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A Voice for Personal Spiritual Revival

Zacharias T. Fomum

1st eBook edition, December 2013

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ACTS 6:2, 3, 7

And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.

My son, the matter of the absolute necessity for the believer to be filled with the Holy Spirit before he can minister in the New Covenant has been ignored in the church with impunity. I have endured this for so many years while the requirement, so basic to any work that will win My full approval, has been persistently put aside. In the Primitive Church, no-one could serve tables without being filled with the Holy Spirit, not as a reality of the past but as a very deep and personal reality at the moment of service. Those who were to serve tables knew that they had to be filled with the Holy Spirit in the past, in a very definite way that was known by them and known by others in the Body. They and everyone in the Body also knew that it was not just something that had happened to them in the past, but that at the moment of selection to serve tables, they were actually filled with the Holy Spirit. They were then selected and commissioned to serve tables. My son, leadership in the New Covenant was reserved for those who knew the crisis of being filled with the Holy Spirit and the process of being filled with the Holy Spirit. For the most senior leaders, the office was entered into and maintained by a course of encounters with the Holy Spirit, and in between the encounters was the process of being filled with the Holy Spirit. In this way leadership at the highest level was maintained.You will notice that there is an upward move God-ward in Spiritual power and intimacy with the Lord during the Process, and that the Crisis is a sudden surge of Spiritual power that moves a person into greater intimacy with the Lord and, more, demonstrates service to Him. In the life of the apostle Peter, the first crisis was on the day of Pentecost. He and the one hundred and nineteen were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them (Acts 2:4). As a result of this crisis of being filled with the Holy Spirit, Peter and the eleven preached and three thousand believed, were baptised and were added to their number (Acts 2:41). Peter and the eleven, as well as the one hundred and eight, were so filled with the Holy Spirit and power that three thousand dramatic and radical conversions took place, and each one who was converted joined the church. They were brought to conversion by the power of the Holy Spirit and they were brought by the Holy Spirit to join the church. I want you to take note of the fact that the Holy Spirit was present in such quality and quantity that there was such an enormous presence of His power to do the work of converting and adding to the church. If the Holy Spirit had been present only superficially, people would have been touched superficially, and there would have been no deep-seated conversions. There would also have been insufficient power to break the barrier that the enemy puts in the way of those who would join a radical and unpopular church. So power was released in sufficient amount to bring about radical conversion and radical church membership. Yes, radical church membership is demonstrated in the fact that all those who believed and were baptised and were added to the church “devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer” (Acts 2:42).

All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. In the power that rested upon him, the apostle Peter healed the cripple at the Gate Beautiful of the Temple. The power was still upon him and increasing in the process when he preached the next message that led to the conversion of multitudes, so much so that the number of men grew to about five thousand. Peter and John were imprisoned. The next day, Peter and John had to preach to the rulers, elders, and the teachers of the law. These people wanted to know one thing: “By what power or what name did you do this?”

Peter could not preach to these leaders, who also included Annas the High Priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander and the other men of the High Priest’s family, with just the power that was upon him. He needed more power. He needed a new in-filling. A new work was needed and a new power was needed. A new level of anointing with the power of the Holy Spirit was needed. The Bible says “Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them...” (Acts 4:8-12). This was the second crisis of Peter being filled with the Holy Spirit. In order that this crisis might take place, Peter did something which John did not do. Both of them had been filled at the beginning. Both of them were arrested and imprisoned but the next day Peter alone was filled with the Holy Spirit. God does not act arbitrarily. Something must happen in the heart of a man to move God to fill him with the Holy Spirit for the first time, or for the second time, or for the third time, or for the fourth time, or for the fifth time... or for the fiftieth time. Each one who is not filled with the Holy Spirit either for the first time or for the second time or for the fiftieth time, knows clearly what is standing in the way. When a person asks from a pure heart that he be filled with the Holy Spirit for the first, the second, the third or the fiftieth time, the answer of heaven is immediate if his heart is indeed pure—freed from sin, freed from self, freed from the love of the world, freed from the love of the things of the world to the satisfaction of God the Father. There are many who dare not look at My face, but would go ahead to say that they are freed from sin, freed from the love of the world, freed from the love of the things of the world, and freed from the love of self. There are

many who proclaim their own freedom while maintaining many idols in their hearts. There are many who proclaim their own freedom while being bound by self. There are many who proclaim their own freedom while the world and the things in it still hold absolute sway over them. Yet they dare to ask Me to fi ll their hearts with My Holy Spirit and My power. They are full but they want to be fi lled. They have refused to confront the fact that the fi rst step towards being fi lled is being emptied.

