. In fact, she was a product of pity, she could have been killed. She was living with the king who had no option than to have grown in intimacy with her. When she finally acted in defiance to the king’s order, he didn’t know what to do with her. Memucan- one of the king’s chiefs- was with the king with the right answer:

“Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king but every official and citizen of your empire… for women everywhere will begin to disobey their husbands when they learn what Queen Vashti has done…we suggest that, subject to your agreement, you issue a royal edict, a law of the Medes and Persians that can never be changed, that Queen Vashti be forever Banished” Est1v16-20

The king did just as Memucan said, but surprisingly only a short while the king desired Vashti again because she had stayed too long with the king.

Vashti are those things that doesn’t belong to this new kingdom you are. In this kingdom, when you become a citizen, you are no longer bound by every union of your former kingdom. The problem with Vashti is when permitted, there is a probability the whole kingdom will become “Vashtilized”- Rebellion. Memucan saw this coming and knew the only option is to banish Vashti before she paralyzes the kingdom.

King Herod saw that the Christians could permit Vashti, he took James and killed him. There was no Memucan to let the Church know they were permiting Vashti, not until Peter was picked to be killed. They rose to banish that Vashti (Act12v1-6).

Some have come to see a particular sickness as their own, you hear such statement as “when MY headache starts” what a Vashti! I used to be like that, until I realized it was a Vashti, I banished it. You can be sure it won’t stop at just that, it will move to influence the whole kingdom (your life). That’s vashti for you. I don’t know what the Vashti is in you. Is it a reoccurring unpleasant situation in your family and you also joined them to say “that’s the way it happens to us”? No! When you permit one Vashti, it is capable of making more copies of itself. Listen to what Memucan (Holy Ghost) is telling you! Yes, issue a royal edict, the law that cannot be changed (Decree the word), it’s already documented there. Get into the WORD, SPEAK IT!

See this: “When this decree is published throughout your kingdom, husbands everywhere, whatever their rank, will be respected by their wives!” Est1v20

Are you saying you have accepted that unpleasant occurrence as your fate? It’s time to use your ring, banish Vashti, so Esther can gain entrance- Esther signifies deliverance.

As you go this week, would you please change your confession? Banish that Vashti, she doesn’t belong to this kingdom after all!

Be Innovated.

Olufemi Ibitoye

@toyeolufemi