Life-Changing Thoughts on Prayer (Volume 4)

By Zacharias Tanee Fomum

A compassionate thought provocating call to pray.
In this book, the author, Z.T. Fomum, shares Revolutionary Thoughts on Prayer, received when praying alone, leading others in prayer, and teaching on prayer.

This 4th volume will challenge, amaze, and inspire you to pray. You will find thoughts spanning topics such as
- Prayer and leadership
- prayerlessness
- Prayer and holiness
- The heart that can move God
- Answers to prayer
- Prayer and spiritual maturity
- Fasting and prayer
- The ministry of importunity
- Routine in prayer
- Prayer and relationships
- etc.
This incredible classic on prayer is practical yet spiritual, challenging us to seek God in passionate and unrelenting prayer.

The bold truth in each thought will ignite your prayers with a passion for the fire of revival.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ZTF Books Online
• Release date: Apr 17, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005518981

Zacharias Tanee Fomum

For FREE books from Zacharias Tanee Fomum: https://books.bookfunnel.com/ztf-free-ebooks. Professor Zacharias Tanee FOMUM was a man of uncommon spirituality, a leading voice for revival, a workaholic, a prophet-teacher, and a world-shaping spiritual genius. He was a bestselling Christian author (with over 350 books, over 10 million copies in circulation in over 100 languages) and a professor of Organic Chemistry (with over 160 published scientific works of high distinction (earning him the award of a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Durham, Great Britain). His books and the millions of people he influenced in more than 40 years of Christian ministry continue to impact the world with the Gospel today. He founded Christian Missionary Fellowship International (CMFI), a missionary movement that has planted churches in more than 120 nations on all continents. He believed in a life of simplicity and with the support and dedication of his wife and their seven children, his all—time, money, heart, and soul— was dedicated to spreading the Gospel. He carried out exploits for God through the making of disciples for Christ, planting of churches, building spiritual leaders according to the model of the Bible, and serving the body of Christ, especially as a teacher on prayer. Learn more and read exclusive excerpts at: https://ztfomum.org

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1

PRAYER AND LEADERSHIP

There are people who do not pray. They are dangerous.

There are people who pray alone deeply and intensely. They are spiritual people.

There are people who pray alone deeply and intensely and mobilise the largest number of people to pray. They are spiritual leaders.

Mpundu, 02/11/02

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PRAYER AND LEADERSHIP

Aman’s leadership is measured by the power of his praying alone.

A man’s leadership is also measured by his power to move others to pray.

The more people he can move to pray, the greater will be his leadership.

Mpundu, 02/11/02

3

PRAYERLESSNESS

Prayerlessness is a confession that God is not needed, and the flesh of the prayerless one can do the work.

Mpundu

02/11/02

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PRAYER AND LEADERSHIP

The leader prays alone and mobilises the people to pray. He will mobilise the people to pray alone, pray with him and pray wih others.

Mpundu

02/11/02

5

PRAYERLESSNESS

Prayerlesness is the refusal to bring in the divine factor.

Mpundu

02/11/02

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PRAYER AND LEADERSHIP

When a man decreases the time spent alone with God, he has decreased his effective leadership.

Leadership is directly proportional to the time spent with God alone.

Mpundu, 02/11/02

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PRAYER

Praying is calling the God of heaven to do what man cannot do. Prayer is a confession of personal inability. The praying person says to God, "This thing must be done because it is Your will. I cannot do it. Lord do it.’’

Yaounde, 04/11/02

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PRAYER

Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them (Hebrews 7:25, NKJV).

The throne of heaven is the throne of intercession because on it is the Lord Jesus, who lives forevermore to intercede.

Yaounde

04/11/02

9

PRAYER

We should make our desires known to God in prayer and then rely on Him to move men to do what He would have them do.

Hudson Taylor.

Yaounde

04/11/02

10

PRAYER AND HOLINESS

Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late and how little revival has resulted? I believe our problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obedience, and it simply will not work. To pray for revival while ignoring or actually flouting the plain precepts laid down in the Scriptures is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

A.W. TOZER

Yaounde

04/11/02

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PRAYER

Prayer transforms ordinary men into extraordinary men.

Prayer transforms ordinary people into extraordinary people.

Yaounde

13/11/02

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PRAYER

Prayer brings down divine omnipotence.

Prayer brings down the power of God into human affairs.

Prayer transforms average minds into great minds.

Prayer transforms great minds into super great minds.

Prayer makes the divine vision clear.

Prayer hooks a man’s heart to the vision.

Prayer welds a man’s heart to the heart of God.

Prayer fuses the human heart to the heart of God so that the two hearts begin to function as one.

Yaounde

15/11/02

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PRAYER

Praying for oneself is bringing into existence by laying hold on God, all that God had in mind in creating one, and all that God wants one to be.

Yaounde

15/11/02

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PRAYER

Praying for oneself is labouring with God to take out of existence all that is in one’s being that contradicts the perfection and the glory of the Almighty.

Yaounde

15/11/02

15

THE HEART THAT CAN MOVE GOD TO ANSWER

Acold heart towards God is one of the greatest hindrances to moving God through prayer. The one whose heart is cold towards God hates God and his prayer constitute religious formalism, or they aim at getting things from the One they hate. God is a God of love and only His lovers can move Him by their prayers.

Banjul, Gambia

17/11/02

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THE HEART THAT CAN MOVE GOD TO ANSWER

The temperature of the heart is all important to God. The heart can be very cold, cold, lukewarm, a bit hot, very hot or red-hot. The prayer that moves God to answer is that which flows from the heart that is red hot for God. Prayer that flows from hearts that are very cold, cold, lukewarm or a bit hot is useless because God vomits all such prayers. They are a waste of time. The God of heaven is a consuming fire; only that which is red hot is accepted by Him.

Banjul, Gambia

17/11/02

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PRAYER

Awork of God succeeds depending on whether or not the lost and the saved are hungry and thirsty for God. The minister of the gospel must wrestle with God and continue to wrestle with God until all the saved are desperately hungry and thirsty for the all of God. Then the desperately hungry and thirsty saved ones must team up with the minister of the gospel, and together, they must pray, giving God no rest and taking no rest, until the Lord sends a hunger and thirst for God upon tens, hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands and millions of lost people. When the lost who are cold and indifferent are changed into the lost who hunger and thirst for the Lord Jesus, a great point has been reached in the work among those people. The day of God’s visitation will be brought near.

Banjul, Gambia

17/11/02

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PRAYER AND SUCCESSFUL OR UNSUCCESSFUL WORK

What is the difference between a work that succeeds and a work that fails? The difference lies in the heart of the worker. The soul-winner must move God to move the people to seek the Lord. If the soul-winner fails to move God to move the people to seek Him, there will be no work that succeeds. Whether or not there is a work that succeeds is determined at the place of prayer. The soul-winner must move people God-ward or fail.

Banjul, Gambia

17/11/02

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PRAYER AND WARFARE

The enemy attacks because the watchman or the watchmen slept. An attack of the enemy says that the principal watchman was sleeping.

Abijan

19/11/02

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PRAYER AND WARFARE

Brother, things are determined at the place of prayer and what happens in prayer has repercussions on earth. The enemy must be destroyed in the invisible and then he will collapse in the visible.

Abijan

19/11/02

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THE PRAISE OF THE MOST HIGH GOD

GOD’S PURPOSE IN CREATION

God’s purpose in creation was that man, set free from sin, self, the love of the world and the love of the things of the world, and set apart for God, be filled with the Holy spirit and be caught up with thanksgiving, praise and worship of the Lord God Almighty.

Eseka

30/11/02

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THE PRAISE OF THE MOST