All sin must go radically and permanently. All love of self must go radically and permanently. All love of the world must go radically and permanently, and all love of the things of the world must go radically and permanently. Then My will for a life in an overall sense must be sought, known, and there must be a total consecration to doing it. When these conditions are fulfilled to My satisfaction, I will immediately fill the one who has thus made himself a fit dwelling for My Holy Spirit and His power in fullness. Oh My son, I want to fill My children but they are already full. I hear My children crying out for My power and being in desperate need of My power for life and for ministry. I hear their cries and I see their longings and I want to fill them to overflowing with My Holy Spirit and with His power, but they are not empty! They are full and I am hindered!! They are standing in the way of the very Person they need and blocking the very power they need!!! Peter and John were released by the authorities and they joined the brethren and they prayed together. After they had prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke My word boldly (Acts 4:31). This was the third crisis of being filled by the Holy Spirit for Peter. It was the second crisis of being filled with the Holy Spirit for the one hundred and nineteen others who had been filled on the day of Pentecost, and it was the first crisis of every one who was in the church in Jerusalem being filled with the Holy Spirit. The church was made up then of people who had each been filled with the Holy Spirit.

ACTS 4:32-35

All the believers were one in heart and mind. no one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. 33 with great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need.

My son, I want you to see some things. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit. There was no exception. All the believers were filled with the Holy Spirit. Each believer knew that he or she was filled with the Holy Spirit and each believer knew that each other believer was filled with the Holy Spirit. Because they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, they were all one in heart and all one in mind. Because they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, no one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Much grace was upon them all. There was no needy person among them. Those who owned lands or houses sold them and put the money from the sales at the apostles’ feet. Things were distributed to anyone as he had need.

You want Me to do in Yaounde and throughout your ministry what I did in Jerusalem. That I want to do and I have been waiting to do it for a long time. Give Me elders who are all Spirit-filled men and I will do it. Such elders, filled with the Holy Spirit, will release the Word in the power of the Holy Spirit, and that Word will produce radical converts who will gladly put away all that will prevent them from being filled with the Holy Spirit, and the rest will follow readily. Once a person is filled with the Holy Spirit, the rest will always be easy. Before a person is filled with the Holy Spirit, there is little I can do in him, with him and through him.

You are like Peter. Seek and receive a fresh encounter with the Holy Spirit. Rise to a new level of being filled with the Holy Spirit. Then concentrate your prayers and your ministry of the Word on the elders. As you pray for them and pray with them, as My Word through you becomes increasingly more powerful because of the repeated anointing by the Holy Spirit, there will be a breakthrough and the elders will be filled with the Holy Spirit. This will usher in a new beginning for the work in Yaounde, Cameroon, Africa and worldwide. It is useless to start Radio Voice of the Cross1 before the two elders who lead it are both filled with the Holy Spirit, know that they are filled with the Holy Spirit, and are known by all to be filled with the Holy Spirit. If this condition is not met, both for the two elders and for everyone who will teach and preach on that radio, it will become Radio Voice that Crucifies Me (RVCM) and not Radio Voice of the Cross (RVC). It is time you stopped filling the world with that which has not been crucified with Christ, and has not been filled and continues to be filled with My Holy Spirit. Only crucified, sanctified and Spirit-filled people have a place in the ministry of the New Covenant. If you continue to ordain and to send forth people who do not qualify, you will be functioning as My enemy and doing Me and My cause great harm. Oh son, how do you imagine that a person who has refused to deny himself, to abandon all sin and to be filled with the Holy Spirit, can become a partner with Me in the work of bringing people to deny themselves, to abandon all sin and to be filled with the Holy Spirit? This is the essential foundation work. This is the barest minimum. All who fail here are eliminated from serving Me.

