After his Saints won their season opener Sunday, veteran linebacker Demario Davis used his five-minute press conference in what he admitted was an non-traditional way. The 34-year-old athlete spoke about the power of prayer, God’s miraculous healing, and our responsibility to open the door when Jesus knocks.
Addressing the media after defeating the Tennessee Titans, Davis said, “Since so many of us didn’t get to go to church today, I have a word that I want to share.” Then he read Revelation 3:20, about Jesus standing at the door and knocking, and relayed a personal story about a knock that he heard this week.
Davis, a father of five, described a harrowing scene from last Friday, when his 4-year-old daughter, Carly-Faith, had her “worst” epileptic seizure yet. The girl seized for 30 minutes, foaming at the mouth, and stopped breathing twice in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
He and his wife, Tamela, spent the night praying in their daughter’s hospital room. About 3 a.m., Davis recalled, “I heard a knock, and the knock was my daughter. 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.’”
In the middle of the night, Davis said, Carly-Faith started “talking clearer than before.” And by morning, she was “sharper than before.”