The Joy of Begging to Belong to The Lord Jesus: A Testimony: Special Series, #2

By Zacharias Tanee Fomum

This book is the expression of the life of a man who is totally abandoned to God - the testimony of an unspeakable and indispensable consecration of his all to God.

Through it, Z .T. Fomum testifies to the undeserved love of God towards him and to the satisfaction and joy found in Him. Having seen the undeserved privilege of serving God, he lays out the rules of life which he previously imposed on himself in his walk with God as he received them from the Lord.

He made a commitment to the Lord through vows which he expressed and manifested in a life of separation from the common in order to conquer the world for Christ.

Here he expresses his joy in serving the Lord with his all and with his best.

Read this book and you will realise the tremendous grace that there is in setting oneself apart for divine office.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books4revival
• Release date: Apr 21, 2015
• ISBN: 9781513099262

Zacharias Tanee Fomum

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The Joy of Begging to Belong to The Lord Jesus

THE JOY OF BEGGING TO BELONG TO THE LORD JESUS

A Testimony

SPECIAL SERIES

BOOK 2

ZACHARIAS TANEE FOMUM

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CONTENTS

Prologue

1. The Joy of Begging to Belong to God The Father

The Example of The Lord Jesus

2. The Joy of Begging to Belong to The Lord Jesus

The Example of Ezekiel

3. The Joy of Begging to Belong to The Lord Jesus

The Example of Charles E. Cowman

4. The Joy of Begging to Belong to The Lord Jesus

The Example of Zacharias Tanee Fomum - 1: My Way of Life in Christ Jesus

5. The Joy of Begging to Belong to The Lord Jesus

The Example of Zacharias Tanee Fomum - 2: My Way of Life in Christ Jesus: A Summary

6. The Challenge of an Atheist

7. The Joy of Begging to Belong to The Lord Jesus

The Law of Spiritual Harvest: The Example of C.T. Studd

8. The Joy of Begging to Belong to The Lord Jesus

The Example of John Wesley

9. The Joy of Begging to Belong to The Lord Jesus

The Example of Zacharias Tanee Fomum - 3

10. The Joy of Begging to Belong to The Lord Jesus

The Example of Francis Asbury

11. The Joy of Begging to Belong to The Lord Jesus

The Example of John Sung

Epilogue

Back Matters

PROLOGUE

There are four reasons why I have written this book.

Firstly, soon after the Holy Spirit came upon me in power on 24 th October 1970, the Lord showed me a vision of the lost in hell. Later on, He showed me a vision of the saints in heaven. Then He revealed to me how much He loved and loves me. This book is an attempt to respond to what He allowed me and is allowing me to see.

Secondly, the angel said to the wife of Manoah, the father of Samson,

You will conceive and give birth to a son. No razor may be used on his head, because the boy is to be a Nazirite, set apart to God from birth, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hands of the Philistines (Judges 13 : 5).

Manoah asked him,

When your words are fulfilled, what is to be the rule for the boy’s life and work? (Judges 13 : 12).

Enclosed here is the rule for my life and for my work as I have received it from the Lord and as I have worked it out with Him over the years. The Apostle Paul said,

For this reason I am sending to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of ‘my way of life in Christ Jesus’, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church (1 Corinthians 4 : 17).

This book is a statement of my own ‘way of life in Christ Jesus’.

Thirdly, along the years, I have made vows to the Lord which have been included in this book. Having vowed to the Lord, I must keep my vows to Him (Ecclesiastes 5 : 4 – 6).

Fourthly, I have walked with the Lord Jesus for many years. He has blessed and satisfied me beyond measure. In response to His love, I give Him my spirit, my soul and my body with joy, and I have found it an undeserved privilege to serve Him. I beg to serve Him. I beg to give Him my all. I beg with joy for the undeserved privilege of knowing, loving and serving Him.

Glory be to His great Name!

Zacharias Tanee Fomum

P.O. Box 6090 Yaounde

Cameroon.

04/03/07.

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THE JOY OF BEGGING TO BELONG TO GOD THE FATHER

The Example of The Lord Jesus

THE CROSS BEFORE THE THRONE BY D. M. PANTON

Our Lord Jesus Christ summarized a vital principle of the heavenly kingdom when He said:

"Every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted" (Luke 14:11).

Our Lord was Himself the ultimate fulfilment of that which He taught. He humbled Himself as none other ever did or could, and correspondingly He is exalted above and beyond all.

In Philippians 2:5, the Apostle Paul not only pictures this truth but also enforces its obedience.

Have this mind in you, he says, for it is within our control and choice and therefore within our responsibility. This humility was also in Christ Jesus, who humbled Himself (V.8),

who made Himself void by His own act (Moule). In Christ the principle is put in its most extreme form. As the span of Christ’s descent was the deepest of which the universe is capable, so the consequent enthronement is the limit which the universe affords.

The Apostle in a few vivid words, spans the mighty gulf created by the mind of Christ. At one end is the Son of God dwelling in the glory which He had with the Father before the world was; far down, in the depthless bottom of a voluntary descent, is a Man condemned and dying on a cruel cross. Therefore, by the reverse process of the law of recompense, the closing scene is exaltation on the Throne of the Universe. As Paul has expressed it elsewhere: He that

descended into the lower parts of the earth…. is the same also that ascended far above all the heavens (Ephesians 4:9-10).

As Jesus sank from the Godhead – a higher height than any other could sink, and sank to a lower depth than any other could – being made sin (2 Corinthians 5: 21) – so He is now enthroned where none but He could be enthroned.

THE DESCENT

Not only was every step of our Lord downward, but every descent avoided legitimate relief, and each humiliation might have been made far easier by another choice in itself perfectly legitimate:

In descending as God to earth, He might have descended as Jehovah did on Sinai, but He came shorn of the pomp, the majesty, the entourage of God.

In taking the creature’s form, He might have come as Michael or Gabriel, but instead, He appeared as a frail mortal.

In coming as a man, He might have appeared in the flawless beauty of an Absalom, but His visage was so marred more than any man (Isaiah 52:14).

The home He chose might have been the palace of a Solomon, but He who alone of mankind has ever been able to control His birth, chose an artisan’s cradle.

In leaving the world, He could have left in Elijah’s chariot and horses of fire, but He chose the pangs of death.

In the death He chose, He might, like Moses, have been buried by angels under the superintendence of God, but He chose to die forsaken and alone.

In the actual death itself, which, however lonely, could have been honourable, He, who might in a moment, have had twelve legions of angels, suffers Himself to be hung from a cross like a public criminal.

VOLUNTARY RENUNCIATION

Our Lord’s descent is the designed model of our own and teaches us exactly what God rewards:

It was not sins which Christ renounced. That the sinless One renounced sins need not be stated. Every step downwards here named is the renunciation of a thing perfectly legitimate to Him in itself. He abdicated lawful rights, and abandoned sinless privileges, honors, dignities. He surrendered the good for the best.

His renunciation was purely voluntary. It was not the compulsory stripping of a Job, but a freely chosen loss for the sake of others. There was no compelling power in heaven or earth or hell. Being humiliated is not the same thing as humbling ourselves, though it may be a powerful help to it. "Humble yourselves, says Peter, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time" (1Peter 5:6).

It was not a debasing of Himself simply for