| Transformed - Abused, addicted - and rescued |
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Faith Dixon should be in prison or dead. Everything was against her, and she sank as low as anyone can. But her life was changed, and she’s a powerful witness to the grace of God. Faith came to the UK when she was 11 to join her mother, who was already living in this country and had two other children. Her mother’s partner started molesting her, and when she told her mother she was thrown out onto the streets, aged only 13. A victim of the care system, she then went through 10 different children’s homes. Violence began to mark her behaviour. She attacked one of the male workers for coming into a room of five girls and spent three months in secure accommodation. When she was back out on the street, her parents wouldn’t take her in, even when her appendix burst. She attacked her social worker, and wound up in a mental hospital secure unit. Fed pills from morning till night, she didn’t know where she was or what time it was. When she got outside she married and had a child, but her life until then had badly affected her. She wound up in prison, and when she came out she was introduced to crack via her boyfriend. She went to New York. “I used to live in a drugs house,” she says. “It was a crazy life. I was smoking drugs all the time. “I was in the miry clay – I was deep down sinking, sinking. I used to cry morning and night, I was so miserable. There was something wrong, deep down inside of me.” But there she met a man called Brother Alex, who came to talk to the addicts about Jesus. He took her to a rehabilitation centre in Long Island, and she was introduced to Christians. “I started to attend church, and I realised in my spirit that I was deep down seeking,” she says. Gradually she began to turn her life around. A Christian said to her, “The Lord wants you, you know. Stop running away.” At that time she was going to a church but still dealing in drugs, putting money into the collection but running from the things of God. Coming back to London and a smaller church, she found out all that God had planned for her, his love, the inheritance she had in heaven, and it began to affect her. She had an opportunity to share her life story in prisons through the Prison Outreach Network, and felt blessed by at last being able to help people and encourage them. As she gained a new mindset, she began to look at things, the past, and the future, in a different light. Having had to be tough all those years, she realised she’d been taking her stress out on other people in anger. Now, she says, she’s got Jesus Christ, her Lord and Saviour, and she doesn’t need to worry. “I’m not where I should be, but I’m not where I used to be – I’m on my way.” Jesus is the same yesterday today and forever, what he’s done for Faith, he can do for you and yours. |
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