As for God, his way is perfect … He is a shield for all who take refuge in him. For who is God besides the Lord? And who is the Rock except our God?
Psalm 18:30-31

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
 Numbers 23:19

All the royal officials at the king’s gate knelt down and paid honor to Haman, for the king had commanded this concerning him. But Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor.
 Esther 3:1-2

If you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish.
Esther 4:14

Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come.  I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.
Isaiah 46:9-10

The Lord has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all.
Psalm 103:19

Christ is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.  He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Colossians 1:15-17

And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, SO THAT in everything he might have the supremacy.
Colossians 1:18

He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.
Ephesians 4:10 

Christ has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.
1 Peter 3:22

Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “IF it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
James 4:13-16

King Xerxes honored Haman, elevating him and giving him a seat of honor higher than that of all the other nobles.
Esther 3:1

In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Esther 4:3

“For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?”
Esther 4:14

Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: “Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”
Esther 4:16

One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Ephesians 4:4-6