
ERM
aims to make available to the French-speaking
Church a great number of resources likely TO BRING her BACK
to God, edify her and STIMULATE her into a PREVALENT PRAYER
life. The articles presented on this site represent only a small
portion of such resources. A great deal of other English articles
are in the process of being translated into French. Nehemiah’s
Prayer Watch was born after two and a half years of intensive,
prayerful work of translation combined with innumerable hours
of language correction, at an average rate of 1 hour per day,
with a very reduced team.
The spiritual stakes
that such a challenge represents are incommensurable. When the
light of divine truth is hidden under the bushel of error and
the false ideas of the present age, even hiding God's revelation,
the darkness of ignorance starts to invade the Church which
then becomes formless, powerless and apostatized. But when,
just as with each period of Reformation, the truths of God are
restored and spread by the quickening Breath of the Spirit,
the Church of Christ awakens and rises out of her ashes. Thus
the invention of the printing press by Gutenberg made it possible
to give the Word of God back to the people and that invaluable
Bible was the seed from which the Great Protestant Reformation
germinated. This mighty move of God catapulted the Church out
of 12 centuries of obscurantism, superstition and error. The
state of the French-speaking Church today strangely enough is
similar to that of the Church before the Reformation. Although
we have free access to the Bible and have Christian books in
great number, much of what has been written contributes only
to support the extinction of the seeds of life and power of
the true Gospel - the doctrine of Christ. Moreover, the French-speaking
evangelical literature cruelly lacks the powerful writings resulting
from generations of past revivals, conversely to the English-speacking
Church that enjoys an impressive heritage bequeathed by former
saints. Why is there such an absence? Partly because France
has continually been a minefield where the spirit of the Antichrist
has sought to destroy the vital seeds of faith through severe
persecutions against the genuine children of God. The forces
of hell systematically worked to annihilate the male child (Revelation
12:12-17), the fruit of revival, by decapitating the reformers
and the saints of God alike, and by burning their writings,
thus preventing the transmission of the spiritual inheritance
given birth to in sufferings, tears and persecution. Moreover,
instead of forming the minds into the knowledge of the principles
and the eternal truths of the Word of God leading to Christ,
France fatally preferred to walk on the slippery ground of Enlightenment's
philosophies, thus building the bases of an anti-Christian cartesianism
or a stillborn religious teaching locked up in a deceiving and
mortal rhetoric.
But the light of
the Gospel of Jesus-Christ never fades away! The voices of the
Huguenot martyrs have risen for several centuries towards the
One who sits on the throne so that God may give again to the
French Church the invaluable eternal truths of grace. And today
the Spirit of God is seeking to revive again the French-speaking
heritage of the Reformation by transmitting the spiritual fatherhood
of our Anglo-Saxon brothers to the French-speaking Church. If,
from the 18th century onward, Voltaire, Rousseau,
Diderot, Robespierre and others set up the idol "Supreme Reason"
in France as a pagan divinity who has since taken control of
the whole destiny of the nation through the dark influence of
the Masonic and antichrist thought and worship, God today wants
to give back to France the True Light, the full light of the
Kingdom of God. We could here paraphrase Frédéric
Godet: "The saints, the virgin,
had eclipsed the Lord in the heart of his people. A powerful
breath of the divine Spirit is needed to sweep this impure vapor;
a violent commotion in the highest places becomes necessary
to rid the hearts of these intruding stars. The Sun of life
must rise again." (Frédéric
Godet, History of Reformation in the Country of Neuchâtel).
Can we rejoice in
ourselves by anticipating the passion for the Lord and the hunger
for a holiness revival which would be ignited within the Church
of Jesus-Christ should she only be taught the great eternal
truths of God which, in the past, have produced visitations
of God and transformed lives in a way that is unknown to us
today? Are we aware of the urgency with which we have to enrich
the Church with the invaluable writings of our faith fathers
through this work of translation for the seeding of hearts?
Aren’t our hearts pounding with emotion while knowing that,
if a greater number of Christians agreed to enter a corporate
work by placing at the disposal of the Body their own natural
capacities and their available time with an aim of accelerating
this work of translation, it would be possible for us to escape
the divine verdict, "My people
are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected
knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest
to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also
will forget thy children."
(Hosea 4:6).
Oh, may we make
up our minds now not to yield any longer before the stratagems
of diversion of the enemy of our souls who tries to waste our
moral, intellectual and spiritual forces and energies and the
various natural talents that the Lord assigned to each of us!
May our Father, in His great grace gather and bind all of us
in one vision- the apostle Paul stated: "I
do one thing, I
press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling
of God in Christ Jesus."
(Philippians 3:14) - so that we may not be any more a people
of God dispersed in thousand activities without the plumbline
of a divine vision satisfying God’s expectation with respect
to His Church for this present time!
This
is why ERM is sounding the call for participation on
the part of those who have been or will be blessed by reading
the articles posted on this web site, and have become aware
of the urgent call coming from God to enter DESPERATE and ANGUISHED
PRAYER for revival. Will you be one of these men and women who
are yearning to shake the dust of church conformism and wish
to propagate the flames of an extreme love for the Saviour,
while taking part in the propagation of writings on prevailing
prayer through this work of translation, at your own pace? We
shall give you work - translation from English, correction of
French texts, revisions, input of manuscripts into the computer,
transcription of sermons recorded on audio cassettes in French
as well as in English, etc. - for the advance of His kingdom,
while directing your attention on His vision.
If you feel a call
for this type of work, we ask you to make yourselves known without
delay by filling out the form "Contacting us" in the Contact
section and by checking the box, "I wish to help the Nehemiah's
Prayer Watch ministry by making my skills available to its service".
You will then be numbered among our privileged volunteer translators
and receive a login and a confidential password giving you free
access to the protected section of the resources to be translated
(click here). You will then only have to select a text for translation
and to email it back to us once the task has been accomplished.
ERM also
is searching for partners in the work who have the desire to
help us propagate the writings contained on this site but in
hardcopy format, so that more people can benefit - ministers
and laymen alike who do not all have Internet. We plan to publish
a free hardcopy edition of this site (either in the form of
a book, or a regular magazine). If you are a Christian printer
or editor, or an ordinary person yet possessing sufficient publishing
facilities, and wish to voluntarily make your resources and
abilities for the sake of the Kingdom of God, as a love offering
for the service of the Master, we also invite you to fill in
the form "Contacting us" by checking the box, "I wish to become
a partner of the Nehemiah's Prayer Watch" ministry by proposing
my publishing services". The resources are protected by copyright
for the main two following reasons: firstly, to prevent their
use for commercial purposes, because ERM neither wants
to support nor to maintain a mercantile system generated by
a spirit which does not correspond to the pure Gospel of Jesus-Christ;
secondly, to prevent that they be used in a selective manner
in another context than that of a biblical vision of revival.
This is meant in order to promote neither counterfeit movements
nor intentions incompatible with the requirements of holiness
of heart, nor to alter the true message of revival. All the
resources form one whole quite as consistent as law and grace
together, or love and truth, or the Old Testament and the New
Testament, or judgment and revival. But we encourage their free
propagation to the greatest number of Christians by all possible
means.

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