True conversion (Mark 10:17-31)

All the blemished hearts represent unsaved persons. The last pure heart alone represents the saved person. Jesus cannot come in to blot out some of a person’s sins and not others. He comes in to blot out all sins or no sin at all. He blots out sin that is confessed and forsaken forever. He comes in to be Saviour, Lord and King in all things and in all circumstances or He does not come in at all. He cannot come in to be Saviour without being Lord and King because He cannot divide Himself. He is Saviour, Lord and King of all or Saviour, Lord and King of nothing at all.

Professor Zacharias Tanee Fomum

VERY IMPORTANT!!!

If you have not yet received Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, I encourage you to receive Him. Here are some steps to help you,

ADMIT

that you are a sinner by nature and by practice and that on your own you are without hope. Tell God you have personally sinned against Him in your thoughts, words and deeds. Confess your sins to Him, one after another in a sincere prayer. Do not leave out any sins that you can remember. Truly turn from your sinful ways and abandon them. If you stole, steal no more. If you have been committing adultery or fornication, stop it. God will not forgive you if you have no desire to stop sinning in all areas of your life, but if you are sincere, He will give you the power to stop sinning.

BELIEVE

that Jesus Christ, who is God's Son, is the only Way, the only Truth and the only Life. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me" (John 14:6). The Bible says, "For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all" (1 Timothy 2:5-6). "And there is salvation in no one else (apart from Jesus), for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12). But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God..." (John 1:12). BUT,

CONSIDER

the cost of following Him. Jesus said that all who follow Him must deny themselves, and this includes selfish financial, social and other interests. He also wants His followers to take up their crosses and follow Him. Are you prepared to abandon your own interests daily for those of Christ? Are you prepared to be led in a new direction by Him? Are you prepared to suffer for Him and die for Him if need be? Jesus will have nothing to do with half-hearted people. His demands are total. He will only receive and forgive those who are prepared to follow Him AT ANY COST. Think about it and count the cost. If you are prepared to follow Him, come what may, then there is something to do.

INVITE

Jesus to come into your heart and life. He says, "Behold I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door (to his heart and life), I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me " (Revelation 3:20). Why don't you pray a prayer like the following one or one of your own construction as the Holy Spirit leads?

"Lord Jesus, I am a wretched, lost sinner who has sinned in thought, word and deed. Forgive all my sins and cleanse me. Receive me, Saviour and transform me into a child of God. Come into my heart now and give me eternal life right now. I will follow you at all costs, trusting the Holy Spirit to give me all the power I need."

When you pray this prayer sincerely, Jesus answers at once and justifies you before God and makes you His child.

Please write to me and I will pray for you and help you as you go on with Jesus Christ.

About the author

ZACHARIAS TANEE FOMUM

1945-2009

FOUNDING LEADER,

CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL

(C.M.F.I)

Professor Zacharias Tanee Fomum was born in the flesh on 20th June 1945 and became born again on 13th June 1956. On 1st October 1966, He consecrated his life to the Lord Jesus and to His service, and was filled with the Holy Spirit on 24th October 1970. He was taken to be with the Lord on 14th March, 2009.

Pr Fomum was admitted to a first class in the Bachelor of Science degree, graduating as a prize winning student from Fourah Bay College in the University of Sierra Leone in October 1969. At the age of 28, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry by the University of Makerere, Kampala in Uganda. In October 2005, he was awarded a Doctor of Science (D.Sc) by the University of Durham, Great Britain. This higher doctorate was in recognition of his distinct contributions to scientific knowledge through research. As a Professor of Organic Chemistry in the University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon, Professor Fomum supervised or co-supervised more than 100 Master’s Degree and Doctoral Degree theses and co-authored over 160 scientific articles in leading international journals. He considered Jesus Christ the Lord of Science (“For by Him all things were created...” – Colossians 1:16), and scientific research an act of obedience to God’s command to “subdue the earth” (Genesis 1:28). He therefore made the Lord Jesus the Director of his research laboratory while he took the place of deputy director, and attributed his outstanding success as a scientist to Jesus’ revelational leadership.

In more than 40 years of Christian ministry, Pr Fomum travelled extensively, preaching the Gospel, planting churches and training spiritual leaders. He made more than:

·         700 missionary journeys within Cameroon, which ranged from one day to three weeks in duration.

·         500 missionary journeys to more than 70 different nations in all the six continents. These ranged from two days to six weeks in duration.

