Knowing Him Daily

10.March.2026

I recently heard this taught in a way I had never heard before, and I could not keep it to myself. Stay with me.

Israel’s story did not begin simple. 

After four hundred years of Egyptian bondage, they fought their way into a promised land, slayed giants, conquered enemies, and established a nation. Under Joshua they found their footing. Under Saul, David, and Solomon their borders expanded further than they had ever imagined. And then Solomon died, civil war broke out, and the nation fractured. Within a generation they were back in bondage. Everything they had built, everything they had bled for, it looked like it was gone.

When God’s people went into captivity, His faithfulness went with them. He did not stay behind. He did not abandon the covenant. That is the nature of a covenant keeping God. Numbers 23:19 says, “God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” It is impossible to separate His character from His Word. If He said it, He will do it.

Then came Persia. One hundred and sixty years before a king named Cyrus was ever born, the prophet Isaiah called him by name. Isaiah 45:1 says, “Thus says the Lord to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him.” God had already written his part in the story before he drew his first breath. That is not coincidence. That is sovereignty. Cyrus allowed the Jewish people to return home and rebuild the temple, fulfilling exactly what had been spoken over them.

Since three thousand BC, Jerusalem has been attacked fifty-two times, captured and recaptured forty-three times, and destroyed twice. And yet in 1948, Israel became the only nation in human history to go out of existence and come back nineteen hundred years later, fulfilling Bible prophecy in a single day. Isaiah 66:8 asks, “Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once?” Satan never attacks a dead thing. Not a dead church, not a dead marriage, not a dead life, and certainly not a dead nation. He hates what God has promised because he cannot replicate what God can do.

After Cyrus, a king named Xerxes took the Persian throne. He hosted what you might call the most consequential beauty pageant in history. A young Jewish orphan named Esther won, and she found herself living in a Persian palace with a secret, her people, her identity, her faith. Her cousin Mordecai had raised her as his own after her parents died, and it was Mordecai who refused to bow to a man named Haman, a high official in the king’s court. That refusal ignited something demonic. Haman hatched a plan to annihilate every Jewish person in the entire kingdom. When Mordecai brought the news to Esther she faced the most defining moment of her life. She could stay silent and safe inside the palace, or she could risk everything. 

Mordecai’s words cut right to the heart of it, “Who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Esther called her people to fast with her for three days, and then she walked into the king’s presence uninvited, which by law could have cost her her life. The king extended his scepter. She was received. And through her courage and God’s sovereign hand, Haman ended up on the very gallows he had built for Mordecai. God’s covenant stood fast as it always does.

Now pay close attention. The Persian Gulf borders Iran. The native language of Iran is Persian. Until 1935 it was not even called Iran. It was Persia. In Ezekiel 38:2-6, the prophet describes a coalition of nations that in the last days will march against Israel. Persia is named directly in verse five. God tells Ezekiel, “Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with them.” This was written twenty-five hundred years ago. And right now, in real time, we are watching that coalition take shape. What Ezekiel saw, we are living.

But here is what the news is not telling you. In the last twenty years, more Iranians have come to Jesus than in the previous thousand years combined. Before the 1979 revolution there were only five hundred known converts from Islam to Christianity in that entire nation. Today there are close to five million. Romans 10:13 says, “For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Whoever. That includes Persia. Two thousand five hundred years ago the Persian empire saved the Jewish people. And now God is using the Jewish people to return the favor, bringing freedom back to the Persian people.

What He did for one, He will do for all. Your needs are no stranger to Him. The same God who called Cyrus by name one hundred and sixty years before he was born, the same God who placed a young Jewish orphan girl in a Persian palace for such a time as this, knows your name too. He has been writing this story for thousands of years and He has not stopped writing. Not for Israel. Not for Iran. And not for you.

The signs are not hiding. They never were. They are lining up exactly the way He said they would. And if He was faithful to every promise He made to a nation, to a king, to an orphan girl in a palace, you can trust that He is faithful to every promise He has made to you.

He is a covenant keeping God. That has never changed and it never will.

Make today count and see you tomorrow.