7 King Xerxes replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, "Because Haman attacked the Jews, I have given his estate to Esther, and they have hanged him on the gallows. 8 Now write another decree in the king's name in behalf of the Jews as seems best to you, and seal it with the king's signet ring—for no document written in the king's name and sealed with his ring can be revoked."
I think it's important to note the power and influence Queen Esther had in the king's court. This was definitely a rare privilege given to women back then. Many times I give excuses to myself and others of the limitations that I have as a woman to exert any kind of influence over a group of people. However, Esther is evidence that God really uses anyone male or female, old or young.
Another point of interest is how much loyalty Esther had for her people.
5 "If it pleases the king," she said, "and if he regards me with favor and thinks it the right thing to do, and if he is pleased with me, let an order be written overruling the dispatches that Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, devised and wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king's provinces. 6 For how can I bear to see disaster fall on my people? How can I bear to see the destruction of my family?"
She wasn't merely defending herself and her immediate family, but her whole heritage. How many of us would do that for our own people? How many of us would go to North Korea and throw our lives down in front of the president and beg for the nation's freedom? It's sad that we find it so difficult to care for those around us near and far, let alone pray for them.
