Nicole's
Testimony
The written
testimony, from the video
Dad:
Hello
Nicole.
Nicole: Hello Dad.
Dad:
How are you today?
Nicole:
I’m fine thanks!
Dad:
I wish I could give you an accolade... It
is a bit difficult... I will do as they do in the movies: (Dad,
gives her a kiss on the hand).
Nicole: (Laughs)
Dad: For you, Nicole, TOUTE LA BIBLE EN PARLE (TV program referred
to as TBP from this point on) is not unknown to you, since
formerly you were part of the team and that you helped us. Could you tell us
what you did, many years have passed-by, within TBP?
Nicole: The year was 1972, when you began taping the television
programs?
Dad: Yes, that’s right, it was at that time a children’s program.
Nicole: I was 10 years old and my sister France was 9. You told Bible
stories and we would sit on each side of you during the program. Later-on, I
did the puppet’s voice: Binette was her name.
Dad: Yes, we did have this special program for children for some five
years or so. Then next, you helped us with this regular one-half-hour TV
program entitled TBP.
Nicole: Yes, I helped as Time-Controler. I’m sure it was less
complicated than it is now. (Laughters... ) Since then, your team has
grown tremendously and also as Monique took on the baton.
Dad: If you allow me, we’ll go right into the subject of things that
relate to you today. First of all, let me tell you that it is truly a great
pleasure for me to have this interview with you at this time. Your friends
doubtless will be very interested to know how you happened to be in the
hospital and in a wheelchair.
Nicole: It all started with a very bad back pain. I worked for more
than 2 years as a hairdresser. Especially when I bent down at the washbasin to
wash hair, it gave me great aches and pains. Then, I consulted an
acupuncturist in order to minimize pain, but he said: Miss, you have something
broken or moved and unfortunately I cannot help you . Next I saw a
chiropractor, but the more he tried to place things together the more I hurted.
With time, I could not sleep my nights anymore. Then, I began limping while
walking. My pain grew more and more. I consulted a neurologist. I had
no more reflex in one leg where I have terrible pain. The next day, the doctor ordered
me to go through several medical exams and tests. At first, the doctor thought
that I may have had a disk hernia. I was so afraid to be operated... If I had
known then... Something worse was foreseen unfortunately. Next, I got a
Catscan and it is with it that they discovered that I had a chondro sarcoma, a
bone cancer at the hip. When the doctor came-in to my hospital room, he sat on my bed to instruct me
of the results of my scan. He said I had a very bad and aggressive cancer. I
smiled thinking that he was not being serious. I said: Doctor, are serious? Yes, I
am serious he said... (Tears... Bowing her head... Her hand placed on her
mouth...)
Dad: (With emotions... Dad reaches over
to hold her hand, tears... in a broken voice:) Let us try to
continue the interview, if you feel we should go on with it, ok? (Nicole
nobs ... ) You, Nicole,
you grew-up in a Christian home. When did you recognize the importance to receive
Jesus Christ as your personal Savior?
Nicole: My youth was spend attending Christian camps
along with you my
parents who would help and serve at camp. There was always beautiful singing
at camp, during the meetings and also at the camp fires. Before noon each day,
someone related to us young people a missionary story and each camper could
identify himself or herself with the story characters. And you, Dad, as
director at camp, you would guide us along and you would also give the
biblical Gospel stories during the evenings. For instance, you would make an
application to the plan of Salvation and invite us young people to accept the Lord Jesus
as their personal Savior. Then you would explain how the sky speaks of the
Creator and how we should be living a life pleasing to the Lord. At first, I learned that
Jesus the Son of God is my Savior... He saved me from hell and from the
consequence of my sins. After that, He became my Lord. Well you see quite
often, people stall at the word Saviour, they invite Christ to be their Saviour
which is very important of course, but it is also very important to invite
Christ as Lord of their life, as the One who must direct our life. I like very
much to insist on the difference of the two expressions: Saviour and Lord !
Growing up, I did not take any risk, at the invitation to receive Christ as
Saviour, I would come forward and rededicate my life to the Lord many times
over! (Laughters...)
Dad: It is certainly better to rededicate you life to the Lord 10 times
than not at all, isn’t it true?
