Making Spiritual Progress (Volume 2): Making Spiritual Progress, #8

By Zacharias Tanee Fomum

How do you make spiritual progress?

In this book, Z .T.  Fomum aptly and ably answers this determinant question that believers often ask themselves in their walk with the Lord.

This is the second set of messages given to the church in Rixheim (France), during a spiritual retreat that took place there in July 1989.

The believer must work out his salvation by

• fixing his thoughts on things above,
• cooperating with the Lord through prayer, and
• developing a positive attitude in the face of life's circumstances.

But first, everyone should know that the Lord has provided everything we need to make all the progress that we ought to make.

This book is to be read in prayer and with faith.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books4revival
• Release date: Mar 30, 2015
• ISBN: 9781507032992

Zacharias Tanee Fomum

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Making Spiritual Progress (Volume Two)

MAKING SPIRITUAL PROGRESS (VOLUME TWO)

MAKING SPIRITUAL PROGRESS

BOOK 8

ZACHARIAS TANEE FOMUM

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CONTENTS

Preface

1. Working out Your Salvation—1

2. Working out Your Salvation—2

3. Deliverance From Demons

4. The Protection Aspect of Prayer—1

5. The Protection Aspect of Prayer—2

6. Spiritual Warfare Through Prayer

7. Perfect Health: Your Inheritance

8. The Upward Call of God

Back Matters

PREFACE

The church in Rixheim (France) invited me to teach them during their retreat in July 1989. This book is the substance of the second set of eight messages that they received during that retreat. Because the messages are here produced from cassette recordings of that retreat, they are not theological discussions, but words from a heart to hearts. May God bless you and speak to you as you read them.

11 th March 2007.

Zacharias Tanee Fomum

P. O. Box 6090

Yaoundé – Cameroon

1

WORKING OUT YOUR SALVATION—1

SETTING THE MIND—1

Recently, as I was reading the gospels, I decided to find out what words were most frequent in the Lord’s mouth. The Lord was pre-occupied by His Father. Other things came and went, but the Father was His pre-occupation. That was it for the Lord. What is your own pre-occupation? As a human family, what does your conversation always turn around? As a local assembly, what is your distinctive characteristic? Around what do you gather? What do you have in abundance, which, if people come around, they will have? What is the thing which pre-occupies most of the people in your assembly? It is also that which is spoken about the most.

God will do what we tell Him. It is as if every one of us is a prophet. What we say is a proclamation, and it happens. One brother told us that his mother used to address him, You thief, on a regular basis. Then this brother would steal! He became a leading thief before the Lord arrested him. His mother, by her words, had created a thief in him.

Many parents create by what they say about their children, and then are surprised by what the children become. Husbands and wives create by what they say about each other, and afterwards complain of what their words have produced. What they believe about each other and what they nurture in their minds about each other happens. They set their minds on it, and then it happens.

Some people fix their minds on Satan. They know more about Satan than they do about the Lord. They know the deep things of Satan. They know the fear of Satan more than they know the fear of God. What have you set your mind on? What are you establishing by your confessions?

We have been commanded and challenged to set our minds on the things that are above. I believe that this is a command and challenge to individuals, families and local assemblies. We must, however, take note that that which the mind is to be set on must be deliberately chosen and, by constant effort, ensure that the mind is set on it. If not, something else will take and dominate the mind unconsciously.

PUTTING TO DEATH

You first set your mind on that which is in heaven, and then you put to death that which is earthly. The authors of the Bible presuppose that it is within the powers of the believer to set his mind on and to put to death. If I am told to put to death and I do not do it, it will remain. If I expect that God should come to put to death what I ought to do, I am self-deceived. I must put to death that which I have been told to put to death. No one else will do it in my place.

Take, for example, that I have been told to pray. I cannot say, God, I cannot pray. You, pray for me. We have been told to love our wives. Will God come to love our wives for us? No, He will not do it. We must do it. Of course, He will help us, but we must do it. We must carry out the practical acts of loving our wives. As we do it, the Lord’s strength will be made perfect in us. But God’s strength is never made perfect in passive people.

In every miracle, there is God’s part and there is man’s part. God has already done His part. If man will not do His, no miracle will take place. For example, Peter told the cripple;

In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk (Acts: 3:6).

What if he had sat there and said, God, come and walk for me? The man had to set his mind on walking, lift himself up and take the first step. As he began to walk, the power of God took over and he was healed.

There is what God must do, and no man can do it. There is also what man must do, and God will not do it. The faithfulness of God is that, as we do what is ours to do, His strength is made available and perfected in us. In prayer, God wants man as His co-worker. If His co-worker will not cooperate, He will not take over and do what man must do. We have a responsibility.

God has given a command: Put to death. This clear command implies that man can do it. He is to put the following to death:

Sexual immorality,

Impurity,

Lust,

Evil desires and

Greed (idolatry).

Every believer has things to put to death, and he must put them to death. No one will put them to death in his place. If I do not put to death that which I have been told to put to death, it will remain. My brother will not come to put it to death for me. He may pray for me, but it will be me to put to death what must be put to death. That responsibility cannot be shifted.

PUTTING AWAY

The Bible says,

You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator (Colossians 3: 7-10).

You are able to put to death, and have been commanded to do it. You must, therefore, do it. You must put away anger, wrath, malice, slander, and false talk from your mouth. They can be put away.

If somebody refuses to put these things away, whatever is done for him by another, is in vain. Who can believe for another? Each one has to believe for himself.

PUTTING ON

The general pattern to follow is: