The Spiritual Birth — Keith Daniel

Testimony is still my soul. I do love that hymn very deeply, and thank you. If you sang it for anyone, it was from my heart. I do bless God for that. It's amazing how some of the hymns are used by God as the means to which to lead us right into His presence and to His heart.

I know Luther said when he couldn't get through to God, which was often it seems, he just felt a brick wall. He said he just started singing the psalms. And he said he suddenly realized why God gave us the psalms.

He said he found no matter how tired he was, no matter what the devil was doing to wear him out, no matter how numb his mind was, no matter how fearful he was, and he had many times great fear, Luther did.

Great fear just took hold of him. But he said as he sang the psalms, he was just lifted into the presence of God. And he found that was his means to which to get. In the end, he sometimes bypassed what you and I would normally do and just went straight to the psalms and just sang until he was through to God.

Wesley did the same, of course, but he had Luther's hymns and many others by that time, and his own brothers, which lead us into the presence of God. And so did Andrew Murray. It seems the great men of God, so many of them, a great part of their quiet time to come into the presence of God in preparation of heart was just singing the great hymns of the faith.

And they were right in the, right in the, near the heart of God. Don't bury what God's given us. We've got a great inheritance. Don't find yourself dying before you learn how to survive and how to get through to God with the hymns of our faith.

I heard my daddy singing four o 'clock in the morning and so did our neighbors hear him. And I asked him one day, why is it that you sing so long in your quiet times? And he was so shamed, he couldn't believe anybody had heard him.

Well, he said that he just found that in using the hymns, he just got right into God's presence. So he didn't waste any time doing anything else. And then he would start his readings and his prayers. Just after a good time, a great time singing the hymns of our faith.

Try it. Take them and say, God, this time I'm not singing just to be heard because I have a wonderful alto or a deep bass, a lovely tenor. So let's hope everyone can hear me, you know. This time it's just for thee, Lord, thee and me singing from my soul.

You'll find most of the hymns, most of them are the greatest prayers ever penned in the heart of the godliest men that ever lived many times. Just their cry was penned in the school of God and all the doctrine.

Bless God for that. Now I have something I forgot to do and keep forgetting. And so I'm going to do it right now in case I forget again. My dear wife puts out the newsletter. A lot of you receive it. But last night people were coming to me and saying, how do we hear from you and know how to pray from you?

They were leaving last night, some of the folks. So in case more are leaving, there's the newsletter and there's a copy, the only copy I've got left, and the last one. So put your name and address down.

If you'd like to pray earnestly from your heart for me and my family, I'd be deeply grateful. Please don't put your name and address down unless you are someone who prays earnestly, daily, for the souls of the lost, and not just for yourself.

Don't please put your name down if you just pray earnestly by yourself and for yourself or for those who affect you, otherwise you wouldn't pray for anybody else, earnestly. God doesn't look at the words that proceed out of the mouth, he looks at the heart.

If you don't pray from your heart for your souls, for the lost, and for your land daily, all this will just become junk mail to you. Don't burden yourself then. Please, but if you pray earnestly for others, if you've got past your own soul as being the only thing that mattered, the only thing you groaned about, grieved and made sure you got through to God about, but other people, then I would all be honored if you would put your name and address down.

That's the only motive of my heart and my wife for ever asking for someone to put their name and address down, is your prayers can mean more safety for me, my wife, my children, spiritually especially, and anointing, and more people can be loosened from the powers of the devil and able to come to meetings, and the rise of scales taken as you pray.

You're only a prayer away from Africa. You're only a prayer away from 250 million Islams in Arab countries. You might not get there, but if you prayed once for them, as earnestly as you prayed for your problems, also do put your name down if you're a prayer warrior, and have the world on your heart, and your souls on your heart, and your nation on your heart.

Waiting on God for Peace and His Presence

Father, thank Thee for this time we can come together this morning. Thank Thee we can be together as God's people. Thank Thee for the lovely hymns of our faith. Thank Thee for the great hymn, Be Still My Soul.

We do bless Thee for that, Lord, that we are called on God to be still and know that I am God, and to leave the fighting to God, and to just come and many times rest in God as He takes care of the problems, because if we try, we just do more damage.

Help us to learn to wait on God, and to learn to not move until peace floods our hearts daily. In a world that if we don't wait on God until peace floods our hearts and minds, we walk around with great fear, because this world is in a fearful state, and our only hope of peace is to be still, carefully, long enough, till it all sinks in that God is still in control.

