Posted on 02/24/2005 9:06:32 AM PST by Rytwyng
On August 31, 2004, Reverend Francine Lovell, Founder and President of End-Time Ministries located in Omaha, Arkansas, was preaching at a Bible Camp in the southwest of France. Lovell, who was born in Paris, felt led to preach on the subject of the Huguenots, the French Protestants, of whom nearly 2 million were either massacred or scattered among the nations of refuge. Because America was one of the most significant nations of refuge, the destinies of America and France -- she believes -- are bound forever.
It is no coincidence that George Washington, America's first President, was a direct descendant of refugees. His aide-de-camp, the Huguenot Jean Laurens, was part of the delegation that asked for French support and returned to die fighting with Lafayette and Rochambeau at the decisive battle of Yorktown, in 1781, FOR AMERICAN FREEDOM. Reverend Lovell also recalled visiting the beaches of Normandy, sensing that "Their blood yet speaketh." The mutual shedding of blood for each other's country was a revelation.
Says Lovell, "It was God indeed who sent the allies to deliver Europe from the curse of Hitler. 'BLOOD FOR BLOOD'. The Americans paid us back in 1944, many times over! I was 9 years old when I watched the American tanks and the jeeps roll into Paris. The first piece of chocolate I ever tasted was given to me by an American driving one of those jeeps! I will never forget a French woman, draped in a dress made of the three flags combined (American, British and French), walking with the crowd, past our apartment, No 60, Avenue de la République, in Paris, France. Indeed America is a nation of 'DELIVERERS'. Many years later, I was 'delivered again' on American soil . . . when I became 'born again'.
Then, says Lovell, "Under that tent, in the South West of France, one month ago, the Lord said to my French compatriots : The French bled in Florida and the Americans bled in Normandie, 'OU EST LA DIFFERENCE?' (Where is the difference?) Then, I gently pulled out my passport and, with much love, said to them: 'I AM AN AMERICAN!' Many anti-American feelings have been voiced by the media and otherwise since the beginning of the war against Iraq. As the prophet Daniel repented on behalf of Israel, the Lord is asking the born-again Christians of France to repent for anti-American feelings voiced by the nation of France."
Tears were flowing, she reports. "One by one, they got up and willingly came to the front to repent for themselves and their nation. Two old men (old enough to have watched the Americans land in Normandie) came up, wept and repented for the words spoken against America. OUR GOD IS THE GOD OF RECONCILIATION!"
"After the meeting men came up to my husband, hugged him and told him “THEY LOVE AMERICA AND THEY LOVE THE AMERICANS!" "So far, we are living on a planet of two kingdoms: the kingdom of darkness and the Kingdom of God. You belong to one or the other. CHOOSE YOU THIS DAY WHOM YE WILL SERVE . . . BUT AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE, WE WILL SERVE THE LORD."
Too little, too late.
Huguenot PING!
The only Frenchman I ever came to respect was Lafayette, but if these folks are "seeing the light", then, as a Christian man, I am bound to forgive and forget.
A couple down with millions to go!
Christ was willing to forgive those who were executing him. The least we can do is give some silly Frenchmen a second chance when they repent for badmouthing America. Forgiveness.
Although, I'm not a frog-hugger by any means, I wouldn't mind seeing the feelings between the nations shift a little more positive.
Not really
OUR GOD IS THE GOD OF RECONCILIATION!
I will tell you that I belive in the great grace of God even in the case of a clearly evil nation like France. If the Christians in this country will fast and pray and repent on behalf of their evil leaders -- God will hear their cry and perhaps he may chose to spare that nation.
I think of the prophet Jonah and the City of Ninevah who this man hated -- and how he refused to go and cry in theri streets. And then he waited for its destruction only to be reproved by God. And how he was angry and bitter when they repented and the city was spared.
I sense this bitter hatred in some of the Fundamentalist and Charismatic Christians I know -- supposedly the keepers of God's word. Who would go to France to preach repentance? Who would go to one of these muslim middle eastern nations to preach Christ?
What thank have ye when ye preach only to your congregations? What thank have ye when you give to those that love you? The test is what you do to those who hate and revile you -- those who are ungrateful and complain when you help them. Christ came to save sinners.
I pulled your name off another Huguenot thread...
As for the French, I can get along with anybody that keeps their pie hole shut.
Huguenot ping!
At least they were smart enough to leave.
"everyone called him Pat because they couldn't spell "Lafayette"
That's funny because I cut and pasted the name out of the article because I cannot spell Lafayette either. If I had typed "Pat" someone would have posted a bunny with a pancake on its head.
Seriously, the Marquis de Lafayette's life is very interesting learning.
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