Winning Love: The Rescue, Development and Fulfilment of Mary Magdalene: Women of Glory, #3

By Zacharias Tanee Fomum

Some time ago, the Lord laid on our hearts the burden to write some books about Bible women who distinguished themselves in knowing, loving, and labouring for the Lord mainly, in secret and in private. This led us to conceive the books in the series, "Women of Glory". The books in this series are:

• Volume One: The Secluded Worshipper: The Life, Ministry and Glorification Of the Prophetess Anna
• Volume Two: Unending Intimacy: The Transformation, Choices and Overflow Of Mary of Bethany
• Volume Three: Winning Love: The Rescue, Development, and Fulfilment Of Mary Magdalene
• Volume Four: Not Meant for Defeat: The Rise, Battles and Triumph of Queen Esther.

The book in your hands – Winning Love: The Rescue, Development, and Fulfilment of Mary Magdalene – is the third in the series. The first and the second books in the series have been written and the last book will be written as the Lord perfects the revelation and gives the anointing and the time for it to be written. If you have read the book and have been blessed, I would like to hear from you. Please write and share with me what the Holy Spirit is doing in your heart to bring you to undivided love and undivided devotion to our Blessed Lord.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books4revival
• Release date: Dec 27, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223298960

Zacharias Tanee Fomum

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Winning Love

WINNING LOVE

The rescue, development and fulfilment of Mary Magdalene

WOMEN OF THE GLORY

BOOK 3

ZACHARIAS TANEE FOMUM

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Copyright © 1995 by Zacharias Tanee Fomum

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Except otherwise stated all scripture quotations are from the New International Version 1984.

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This book is written more for the heart than for the head. We suggest that you read it slowly and prayerfully with great expectations. Your life will be changed radically as you respond to the voice of God speaking to you. You will never be the same after you have read it!

TO

THE LORD JESUS

THE SUPREME LOVE OF MY HEART I HUMBLY DEDICATE THIS BOOK

CONTENTS

Prologue

Preface

THE LOVER

1. Mary Magdalene at the Tomb while it was still dark

2. Mary Magdalene

The Lover who believed the Beloved!

3. The Beloved is Faithful

Jesus kept His word to the Disciples

THE TESTIMONY OF THE LOVER

4. The testimony of the Lover—1

Mary Magdalene’s testimony to the apostles

5. The testimony of the Lover—2

Position without reality?

THE APOSTLES AT THE TOMB

6. The apostles at the tomb—1

Almost too late?

7. The apostles at the tomb—2

The evidence or the reality?

SERVANTS OR LOVERS?

8. Servants or Lovers?—1

The motivation of love

9. Servants or lovers?—2

The return of the disciples to their homes

10. Servants or lovers?—3

But Mary stood outside the tomb crying

11. Servants or Lovers?—4

The Disciple whom Jesus loved

12. Servants or Lovers?—5

Third Class love instead of First-Class love

13. Servants or Lovers?—6

I Love My Master!

14. Lovers or Servants?—7

What Pentecost did to the apostles

MARY MAGDALENE AT THE TOMB

15. Mary Magdalene at the tomb—1

The Loving Seeker of the Beloved

16. Mary Magdalene at the Tomb—2

The Ministry of Tears

17. Mary Magdalene at the Tomb—3

The Ministry of Angels!

18. Mary Magdalene at the Tomb—4

The Fallibility of Optical Vision

19. Mary Magdalene at the Tomb—5

The Wonderful Revelation

20. Mary Magdalene at the Tomb—6

Bliss!

21. Mary Magdalene at the Tomb—7

The Unchanging Consecration of the Lord Jesus

22. Mary Magdalene at the Tomb—8

The First Post-Resurrection Messenger

23. Mary Magdalene at the Tomb—9

The First Post-Resurrection Message

24. Mary Magdalene at the Tomb—10

The Unusual Parting of Mary Magdalene and the Lord Jesus

MARY MAGDALENE!

25. Mary Magdalene—1

The Fulfilled Testifier

26. Mary Magdalene—2

A Tenfold Gold Medallist

27. Mary Magdalene—3

Unceasing Greatness

28. Mary Magdalene—4

How to love the Lord as she did; The secret of her Love

29. Mary Magdalene—5

You too should love the Lord as she did

Epilogue

Back Matters

Thank You

Very Important!!!