God is still on the throne, and He will never leave us, nor forsake us. He's with us to the end, and He cannot lie. He cannot deny Himself for what He promised. So our Father, we come before Thee, and we worship Thee this morning for Jesus Christ afresh, for His blood, for His death, for His life, for His intercession, and that He's coming soon.

And we will be gathered up, caught up with those who are waiting for Him. Oh, we do bless Thee, our Father, that if Thou didst come, and I would be stunned if we managed to die before Thou didst come.

Time is so ripe, God, even so we long for Thy coming. While we live, perhaps today, it would be good, Lord. But we wait for Thee, and while we wait, there's something left to do. While we still have breath, there's something left for God to do in us, through us, through us.

Have Thy way, come now, God. Don't let this meeting be wasted, this opportunity, but take it, lift us up, and visit us in Thine own way, through the revelation of the Word of God, and the moving of the Holy Spirit.

Keep us all under the blood of Christ. Wash me very carefully, Lord, in Thy mercy. I ask Thee to wash me afresh in the blood of Christ, to fill me with the Holy Spirit, to quicken my whole being, and to take this base, weak, and despised man.

And in my weakness let Thy strength be made perfect. For without Thee we can do nothing, our expectations in Thee and Thee only. Come to the hard and harsh here today. Oh God, the devil is so powerful, there could be people who just are so full of criticism.

There can even be someone here for one reason, just to find fault, catch a man at his words, to bury him. The devil is so powerful, they could think they're doing God a justice. Please cover everyone under the blood.

Thou does know the thoughts. Thou does know the bitterness, the hardness of heart. Thou does know what the devil can do to even a child, brought up in a God-fearing home, how he can become so brazen and hardened against God's Word, that nothing touches him anymore.

He just allows himself to become more and more bitter, more and more angry. And one day to become a hater of God, have mercy God, keep every mind, every thought, every heart under the blood of Christ, undo the hardened hearts.

By the power of the blood of Christ, by the Holy Ghost, come in mercy, break down hardness, take away criticism, take away condemnation. Lord, if someone wanted to find fault with me, they'd have to write volumes of books, what they will find.

Take out of people's minds, men's faults, weaknesses, baseness, mistakes, let them just take with both hands what can come through the weakest, basest man, if they just want to hear God. Because God only chooses the weak things of the world, to confound the things that are mighty, that no flesh can glory in his presence.

Come God, we need thy presence, that everyone knows with whom they have to do. Move upon all of us, everyone, especially the hardest, hardest, most closed mind and heart here today, in Jesus Christ's name, for his sake, Amen.

Forgive me for saying this, but if any baby makes a noise, that somehow you know this old man's battling, and you'll see my eyes normally get bigger with fear, and then I do look a little bit undone, and then I'm close to having a heart attack.

Don't do that to me. There is a baby's room back there, and this isn't to offend you. I think you'll be more offended if I did die here today, and you knew you were the cause. That would be sad. I don't want to put you through that.

But if you sense that it in any way is disturbing, it's not for long, brother. You should have seen my child, and you'd have mercy on me, to know what we went through. There is a lady's room there at the door.

Normally it should be shut, otherwise it's no good even going in there, but there's a loudspeaker, and a lovely comfortable chairs, and you'd have less disturbance there, and no one would be disturbed at all.

The Necessity of the New Birth

That isn't to offend you, and if you get offended, you'll grieve this poor man's heart, and you'll grieve Christ's heart. I suppose the words that have stunned most people in the world, who are religious, but not saved, are the words Christ said to the deeply religious Nicodemus, in John chapter three.

You needn't look it up, because you all know these words. I'd be stunned if young people couldn't quote these words to the youngest here today, being brought up in God-fearing homes, but Christ said to Nicodemus, this deeply learned man, and deeply sincere and transparent religious man, in the ordained religion God set up on earth.

He said to this man, who wouldn't want to be seen with Christ for fear of man, because he knew that this man called Christ, called Jesus, was in deep troubles. And he said to this man, he said, with the religious hypocrites of the day, who were out to destroy him and to catch him at his words, very few people can destroy you, sir, if you're from God.

But the people who really have a good chance are the religious leaders of that day and right till this day. You'll find your worst enemies are sitting out there in bars or brothels. They're standing in religious garbs as angels of light.

But oh, can they destroy you if you aren't bleeding the blood, and that's all they live for. But this man, fearful of them, came to Christ and he began to open up his heart in his recognition that this is a man of God.

He didn't acknowledge that he was the Messiah, though, and so he's seeking truth from Jesus. And Christ looks at him and says, verily, verily, I say unto you, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot, he cannot see the kingdom of heaven.

There's no hope of heaven unless a man is born again. Now, Nicodemus was confused by this statement in John 3 verse 3, and so would you be. How can a man be born when he's old? How can he be born again?

Can he go into his mother and be born again? Can he be in his mother's womb and come out a second time? He was deeply staggered by this statement of Jesus, and so would you be. And then Christ ultimately brings out all his teachings, culminating in the answer he gave in verse 6.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. When you are born into this world, you are born a child of your father and mother, not a child of God. No one is born a child of God.

You are just a child of your father and mother. You are not a child of God, even if your father is the most deeply religious person on earth, and your mother, and godly. You are not a child of God. You are born physically.

You are born physically of the flesh, but now you must be born again. You must be born again, Jesus said. You must become God's child. That never happened when you were born the first time physically.

You have to be born spiritually. You can't be born spiritually unless you're born spiritually raised physically, should I say. And only when a child has the intellect to be able to embrace the promises of God of his own free will, the work of Christ on the cross, can he be saved, can he be redeemed, can he be born of God.

A child, a baby, cannot do that. You must be born again as you take the intellect God has given you, the conscience God has given you, the ability and the grace God has given you, and the light God reveals to you in his love, and you embrace it.

By grace are you saved through faith, faith in the shed blood of Christ, being justified freely by grace, through faith in his blood. There's one moment God justifies you, declares you righteous, washes you, your robes are now made white in the blood of Christ.

You become his child at the moment that you, by grace, look to God in faith, embracing the shed blood of Christ from the cross, you are born of God. You are born again. You become God's child. You become a child of God spiritually.

At that moment, you become God's child. Can I ask every single person sitting here this morning to please answer God right now. No one else matters here. Just Jesus, every single person sitting here today.

When were you born again? Will you please answer God? In your heart, please. But answer right now, God. There, I was born of God, born of the Spirit. God gave spiritual birth to me. I became his child as he gave spiritual birth by his grace and the work of the Holy Spirit in my heart and intellect.

Spiritual Birth and Its Complications

He wrought birth to me and I became his child spiritually. When did that happen? When were you born of God? One of the great tragedies, one of the great tragedies people face in this world is when a child is born and fearful complications are experienced, fearful complications are experienced at the time of birth.

At the time of birth, fearful complications are experienced. During the delivering of the baby, many, during the delivering of the baby, many sadly die at birth. The hope and expectation of a life about to be given to a family results in its death.

Its beginning was its end. It was born dead, born dead. But even more tragic, beloved, in the light of this book, are the complications often surrounding the spiritual birth of so many multitudes of Christians.

Even more tragic in the light of God's Word is the complications often surrounding the spiritual birth of so many multitudes of Christians, or should I say of professing Christians. We have three children.

There is Noel, he is twenty-two, there is Roy, he is twenty-one and there is Samuel, he is thirteen. We wanted more children, but that was all God had in his heart to give us and we are grateful for that.

When my second son was born, Roy, Jenny had tremendous complications and so the doctor, a gynecologist, a Jewish man, having compassion on her and tender care for her and deep respect for her, he didn't charge us any of his fees that he would normally charge, but being missionaries you've got to be very hard to charge a missionary in Africa.

So out of love, compassion and respect for those who seek to serve God, even as a Jew, he wouldn't charge us as a family. And he took tremendous care of Jenny with all the complications surrounding her pregnancy.

He was deeply concerned. There was even more concern with our third child who we nearly lost and Jenny nearly died. I nearly lost my wife. But when Roy was in this lovely hospital that the doctor recommended and carefully put us, a hospital of great repute, this gynecologist had set her up in a special section of the hospital and told the staff that he was to be called in goodly time so that he could be at hand before that birth took place.

But I don't know how the devil did this. I don't know how Satan could possibly have accomplished this. For some reason Roy nearly died at birth because those who were expected to help and assist him at his birth neglected to assist him.

They weren't there to assist him in a situation where they were known to assist with great professional ability, great wisdom. But in that situation there was a neglect, a total disregard of someone that needed assistance desperately at the time of birth.

All hell seemed to break out in that hospital. They decided to have a furious, explosive argument that must have been brewing for a long time. And I couldn't believe it, nor could most people in the hospital, the way that staff lost all control and all outward respect was lost.

The way they started screaming and I think nearly physically fighting at one stage. They all ran pushing each other into some big room and that door we could hear the screaming. There was something of an explosiveness in that hospital that took place right there when Jenny was very close to needing help desperately.

And I watched Jenny for a while. She never complains. I worship God for that. I probably daily say thank you to God for my heart is that my wife never ever complains. When everything's falling apart in life, Jenny seems to somehow see light, see good.

She's been a rebuke to me and I do bless God for that. But suddenly I realized Jenny must be in extraordinary pain when she said, please Keith, I don't know why they're not here but I am really hurting.

And she began to weep. So I walked into this room where they were all fighting and I stood at the door and said, could someone please help my wife? She's desperately in need of help. The matron turned and shouted out.

There's time, there's still time. Get out. I sat with Jenny a while longer until I saw her begin to writhe in pain, her whole body jolting. And I realized Roy was being born. And I didn't like what I saw.

I began to weep. And I walked back in that room and I walked into the center of the room and I said, if anyone in here has a conscience left, if anyone in here is left that has a conscience, could you please help my wife?

The baby has been born, nearly fully born. And my wife is in a terrible state and I fear she's going to die and the child unless someone assists her. And I sobbed. I stood there and just sobbed. They panicked.

They ran, they're screaming. When the matron looked at Jenny, she just burst out sobbing loud. She couldn't control herself when she saw what my wife was enduring without any assistance. They called for the gynecologist who had to get from the other side of the city to the hospital.

Well, when he did arrive, the baby, Roy, was virtually born. There was some last stage that even they didn't want to think of what they were going to do. There were such complications. He was in a terrible state and so was Jenny.

And he, the doctor, the tears just ran down his eyes, poured down his face. He had such tender love for Jenny and he couldn't believe what she had gone through so unnecessarily. And then when he had helped Roy and helped Jenny and given her medication, he turned with tears pouring down his face and trembling and he shouted in front of me at the hospital staff, calling them incompetent failures, and that he would never ever work with this hospital again till the day he dies.

He's lost all faith in him. Then I stood beside him looking at Roy and I was still weeping, silently at this time, and he knew I was weeping. He didn't want to look me in the eyes. And I said, he's abnormal, isn't he, doctor?

I just saw these big feet. So he looked up and he smiled at me and he said, no. These big feet just mean he's going to be a tall boy. That's all big feet mean. So eventually he assured me that Roy was normal and safe.

But I knew he had fears of how long Roy had taken to be born, which shouldn't have happened. And I remember thinking to myself, what will the repercussions be if this child lives? What will be the aftermath, the repercussions of neglect when he needed help?

What will be the repercussions for the rest of his life if this child lives? I remember thinking that on a number of occasions. There were repercussions, tragically, on Roy for many years. And specialists who we had to go to mostly agreed it was to do with the birth and the problems and the lack of assistance, the neglect of health he should have had.

We couldn't take them to court, of course. I have convictions, maybe you don't have, but I just don't, as a Christian, do that. But I was sorrowful to see how Roy couldn't help himself. For many years he couldn't understand why he couldn't help himself.

He couldn't understand why he reacted the way he did react. And nor could many young people. And they can be cruel, under stress or under any pressure. There were some strange reactions Roy would give that were unbelievable.

And he himself so condemned himself, so abhorred himself for these reactions. He just didn't know why he couldn't react properly and normally. But I do praise God from my soul that as we fasted, and I did have to fast for Roy, God eventually healed Roy totally.

So that he didn't just get healed to total normality, he became extraordinary as a human. I say that carefully, but I say it to the glory of God, he became an extraordinary human, achieving straight A's, achieving so much that I don't even know where his mind is going to lead.

It's so amazing in its ability to retain things. But I thank God for his healing, and the lovely person he's become. I do thank God for that, from my heart. But oh, how tragic it is to see so many who profess their faith to be born again of God.

How tragic it is to see so many who profess to be born again of God struggle. They struggle to survive spiritually because of neglect of correct teaching or follow-up that was necessary. You know many children, because of a bad beginning and difficult, they need to be put into an incubator and tended to.

