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    Waiting On The Lord In Prayer: Prayer Power Series, #9
    Waiting On The Lord In Prayer: Prayer Power Series, #9
    Waiting On The Lord In Prayer: Prayer Power Series, #9
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    Waiting On The Lord In Prayer: Prayer Power Series, #9

    By Zacharias Tanee Fomum

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    The Missing Second Dimension of Prayer

    • When was the last time you heard from God?
    • In fact, have you ever had God speak to you?
    • Maybe the question should be: Have you ever waited on God in prayer?

    Prayer as dialogue may seem surprising to even some seasoned intercessors. This book explores that often missing dimension in the prayer life.

    Professor Fomum teaches first from the Scriptures how true prayer is a dialogue between God and man. All true communication is two-way, with feedback as the necessary confirmation that the message is being heard, understood and responded to. Otherwise we are engaging in monologues, however dramatic.

    The main reason we need to wait on the Lord in prayer is to seek to know what is on God's heart. This volume advances from the previous one, Moving God Through Prayer which taught how we should pray according to God's will. Now the process for finding out God's will is delineated.

    Using a few key models, mostly from the Bible like Moses, Paul and the Lord Jesus himself, the author brings out the importance of waiting on the Lord for revelation and answers. If these heroes of the faith spent such a large proportion of their prayer life in waiting on and listening to God should not every one of us do likewise?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks4revival
    Release dateMar 21, 2015
    ISBN9781507011478
    Waiting On The Lord In Prayer: Prayer Power Series, #9
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    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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      Waiting On The Lord In Prayer - Zacharias Tanee Fomum

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      Prayer

      Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened(Matthew 7:7-8).

      «Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive your sins» (Mark 11:24-25).

      «And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to Him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly» (Luke 18:7-8).

      «Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of man»(Luke 21:36).

      «And I will do all that you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it" (John 14:13-14).

      So the twelve gathered all the disciples together and said, ‘It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables. Brothers, choose seven men among you who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will turn this responsibility over to them and we will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word’ (Acts 6: 2-4).

      Now that Pentecost had fallen, it might be thought that the Apostles could relax and dispense with so much emphasis on prayer. But not so. These specially chosen and anointed men realised that their warfare was not one of flesh and blood, but a continual warfare in the heavenlies. They had had an ample opportunity in Christ’s school of prayer to know how He drew His power through day-to-day communion with God. Now, they -the Apostles- would institute a regular hour of prayer. In fact, Peter and John were on their way to the Temple to attend this hour of prayer when the first great miracle of the early church occurred - the healing of the lame man at the Gate Beautiful. Now, Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour (Acts 3:1).

      Here we pause a moment to emphasize something of supreme importance. People are creatures of habit. Hit and miss prayer, in the long run, never produces any satisfactory results. There must be a regular hour for it, otherwise the pressures of daily duties will press in, and before long we may find that the spirit of prayer has left us. Omit prayer for two or three days and at once we feel less inclined to pray. From the beginning, the Apostles appointed an hour for prayer. It was held at the ninth hour of the day - three o’clock in the afternoon. While morning is the best hour for an individual’s devotions, for a group of people under various responsibilities, another time may be best. The important thing is that the hours be regular. That the thousands of new converts, who began to flow into the church, also participated in the prayer hour, is evident.

      «Then, they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. And they continued steadfast in the Apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread and in prayers» (Acts 2:41-42).

      With this mighty united source of prayer ascending to heaven, the church moved forward, overcoming all opposition. Five thousand in one day accepted Christ as Lord ! (Acts4:3-4). For this, the Apostles were thrown in jail. On the morrow, they were threatened and let go. Upon returning to their own company, they reported what had happened. Immediately this great company gathered in its regular time of prayer «and lifted up their voice to God in one accord» (Acts 4:24).

