{"id":1243,"date":"2023-05-03T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T04:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/cedarville-stories\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2023-04-28T14:45:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T18:45:08","slug":"s8e19-hayes-wicker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/cedarville-stories\/2023\/s8e19-hayes-wicker\/","title":{"rendered":"S8:E19 | Hayes Wicker"},"content":{"rendered":"
“I Shall Not Die, But Live”
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\nCedarville trustee Hayes Wicker has been a relentless and tireless servant of the Lord as a church pastor and now a seminary professor at Southern Evangelical Seminary in Matthews, North Carolina. Yet his legacy almost came to an earthly close as he battled COVID-19.<\/div>\n
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Hayes was near death. He was almost placed on a ventilator when the Lord used a stern and challenging nurse to motivate him to breathe on his own. He avoided the respirator, but his prognosis was still poor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the midst of his terrible sickness, the Lord provided a flicker of hope through a verse from the Psalms: \u201cI shall not die, but live, and tell of the works of the Lord\u201d (Psalm 118:17).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI have seen God use this, particularly when I talk about COVID,\u201d Hayes shares during the podcast. \u201cOn the golf course or the doctor\u2019s office or wherever I get to talk, it is an amazing platform because people are amazed that I\u2019m alive, that I\u2019m doing what I\u2019m doing, and I get to tell the greatness of the goodness of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hayes served for 27 years as pastor of\u00a0First Baptist Church<\/a>\u00a0in Naples, Florida, where Dr. Paul and Mrs. Pat Dixon are members.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n