Tim Tebow
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 23 Feb
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And everything that I do, I really love the pursuit of trying to be my best. And every now and then you get to be the best. And when you're the best in something, you win a championship or maybe sometimes you would win an MVP as most valuable player.
But then along the way, God started to break my heart saying, you care so much about championships or MVPs, but I have a more important MVP for you to chase. It's not the most valuable player. It's the most vulnerable people. But which one will you care about more?
And I really believe in my life there has been many days I've missed the mark because I could have said the right thing, but I knew deep down in my heart, man, I want to win. Man, I want to make that team. Man, I want to do this. And it's not that all of those things are wrong, but when you're putting them in the place of what God has called you to and you're putting them, what is it so high?
It becomes ego. It becomes pride. And you're putting it on an altar. and you're making it the priority, when it's fine if it's a goal, just not your biggest priority, just not in the place of where God and what He's called you to should sit.
And too many days of my life, I know I've missed the mark, even though I've known that in my heart and in my head, and I probably would have gave you a good answer, but I knew I put that here. I knew I put it too high. Well, maybe not always when I was doing it, but many times convicted afterwards. Oh, man.
I would have said the right thing, but you know what, this last season, that definitely took the place of God. My identity was there. My focus was there. Who and whose I was was there, not in my relationship with Christ.
platform that you have today. I think there's a lot to that. I think that God works all things together for good to those who love him and are called according to his purpose. Even disappointments, frustration, selfishness, ego, somehow we have sort of a God that works all things together for good to those who love him and are called according to his purpose.
So I believe that God can do all sorts of stuff with that. But it's not that chasing those things is wrong. Please don't... hear that. It's not that they're wrong. I do think, I think it's a good thing. I should, I think believers should compete to win. I really do. Whatever your hand finds to do, do with all of your might, like do it as unto the Lord.
Like, no, I don't think God's saying, hey, be last. In service he is, but not in sports or in life or in all this stuff. No, no. He's, what I'm saying is If I said it was my faith, family, loving people, all of this, and football, people would say that, faith, family, football. Too many times it would have actually, if you really weighed my heart, it would have been football, faith, family.
That's what I'm saying. I let the priorities get out of whack too many times. And it's not competing or winning is wrong. I don't think that whatsoever. I believe that as believers, we should strive to win. We should be good. And we should try to use all of that to honor the Lord with it and love people and help people and make a difference in people's lives. It's just...
We can't let that striving be in the place where Jesus should be. And I think I let that happen too many times. So it was tough to navigate the ego.
That's a really good question. A lot of times I would try to figure that out. A lot of time in prayer, discernment, wise counsel. But one of the ways that we would talk about it is that we try to gain clarity. What has God pricked your heart for? And what has God opened your eyes to? And if so, he's probably saying, go meet that need.
So he pricked my heart and opened my eyes to meet Sherwin in the Philippines, the boy with his feet on backwards. And I believe he was saying it, I'm letting you see him and I'm letting you feel for him because I want you to care for him. And then along the way, it was more orphans and special needs and thrown away.
And then a couple years later from that, it led into the fight against trafficking and exploitation. because my dad was in an underground pastors conference in a country where faith isn't really allowed. And so he's meeting with these pastors underground so they don't get arrested and they can go back to their communities and minister.
And in that underground location, men came in with four little girls and started to auction off these four little girls to all of the men that are in this place. And one of the reasons why my dad's one of my greatest heroes and role models, he just can't look the other way. And he didn't have a seven-step plan of what to do. He didn't have a plan of action, a strategic thought.
He just was, no, no. Those girls are priceless to God. I got to do whatever I can. He took out all the money in his wallet, which was $1,250 for the rest of his trip and to get home. And he purchased the freedom of those four girls. And he called me afterwards and said, I said, hey, Dad, how's the trip going? How you doing? And he said, I'm doing OK. I was like, what are you up to?
And he said, I just purchased the freedom of four girls. I'm like, what are you talking about, Dad? He goes on to tell me the story. And I just knew in that conversation, and I don't know, Sean, it's hard to explain. I just knew this. is also part of what we were called to do, meaning at TTF. And not long after, I got to fly to that location.
And you show up, and you're thinking all these thoughts like, oh, this is like Taken and Liam Neeson, and this is cartels, and it's crime families and all of this. And by that time, we even had more kids. And by that time, when I got there, you realize most of these children were sold by their family. One of the first girls that I got to meet, she didn't make enough money one day.
And so when she got home, her mom, in such a place of desperation, took her and boiled out her eye. Boiled out her eye? Boiled out her eye. And I just knew God let me see. God let me see for a reason. God let me feel for a reason. Not so that I can just create awareness or not so I can just tell a story because he's saying, I let you see. I let you feel.
I let you be here because I want you to do something about it. Because I want you to stand up and fight for her because she doesn't have a voice. And all of these other boys and girls, they don't have a voice and no one's standing for them. Will you? And that was the start of it for us. And man, when we got into it, we had just no idea what we were doing. I mean, no idea.
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