Louise traces the story of Nicodemus and addresses the question, with answers, of what it is to be born again.

Nicodemus and Jesus

Louise explains what some of these fundamental terms mean, like the “born again” experience, etc.

It’s not inherently complicated, but intellectuals sometimes have the hardest time in accepting God’s word. Prisoners in jail, where Louise has ministered a number of years, are usually the easiest to understand Jesus’s message.

You must receive Jesus’s promise by faith, not necessarily your intellect, or by applying traditional ways and rules of “religion,” such as the Pharisee displayed.

After the act of Salvation, you need to ask: Now, how do I grow up in the Lord?

Louise tells the story of getting into the Junior League and then was called into Kenneth Hagin’s Rhema Bible school in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bit difference!

Sometimes you need to leave the rational and natural order of the universe to listen and be able to obey the spiritual callings of Jesus.

Louise tells about her experience with horse shows, then tennis leagues, all pulling her back int the natural world.

Nicodemus faced some many of the same decisive moments in his life, just as so many of you have in your lives. And, below is where he appears in the New Testament:

John 3:1-21New International Version

Jesus Teaches Nicodemus

3 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. ² He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”

³ Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.^[a]”

⁴ “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”

⁵ Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. ⁶ Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit^[b] gives birth to spirit. ⁷ You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You^[c] must be born again.’ ⁸ The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”^[d]

⁹ “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.

¹⁰ “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things? ¹¹ Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. ¹² I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? ¹³ No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.^[e] 14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,^[f] 15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”^[g]

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. ¹⁸ Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. ¹⁹ This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. ²¹ But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.