A knock on the door brought Demario Davis a miracle

By Jeremiah Love –

After his 4-year-old suffered her third and most terrible epilepsy seizure, Demario Davis was worried there might be long-lasting damage because she wasn’t breathing for stretches of time on the way to the hospital. He prayed, not just that she would be good but that she would recover better.

“At this point – she seized for 30 minutes – there could be development issues. She stopped breathing; no oxygen was going to the brain,” the New Orleans linebacker said. “You start to think, will her speech be slurred?

“I prayed for her, let this just be an attack from the enemy, he’s just trying to be a distraction and let him have overplayed his hand,” Demario adds. “And my daughter come back stronger than before.”

Demario and his wife stayed the night in the hospital with their daughter. The answer to prayer came at midnight.

It was a knock on the door.

It was his daughter who had awakened and came to Mom and Dad.

“She woke up talking clearer than how she was talking before,” Demario tells.

Usually, recovery from an epileptic attack requires days for patients to become their old selves, Demario explains.

“I started praying, just saying, ‘Praise God! Praise God!’” he says.

After listening to her for about 20 minutes, the couple encouraged her to bed to finish the night’s sleep.

“The next morning when she got up, my daughter was so sharp,” Demario says. “She was able to talk me and her mom – clear conversation. She’s sharp for a 4-year-old, no stuttering, all her words clear.”

Demario is a devout Christian who studies his Bible as much as his playbook.

“My faith is always going to be the most important aspect of my leadership,” he told CBS. “I wanted guys to know that I put God first, I put my family second and I put football third.”

The knock on the door that his daughter gave seemed strikingly parallel to the knock that Jesus gives on the door. Behold, I stand at the door and knock, and if man hears my voice, I will come into him and dine with him and he with me. Revelations 3:20 says.

He had just prayed for his daughter’s healing. His daughter’s knocked signaled an answer to prayer.

“I got to hear a knock from God,” he marvels.

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