The Scapegoat: The Wilderness Journey

© 2012 by Prophetess Daphne R. Grayson. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse 09/07/2012

ISBN: 978-1-4772-6039-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4772-6136-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012914819

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Chapter 1:Entering The Wilderness

Chapter 2:Let My People Go

Chapter 3:The Separation Ground

Chapter 4:Rephidim

Chapter 5:Wilderness Of Sinai

Chapter 6:Beautify The Meek With Salvation

Chapter 7:Valley Of The Broom Bushes

Chapter 8:Pomegranate Tree

Chapter 9:The True Anointing

Chapter 10:The Wetlands

Chapter 11:Holy Convocation

Chapter 12:Two Edged Sword

Chapter 13:The Visitation Of The Lord

Chapter 14:The Trumpets Shall Sound

Chapter 15:To Serve With Love

Chapter 16:The Next Generations

Chapter 17:Wisdom

Chapter 18:Enlarge My Territory

Chapter 19:Sons Of God

Chapter 20:The Heel-Catcher

Chapter 21:Lord Show Me Your Glory

Chapter 22:Crying In The Wilderness

I dedicate this book to my husband Vincent my sons Kimeyo, Quincy, Rahshad, and Christian, and daughters Aja, Sacha, Simon, and Chloe. To all my grandchildren those present and who are to come before Christ returns. I love you all!

My brother Donald Ray Harris

Acknowledgments

I like to first acknowledge my Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. Thank you for all that you have taught and done for me. It is truly because of your love for me that I now stand to proclaim the glorious message of who you are to me. It is my hope that many reading this book will come to see you the only begotten son of the Father. Now seated with Him making intercession for us as we journey forward to the household of faith.

Special thanks to the following people

Mother, Prophetess and Evangelist Charles Etta Ingram, thank you for all the times you allowed me to sit at your feet learning about God the father and Jesus, and for watching over my soul as a babe in Christ and my ministry even to this today.

Apostle James Miller, who will forever be my brother in Christ thank you for trusting the ministry that God has given me and allowing me to serve as a minister. Also for being there when days looked very dark.

Apostle Michelle Moody, I thank God for the day he allowed our paths to meet using you to restore my heart and mind.

Apostle Wilimena Eason, my big sister in the Lord I love and appreciate you and the generosity you have shown to my husband and me. My prayer is that God will fill your church with souls that are faithful and true.

My brother and sister also best friends in the gospel Apostle LaMarco & Delores Nesbit. I love you and will always cherish the times and friendship we have shared in this life as ministers of the Most High. May God bless your ministry to reach far and wide and may the palmist anointing continue to take us higher in Christ. Let the Praises go up!!

Last but not least to my sister forever Gloria Block, I love you and thank God for allowing us to walk together in this life through many challenges keeping each other lifted up through good times and bad.

Foreword

As I write these words I would say forgiveness is the most powerful spiritual tool one can take with them on their life journey. While in Maryland ministering at my very first out of state meeting is where God through the Holy Spirit taught me about forgiveness. When one refuses to forgive and allows un-forgiveness to reign in their heart it will literally paralyze them from moving into the true blessings God has for them. Life becomes more tainted one might say. In Matthew 9:2 we see Jesus healing a man from palsy (paralyze) the first thing he says to him was take up thy bed and walk thy sins have been forgiven. Jesus knew the cause of his crippling state, and forgiveness was the answer. When speaking to the people there he said, what’s easier to forgive him or say take up thy bed and walk? He was stagnated and could not move because of unforgiveness and lay there without hope. Whatever the sin was it was not the problem it did its job. That was to stop him from moving forward in life. His life had altered its course he had become stuck. The life force of his spirit had stop until Jesus the life giver came. I can remember the day that Jesus came into my life giving me mercy here I stood a sinner and now my sins have been forgiven or pardon. There is a song that said, When I could not reach mercy, mercy came running to me Jesus has come to us. Glory! So just as you have been forgiven you too must forgive all those in your past that has hurt, disappointed you causing you to become stagnated in your life. Jesus the giver of life is here!

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 1:1

Chapter 1

Entering the

wilderness

I was awaken one Sunday morning with the Lord saying to me everyone must go through the wilderness.

Thinking to myself could it be because of the call I had gotten the day before from my daughter frantically calling for help and in an effort to help her understand what she was experiencing was her wilderness experience. Then while reading Revelation chapter 1, which I will get to later, that was when God began to reveal the perfect work of Jesus Christ. During this period of studying is when God spoke a word to me as I was rising that Sunday morning saying, everyone must go through the wilderness.

The word must indicates that it is a necessity an action one is obligated to do like taking a course in school. Some of the class subjects have certain requirements that have to be completed before one can move on to the next course.

Let us look at this statement everyone must go through the wilderness. The objective here is to uncover the spiritual truths and the blessing one receives if and when he or she comes out of the wilderness. For many have gone into the wilderness pitching their tents only to die there. Never discovering the perfect will of God, which is to pass from death to life. We all must go through but not abide there. To abide there is death.

