2. Vision is the bridge between the present and the future. Without it we perish or go “unrestrained,” as the New American Standard Bible puts it. Vision gives pain a purpose. Those without vision spend their lives taking the path of least resistance as they try to avoid discomfort. The level of sacrifice that a vision requires will determine the size of people who follow. Sacrifice separates the small from the great. – Jesus Culture

3. Esther 4:16 (MSG) If you will do this, I’ll go to the king, even though it’s forbidden. If I die, I die.

4. Esther 5:3 (NLT) Then the king asked her, “What do you want, Queen Esther? What is your request? I will give it to you, even if it is half the kingdom!”

5. 2 Sam. 13:13 (NLT) Please, just speak to the king about it, and he will let you marry me.

6. Esther 5:4 (NLT) And Esther replied, “If it please the king, let the king and Haman come today to a banquet I have prepared for the king.

7. Psalm 37:7 (MSG) Quiet down before God, be prayerful before Him. Don’t bother with those who climb the ladder, who elbow their way to the top.

8. James 1:5 (MSG) If you don’t know what you’re doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You’ll get his help, and won’t be condescended to when you ask for it.

9. Esther 6: 1-2 (MSG) That night the king couldn’t sleep. He ordered the record book, the day-by-day journal of events, to be brought and read to him. They came across the story there about the time that Mordecai had exposed the plot of Bigthana and Teresh—the two royal eunuchs who guarded the entrance and who had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.

10. Ezekiel 22:30 (NLT) I looked for someone who might rebuild the wall of righteousness that guards the land. I searched for someone to stand in the gap in the wall so I wouldn’t have to destroy the land, but I found no one.