Face Your Pharaoh: Breaking Free from Self-Sabotage & Walking into the Promise of God’s Purpose

By Alaine Victoria Vaughn

Face Your Pharaoh is a call to action for those who are tired of feeling held hostage in their own lives. Alaine reaches out to those who have been surviving merely by functioning within dysfunctional situations and sends us a message that reminds us of the authority God has given us to be active participants in our own rescue. Her book sheds a different light on the perspective of Moses’s great call to deliverance. In this book, Alaine challenges her readers to look within and to eliminate defeatist mindsets that are keeping them from the promise of their purpose. Her book empowers us to win from within by seeing that no enemy is stronger than the inner-me, and that we must first conquer ourselves to walk into the promise of our purpose.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Apr 26, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664227347

Alaine Victoria Vaughn

Alaine Victoria Vaughn is a woman of strong faith. She is an ambassador for Christ who wears many hats in her ministry as a writer, vocalist, motivational speaker, educator, crime victim’s advocate, entrepreneur, and master certified life coach. Born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas by the late great Pastor Arnold E. Vaughn I. and Evangelist-Missionary Davita Wesley-Vaughn, she is just “a girl from the Dotte” as she says, who loves God and loves people. She is the mother of three earth-angels named, Marvin III (Tripp), Marlaina, and Mark-Allen; and one heavenly angel, Morgan, all affectionately known as “The Cawthon Kids”. After spending 13 years in what she calls her second home, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, perfecting her writings, her education and her mission, she recently relocated back to Kansas shortly after the passing of her father and is carrying on her great family legacy through ministry and philanthropy.

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WestBow Press rev. date: 04/21/2021

CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Sinking

2. Purpose Ain’t No Cake Walk

3. Mums and Dreams

4. Victory in the Places of Defeat

5. Could You Turn that Down?

6. Talented But Trapped

7. Could You Turn the Light On?

8. The Real Inner-Me

9. Walking Around with Our Noses in the Heir

Closing Prayer

From Alaine Victoria Vaughn to You

Contact Alaine Victoria Vaughn

Acknowledgments

DEDICATION

To GOD who, when I prayed with concern on how to overcome my own life hardships, He brought to mind His conversation with Moses in Exodus 4 about the rod, and then he reminded me of what was in my own hand. A pen.

To my father, the late Pastor Arnold E. Vaughn, I; lover of God, books, and mankind. I know you would’ve been proud to see this. I love you to Heaven and back, Daddy-Cakes…literally.

And to my mother, Davita Wesley-Vaughn; magnificent writer, phenomenal educator, and amazing mother. Momma, I hope I made you proud. I love you.

To Aunt Alma Faye Hampton. Thank you for believing I could do this. I will never forget your kindness and encouragement. This book is also because of you. I hope I made you proud as well.

To Uncle Marc Wesley… Thank you for saving all of my writings when I was a kid. You’ve always believed in me. I hope you’ll save this one, now. 38608.png

INTRODUCTION

Well hello, my friend.

If you’re reading this, I’m already free.

For many years, I’d felt as if I were stuck. I had literally lost hope. I was falling apart. I was dying on the inside, but I was functioning on the outside. If anyone had told me back then that the bondage that I was in was voluntary, I would not have believed them. I could think of everyone responsible, but the last person who would have come to mind would have been myself.

However, one day it hit me that one choice could change the direction of my entire life if I were to simply make it in faith. Less than a year later, here I am… living the beginnings of it. And this book is sent to you to tell you that you can break free, too and walk in the purpose you know God has put in you. You don’t have to be a functioning hostage in your own life. You are meant for greater.

You will find that this book is actually more about you than it is Pharaoh or even Moses. This book is moreso about realizing that the potential to be either your greatest ally or your greatest foe lies within yourself. I find most often, that while we wait on God to deliver us, that very deliverance we’re waiting on Him for, actually starts with us; and that in order to be our own Moses, we must face our own Pharaoh.

Your decision to be free, if you hadn’t made it already, starts here with this book. Let me show you to freedom. Let me show you how to get to that land God promised to you, too my friend.

Meet me in chapter one.

1

SINKING

WE HAVE GROWN SO ACCUSTOMED to being able to discern who our enemies are. I’m sure we can point out every person in our lives right now who is helping us row our boat or is secretly drilling holes in it, so to speak. We can tell who our Judases are, that betray us. We can even tell who our Peters are, that used to support us but fell off when we times got hard. However, after we’ve separated ourselves from those who were sabotaging us and repair the damages they’ve caused, what happens when we find out that our boat is still sinking? Sometimes, it’s us, my friend. Sometimes, we’re sinking ourselves. We could go on denying this, of course. Or we could open our eyes and see the uncomfortable truth.

We must be able to see ourselves through the eyes of the Holy Spirit. Our natural eyes will only see what we want to see within ourselves and we can put up a good self-front. However, it is only through spiritual eyes, that we see the truth. Sorry to sound Morpheus-ish, here. That is certainly not my intent. I am simply encouraging you to see yourself. Truly. Without bias. Without blame. When we ask God to show us what we look like through His eyes, we may be surprised at what we see. His eyes see past the primping and preening we’ve done to look good. He sees past the functions of our organs. His eyes see us all the way down to our truth. He sees every issue of our hearts, every thought in our minds, every memory of the past, and every action of the present and future.

When I look back on my life, it grieves me that I was able to successfully spot out the inconsistencies in everyone else who was sinking my boat but managed to miss my own. It’s difficult to see a problem when we are the problem. I’m not saying we’re the only