Victorious Dispositions: Off-Series, #12

By Zacharias Tanee Fomum

In this book, Z.T. Fomum shows us the skills and mindset we need to develop to ensure our success and enter into God's purposes. Thus, the first secret in knowing and serving God is hard work.

Life in a sense is a game, it is a matter of choices and everyone is called to make choices. Being a failure or a success could depend on your choices. Your heart will determine your greatness or your defeat. Throughout his argument, the author describes a whole set of measures, means to achieve this goal.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Books4revival
• Release date: Oct 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223197041

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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Victorious Dispositions

VICTORIOUS DISPOSITIONS

OFF-SERIES

BOOK 12

ZACHARIAS TANEE FOMUM

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Copyright © 2008 by Zacharias Tanee Fomum

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Except otherwise stated, all Bible references are from the New International Version of the Bible

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CONTENTS

Preface

1. The Element of Hard Work

2. Justification And Sanctification

3. Dealing With The Past

4. Maintaining One's Strengths

5. Winning The Lost

6. Let Nothing be Wasted

7. The Minister’s Dressing

8. The Minister's Base

9. Objectives and The Right Kind of Co-Workers

10. Servanthood

11. Truth And Obedience

12. The Boss: A Born-Loser

13. Spiritual Growth

14. God Will Not Condole With Sin

15. The Critical Importance of Prayer

16. Priorities, Possessions and Faith in Prayer

17. The Choice of a Minister’s Wife

18. Positioning The Missionaries

19. The Need to Train

20. The Impact of One's Life

Back Matter

PREFACE

This book "Victorious Dispositions", deals with some very important aspects of the Christian life that a believer must embrace if he must live a victorious life. The author affirms the following:

"... the first secret of success in the knowledge and service of God is extreme hard work...

Lazy people are traitors to the God who works hard...

The impact of the past on spiritual greatness is far reaching...

If you treat your background carelessly, you are the most foolish of fools...

You know your limits from what drags you behind...

God is giving you an opportunity to correct the past and to re-determine the future...

No one can stay in the presence of God beyond his knowledge of God and beyond his holiness...

Wanting to win the lost is evidence to the fact that a man is in good health spiritually...

When a man has lost the burden to win the lost, he is a backslider...

Evidence that the periods of intimacy with God are fruitful is seen in the abundance of fruit...

Prayer is a means to an end; the end is soul winning...

You are the product of the choices you have made in life."

We recommend this book to you dear reader, with prayer that the Lord will use it to enable you to cooperate with God to pay the needed price and make the right choices in order to live a victorious christian life.

1

THE ELEMENT OF HARD WORK

A.) THE EXAMPLE OF PAUL

"For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the Grace of God I am what I am, and His Grace to me was not without effect. No I worked harder than all of them - yet not I, but the Grace of God that was with me" 1 Corinthians 15:9-10.

The first secret of success in the knowledge and service of God is extreme hard work... Look at your academic results, do they promise you a future? If you did not work extremely hard at your studies, you will not work extremely hard at the gospel because the academic mediocre will eventually become a gospel mediocre. The academic results are only diagnostic of the problem with you.

A man who confronts his academics in a nonchalant way will also confront the work of the Lord in the same spirit. He has a heart developed for mediocrity. The apostle Paul said; "I worked harder than all of them". For him, it did not start on the mission field. Because, it cannot start on the mission field. Paul as an unbeliever testifies that he was thoroughly trained. Lazy people are traitors to the God who works hard!

Which book have you read thoroughly, eight times? Notice that Paul was not averagely trained. He was thoroughly trained; rigorously trained. He said

"They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that according to the strictest sect of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee " Acts 26: 5.

Paul belonged to the strictest sect of his religion.

Can it be said of you that you belong to the strictest group of the work? As for Paul, he was in the strictest group. Indulgence is at the root of it all. Great careers have been buried at the altar of indulgence. Verse 9 of Acts 26 says;

"I too was convinced that I ought to do all that was possible".

As an unbeliever, Paul strove to do all that which was possible to oppose the name of Jesus.

He was convinced. Of what are you convinced? About what have you done all that which was possible? Paul was convinced and he acted along the lines of his convictions, that is, opposing the name of Jesus.It was a decision followed by acts. All that was possible. Did you put all that which was possible? A conviction followed by action?

Already in Jerusalem, he went from one synagogue to the other, caught believers and locked them up. The fires of persecution were flowing through him. He was obsessed as though possessed against the Christians. In Christ his excessive zeal and life was caught, transformed and put into the cause of the One he was trying to destroy - Jesus Christ.

Do you not find that you just must repent? And that you must repent in a most specific manner? General repentance is no repentance! Nobody is ever convicted unless he is convicted at a particular point.

Let us take the domain of soul winning. What are your convictions in relation to the lost souls of men? What have you done or are doing about it? What will you do about it? Pray, I guess?

Prayer is only a means to an end; the end is soul winning. Especially souls won where there is no soul winning going on yet. If not, why should there be prayer? Prayer must go along the lines of the deep seated convictions of a man's heart. Faced with the need to save the lost, you cannot afford to be indifferent. You must do something about it.

Where must you begin? The instructions of God to Jeremiah give a clue.

See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant Jeremiah 1:10.

The first responsibility is to:

Uproot

Tear down

Destroy

Overthrow

When laziness and indulgence have not been uprooted, torn down, destroyed and overthrown; whatever else is done is short-lived. There can be no planting and no building as long as there has not been uprooting, tearing down, destroying and overthrowing of all what should not be there.

There is a work of destruction that must precede the work of building. Those who spare themselves the work of destruction will go nowhere. That is why the word of God that was taught could not be laid hold of because of the refusal to initially uproot and destroy all that which was not supposed to be there in the heart.

It's like taking a hoe to till the soil and plant maize in a forest without first of all bulldozing it.

In the case at hand it means removing, uprooting and destroying all that which does not go in line with hard work. Look at the unbelieving Paul. He strove to annul the Christian faith, and when he became a believer he took to another kind of striving;

"so I strive always to keep my conscience clear before God and man" (Acts 24: 16).

Paul talks of "I strive always. The lazy person does not strive at all. For Paul, these were inward stirrings. He strove outwardly as an unbeliever. As a believer, he strove inwardly in his being and extremely in his acts. All of Paul's life was much harder and much harder". Besides, it was working much harder than the other apostles. It was not just much harder than ordinary men.

In his conscience, he laboured to have a clear conscience before God and man. It was labour, labour, labour. Later on, as fruit of his labours he could say,

I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know -God knows. And I know that this man - whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows - was caught up to paradise. He heard inexpressible things that man is not permitted to tell, I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, 2 Corinthian 12: 1 - 6.

In Holiness, he was more than all. In hard work, he was more than all. He was more than all in vision and in revelation he was more than all.

He further says,

"Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God. I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done -- by the power of signs and miracles, through the power of the Spirit. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have