They get built up until they can survive. They need help, they need assistance, they need a follow-up to that birth. How many who struggle to survive spiritually because of such neglect. The great tragedy is many have to even resort to lie to themselves about their spiritual birth, which they profess faithfully, but don't possess.

That is tragic to me. How many struggle throughout their lives, mainly because of wrong doctrine, a bluntened sword from the pulpit, and no cost was ever counted. Somehow a call was made to come to give your life to Christ, and somehow it was impressed on them that now they're born of God.

Compromise in the pulpit is a terrifying thing that people respond to, and tragically the complications and the repercussions of these people, through insufficient teaching, compromising teachings and compromising lives of those surrounding them at the time of birth, that somehow they have to emulate.

And it doesn't tally with this book, and so the condemned hearts, the complications, the fears of people, many, many who profess faithfully, but were they born dead? Tragically. Doctors and specialists have many books on the subject of complications and the repercussions of those complications at the time of birth.

Complications and Repercussions in Evangelical Churches

I would like to title the sermon today, Complications and Their Repercussions of the Spiritual Birth, in Evangelical pulpits and churches. Physically, if a person is born prematurely, premature births, some survive, but many don't.

But be careful here, child of God. In the spiritual birth, the spiritual rebirth, no one can survive premature births. None survive a premature birth spiritually. What do I mean by that? Pastor Joe, sitting here, once said, and I'm not going to be word perfect, but that's where you've got to forgive me, unless you came here to catch me at my words.

But this dear man once told of how at your open air, what we call an open air, I think you call it street preaching here, I don't know. But Joe and Jay and many of you love to go out in the streets and preach.

I believe from my son you're very different, with the amazing aggressive approach, and that you don't let anyone get past, you know, without knowing they're going to hell. In case it's the only time they pass someone who faithfully could proclaim it.

But Brother Joe was telling me, and I was deeply amused of how he was standing one day and crying out as people were passing. So you have to give them in those few moments a full message, there's hell, there's heaven, there's the blood.

And it's not easy. But he's trying with all his heart, you know. There's a hell and cultiverse. You are all going to hell. You're facing that and you can find salvation. Well, there was a little boy, Joe said.

Brother, if I get it wrong, forgive me. Put me right afterwards, but not now. And so this little fellow was standing there intrigued, swept up in this whole thing and taken up with this brother. Joe pouring his heart out to people who probably were running as fast as they could to get out of reach of the gospel.

But this little fellow was swept up and looked and suddenly he tried to emulate, to copy and repeat after Joe with as much expression and as much earnestness and zeal as what Brother Joe was. So I don't know from what I can remember, Brother Joe says, I was a filthy sinner.

So this little fellow, after saying something to the effect of there's a hell, he says, I was a filthy sinner, this little guy says. But God saved my soul twenty-three years ago. I don't know when it was.

This little fellow says, twenty-three years ago, God saved my soul. So he's looking up at Joe to say, carry on. We're doing a good work here, Brother. So Brother Joe was extremely impressed by this little fellow and I should imagine a lot of people were taken up because I would have stopped as a sinner just to look at this little fellow.

But he copied Joe word by word. He heard the words and he knew how to say it. He knew how to say it with expression. He had an example here and the terminology of being saved and how to be saved. There's a hell, there's a heaven, there's a way to God and I was saved.

Hallelujah, I know I'm not going to hell anymore. I know I'm saved. Well, this dear little child really repeated everything with detail and expression to the degree that he deeply impressed Brother Joe.

But I went to my knees after this little conversation and I always find sermons. I don't know how many sermons God's working out in my heart in one day, Brother. It's quite exasperating, but I get through.

You can't believe sometimes right through the night, many times I can't sleep. So I go from Joe now and I'm thinking and I thought, well, you know, it is true so many know the terminology through background, through just circumstances and they can say things just as they are to impress.

But how many never experience salvation? This to me is a great, great tragedy. Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. Do you know what that means? Having a profession, knowing the terminology, but having never experienced God's true salvation.

They're deeply religious. They have the terminology, knowledge of the terminology, but no deliverance from sin. No experience of true salvation has happened on so many occasions that it's unbelievable in this world.

I have another son. You haven't met him. Some have. Years ago he came once, but somehow the Lord never let him come again. After Denny Kenniston and Noel, twice he came to America, sorry, when he was a very small little fellow, loves American Christians.