      Gordon Lindsay, «Praying to Change the world,» Volume 2, Dallas, Texas, USA

      «Jesus was not speaking in fables and fairy tales when he said to His disciples in Matthew 5:13-14: «Ye are the salt of the earth.» ; «Ye are the light of the world.» The world at large is totally blind to this fact, but if it were not for the purifying and preserving influence of the church, the fabric of all we call civilization would totally disintegrate, decay and disappear. At this present throbbing moment, the Church, in union with her risen and enthroned Lord is , therefore, the fundamental preserving factor in this present world order. Therefore, by virtue of her organic relationship with Christ, the Supreme Sovereign, she, not Satan holds the balance of power in human affairs. It has been truly said, «The fate of the world is in the hands of nameless saints.» The truth is wonderfully set forth in Psalm 149:5-9: «Let the saints be joyful in glory; let them sing aloud upon their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hands, to execute the vengeance upon the heathen, and punishment upon the people, to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; to execute upon them the judgment written. This honour have all the saints. Praise the Lord.» If it were not for the church, Satan would already have turned this earth into hell. The fact that it has been preserved from total devastation in spite of him, proves that at least a remnant of the Church is effectually functioning and already has entered upon her rulership in union with her Lord. She is even now, by virtue of the scheme of prayer and faith, engaged in ‘on-the-job’ training for her place as co-sovereign with Christ over the entire universe following Satan’s final destruction... The validity of these principalities in world affairs at large is fairly well documented. But are these principles applicable in personal and individual cases? In the instance of the salvation of a specific individual, who holds the balance of power, Satan or the Church? Does the authority which God has offered the Church reach into the domain of free moral agency? Is this delegated authority compatible with the free will? God has said in His Word that He wills that all be saved. Knowing that it is God’s Will to save any man who has not crossed that mysterious boundary known as the deadline, may the Church pray for the salvation of a specific individual in the assurance that he will be saved? Or must the Church’s faith be tempered by the fact that that person is a free moral agent, and that God never saves any man against his will? Must we say, as we so often do, that because ‘so and so’ is a free moral agent, all we can do is to pray and leave the rest to him and God? Since God has assured us that it is His Will that all men be saved, we therefore know that when we pray for the salvation of anyone who has not crossed the deadline of final and permanent impertinence, we are praying according to His Will. In 1John 5:4-5, the Apostle says, «And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to His Will, he heareth us, and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.» Now, the question is: Is this promise neutralised by the free moral agency of man? Do we have to stand back and watch Satan capture a soul because God does not save against His will? Is it correct to say that all we can do is to pray and leave the rest to God and the individual?

      May I answer that question by asking another? Do you believe that someone was ever saved who was not, in the beginning, a rebel? Were not all of us born with our backs against God? Did we not all, like Adam, run and hide from God? Did we not all mightily resist the wooing of God’s Spirit before we were saved? And did we not all continue to resist that wooing until it became so persuasive and compelling that it finally became easier to yield than to continue in that rebellion? Did there not come a point when rebellion crossed over into surrender, not because the will was coerced, but because it was more painful to resist than to yield? And although the will yielded, it could have, if it had chosen, continued in rebellion. Is not this the general pattern of the journey from rebellion to surrender? Jesus says,

      «No man can come to me except the Father ...draw him» (John 6:44).

      And the Father always draws by means of His Spirit. Since God is no respecter of persons and wills that all be saved, and therefore without exception seeks all (John 1:9), why is the Spirit’s wooing successful in some cases and not in others? Is it because in some instances God is so ‘powerless’ that He cannot prevail? Or is it that some are the subjects of powerful, importunate, and believing intercession while others have no one to pray for them? If Wesley is correct in saying that «God does nothing but in answer to prayer,» then, this must include the salvation of souls. This then means that no soul is saved apart from intercession, and that every soul which is saved, is saved because someone prayed who would not give up to Satan. We agree that God desires all men to be saved. He has made provision for the salvation of all.

      «Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world» (John 1:29).

      «And he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world» (1 John 2:2).

      Although it is God’s will that all be saved, and although He has made provision for the salvation of the whole world, this salvation is limited wholly and entirely by the intercession, or lack of it of the church. Those for whom the church travails are saved. All the others are lost.

      «And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained»(John 20:22-23).

      "The Holy Spirit has the power to so enlighten the mind, awaken the spirit, and move the emotions of a man that he will

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