Crissy D
Tyrone Reid, Staff Reporter
DAWNETTE NEVERS, who is also known as Crissy D, is no longer a 'Hot Gal'. Now a born-again Christian, the 32-year-old now hums an 'oldie but goody': If loving Him (Jesus Christ) is wrong, I do not want to be right.
The beautiful Ms. Nevers, a former poster personality for Courts, told The Sunday Gleaner that she was convinced to change her life in February of this year and her water baptism followed in August.
She explained that earlier in the year everything in her life seemed to be 'out of sync' and she just did not understand what was happening to her.
It was not only that things were not going smoothly in her relationship with the father of her 12-year-old daughter.
"It was just everything. It was the music... is like I must go to the shows and I don't want to go. I was just losing the taste for a lot of things and I never knew what it was," she said.
HIGHER CALLING
She soon realised that God was summoning her to a higher plane.
"What I notice is that when God is calling you He tends to close the doors on you when He wants you. I was there praying and I say 'God help me, I don't feel happy, I am not sure what I want to do, I am not sure of anything anymore'," she said.
She revealed that a few days after a pressing desire for God grew inside her and she found herself browsing the pages of the Holy Bible.
Crissy rolled back the curtains her mind and dusted off the childhood moments she enjoyed with God, although she was not saved.
"I had a childhood relationship with God. I was a praying child and He used me to heal somebody at 16. Knowing God now is not to know if He is real, but to be obdient this time," said Crissy.
Crissy declared that her mind has been renewed, which explains why she can now be an obedient servant. The songstress believes that she has finally found her niche in life.
"By the grace of God, I am in the right position now. I am happy. I am free, I am free... He did not put me here to be what I wanted to be. He says the wisdom of the world is like foolishness in His sight, so when I was out there a sing oh we ah hot gyal, hot gyal, He allowed it to happen. But then I was not glorifying Him, so I had to stop," she said with conviction.
SENSE OF DIRECTION
Crissy, a past student of Alpha Academy, says that her life now has a sense of direction. It is as if everything has taken a turnaround since she gave her heart to the Lord.
"Walking in the light is the purpose on Earth. When I look back where I was walking I used to have fear. I used to be misled, everything, but now I am sure of what I am doing," she said.
With the zeal for her new-found love oozing from her vocal chords, Crissy D said that since she has decided to walk with the Lord she has been going on to the highways and byways telling others to come, taste and see that the Lord is good.
"From I have been saved I have been on the road talking to people, without me even knowing the Bible so good. He had deposited some sort of knowledge in my head," Crissy declared in amazement.
She says she has been changed, but her vocal talent remains the same. Still, Crissy is not in a hurry to enter the gospel music market.
"When I changed, everybody say Crissy you ago start sing gospel'. Being saved don't mean gospel. Being saved don't mean married either. Being saved is having that personal relationship with the person that created you," she opined firmly.
She continued: "I didn't say like how me nah go sing the hot gyal song den mi affi go mek some money so mi start sing gospel. He wants us to rely on Him like the birds that fly in the air and He looks after them."
She explained to The Sunday Gleaner that when she came to God, she came like the man of faith Abraham empty-handed, leaving everything behind. She said God told her to stand still. She did and, somehow, she has seen the salvation of the Lord.
However, although she has not released a gospel song to date, Crissy says that the Lord has been penning songs for her in the midnight hour and when she does start singing them it will not be for the sake of filthy lucre.
"All of a sudden I wake up crying and I started to sing and the song just came straight out of my mouth. I have about four songs that came out from God and I know that He has blessed them, because I had waited for my purpose," she said.
She says there is no concrete date for the release of an album, because she has a lot of 'iron ah fire'. As for performing on secular shows, Crissy says that if God says go, she has to go.
"Anything that I am going to do God has to tell me to do it. So if God send me on a secular show to sing I Am Free, then He has His plans. So everything that I do I have to go into my room and say 'God. what is that you want me to do? '," she said.
GOD'S WILL
At the moment Crissy is still single, but according to her, if God has His way that will change in due time. However, only Christian men are eligible.
"I am not married so mi affi keep myself. God has spoken to me about what He is going to do with my life, so He will provide my husband for me in the right way, because my husband has to be transformed too for us to be married, 'cause it cannot be uneven, so I have to wait," she said.
Crissy is now a member of Faith Temple in Bayside, St. Catherine, which is pastored by Ronald Blair. Obviously elated that she has found the love of her life, she says there are no regrets that the union did not happen sooner.
