She said, oh brother, no, I made so many mistakes, like all of us, it was just God's mercy and grace, not what I did, I tried my best, and then there was silence, and she said, but perhaps there was one thing I did, I've never spoken about it to anybody, Mr. Daniel, perhaps there was one thing I did that God did honor, every single night of their lives, from birth, to the day they walked out of the door, every child, when they were asleep, I got up from my knees in my quiet time, and I went to their bed, and I put my hands on each boy, as they were small and growing up, right until they were men, every night, and I cried to God, to shelter them under the blood of Christ, to undo anything the devil's done, by the risen resurrected power of Christ, and the blood of Jesus Christ, any seed he's sown in their hearts, to undo it, that it cannot bring forth any love for sin, any influence from any friends, even Christian friends, because not every Christian's children are godly when they come into our home, and our children have to be, I cried to God to protect them and undo every single day, anything Satan's done, that could possibly be a seed that brings forth the desire for sin, and a life of sin, undo now God, protect them, and I went from bed to bed, through the rooms, to every child, until the last child went out of that door to marry, to start their own lives, I put my hands on them, and I prayed, and then after that, I continued to pray, but not with my hands physically on them, she said, I think maybe, praying with my hands on them every night, from birth to the day they left, maybe that's why God did keep them, and that they wanted God the way they did, that's all I can think of, you know, I said to one of her sons, did you ever know that your mother prayed for you in the nights, each, oh, we all knew that, she, we waited for her many times, just waiting, for mother to come, and then he said these words, and I do the same to my children, Mr. Daniel, because what mother did worked, and since I found the other children do the same also, they knew, and they were conscious that was the reason, probably more than anything else, that God kept them and their hearts from ever desiring to serve the devil, but only wanting God of their father and mother, yes, I've often said, if you've been saved, someone prayed for you, when we were saved as a family, the neighbors three houses down came to our front door, we had seen them, you know, but we never, they just said, we wanted you to know, we've heard you've been saved as a family, and we have prayed for 10 years, every single day, on our face, on our knees, my wife and I, and our family, for you to be saved as a family, as we realized what sorrows you were facing, and the whole neighborhood knew, the sorrows you've been facing, we have called upon our church every week to cry out for that family three houses from us, Doris and Abby, Radley, where, so I preached that, I said, if you've been saved, someone prayed for you, even the neighbors down there, somebody prayed, somebody had compassion, imagine the billions, no one ever prayed the name, no mother ever prayed that child in their billions, never ever to have it been named, or singled out of the billions, 300 million in the Arabian countries, I doubt that one percent was ever prayed for by name, by a mother or father, do you know the privilege of being prayed for, I said, and these, yeah, these neighbors were praying for us in their church for years, 10 years, and God saved us, and I attribute a lot to do with the prayers that God can't deny these, he can't turn his face and say, I'm not in, oh, no, no, no, somebody prayed, well, I was preaching then in some Methodist church back home, one of the cities, and there was a Stephen Foushee, he was a Methodist preacher, a very godly young man, nonetheless, he married Andrew Murray's great granddaughter, the great Andrew Murray, who was probably the most godly man that ever lived in Southern Africa, certainly the most used man, he's loved across the world by the godly, but anyway, there's Stephen Foushee, the Methodist fellow, married Andrew Murray's great granddaughter, I know her well, I know all their children, and oh, well, I served the Lord with one of them, but anyway, he says, Keith Daniels says, if you have been saved, someone prayed for you, he says, but no one prayed for me, I guarantee you, I've been saved a long time, no one ever came to me and said, I ever prayed for you, no one, I didn't have godly parents, not one person in this world ever said, I prayed for you, Stephen, to be saved, you know, his mother -in -law stood up, crippled with arthritis, oh, beauty, they're all dead now, but she said, oh, you're wrong, Stephen, Keith was right, I prayed for you every day, I prayed, groaning to God from the birth of my daughter, every day of her life, until you came, for the man that God would bring to his, to my daughter's life, that all the years that we put into and invested into her life won't be destroyed by a wrong choice, by a man who's not walking with God, I groan for you, I didn't know your name, oh, I prayed for