Facing Life's Problems Victoriously: Other Titles, #3

By Zacharias Tanee Fomum

Perhaps you are dealing with life's unexpected detours in recent days where the future has never seemed so uncertain.

It may be that it is you or a relative, friend, loved one suffering through setbacks.

At some points in our lives, we follow scripts we never would have chosen and often do not know where to turn and how to cope. 

• Is it that God is not at work?
• Or, is He unable to follow our carefully laid plans?

Come with professor Z.T. Fomum, a teacher-prophet, as he draws on Scripture and helps you reframe life's curveballs as opportunities – and to find hope and encouragement in unexpected places.

This message will help you navigate the U-turns and S-curves of life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books4revival
• Release date: Dec 29, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311622983

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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Facing Life’s Problems Victoriously

FACING LIFE’S PROBLEMS VICTORIOUSLY

OFF-SERIES

BOOK 3

ZACHARIAS TANEE FOMUM

ZTF Books Online

Copyright © 1986 by Zacharias Tanee Fomum

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No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Unless stated otherwise, the version of the Bible used in this book is the Revised Standard Version.

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I dedicate this book to

GOD’S LITTLE FLOCK

in glorious expectation

CONTENTS

Preface

1. How to Overcome When God Leads You into a Difficult Situation

2. Overcoming Unexpected Enemies

3. Seeing a Promise of God Come to Pass in a Glorious Manner

4. Receiving Healing After God has Pronounced a Verdict of Death

Back Matters

PREFACE

This book has been written in a time of crisis for me and those that the Lord raised up to be co-workers with me in the ministry. We have been faced with and we are being faced with circumstances in which our only help is the Lord. So far, He has proved faithful. He has proved more than sufficient and He is proving Himself to be more than sufficient for our need. We, too, find that we are more than conquerors through Him who loves us.

We believe that you, too, will find Him entirely sufficient for your need and that in Him and with Him, you will face life’s problems victoriously.

We send this book out with prayer that He in whom "we live and move and have our being" be glad to use it to meet the needs of His children as they face the various problems of this life.

25th July, 1986.

Zacharias Tanee Fomum

BP 6090 Yaounde

Cameroon

1

HOW TO OVERCOME WHEN GOD LEADS YOU INTO A DIFFICULT SITUATION

When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest the people repent when they see war, and return to Egypt. But God led the people round by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle. And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for Joseph had solemnly sworn the people of Israel, saying, God will visit you; then you must carry my bones with you from here. And they moved on from Succoth, and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness. And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night; the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people. Then the Lord said to Moses, Tell the people of Israel to turn back and encamp in front of Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baalzephon; you shall encamp over against it, by the sea. For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’ And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord. And they did so. When the King of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the mind of Pharaoh and his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, What is this that we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us? So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him, and took six hundred picked chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them. And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh King of Egypt and he pursued the people of Israel as they went forth defiantly. The Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them encamped at the sea, by Pihahiroth, in front of Baalzephon. When Pharaoh drew wear, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were in great fear. And the people of Israel cried out to the Lord; and they said to Moses, «Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, in bringing us out of Egypt? Is not this what we said to you in Egypt, ‘Let us alone and let us serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.» And Moses said to the people, Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again. The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be still. The Lord said to Moses, Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward. Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go on dry ground through the sea. And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and his host, his chariots, and his horsemen. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen. Then the angel of God who went before the host of Israel moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them, coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness; and the night passed without one coming near the other all night. Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. And in the morning watch the Lord in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down upon the host of the Egyptians, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians, clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily; and the Egyptians said, Let us flee from before Israel; for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians. Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. So Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its wonted flow when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled into it, and the Lord routed the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea; not so much as one of them remained. But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right had and on their left. Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore. And Israel saw the great work which the Lord did against the Egyptians, and the people feared the Lord; and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses (Exodus 13:17-14:31).

GOD LEADS INTO A DIFFICULT SITUATION

There are times when believers get into difficult situations because of their sin, ignorance or mistakes. At other times they are in difficult situations because of the sins of others: their parents, children, relatives, friends, nations, etc. At other times believers get into difficult situations because of the attacks of Satan and his hosts. In the situation which is before us, we find that God’s people got into a difficult situation not because of any of the reasons that we have outlined above but because the Lord led them into it. They were in a difficult situation, yet they were in the very centre of God’s will and led into the situation by none other than the Lord of hosts!

It is prevalent in some circles in the church to teach and believe that difficulties are always from the devil. The devil is seen in everything. Anything that does not work according to man’s pre-conceived ideas is seen to be a work of Satan. We are not denying the fact that the devil does a lot of havoc. We are only saying that not every difficult situation which the believer faces has the devil as the architect. Some of the things that the Lord does are ascribed to the devil, and the people of God fight and fight when they should be resting in the Lord and thanking Him for His mighty deeds.

The thought that any difficulty in life is necessarily because of sin is a fallacy. The death of the Lord Jesus on the cross was not a work of the devil. The Lord said,

You will all fall away because of me this night; for it is written, ‘l will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ But when I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee (Matthew 26:31-32).

In writing of the Cross, the prophet Isaiah put it this way,

Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted (Isaiah 53:4).

"Yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise him; he has put him to grief; when he made himself an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days; the