Issues of The Heart: Practical Helps in Sanctification, #7

By Zacharias Tanee Fomum

"God cannot do through a man what he does not have in him, or what a man has not allowed God to do in him."

These words from the author, Z.T. Fomum, demonstrate that anyone who wants to walk with and serve God must deal with his heart. God seeks the inner temple, the heart of the believer, to make his home there.

Therefore, God's first call to a person is not first of all the call to service. It is the call to know Him deeply and to love Him in a supreme way. These are people carried away by the knowledge and love of God who can go and serve Him.

A heart filled with love for the world and the things of the world cannot serve Him. The service of such a man will be rejected. It is in these very clear and compelling terms that the author unloads his onus.

As you read this book, you will certainly discover the state of your heart and you will be able to work to present to the Lord a heart qualified to worship and serve Him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books4revival
• Release date: Mar 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215793145

Zacharias Tanee Fomum

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Issues of The Heart

ISSUES OF THE HEART

PRACTICAL HELPS IN SANCTIFICATION

BOOK 7

ZACHARIAS TANEE FOMUM

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Unless otherwise stated, the Bible quotations in this book are taken from the New International Version of the Holy Bible, International Bible Society, 1984.

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CONTENTS

Foreword

1. Worship

2. Inner Wealth

3. The Love of Fame

4. Walking With God

5. Self-Knowledge

6. Sharpening the Model

Back Matters

FOREWORD

Issues of The Heart is the seventh book in the Practical Helps in Sanctification series by Zacharias Tanee Fomum. This book explores the importance of dealing with one's heart in order to walk with and serve God. Fomum emphasizes that God seeks to make His home in the inner temple, the heart of the believer and that the first call of God to a person is not to service, but to know Him deeply and to love Him in a supreme way. He brings out key points such as

The Importance of the Heart,

The Call to Know God,

The Need for Self-Examination,

The Role of Discipline, and

The Rewards of a Pure Heart.

The heart is the most important part of a person. The state of one's heart determines the quality of one’s service to God. God does not use a person who has not allowed Him to work in his heart, or who has not developed a heart filled with love for Him. A heart filled with love for the world and the things of the world cannot serve God effectively.

The purpose of the book is to help believers understand the importance of dealing with their hearts in the pursuit of their relationship with God and their service in a work of God. The author provides practical insights and steps that readers can take to evaluate and transform their hearts to align with God's will.

The book is divided into eight chapters, each of which tackles a specific issue related to the heart. The author begins by laying the foundation of the book's thesis, that the heart is the central focus of our relationship with God. He then moves on to address specific issues, including the danger of having a heart filled with the love of the world, the importance of forgiveness, and the role of the Holy Spirit in transforming the heart.

The straightforward and instructional style of the author makes this book both informative and convicting, serious and urgent, as the author emphasizes the importance of presenting a heart that is qualified to serve God.

1

WORSHIP

Worship is man’s response to the overwhelming presence of God—the response of a person overshadowed by the presence of God. It is what the Holy Spirit pulls out of a person in response to the overwhelming presence of God. Worship is God’s greatest need now.

When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. The priests could not enter the temple of the LORD because the glory of the LORD filled it. When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, He is good; his love endures forever (2 Chronicles 7:1–3).

Solomon had been praying for long but there was no worship! When the fire came down,

they saw,

they knelt,

they bowed their faces to the ground,

they worshipped,

they gave thanks,

It was not a studied response. It was not theatre; it was not Pentecostal gimmicks. The glory of the Lord came down and filled the temple. They were in a place filled with the glory of the Lord and they were brought to their knees by the manifest glory of the Lord. They were moved by the manifest presence of God and they worshipped. No one can worship God without knowing the presence of God. No one can effectively worship God in public who has not worshipped Him in private.

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory. At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. Woe to me! I cried. I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty. Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for. Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send? And who will go for us? And I said, Here am I. Send me! He said, Go and tell this people: 'Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving’ (Isaiah 6:1–9).

Here is a worship scene!

It starts with a man seeing the Lord!

I just had a meeting with the provincial leaders of our work in Cameroon and I told them:

One thing that troubles me is the fact that in twenty-eight years of the work in Cameroon, none of you has come to me to say, I saw the Lord!

Isaiah saw the Lord!

He heard the language of the throne. The heavenly beings do not say, Praise the Lord! They greet one another by proclaiming the holiness of the Lord. They greet each other by proclaiming the glory of God.

Isaiah worshipped.

Isaiah’s response was, Woe to me!

It was a cry in response to the overwhelming presence of God. He responded to the proclamation of the celestial beings. He responded to the unparalleled power and presence of God: Doors that shake!

Thresholds that shake!

A temple that is filled with smoke!

His cry was the cry of a man brought down and overwhelmed by the presence of God.

Worship is that response to the manifest presence of God that compels