Life-Changing Thoughts on Prayer (Volume 2)

By Zacharias Tanee Fomum

A compassionate thought provocating call to pray.

In this book, the author, Z.T. Fomum, shares Revolutionary Thoughts on Prayer, received when praying alone, leading others in prayer, and teaching on prayer between August 1990 and April 2000.

This 2nd volume will challenge, amaze, and inspire you to pray. You will find thoughts spanning topics such as
- Pre-Requisites For Prayer
- The Intercessor’s Attitude
- Praying For World Conquest For Christ
- Purity Of Heart And Prayer
- Prayer And Missions
- Watching and Waiting in Prayer
- Prayer Chain
- Public And Group Praying
- Selfishness And Prayer
- The Life And Walk Of An Intercessor
- The First Purpose Of Prayer
- Fruit-Bearing And Prayer
- The Human Spirit And Prayer
- Prayer And Spiritual Promotion
- etc.

This incredible classic on prayer is practical yet spiritual, challenging us to seek God in passionate and unrelenting prayer.

The bold truth in each thought will ignite your prayers with a passion for the fire of revival.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ZTF Books Online
• Release date: Aug 29, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370282395

Zacharias Tanee Fomum

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Preface

This book "Life-changing Thoughts on Prayer (Volume 2)" is the 13th in the Prayer power series. The books in this series that have already been written are:

The Way Of Victorious Praying

The Ministry Of Fasting

The Art Of Intercession

The Practice Of Intercession

Praying With Power

Practical Spiritual Warfare Through Prayer

Moving God Through Prayer

The Ministry Of Praise And Thanksgiving

Waiting On The Lord In Prayer

The Ministry Of Supplication

Life-Changing Thoughts On Prayer (Volume 1)

The Centrality Of Prayer

Life-Changing Thoughts On Prayer (Volume 2)

Prayer and Spiritual Intimacy

Life-Changing Thoughts on Prayer (Volume 3)

The Art of Worship

Life-Changing Thoughts on Prayer (Vol. 4)

Life-Changing Thoughts on Prayer (Vol. 5)

Learning To Importune In Prayer

Prayer And A Walk With God

From His Prayer files 

Learning To Importune In Prayer

Prayer and Holiness

Pray or Perish

Pray Without Ceasing

Prayer is central to any work and to any move of God. We have been burdened for very many years now about praying, and are labouring to pray ever increasingly. We have been burdened about the centrality of Prayer and have laboured to lead individuals into seeing the necessity of Prayer, and to actually pray. We have been burdened to lead churches into seeing the necessity of Prayer and into praying. As I prayed alone, and as we travelled and taught about Prayer, I took down key thoughts for myself that came through as I prayed alone, as I led others in Prayer and as we taught on Prayer. In this book we share with you some of the thoughts that came through between the 9 th of August 1990 and the 18 th of April 2000.

Our Prayer is that by God’s grace you should find in this book some thoughts that will revolutionise and stir your heart to pray and pray and pray.

May our God bless you exceedingly.

Your brother in Christ,

Zacharias Tanee Fomum.

18 th September 2008.

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Pre-Requisites For Prayer

Only those who have put a radical stop to all the sin in their lives can pray. All the rest can either pray asking for forgiveness, or open their mouths to ask for other things and thus become an abomination to the Lord.

The Prayer of someone who has an unconfessed sin in his life is a temptation to the Lord.

The way of truth is to wait before the Lord, confessing personal emptiness and pleading that He should touch one afresh and make communion possible. It should be determined that one will say nothing to the Lord until communion has been established. It may take ten minutes, one hour, three hours or more, depending on how far one has drifted away from Him. However, one should decide that one will not begin to pray until the relationship has been restored.

If there is some aspect of the will of the Lord that is known and which ought to be obeyed, but which is not yet being obeyed, it blocks communion. Praying in that condition is in vain. The Prayers of the disobedient are insults to the glory of the Lord. The disobedient are adversaries of God. God withstands them.

Prayer demands communion, and communion demands confession and forsaking of all sin, and radical application of all of life to all of the will of God that is known.

9TH AUGUST 1990

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Another Aspect Of Prayer

There are aspects of Prayer that have to do with asking and receiving, so that the needs of man are met. This is important and has its place.

There is another aspect of Prayer that is indicated by the following Scripture :

And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which are the Prayers of the saints (Revelation 5 : 8 RSV).

Therefore the saints are to pray without ceasing, so that this incense may be available to the Lord without ceasing. My Lord, grant that I should never allow my bowl of incense before You to become empty.

9TH AUGUST 1990

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Some Thoughts On Prayer

Lord, grant that I should first receive from You what to ask You in Prayer.

Lord, grant that I should always count every opportunity to talk to You as a most undeserved privilege – to be received in audience by the Most High.

Lord, grant that I should count my words and think them through before I utter any of them before Your supreme Majesty.

My Lord, grant that there should never be a time when I come into Your presence without reverence and without great humility of heart, for the sheer knowledge of whom You are and what I am.

My Lord, grant that there should never be a time when I come into Your presence to insult You because of an unconfessed sin in my life.

My Lord, deliver me from blurting things in Your presence when I have not reverently sought Your presence and obtained Your permission to speak to You.

My Lord, grant that I should make each request with fear and trembling; for I have no right to receive anything. All that You give me is solely on the basis of Your wondrous grace. Lord, let this be ever before me and let it condition my every step before You.

My Lord and my God, I plead that each request should be clear and most specific, that it should be exact and blunt.

My Lord, grant that I should make no request to You for which I was not prepared to invest my all in order to co-operate with You for the answers to come, should You so demand; that is, Lord, may each request I make come from the position of absolute surrender and absolute consecration, from a sacrifice that is laid on the altar before You.

My Lord, grant that no Prayer or activity of mine be geared just to have things done. Lord, grant that it should always be people-oriented. Lord, grant that I should see people before me; that I should carry people on my heart; that I should write each line with people on my heart whom I want to bless in Your name. Lord, grant that I should carry out every fast with people on my heart, people who should be blessed because of that fast. Lord, grant that I should give each franc with people on my heart – people who should be blessed because I gave. My Lord, grant that I should invest every minute with people on my heart – people who will be blessed because of what that time will do for them. Lord, grant that my

fasting

Prayer

making of disciples

writing

university work

evangelism

teaching

should be people-oriented. Lord, grant that nothing should be done for fame, for numbers or for more recognition or approval by men.

GAROUA, 22ND SEPTEMBER 1990

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What Prayer Is

Prayer is the flow of a man - spirit, soul and body - Godward. The totality of a man must be involved in this Godward flow. Unless this totality is involved in the Godward flow, the Prayer is not perfected.

YAOUNDE, 18TH DECEMBER 1990

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The Intercessor’s Attitude

The intercessor must bless what God blesses. He must pull down what God is pulling down and he must build what God is building.