But this little fellow Noel, he's my eldest boy, he's 22 now, nearly 23 any moment now. He was such a good boy that it was uncanny. I suppose in many ways because of Roy being hypoactive and all the other repercussions in his life, we saw Noel as something absolutely perfect.

But Noel never, ever put a step out of line. He never, ever, ever, ever needed to be told to do something a second time. You just tell him, Noel, pack up your toys, it's packed up. Noel, go to bed, he's to bed.

Noel, do this, he does it, no matter how much effort. Noel, that boy just was exemplary and all he lived for was the smile of his father and mother. I can honestly say that my son lived for one thing and it brought great joy to us.

He lived to just please daddy and mommy, whatever we wanted, he did with his whole being. Out of love for us and I love him for that. He had a testimony, a testimony I believed, a place, a spot where he gave his life to Christ.

A Bible beside his bed. But then he reached teenage years. Now in our country, we didn't have homeschooling like you. Don't judge us. We're way behind the times, we're twenty years behind your son even, let alone the good things you do.

But somehow we are way behind in Africa. And my boy went to school, a very good school, one of the best in the world, voted one of the best three, four schools in the world are in South Africa. It's an amazing privilege South Africa has.

But my son was in one of the best schools in the world. High standards, no swearing a lot, no second chance. You get one chance and you're expelled, that's how good they are. But there, at that school, as soon as he went from primary school into high school, peer pressure.

In that school, because of the state of the world, you can't suddenly make a person become pure. He's brought up in front of his parents looking at depravity on televisions, in cinemas, listening to swearing and cursing.

You can't just suddenly say because he's in a school he's no longer going to just be that which he's been brought up to. Well, these boys, no, I was conscious peer pressure was there, but I didn't know to what degree.

He said, Daddy, it isn't only the godly boys that want my friendship. For some reason, Daddy, they're godless. They're fighting for my friendship. And he didn't say it as if he was proud of it, he was worried.

He said, Daddy, you cunt. Imagine how they are forcing their way, they want me. Noah was terribly popular. I always feared that. He was popular amongst the Christians. Everyone wanted to be near Noah.

But the godless wanted Noah also, the godless boys and girls. They were fighting for him all the time, fighting for his attention, fighting for his friendship, fighting to be near him, especially at high school.

And my son took a dip, and that staggered me, because I had promises for Noah. When I knew Jenny was pregnant, the promises God gave me. And I always feared that. And here now my boy, under peer pressure, was doing things that when I heard, I just went on my face through the whole night sobbing before God.

He didn't even know that I knew. I had to speak to God first for a long time, before I had the courage to speak to Noah, who had never, ever, once given me one problem in his life. I couldn't believe what my son was involved in, what he was doing.

I couldn't believe the devil could have done that to my boy. I remember coming to this country, and not just praying for the service that night, but in war, weeping, going down the street praying for my son, for the devil to be rebuked, and God to save the whole situation of what was happening.

Well, eventually, I won't tell you to what degree I did fast at one stage, but my boy got up, ripped himself from these boys, totally, in such a way they will never come near him till the day he dies.

I can say that, the way he said, get out of my life, forever. Thank God he did that. And he sought God so desperately, all by himself, seeking God for salvation from a desperate heart, embracing with all his heart God's blood, but also his risen, resurrected power to deliver him from the things that had taken hold of him.

And he began to show true stability and fruit and blossom in a lovely way. But time went by, and one day he took me to a meal. My eldest son, all my sons, when they want to get Daddy alone, they say, Daddy, I'm taking you for a meal.

They save their pocket money as missionary children and say, Daddy, we know you haven't got, so we're taking you. Oftentimes, it's humiliating. But that happens, and I've always let them. And so, he sat me down, now undivided attention is needed, I know that.

And he staggered me when he related to how it all happened. He said, Daddy, I've never ever spoken to Daddy about what really happened, but I think it's time now, because I think I know what happened now.

I myself am clear about it. Daddy, I so loved you, and I so loved Mommy, that I'd have done anything, anything for you. And as long as I can remember, from a little baby, I heard about being born again.

As I heard other words formulating in my mind, I heard how to be saved. I heard all the terminology, and I became conscious that this is the thing that had to happen to me. This is what Daddy and Mommy are longing and waiting for.