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A female pastor in the Pittsburgh PA area, Pastor Georgia (I hesitate to give her last name), has given seminars in which she tells a story from her days as a nurse. She ministered to an individual who clinically died and was resuscitated. The man claimed to be ushered into the presence of Jesus, who was in the process of taking him before "the Dad" -- and then he was resuscitated.

Pastor Georgia asked the man, "You mean, he was taking you before The Lord?" And the man was adamant: "Jesus was taking me before "the Dad". No one goes into the presense of "the Dad" unless Jesus takes him there!"

What made this story so poignant, is that the man in question had no church background, he had been an agnostic, ignorant of the Gospel, until Georgia ministered to him in the hospital and he accepted Jesus as Savior a few days before the near-death experience. No one in his experience, the man said, had ever referred to the Father God as "the Dad", this was a concept that the man had picked up when he died and went to the beyond.

You can accept this story or not, as you will. But it has touched everyone who has heard it.

No one in his experience, the man said, had ever referred to the Father God as "the Dad", this was a concept that the man had picked up when he died and went to the beyond.

That's very interesting. In the NT, Jesus refers to God as "Abba", which is basically the informal Hebrew. I have been told that it could be translated as "Daddy."

When my son was barely 2 years old, he sufferred a head injury with skull fractures complicated by meningitis. The second night in the hospital he was virtually comatose all night..his mother and I held him all night and he didn't move a muscle....very shallow breathing - high fever. He aroused the next morning, about 10 hours later. When he did, he looked at us and said, "Jesus told me to tell you that I wasn't going to die!" When we said what? He repeated, "Jesus told me to tell you that I wasn't going to die!" He was only 2, and not being a particularly religious family, I'm not sure where he would have gotten the concept of Jesus at that age.
For the next year or two, although he didn't recall being in the hospital much, whenever he'd see a picture depicting Jesus, he'd get mad...and say "Why do they always show Jesus with Blue eyes? He really has brown eyes.
Take that for what it's worth, but I am convinced our little special boy met The Lord, and the Lord smiled on him!

Abba, the name in Aramaic for "Papa" or "Daddy" or even "Dad," is the preferred New Testament name of God...

"For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, 'Abba, Father.'" (Romans 8:15)

I also had a family member, who was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, this tumor was in a part of the brain that was wrapped around by surrounding blood vessels,
tissue an muscle it was the size of a small grapefruit.

When he was being operated on he prayed to Jesus asking him if it was his time to be with him on his death journey
and be with his family. He died on the operating table and felt his presence leave his body, he too was embraced by a "light" he also saw his father and grandfather and they had spoke to him saying it's not your time go back... We are with the lord and they faded away.

When he awoke up the tumor in his head literally rolled out of his head to the floor, the Doctors were totally amazed and baffled. He is alive and well and suffers no loss from this tumor

"Where bye the spirit..we call him Abba, or Father..." Abba is literally translated as "Daddy"!

Sounds like Christ wanted to remind us all of our "Child" status in God's eyes!

Hey DAD!...Have pity on our nation and me as well, we're not doing so well right now, and those who are evil would destroy us and would destroy all hope of freedom and all knowledge of your GLORY! (in Jesus name...amen and so be it!)