By the time of his going to be with the Lord in 2009, he had preached in over 1000 localities in Cameroon, sent over 200 national missionaries into many localities in Cameroon and planted over 1300 churches in the various administrative provinces of Cameroon. At his base in Yaounde, he planted and built a mega-church with his co-workers which grew to a steady membership of about 12,000. Pr Fomum was the founding team-leader of Christian Missionary Fellowship International (CMFI); an evangelism, soul-winning, disciple making, Church-planting and missionary-sending movement with more than 200 international missionaries and thousands of churches in 65 nations spread across Africa, Europe, the Americas, Asia and Oceania. In the course of their ministry, Pr Fomum and his team witnessed more than 10,000 recorded healing miracles performed by God in answer to prayer in the name of Jesus Christ. These miracles include instant healings of headaches, cancers, HIV/AIDS, blindness, deafness, dumbness, paralysis, madness, and new teeth and organs received.

Pr Fomum read the entire Bible more than 60 times, read more than 1350 books on the Christian faith and authored over 150 books to advance the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 5 million copies of these books are in circulation in 12 languages as well as 16 million gospel tracts in 17 languages.

Pr Fomum was a man who sought God. He spent between 15 minutes and six hours daily alone with God in what he called Daily Dynamic Encounters with God (DDEWG). During these DDEWG he read God’s Word, meditated on it, listened to God’s voice, heard God speak to him, recorded what God was saying to him and prayed it through. He thus had over 18,000 DDEWG. He also had over 60 periods of withdrawing to seek God alone for periods that ranged from 3 to 21 days (which he termed Retreats for Spiritual Progress). The time he spent seeking God slowly transformed him into a man who hungered, thirsted and panted after God. His unceasing heart cry was: “Oh, that I would have more of God!”

Pr Fomum was a man of prayer and a leading teacher on prayer in many churches and conferences around the world. He considered prayer to be the most important work that can be done for God and for man. He was a man of faith who believed that God answers prayer. He kept a record of his prayer requests and had over 50, 000 recorded answers to prayer in his prayer books. He carried out over 100 Prayer Walks of between five and forty-seven kilometres in towns and cities around the world. He and his team carried out over 57 Prayer Crusades (periods of forty days and nights during which at least eight hours are invested into prayer each day). They also carried out over 80 Prayer Sieges (times of near non-stop praying that ranges from 24 hours to 120 hours). He authored the Prayer Power Series, a 13-volume set of books on various aspects of prayer; Supplication, Fasting, Intercession and Spiritual Warfare. He started prayer chains, prayer rooms, prayer houses, national and continental prayer movements in Cameroon and other nations. He worked with leaders of local churches in India to disciple and train more than 2 million believers.

Pr Fomum also considered fasting as one of the weapons of Christian Spiritual Warfare. He carried out over 250 fasts ranging from three days to forty days, drinking only water or water supplemented with soluble vitamins. Called by the Lord to a distinct ministry of intercession, he pioneered fasting and prayer movements and led in battles against principalities and powers obstructing the progress of the Gospel and God’s global purposes. He was enabled to carry out 3 supra – long fasts of between 52 and 70 days in his final years.

Pr Fomum chose a lifestyle of simplicity and “self- imposed poverty” in order to invest more funds into the critical work of evangelism, soulwinning, church-planting and the building up of believers. Knowing the importance of money and its role in the battle to reach those without Christ with the glorious Gospel, he and his wife grew to investing 92.5% of their earned income from all sources (salaries, allowances, royalties and cash gifts) into the Gospel. They invested with the hope that, as they grew in the knowledge and the love of the Lord, and the perishing souls of people, they would one day invest 99% of their income into the Gospel.

He was married to Prisca Zei Fomum and they had seven children who are all involved in the work of the Gospel, some serving as missionaries. Prisca is a national and international minister, specializing in the winning and discipling of children to Jesus Christ. She also communicates and imparts the vision of ministry to children with a view to raising and building up ministers to them.

The Professor owed all that he was and all that God had done through him, to the unmerited favour and blessing of God and to his worldwide army of friends and co-workers. He considered himself nothing without them and the blessing of God; and would have

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Acts 6: 2, 3, 7

Acts 4: 32-35

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