you, oh, he says, thank you, weeping, and oh, well, there you are, someone prayed for you, that's very precious to me, it's very precious, the prayers of a mother and a father, lost opportunity, you know, I did everything possible in my capacity as a human to honor my father and mother from the day I was saved, I couldn't before, I wanted to, but the sinful nature made that impossible, in times I hated myself so much I actually wanted to die, when I saw them aging and weeping over my life, oh, I did everything from the day of my salvation to honor my father and mother, in every way I possibly could, I did everything, if any, nothing was sacrifice, it was a joy, but lost opportunity, when daddy and mommy died, I thought back and I thought, oh, my, I so miss them, I don't want them back, I know they're in heaven, but I thought, my father so loved the word of God, he was saved nine years, he read through the Bible 68, 69 times from cover to cover, he spent hours with God, he led more souls to God than most preachers in the history of southern Africa, he was used by God, he walked with God, he was a man of God for those nine years, but I thought, you know, there were times daddy used to sit there enthralled with the word of God and say, just listen, let me share this with you boys and come Keith, just give daddy a bit of time, I'm so excited, and you know, I remember there were moments that I was so tired preaching and giving myself, and so the circumstances that I said, daddy, I can't, sorry, that's enough now, daddy, it's too late, oh, Keith, but just let me please, I want to share this, and I thought, oh, if I could just have another chance, honestly, I've said to God, I would say to him, daddy, I'll sit through the night with you, because the hurt on his face when I said, daddy, I can't, not anymore, I'm sorry for that lost opportunity, my mother, she was 91, she died three years ago, oh, she loved God, oh, she was, but you know, there was something when I was with her that she felt so safe and so happy, and I sensed everybody, they just said, you've got to come down, you've got to get to your mother, and she used to say, Keithie, don't go now, just give mommy a little bit more time, and you know, I could have, and I'm sorry, I just lost opportunity, then I want to briefly, very briefly look at the daddy and the husband, the father, you spoke about Mary Morrison, Mary Peckham, she was saved in the Hebrides revival, and she was used all over the world to relate that more than anyone else, that's why she was allowed in pulpits that no woman would be allowed across the whole world, because she related in her writings and her singing, oh my, but someone once said to her, Mary, you need a husband, she's 40 -something years old, no husband, you need a husband, she told us, and she said, you need to get children, and by the way, a husband is the one who will help you to, through all the trouble you would never have had if you had not not got married, it's quite a definition, you need a husband, you need six children, she said, that's what you need, Mary Morrison, and by the way, she said, the husband is the one who will help you through all the trouble you would never had known if you hadn't got married, anyway, that's, I don't know whether that's pro or against marriage, but that's what she said, nonetheless, a husband, why would a godly man like Epaphroditus become so ill that he was sent by Paul off the mission field, not like Demas, having forsaken me, having loved the present world, God always told the reason, God never held back, even Davidson was, God didn't protect anything of the truth of what a man did, why would a godly man like Epaphroditus, so esteemed by Paul and everyone, he sent off the mission field back to the church at Philippi, sick, well, he didn't die because of sin, he didn't get sick because of sin, he, that's one of the reasons that you can't say everybody gets, he was godly, Paul prayed for people, healings happened, but Paul had to send Epaphroditus, he said to be the more careful with him, he writes to the fellow church at Philippi, that your concern for him will not be extended, and mine, but honor him, I send him off sick, off the mission field, that he can't, I don't want him to go on sick, but honor him, honor him, because for the gospel sake, he's in this condition, and you may say, well, why would a man of God, so esteemed, so godly and effective as Epaphroditus, get sick and have to go off the mission field, surely the mission field, surely Paul's need was greater to have such a man, no, you see, he was more needed back home, I believe, than he was on the mission field, or in another country, you might not read that in the Bible, but I was reason, God doesn't just let things happen for no reason, he was forced to go off serving on the mission field, and the dangers, and all that they went through, back home, he was more needed at home, than he was in another country, trying to reach the gospel, I once met a Dutchman, he had a peculiar habit of when you're preaching, of preaching to you, while you're preaching, have you ever known necessarily, let me tell