The Call: Moses the Great Negotiator

By Patricia Grant

Moses, the great negotiator was the first Israelite to run the largest organization of God chosen people. And before him there was no one who has had to manage this large number of Gods chosen people at once. Elohim knew that Moses needed to learn how to organize people by clans, tribes, offices. But before doing so, he was to acquire few skills on the road to becoming the great negotiator. He was sent to the prestigious school of Gods wisdom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jun 16, 2017
• ISBN: 9781512787023

Patricia Grant

PATRICIA GRANT has been an avid reader since childhood and enjoys writing stories, nature walks, and traveling. She currently resides in North Carolina. The Call: Moses the Great Negotiator is her second book in an intended Christian series.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

PART 1

The Call

Chapter 1 My Call

Chapter 2 Egypt—The Land Blinded By Pride

Chapter 3 The Call Of Moses

Chapter 4 Joseph: Father To Pharaoh?

Chapter 5 Preparing The Great Negotiator And Fighting The Unconventional War

Chapter 6 The Beginning Of The Storm

PART 2

The School Of God

Chapter 7 Phase 1: Isolation—The Training Begins

Chapter 8 The Prophetic Ministry

Chapter 9 Identity Crisis

Chapter 10 The Hebrew Identity

Chapter 11 Meekness On The Road To Greatness

Chapter 12 Patience—The Training Continues

Chapter 13 Assertiveness

Chapter 14 Trust

Chapter 15 Compromise Vs. Negotiation: Searching For The Reason Within

Chapter 16 The Passover—Facing Israel

PART 3

The Service

Chapter 17 Beware When God Goes Silent

Chapter 18 What Happens When God Reappears On The Scene?

References

INTRODUCTION

M oses was the great negotiator. He was among the five people in the Bible I was instructed to get acquainted with because the hand of the almighty God had trained them. God set them apart for specific missions, and their callings, selection, training, and service did not follow the expected, common rules and regulations found with other biblical personalities. We could compare their training to what the navy SEALs undergo.

Though Moses was a prophet, the prophetic office was not his main function. Moses was called and trained to be a negotiator, the great negotiator, and as per my Teacher, the prophetic function was an all-inclusive package. My assignment was to become acquainted with and meditate on the life, ministry, and training of this great negotiator.

I learned that Moses was an exceptional man who was entrusted with a very unusual mission. After countless meditation sessions, Bible study, and research, I found that in many instances, Moses was as human as I am; when faced with challenges, he reacted the same as we do today. But what made him great at what he did? Training. Special training. To be a great negotiator, Moses needed to master few skills that would set him apart from the general population. And patience and persistence were among the skills he needed to become a great negotiator.

Moses was an exceptional hero, but the Bible does not idealize exceptional heroes. It wants to show us their human resemblance to us. Training to become a great negotiator is a timely process, and in Moses’s case, it started well before the face-to-face with Pharaoh. It started way before he stood in front of the children of Israel when they were ready to leave the land of the Rameses.

Becoming a great negotiator requires time (training), data collection (the gift of prophesy—the more you know, the better you become), and the power of persistence (great communication skills, assessment, and reassessment). Moses had to understand and master his agenda, but more important, he had to make sure Pharaoh did not learn about it.

The call on Moses’s life was first to negotiate the Israelites’ way out of Egypt. Once Israel was freed, Moses had to negotiate their survival on the way to the Promised Land. And finally, he had to negotiate a new set of laws by which Israel would live by. And for the last forty years of his calling, he stood between God and Israel in constant negotiations.

The call on Moses’s life meant he had to run a large organization of God’s chosen people; he was the first to do so, and he needed proper training. Elohim wanted Moses to learn how to organize people by clans, tribes, offices, and titles.

To do so, Moses had to first become well acquainted with the Egyptians’ way of life and then understand the origin of the Hebrew way of life by retracing and recording the Israelites’ history. He had to understand their hardship as slaves and with great compassion lead them out of Egypt.

If Moses was going to learn how to be a great negotiator, he needed to have a spirit of prophesy, great communication skills, and a sense of justice. It was fitting that Moses was admitted to the prestigious school of wisdom, the school of God, where training is handled one on one with the Lord. Not easy.

When I was instructed to look into Moses’s training, I had already been admitted to this school of God myself, but I did not know that at first. Writing these books has brought the lessons I learned during training into focus. The plan is the same in this school of training—first the call, then the training, and finally taking office.

When I started to write this second book, I realized very quickly that this was not just a task for me; it was a deeper calling because I started to see similarities that made him human just as I was. I realized that by writing this book, I would write about my own experiences and the similarities I found with my own training. So I got scared and decided to write less about my own experiences about the required prophetic part of this function.

I realized that I was not writing anymore just for reporting the experiences as I did in the first book; I was writing for something unique, more personal. I was putting the pieces of the puzzle together from my own training.

This book does not tell in detail all the lessons taught in this school; here, I highlight a few of the skills needed for this function. As is the case with the elite SEALs, the stories of the five people were told so we could relate to their human sides. But I also discovered that unlike their undeniable commitment to service, some of us are unable to follow their footsteps. It’s difficult to live today by the commitment that fueled their response to God’s call in their lives. And I struggled at first coming to terms with this truth.

This book describes some of the skills Moses had to master, and it tells the story of what happens when God breaks His silence and comes back on the scene with mighty power. It tells a story of what happens when lies and manipulation finally lose their power with God’s return to the scene. The book tells a story of how people turn to violence when lies and manipulation lose their power. It also tells a story of what happens when God delivers His people from bondage.

PART 1

The Call

CHAPTER 1

My Call

T wenty-one years ago, I was called to the prophetic ministry and later told I would move to the United States. I did not believe it at first because my upbringing was a bit of a nightmare. I was raised in a broken, nonspiritual home. I had no idea God could have been interested in a person like me. I left my broken home and later moved to South Africa; I hoped to leave my nightmares behind. I was becoming a woman of my own with the hope of finishing school and finding a decent job. I had planned to become a doctor, a lawyer, and a writer all in one.

I found out very quickly while on foreign soil that not having money to pay for school meant my dreams were going down the drain. Young, black South Africans were competing for the same opportunities I could only dream about, but I hoped to finish school somehow. I didn’t want to feel vulnerable as I did the first twenty years of my life in a broken home with no voice and no one to rescue me. I was driven to make something of myself.

I had come from a very abusive environment that had stripped me of self-esteem and self-worth. Though I was a broken soul, I was highly functional; no one who met me would have thought I was broken inside. I had developed survival skills very early in life. I suffered mental and physical abuse, and I came face to face with death twice; both times, I was rescued by divine intervention. So when I had the opportunity to leave home at age twenty, I went and didn’t look back. But it wasn’t until 2016 that I finally shed the burden of my past. I was gone with the wind—free at last.

Twenty-one years ago while I was in South Africa, I was called to serve God. I wasn’t looking for a gift; I wanted God to give me a loving husband so I could have a stable family life. Having been rejected from birth, I did not know what love was. I first encountered God at a wedding. When the couple exchanged their vows, I felt as though they had spoken to my broken soul. I felt that their God could provide the kind of love I could only dream about. I went back to church the following Sunday and decided to follow the Lord Jesus. But after the baptism, I started to