The Laws of Spiritual Success (Volume One): Leading God's people, #9

By Zacharias Tanee Fomum

This book presents a powerful guide to God-approved success.

The author, Professor Fomum, challenges the world's view of success, which is based solely on what a person has done. Instead, the author emphasizes the importance of who we are before God and how that shapes what we do. For true success before God, the person must be right with the Lord and their motives must be pure. This book offers a unique perspective on what it means to be successful in the eyes of God, focusing on the idea that success is what meets God's approval, both in this life and at the judgment seat of Christ.

With its thought-provoking insights and practical guidance, The Laws of Spiritual Success is a must-read for anyone seeking to grow in their faith and achieve success according to God's standards.

Grab your copy today and let God bless you as you delve into the messages contained within this book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books4revival
• Release date: Apr 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9781513086903

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PREFACE

The messages in this book were given to the saints in Yaounde on Tuesdays as a ministry of encouragement. They were taken down as notes and are here produced with very little editing by the author.

In the world, people look at success principally from the angle of what a person has done. What he is, is of secondary importance. In the kingdom of God, who a person is, is crucial and what he does is only an overflow of what he is

God looks at success, first of all, from the point of who we are and only secondarily from what we do. What someone who is rightly related to the Lord does, and another who is out of touch with the Lord does, are miles apart before God. So, for success before God, the person must be right and the motive must be right. So, who has done a thing, what he has done and why he has done it are determinant.

This book then looks at success at God’s view point. Success is what God calls success and not what the world calls success. Success is that which meets God’s approval in time and will meet his approval at the judgement seat of Christ.

May our God bless you as you read the messages in this book

INTRODUCTION

God-Sanctioned Success !!!

In the messages that follow, we are going to look at success from God’s viewpoint. We are going to look at success as God calls success and not as the world calls success. We are going to look at success as that which meets God’s approval in time and will meet His approval at the Judgement Seat of Christ. We refuse to call anything that will not have standing beyond the passing of time as success. We refuse to call success that which catches the eye of man but fails to catch the eye of God. We refuse to call success that which satisfies the standards of man but fails the test of God. We reserve success for that which is God-approved, beginning in time and continuing in eternity. As believers in the Lord Jesus, we are creatures of eternity, spending time in time so as to prepare for evaluation and reward after the passing of time—in eternity. Consequently, what the Lord Jesus thinks and says now is absolutely important and, above all, what He will say on that Day will matter beyond telling.

The Bible says,

By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man’s work. If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames (I Corinthians 3:10-15).

In the world, people look at success principally from the angle of what a person has done. What he is is of secondary importance. In the Kingdom of God, who a person is is crucial and what he does is only an overflow of what he is. God looks at success, first of all, from the point of who we are and only secondarily from what we do. What two people do—one who is rightly related to the Lord and another who is out of touch with the Lord—are miles apart before God. So, for success before God, the person must be right, the deed must be right and the motive must be right. So, who has done a thing, what he has done and why he has done it are determinant.

These messages were given to the saints in Yaounde on Tuesdays as a ministry of encouragement. They were taken down as notes and are here produced for your encouragement. May our God bless you as you read them.

Zacharias Tanee Fomum

P. O. Box 6090

Yaounde—Cameroon

24 th May 2005

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SEEKING GOD AND WORKING WHOLEHEARTEDLY

May God grant that this word be written into the very being of the hearers to lead them into the success of God.

The first law of success is found in II Chronicles 31:20-21.

This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah, doing what was good and right and faithful before the Lord his God. In everything that he undertook in the service of God’s temple and in obedience to the law and the commands, he sought his God and worked wholeheartedly. And so he prospered.

Verse 21 In everything that he undertook in the service of God’s temple and in obedience to the law and the commands, he sought his God and worked wholeheartedly. And so he prospered.

Firstly in everything he undertook in the service of his God, in the service of God’s temple;

secondly in obedience to the law, all that he did in obedience to the law; and

thirdly everything that he did with regards to the commands of God.

That was the domain of his duty. His duty laid in the service of the temple of his God, all that he did in obedience to the law and all that he did with regards to the commands of God—three domains very clearly settled out. You cannot succeed when you have not defined the domains of success or the domains of work. In all that he did in the service of God’s temple, in all that he did in obedience to the law of his God, and all that with regards to the commands of his God. The first law of success is a clarity of direction, a clarity of purpose, a clarity of mission. If you don’t know where you are going to, no amount of help can help you. This was what he had to do. He had to succeed in these. He did two things:

He sought his God. Hallelujah! He sought his God.

He worked wholeheartedly.

He had what to do. In each of these things, he sought his God! And then he worked wholeheartedly! He sought his God and he worked wholeheartedly! That is a law of success: Clarity of purpose, clarity of what had to be done. Secondly, he sought his God. He knew what to do. He did not just go ahead and do it. After he knew what he was to do, he went and sought God. As he sought his God, he brought his God into it. After that he didn’t say, O.K, I have brought God in. Let me just relax. Oh, he worked wholeheartedly.

Say

"He sought his God.

He worked wholeheartedly."

That is a law of success. It never fails. You know what God wants you to do, then you go and seek Him to bring Him into the centre of it. After you have brought Him to the centre, you work wholeheartedly. And so he prospered.

He knew what God wanted him to do. Having known what God wanted him to do, he sought his God so that he and God might be one in the project. He sought his God so that he might know the divine methods. He sought his God so that God might show him where the pitfalls would be. He sought his God so that God might reveal the secret of success. After he had sought his God and known what to do, he plunged into it wholeheartedly! He was not looking in this direction and looking that way. His whole heart was in this project. He did not look. He was not a spectator. He did not sleep. They didn’t say that he slept wholeheartedly. He sought his God and he worked wholeheartedly. And he prospered. And it was the prosperity of God. It was the prosperity of God flowing through him. That is the first law of success.

May God stamp this in our lives because God does not want failures! Jesus was a total success. The Bible says, therefore God has highly exalted Him. Do you exalt failure? Jesus was a total success. On the Cross He said, It is finished! I have done it! I have finished it!

Therefore God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, that at the Name of Jesus Christ every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:9-11 - RSV).

Say, "God does not want me to be a failure. God wants me to be a success.

And the first law in success is:

A man must know very clearly what God wants him to do; then he must seek God and bring God in to the very centre of what God wants him to do. He must then apply himself and work wholeheartedly at what God wants him to do, and so prosper."

Most people fail because they don’t know what God wants them to do, and most people do not know what God wants them to do with their lives. They don’t know! So how can they do it? This seeking of God is not a general seeking of God. This is seeking God with regards to that which He has given you to do. He gives you a task, then you seek Him with regards to that task, to bring Him into the centre of it, and to receive the divine anointing to do it, and to receive the divine enabling, because it must be God’s abilities; because if the task is of divine origin, the power to do it must be from God. If the task is God-originated, the power to do it must come from heaven. God cannot give a work from heaven to be done in the energy of the flesh. If the task is heavenly in origin, the power to do it must be from on high.

You can reduce this law to Seeking God and working wholeheartedly. Then prosperity follows. The one who seeks God wholeheartedly and works wholeheartedly has prospered. Please, could I tell you that if you seek God and work wholeheartedly, no one can snatch the success from you.

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PROBLEMS

The Raw Materials For Greatness

The Second Law of Success says: When God has great plans for a man, He puts the man in great problems, because problems are raw materials for the production of great people. If you mean nothing to God, He will bring you no problem, He will bring you no suffering; He will just leave you there, so that a fool may just be having a fool’s paradise. If God has small projects for you, He will bring you small problems. If He has average projects for you, He will bring you average problems. If He has great