6 LIF E STOR IES
“ I H A V E I N N E R P E A C E T H AT WA S N ’ T T H E R E B E FO R E ” Wiltshire dad, Nik Coleman, knew in his heart he had to find Jesus after a potentially lifethreatening situation was intervened by an audible voice, which he believes was God.
back – that’s when I realised I was smothering my daughter. I knew then in that moment that I had to go to church. I believe God was talking to me and saved my daughter.”
Nik, from Chippenham, was in bed asleep with his wife and baby daughter when a voice kept waking him up.
Nik grew up in a non-Christian family but went to church youth activities at Ladyfield Evangelical Church, where Counties evangelists Jonathan and Heather Brain attend. When he was just 13 years old, he started taking drugs and left the youth group. He said: “As a teenager I started drinking, playing about with the occult and partying a lot.
He explains: “When my daughter was just a month old, me and my wife fell asleep in bed with her. I heard an audible voice telling me to wake up. At first, I ignored it thinking it was my wife. Again, it said - ‘wake up’, but still I ignored it and it wasn’t until the third time that I did wake up. “I looked to my wife but she was fast asleep. Then I asked where our daughter was and woke my wife up. She immediately pushed me
“I didn’t want to do what others were doing so I set my own path and this continued up until my late 20’s when I met my wife and then had that encounter with my baby daughter.”
Nik and Joanna
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