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www.jamaica-star.comSATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2015
FEATURE
THE STAR
GEORGE HENRY
STAR Writer
Name:
Nicholas Dixon
Church:
Haddington New
Testament Church of God in
Trelawny.
Position:
Life Builders president.
How long have you been
saved?
I have been saved
since January 2008.
How did you get your
conviction?
I was attend-
ing a fasting at church one
Tuesday when the Spirit of
the Lord moved and a dea-
con called me to the altar
and ministered to
me.
R i g h t
there and then, tears filled my
eyes and I accepted the Lord.
What has been your most
challenging moment since get-
ting saved?
I am a family man.
I am married. There was a time
in my life when I needed a job
and it seemed as if I was never
going to get one. There was a
time when I felt like an infidel,
when I could not afford to take
care of my family.
I was at a very low point in
my life. I started questioning
God. I asked Him how long my
financial trial would continue. I
asked what I did to deserve
that. Being unable to provide
for my wife and my son was a
real struggle for me.
I could not provide for them
how I wanted to. Sometimes, It
was difficult to look at them,
knowing I couldn’t afford cer-
tain things.
What has been your most
miraculous moment since get-
ting saved?
I assisted my pastor
with baptism. There was a man
in my community who was
mentally ill. We were having a
series of baptisms at church
when he walked into the church
one Sunday morning and told
us that he wanted to be bap-
tised.
We decided to baptise him. I
remember walking into the pool
and persons, even church mem-
bers, started to walk away. say-
ing that we were baptising a
‘madman’.
I saw the miraculous hands of
God work. He might have
walked into the pool as a so-
called ‘madman’, but he came
out of the pool as a brand-new
man.
Since the day he got baptised,
he lived an exemplary life in
the community. He stopped
doing the things he used to do,
and he attended church regu-
larly. I believe God saved him
for a purpose. He died last
October. He was found dead in
his room.
Message to Christians:
The
struggles are real. Struggles will
always come like giants, but we
we should take God at His
word. If God tells you to do
something, do it.
Sometimes, you will not get
the approval of others. You
must understand that the crowd
will not be with you all the time.
Always remember that the glory
of God is not necessarily in the
crowd.
As long as God is directing
your path, stick to His word,
trust in Him with all your heart,
and He will pull you through the
struggles.
Message to non-Christians:
God loves you with an everlast-
ing love. He loves us so much,
that He sent his only Son to die
for all of us. My word to you is
to seek the Lord before you die.
Oftentimes, sinners say ‘tomor-
row’ or ‘a next time’ when they
are asked to surrender to the
Lord, but none of us is guaran-
teed a tomorrow or a next time.
So now is the time to accept
Him. Accept Him before it is too
late.
Favourite bible scripture:
Psalm 116
Favourite lines of favourite
songs
: “
I have somebody with
me to share my heavy load
“
and “
Hanging by
the
last
thread of hope
.”
Feedback:
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a ‘madman’
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