God has created the perfect plan in order to move us from death to life. That is through faith in Christ Jesus. We will get to this later in the chapters how he is the must have requirement and hopefully you too will see that soon.

El-paran is where the wilderness is first mention in Genesis 14:6 and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness. This is where the war with Sodom and the capture of Abram’s nephew Lot took place. Here is where Abram along with the servants of his house that consisted of 318 men rescued Lot. The Horites were Nephilims, giants the progeny of the fallen angels with the daughters of Adam as noted in Genesis 6 the word Nephilim meaning fallen ones. They were superhuman, abnormal beings and their destruction was necessary.

El-paran, also represented the place of strength Abraham only had three hundred eighteen servants to fight against four trained armies and mighty men of war but with the help of El-Eyon the battle weren’t Abrams but the Lord. Abram and his servants just had to meet God there in the wilderness so that God who is mighty could show himself strong.

An interesting thing here is where Lot pitched his tent because he saw the greenness of the land El-paran is a place of embellishment where wickedness is strong and mighty. Lot had need of a savior, God’s plan was to destroy those nations; after twelve years the scriptures said in the thirteenth year came a rebellion and the nations warred against Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot was caught in the cross fire one could say.

God is all knowing he knew the season had come for those nations to be brought down and he chose Abram, a kinsmen redeemer. Remember I said? We are only to pass through not pitch our tents. There will come a second time God will have to bring Lot and his family out of Sodom and Gomorrah. Next time there will be some casualties his wife is turned to salt because her heart was not toward the things of God but toward the embellishment of wickedness.

After the victory in El-paran Abram not only brought back goods, his nephew Lot along with his goods and daughters along with his servants but he met Melchizedek king of Salem who brought bread and wine.

And Mel-chiz’edek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the Most High (El-Eyon) God. and he blessed him. and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. Genesis 14:18-20

Hagar, Sarai’s maid another one being found in the wilderness where the Angel of the Lord spoke with her. Let’s listen in on the conversation… And the angel of the Lord found her by the fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. And he said Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence camest thou? And whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. And the angel of the Lord said unto her, return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael: because the Lord hath heard thy affliction. Genesis 16:7-11

What an interesting question the angel asked her whence camest thou? And whither wilt thou go?

Hagar was found in the wilderness in the path to Shur in Hebrew the word Shur means a wall the angel knew that Hagar was walled in, her paths were blocked, the desert can be a place of wondering. The angel told Hagar to return back to Sarai and submit herself. Telling her to surrender, yield to Sarai and in doing so he would multiply thy seed exceedingly. Again the sovereignty of God he knew she was with child and told her it was a boy also giving him his name. Here is where we see a righteous man or woman’s footsteps being order by the Lord.

Sometimes when we want to run away from our problems God will have us stay at that place of surrender the wilderness is a place we learned to humble ourselves. While at the place of humbleness God will reveal to us the path we need to take in order to receive the promise. Some scholars call this place the Hagar-covenant. Hagar called it beer-la-hai-roi, Well of a living one, my seer;

Now the time has come for Joseph’s destiny to begin what appears to be his destruction is God guiding Joseph to his blessing.

I attended a woman’s fellowship one Saturday one of the ladies speaking brought a message entitled out of bad comes good that has now become one of my mantras.

We discover here that Joseph was a dreamer. God had given him several dreams as to the future because of these dreams plus the favoritism of his father. Joseph hated by his brothers so much so they plotted to kill him. If not for the intervening of his older brother preventing Joseph’s siblings from killing him but instead convincing them to send him into the desert. That’s right his wilderness.

And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again. Genesis 37:22

Isn’t it amazing that when God shows us our future he doesn’t always tell every little detail? Maybe if Joseph knew what his brothers were going to do he may not have told them his dreams. God always has a plan that is bigger than the enemies. Look at this his brother Reuben had already planned to rescue him but God’s plan of salvation is so much greater. Even as I was sitting here writing this and reading the verse where they were sitting and eating a company of Ishmael-elites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery, balm and myrrh going to carry it down to Egypt. Genesis 37:25 are a type and shadow of Jesus Christ, and the wise men.

Sin always come with a price Esau sold his birthright for pottage. The scripture tells us the wages of sin is death. Little did the brothers know that the price they got for selling Joseph was nothing to be compared to the glory that God was getting ready to bestow upon Joseph and them all. As we learned Joseph ended up in Potiphar’s house.

And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand. Genesis 39:3

Maybe they should have recognized the meaning of Joseph name Yowceph in the Hebrew meaning let him add, to increase, to make larger. God truly enlarged his territory.

We have discovered that wilderness brings challenges and blessings lets continue on to what more is to be learned here.

I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

Psalm 2:7

Chapter 2

Let My People Go

Let my