The Bigger Picture

For the past several days, as I have been praying for God to fulfill this request, God has really impressed upon me to pray that this will be used to bring true revival to our high school. It became important to me early on that God reveal Himself in a way that makes Him real to my sophomores, that they connect the God of their Bible to the One they strive to serve today.
     It also became important along the way that God perform this miracle so that it remains a monument to what prayer can accomplish, that the kids desire to take on praying in impossible circumstances because they've seen first-hand what God can do.
     As I prayed last night, God really began to show me how important the spiritual impact this prayer could have is. By these kids meeting Tebow, God is going to reveal Himself in a way that I know I've never let Him in my life and I'm pretty sure the kids haven't either. These kids, all of them, are going to come face to face with a very visible decision about what they are going to do with God. God will no longer be an abstract concept to them, someone they can't see but know exists...He will be tangible and concrete to them, He will be physically real as they meet Tim Tebow and what are they going to do?
     I know my kids pray to meet Tebow because they want to meet him and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. However, there is something bigger, a great spiritual work here that God wants to perform and I honestly think He wants to use these kids and this prayer to begin that work. I have been praying that God burdens the hearts of these kids; that He gives them some, if not all the same spiritual vision He has given me for all that He can and wants to do in allowing them to meet Tebow.
    There is a bigger picture here. There is more than just a meeting with Tebow at stake here. It is my hope that these seven sophomores can go beyond their own desire to meet Tebow, go beyond just wanting to see God answer a huge prayer and see all that can happen for God's glory in bringing this about and that they desire God to touch off a revival in our school, and in their churches and that lives will be changed, all because they decided to make a commitment to pray for Tim Tebow and had the courage and endurance to pray that God allows them to meet him.
     Wouldn't that be amazing?!