{"id":14227,"date":"2026-05-19T16:35:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=message&#038;p=14227"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:35:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:35:57","slug":"the-god-who-is-already-at-work","status":"publish","type":"message","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/message\/the-god-who-is-already-at-work","title":{"rendered":"The God Who is Already at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, as Esther approaches the king and Haman\u2019s plot continues to unfold, something remarkable happens. There are no miracles, no visions, no dramatic interventions\u2014just a series of ordinary events. A banquet. A delay. A restless night. A remembered deed. And yet, through all of it, God is at work.<\/p>\n<p>Because if we\u2019re honest, this is where many of us live. Not in the dramatic moments, but in the ordinary details of life. And in those moments, we often wonder: Where\u2019s God? When delays come\u2026 when plans fail\u2026 when evil seems to be advancing\u2026 when nothing seems to be improving\u2026 it can feel like God is absent.<\/p>\n<p>But Esther shows us that even in the most ordinary and unnoticed details, God is already at work.\u00a0In Esther 5:1\u20136:13, as Haman\u2019s deadly plot advanced and Esther sought favor, a series of seemingly ordinary events revealed that God was already at work to deliver His people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14228,"template":"","tags":[],"series":[2998],"scripture-book":[1284],"scripture-chapter":[1338,1339],"speaker":[2007],"class_list":["post-14227","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","series-the-hidden-hand-of-god-a-study-of-esther","scripture-book-esther","scripture-chapter-1338","scripture-chapter-1339","speaker-gary-combs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/14227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/message"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/14227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14229,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/14227\/revisions\/14229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14227"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=14227"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=14227"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=14227"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=14227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}