Contrary to popular belief that charismatic preacher and prayer warrior, Nicholas Duncan-Williams lost his fingers because he was once an armed robber, the man himself has revealed the compelling circumstances through which he lost them.
The Presiding Archbishop and General Overseer of the Action Chapel International was interviewed by Bola Ray on Starr Chat where he he made the interesting revelation and the journey from grass to grace.
Here are excerpts:
“At age 20 something significant happened.I had nightmares, hallucination and heard voices at home; spiritual voices contending with the voice of truth, grace. I was captured by the spirit, instructed by it to light a candle and dip my hands into the burning flame.”
“I obeyed without question but with pain. My lips at a point were sealed until the pain had become unbearable. My fingers darkened in the flames until they turned into ashes. My shouts attracted siblings who came and rushed me to Korle Bu Hospital where I was admitted for months.”
“Of all the battles in life, the spiritual battle is easily the most significant. It is always said that before anything of worth happens in the physical, it must be settled in the spiritual. It happened in the spiritual realm but sacrificed my fingers for it.”
“When grace finds you, it doesn’t matter who or where you are. Food to eat was a struggle. Education was a luxury. I had little or none for all that. He pushed trucks, sold chewing gums on the streets to put food on the table”.
“I tried to go to America through Stowaway. I went to Abidjan jumped onto a ship headed for Marseille, France. I was caught and was to be fed to the sharks in the seas of Morocco but grace found me”.
The preacher man said he was saved only because man on board had a son called Nicholas and pleaded for him.
So he was hidden him in the dungeons of the ship until they got to Marseille. He disembarked safely worked at the port for a while but got caught and repatriated to Ghana because he had no papers.
Few weeks in Ghana, Nicholas run out of money and had to do another stowaway, this time to Israel, the land of promise.
He went to Abidjan went on his knees with a fervent prayer asking God for a way in Israel. That, too, failed and he was repatriated again.