you this, oh, he was very, he was a Dutchman, they're very different, I hope there's no Dutchman here tonight, but anyway, this was a man named, what a lovely man of God, ah, riddled with cancer, and they carried him, and he walks in where I was preaching, just weeks before his death, and he says, I said, I'm hearing this sermon, I heard you were going to be preaching, and they brought me, I said, I'm getting out of bed, don't, don't tell me I'm coming, he says, so they propped him up in all these cushions, because he was just bones, and he still had something to say while I was preaching, what a lovely man of God, nonetheless, he said to me that day afterwards, when they were trying to give him tea, before everybody went home from that meeting, he said, brother, when I was young, all I wanted was to go to the mission field, there was nothing else, no ambition, from a boy, I wanted to serve God, China, India, anywhere God, I'm going, just, you must lead me, so he said, but then the Lord really shocked him, there was a moment, suddenly, and he knew it was God, wasn't an audible voice, but things happened, and God was confirming, I have another mission for you, not China, not India, my calling for you, my commission for you, my mission for your life, is your wife, and your family, I want you to live for them, for me, to pour your life out for them, as my mission, and commission for your life, I want you to give your life, to such a degree, to your wife, and your children, that I can speak through your life, to many, many people, through what I know you can live, and to your children, and wife also, I want to stagger this world, through your life, cool, fulfilling the command, the commission I give you, the mission I have for you, I want you to love your wife, and your children, with every breath in your body, in a way that will stagger this world, he said, brother, I said, yes God, and I never argued again, when he died, his wife said to me, brother, what he said to you there, he did, he so poured his life out for me, and the children, that we didn't know what to do, people just overwhelmed us, didn't know what to say, in shock, there was nothing, no sacrifice he wouldn't make, I knew I was honored above other women, the children knew they were honored above other fathers, other children, having this unique, people were stunned, that there was a man who so loved his wife and children, you know brother, he wouldn't let me drive, he's gone now, they've got to teach me, he's told my sons, they've got to teach mother to drive now, I don't know how to drive, he wouldn't let me, he wouldn't let me get a bank card, she says, many people say, well this is ridiculous, he was silly, no, he did everything, I didn't know how to take a bank card, and put it in the machine to get money, they had to teach me, he said, now others can do, teach you how to do it, you see, now that I'm going, but there's nothing he didn't do, and there's nothing, I was so scared to even express, and my children were to express, the smallest thought, the sacrifices he made, it was like his life was for us, and he did it for God, in obedience to God, because of what God said to him there, and she wept, a godly father, I could go on and on and on, I'm not going to, let's leave all this, last night, I ended, or at some point, brought these two boys in, Jan Mostert and Daniel Marejo, before I preached in some conference in Johannesburg this year, they were asked to give a little testimony each, and the one boy, Jan Mostert, who is my wife's, and her, and his wife, his mother, are very close friends, they take care of Jenny when I've left her so much, but he stood up when I was about to preach, he stood up and he said, they asked us to define holiness at the theological seminar, and I couldn't, but all I did is, when I think of holiness, I think of my father, and how do you mock, academically, such a statement, instead of giving some definition of holiness, you know, John Wesley's definition, Spurgeon's very interesting, even Luther, but all I think of is my father, is your child going to say that about you, because that's possible, the other boy, his name, he's Daniel Marejo, wonderful family, from little children, I remember them walking into a church and everybody just stopped speaking, just the way they were dressed, godly, shining faces, modest, a whole tribe of children, now they're all becoming missionaries, but Daniel Marejo was asked to testify before I was preaching there, the second night, I think, in that conference, and he said, when I was a little boy, I stood at the door when daddy was praying and having a quiet time, and I heard him weeping and groaning, and he was praying for me, and it so unnerved me as a child, and then I would go to his room over the years, when he's alone, and there he's on his knees praying, and I also often heard him crying to god for me, I had to seek god, because of my father, on his knees, I sought god with everything in my being, from a boy, through to this day, because of my father praying, I could do nothing else but seek god, tell me, will your children say that of you?