His team is called the New Orleans Saints, but that was not the reason that linebacker Demario Davis broke tradition to quote scripture after his team won a game. “Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him, and he with me (Rev 3:20).”
He had won the game for his team with a stellar performance, but that’s not what he wanted to describe as God knocking on the door of his life.
Here’s what he told the post game press conference: “Oh man, I got a lot to say. So y’all buckle up. I started to realise something, man, we play this game on Sundays and it is really the lowest day and when the day we should be worshipping the Lord. A lot of times players are getting worshipped and we get to go on this ball field.
“So since so many of us didn’t get to go to church today, I have a word that I want to share. I know this is a little untraditional. So like I said, buckle up. Revelations three 20 says, see, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and dime with him and eat with him and he with me.
“I want to tell y’all about a knock that I heard this week. A lot of people don’t know this, but on Friday my daughter, she’s four years old, she had her third epilepsy seizure attack.
“It’s my same daughter who survived retinoblastoma. She’s been totally clear to that. But she had her third seizure and it’s been almost two years. She was about a month away. If she would’ve had no seizures for one more month, then she would’ve been off the medicine. But now we have to start that clock all the way over.
“It was on Friday when we was, a bunch of kids were over at the house and she was playing and I noticed something was off and I told her mom, I thought she was having a seizure. Her mom is pretty good. She saw it, my wife, and we took her in her room, didn’t want to cause the scene and she started to foam at the mouth and it was her worst seizure. For 30 minutes she seized, she wouldn’t come and we had to call the paramedics. They came. And so over the course of time, it ended up been a total of 30 minutes. They got her in. My wife got into paramedics with her. I got behind them driving. You can imagine all the thoughts that’s racing through your mind. The last sight you see of your daughter, she’s totally out of it. Got to the hospital and my wife told me that my daughter stopped breathing in the car twice.
“So I’m of course praying. We get to the hospital, they give a bunch of medicine, they she sees to stop. She’s laying there and at this point, if she sees for 30 minutes, you start to fear there could be development issues that could mess with her brain. She stopped breathing. If there was no oxygen going to her brain, you starting to think about her speech, be slurred or anything or worse. So we prayed and we prayed and she had medicine and my wife and I had to stay overnight at the hospital.
“And in the middle of the night, probably about three o’clock, I heard a knock. And the knock was my daughter. I prayed for her. I said, God, let this just be an attack from the enemy that’s just trying to be a distraction and let him have overplayed his hand and my daughter come back stronger than before when I heard my daughter talk in the middle of the night and my daughter, she doesn’t have any development issues. Praise God. She doesn’t have any slurred speech prior to this. She woke up talking clearer than she was talking before. …
“… We had a birthday party for my seven year old daughter that day. She got to be released from the hospital and she came back home and it was as if nothing was happening. She was playing with the kids the day before and she had the worst seizure that she had ever had. And the next day she’s back out there playing with the kids. Now of course we can’t let her get overstimulated. We have to keep bringing her in, have to keep cooling her down, can’t let her do too much just because of protocol. But when I tell you I got a chance to hear a knock from God and what I want to share is we get to play this game and it’s great.
“And there’s so many amazing things that to happen to that game and everybody wants to hear about ’em. But when we could leave this game, we go back to being regular people. And regular people are living life and people are waiting for a knock. And the word says who Jesus is. He’s knocking at the door. All you got to do is get up. And so on the way, man, I’m nervous, but I’m praying and I’m trusting and I’m believing and I’m asking for my daughter to make it through. I’m asking that she’s better than before. And God gave me just what I asked for plus some. I was blown away. And at that point I knew, well, the game is already, the game is going to take care of itself. My knock had already been answered. And I just want people to know if you got stuff going on in your life, lay it before the Lord.
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Speaker 2 (05:08):
Lay it before the Lord and trust and be expecting of a knock because the word says what you have to do is you have to get up and open the door. He’s not going to open the door for you. He’s going to knock. But you have to be listening and waiting for the knock. And when you see it, you have to get up and open the door and your blessing, it’s going to be there. Now I’m going to be here to talk about football next week. I wish y’all well. Happy Sunday and praise God. Thank y’all.”