Tommy Tenney - Finding Favor with the King: Preparing for Your Moment in His Presence

Books by Tommy Tenney

G OD C HASERS S ERIES

The God Chasers

Gods Favorite House

The God Catchers

Gods Eye View

Prayers of a God Chaser

(Study guides and workbooks are
available for many of these books)

U NITY S ERIES

Gods Dream Team

Answering Gods Prayer

Gods Secret to Greatness

C OMPASSION S ERIES

Chasing God, Serving Man

Marys Prayers and Marthas Recipes

F AMILY S ERIES

How to Be a God Chaser and a Kid Chaser

On Daddys Shoulders

D EVOTIONAL B OOKS

The Daily Chase

Experiencing His Presence

Up Where You Belong

G IFT B OOKS

Heart of a God Chaser

God Chasers for Kids

God Chasers for Teens

You Are a God Chaser If...

O THER B OOKS

Trust and Tragedy

Secret Sources of Power

Finding Favor With the King

Hadassah: One Night With the King

The Hadassah Covenant

2003 Tommy Tenney

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CONTENTS

CONNECT
WITH
TOMMY
TENNEY

H ave you ever read a book and wished that you could remember all the things you learned from its pages? Reading a book and applying the knowledge gained from that book are two different things.

I want to help you find favor by applying the principles found in this book!

To assist you in continuing your journey into the Kings palace, I have created a special interactive online Esther experience! Its like a roadmap of sorts. There is a ...

• special study guide
• audio streaming, and
• printable Protocols of the Palace artwork.

Also available is an Esther devotional sent to you daily by e-mail. I want you to succeed!

If you cant access the GodChasers.network Web site, we can ship you a free teaching CD or tape, Lessons From Esther, for a minimal shipping charge.

GodChasers.network
The ministry of Tommy Tenney
PO Box 3355
Pineville, LA 71361
1-888-433-3355 or 1-318-442-4273
www.godchasers.net

To the ones who taught me most.
The four queens of my life.
I cant imagine life in my humble palace without them.
My three daughters and my wife.
May I rise to the level of their royalty.

CHAPTER 1

FROM
PEASANT
TO PRINCESS

What a Difference a
Day Makes!

INTRODUCTION

D ivine secrets of transformation await you in this life-and-death saga from Esthers pre-Islamic Persia. It is here that God uses the most unlikely of heroes to save His people from genocide at the hands of a powerful and highly placed madman named Haman. Not only did God use unlikely heroesbut He also used unlikely weapons!

How does this story from the antiquity of ancient Iraq apply to us today ? If it was a mere childrens story, it wouldnt apply at all. But it isnt. This story has the feel of a fairy tale!

Hidden among the secrets of palace protocol is an encoded portrayal of Bible purpose access to Gods presence . The book of Esther literally contains a spiritual roadmap to God! We cannot afford to shrug off this story as something we heard about in church decades ago or dismiss it as some irrelevant Old Testament book.

God reveals through Esthers life just how He worked through one young woman to save the Jewish people from total annihilation by an impossibly powerful leader. Esthers story reveals eternal wisdom about your own future and destiny !

M ost little girls Ive known have dreamed of becoming a princess (most young boys secretly dream of being a king too). The princess and king dream lives on into adulthood for most of us. Why else would the contemporary world be so captivated by the storybook wedding of Princess Diana to Prince Charles years ago?

An estimated 750 million people in seventy-four countries dropped what they were doing and crowded around television sets to watch the ceremony of the first English woman to marry an heir to the British throne in over three hundred years. Every eye followed Lady Diana as she walked down the aisle of St. Pauls Cathedral in a royal procession to meet Prince Charles. In the words of the archbishop of Canterbury, Here is the stuff of which fairy tales are made.

Otherwise happy and contented women around the globe suddenly felt the familiar pangs of their childhood, longing to be a princess bride once again. Very few modern nations or cultures continue to have royalty or princesses, but little girls still dream of one day being a princess bride, and little boys still imagine becoming a king.

Is it any accident that the dream of a princess bride is so persistent even in contemporary societies, generations after true earthly royalty became rare?

Could it be that our Creator planted this dream deep inside our hearts as a hidden seed, an eternal dream waiting to be fulfilled at just the right time? This dream has divine destiny at its core.