The Cry of Mordecai  ## Metadata - Author: [[Robert Stearns]] | [[3. Resources/Authors/Robert Stearns|Robert Stearns]] - Full Title: The Cry of Mordecai - Category: #books - Kindle: [Open in Kindle](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005SZ44P4) - Document Tags: [[Faith]] ## Document Notes ## Highlights - Esther had no parents, and hence, no provision for a dowry to secure a marriage. ([Location 526](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005SZ44P4&location=526)) - All the forces conspiring against her, making it appear that she had been dealt a bad hand in life, were actually the means that would propel her into what her life was really all about. ([Location 597](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005SZ44P4&location=597)) - it takes knowing what you’re made of to know what you’re made for. ([Location 599](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005SZ44P4&location=599)) - What self-limiting perceptions are you giving authority to in your thought life? ([Location 706](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005SZ44P4&location=706)) - He is inviting you to break free from distracting noise, and hear pure, clear sound. ([Location 710](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005SZ44P4&location=710)) - While the enemy likes to keep us entangled in old cycles, God’s plan is to break us out of these and teach us how to think like sons and daughters of God—like royalty. ([Location 712](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005SZ44P4&location=712)) - We live by the inner lie that faster activity and more of it is better. ([Location 731](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005SZ44P4&location=731)) - The priorities of our hearts are revealed by two things: how we spend our time and our money, ([Location 771](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005SZ44P4&location=771)) - Discipleship is not the transference of information, but the impartation of a new way of being. ([Location 784](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005SZ44P4&location=784)) - Discipleship does not happen from a pulpit. ([Location 786](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005SZ44P4&location=786))