About the Author

Recommended Books

Our Distributors

PROLOGUE

O LORD, I WORSHIP YOU

You gave me Your very life

To set me free

You poured out Your very blood

To make me clean

You held nothing back, my Lord

For the purchase of my soul

O Lord, I worship You

You came down from heaven, Lord

To show me the Way

You ascended to the cross

My debt to pay

You descended to the grave

Then ascended to the throne

O Lord, I worship You

You are now in glory Lord,

Praying for me

You are fasting everyday

To perfect me

You will soon be back, my Lord

To take me home with You

O Lord, I worship You

Come now, O Thou, my Lord

And fight with me

As I labour on, my Lord

To set captives free

The task You left, Lord, for me

To accomplish here for You

O Lord, I worship You

I hunger and thirst, my Lord

To behold Your face

All of me is all aflame

To be lost in You

Delay no longer, my Lord

Come and take me to Yourself

O Lord, I worship You

And then in glory, Lord

Beholding Your face

Leaning on Your bosom, Lord

And lost in You

There will be no more parting

From the Lord I’ve loved so much

O Lord, I worship You

02/10/94, Z.T. FOMUM

PREFACE

The Lord laid on our hearts to write some books about women who distinguished themselves in knowing, loving and labouring for the Lord mainly in secret and in private. This led us to conceive the books in the series, Women of the Glory. The books in this series are:

Volume 1:The Secluded Worshipper: The Life, Ministry and Glorification Of the Prophetess Anna

Volume 2:Unending Intimacy: The Transformation, Choices and Overflow Of Mary of Bethany

Volume 3: Winning Love: The Rescue, Development, and Fulfilment Of Mary Magdalene

Volume 4: Not Meant for Defeat: The Rise, Battles and Triumph of Queen Esther.

The book in your hands, WINNING LOVE: THE RESCUE, DEVELOPMENT, AND FULFILMENT OF MARY MAGDALENE, is the third in the series. The last book will be written as the Lord gives the revelation, anointing and the time for it to be written. If you read the book and were blessed, I would like to hear from you. Please, write and share with me what the Lord has done for you, so that I too may join you in praising and blessing His all-holy and all-glorious Name.

19 February 1995.

Zacharias Tanee Fomum,

P.O Box 6090 Yaounde,

Cameroon.

BIBLE READING

John 20:1-18

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. ​So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!

So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus' head. The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen.

Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. ​(They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) Then the disciples went back to their homes, ​but Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.

They asked her, Woman, why are you crying? They have taken my Lord away, she said, and I don't know where they have put him. At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. Woman, he said, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for? Thinking he was the gardener, she said, Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.

Jesus said to her, Mary. She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, Rabboni! (which means Teacher). ​Jesus said, Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.' ​Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: I have seen the Lord! And she told them that he had said these things to her.

JOHN 20:1-18

THE LOVER

1

MARY MAGDALENE AT THE TOMB WHILE IT WAS STILL DARK

Mary Magdalene was a lover of the Lord Jesus. Her love for Him was born in her heart the day she was delivered of seven demons. From that day, her love for Him knew no bounds. It grew and grew. As she gave herself increasingly to Him and increasingly to His service, that love, like an eagle, acquired new wings and soared high.

Then the Lord was arrested and crucified and all seemed to have ended for most of those who had followed or admired Him. However, for Mary Magdalene, it was not the end. She had heard Him say that He would rise on the third day. She loved Him and believed Him. She loved Him and believed everything that He had said. Although He was dead, she knew she would have Him back on the third day. This hope and this assurance kept her burning, bleeding and breaking throughout the days when He was in the grave. Mary Magdalene must have counted the hours that stood between her and the third day when she would see the Lord Jesus again.

Then the third day came!

She could wait no more!!

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, she went to the tomb.

It was risky to have gone out while it was still dark. Anything could have happened to her. Thieves could have attacked her. She could have been raped. She could have missed her way. All those dangers were obvious, but she brushed them aside as if they did not exist. She loved Jesus too much to be put off by barriers.

Love never plays safe!

Love always takes risks!

Love blossoms in risks!

The greater the love, the greater the risks that it will take.

The lesser the love, the lesser the risks that it will take.

Where there is no love, no risks will be taken.

We can represent it graphically as follows:

Mary Magdalene’s love for the Lord Jesus was great. That great love moved