Nicole: At the end of the two weeks at camp, at Bethel Camp
(Sherbrooke,
QC),
you would ask us to come to the microphone, on the last evening of camp. Young
and old alike, would come to the mike to say a few words of testimony on how
they had accepted Jesus as their personal Saviour. At that time, each camper
would weigh their time spent at camp. ''Was it worth spending time here. Can I
truly say that the Lord spoke to my heart? Who is the Lord for me? Is He my
Saviour? Is He my Lord?'' And it was often time, at that very moment, that you
asked yourself the question, whether or not you had really invited Christ into your
life. It is necessary to really speak to God in a word of prayer and invite
Jesus to save us from our sins. I remember how that time a camp was so
wonderful and an opportunity was given to testify to the other children that they had
been born again, had become children of God. I would come forward myself,
often, to give again my life to the Lord. I had already received the Lord as
Saviour, but as I said earlier, even though I was already saved once, I wanted
Him also to be the Lord of my life. I am now 24 years old, and even now, I ask
Him again to be the Lord of my life!
Dad: Yes, it does happen to me also, when I hear a good Gospel message,
I thank the Lord that He is such a wonderful Saviour to me, but also, that He
is the Lord of my life!
Nicole: Yes, exactly, that’s what I mean.
Dad: Do you ask yourself sometimes, Nicole: "How is it that
a dedicated Christian can get sick?''
Nicole: Eh! - I do not think that there is necessary a link ... One can
say, as it is often generally said: ''It is life. It is "mother
nature", etc''. But I believe it is the manner in which sickness is
accepted, that really matters... It is how you see God therein. If I wasn’t
saved and that I did not have this relationship with the Lord, how could I
rely on the Biblical promises and all that? I could offend myself and say: ''Ah!
God, do you really exist?'' But I know He exists, then I do not say that. I
could say: ''Ah! God, You do not listen, You do not hear me, you are not at my
side, present with me''. But I know He is, then I cannot say that no more. Do you
yourself have some thoughts on this?
Dad: No, I believe that what you have just said is very important. It
is very beautiful! My next question is almost insignificant, but I put it to
you nonetheless. Are there days or moments, where God seems so far from you,
or even absent, considering the width of this test that you presently live?
Nicole: No never! The farthest I went, at a given moment, was when I
wept and I said to God: ''Are You there? Are You really listening to me?''
It was
not: ''You are not listening to me''. I never expressed objections, never. That, I
am positive about. I never said: ''Ah, why me?'' I never said that, because I have
put my confidence in the Lord. The Lord did not wish that people get sick...
The trees grow, people get sick... Why is it that this one is in good health
and rich all his life? Why is it that a good person be struck down with cancer? I do
not know!
Dad: The disciples of Jesus put a similar question to the Lord, in John
9:2 ...his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who sinned, this man, or
his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man
sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be revealed in him.
Would you show us the beautiful greeting cards that you have self-made
while on your hospital bed?
Nicole: I will show them to the camera... I make greeting cards with
dried flowers and I sign them: Nico. Every card has its own envelope. I
make small ones and big ones.
Dad: They are very beautiful!
Nicole: Thank-you! Friends bring flowers to me and I dry them by
putting them in a book or in my Bible. This beautiful card that I am showing
right now, was dried up in my Bible... This special card I will not sell...!
But I do sell or give away many smaller cards.
Dad: You kept yourself so busy while here in the hospital!
Nicole: Yes, this has been my hobby. People bring flowers and I turn
them into lovely greeting cards.
Dad: Would you tell us about deep feelings that you may have in
face of your painful sickness? What are some other things that you would
like to share with us at this moment?
Nicole: I wonder only what will happen to me...? What's next? Just that.
Since it is impossible for me to know, then I live in the now, in the present.
Dad: Yes this is true, this is something we have all learned
together as a family.
Nicole: We do not choose... Since we do not know the future, we wait
trusting the Lord for everything that may come our way.
Dad: It is important that we live every single day, that which the
Lord has given us.
Nicole: Yes, I have lived through something difficult, without really
knowing what would happen to me. This is the reason why I was so surprised
when the doctor told me the results of my examinations. One never knows what
his life will be like. In His will something wonderful could happen... I could
be healed.
Dad: Yes, there are all kinds of cures that could happen ... not
only bodily cures!
Nicole: Yes!
Dad: We still have a couple of minutes remaining for our
discussion. The time flies so quickly. I would like to ask you to read to
us something that you found in the Word of God and that you would like to
share with us before the end of our discussion.
Nicole: I have here two beautiful verses that I would like to read. The
first one is located in Psalm 143.8: Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in
the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way in which I
should walk; for I lift up my soul to thee.
The second verse is located in Malachi 3.10: ...put me to the test,
says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you
and pour down for you an overflowing blessing.
Dad: Amen!
Nicole Saint-Louis’ testimony on TV in October 1986; interviewed by her Dad
Fernand Saint-Louis on the one-half-hour program entitled : Toute la Bible en
parle. Nicole entered into the presence of the Lord on Tuesday Evening, February
3rd 1987 at 6:50pm. She had been born April 26th 1962.
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