Impotent means weak or feeble, without power or strength. In the book of John Chapter 5, Jesus went up to Jerusalem to the feast. This feast was prior to Passover and is thought to be the Feast of Purim. In this passage Jesus heals the impotent man who have been infirmed for 38 years, a sign of being in the Wilderness as were the Israelites under Moses. Jesus healed this man on the Sabbath and he took up his bed and walked.
I would suggest that we all have been somewhat impotent during this age of Pentecost which is represented by the Israelites wandering in the Wilderness for forty years (18 months by design + 38 1/2 by unbelief). Had the children of Israel been willing to hear Our Heavenly Father at Mount Sinai, by faith they would have entered into the Promised Land in the minimum time period of 18 months. However the plan would be a forty year delay so the unbelief would die with the generation that left Egypt.
Purim has had a special place for me since 1996. In that year I was asked to be a speaker at my first Tabernacles meeting at Moon Plaza in Minneapolis and I covered the prophetic signs of the Book of Esther and Purim. That was sixteen years ago, a sign of Love. Esther is all about “Love overcoming greed” and that would be a great vision statement for a Kingdom enterprise. Esther was willing to give her life for her people, a true servant’s heart.
Esther’s time of preparation had ended and she was now to walk out her calling: Esther 4:13 And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: “Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king’s palace any more than all the other Jews. 14 For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
Mordecai confirmed to her that she was called to this particular time, place, and purpose. He told her that if she did not respond to her calling that another would surely be lifted up to fulfill the plan of Our Heavenly Father. She responded and the Jews were saved from certain death. Haman, the adversary, was hung by the very gallows he had plan to use against the Jews. The gallows was fifty cubits high, fifty representing Jubilee. His wife Zeresh (means gold) had suggested the height. He was clearly married to “greed”.
Jesus said in Matthew 18:1, “Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” This is exactly what Esther did. She was willing to submit to death. How many of us will stand up when the call comes to bring forth the Kingdom and the Jubilee?
You have come to the kingdom for such a time as this! Let us proclaim our healing of impotence and accept the call!